On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology — trans. C. E. Rolt

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The translator’s English as printed (C. E. Rolt). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.

1 D. is no pantheist. According to Pantheism God is equally present in all things. Thus Pantheism is a debased form of the Immanence doctrine, as Calvinism is a debased form of the Transcendence doctrine. In the one case we get Immanence without Transcendence : in the other Transcendence without Immanence. D. holds a Transcendent Immanence (cf. Bradley, Appearance and Reality, rebutting charge of Pantheism).

2 e.g. The cruelty of Nature seems to show Intelligence; and Intelligence per se is a good thing,

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1 D. is no pantheist. According to Pantheism, God is equally present in all things. Pantheism is thus a debased form of the doctrine of Immanence, as Calvinism is a debased form of the doctrine of Transcendence. In the one case we get Immanence without Transcendence; in the other, Transcendence without Immanence. D. holds a Transcendent Immanence (cf. Bradley, Appearance and Reality, rebutting the charge of Pantheism).

2 e.g. The cruelty of Nature seems to show Intelligence; and Intelligence per se is a good thing,

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