God wills. Jesus Christ alone leads to
it: Via, veritas.75 The vices of Zeno himself.
467. The reason of effects.--Epictetus. Those who say, "You have a
headache"; this is not the same thing. We are assured of health, and not
of
justice; and in fact his own was nonsense.
And yet he believed it demonstrable, when he said, "It is either in our
power or it is not." But he did not perceive that it is not in our power
to
regulate the heart, and he was wrong to infer from this the fact that
there
were some Christians.
468. No other religion has proposed to men to hate themselves. No other
religion, then, can please those who hate themselves, and who seek a Being
truly lovable. And these, if they had never heard of the religion of a God
humiliated, would embrace it at once.
469. I feel that I might not have been; for the Ego consists in my
thoughts.
Therefore I, who think, would not have been, if my mother had been killed
before I had life. I am not, then, a necessary being. In the same way I am
not eternal or infinite; but I see plainly that there exists in nature a
necessary Being, eternal and infinite.
470. "Had I seen a miracle," say men, "I should become converted." How can
they be sure they would do a thing of the nature of which they are
ignorant?
They imagine that this conversion consists in a worship of God which is
like
commerce, and in a communion such as they picture to themselves. True
religion consists in annihilating self before that Universal Being, whom
we
have so often provoked, and who can justly destroy us at any time; in
recognising that we can do nothing without Him, and have deserved nothing
from Him but His displeasure. It consists in know
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