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  CREATED BY WISDOM DRAGONS                                                                                                           Nature's Finer Forces by   Annie Besant A lecture delivered in Australia in 1908 This Edition Was Published In 2021                         YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THIS BOOK CLICKING ON   HERE   OR IF YOU PREFER YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE CLICKING ON THE LINKS BELOW                 CONTENTS   NATURE'S FINER FORCES...

  V.       INTERPRETATIONS .           FRIENDS:   Tonight I am to try to put before you some interpretations of religious teachings that may be applied to what are generally called theological dogmas, in order to show you how you may apply the method of interpretation to any of the specific teachings of great religions, which may strike you as difficult or obscure in the form in which they are presented to you.   For, as you know, much of the unbelief of our own day has grown out of the feeling that, in the face of science and of its advance, many of the doctrines which satisfied our predecessors appear to us incompatible with many facts of which we are reasonably sure.   Now in the past, as some of you may remember who have read Origen, it was quite definitely recognised that the teachings of scripture might be interpreted along three different lines. One was the historical, which implied a consid...

  IV.       THE MAN-IDEA.           FRIENDS:   Once more in beginning with the Man-Idea, as I did with the God-Idea and the Christ-Idea, I propose to consider what have been the conceptions of man which we can find through a study of the history of the past - how the thought of man has presented itself in science, in religion; how far we can trace coherent conceptions of the human being, whether we turn to observa­tion as recorded in science or whether we turn to the scriptures of the world containing that which is put forward by highly evolved men as to the origin of man, as to his nature and the possibilities of his future becoming. Let us first turn to science, for that is the furthest removed from what may be called the Mystical Idea of man, and I am thinking chiefly of the science of the last century, for the conception of man in the science of the immediate present has not been very distinctly   for...