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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - David Hume – Annihilation as a means of worship
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - David Hume
The ancient PLATONISTS, you know, were the most religious and devout of all the Pagan philosophers; yet many of them, particularly PLOTINUS, expressly declared, that …… our most perfect worship of him consists, not in acts of veneration, reverence, gratitude, or love; but in a certain mysterious self-annihilation, or total extinction of all our faculties.