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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: been to exercise his absolute freedom by the manifestation to
others of his glory. From this it follows that the others must
be rational beings, capable in the first place of knowledge,
love, and honor, and in the second place of happiness, for the
knowledge and love of God is the mainspring of felicity. In so
far forth one may say that God's secondary purpose in creating is
LOVE.
I will not weary you by pursuing these metaphysical
determinations farther, into the mysteries of God's Trinity, for
example. What I have given will serve as a specimen of the
orthodox philosophical theology of both Catholics and
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