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misguidance. It is
therefore necessary to shut the gate to keep the general public from reading books of the misguided
as far
as possible. The public is not free from the second bad tendency we are about to discuss, even if
they are
uninfected by the one just mentioned.
Some of the statements made in our published works on the principles of religious sciences have been
objected to by a group of men whose understanding does not grasp the sciences and whose insight does
not penetrate the fundamentals of the systems. They think that these statements are taken from
ancient
philosophers, but the fact is that some of them are the product of reflections I had independently
(it is not
improbable that one‟s foot might fall in another‟s footprint) while others come from the revealed
Scriptures,
and in the case of the majority, the essence though not the actual words are found
in the works of the
mystics.
therefore necessary to shut the gate to keep the general public from reading books of the misguided
as far
as possible. The public is not free from the second bad tendency we are about to discuss, even if
they are
uninfected by the one just mentioned.
Some of the statements made in our published works on the principles of religious sciences have been
objected to by a group of men whose understanding does not grasp the sciences and whose insight does
not penetrate the fundamentals of the systems. They think that these statements are taken from
ancient
philosophers, but the fact is that some of them are the product of reflections I had independently
(it is not
improbable that one‟s foot might fall in another‟s footprint) while others come from the revealed
Scriptures,
and in the case of the majority, the essence though not the actual words are found
in the works of the
mystics.