…in the lives of a great many individuals of importance, particularly in religion. We remember, for instance, the career of St. Augustine. who never ceased to reproach himself for the iniquities and injustices which he had committed in his earlier life, and…

…that has the mental nature, has the power to say yes and no to any value that comes to it. It is the power, as St. Augustine also pointed out, that is the power of decision. It is the power to be right instead of wrong. It is the power to recognize…

…beauties of life. And in the midst of the desert of waiting, there is a great city of fulfillment. One is the city of God, St. Augustine, and the other is the city of Babylon. Out of the darkness of the shadows of things, in a light he saw the homes…

…the kingdom of heaven. There is an invisible world, and in this invisible world there is also the great city of God, as St. Augustine describes it. And over the city of God the Lamb of the Light rules supreme. There is an inner world and an outer…

…other by drawing the shape of the fish upon the sand. The name for fish was an acrostic on the name for Christ. St. Augustine says that Christ was a fish broiled for the sins of man. It's a very interesting symbolism. So we find Christ standing,…

…post-Nicene, which followed the Council of Nicaea. And the first and very outstanding name after the Council of Nicaea was St. Augustine of Himmel. And with Augustinianism, we find the beginning of the gradual integration of the doctrines of Christianity into…

…So, the sign of the fish, the ancient symbol of recognition, And the words of the name of Jesus himself become, according to St. Augustine, the mysterious cabal by using the first letter. We find that from his name comes the name of the fish. We also…

…points or Egyptian scholars, that many of them have already been deeply infused with other teachings and beliefs, even as late as St. Augustine of Hipple, who was a Manichean and a Gnostic. This meant that the problem of orthodoxy was a delicate one. So…

…for another period of time, whereas forgiveness would have released the soul and battled the titans. So everywhere in us is conflict. St. Augustine pointed this out in his story of the city of God and the city of Babylon. We are a double empire, each…

…permit it. The individual cannot take on any of the delinquencies of humanity unless he does so, unless he takes it. The decision, as St. Augustine says, is his own. He has the power of choice. He can choose to be right or he can choose to be wrong,…

…fallacy. For which fell the angels. So the angels represent. The disobedient ones. That try to stand against. and create what St. Augustine calls the city of Babylon as opposed to the city of God. But everything, wherever there is a rebellion, it seems…

…very strong mystical philosophy. Among those who made great use of this in the church were Clement of Alexandria and St. Augustine, later St. Thomas Aquinas. The mystical Christianity that developed in the first century has continued to the present time. And…

…evil tries desperately to destroy good. Well, the city of Babylon seems to rise triumphantly over the city of God as described by St. Augustine. In the end, all that is wrong comes and bows before all that is right. It says there is but one God, and…

…like God's gates of wisdom. This soul, then, redeemed out of body, purified from body, is the holy city, the new Jerusalem of St. Augustine. And it is the human soul that is then the bride of the Lamb. And the great theocratic and sacerdotal systems of…

…philosophy, were Plato, Hermes, and the small original group of neopagans. These individuals were given particular consideration perhaps because St. Augustine of Hippo, who was one of the first codifiers of Roman law under the Holy Roman Empire, was himself…

…of thought descended and has survived. We know, for example, the important part they played in the great statues to St. Augustine. We know furthermore that they were tremendously powerful in shaping the whole great theological system of Thomas Aquinas. We…

…of Hippo points out the weaknesses, and these weaknesses were the cause of the ultimate failure of Neoplatonism as emotion in society. St. Augustine tells us, for example, that Neoplatonism has no market. It had no one at the beginning of it who was a…

…his resources upon the tremendous substance of the search for reality. A search in which the student had to give all. As St. Augustine said, could not and would not hold popular belief. Because popular belief does not want to sacrifice. It does not want…

…its faults and have these forgiven. and there was nothing in Platonism to substantiate this concept. The third point that St. Augustine brought to bear upon the subject was that in all any substance, the doctrines of Neoplatonism were not understandable by…

…what they might term their way of life, their way of truth. And perhaps this way of truth was stronger than St. Augustine suspected, and not nearly so uncertain as he is inclined to imply. Neoplatonism definitely did have a systematic order for growth.…

…philosophy of the church for 1,200 years. It became the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. It became the philosophy of St. Augustine. It became the basis of the meditational and visual and visionary theories of Saint Bernard, of Saint Buenaventura. It…

…were closely involved in the rise of Christianity. Nor is it by any means accidental that in a strange way, as St. Augustine points out, these three sects were in large measure responsible for Christianity. Now, this does not mean he did not certainly…

…in speaking distance of each other, and that they were united by a common tongue. We know, for example, that St. Augustine was highly conversant with Neoplatonism, and apparently did not hold it in a sensual disregard, although he publicly criticized it…

…the great idealistic philosophy of the classic Hellenes. As a result of this, it lacked many of the elements of glamour. St. Augustine, analyzing it in his own time, held that far as value content was concerned. Neoplatonism was entitled of becoming world…

…was to break and overthrow the earlier forms of church philosophy, which had arisen around the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo. And this Augustinianism we call patristic philosophy. The scholastics relieved man of the patristic limitations and…

…up of the inner and not have it constantly imprisoned by the selfishness of the lower personality it is said that of course in St. Augustine in a city of God pointed out that the city of God was the symbol of holiness. And that the opposite end of…

…oblique attack on the Egyptian neoplatonism the philosophy side of the Christian doctrine as it gradually developed through Aquinas and St. Augustine does not have much bearing in the apocryphal works they are purely devotional and would appear to be based…

…by drawing the shape of the fish upon the thing. If the name for fish was an acrostic on the name for Christ, St. Augustine says that Christ was a fish broiled for the sins of man. It's a very interesting symbolism. So we find Christ standing, calling…