But if, instead of losing ourselves in the fog-land of Pantheism, Theosophy and their unavowed congeners, we take our stand upon the firm belief in the otherness of God, the case alters altogether.
A Disquisition upon the Otherness of Things and the Torments of the Damned 193 II The River of the Lost Footsteps and the Golden Mystery upon its Banks.
To be object as well as subject implies the necessity of distinguishing these two terms, and shows that there is otherness between them.
Without thisotherness there would not be A and B, but either A alone or B alone.
Then not by reason of otherness is the one other than the not-one, or the not-one other than the one.
No otherness being left to annoy us, we should sit down at peace.
In other words, theistic mysticism, that form of theism which at first sight seems most to have transcended the fundamental otherness of God from man, has done it least of all in the theoretic way.
Although they feel united with God, yet they feel in that union an otherness and difference between themselves and God; and therefore "the ascent into the Nought is unknown to them.
Yet even here does the creature feel a distinction and otherness between itself and God in its inward ground.
Nature then appears in her true light; all otherness is removed and we are one with her.
This otherness is due to the existence of combination and disintegration in the sphere of the manifested.
The doubleness of mind fails us, to glance At our exterior presence amid things, Sizing from otherness our countenance And seeing our puppet will’s act-acting strings.
An Otherness of substance, rather than of attribute, is here intended; an Otherness which may perhaps be called real as opposed to logical diversity.
The question arises, Are we knowing places that can relate to otherness and intuitively synthesize knowledge?
Matter is not identical with otherness itself, but with that part of otherness which is opposed to real beings, and to reasons.
Bowne claims that the impersonal finite has only such otherness as a thought or act has to its subject.
