But alas! nothing save incorporeity could have availed her. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael Volume II] Reference
Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
Whose capacity embraces spirituality, immateriality, incorporeity, or the mysteries of which he is every day informed?. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
It is impossible for man, for a material being, to form to himself a correct idea, or indeed any idea, of incorporeity; of. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
Abady, one of the most strenuous supporters of immaterialism, says, "The question is not what incorporeity is, but whether it be.". From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
Zeus-given incorporeity was the one person who had a good view of the scene at large, you must pardon me for having withheld the veil of indirect narration. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
If it needs an infinite mind to comprehend infinity -- to form an idea of incorporeity -- can the theologian himself boast he is in a capacity to understand it?. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
If incorporeity is the motive-power of this nature, it no longer exists independently; it, in fact, exists no longer than the subject to which it is inherent subsists. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
And so, as I by my Zeus-given incorporeity was the one person who had a good view of the scene at large, you must pardon me for having withheld the veil of indirect narration. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson] Reference
He must strive to come in contact with the spiritual forms, which ascend in increasing degrees of incorporeity from the ideas of the individual soul up to the Actual Intellect itself, above which are only the forms of celestial bodies, that is to say, spiritual substances which, while they have an important cosmic function, have no relation to moral excellence in man. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Has the multitude of subtle distinctions, with which theology in some countries is filled throughout; have the words spirit, immateriality, incorporeity, predestination, grace, with other ingenious inventions, imagined by sublime thinkers, who during so many ages have succeeded each other, actually had any other effect than to perplex things; to render the whole obscure; decidedly unintelligible?. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
The slender foundation of those ideas which men form to themselves of their gods, must have appeared obvious in what has preceded; the proofs which have been offered in support of the existence of immaterial substances, have been examined; the want of harmony that exists in the opinions upon this subject, which all concur in agreeing to be equally impossible to be known to the inhabitants of the earth, has been shewn; the incompatibility of the attributes with which, theology has clothed incorporeity, has been explained. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
The result of these inquiries has uniformly been, a conviction that no rational proof has ever been adduced in support of this hypothesis; that from the nature of the thing itself, none can be offered; that an incorporeity is inconceivable to corporeal beings; that these only behold nature acting after invariable laws, in which every thing is material; that all the phenomena of which the world is the theatre, spring out of natural causes; that man as well as all the other beings is the work or this nature, is only an instrument in her hand, obliged to accomplish the eternal decrees of an imperious necessity. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference
Significantly enough, al-Ghazali's work influenced not only the contents of book one of the Exalted Faith, about some aspects of Aristotelian philosophy (logic, physics, and metaphysics), but also book two of it, about theology (God's incorporeity, unity, attributes, as well as divine creation, prophecy, and providence). From Wordnik.com. [Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought] Reference
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