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(Follow some parts which were created at some earlier dates).
"After all there are only, three, not infinite, doctrinal possibilities: no God, a simply and wholly immutable God, a God not wholly immutable. (A God wholly or in every respect mutable would scarcely deserve the name). Apart from the Socinians, and some hints by Cicero and Occam, theologians and philosophers for two thousand years reasoned as though the first two options alone were worth considering." etc.
(C. Hartshorne, Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers, Albany, 1983, p. 2).
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"Ockham, and this is greatly to his credit, held that from the standpoint of mere human reason we should have to say that God knows contingent events only as or after they happen, not eternally and as part of the divine essence. However, by revelation (e.g., fulfilled prophecies) we learn
that, on some opaque way to our understanding, God does know future contingent acts."
(C. Hartshorne, Insights & Oversights of Great Thinkers, Albany, 1983, pp. 76).
On this, confer the Hindu atman ; the Greek pneuma ; Lao-tzu's Tao, Paracelus', etc., spiritus ; George Berkeley and his incorporeal God ; Jeremy Bentham's ontology including on the real entities, corporeal and incorporeal ; J. Słowacki's duch ; H. Bergson's elan vital — which seems inevitably to coincide/correspond with H. Driesch's entelechy (definable only in the negatives) ; G. E. Coghill's mentation (perhaps one's minding could do just as well) which precedes space-time ; G. Strömberg's physical and non-physical world, and will as cause of action ; H.S. Burr's living fields ; L. Ron Hubbard's* theta ; A. Watt's soul defined in the negatives, etc,
* On this, confer Science of Survival by this author ; if you have an older authentic copy of this work you could do well to place it in your safe or in some recondite place — out of sight of any casual visitors. There are strange things happening presently in the USA and I do not know about other places.
"Right or wrong", that man was writing about some important issues : should any of his work be altered only problems would be created which yet can be prevented by merely not overlooking some such issues as, what was somebody's actual opinion in his own words.
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