A person feels as if something came upon him, and as if he had received a new power that encourages him to speak. He treats of science, or composes hymns, exhorts his fellow-men, discusses political and theological problems; all this he does while awake, and in the full possession of his senses. Such a person is said to speak by the holy spirit.
--Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed,Chapter XLV, translated by M. Friedlander (1903)
Sunday, May 27, 2007
The second of the degrees of prophecy
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