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The Stoic doctrine that divine intelligence pervades the world and rules for the best borrows heavily from ideas attributed to Socrates by Xenophon in the Memorabilia.
The belief that the universe is a coherent and efficiently functioning system likewise, in this view, indicates a divine intelligence behind it.
Thus, A.H. Strong, the president of Rochester Theological Seminary in New York state, wrote in his Systematic Theology (1885): "We grant the principle of evolution, but we regard it as only the method of divine intelligence".
No need for tortuous reasoning or extrapolation; they are "perfect instances of intelligence", divine intelligence unconfined and unmediated by bodies, ever active and actualised, with the whole moving globe apparent to their gaze.
In his important theoretical designs for public monuments, Boullée sought to inspire lofty sentiments in the viewer by architectural forms suggesting the sublimity, immensity, and awesomeness of the natural world, as well as the divine intelligence underlying its creation.
In it, David Stewart, an aromatherapist affiliated with Young Living, writes that essential oils have a divine intelligence and discernment that allows them to heal without harming, to provide our cells with exactly what we need and nothing we don't.
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But what explains the order and apparent design that give rise to super-divine intelligence?
By dint of the reasoning employed in the teleological argument, it would have to be a super-divine intelligence.
Thoughts can flow through and your own true nature can breathe its divine creative intelligence, undivided, and unobstructed.
The concern with teleology is presumably thought to be too closely connected with Aristotle's theology, or the idea that it is divine design or intelligence that gives natural objects their ends.
Our reactions and the time we often obsess beefing up this idea of "me" and strategizing our defenses and insurance policies against imagined threats obscure a much more divine and creative intelligence that come through stillness and awareness that is prior to our conditions.
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