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19 Sept. 1815 Jug. True F
19 Sept. 1815

Jug. True

F 

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Ch.3. Conditions necessary

1

§ Course taken

Qualities necessary.

1. Attachment towards himself, thence 2. Unlimited belief in the amplitude of his power 3. D o in the wisdom of his proceedings, thence 4. sacrifice of property included 5. Ardency of expectations? yet 6. Patience under the term fulfillment of expectations held out.

In so far as accomplices let into the secret was necessary, belief in his veracity would in so parts be necessarily dispensed with.

III Towards adversaries 1. Intrepidity 2. Vigilance (against their enterprises) 3. Placability

In Converse—Qualities and other conditions not necessary Qualities of general use in so far as necessary to the success of his particular enterprize be disinterested: no others. Qualities generally mischievous [...?] [...?], so far as common to his enterprize. Mischiefs produced by them no [...?] view.

Ch.3.

Conditions necessary to the success of an enterprize such as Jesus’s, undertaken in the circumstances in which he was placed. 1. Course necessary or conducive to the fulfillment of these conditions. 2. Ways and means for collecting the persons and things necessary—3. Qualities necessary to be found or produced in the part of adherents and supporters. 4. Opinions, fears and hopes requisite to be infused into their minds. Qualities not necessary to be so found or produced. Opinions, fears and hopes requisite to be so produced.

 13 Oct. 1815. For the conditions in questioning or question, better search this book a posterior than be at the pains of divining them à prècis.

[marginal note]

Qualities good (or as repeated) not necessary to the success of the enterprize. 1. Abstinence from sexual enjoyment.

2. Abstinence from the pleasures of the palate: except in so far as concerned mischievous intoxicants.
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