RELIGIONS ANCIENT AND PANTHEISM Its Story and Significance
RELIGIONS ANCIENT AND MODERN. Foolscap Sto. is. net - per volume IT
is intended in this series to present to a large public the SAL
IENT FEATURES, first of the GREAT RELIGIONS, secondly of the GREAT
PHILOSOPHIES, and thirdly of the . GREAT LITERARY and ARTISTIC
REPUTATIONS of the Human Race. PANTHEISM ITS STORY AND
SIGNIFICANCE. ByJ. ALLANSON PICTON, M. A. Author of The Religion of
the Universe etc. RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE. By Miss JANE
HARRISON, Fellow of Newnham College, Author of Prolegomena to the
Study of Greek Religion, etc. ANIMISM. By EDWARD CLODD, Author of
Pioneers of Evolution. RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA. By H. A. GILES,
M. A., LL. D. Aberd., Professor ot Chinese at Cambridge University.
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Prof. ALFRED C HADDON F. R. S. THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Mr
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FLIN DERS PETRIE. F. R. S. THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA
Dr. THEOPHILUS Gv PINCHES, PANTHEISM Its Story and Significance BY
J. ALLANSON PICTON AUTHOR OF U THE RELIGION JO F THK U N I V K R 5
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LONDON, CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE FOREWORD 7 I. PRE-CHRISTIAN PANTHEISM.
1.6 II. POST-CHRISTIAN PANTHEISM ..... 47 III. MODERN PANTHEISM .
56 AFTERWORD 70 PANTHEISM FOREWORD. Pantheism PANTHEISM differs
from the systems of to or evenbelief constituting the main
religions Racial. O f the world in being comparatively free from
any limits of period, climate, or race. For while what we roughly
call the Egyptian Religion, the Vedic Religion, the Greek Religion,
Buddhism, and others of similar fame have been necessarily local
and temporary, Pantheism has been, for the most part, a dimly
discerned back ground, an esoteric significance of many or all
religions, rather than a denomination by it self. The best
illustration of this characteristic of Pantheism is the catholicity
of its great prophet Spinoza. For he felt BO little antagonism to
any Christian sect, that he never urged any member of a church to
leave it, but rather encouraged his humbler friends, who sought his
advice, to make 7 PANTHEISM full use of such spiritual privileges
as they appre ciated most. He could not, indeed, content him self
with the fragmentary forms of any sectarian creed. But in the few
writings which he made some effort to adapt to the popular
understand ing, he seems to think it possible that the faith of
Pantheism might some day leaven all religions alike. I shall
endeavour briefly to sketch the story of that faith, and to suggest
its significance for the future. But first we must know what it
means. Meaning of Pantheism, then, being a term de-Pantheism. r ve
j from two Greek words signifying all and God, suggests to a
certain extent its own meaning. Thus, if Atheism be taken to mean a
denial of the being of God, Pantheism is its extreme opposite
because Pantheism declares that there is nothing but God. This,
however, needs explanation. For no Pantheist has ever held that
everything is God, any more urOCl 15 Ail than a teacher of
physiology, in en forcing on his students the unity of the human
organism, would insist that every toe and finger is the man. But
such a teacher, at least in these days, would almost certainly warn
his pupils against the notion that the man can be really 8 FOREWORD
divided into limbs, or organs, or But not i Everything ties, or
even into soul and body. In deed, he might without affectation
adopt the language of a much controverted creed, so far as to
pronounce that the reasonable soul M a and flesh is one man cc one
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