Calvinism - pagina 54

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

50 over

exercises

that

naturally,

own

his

tangible body, he infers quite

Nature,

must be moved by the

also,

impulse of some hidden spiritual power.

movements of nature the result of an indwelling army of spirits, and tries catch them, to conjure them, to bend them to his he

therefore, as

to

Animistically,

the

explains

first

Then, rising from

advantage.

this atomistic idea to a

more comprehensive conception, he begins of personal

existence

the

who

divine beings,

standing over against

abandoned

having

Spirit, as a

all

his

to

that

faith

is

in

spiritual

and the

Supreme

Spirit, as

the the

finally,

visible,

in the end,

till,

such an extramundane

personal being, and charmed by the loftiness

own human

of his

between

homage

he pays

material,

And

power of Nature.

contrast

grasping the

expecting from these

gods,

stand above nature, effectual assistance

the fiendish

against

to believe in

spirit,

he prostrates himself before

some impersonal

ideal,

deems himself

be the worshipful incarnation.

whatever

may

this egoistic

to

of v/hich

be the various stages

religion,

it

he

self-adoration

in

in the

never overcomes

But

progress of

its

subjective

remaining always a religion for the sake of Men are religious in order to conjure the spirits

character, mail.

hovering behind the

from

the

his jugs,

invoked

to

whether the their istic

erf

Nature, to free themselves

oppressive sway of the cosmos.

not whether in

veil

the

Llama

It

matters

priest confines the evil spirits

whether the nature-gods of the Orient are afford loftier

shelter against the forces of nature,

gods of Greece are worshipped

ascendency above nature, or whether, philosophy presents the

spirit of

man

in

finally, ideal-

himself as the

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