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PantheisirCs Destruction of Boundaries. tical

destruction in

The

life.

soul seeks after

God

'

and when

;

wanting, and he cannot be found by the dusky glinnnerings of reason, the soul becomes impetuous the light of revelation

is

with longing and indiscreet even to the borders of the irreverand agonizes after Gud, to enter his presence, to fathom

ent,

the hidden dei)ths of his being, itself in

him

This

self.

trait, this

motive,

and

rests not until

it

has lost

made him become manifest

or unconsciously

is

one and the same

all

in

it-

the M-orld

over; and whether you hear the Hindoo utter his heart-breaking cry after his nirvana; or whether you see the Gnostic delight himsblf in his syzygics or Bohme, coloring his panthe;

ism with Christian quietistically

with them

theosophically

tints,

and anon Schelling, the one strong effort

;

all

;

Madame

or

de Guyon,

in a philosophic style, to restrain the soul

it is

from

its

impetuous longings, to lose itself in the depths of the being of God. Let ns call it once more a spiritual adultery but it is the glow of a tragic passion, which is far more attractive and captivating than the cold egotism of the matter-of-fact man, wlio ;

may

not question the existence of God, but has no further deal-

ings with

him

And

tlian jpro Tnemoria.

also in

our age

it is

how the newly aroused Christian religion in Schleiermaclier has kissed the hand of pantheisn), and how Schelling (provided that the theistic name be retained) has allowed himnoteworthy

deep draughts from the foaming

cup> of pantheism. True from the rationalistic coldness and from the conventional mechanism of our supranaturalists. But at the hand of Schelling it regains its raystei'ies, its holy Triiiit}', its Incarnation, including even the doctrine of the resurrection. But, however luxuriantly this pantheism grew, like grass in prairie lands, under tliat grass did hide a poisonous adder. That, which in the tents of the saints received its corrective from self

piety shrank back

jiiety itself, lost this corrective

from the philosopher's desk

;

the

moment

quickly repressed the religious element.

away

it

began

to sjiarkle

for then philosophic pantheism

"With Hegel eveiy

and after him the magic formula of pantheism, in order that, being freed from God and from every tie established bj^ him, it might melt the world as it found it and cast it into a new form for every man in accordance with the religious motive sank

spirit

of our age captured for

desires of his

own

heart.

in dialectics; itself the

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