Pantheism and Polytheism, Judaism and Islamism, Protestantism, and even the various Protestant as well as Mahometan sects, call forth corresponding social and political forms.
He had occasionally been denounced; and a keen eye had detected latent pantheism in his Vorhalle, but he had not been formally censured.
It maintains transcendence, and so has all the good of pantheism without its limitations.
Christian theology is the harmony of pantheismand deism.
Deism reduces God to a finite anthropomorphic personality, as pantheism annuls the finite world or absorbs it in the Infinite.
It enjoys all the riches of pantheism without its inherent weakness on the moral side, without making God dependent on the world, as the world is dependent on God.
There are also grounds on which Theism appears certain and Pantheism extravagant, absurd, and contradictory.
There are, however, many who, though rejecting Pantheism as untrue, do not conceive it absurd or contradictory.
Of all forms of philosophical mysticism, the idea of Pantheism seems to me one of the most extravagant.
Exalted by their peculiar belief in pantheism and metempsychosis, they consider the universe and themselves as directly emanating from Brahm, and they strive to lose their own individuality, in its infinite essence.
But the Pantheism of this age was gradually superseded by the worship of the one Brahm, from which, according to this belief, the soul emanated, and to which it seeks to return.
The tone of Fechner's empiricist pantheism contrasted with that of the rationalistic sort, 144.
What further distinguishes me from Pantheism is principally the following.
Therefore pantheism opposed itself to it whenever it ventured to do so, and showed that nature bears in itself the power by virtue of which it appears.
Certainly, according to pantheism or Spinozism, of which the systems of our century are mere travesties, all that sort of thing reels itself off actually without end, straight on through all eternity.
All pantheism must ultimately be overthrown by the inevitable demands of ethics, and then by the evil and suffering of the world.
Pantheism examined in the Order of Internal Facts 406 XVIII.
The author of the Doctrine of Science, led astray by the doctrines of Kant, establishes the most extravagant pantheism that was ever invented.
Pantheism cannot escape this argument except by taking refuge in pure idealism; and in this respect Fichte and Hegel are more logical than most persons give them credit for being.
The idea of contingency is also contradictory if pantheism be admitted; all that can be is, and all that does not exist is impossible; therefore when we distinguish contingency from necessity we contradict both the reality and the possibility.
Contradiction of Pantheismto the Primary Facts of the Human Mind 429 XXI.
The deeper we go into the me from which it is pretended to deduce such an absurd system, the more we discover the contradiction in which pantheism appears in respect to the primary ideas and facts of our mind.
The secret of pantheism is the confounding of non-inherence with absolute independence; and the means of overthrowing its arguments is always to distinguish these two things.
Negative judgments form a considerable part of the wealth of our understanding;[68] pantheism destroys them.
It was the surmised pantheism of Goethe's poem Prometheus that, according to Jacobi, drew from Lessing his avowal of a pantheistic leaning.
In his strongest polemic there was always an element of mystification; [1371] and his final pantheism was only privately avowed.
Cesalpini of Pisa "substitutes the barren unity of pantheism for religion.
With much contemporary popularity, he had no permanent influence; and he seems to have been completely broken-hearted over Jacobi's disclosure of the final pantheism of Lessing, for whom he had a great affection.
Erdmann finds the pantheism of Herder to be, not Spinozistic as he supposed, but akin to that of Bruno and his Italian successors.
Here we leave the track of the higher Pantheism for that of vulgar mysticism.
Although some form of pantheism is doubtless the belief of the learned, the evidence that a personal conception of deity is widespread among the people seems so manifest that I need hardly do more than call attention to it.
The only difference between atheism andpantheism is purely verbal.
We set out with the question of the infinite, and after refuting the pantheistic idea of the infinite, and showing that pantheism in its solution of the problem destroys it, we gave the Catholic idea of the infinite.
Pantheism denies the creation of substances or second causes, and asserts that all phenomena are simply the appearances of the one infinite and only substance; and this is precisely what Mr. Spencer undeniably does.
His Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences made a deep impression in Germany, and two schools sprang up, one claiming it as a philosophical statement of Christianity, the other as Pantheism hostile to revelation.
A characteristic of his later pantheism is that it identifies God with love.
There is another difference between the pantheism of Shelley and that of Spinoza.
And if there is as real a distinction between God and His creation as this indicates, the doctrines of pantheism are impossible.
The only mode of escaping from this difficulty is by taking refuge in the vastly greater ones of pantheism or atheism.
Do Buddhism and Brahminism show any disposition to compromise their differences by fusing them into a common Pantheism which shall suit both parties?
In arguing a question of this kind it is necessary to be consistent, and take our stand either on the principles of theism, or on those of pantheism or atheism, and not to fall back on either as the exigencies of the case demand.
If Pantheism or Atheism is a correct account of the facts of the universe, it is impossible to say what kind of beings nature may have evolved in the past, or may evolve in the future from her prolific womb.
With respect to this theory, while it cleverly evades some of the harsher difficulties of pantheism and atheism, it is not too much to say that it is a civil way of bowing God out of the universe, of which He is alleged to be the cause.
I repeat, therefore, that the only way of escaping from them is by rushing into the far greater difficulties of pantheism or atheism.
It may be conceded that the occurrence of some anomalous event as a bare objective fact is quite possible, even on the principles of pantheism or atheism.
As far as the impossibility of supernatural occurrences is concerned, pantheism and atheism occupy precisely the same grounds.
Pantheism is said to sink man and nature in God; Materialism to sink God and man in nature, and Transcendentalism to sink God and nature in man.
However, as the authority of Christianity declined, the pagan tendency again became visible; until at length, in the Hegelian school, we have fallen back helplessly into the same pantheism which we left 2000 years ago.
And yet more impossible is it to imagine that this feeble Hegelian pantheism should ever become the crown and summit of all human thought, and final resting-place for all human minds.
Pantheism or utter skepticism--there is no retreat.
There is an ardent love of nature as far removed from gross materialism or subtle pantheism on the one hand as from stupid inappreciation on the other.
True, he denounces pantheism; but here is pantheism of the eclectic patent, differing from that of other systems only in subtlety of expression, wherein Cousin certainly excels.
Mysticism andPantheism link hands over the gulf which seemed to divide them.
The doctrine of creation would becomepantheism and that of redemption, formerly ascetic, would represent struggling humanity.
It was when this religious function was transferred to the god of pantheism that the paradox and impossibility of the reform became evident.
Their pantheism under these circumstances makes them the more energetic and turns them into practical positivists, docile to their social medium and apologists for all its conventions.
Pantheism is mythical and has, as we have just seen, all the subversive powers of ordinary superstition.
The non-Platonic half of Christian theology, the Mosaic half, is bound to become pantheism in the hands of a philosopher.
The spirit of grossly materialisticPantheism in the religion of those lands rendered this impossible.
Religious philosophers springing up outside the revelation which was held in trust by the chosen people took no account of the Fall; and, indeed, how could that doctrine have been made to harmonize with the dreams of Pantheism and emanation?
In view of such speculative teaching, in which justification is transformed into a sort of mystico-physical process, it is not surprising that the charge of pantheism was also raised against Osiander.
It exhibits one personal God who made and governs the world, without the least trace of polytheism on the one hand, or pantheism on the other--the two rocks of error upon which every other system of religion in the world has made shipwreck.
Many apostles of Atheism andPantheism amongst our classes say (and perhaps truly), that this modern "spiritualism" is but a transition state.