The dominant place given to the female deity in the underworld myth, again brings the nether world into a noteworthy contrast with the supermundane realm of gods.
Whether the Brahmans had as yet come to the notion that transformation into an animal is a simpler and more natural way of conceiving the future of the soul than ideas of a supermundane and a subterranean beyond, need not concern us.
The conceptions formed of them seem to have reflected the ideas of rulership derived from real life, just as was true in the case of the supermundane gods.
Reason, whether from an indwelling instinct, or from an innate causality-law, may assert that something supermundane exists, but can know nothing more and nothing further.
He referred its fulfilment to a supermundane theatre.
The struggle could not have been altogether upon a supermundane theatre, nor the triumph of the Messiah achieved without common warlike agencies.
All the more forcibly does Jewish monotheism insist upon its doctrine that God, in His continual self-revelation, is the supermundane and self-conscious Ruler of both nature and history.
As they filled the chasm between the supermundane Deity and the world of the senses, they had to share the nature of both matter and mind.
To earlier thinkers such an act of a supermundane and immutable God appeared as a single act.
We think he made no alternative himself between accusers and accused, but exempted both classes from supermundane influences, and queried only whether witchcraft resulted partly from ill health or wholly from fraud.
Such a people were not very likely to mistake the pranks of their own children for thingssupermundane in origin.
There was no spectral testimony in this case; outer senses of many persons had learned her supermundane powers.
The faith of all ages and nations had held that occurrences which seemed to result from supermundane force were produced by disembodied intelligences.
The primitive records of American witchcrafts show that portions of it, and especially that Salem witchcraft feats, were devised in supermundane brains, and enacted under their supervision.
Of course, this cannot be proved except by the presumption that there is no supermundane God.
It can only be demonstrated by denying the existence of a supermundane God; for, if there is an Almighty God, there can be no doubt that He can give a Revelation and demand belief.
