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So Keats avers of the singer, The poet is not, he himself avers, merely thinking about things. He becomes one with them. In this sense all poets are pantheists, and the flash of their inspiration means the death of their personal thought, enabling them, like Lucy, to be Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees. Hence the singer has always been called a madman.
"If to believe that not a lily can grow, not a sparrow fall to the ground without our Father, be pantheism, Alister and I are pantheists. If by pantheism you mean anything that would not fit with that, we are not pantheists." "Why should we trouble about religion more than is required of us!" interposed Christina. "Why indeed?" returned Ian. "But then how much is required?"
Man can never, even for a single instant, escape the All-seeing Eye of God, or avoid the obligations of duty imposed on him by his Creator. The Pantheists of ancient as well as of modern times recognize this fact, although they do not discharge their religious obligations conformably to the Divine will, but make to themselves other gods instead.
I can assign no reason for rejecting as untenable the idea that the ultimate reality may be a duality—a good and an evil spirit—or even a plurality , but still it is unthinkable for me and I believe for most minds. The problem of evil is not quite the same for Indian and European pantheists.
The metaphysical basis of monophysitism made this result inevitable. Extremes meet. Extreme spirituality readily passes into its opposite. It cuts the ground from under its own feet. It soars beyond its powers, and falls into the mire of materialism. The Stoics, for instance, contrived to be both pantheists and materialists.
But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at midday, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists! The Quarter-Deck
But he afterwards states, with clearness and precision, in what respects Secularism accords with, and differs from, Pantheism: "The term, God, seems to me inapplicable to Nature. In the mouth of the Theist, God signifies an entity, spiritual and percipient, distinct from matter. With Pantheists, the term God signifies the aggregate of Nature, but Nature as a being, intelligent and conscious.
Every subject whatsoever is too high, too deep, and too broad for us. Can Atheists object to that? No, surely, for they uniformly thus reason with respect to Nature; and unless traitors to their own principles, cannot object to Pantheistical philosophy as here laid down. Atheists say, Nature never had an Author so do Pantheists of the 'Shepherd' school.
"If to believe that not a lily can grow, not a sparrow fall to the ground without our Father, be pantheism, Alister and I are pantheists. If by pantheism you mean anything that would not fit with that, we are not pantheists." "Why should we trouble about religion more than is required of us!" interposed Christina. "Why indeed?" returned Ian. "But then how much is required?"
But here no door needs to be opened; you have just to step straight into the temple of nature, among all the good people worshipping." "There! that is what I was afraid of!" cried Mercy: "you are pantheists!" "Bless my soul, Mercy!" exclaimed Christina; "what do you mean?" "Yes," answered Ian.
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