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The root-meaning of the word is still to seek. But, indeed, the popular meaning, thanks to popular common sense, will generally be found to contain in itself the root-meaning. Let us go back to the Latin word Superstitio. Cicero says that the superstitious element consists in "a certain empty dread of the gods" a purely physical affection, if you will remember three things: 1.
A word, the root-meaning of which was neither more nor less than a certain heathen goddess, or goddesses the inspirer of beauty in art, the impersonation of all that is pure, charming, winning, bountiful in one word, of all that is graceful and gracious in the human character. The fact is strange, but the fact is there; and being there, we must face it and explain it.
We have no right to change a root-meaning, and say in one case that a word means he was indignant, in another that it means he straitly or strictly charged, and in a third that it means he groaned. Surely not thus shall we arrive at the truth!
For the root-meaning of one of the Old Testament words for 'faith' is 'fleeing to a refuge, and we shall not be safe in God unless by faith we flee for refuge to Him in Christ. They have a Father who bears them on His shoulders. The image is the same as in chap. i. already referred to.
The root-meaning is 'separated, 'set apart, and the word expresses primarily, not moral character, but relation to God.
Their song celebrated the holiness and the glory of Jehovah of hosts. We must ever remember that the root-meaning of 'holiness' is separation, and that the popular meaning of moral purity is secondary and derivative. What is rapturously sung in the threefold invocation of the seraphs is the infinite exaltation of Jehovah above all creatural conditions, limitations, and, we may add, conceptions.
And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." According to its root-meaning, "learning" is a "shaking." Every new learning shakes society, now as in the days past.
That is the point that the student ought to grasp; this knowledge of God, not the belief in Him, not the faith in Him, not only vague idea concerning Him, but the knowledge of Him, is possible to man. That is the affirmation of Theosophy, that is its root-meaning and its essence. And we find, looking back historically, that this has been asserted in the various great religions of the world.
The word Apaché has the same root-meaning as the word Déné though that fierce race was also called locally the Shisińdins, namely, "The Forest People," doubtless from its original habitat in this region.
This is also the root-meaning of the word "sanctify" in relation to persons, and it may be questioned whether the word, as used in the original, ever really includes in it the idea of purification; the latter thought has another set of words altogether. The Apostle therefore prays that they may be consecrated, set apart from all else, for the possession and service of God.
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