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To: CharlesOConnell

“Pantheism is essentially nature worship.”

As a Pantheist I disagree with this perception. This is what the hippy liberals who hijacked the term think it means and it is wrong. There is much more to it that goes well beyond just limiting it to nature. On the quantum level it is an awareness and enlightenment that is a combination of the whole including mind, body, and spirit. Everything is one, and everything affects everything else. And on the sub-atomic quantum particle level we now know this to be true.

The first religion of animism where everything is alive and has a spirit is reality on the quantum level. They knew this even though they didn’t understand it, the “great spirit” the “ether” per say. Everything even inanimate is actually alive on the sub-atomic level. The energy is alive and in everything throughout the cosmos and universe, or maybe even universes.

This same concept is directly tied to Christianity through Gnosticism.


11 posted on 02/09/2019 9:21:14 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind
I read that Einstein was once asked if he as a pantheist:
Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvellously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza’s Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things. Quoted by Peter Hitchens in Modern Age.

57 posted on 02/09/2019 4:52:21 PM PST by aspasia
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