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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 12: _De Mundi Opificio_, p. 5B. I take him to mean by [Greek:
kosmos noetos]--the world as apperceived--realised in our
consciousness.]
[Footnote 13: It should be noted that Philo, who was contemporary with
Jesus, often uses the title "the Father" [Greek: ho Pataer] as a
sufficient designation of the Eternal. It was not very usual, and is
suggestive of certain spiritual sympathies amidst enormous intellectual
divergencies between the Alexandrian philosopher and the Galilean
prophet.]
[Footnote 14: See Col. i. 15-17 and refs. John i. 1-3; iii. 13; viii.
58.]
CHAPTER III
MODERN PANTHEISM.
[Sidenote: Spinoza.]
[Sidenote: A Pantheistic Prophet.]
[Sidenote: The Main Subject here Is his Religion and not his
Philosophy.]
Modern Pantheism as a religion begins with Spinoza. Whether it ended
with him is a question which the future will have to decide. But the
signs of the times are, at least in my view, very clearly against such a
conclusion. And amongst the omens which portend immortality, not
necessarily for the philosophical scheme, but for the "God-intoxicated"
devoutness of his Pantheism, is the desire, or rather the imperious need
increasingly realized, for a religion emancipated from theories of
creation or teleology, intolerant of any miracle, save indeed the
wonders of the spiritual life, and satisfying the heart with an ever
present God.
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