The religion of Logos and Sophia : from the writings of Dimitrije Mitrinović on Christianity

The realisation that we humans are in our essence and centre not material things, that we are Spirit and that thus God’s own nature is our true and most inward nature is the only path between two equally impossible alternatives. The naive superstition which believes—or pretends to believe—that there is a God, who is an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent Being, so far exalted above Man as to be beyond his possible knowledge or experience; and the equally naive intellectualism which asserts that there is no God and that the notion Divine corresponds to no reality in human life—which the whole history of Man’s thought and art deny—and that the material world and its laws is the only firm reality.

‘Our human fear of perfection and divinity is of great persistence and intensity and the fulness of delusions which have overwhelmed us is powerful and mortifying. But we ought to be courageous and ripe-of-age today and begin realising our own human divineness. We have reached the end of the intellectual and materialistic period of our evolution. It is necessary and right that we ascend, and—in awareness of our consciousness and intellection —tealise our abysmal eternity and our infinite eternal essence! For the Divine is of the nature of self-consciousness and is immaterial; measuring, not measurable; and also we, humanity, are in our own essence not measurable! We also are immaterial and of infinite spirituality, though measuring worlds and everything in them. The time has arrived for us to lose this fear, the infantile and immature fear of the Divine. Let us recognise that this time has arrived.

‘For our materialism is unworthy superstition and is the child of fear of the best, of the truest, of Divinity and perfection. It is due to us that we should lose the fear of God and that we should stop our glorification of matter. We ought to renounce our infantile food of transcendentalist religion and of materialistic science. There is no divine transcendence except as a potentiality to be realised or as a mere delusion of ignorance. God is not transcendental. God is in awareness. Awareness is immanent. In human awareness the whole of existence is present and to the Spirit there is nothing transcendental, except those values, those forms, that spirit-reality which is not realised by the experiencing spirit. In depth-realisation, in the whole-full realisation, nothing is trans-

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