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

‘Now the God is mankind, there is no other God, no other absolute. There is no other Being but the human race and its members. The whole of the Divine Reason is in the heads of these people, the whole of the providential Love of God, the whole of Divine Wisdom. The influx of angels and seraphim is in the human instincts; the whole of glory and beauty and divinity and majesty is in the human heart. It is nowhere else. These angels, these divinities, these ideals, this supreme pattern of the good and the truth, as exemplified in Christianity and other religions—all of them are in the human intuition alone, because all of them are spiritual, and all of them exist only on the spiritual plane. The supra-heavenly place is in the human intuition, in the centre of the heart and nowhere else.

“The philosophers come up. The giants Hegel and Aristotle tell us that reason is objective; it does exist, and is the force that has constructed the Universe. And the Vedanta, highest of all philosophies, says that on the pattern of Divine Reason things are made. This abstract reason is in the human brain and mind. All the love of God, all the ecstasies of divine experience, all the good, all the bliss that we imagine to be God, is in the human instincts, in the human will, in the libido which is human libido, and nowhere else. All intuition and all ideas are in human reason.

‘Then finally we call to the Ego, the Absolute God, Jahveh, the Lord, whom we picture as existing apart from the Universe: the Ego of all beings, the self-conscious of all existence. That selfconscious Lord exists only in the incarnated personalities on this human earth—these bipeds who can be photographed and measured, who weigh so many stone and can be measured in so many inches.

‘The notion of the absolute and central Being which is the God of existence, the Ineffable Being, is a reality. It does exist, and will remain for ever and ever as the human idea of the future of that being. The human heart, the human ego, the human self-conscious is that. unique force, that one universal Being, apart from whom there are no other beings, neither animals nor angels nor stones nor stars. And this notion of mankind as a sacred entity, of humanity as the one thing that is worth while, of humanity as the standard of truth, as the reality of realities—all the wise men of the past, the whole of the best that is in the Christian Church, in all

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