God in History; Or, the Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World
God in History; Or, the Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World
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This conception of the creation of the world, sometimes pictured in an ideal, sometimes in a more materialistic sha^e, is the most ancient of all these poetic fictions. Midway between that and the purely heroic conception, there comes, in accor- dance with a general organic law, the elemental or astral conception. But in the Aryan consciousness of Eastern Asia, it is only quite in late times, that the heroic Digitized by LjOOQ IC Chap. VIL] RELIGIOX OF THE VEDAS. 301 elemeDt enters on this phas...e. He who has not arrived at a clear idea of the existence and the sequence of these three strata of the mythological consciousness, must never hope to understand any part of the actual history and law of mythological development. This axiom holds good most pre-eminently of the mythology of the Asiatic Aryans.
The religion of the Vedas appears at first sight to be a mere adoration of the visible powers of Nature : of the sun, the sky {Varuna- Ouranos\ of fire {Agni=Ignis\ and in general of the eternal powers of Hght, the Adi- tyas (the indestructible, eternal), which compose the twelve monthly periods of the solar year.
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This conception of the creation of the world, sometimes pictured in an ideal, sometimes in a more materialistic sha^e, is the most ancient of all these poetic fictions. Midway between that and the purely heroic conception, there comes, in accor- dance with a general organic law, the elemental or astral conception. But in the Aryan consciousness of Eastern Asia, it is only quite in late times, that the heroic Digitized by LjOOQ IC Chap. VIL] RELIGIOX OF THE VEDAS. 301 elemeDt enters on this phas...e. He who has not arrived at a clear idea of the existence and the sequence of these three strata of the mythological consciousness, must never hope to understand any part of the actual history and law of mythological development. This axiom holds good most pre-eminently of the mythology of the Asiatic Aryans.
The religion of the Vedas appears at first sight to be a mere adoration of the visible powers of Nature : of the sun, the sky {Varuna- Ouranos\ of fire {Agni=Ignis\ and in general of the eternal powers of Hght, the Adi- tyas (the indestructible, eternal), which compose the twelve monthly periods of the solar year.
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