Word: pantheism
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Some kept mercifully silent. Joe DiMaggio was one. Arthur Miller, her last husband and only interpreter, said simply: "She could have made it with a little luck." He could not believe her death was suicide. She had, he once said, "the gift of life"-a classic pantheism. "Please Don't Kill Anything" was his title for a short story he once wrote about her and the litany he had her speak in The Misfits. Her gift, he had said, was a response "to the most elemental part of the human being near her, his propensity for hurting or helping...
...mystical melange of occultism, universal brotherhood, pantheism, including a Hindu-style belief in reincarnation. Mrs. Besant held that in an earlier existence she was King of north and south India...
...true, Stacton writes, that Ikhnaton set aside the prevailing pantheism, in which the god Amon and Amon's priests ruled over a motley array of other deities. It is also true that the Pharaoh moved his capital downriver from Thebes to a new city built in honor of the new sun god Aton. But his actions had little to do with religion. They were the work of an inbred neurotic, a king of erratic, often clouded mind, whose strange, troubled life was set on its eccentric course by an obsessive fear of the dark...
...place of sunsets in the haze of dust and of short twilights when the sky at the last moment goes green over the sharp, violet mountains, which seem to have been cut out by a knife . . . The landscape of Castile, Unamuno said, is for monotheism, not pantheism. God is a precise thing like a stone, the Christ is a real man bleeding, and the blood of His wounds stains the mother's cheeks as she leans against Him; the Virgin is a real girl. In this country the cemeteries are lonely, for they lie well out of the towns...
...eunuch baptized by Philip: "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." If they can say this, I argue, then this country is on the verge of the greatest spiritual awakening in history. If they cannot, we are plunged once more into a sterile pantheism, Fatherless and cold...