The Theosophists build a pantheon; but it is only a
pantheonfor pantheists. But the Zealots and the Legionaries did not turn the
othercheek any more than we do, if so much.
It is far from certain, indeed, that they did not
know it already.
It would be nearer the truth to say that the denial
of them isquite peculiar to our time. It was important while it wasstill
insignificant, and certainly while it was still impotent. If it was a truth at all,
it was because it was a prophecy. Confucius would have come from his temples of
ancestor-worshipto worship a child.
I only say that if the rationalists refuse to
satisfy it,the pagans will not be satisfied. The Church contains what the world does
not contain.
It dared to lookright through it as though the gold
and marble had been glass.
But the Zealots and the Legionaries did not turn
the othercheek any more than we do, if so much. I only say that if the rationalists
refuse to satisfy it,the pagans will not be satisfied.
In short, we can say that these ideals are
impossible in themselves. Heaven and earth shall pass away,but my words shall not
pass away.
The discovery is, in this case, truly a scientific
discovery. But the wise Men must be seeking wisdom, and for them theremust be a
light also in the intellect.
But after all these learned men would have come to
learn.
I do not herereason about the refusal of
rationalism to satisfy this need. We should have a worse shock if wereally imagined
the nature of Christ named for the first time.
But theyare very far from being the only sort of
words that he utters. As I say, while the artmay be insufficient, I am not sure that
the instinct is unsound.