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God The Invisible King-Part3_H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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Nature. We may speculate whether it is not what the wiser among the

Gnostics meant by the Demiurge, but since the Christians destroyed



all the Gnostic books that must remain a mere curious guess. We may

speculate whether this heat and haste and wrath of life about us is



the Dark God of the Manichees, the evil spirit of the sun

worshippers. But in contemporary thought there is no conviction



apparent that this Demiurge is either good or evil; it is conceived

of as both good and evil. If it gives all the pain and conflict of



life, it gives also the joy of the sunshine, the delight and hope of

youth, the pleasures. If it has elaborated a hundred thousand sorts



of parasite, it has also moulded the beautiful limbs of man and

woman; it has shaped the slug and the flower. And in it, as part of



it, taking its rewards, responding to its goads, struggling against

the final abandonment to death, do we all live, as the beasts live,



glad, angry, sorry, revengeful, hopeful, weary, disgusted,

forgetful, lustful, happy, excited, bored, in pain, mood after mood



but always fearing death, with no certainty and no coherence within

us, until we find God. And God comes to us neither out of the stars



nor out of the pride of life, but as a still small voice within.

5. GOD IS WITHIN



God comes we know not whence, into the conflict of life. He works

in men and through men. He is a spirit, a single spirit and a



single person; he has begun and he will never end. He is the

immortal part and leader of mankind. He has motives, he has



characteristics, he has an aim. He is by our poor scales of

measurement boundless love, boundless courage, boundless generosity.



He is thought and a steadfast will. He is our friend and brother

and the light of the world. That briefly is the belief of the



modern mind with regard to God. There is no very novel idea about

this God, unless it be the idea that he had a beginning. This is



the God that men have sought and found in all ages, as God or as the

Messiah or the Saviour. The finding of him is salvation from the



purposelessness of life. The new religion has but disentangled the

idea of him from the absolutes and infinities and mysteries of the



Christian theologians; from mythological virgin births and the

cosmogonies and intellectual pretentiousness of a vanished age.



Modern religion appeals to no revelation, no authoritative teaching,

no mystery. The statement it makes is, it declares, a mere



statement of what we may all perceive and experience. We all live

in the storm of life, we all find our understandings limited by the



Veiled Being; if we seek salvation and search within for God,

presently we find him. All this is in the nature of things. If



every one who perceives and states it were to be instantly killed

and blotted out, presently other people would find their way to the



same conclusions; and so on again and again. To this all true

religion, casting aside its hulls of misconception, must ultimately



come. To it indeed much religion is already coming. Christian

thought struggles towards it, with the millstones of Syrian theology



and an outrageous mythology of incarnation and resurrection about

its neck. When at last our present bench of bishops join the early



fathers of the church in heaven there will be, I fear, a note of

reproach in their greeting of the ingenious person who saddled them



with OMNIPOTENS. Still more disastrous for them has been the virgin

birth, with the terrible fascination of its detail for unpoetic



minds. How rich is the literature of authoritative Christianity

with decisions upon the continuing virginity of Mary and the



virginity of Joseph--ideas that first arose in Arabia as a Moslem

gloss upon Christianity--and how little have these peepings and






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