章节正文
of thought that are still attached to formal Christianity. The time
is at hand when many of the organised Christian churches will be
forced to define their positions, either in terms that will identify
them with this renascence, or that will lead to the release of their
more liberal adherents. Its probable obligations to Eastern thought
are less readily estimated by a European writer.
Modern religion has no revelation and no founder; it is the
privilege and possession of no coterie of disciples or exponents; it
is appearing simultaneously round and about the world exactly as a
crystallising substance appears here and there in a super-saturated
solution. It is a process of truth, guided by the divinity in men.
It needs no other guidance, and no protection. It needs nothing but
freedom, free speech, and honest statement. Out of the most mixed
and impure solutions a growing crystal is infallibly able to select
its substance. The diamond arises bright, definite, and pure out of
a dark matrix of structureless confusion.
This metaphor of crystallisation is perhaps the best symbol of the
advent and growth of the new understanding. It has no church, no
authorities, no teachers, no orthodoxy. It does not even thrust and
struggle among the other things; simply it grows clear. There will
be no putting an end to it. It arrives inevitably, and it will
continue to separate itself out from confusing ideas. It becomes,
as it were the Koh-i-noor; it is a Mountain of Light, growing and
increasing. It is an all-pervading lucidity, a brightness and
clearness. It has no head to smite, no body you can destroy; it
overleaps all barriers; it breaks out in despite of every enclosure.
It will compel all things to orient themselves to it.
It comes as the dawn comes, through whatever clouds and mists may be
here or whatever smoke and curtains may be there. It comes as the
day comes to the ships that put to sea.
It is the Kingdom of God at hand.
End
is at hand when many of the organised Christian churches will be
forced to define their positions, either in terms that will identify
them with this renascence, or that will lead to the release of their
more liberal adherents. Its probable obligations to Eastern thought
are less readily estimated by a European writer.
Modern religion has no revelation and no founder; it is the
privilege and possession of no coterie of disciples or exponents; it
is appearing simultaneously round and about the world exactly as a
crystallising substance appears here and there in a super-saturated
solution. It is a process of truth, guided by the divinity in men.
It needs no other guidance, and no protection. It needs nothing but
freedom, free speech, and honest statement. Out of the most mixed
and impure solutions a growing crystal is infallibly able to select
its substance. The diamond arises bright, definite, and pure out of
a dark matrix of structureless confusion.
This metaphor of crystallisation is perhaps the best symbol of the
advent and growth of the new understanding. It has no church, no
authorities, no teachers, no orthodoxy. It does not even thrust and
struggle among the other things; simply it grows clear. There will
be no putting an end to it. It arrives inevitably, and it will
continue to separate itself out from confusing ideas. It becomes,
as it were the Koh-i-noor; it is a Mountain of Light, growing and
increasing. It is an all-pervading lucidity, a brightness and
clearness. It has no head to smite, no body you can destroy; it
overleaps all barriers; it breaks out in despite of every enclosure.
It will compel all things to orient themselves to it.
It comes as the dawn comes, through whatever clouds and mists may be
here or whatever smoke and curtains may be there. It comes as the
day comes to the ships that put to sea.
It is the Kingdom of God at hand.
End
- formal [´fɔ:məl]
a.正式的；外表的 (初中英语单词) - release [ri´li:s] vt&n.释放；放松；赦免 (初中英语单词)
- liberal [´libərəl] a.大方的 n.开明的人 (初中英语单词)
- probable [´prɔbəbəl] a.大概的n.很可能的事 (初中英语单词)
- readily [´redili] ad.乐意地；容易地 (初中英语单词)
- european [juərə´pi:ən] a.欧洲的 n.欧洲人 (初中英语单词)
- protection [prə´tekʃən] n.警戒；护照；通行证 (初中英语单词)
- crystal [´kristəl] n.水晶 a.水晶的 (初中英语单词)
- definite [´definit] a.确定的，明确的 (初中英语单词)
- thrust [θrʌst] v.&n.猛推；冲；刺；挤进 (初中英语单词)
- despite [di´spait] prep.尽管 (初中英语单词)
- whatever [wɔt´evə] pron.&a.无论什么 (初中英语单词)
- christianity [,kristi´æniti] n.基督教；基督精神 (高中英语单词)
- define [di´fain] vt.解释；说明；限定 (高中英语单词)
- revelation [,revə´leiʃən] n.展现；揭露(的事物) (高中英语单词)
- founder [´faundə] n.奠基者 v.陷落 (高中英语单词)
- symbol [´simbəl] n.符号；象征 (高中英语单词)
- brightness [´braitnis] n.光明；快乐 (高中英语单词)
- orient [´ɔ:riənt] n.东方 a.东方的 (高中英语单词)
- simultaneously [,siməl´teinjəsli] ad.同时，一起 (英语四级单词)
- divinity [di´viniti] n.神性，神；神学 (英语四级单词)
- guidance [´gaidəns] n.向导，指导，领导 (英语四级单词)
- inevitably [in´evitəbli] ad.不可避免地；必然地 (英语四级单词)
文章标签:名著
章节正文
京公网安备 11011202003401号
