hink in our brain and be
consciousness. It has been imprisoned in this bread in order that, after
being buried in our body, it may come to life again in our spirit.

And we must spiritualize everything. And this we shall accomplish by
giving our spirit, which grows the more the more it is distributed, to
all men and to all things. And we give our spirit when we invade other
spirits and make ourselves the master of them.

All this is to be believed with faith, whatever counsels reason may give
us.

* * * * *

And now we are about to see what practical consequences all these more
or less fantastical doctrines may have in regard to logic, to esthetics,
and, above all, to ethics--their religious concretion, in a word. And
perhaps then they will gain more justification in the eyes of the
reader who, in spite of my warnings, has hitherto been looking for the
scientific or even philosophic development of an irrational system.

I think it may not be superfluous to recall to the reader once again
what I said at the conclusion of the sixth chapter, that entitled "In
the Depths of the Abyss"; but we now approach the practical or
pragmatical part of this treatise. First, however, we must see how the
religious sense may become concrete in the hopeful vision of another
life.

FOOTNOTES:

[44] Reinold Seeberg, _Christliche-protestantische Ethik_ in
_Systematische christliche Religion_, in _Die Kultur der Gegenwart_
series.

[45] _Cf._ St. Thomas Aquinas, _Summa_, secunda secundae, quaestio iv.,
art. 2.

[46] "_Que es Verdad?_" ("What is truth?"), published in _La Espana
Moderna_, March, 1906, vol. 207 (reprinted in the edition of collected
_Ensayos_, vol. vi., Madrid, 1918).

X

RELIGION, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BEYOND AND THE APOCATASTASIS

_Kai gar isos kai malista prepei mellonta echeise apodemein diaskopein te
kai muthologein peri tes apodemias tes echei, poian tina auten oiometha
einai._--PLATO: _Phaedo_.

Religion is founded upon faith, hope, and charity, which in their turn
are founded upon the feeling of divinity and of God. Of faith in God is
born our faith in men, of hope in God hope in men, and of charity or
piety towards God--for as Cicero said,[47] _est enim pietas iustitia
adversum deos_--charity towards men. In God is resumed not only
Humanity, but the whole Universe, and the Universe spiritualized and
penetrated with consciousness, for as the Christian Faith teaches