Pantheism deceives the intellect but lacks true heart, life, and consciousness.
No doubt the imagination is often deceived by the gay drapery in which the objects set forth to our contemplation by pantheism is decked; and the intellect, dizzied by the many turnings of sophistry through which it has been carried before the vision is disclosed, is the less capable of detecting the deception: yet the heart, more faithful than the head, will feel at times that it is but a phantom which it is required to love and worship; and that truly within there is neither heart nor life, though there may be grace and motion in the outward form. The worshipper carried through the long avenues of columns and statues, and the splendid halls, of the ancient temple of the Egyptian Thebes, was not conducted at last to a more miserable termination, when, in the inner shrine he found one of the lower animals, than the follower of a modern philosopher when conducted through processes, laws, and developments to a divinity who has less of separate sensation and consciousness and life than the very brute, which Egypt declared to be gods. McCash.
