Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
148 conceptions whose elements the cognitive individual takes from his surroundings, and not from his inner consciousness. It has a bearing also on those ideas, the light of which is from above, which descends in intuition, in deep contemplation. The same causes are at work in modifying these also. For the divine revelation will manifest itself in that measure, in which the soul is prepared to receive it. In a restricted atmosphere, even the heavenly light will not greatly spread. In the lower grades, the light is much clouded. On the elevated heights, to fuller contemplation the heavenly rays exhibit a more clear effulgence. The different stages of apprehension produce variations also in the characters of revealed truth. The religious history of mankind is the picturing of these changes. There appear in the life of humanity, in the first, stage, or the childhood of mankind, such religious conceptions as are connected with the more near, more sensible objects, in which men sought the traces of Higher Will, Higher Power. On the next stage, these give place to conceptions, in which the special spirits, animating single objects, cease to exist as such; and the hidden spirits, exercising Power and Will, are conceived of as lying behind the multitude of similars, and producing the phenomena of classified groups. The personification of physical forces is completed by the unifications of spiritual forces. When the race has further advanced, in the progress of thousands of years, not only has much store of material been accumulated for religious treatment, but the abstracting, analytical and generalising power of the mind itself has grown to large measures A mighty current of ideas is in motion, and as it flows, the grand principle of the unity of the world is evidently spreading itself over the whole surface of the vast ocean of exis
