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whether its resemblance to personality is given in 

 its real nature, or introduced into it by their thought. 



If we look into the history of religion, we find 

 over and over again that man has taken something 

 from his own mind and projected it into the external 

 world. The magic power of fetishes, the tabus in- 

 curred by contact with certain objects, the endowment 

 of the idea of external powers, of God, with human 

 form, the ascription of miraculous influence to places 

 or things — in every case there has been this pro- 

 jection. And there is no reason to doubt that here 

 again there has been a similar occurrence, that man 

 has organized his idea of external power after the 

 pattern of a personality, and has then ascribed this 

 type of organization to the external power itself. 

 This projection Blake symbolized in a sentence : 

 'Thus men forgot that All Deities reside in the 

 Human breast.' 



The rival schools of psychology may disagree : 

 but all are agreed that some modes of thinking are 

 more primitive than others, and even in the most 

 educated amongst us tend to persist, often in the sub- 

 conscious, side by side with more developed methods 

 that have arisen later. 



The use of concrete symbols or images is the most 

 widespread of these primitive modes of thought. 

 It is natural that the more complex should at 

 the first be described in terms of the less com- 

 plex, that those experiences for which no proper 



