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the examination of the various kinds of gods and demons would be of only slight interest, although or rather because it is naturally true that they, like the vocabulary of a language, have been shaped directly by the economic situation and the historical destinies of different peoples.
sacred law became the mother of rational juristic thinking
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- Greek religion was situated in the inter-local regional knightly culture, such as that of the Homeric age with its heroic gods
- came to possess the form of enduring beings
- sacred is the uniquely unalterable.
- first and fundamental effect of religious views upon the conduct of life and therefore upon economic activity was generally stereotyping. The alteration of any practice which is somehow executed under the protection of supernatural forces may affect the interests of spirits and gods
- deductive constructions of concepts through rational proposition only gradually replaced analogical thinking, which originated in symbolically rationalized magic, whose structure is wholly analogical
- the significance of analogy, especially in its most effective form, the parable
- first and fundamental effect of religious views upon the conduct of life and therefore upon economic activity was generally stereotyping
- fear of giving serious indignation to two dozen saints by omitting the days sacred to them from the calendar year has hindered the reception of the Gregorian calendar in Russia until today (1914)
- arouse the anger of a god or an ancestral spirit
- greatest contradiction of purely dogmatic views
- human activity were drawn into this circle of magical symbolism
- puppet-like representations
- show-breads
- corpse may be satisfied with symbols instead of actual things
- god expresses himself only through symbols
- dead person is accessible only through symbolic actions
- It is of interest that the oldest paper money was used to pay, not the living, but the dead
- displacement of naturalism depends upon the importance of magic for the economy and upon the power of the organization the magicians succeed in creating
- symbolic actions may sweep away naturalism
- by symbols that "signify" something
- effort must be made to influence not to the actual but to the spiritual power that expresses itself
- economic consequences was the notion that the corpse must be accompanied to the grave by all its personal belongings
- magic is transformed from a direct manipulation of forces into a symbolic activity
- new experiences now play a role in life
- the soul that continues to exert influence at the site of the person's former residence, observing with envy and anger how the heirs are relishing what had belonged to it in its life
- soul is frequently viewed as a heterogeneous entity
- rise on one hand of the idea of the "soul," and on the other of ideas of "gods," "demons," hence of "supernatural" powers, the ordering of whose relations to humans constitutes the realm of religious action.
- proper names of powerful chieftains or prophets have become the designations of divine powers
- On the other hand, a supernatural power may be the power which somehow emanates from a great hero after his death.
- supernatural power may be thought of as a power controlling the course of one particular event, to whom no one gives a second thought until the event in question is repeated. [2]
- follow their own laws, and are merely "symbolized" by concrete objects
- spirits
- notion of "animism."
- Or, they may somehow "possess" events, things, or categories thereof
- spirits or souls may "dwell"
- concept of "soul" as a separate entity
- all of which originally served orgiastic purposes
- especially music
- layperson can experience ecstasy only occasionally, as intoxication
- ecstasy is accessible only in occasional actions and occurs in the from of orgy: the primitive form of communal action
- to evoke ecstasy: the psychic state that represents or meditates charisma
- magician is endowed with enduring charisma
- the foundation for the oldest of all "vocations," that of the professional magician.
- belief in spirits, like all abstraction, is most prevailed in those societies within which certain persons possess charismatic "magical" powers that were held only by those with special qualifications
- By entering into a concrete object, spirit endows the latter with its distinctive power
- belief in spirits
- assumed that charismatic capability can be developed only in which the germ already existed but would have remained dormant unless "awakened" by some ascetic or other means
- the other type may be produced artificially in an object or person through some extraordinary means

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