1. And thus a system in theory deistic became a practical polytheism.”

2. A God who cares about them as tenderly as a parent cares for a child cannot be an ethereal mist or a vague philosophical First Cause or a deistic absentee landlord.

3. 124: The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and Anthropomorphic aspects are to the

4. Their sanguinary violence was combined with an anti-religious policy, not Atheistical, but inspired by mistrust of the clergy, and by a civic and deistic creed that was a direct outcome of the federations.