pandemonism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action…

   Belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action is inhabited by its own independent supernatural spirit; worship of such spirits.

   • But he was scarcely right in attempting to derive all primitive religious concepts from an undifferentiated "dim pandemonism."
2. 2

   Belief in a universe that is infused with an evil spirit.

   • It was but the original faith of the ancient ancient Teutons which the Christian monks had perverted into pandemonism.
   • While this ancillary thought explains evil in the world, it also completely extinguishes the good and introduces pandemonism instead of pantheism.
   • Whereas pantheism asserts that all is God, pandemonism asserts that all is hell; whereas pantheism asserts that all is sacred and divine, pandemonism asserts that all is profane and contaminated.

The neighborhood

• neighborpantheism
• neighborpandeism
• neighborpanzoism