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Full Idea
Earth, food, fire, sun - all these that you worship - are forms of Brahman.
Gist of Idea
Earth, food, fire, sun are all forms of Brahman
Source
Anon (Upan) (The Upanishads [c.950 BCE], 'Chandogya')
Book Ref
'The Upanishads', ed/tr. Prabhavananda /Manchester [Mentor 1957], p.67
A Reaction
In 'Taittiriya' food is named as the "chief of all things". Pantheism seems to arise from a desire that one's god should have every conceivable good, so in addition to power and knowledge, your god must keep you warm and healthy.
| 8152 | Earth, food, fire, sun are all forms of Brahman [Anon (Upan)] |
| 2631 | Antisthenes says there is only one god, which is nature [Antisthenes (I), by Cicero] |
| 20807 | The cosmos and heavens are the substance of god [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 6038 | Stoics say god is matter, or an inseparable quality of it, or is the power within it [Stoic school, by Chalcidius] |
| 18461 | Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity [Porphyry] |
| 7256 | In Utopia, the Supreme Being is identical with Nature [More,T] |
| 12757 | That God is the substance of all things is an ill-reputed doctrine [Leibniz on Spinoza] |
| 17180 | Everything is in God, and nothing exists or is thinkable without God [Spinoza] |
| 17181 | God is the efficient cause of essences, as well as of existences [Spinoza] |
| 4829 | The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God [Spinoza] |
| 19408 | To say that nature or the one universal substance is God is a pernicious doctrine [Leibniz] |
| 7580 | Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil [Kierkegaard] |