Israel and Humanity - The supernatural element in the religion of Israel
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The supernatural element in the religion of Israel.
We said that the fund is common to all religions is found in the law of Israel. However, one must beware of believing that this is only the residue that the analytical study of different religions reveals after removing specific characters of each. The scientific criticism from all sides confirms what we believe we have shown in this book and what we could save even more in evidence if it were to write a philosophy of religion, that every people or less each of the human race has a special aptitude for a certain branch of civilization, that it may reach a stage of development as other nations do more than seek to approach it and that it which remains the most gifted to grow more and more the germ that has been shared, either by a spontaneous movement of his inner life, either by assimilating better than any other that comes from outside. That is not to be forgotten when we talk about mutual fund that has Judaism compared with other religions.
A race was originally received in the religious domain, a single pulse, like for example one that creates the physical life of an individual, and it improves more and more this initial donation, along with the general development the world that humanity is the spirit. But as it affects its advancing the frontiers of the order of things, it is necessarily required to exceed, its mission is to unite the current phase of nature with that which is to succeed him and prepare for the transition between current form of the universe and its future state. Therefore we should expect to find in the religion of Israel, whose works religious genius for the development of all mankind, not only what is common to all peoples, but also a supernatural element is suprarational, legitimate, even essential, provided one understands the manner and within the limits that we have just indicated. This element, we repeat, is for the establishment of religion to come. Thus we see there, what makes the Israelite [1] more capable than any other to represent the religious genius of the race and become the priest of humanity is precisely what which imposes a duty to undertake, on behalf of all obligations relating to the supernatural, and therefore they are by their very nature suprarational.
Without doubt, in every work of human civilization, there is no secondary part if we imagine, that contributes in some way to the work of transforming the universe and which therefore should not present in the current state of things, a certain mystery. In fact, the most authoritative representatives and most prominent of each art and each science admit that there is always, ultimately, something that eludes them. Because all things, simply because they exist, are related to the infinite and thus it is not the power of a limited intelligence to embrace all sides. Each race is acting, then, in his particular field, a kind of priesthood whose right is conferred by its special ability to see and feel, in this specific sphere, what other races are unable to bring proceedings as fully and deeper. But like religion, which is the domain of the Israelites embodies the divine, the infinite, she also, more than any other branch of human culture, is intended to link the various parts all over between them and different phases of universal evolution, so she represents everything that is beyond our understanding, all we can describe the supernatural in the present state of our knowledge. Hence the special character of Judaism which differentiates the various forms of religion which is likely the universal law of humanity. Dualism is thus explained and justified in any way without prejudice to the fundamental unity of the divine law.
Add here a remark that is in our view very important. Rationalism would distinguish him as every religion and its followers became known that it contains specific and special and secondly it contains common and universal [2]. Now that no revelation seemed capable, according to critics, without losing any claim even in the minds, Judaism has done precisely by the proclamation of the Noachism, general status of humanity next to the Mosaic, personal status of Jews. [3]
