Text: The anthropomorphic dogma is likewise connected with the creation-myth o fthe three aforesaid religions (Mosaic, Christian and Mohammedan), and of many others. It likens the creation and control of the world by God to the artifical creation of the skilful engineer or mechanic, and to the administration of a wise ruler. God, as creator, sustainer, and ruler of the world, is thus represented after a purely human fashion in his thought and work. Hence it follows, in turn, that man is god-like. "God made man to his own image and likeness." The older, naive mythology is pure "homotheism" attributing human shape, flesh, and blood to the gods. It is more intelligible than the modern mystic theosophy that adores a personal God as an invisible - properly speaking, gaseous-being, yet makes him think, speak, and act in human fashion; it gives us the paradoxical picture of a "gaseous vertebrate".

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