Myth’s and Religion
Given what we know about “how,” and the “why” of myths. When does it become real or one’s beliefs? When does it become as plain as a cup of water? Where you can see that there is water in the cup and nothing else. Magic is only a form of trickery or illusional bends in the truth. Religion on the other hand becomes something stronger in that most of us are brought up believing something passed down from our parents whom most likely were also passed down by their parents too. That is almost an imbedded thing with out or own control. I certainly couldn’t stop my parents from baptizing me into the Catholic Church. Now something I can regulate and make my own decision is that of magic.
“From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; false are magic.” (Frazer, p. 57) I can learn through a hypothesis of my own on “how” that has occurred. I don’t need some myth or legend telling me why something has seemed to cut in half. This is all have become a game of angles, and numbers to deceive the eye. This is the false of the end product of the search of mans truth. These others become a myth in their own right, because they can’t be solved and man always needs an explanation on how things have become the way they are. For an example mans early but still fascination on how the earth became and what lived here so many years ago. Of course many great minds have come up with many hypothesis on the how to these questions, but Religion has given man the “true” answer to all their wild questions.
The Essay on Religion Vs Magic In Dealing With Problems
All societies and human beings have a set of beliefs for ordering the world. Religion and magic are belief systems used by many societies. This essay will discuss the function and moral dimensions of both magic and religion, and focus on the need to explore human beliefs and behaviours in the context of the society in which they occur. I will also discuss the way in which magic and religion use ...
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.” (Frazer, p. 58) This is broken down into two elements the practical and the theoretical. The practical is only things that already can be proven along with science but religious connection can be made. For an example the belief in the crucified body of Jesus Christ, the Bible speaks of him as the son of God and science has hard facts that the story of Jesus Christ had indeed existed even though it can’t say all that he has done miracle wise never did take place. In walks the theoretical concepts handed down on belief alone.
Many generations of our ancestors have handed down many myths, stories and legends that pertain to the lifestyle they have constructed. Early man used these stories and myths as a form of communication. These myths set rules and an explanation for the “why.” “The primitive’s mind works along the lines that are peculiar to it. The mystic elements in his ideas matter considerably more to him than the objective features which, in our view, determine and classify beings of all kinds, and as a consequence the classifications which we regard as most clearly evident escape his attention.” (Lucien Le’vy-Bruhl, p. 371) Such things as wind and rain are explained, along with the animals and vegetable species. This is the primitive mind to the extreme. They didn’t keep explanations elaborate with great theories on how everything worked they gave the simple something a little more concrete, a belief on “why” some things are sacred.
What is sacred then over time becomes challenged with knowledge. Then the question becomes what is real and what isn’t real. Sometimes the imagination is the key to an unexplainable phenomenon. Some might believe the ancient man might have looked at it more simply than an educator to where they may have over thought the “why.” Then again “speculative thought” without any form of records you might add that the primitive mind is just that. “Where, then, is speculative thought allowed to range today? Its main concern is with man-his nature and his problems, his value and his destiny. For man does not quite succeed in becoming a scientific object to himself. His need of transcending chaotic experiences and conflicting facts leads him to seek a metaphysical hypothesis that may clarify his urgent problems. On the subject of his “self” man will, most obstinately, speculate-even today.” (H. and H.A. Frankfort, p.4)
The Essay on Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius Man Belief
Analysis of Genius Ralph Waldo Emerson was a brilliant man who took the meaning of self-reliance to another uniform. His convoluted conceptions on Genius and Transdentalism are more in touch with self. His inhabitants and whereabouts such as the Wald on pond were very substantial to him. David Thoreau a mere apprentice also shared the same residents for a brief time with Emerson. The two believed ...
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