pan|the|ism

pan|the|ism
pan|the|ism «PAN thee ihz uhm», noun.
1. the belief that God and the universe are the same; doctrine that God is an expression of the physical forces of nature: »

The author, whose philosophy seems to be a crude but genuinely mystical pantheism, succeeds in communicating the wonder and terror of being alone on a storm-tossed raft in the middle of the world's widest ocean (New Yorker).

2. the worship of all the gods.

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