Magizm i edinobozhie

Idei i verovaniya imeyut gorazdo bol'shee vliyanie na zhizn' obschestva, chem eto kazhetsya na pervyy vzglyad. I esli uchest' tu vlast', kakuyu imel Magizm nad dushami lyudey, to porazitel'naya ustoychivost' pervobytnogo mira stanovitsya ne takoy uzh zagadochnoy. Mir vosprinimalsya "magicheskim chelovekom" kak zakonchennoe material'no-duhovnoe celoe, kak nepreryvnyy krugovorot bogov i lyudey, zhivyh suschestv i stihiy, kak svoeobraznaya ierarhiya duhov, lyudey i besslovesnyh. V svoih obryadah chelovek imitiroval zhizn' prirody, kak by uchastvuya v ee processah; cherez totemizm on rodnilsya s mirom zhivyh tvarey. Zhizn' ego byla neprestannym svyaschennodeystviem, on boyalsya narushit' hotya by odno zveno v kosmicheskoy misterii, opasayas' byt' vybroshennym za predely istinnogo Bytiya... Bor'ba Magizma s Edinobozhiem ne ogranichivaetsya drevnim mirom. V ney proyavlyaetsya izvechnoe protivostoyanie dvuh polyarnyh sil religioznoy zhizni... Etoy duhovnoy bor'be i poiskam posvyaschena nastoyaschaya kniga. V ney my prosledim, kak rucheek Edinobozhiya probivalsya cherez pregrady yazychestva i magii, poznakomimsya s duhovnoy istoriey klassicheskogo Vostoka, Indii i Grecii. No v centre kartiny budet izrail'skaya religiya, i eto ne sluchayno. Otkrovenie Vethogo Zaveta u