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Physical Religion is generally defined as a worship of the powers of nature. We hear it said of ancient as well as of modern nations, that their gods were the sun or the moon, the sky with its thunder and lightning, the rivers and the sea, the earth, and even the powers under the earth. As Aaron said to the Israelites, the poets and prophets of the heathens are supposed to have said to their people: “These be thy gods.”
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© 2002 Jon R. Stone
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Stone, J.R. (2002). Physical Religion. In: Stone, J.R. (eds) The Essential Max Müller On Language, Mythology, and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08450-7_14
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