nature-power

And the various steps can be clearly traced by which the worship, originally accorded to the nature-power itself, was transferred to a spirit behind the power, and centred at last on the supreme Deity.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

Egypt stands on the dividing-line between the naturalistic and the personally-spiritual world-theory; the divine is indeed primarily and originally, as yet, a pure nature-power, but it struggles up into spiritual personality, and such a personality is recognized also in man; among the

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

No evil god and no nature-power hostile to the personal spirit, offer obstruction to the moral activity.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

Among the naturalistic nations, the Chinese and the Indians, this goal has no positive contents at all, for the personal spirit as placed under the dominion of an impersonal nature-power cannot aim to attain to any thing positive which did not already exist; its goal can only be the greatest possible self-denial of the personal spirit as over against nature.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

The Divine becomes, no more a physical ἀρχή -- a nature-power, but a Supreme Mind, an ineffable Spirit, an invisible God, the Supreme Essence of Essences, the Supreme Idea of

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

But on the other hand, since the chaotic principle of matter has acquired vitality, there now arises a more distinct and more active opposition to the God-like -- a barely negative, blind, ungodly nature-power, which obstinately resists all influence of the Divine; hence, as products, of the spirit of the

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850