{"id":14039,"date":"2020-05-15T12:51:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:17:10","slug":"roberto-assagioli-about-panentheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/roberto-assagioli-about-panentheism\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Assagioli about Panentheism"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Roberto Assagioli writes about his belief in Panentheism, where transcendence and immanence, far from being excluded, harmonize admirably in an integral conception of the universe.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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A Comparison between two different philosophical traditions<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Original title: The Manifestation of the Divine in Nature and in the Soul.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

By Roberto Assagioli<\/span><\/span><\/strong> . (Doc. #23611 Assagioli Archives – Florence). Original Title: La Manifestazione del Divino nella Natura e nell’Anima. Translated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm <\/span><\/span>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

See also the article: <\/span><\/span>Psychosynthesis and evolutionary panentheism.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Abstract by Jan Kuniholm<\/span><\/span><\/strong> : In our tumultuous age, two contrasting trends are evident: a growing majority of humanity is abandoning faith, moral principles, and positive religions, driven by a materialistic and selfish worldview, while a minority is embracing a renewed ethical-religious awakening. This minority is growing, spurred by scientific advances in chemistry, physics, and biology, which challenge materialistic views, and by the moral crises induced by war. Modern physics, revealing matter to be non-substantial, and a revived spirituality both counter the materialistic outlook.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Yet, this spiritual renewal faces uncertainties and distortions, necessitating clarification, particularly regarding the relationship between divinity, nature, and the soul. Historically, two extreme views have prevailed: the dualistic view of absolute transcendence, separating God from creation; and the monistic view of absolute immanence, equating God with the universe. Both are inadequate. A synthesis, panentheism, acknowledges God as both transcendent and immanent, unifying all creation and embodying divine presence in every aspect of life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This balanced view satisfies both rational and spiritual needs, fostering a profound respect for all beings and recognizing the divine within and beyond the universe. This ancient and widespread conception, evident in Eastern and Western philosophies and mysticism, harmonizes spirituality and intellectual inquiry, urging a life of deeper communion with the divine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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In our agitated and tumultuous age, we can observe two opposite and contrasting facts. The majority of humanity seems to be losing all faith, all higher principles, and all moral restraint. It is rapidly abandoning positive religions on a vast scale, loosening all restraints imposed by family and social traditions, and has launched itself hopelessly into the conquest of material things. It wants to enjoy \u2014 to <\/span><\/span>enjoy<\/span><\/span><\/em> in every way without worrying about anything else. Basically, the great majority of humanity today has a purely materialistic and selfish conception of the world and of life; but it is applied and lived practically in every case with a consistency or conviction that is truly worthy of a better cause.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I consider it entirely unnecessary to give examples of this. In every moment of our social life, we come in contact, and quite often in collision, with obvious and often unpleasant manifestations of this state of affairs. Many people who are shocked by all that they observe around them, go so far as to believe that all mankind is now hopelessly caught up and overwhelmed by the current, and therefore allow themselves to be overcome by discouragement, making the most pessimistic predictions for the future, even for the near future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n