The religion of Logos and Sophia : from the writings of Dimitrije Mitrinović on Christianity

THE RELIGION OF LOGOS AND SOPHIA

In the space of a single lecture it is only possible to give a short outline of what Mitrinovi¢ wrote about Christianity, and many important aspects of the subject cannot be spoken of at all. In a sense it might be said that the keynote of all his work was to relate—persons, nations, races, philosophies, religions. Whenever he spoke or wrote he always related different subjects—sometimes most unexpected ones—to one another.

Christianity he took as central, but related it to every other religion and philosophy and to the whole of life. In this short lecture it is not possible to touch on all these relationships, but Mitrinovié was himself most careful to quote his sources. He very seldom claimed an idea as his own originally, and on those rare occasions he said so. But the many new and enlightening ways in which he related the most widely differing subjects to one another were beyond doubt his own.

In the outline that follows, no attempt will be made to prove anything, and it will not be possible to go into all the different sources, such as Vedanta, Zoroastrianism, Plato, Gnostic writings, Hegel, Solovyov, from which thoughts are taken. What will be attempted is to give a picture—taken largely from his own words —to be grasped imaginatively as a whole.

The principal sources from which quotations will be taken are two series of articles by Mitrinovi¢ under the pseudonym M. M. Cosmoi called “World Affairs’, the one published in the New Age under the editorship of A. R. Orage during the years 1920 and 1921, the other in the first ten numbers of the New Britain weekly published in 1933. The whole spirit of these articles may be

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