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. . . The word
“religion”
derives from the Latin
“religare”—to tie, to tie fast, to tie back. Tie what to
what? Tie man
to the oneness of the Universe, to the creation of which he feels himself
a part, to the will that willed his existence, to the law he can only divine.
It is a fundamental human experience, dim in some, shining in others, rare
in some, frequent in others, conscious in some, unconscious in others.
But there is no great creation in either art or science which is not ultimately
rooted in this climate of the soul, whatever the means of translation and
substantiation.
Ernst Toch
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