The idea of god that alone appears to be logically compatible with
monism, is pantheism (or “cosmotheism”) in the sense of Goethe and
Spinoza. God according to this view is identical with the sum-total
of the force of the universe, which is inseparable from the sum-total
of the matter of the universe. In opposition to this view stands
_anthropotheism_. This is the outcome of dualism, which places God
as a personal being in opposition to the “world” created by him,
and consequently is always forced in its reasonings to resort to
anthropomorphic expedients.