Pandeism

Pandeism (or pan-deism) is a theological doctrine which combines aspects of pantheism into deism. It holds that the creator deity became the universe and ceased to exist as a separate and conscious entity. Pandeism is proposed to explain, as it relates to deism, why God would create a universe and then abandon it, and as to pantheism, the origin and purpose of the universe.

The word pandeism is a hybrid blend of the root words pantheism and deism, combining Ancient Greek: πᾶν pan "all" with Latin: deus which means "god". It was perhaps first coined in the present meaning in 1859 by Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal. On January 12, 2016, a Kickstarter fundraising effort was launched which successfully funded a book titled Pandeism: An Anthology, which will contain articles from over a dozen different writers examining pandeism from many different points of view, thus being the broadest examination of the theory yet made.

A pantheistic form of deism

Pandeism falls within the traditional hierarchy of monistic and nontheistic philosophies addressing the nature of God. It is one of several subsets of deism:

Pandeism (disambiguation)

Pandeism may refer to:

Anacalypsis

Anacalypsis (full title: Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions) is a lengthy two-volume treatise written by religious historian Godfrey Higgins, and published after his death in 1836. The book was published in two quarto volumes numbering 1,436 pages, and contains meticulous references to hundreds of references. Initially printed as a limited edition of 200 copies, it was partially reprinted in 1878, and completely reprinted in a limited edition of 350 copies in 1927. In 1965, University Books, Inc. published 500 sets for the United States and 500 sets for the British Commonwealth with Publisher's Note and a Postface.

Meaning of the word "Anacalypsis"

A problem that the reader may find in the work of Higgins is that there is not an explanation of the meaning of the word that gives the title to his work, at least in the original edition.

In the original edition of 1836 from London (in the picture in this article), the word Anacalypsis only appears, in addition to the title, once. The word appears on page 447, in the Recapitulation (Summary) section, where Higgins reviews and sorts the ideas covered thus far in his work. There, in a footnote, readers finds an irrelevant information to understand the meaning of the word; there, Higgins expresses his plan to write in the near future a new work called Commentaries on the Anacalypsis and on Ancient History.