They rest their claim on Belief.

They establish dogmas, the mental acceptance of which is the one thing needful.

In them mythology passes into theology; the act is measured by its motive, the formula by the faith back of it.

Their life is the Creed.
The Myth finds vigorous and congenial growth only in the first of these forms.

There alone the imagination of the votary is free, there alone it is not fettered by a symbol already defined.
To the student of religions the interest of the Myth is not that of an infantile attempt to philosophize, but as it illustrates the intimate and immediate relations which the religion in which it grew bore to the individual life.