In reality it is in a very special sense paganism; because it is polytheism.

The word will startle many people, but not the people who know the modern world best.
When I told a distinguished psychologist at Oxford that I differed from his view of the universe, he answered, "Why universe?
Why should it not be a multiverse ?" The essence of polytheism is the worship of gods who are not God; that is, who are not necessarily the author and the authority of all things.

Men are feeling more and more that there are many spiritual forces in the universe, and the wisest men feel that some are to be trusted more than others.
There will be a tendency, I think, to take a favourite force, or in other words a familiar spirit.

Mr.H.G.Wells, who is, if anybody is, a genius among moderns and a modern among geniuses, really did this very thing; he selected a god who was really more like a daemon.

He called his book _God, the Invisible King_; but the curious point was that he specially insisted that his God differed from other people's God in the very fact that he was not a king.
He was very particular in explaining that his deity did not rule in any almighty or infinite sense; but merely influenced, like any wandering spirit.