So the future may suffer not from the loss but the multiplicity of faith; and its fate be far more like the cloudy and mythological war in the desert than like the dry radiance of theism or monism.
I have said nothing here of my own faith, or of that name on which, I am well persuaded, the world will be most wise to call.
But I do believe that the tradition founded in that far tribal battle, in that far Eastern land, did indeed justify itself by leading up to a lasting truth; and that it will once again be justified of all its children.

What has survived through an age of atheism as the most indestructible would survive through an age of polytheism as the most indispensable.

If among many gods it could not presently be proved to be the strongest, some would still know it was the best.
Its central presence would endure through times of cloud and confusion, in which it was judged only as a myth among myths or a man among men.
Even the old heathen test of humanity and the apparition of the body, touching which I have quoted the verse about the pagan polytheist as sung by the neo-pagan poet, is a test which that incarnate mystery will abide the best.

And however much or little our spiritual inquirers may lift the veil from their invisible kings, they will not find a vision more vivid than a man walking unveiled upon the mountains, seen of men and seeing; a visible god..