Perhaps a Cosmotheist quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:39 am
Like many of his plays, Shakespeare's Hamlet is chock-full of memorable quotations. One that has stuck in my memory since I first read it back in High School, and re-read it a few times afterwards, is a quote from Act II, Sc. II:
Perhaps I stretch the meaning, but nevertheless, it's worth pondering.
When I learned of Cosmotheism, I saw this quote as having different meaning. In a Cosmotheist interpretation, we can see that Shakespeare in all probability did not see Man as a stagnant creature that has reached its final form forever, but, rather, as an ever-evolving species that can reach the status of god-hood someday.'What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god!
Perhaps I stretch the meaning, but nevertheless, it's worth pondering.