Across families

New Thought and Pantheism

Different families with 13 axes in close agreement — the sort of pairing a quiz weighting only the divine axes would never surface. Mean distance across all seventeen axes: 0.15 (0 would be identical).

New ThoughtMetaphysical

An impersonal Divine Mind that everything participates in, and a claim that thought shapes circumstance. There is nothing wrong with you that correct understanding will not fix — the highest C3 value in the matrix.

PantheismPhilosophical

The universe is the divine — not made by it, not containing it, identical to it. Scores the matrix maximum on immanence and near it on the sacredness of nature, while denying a personal God entirely.

Where they agree

D1 Mechanism of the ultimate good
Both sit at achieved by effort or insight — a gap of 0.00.
A3 Plurality
Both sit at strictly one — a gap of 0.02.
B3 Institutional authority
Both sit at individual conscience decides — a gap of 0.02.
E3 Locus of belonging
Both sit at an individual choice — a gap of 0.02.
A1 Divine reality
Both sit at a divine reality certainly exists — a gap of 0.03.
B1 Source of truth
Both sit at reason and direct experience — a gap of 0.04.
B2 Reading of sacred text
Both sit at metaphorical, or no text at all — a gap of 0.04.
A4 Locus
Both sit at fully present within it — a gap of 0.05.
D3 The body
Both sit at leaning to be celebrated — a gap of 0.06.
E1 Exclusivity
Both sit at many valid paths — a gap of 0.07.
C3 The human condition
Both sit at ignorant but fundamentally sound — a gap of 0.10.
D2 Centrality of ritual
Both sit at leaning optional or absent — a gap of 0.10.
C2 Shape of time
Both sit at between one life, then judgment and cyclical return — a gap of 0.10.

Where they part company

E2 Origin of the cosmos
New Thought: leaning an intentional act. Pantheism: beginningless or natural. A gap of 0.65 on an axis running from “an intentional act” to “beginningless or natural”.
C1 Survival of the self
New Thought: continues in some form. Pantheism: leaning ends at death. A gap of 0.63 on an axis running from “ends at death” to “continues in some form”.

All seventeen axes

Axis	New Thought	Pantheism	Gap
A1 Divine reality	a divine reality certainly exists	a divine reality certainly exists	0.03
A2 Personhood	leaning impersonal principle or order	impersonal principle or order	0.24
A3 Plurality	strictly one	strictly one	0.02
A4 Locus	fully present within it	fully present within it	0.05
B1 Source of truth	reason and direct experience	reason and direct experience	0.04
B2 Reading of sacred text	metaphorical, or no text at all	metaphorical, or no text at all	0.04
B3 Institutional authority	individual conscience decides	individual conscience decides	0.02
C1 Survival of the self	continues in some form	leaning ends at death	0.63
C2 Shape of time	between one life, then judgment and cyclical return	between one life, then judgment and cyclical return	0.10
C3 The human condition	ignorant but fundamentally sound	ignorant but fundamentally sound	0.10
D1 Mechanism of the ultimate good	achieved by effort or insight	achieved by effort or insight	0.00
D2 Centrality of ritual	leaning optional or absent	leaning optional or absent	0.10
D3 The body	leaning to be celebrated	leaning to be celebrated	0.06
E1 Exclusivity	many valid paths	many valid paths	0.07
E2 Origin of the cosmos	leaning an intentional act	beginningless or natural	0.65
E3 Locus of belonging	an individual choice	an individual choice	0.02
E4 Standing of nature	leaning animate and itself sacred	animate and itself sacred	0.30

Positions for New Thought rest principally on Holmes, The Science of Mind (1926) and Unity’s statements of belief; for Pantheism, on Spinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement. Per-cell sources are listed on each tradition’s own page.

Which of the two is closer to you?

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