Philosophical · nontheistic

Pantheism

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.

What makes it unusual

The axes on which this tradition sits furthest from the middle of the matrix — which is to say, the positions that actually distinguish it.

A2 Personhoodimpersonal principle or orderFurther toward "impersonal principle or order" than most traditions in the matrix.
B3 Institutional authorityindividual conscience decidesFurther toward "individual conscience decides" than most traditions in the matrix.
C1 Survival of the selfleaning ends at deathFurther toward "ends at death" than most traditions in the matrix.
E2 Origin of the cosmosbeginningless or naturalFurther toward "beginningless or natural" than most traditions in the matrix.

All seventeen positions

Each cell carries a centre, a dispersion — how much internal variation the tradition genuinely tolerates — and the source the position rests on. Disagree with one? Say so; corrections are public and recorded.

The same seventeen values as a single shape, read clockwise from A1 at the top. The outline is where the tradition sits; the wider band around it is the variation it genuinely tolerates, so a tight outline is a tight tradition.

position
tolerated variation

A · The divine

Axis	Position	Value	±σ
A1 Divine realitynothing beyond the natural → a divine reality certainly exists	a divine reality certainly existsSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.88	0.12
A2 Personhoodimpersonal principle or order → a personal being one can address	impersonal principle or orderSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.08	0.08
A3 Pluralitystrictly one → many powers and spirits	strictly oneSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.12	0.10
A4 Locuswholly beyond the world → fully present within it	fully present within itSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	1.00	0.02

B · Knowledge and authority

Axis	Position	Value	±σ
B1 Source of truthrevealed and fixed → reason and direct experience	reason and direct experienceSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.92	0.06
B2 Reading of sacred textliteral and binding → metaphorical, or no text at all	metaphorical, or no text at allSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.92	0.06
B3 Institutional authorityclergy and tradition decide → individual conscience decides	individual conscience decidesSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.90	0.07

C · Self and destiny

Axis	Position	Value	±σ
C1 Survival of the selfends at death → continues in some form	leaning ends at deathSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.25	0.20
C2 Shape of timeone life, then judgment → cyclical return	between one life, then judgment and cyclical returnSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.55	0.22
C3 The human conditionfallen and in need of rescue → ignorant but fundamentally sound	ignorant but fundamentally soundSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.85	0.10

D · Practice

Axis	Position	Value	±σ
D1 Mechanism of the ultimate goodgiven as grace → achieved by effort or insight	achieved by effort or insightSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.88	0.08
D2 Centrality of ritualessential and prescribed → optional or absent	leaning optional or absentSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.78	0.14
D3 The bodyto be disciplined → to be celebrated	leaning to be celebratedSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.72	0.14

E · World and others

Axis	Position	Value	±σ
E1 Exclusivityone true path → many valid paths	many valid pathsSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.85	0.10
E2 Origin of the cosmosan intentional act → beginningless or natural	beginningless or naturalSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.90	0.08
E3 Locus of belonginga people, inherited → an individual choice	an individual choiceSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.88	0.08
E4 Standing of naturecreation, given for use → animate and itself sacred	animate and itself sacredSpinoza’s Ethics and the World Pantheist Movement statement	0.98	0.02

Compared with

Where do you sit?

The questionnaire places your own answers on these same seventeen axes and reports how close you are to this tradition and to 64 others. Take it — eight to fourteen questions, nothing transmitted.