There are two sorts of deeper fear--one is fear (known even to the animals) _in presence of_ microcosmic freedom in space, before space itself and its powers, before death; the other is fear _for_ the cosmic current of being, for life, for directional time. The first awakens a dark feeling that freedom in the extended is just a new and deeper sort of dependence than that which rules the vegetable world, and it leads the individual being, sensible of its weakness, to seek the propinquity and alliance of others. Anxiety produces speech, and our sort of speech is religion--every religion. Out of the fear of Space arise the numina of the _world-as-nature_ and the _cults of gods_; out of the fear for time arise the numina of _life_, of sex and breed, of the State, centring on _ancestor-worship_. That is the difference between Taboo and Totem[464]--for the totemistic, too, always appears in religious form, out of holy awe of that which passeth all understanding and is for ever alien. The higher religion requires tense alertness against the powers of blood and being that ever lurk in the depths ready to recapture their primeval rights over the _younger_ side of life. “_Watch_ and pray, that ye fall not into temptation.” Nevertheless, “liberation” is a fundamental word in every religion and an eternal wish of every waking-being. In this general, almost prereligious, sense, it means the desire for freedom from the anxieties and anguishes of waking-consciousness; for relaxation of the tensions of fear-born thought and search; for the obliteration and removal of the consciousness of the Ego’s loneliness in the universe, the rigid conditionedness of nature, the prospect of the immovable boundary of all Being in eld and death. Sleep, too, liberates--“Death and his brother Sleep.” And holy wine, intoxication, breaks the rigour of the spirit’s tension, and dancing, the Dionysus art, and every other form of stupefaction and ecstasy. These are modes of slipping out of awareness by the aid of being, the cosmic, the “it,” _the escape out of space into time_. But higher than all these stands the genuinely religious overcoming of fear _by means of the understanding itself_. The tension between microcosm and macrocosm becomes something that we can love, something in which we can wholly immerse ourselves.[465] We call this _faith_, and it is the beginning of all man’s intellectual life.