The worshippers of Bomba's god dethroned Bomba.

The worshippers of Swinburne's god have covered Asia for centuries and have never dethroned a tyrant.

The Indian saint may reasonably shut his eyes because he is looking at that which is I and Thou and We and They and It.

It is a rational occupation: but it is not true in theory and not true in fact that it helps the Indian to keep an eye on Lord Curzon.
That external vigilance which has always been the mark of Christianity (the command that we should _watch_ and pray) has expressed itself both in typical western orthodoxy and in typical western politics: but both depend on the idea of a divinity transcendent, different from ourselves, a deity that disappears.

Certainly the most sagacious creeds may suggest that we should pursue God into deeper and deeper rings of the labyrinth of our own ego.