ABSTRACT
WE have seen that sacramentalism was a universal type of religion in early days. It had no necessary connexion with magic, although it might be perverted to magical ends. Its real value was that it answered man’s need for union with his god. Which end it served was decided by the psychological attitude of the user. If, then, sacramentalism was a perfectly legitimate element in religion we should naturally have expected to see it attaining strong development in the ‘revealed religion’ of the Old Testament.
