MAX MÜLLER’S VIEWS ON THE IDEA OF INFINITY (SACRED) WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE PROCESS OF THE ORIGIN OF RELGION

One ofthe main topics ofthe history of religions was the problem of the origin of religion in XIX.century. According to Friedrich Max Müller, the theories that was arouse on the issue like fetishism, animism, ancestor worship and totemism was unable toexplainthe matter adequately. According to him religion did not started directly with the worship of the stone, ornaments, totem animals and such these. In addition, the religion did not appear with the Supreme Being's informing himself to mankind through the revelation. Although these elements have an important place, before attributing the divinity to this kind ofbeings, there is the process of discovery of the sacred in the beginning of the religion. The idea of“infinite” (divine) emerged from impressions ofnature such as other types of knowledge. After that, religion has developed by attributing divinity or deity to natural beings and progressed tothe stage of polytheism, monotheism and finally to psychological religion