Amedeo

Unwittingly I have put 2 and 2 together....
While it is absolutely certain that contrarditory terms do not denote anything and, therefore, what they say cannot be an object of belief, I always thought that all spiritual substances are imaginary or contrived by the Imagination or Fantasy. Well, the example of the flying man made me realize that gods and other such things are man-like (anthropomorphic) or reality-like. E.g., a god, thought declared to be spiritual acts like a bodily thing and specifically like a bodily man, hears, speaks, and so forth. Though "god" (a spiritual substance), does not designate anything, an imaginary/fantastic thing is created: a thing that hears without ears, goes to different places without legs and without moving, flies in the air without wings (though angels are pictured with wings!)

Spiritual things do not have to be personal. For instance, there is a hell in which fire burns bodies without destroying them; there are humans that live forever without the need of food, air, and water; flames (fires that burn other things) without anything being consumed. We could update hell by introducing exploding atomic bombs, laser beams, etc. which do not pulverize the denizens of hell and, to begin with, were put in hell by a creating god; they are not man-made-things. -- This is THE OTHER WORLD, the would of human fantasy, in which childish or pre-critical minds can believe. Behold the preachers of hell and you behold the primitive human mind, which, as Vico said, is a "poetic" (imaginatively creative) mind. Listen to fables, listen to the prophets of gods, listen to Jesus the Christ. (I have even discovered that he created his own identity out of Biblical passages. He made himself a messiah by creating his own autobiography, which he preached unto others. The Gospels are biographies of Jesus. Most of a biography is an imaginative autobiography by Jesus himself. He is an immensely delusional man.)

Man does have a poetic mind, and some fine minds produce great fantasy-literature... though they do not believe that the products of their imagination are sustances. The OTHER WORLD, the Fantastic World, is here and now, in the brains of humans -- at the pre-rational level.