 Although it has a religious agenda, Zend-Avesta was no defense of the Christian faith. Fechner’s natural religion was decidedly not Christianity. His denial of a transcendent dimension beyond nature, his insistence that the mental be embodied in the physical, and his affirmation of a God of nature, all depart drastically from Christian dogma. Still, Fechner was sympathetic to Christianity—the faith of his family and fathers—and attempted to interpret many of its beliefs in terms of his  philosophy.[11]  He conceived his own religion as a synthesis of Christianity and paganism (Fechner 1879: 71).