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Chapter 2. We Have Outgrown the Cult of Childish
Religion:
True and False Religion
People who irrationally accept various religious beliefs
and so adhere exclusively (and often fanatically) to a
particular historical cult of belief are engaged in false
religion. This is not true merely of the so-called “cults,”
or non-establishment religious groups, that characterize one
aspect of the contemporary scene. Rather, it is true of all
conventional religious institutions, and it is especially
true of the broadly based “establishment” of religious
institutions that proliferate in the entire world.
True religion is not a matter of uninspected belief, or
fanatical adherence to an historical system of objective
beliefs that excludes all other systems of belief from the
right to Truth. True religion is a higher human process. It
is a process enacted in the body-mind of the individual and
in the communities of all individuals who are consciously
involved in that same process. It is a process that can only
begin if it is founded on profound self-critical
consideration and insight, followed by conversion, or
release, of the entire body-mind into the Life-Power, the
All-Pervading and ultimately Divine Energy, that may be
directly and bodily experienced and also clearly revealed to
the intuitive mind.
True religion is the mechanism in Nature whereby Man
evolves and transcends himself, both individually and
collectively (as a species and as a cultural and social
order). Therefore, true religion transcends the chaos of
conventional and exoteric cultic beliefs. It transcends even
all of the sects and offshoots of the so-called “great
religions,” such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism,
and Hinduism.
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