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Table of Contents
Preface


ARE WE ON THE RIGHT PATH?
Introduction
Fear And Favour
Urge of Dominance
Faith
Middle Eastern Mythology
Revelation


SEMITIC RELIGIONS
Introduction
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Horrors of Fundamentalism


ORIGIN & DESTINATION
Introduction
Epistemology
The Creative Principle
Mind and Matter
Life After Death
Summary


THE WAY
Introduction
Harmony
Free Will
Ethics
Psychology
Sociology
Law
Politics
Taxation
Economics
Mysticism


Postscript
Glossary
Bibliography

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ETERNITY

INTRODUCTION TO BOOK I

ARE WE ON THE RIGHT PATH?

Whatever man does, is activated by considerations of pain and pleasure. The fear of pain, and desire for pleasure constitute his instinctive behavioural mechanism. Since death is man's worst fear, immunity from death, or eternity, ranks as the best favour.

Through fear, man began to believe that there is a god or goddess behind every force of nature such as the Sun, the Moon, the wind, the rain etc.; and if he submits to the deities they will show him favour by protecting him from disease, destruction and death. This is what gave birth to mythology i.e. the belief in superstitious gods and goddesses.

Dominance-urge, that is, the compulsive desire of some people to command their fellow-beings, and to be worshipped by them, is so great that they project themselves as gods to replace the existing mythological deities. This is the most convenient way of exploiting people's psychological susceptibilities. The Middle Eastern mythology vouches for this fact. However, the method used to secure this goal is called "revelation": a person desiring to be God, pretends that he is the Vicar of God and preaches only what is revealed to him by the Almighty. Through this veil, he eventually establishes his own divinity backed by a host of fairy tales.

Revelation is the biggest fraud that man invented to gratify his urge of dominance, but the propriety of revelation itself depends upon the concept of a Creator God which is totally irrational. Amongst many other fatal flaws, it follows that if the universe needs a Creator God, then the Creator God must have been created by yet another Creator God, and so on.
 
 
 

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