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85:0.1 [[Primitive]] [[religion]] had a [[biologic]] [[origin]], a natural [[evolutionary]] [[development]], aside from [[moral]] [[associations]] and apart from all [[spiritual]] [[influences]]. The higher [[animals]] have [[fears]] but no [[illusions]], hence no [[religion]]. Man creates his primitive religions out of his [[fears]] and by means of his [[illusions]].

85:0.1 [[Primitive]] [[religion]] had a [[biologic]] [[origin]], a natural [[evolutionary]] [[development]], aside from [[moral]] [[associations]] and apart from all [[spiritual]] [[influences]]. The higher [[animals]] have [[fears]] but no [[illusions]], hence no [[religion]]. Man creates his primitive religions out of his [[fears]] and by means of his [[illusions]].

85:0.2 In the [[evolution]] of the [[human]] [[species]], [[worship]] in its primitive [[manifestations]] appears long before the [[mind]] of man is capable of formulating the more [[complex]] [[concepts]] of life now and in the [[hereafter]] which deserve to be called [[religion]]. Early [[religion]] was wholly [[intellectual]] in [[nature]] and was entirely predicated on associational circumstances. The objects of [[worship]] were altogether suggestive; they consisted of the [[things]] of [[nature]] which were close at hand, or which loomed large in the commonplace [[experience]] of the simple-minded [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive Urantians].

85:0.2 In the [[evolution]] of the [[human]] [[species]], [[worship]] in its primitive [[manifestations]] appears long before the [[mind]] of man is capable of formulating the more [[complex]] [[concepts]] of life now and in the [[hereafter]] which deserve to be called [[religion]]. Early [[religion]] was wholly [[intellectual]] in [[nature]] and was entirely predicated on associational circumstances. The objects of [[worship]] were altogether suggestive; they consisted of the [[things]] of [[nature]] which were close at hand, or which loomed large in the commonplace [[experience]] of the simple-minded [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive Urantians].

85:0.3 When [[religion]] once evolved beyond [[nature]] [[worship]], it acquired [[roots]] of [[spirit]] [[origin]] but was nevertheless always conditioned by the [[social]] [[environment]]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism nature worship] [[developed]], man's [[concepts]] envisioned a division of labor in the [[supermortal]] world; there were [[nature]] [[spirits]] for lakes, trees, waterfalls, rain, and hundreds of other ordinary [[terrestrial]] [[phenomena]].

85:0.3 When [[religion]] once evolved beyond [[nature]] [[worship]], it acquired [[roots]] of [[spirit]] [[origin]] but was nevertheless always conditioned by the [[social]] [[environment]]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism nature worship] [[developed]], man's [[concepts]] envisioned a division of labor in the [[supermortal]] world; there were [[nature]] [[spirits]] for lakes, trees, waterfalls, rain, and hundreds of other ordinary [[terrestrial]] [[phenomena]].

85:0.4 At one [[time]] or another [[mortal]] man has [[worshiped]] [[everything]] on the [[face]] of the [[earth]], including himself. He has also worshiped about everything [[imaginable]] in the [[sky]] and beneath the [[surface]] of the [[earth]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] feared all [[manifestations]] of [[power]]; he worshiped every [[natural]] [[phenomenon]] he could not [[comprehend]]. The [[observation]] of [[powerful]] natural [[forces]], such as storms, floods, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthqukes earthquakes], landslides, volcanoes, [[fire]], [[heat]], and cold, greatly impressed the expanding [[mind]] of man. The inexplicable [[things]] of life are still termed "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God acts of God]" and "[[mysterious]] dispensations of [[Providence]]."

85:0.4 At one [[time]] or another [[mortal]] man has [[worshiped]] [[everything]] on the [[face]] of the [[earth]], including himself. He has also worshiped about everything [[imaginable]] in the [[sky]] and beneath the [[surface]] of the [[earth]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] feared all [[manifestations]] of [[power]]; he worshiped every [[natural]] [[phenomenon]] he could not [[comprehend]]. The [[observation]] of [[powerful]] natural [[forces]], such as storms, floods, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthqukes earthquakes], landslides, volcanoes, [[fire]], [[heat]], and cold, greatly impressed the expanding [[mind]] of man. The inexplicable [[things]] of life are still termed "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God acts of God]" and "[[mysterious]] dispensations of [[Providence]]."

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[[Category: Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship]]

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