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89:2.2 As the [[savage]] [[mind]] evolved to that point where it envisaged both good and bad spirits, and when the [[taboo]] received the [[solemn]] [[sanction]] of evolving [[religion]], the stage was all set for the [[appearance]] of the new conception of [[sin]]. The [[idea]] of [[sin]] was [[universally]] [[established]] in the world before [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] ever made its entry. It was only by the [[concept]] of [[sin]] that natural [[death]] became [[logical]] to the primitive mind. [[Sin]] was the transgression of [[taboo]], and [[death]] was the penalty of [[sin]].

89:2.2 As the [[savage]] [[mind]] evolved to that point where it envisaged both good and bad spirits, and when the [[taboo]] received the [[solemn]] [[sanction]] of evolving [[religion]], the stage was all set for the [[appearance]] of the new conception of [[sin]]. The [[idea]] of [[sin]] was [[universally]] [[established]] in the world before [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revealed religion] ever made its entry. It was only by the [[concept]] of [[sin]] that natural [[death]] became [[logical]] to the primitive mind. [[Sin]] was the transgression of [[taboo]], and [[death]] was the penalty of [[sin]].

89:2.3 [[Sin]] was [[ritual]], not [[rational]]; an [[act]], not a [[thought]]. And this entire [[concept]] of sin was fostered by the lingering [[traditions]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:3._THE_TOWER_OF_BABEL Dilmun] and the days of a little [[paradise]] on [[earth]]. The [[tradition]] of [[Adam]] and the [[Garden of Eden]] also lent substance to the [[dream]] of a onetime "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age golden age]" of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_68 dawn of the races]. And all this confirmed the [[ideas]] later [[expressed]] in the [[belief]] that man had his [[origin]] in a special [[creation]], that he started his [[career]] in [[perfection]], and that transgression of the [[taboos]]—[[sin]]—brought him down to his later sorry plight.

89:2.3 [[Sin]] was [[ritual]], not [[rational]]; an [[act]], not a [[thought]]. And this entire [[concept]] of sin was fostered by the lingering [[traditions]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:3._THE_TOWER_OF_BABEL Dilmun] and the days of a little [[paradise]] on [[earth]]. The [[tradition]] of [[Adam]] and the [[Garden of Eden]] also lent substance to the [[dream]] of a onetime "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age golden age]" of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_68 dawn of the races]. And all this confirmed the [[ideas]] later [[expressed]] in the [[belief]] that man had his [[origin]] in a special [[creation]], that he started his [[career]] in [[perfection]], and that transgression of the [[taboos]]—[[sin]]—brought him down to his later sorry plight.

89:2.4 The habitual violation of a [[taboo]] became a [[vice]]; primitive [[law]] made [[vice]] a [[crime]]; [[religion]] made it a [[sin]]. Among the early [[tribes]] the violation of a [[taboo]] was a combined [[crime]] and [[sin]]. [[Community]] [[calamity]] was always regarded as punishment for [[tribal]] [[sin]]. To those who believed that [[prosperity]] and [[righteousness]] went together, the apparent [[prosperity]] of the wicked occasioned so much worry that it was [[necessary]] to [[invent]] hells for the punishment of taboo violators; the numbers of these places of [[future]] punishment have varied from one to five.

89:2.4 The habitual violation of a [[taboo]] became a [[vice]]; primitive [[law]] made [[vice]] a [[crime]]; [[religion]] made it a [[sin]]. Among the early [[tribes]] the violation of a [[taboo]] was a combined [[crime]] and [[sin]]. [[Community]] [[calamity]] was always regarded as punishment for [[tribal]] [[sin]]. To those who believed that [[prosperity]] and [[righteousness]] went together, the apparent [[prosperity]] of the wicked occasioned so much worry that it was [[necessary]] to [[invent]] hells for the punishment of taboo violators; the numbers of these places of [[future]] punishment have varied from one to five.