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87:5.1 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] viewed the spirits and [[ghosts]] as having almost unlimited [[rights]] but no [[duties]]; the spirits were [[thought]] to regard man as having manifold duties but no rights. The spirits were believed to look down upon man as constantly failing in the discharge of his [[spiritual]] [[duties]]. It was the general [[belief]] of [[mankind]] that ghosts levied a [[continuous]] [[tribute]] of [[service]] as the price of noninterference in [[human]] affairs, and the least mischance was laid to ghost [[activities]]. Early [[humans]] were so afraid they might overlook some [[honor]] due the gods that, after they had [[sacrificed]] to all known spirits, they did another turn to the "unknown gods,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.17] just to be thoroughly safe.

87:5.1 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] viewed the spirits and [[ghosts]] as having almost unlimited [[rights]] but no [[duties]]; the spirits were [[thought]] to regard man as having manifold duties but no rights. The spirits were believed to look down upon man as constantly failing in the discharge of his [[spiritual]] [[duties]]. It was the general [[belief]] of [[mankind]] that ghosts levied a [[continuous]] [[tribute]] of [[service]] as the price of noninterference in [[human]] affairs, and the least mischance was laid to ghost [[activities]]. Early [[humans]] were so afraid they might overlook some [[honor]] due the gods that, after they had [[sacrificed]] to all known spirits, they did another turn to the "unknown gods,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.17] just to be thoroughly safe.

87:5.2 And now the simple [[ghost]] [[cult]] is followed by the [[practices]] of the more advanced and [[relatively]] [[complex]] spirit-ghost cult, the [[service]] and [[worship]] of the higher spirits as they evolved in man's [[primitive]] [[imagination]]. Religious [[ceremonial]] must keep pace with [[spirit]] [[evolution]] and [[progress]]. The expanded [[cult]] was but the art of [[self]]-[[maintenance]] [[practiced]] in relation to [[belief]] in [[supernatural]] [[beings]], [[self]]-[[adjustment]] to spirit environment. [[Industrial]] and [[military]] [[organizations]] were [[adjustments]] to natural and [[social]] [[environments]]. And as [[marriage]] arose to meet the demands of [[bisexuality]], so did [[religious]] [[organization]] evolve in [[response]] to the [[belief]] in higher spirit forces and [[spiritual]] [[beings]]. [[Religion]] [[represents]] man's [[adjustment]] to his [[illusions]] of the [[mystery]] of [[chance]]. Spirit [[fear]] and subsequent [[worship]] were [[adopted]] as insurance against misfortune, as [[prosperity]] [[policies]].

87:5.2 And now the simple [[ghost]] [[cult]] is followed by the [[practices]] of the more advanced and [[relatively]] [[complex]] spirit-ghost cult, the [[service]] and [[worship]] of the higher spirits as they evolved in man's [[primitive]] [[imagination]]. Religious [[ceremonial]] must keep pace with [[spirit]] [[evolution]] and [[progress]]. The expanded [[cult]] was but the art of [[self]]-[[maintenance]] [[practiced]] in relation to [[belief]] in [[supernatural]] [[beings]], [[self]]-[[adjustment]] to spirit environment. [[Industrial]] and [[military]] [[organizations]] were [[adjustments]] to natural and [[social]] [[environments]]. And as [[marriage]] arose to meet the demands of [[bisexuality]], so did [[religious]] [[organization]] evolve in [[response]] to the [[belief]] in higher spirit forces and [[spiritual]] [[beings]]. [[Religion]] [[represents]] man's [[adjustment]] to his [[illusions]] of the [[mystery]] of [[chance]]. Spirit [[fear]] and subsequent [[worship]] were [[adopted]] as insurance against misfortune, as [[prosperity]] [[policies]].

87:5.11 It was not merely out of [[curiosity]] that the [[ancients]] sought to know the [[future]]; they wanted to dodge ill [[luck]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination Divination] was simply an attempt to avoid trouble. During these times, [[dreams]] were regarded as [[prophetic]], while [[everything]] out of the ordinary was considered an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omen omen]. And even today the civilized [[races]] are [[cursed]] with the [[belief]] in signs, tokens, and other superstitious remnants of the advancing [[ghost]] [[cult]] of old. Slow, very slow, is man to abandon those [[methods]] whereby he so [[gradually]] and painfully ascended the [[evolutionary]] [[scale]] of life.

87:5.11 It was not merely out of [[curiosity]] that the [[ancients]] sought to know the [[future]]; they wanted to dodge ill [[luck]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination Divination] was simply an attempt to avoid trouble. During these times, [[dreams]] were regarded as [[prophetic]], while [[everything]] out of the ordinary was considered an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omen omen]. And even today the civilized [[races]] are [[cursed]] with the [[belief]] in signs, tokens, and other superstitious remnants of the advancing [[ghost]] [[cult]] of old. Slow, very slow, is man to abandon those [[methods]] whereby he so [[gradually]] and painfully ascended the [[evolutionary]] [[scale]] of life.

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[[Category:Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults]]

[[Category:Paper 87 - The Ghost Cults]]