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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.2 Modern society is removing the business of insurance from the realm of priests and religion, placing it in the domain of economics. Religion is concerning itself increasingly with the insurance of life beyond the grave. Modern men, at least those who think, no longer pay wasteful premiums to control luck. Religion is slowly ascending to higher philosophic levels in contrast with its former function as a scheme of insurance against bad luck.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.2 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Modern<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>society<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>is removing the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>business<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance </ins>insurance<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>from the realm of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>priests<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, placing it in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>domain<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>economics<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Religion is concerning itself increasingly with the insurance of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Afterlife|</ins>life<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>beyond the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>grave<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Modern<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>men, at least those who <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>think<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, no longer pay wasteful premiums to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>control<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>luck<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>is slowly ascending to higher <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>philosophic<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>levels in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>contrast<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>with its former <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>function<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>as a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>scheme<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of insurance against bad <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>luck<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.3 But these ancient ideas of religion prevented men from becoming fatalistic and hopelessly pessimistic; they believed they could at least do something to influence fate. The religion of ghost fear impressed upon men that they must regulate their conduct, that there was a supermaterial world which was in control of human destiny.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.3 But these <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ancient<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>ideas<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>prevented men from becoming fatalistic and hopelessly pessimistic; they believed they could at least do something to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>influence<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>fate<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghost<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>fear<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>impressed upon men that they must <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>regulate<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>conduct<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, that there was a supermaterial world which was in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>control<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>human<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>destiny<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.4 Modern civilized races are just emerging from ghost fear as an explanation of luck and the commonplace inequalities of existence. Mankind is achieving emancipation from the bondage of the ghost-spirit explanation of ill luck. But while men are giving up the erroneous doctrine of a spirit cause of the vicissitudes of life, they exhibit a surprising willingness to accept an almost equally fallacious teaching which bids them attribute all human inequalities to political misadaptation, social injustice, and industrial competition. But new legislation, increasing philanthropy, and more industrial reorganization, however good in and of themselves, will not remedy the facts of birth and the accidents of living. Only comprehension of facts and wise manipulation within the laws of nature will enable man to get what he wants and to avoid what he does not want. Scientific knowledge, leading to scientific action, is the only antidote for so-called accidental ills.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.4 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Modern<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>civilized <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>races<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>are just emerging from <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghost<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>fear<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>as an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>explanation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>luck<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and the commonplace inequalities of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>existence<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Mankind<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>is achieving <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>emancipation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>from the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>bondage<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghost<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>-spirit <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>explanation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of ill <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>luck<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. But while men are giving up the erroneous <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>doctrine<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of a spirit <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>cause<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>vicissitudes<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of life, they exhibit a surprising willingness to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>accept<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>an almost equally fallacious teaching which bids them attribute all <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>human<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>inequalities to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>political<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>misadaptation, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>social<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>injustice<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and industrial <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>competition<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. But new <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>legislation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, increasing <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>philanthropy<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and more industrial reorganization, however <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>good<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>in and of themselves, will not remedy the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>facts<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>birth<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>accidents<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of living. Only <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>comprehension<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>facts<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>wise<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>manipulation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>within the laws of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>nature<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>will enable man to get what he wants and to avoid what he does not want. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Scientific<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>knowledge<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, leading to scientific <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>action<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, is the only antidote for so-called accidental ills.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.5 Industry, war, slavery, and civil government arose in response to the social evolution of man in his natural environment; religion similarly arose as his response to the illusory environment of the imaginary ghost world. Religion was an evolutionary development of self-maintenance, and it has worked, notwithstanding that it was originally erroneous in concept and utterly illogical.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.5 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Industry<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>war<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>slavery<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and civil <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>government<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>arose in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>response<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>social<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>evolution<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of man in his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>natural<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>environment<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>; <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>similarly arose as his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>response<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>illusory<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>environment<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of the imaginary <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghost<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>world. Religion was an evolutionary <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>development<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>self<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>maintenance<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and it has worked, notwithstanding that it was originally erroneous in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>concept<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and utterly illogical.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.6 Primitive religion prepared the soil of the human mind, by the powerful and awesome force of false fear, for the bestowal of a bona fide spiritual force of supernatural origin, the Thought Adjuster. And the divine Adjusters have ever since labored to transmute God-fear into God-love. Evolution may be slow, but it is unerringly effective.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:7.6 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Primitive<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>prepared<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>soil<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>human<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>mind<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, by the powerful and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>awesome<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>force<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of false <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>fear<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, for the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>bestowal<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>bona fide<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>spiritual<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>force<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>supernatural<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>origin<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Thought Adjuster<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. And the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>divine<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>Adjusters<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>have ever since labored to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>transmute<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>God-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>fear<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>into God-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>love<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Evolution<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>may be slow, but it is unerringly <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>effective<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Rdavishttps://nordan.daynal.org/w/index.php?title=Paper_86_-_Early_Evolution_of_Religion&diff=60320&oldid=prevRdavis: /* 86:6. THE GHOST-SPIRIT ENVIRONMENT */2010-09-05T18:36:31Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">86:6. THE GHOST-SPIRIT ENVIRONMENT</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.4 As evolution [[progressed]], good [[luck]] became associated with good spirits and bad luck with bad spirits. The discomfort of enforced [[adaptation]] to a changing [[environment]] was regarded as ill luck, the displeasure of the spirit [[ghosts]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] slowly evolved [[religion]] out of his innate [[worship]] urge and his misconception of [[chance]]. Civilized man provides [[schemes]] of [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>insurance<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>] to overcome these chance occurrences; [[modern]] [[science]] puts an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science actuary] with [[mathematical]] reckoning in the place of fictitious spirits and whimsical gods.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.4 As evolution [[progressed]], good [[luck]] became associated with good spirits and bad luck with bad spirits. The discomfort of enforced [[adaptation]] to a changing [[environment]] was regarded as ill luck, the displeasure of the spirit [[ghosts]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] slowly evolved [[religion]] out of his innate [[worship]] urge and his misconception of [[chance]]. Civilized man provides [[schemes]] of [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance </ins>insurance] to overcome these chance occurrences; [[modern]] [[science]] puts an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science actuary] with [[mathematical]] reckoning in the place of fictitious spirits and whimsical gods.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.5 Each passing [[generation]] smiles at the foolish [[superstitions]] of its [[ancestors]] while it goes on [[entertaining]] those [[fallacies]] of [[thought]] and [[worship]] which will give cause for further smiling on the part of [[enlightened]] posterity.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.5 Each passing [[generation]] smiles at the foolish [[superstitions]] of its [[ancestors]] while it goes on [[entertaining]] those [[fallacies]] of [[thought]] and [[worship]] which will give cause for further smiling on the part of [[enlightened]] posterity.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.7 With the [[emergence]] of these [[concepts]], there was initiated the long and wasteful [[struggle]] to appease the ever-displeased spirits, the slavish [[bondage]] to evolutionary religious [[fear]], that long waste of [[human]] [[effort]] upon tombs, [[temples]], [[sacrifices]], and [[priesthoods]]. It was a terrible and frightful price to pay, but it was [[worth]] all it cost, for man therein achieved a [[natural]] [[consciousness]] of [[relative]] right and wrong; human [[ethics]] was born!</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.7 With the [[emergence]] of these [[concepts]], there was initiated the long and wasteful [[struggle]] to appease the ever-displeased spirits, the slavish [[bondage]] to evolutionary religious [[fear]], that long waste of [[human]] [[effort]] upon tombs, [[temples]], [[sacrifices]], and [[priesthoods]]. It was a terrible and frightful price to pay, but it was [[worth]] all it cost, for man therein achieved a [[natural]] [[consciousness]] of [[relative]] right and wrong; human [[ethics]] was born!</div></td></tr>
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</table>Rdavishttps://nordan.daynal.org/w/index.php?title=Paper_86_-_Early_Evolution_of_Religion&diff=60319&oldid=prevRdavis: /* 86:5. THE GHOST-SOUL CONCEPT */2010-09-05T18:35:50Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">86:5. THE GHOST-SOUL CONCEPT</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.3 Early mortals usually failed to differentiate the [[concepts]] of an [[indwelling spirit]] and a [[soul]] of [[evolutionary]] [[nature]]. The [[savage]] was much [[confused]] as to whether the [[ghost]] soul was [[native]] to the [[body]] or was an external [[agency]] in [[possession]] of the body. The [[absence]] of [[reasoned]] [[thought]] in the [[presence]] of [[perplexity]] [[explains]] the gross inconsistencies of the savage view of [[souls]], [[ghosts]], and [[spirits]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.3 Early mortals usually failed to differentiate the [[concepts]] of an [[indwelling spirit]] and a [[soul]] of [[evolutionary]] [[nature]]. The [[savage]] was much [[confused]] as to whether the [[ghost]] soul was [[native]] to the [[body]] or was an external [[agency]] in [[possession]] of the body. The [[absence]] of [[reasoned]] [[thought]] in the [[presence]] of [[perplexity]] [[explains]] the gross inconsistencies of the savage view of [[souls]], [[ghosts]], and [[spirits]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.4 The [[soul]] was [[thought]] of as being related to the [[body]] as the [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>perfume<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>] to the flower. The [[ancients]] believed that the soul could leave the body in various ways, as in:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.4 The [[soul]] was [[thought]] of as being related to the [[body]] as the [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume </ins>perfume] to the flower. The [[ancients]] believed that the soul could leave the body in various ways, as in:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*1. Ordinary and transient fainting.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*1. Ordinary and transient fainting.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*3. [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>Coma<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>] and [[unconsciousness]] associated with [[disease]] and [[accidents]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*3. [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma </ins>Coma] and [[unconsciousness]] associated with [[disease]] and [[accidents]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*4. [[Death]], permanent departure.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*4. [[Death]], permanent departure.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.6 Early in [[evolution]] [[sleep]] was regarded as proving that the [[ghost]] soul could be [[absent]] from the [[body]], and it was believed that it could be called back by speaking or shouting the sleeper's [[name]]. In other forms of [[unconsciousness]] the [[soul]] was thought to be farther away, perhaps trying to [[escape]] for good—impending [[death]]. [[Dreams]] were looked upon as the [[experiences]] of the [[soul]] during [[sleep]] while temporarily absent from the [[body]]. The savage believes his [[dreams]] to be just as real as any part of his [[waking]] [[experience]]. The [[ancients]] made a [[practice]] of awaking sleepers [[gradually]] so that the [[soul]] might have time to get back into the [[body]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.6 Early in [[evolution]] [[sleep]] was regarded as proving that the [[ghost]] soul could be [[absent]] from the [[body]], and it was believed that it could be called back by speaking or shouting the sleeper's [[name]]. In other forms of [[unconsciousness]] the [[soul]] was thought to be farther away, perhaps trying to [[escape]] for good—impending [[death]]. [[Dreams]] were looked upon as the [[experiences]] of the [[soul]] during [[sleep]] while temporarily absent from the [[body]]. The savage believes his [[dreams]] to be just as real as any part of his [[waking]] [[experience]]. The [[ancients]] made a [[practice]] of awaking sleepers [[gradually]] so that the [[soul]] might have time to get back into the [[body]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.7 All down through the ages men have stood in [[awe]] of the [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>apparitions<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>] of the [[night]] [[season]], and the [[Hebrews]] were no exception. They truly believed that [[God]] spoke to them in [[dreams]], despite the injunctions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] against this [[idea]]. And Moses was right, for ordinary dreams are not the [[methods]] employed by the [[personalities]] of the [[spiritual]] world when they seek to communicate with [[material]] [[beings]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:5.7 All down through the ages men have stood in [[awe]] of the [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparitional_experience </ins>apparitions] of the [[night]] [[season]], and the [[Hebrews]] were no exception. They truly believed that [[God]] spoke to them in [[dreams]], despite the injunctions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] against this [[idea]]. And Moses was right, for ordinary dreams are not the [[methods]] employed by the [[personalities]] of the [[spiritual]] world when they seek to communicate with [[material]] [[beings]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.1 Man inherited a natural environment, acquired a social environment, and imagined a ghost environment. The state is man's reaction to his natural environment, the home to his social environment, the church to his illusory ghost environment.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.1 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Man<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>inherited a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>natural<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>environment<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, acquired a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>social<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>environment, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>imagined<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghost<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>environment. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>state<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>is man's <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>reaction<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to his natural environment, the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>home<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to his social environment, the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>church<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>illusory<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>ghost<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>environment<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.2 Very early in the history of mankind the realities of the imaginary world of ghosts and spirits became universally believed, and this newly imagined spirit world became a power in primitive society. The mental and moral life of all mankind was modified for all time by the appearance of this new factor in human thinking and acting.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.2 Very early in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>history<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>mankind<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>realities<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>imaginary<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>world of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghosts<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and spirits became <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>universally<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>believed, and this newly imagined spirit world became a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>power<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>primitive<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>society<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. The mental and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>moral<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>life of all mankind was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>modified<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>for all time by the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>appearance<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of this new factor in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>human<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>thinking<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>acting<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.3 Into this major premise of illusion and ignorance, mortal fear has packed all of the subsequent superstition and religion of primitive peoples. This was man's only religion up to the times of revelation, and today many of the world's races have only this crude religion of evolution.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.3 Into this major premise of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>illusion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ignorance<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, mortal <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>fear<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>has packed all of the subsequent <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>superstition<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN </ins>primitive peoples<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>. This was man's only <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>up to the times of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>revelation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and today many of the world's races have only this crude <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>evolution<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.4 As evolution progressed, good luck became associated with good spirits and bad luck with bad spirits. The discomfort of enforced adaptation to a changing environment was regarded as ill luck, the displeasure of the spirit ghosts. Primitive man slowly evolved religion out of his innate worship urge and his misconception of chance. Civilized man provides schemes of insurance to overcome these chance occurrences; modern science puts an actuary with mathematical reckoning in the place of fictitious spirits and whimsical gods.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.4 As evolution <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>progressed<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, good <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>luck<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>became associated with good spirits and bad luck with bad spirits. The discomfort of enforced <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>adaptation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to a changing <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>environment<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>was regarded as ill luck, the displeasure of the spirit <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghosts<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN </ins>Primitive man<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>slowly evolved <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>religion<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>out of his innate <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>worship<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>urge and his misconception of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>chance<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Civilized man provides <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>schemes<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>insurance<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to overcome these chance occurrences; <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>modern<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>science<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>puts an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science </ins>actuary<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>mathematical<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>reckoning in the place of fictitious spirits and whimsical gods.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.5 Each passing generation smiles at the foolish superstitions of its ancestors while it goes on entertaining those fallacies of thought and worship which will give cause for further smiling on the part of enlightened posterity.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.5 Each passing <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>generation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>smiles at the foolish <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>superstitions<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of its <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ancestors<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>while it goes on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>entertaining<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>those <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>fallacies<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>thought<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>worship<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>which will give cause for further smiling on the part of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>enlightened<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>posterity.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.6 But at last the mind of primitive man was occupied with thoughts which transcended all of his inherent biologic urges; at last man was about to evolve an art of living based on something more than response to material stimuli. The beginnings of a primitive philosophic life policy were emerging. A supernatural standard of living was about to appear, for, if the spirit ghost in anger visits ill luck and in pleasure good fortune, then must human conduct be regulated accordingly. The concept of right and wrong had at last evolved; and all of this long before the times of any revelation on earth.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:6.6 But at last the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>mind<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN </ins>primitive man<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>was occupied with <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>thoughts<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>which <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>transcended<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>all of his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>inherent<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>biologic<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>urges; at last man was about to evolve an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>art of living<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>based on something more than <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>response<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>material<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>stimuli<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. The beginnings of a primitive philosophic life policy were emerging. A <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>supernatural<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</ins>standard of living<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>was about to appear, for, if the spirit <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>ghost<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>anger<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>visits ill luck and in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>pleasure<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>good fortune, then must human <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>conduct<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>be <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>regulated<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>accordingly. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>concept<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Morality|</ins>right and wrong<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>had at last evolved; and all of this long before the times of any <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>revelation<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>earth<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:4.2 The [[dream]] [[origin]] of the [[belief]] in a [[future]] [[existence]] [[explains]] the [[tendency]] always to [[imagine]] [[unseen]] things in the terms of [[things]] seen. And presently this new [[dream]]-[[ghost]]-[[Afterlife|future-life]] [[concept]] began effectively to antidote the [[death]] [[fear]] associated with the [[biologic]] [[instinct]] of self-preservation.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:4.2 The [[dream]] [[origin]] of the [[belief]] in a [[future]] [[existence]] [[explains]] the [[tendency]] always to [[imagine]] [[unseen]] things in the terms of [[things]] seen. And presently this new [[dream]]-[[ghost]]-[[Afterlife|future-life]] [[concept]] began effectively to antidote the [[death]] [[fear]] associated with the [[biologic]] [[instinct]] of self-preservation.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:4.3 Early man was also much concerned about his [[breath]], especially in cold climates, where it appeared as a [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>cloud<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>] when exhaled. The breath of life was regarded as the one [[phenomenon]] which differentiated the living and the [[dead]]. He knew the breath could leave the [[body]], and his [[dreams]] of doing all sorts of [[queer]] [[things]] while asleep convinced him that there was something immaterial about a [[human being]]. The most [[primitive]] [[idea]] of the human [[soul]], the [[ghost]], was derived from the [[breath]]-[[dream]] [[idea]]-[[system]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:4.3 Early man was also much concerned about his [[breath]], especially in cold climates, where it appeared as a [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud </ins>cloud] when exhaled. The breath of life was regarded as the one [[phenomenon]] which differentiated the living and the [[dead]]. He knew the breath could leave the [[body]], and his [[dreams]] of doing all sorts of [[queer]] [[things]] while asleep convinced him that there was something immaterial about a [[human being]]. The most [[primitive]] [[idea]] of the human [[soul]], the [[ghost]], was derived from the [[breath]]-[[dream]] [[idea]]-[[system]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:4.4 [[Eventually]] the savage conceived of himself as a double—[[body]] and [[breath]]. The breath minus the body equaled a [[spirit]], a [[ghost]]. While having a very definite [[human]] [[origin]], [[ghosts]], or spirits, were regarded as [[superhuman]]. And this [[belief]] in the [[existence]] of disembodied spirits seemed to explain the occurrence of the unusual, the extraordinary, the infrequent, and the inexplicable.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>86:4.4 [[Eventually]] the savage conceived of himself as a double—[[body]] and [[breath]]. The breath minus the body equaled a [[spirit]], a [[ghost]]. While having a very definite [[human]] [[origin]], [[ghosts]], or spirits, were regarded as [[superhuman]]. And this [[belief]] in the [[existence]] of disembodied spirits seemed to explain the occurrence of the unusual, the extraordinary, the infrequent, and the inexplicable.</div></td></tr>
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