¶ Religion (2)
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Religion:
“None of them ever account experiencing a god in the image of man. That is one thing that Einstein was talking about in his nonanthropomorphic concept of the scientists. At any rate, they are people who experience an a priori integrity, a comprehensive anticipatory intellectual integrity greater than that of man. And they have enormous confidence in it, great faith in it, and try to help others to understand the success that they have experienced through their confidence in that integrity. At any rate, apparently these people have had such success as to have excited people by various patterns of experiences that have occurred. There are many then who in their day were excited, really very blindly and superstitiously, into subscribing to what was going on. This man was a man of powers without their trying to understand what those powers were. When they die then there were those who do better than others and they tend to become the authorities; and while they are alive they then are asked to make various recordings of what they think had been said and what the rules were. Gradually this gets thinner and thinner and we have official custodians of the information and interpretations and that is the way our religions have developed.”
¶ Citations
- Orgeon Lecture #5, p.161, 9 Jul’62
