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   And now, at last, the question of faith arises. As we are certain of God's   
   existence, there is little value in pursuing a course of blind faith. The   
   spiritual path is not a perpetual motion in darkness – it is an unerring   
   movement from darkness to light –   
    a light which we can all perceive even if, for some of us, the light may seem   
   a bit faint and quite far away. Those who propagate any philosophy that   
   demands blind faith and, therefore, blind obedience, seek only to keep   
   humanity imprisoned by the iron    
   fetters of their dogmas. Faith must be a starting point for learning something   
   new. Confidence in the teacher helps the student to develop faster. But, in   
   the end, faith ceases to be required – a good teacher succeeds eventually in   
   elevating the student    
   to the teacher’s own high standards and understanding. Similarly, God also   
   will eventually elevate the human being to Divine Status. God is surely   
   greater than the greatest, and God's will is to make all of us, all of God's   
   children, just as great as God    
   is. If there be any mystery in respect to God, it is only because our   
   existence both originates in God and terminates in God. God is always only   
   one, the one infinite all-inclusive Being. To really know God we must become   
   one with God. A human being who    
   still maintains her or his delusion of separate individuality must always be   
   something less than omniscient. But all questions are answered, all desires   
   are satisfied on that auspicious day when, transcending all of our mental   
   complexes, we completely    
   surrender our separate existence and unite our individual being with God. Then   
   all barriers are broken, all doors are eternally open – like a river flowing   
   into the sea, then we are finally free.   
      
      
      
   Message of Bliss   
      
   All the beings of this universe are the kith and kin of one another… none is   
   abominable… none is despicable… all are equally respectable… all are entitled   
   to equal love and affection. No problem is to be ignored as an individual or   
   group affair. Every    
   problem is to be considered as the collective problem of the universal   
   humanity and the same to be resolved collectively… resolved it must be. Let   
   this be the vocal panorama of the newer world of today – the continuous   
   musical notes behind the movement    
   of Neo-Humanism.   
      
   Shrii Shrii Anandamurti   
      
   7 May 1982   
      
      
      
   Epilogue   
      
   In this book I have attempted to paint a vast picture, often by making rather   
   bold and broad strokes with my pen. No doubt, many persons will feel offended   
   by some of the arguments and conclusions contained herein. This was never my   
   intention. It is but    
   a necessary and temporary side effect of the phenomenon known as consciousness   
   raising. Just as there must be pain and tears at the time of a child being   
   born, so too the liberation of one's intellect occurs only after considerable   
   psychic clash. However,   
    with the right attitude of mind, even that psychic clash – even the pain – is   
   not unpleasant. Rather, it is somehow sublimely sweet.   
      
   It has also not been my intent to fuel some pointless debate as to the   
   relative merits and demerits of Judaism or Christianity. There are some plants   
   whose leaves are distinctly poisonous while the roots thereof may be edible,   
   but those leaves could not    
   exist without support from the roots. Regarding Judaism and Christianity, the   
   main point is that both are defective, and both should be discarded. Whatever   
   real spirituality may still exist in these religions – and no doubt there is   
   some – has been so    
   thoroughly alloyed by extraneous and misleading doctrines, it can no longer be   
   properly appreciated. Like sugar that has been mixed with sand, all of the   
   sweetness has been lost. Hence, those who would enjoy the transcendental bliss   
   of divine love, would    
   be well advised to search elsewhere for their inspiration.   
      
   Everyone should and, ultimately, must repudiate all religious dogma. I am   
   confident that, in the near future, the people of this planet will, by and   
   large, do so. Nevertheless, if today some persons choose not to accept   
   Neo-Humanism, if they prefer to    
   remain imprisoned in the dark recesses of dogma, that is their right. Here I   
   have tried only to break some chains and throw open some closely guarded doors   
   so that those who wish may emerge from their prison cells and enjoy the clear   
   light of a brilliant    
   new day.   
      
      
      
      
      
   Catalogue of Biblical References   
      
   Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?   
      
   The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,   
   against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,   
      
   Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.   
      
   He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in   
   derision.   
      
   Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore   
   displeasure.   
      
   Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion.   
      
   I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this   
   day have I begotten thee.   
      
   Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the   
   uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.   
      
   Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like   
   a potter's vessel.   
      
   Be wise now therefore, O ye Kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.   
      
   Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.   
      
   Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is   
   kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.   
      
   Psalms 2:1-12   
      
      
      
   Old Testament   
   Genesis   
   1:1-31   
      
   2:1-3, 16-25   
      
   3:1-24   
      
   13:14-18   
      
   17:1-4   
      
   24:15-20   
      
   25:1-2   
      
   34:1-31   
      
   Exodus   
   1:1-22 2:1-22   
      
   3:1-10, 17   
      
   4:10-17, 21-26   
      
   6:2-3, 12-13, 30   
      
   7:1-2   
      
   12:35-36   
      
   14:23-25   
      
   18:1-27   
      
   20:1-17   
      
   21:1-11, 15, 17, 20-21, 24, 28-32   
      
   22:16-18   
      
   23:13   
      
   29:1-46   
      
   32:1-6, 25-29   
      
   40:13-15   
      
   Leviticus   
   3:1-17   
      
   8:12   
      
   12:1-8   
      
   15:25-30   
      
   17:10-14   
      
   20:13-16, 21, 27   
      
   Numbers   
   3:1-10   
      
   5:11-31   
      
   12:1-16   
      
   13:8   
      
   15:32-36   
      
   20:7-12   
      
   27:1-11   
      
   31:6-18   
      
   Deuteronomy   
   5:1-21   
      
   6:1-9, 14-15   
      
   12:23-28   
      
   14:21   
      
   15:12   
      
   17:14-15   
      
   21:10-21   
      
   22:6-11, 13-21, 28-29   
      
   23:1-8, 17-20   
      
   24:1-2, 16   
      
   25:4-10   
      
   31:1-7, 23   
      
   Joshua   
   5:1-9   
      
   6:21   
      
   7:10-26   
      
   8:24-29   
      
   10:12-14, 28-42   
      
   11:6-14, 23   
      
   24:13   
      
   Judges   
   2:11-13   
      
   3:5-7   
      
   4:1-24   
      
   5:1-31   
      
   16:16-22   
      
   Ruth   
   1:1-5, 11-17   
      
   2:1-2   
      
   3:1-14   
      
   4:1-22   
      
   1 Samuel   
   10:1   
      
   16:12-13   
      
   21:1-6   
      
   1 Kings   
   6:1   
      
   11:1-6   
      
   2 Kings   
   2:5-15   
      
   4:32-36   
      
   5:9-14   
      
   18:1-8   
      
   21:1-9   
      
   1 Chronicles   
   1:1, 27-34   
      
   2:1-15   
      
   6:1-81   
      
   11:9   
      
   17:7   
      
   19:7-8   
      
   21:1   
      
   23:15-17   
      
   24:1-2   
      
   2 Chronicles   
   14:8-10   
      
   Esther   
   3:1-15   
      
   Job   
   1:6   
      
   Psalms   
   1:1-6   
      
   2:1-12   
      
   3:1-8   
      
   22:1   
      
   23:5   
      
   104:1-6, 19-23   
      
   110:1-7   
      
   Proverbs   
   12:10   
      
   Jeremiah   
   23:9-40   
      
   27:1-22   
      
   39:11-14   
      
   Lamentations   
   1:1-11   
      
   Ezekiel   
   12:1-2   
      
   13:1-23   
      
   16:1-2   
      
   37:21-28   
      
   Jonah   
   1:17   
      
   Micah   
   3:5-7   
      
   Zephaniah   
   3:4   
      
   Zechariah   
   3:1-2   
      
   13:2-6   
      
   New Testament   
   Matthew   
   1:1-25   
      
   2:1-23   
      
   3:1, 4, 13-18   
      
   4:1-2   
      
   5:1-48   
      
   6:1-34   
      
   7:1-29   
      
   8:1, 5-13, 16-17   
      
   9:27-31   
      
   10:2-6, 29-31, 33-35   
      
   11:7-15   
      
   12:1-21, 38-40   
      
   13:24-30, 34-35, 53-58   
      
   14:1-13, 21   
      
   15:21-28   
      
   16:4, 6-23, 27-28   
      
   17:1-21   
      
   19:16-17, 23-24, 27-28   
      
   20:17-19   
      
   21:21-22   
      
   22:15-46   
      
   23:13-15, 33   
      
   24:5, 23-26   
      
   26:63   
      
   27:1-10, 16-24, 32, 38-44, 46-50, 55-61   
      
   28:1-8, 11-20   
      
   Mark   
   1:6, 9, 12-13   
      
   2:23-28   
      
   3:14-19, 31-35   
      
   4:1-11   
      
   5:37   
      
   6:1-6, 14-32, 44   
      
   7:24-37   
      
   8:15, 22-26   
      
   9:1, 14-29, 38-39   
      
   10:1-12, 17-18, 21-22   
      
   11:1-7, 12-26   
      
   12:13-40   
      
   15:6-11, 21, 25, 27, 29-37, 40-47   
      
   16:1-20   
      
   Luke   
   1:1-80   
      
   2:1-7, 18-19, 51-52   
      
   3:1-4, 10-11, 19-38   
      
   4:1-2, 16-30   
      
   5:18-21, 33   
      
   6:13-49   
      
   7:36-50   
      
   8:1-3, 26-34   
      
   9:7-9, 27, 49-50   
      
      
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