Comment One Opinion (Score 1) 1852
In one interesting book I've read that religions were started by visionaries. Visionaries would see something that they interpreted as god, and would feel compelled to do things that are too unusual, risky or so out of bounds that people would believe they are on to something otherworldly. However, what they have seen is something called the mold of man. It's more exact to say that they have seen only a glimpse of it.
If one looks at the mold of man briefly, he will be overcome with awe - because it is full of ethereal beauty that has nothing comparable in our experience. It combines all that is highest in our nature.
However magicians can look at the mold of man for hours at a time, and therefore they can see that it cannot do anything in the sense that people would expect god to do. Nor in any other sense.
Normal people have at least some vague recollection of it and therefore cannot be purely atheistic. Only magician can be purely atheistic if he looked at the mold of man for many hours. This echoes a comment of Dostoevsky who said that atheists at his time (1880s in russian empire), are more religious than normal faithful people.
If one looks at the mold of man briefly, he will be overcome with awe - because it is full of ethereal beauty that has nothing comparable in our experience. It combines all that is highest in our nature.
However magicians can look at the mold of man for hours at a time, and therefore they can see that it cannot do anything in the sense that people would expect god to do. Nor in any other sense.
Normal people have at least some vague recollection of it and therefore cannot be purely atheistic. Only magician can be purely atheistic if he looked at the mold of man for many hours. This echoes a comment of Dostoevsky who said that atheists at his time (1880s in russian empire), are more religious than normal faithful people.
