Without seers and preachers a religion can only mark time. - TopicsExpress



          

Without seers and preachers a religion can only mark time. Wherever the fountain-head of inspiration dries up, religion degenerates into conventional thinking and customary practice. Truncated of its growing point, religion loses its organic and symmetrical development, and dense collateral growths of myth, dogma and ritual overlay the spiritual character of a living faith. Except when taken over from an older creed or evolved as an integral part of the original inspiration, these invariably represent either a stagnation of religion or a concession to the weaker understanding of the ordinary laity.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:18:15 +0000

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