SPENTA MAINYU calls you to "reason"

Illumination is one step away, take it.

questions and comments  glossary

While you believe you must keep in mind that comprehension is the key to believing. Do you comprehend fully the substance of your belief? Do you believe that what you comprehend is the record of what happened in the "darkness" of the time immemorial? If you answer "no" to both, you better start right from the beginning. A good example for you may be Lu-dingir-ra - a man of 4000 years ago - who doubts certain aspects of what was "believed" then. Because he was trying to get to the truth behind it all. He was doing that 4000 years ago. If you take into account the tremendous change which has taken place in between, you can do it in a second now. Here is another example which is so clear and expressive that it doesn't need further explanation: According to an ancient Hebrew myth which John Archibald Wheeler included in his book Quantum Theory and Measurements, YHWH and prophet Abraham were in a heated discussion on whose share was greater in the affairs of the world. "If the world was not mine you wouldn't have existed" ("If I haven't created the world for you wouldn't have existed" seems to be a better translation) reminded YHWH, upon which prophet Abraham responded, "Yes My Lord I know that. But if this world wasn't for me, no one would have known you existed." ("If this world wasn't created for me and I had not exist no one would have known you existed" seems to be a better translation). How true. If "earthlings" with all their needs, expectations, daydreams, heartbreaks, in short with all their human frailties had not existed who would have felt the need to spend time on a vague idea of a divine initiator, i.e. a "superior being"?