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1. The Purpose of Life is Religious Discovery That intermediate manifestation of the Divine Process which we call the DNA Code has spent the last  two-billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. An intricate web has been woven, a delicate  fabric of chemical-electrical-seed-tissue-organism-species. A dancing joyous harmony of energy transactions is rooted in the 12 inches of topsoil which covers the rock metal fire core of this planet.  Into this Garden of Eden each human being is born perfect. We were all born Divine mutants, the  DNA Code's best answer to joyful survival on this planet. An exquisite package for adaptation based  on 2 billion years of consumer research (RNA) and product design (DNA).  But each baby, although born perfect, immediately finds himself in an imperfect, artificial,  disharmonious social system which systematically robs him of his divinity.  And the social systems - where did they come from? Individual societies begin in harmonious ada

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It was a vast old religion, greater than anything we know: more starkly and nakedly religious. There is no God, no conception of a god. All is god. But it is not the pantheism we are accustomed to, which expresses itself as “God is everywhere, God is in everything.” In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not super naturally but naturally alive. There were only deeper and deeper streams of l ife, vibrations of life more and more vast. So rocks were alive, but a mountain had a deeper, vaster life than a rock, and it was much harder for a man to bring his spirit, or his energy, into contact with the life of the mountain, and so draw strength from the mountain, as from a great standing well of life, than it was to come into contact with the rock. And he had to put forth a great religious effort. For the whole life effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come int