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‘Prophets have a way of dying by violence.’
The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive. All humans were alive as an unconscious single organism in this moment, experiencing a kind of sexual heat that could override any barrier.
Somehow, the disappointment made the prospect of paradise more real.
All through religion, the feeling of the sacred was touched by anarchy from the outer dark.
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.’
We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive.
‘Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, “I am not the kind of person I want to be.” It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.’
