God Arises
Review
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lapse of centuries together, it still steadfastly
adheres to them.
From the psychological point of view, the
unconscious mind is actually a vacuum. In it,
nothing initially exists. It receives all impressions
through the conscious part of the mind. This
implies that the unconscious stores only those
experiences to which people have been exposed at
one time or the other. The unconscious can never
become a repository for facts which have not been
experienced. But, surprisingly, religion as
proclaimed by the prophets, contains truths which
were previously unknown to them and for that
matter, to the entire human race. It was only with
the advent of the prophets that certain facts could
be propagated. Had the unconscious been the
repository on which they drew, they could not have
become the purveyors of great, but unknown truths
which they were.
The religion proclaimed by the prophets contain a
great body of knowledge, touching, in one way or
the other, all branches of learning, such as
astronomy, physics, biology, psychology, history,
