God Arises
Religion and Society
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revealed laws have been rejected in favor of man-
made laws, but in the course of an experiment
which lasted over 200 years, the man-made laws
have proved a failure, and enlightened opinion is
again veering back towards revealed law as being
eternal in character. This particular quality can only
be grasped when we believe that its source lies in an
Eternal Mind rather than in a human mind.
If we have not known where to allocate the power
to make laws, it is because, as true religion tells us,
it is God’s prerogative and His alone to do so. He is
the true Sovereign. No man has the right to rule
over others and order their lives. Only God—man’s
Creator and natural Lord—has that power.
According to revealed law, freedom of the
individual is subject to divine command.
They ask: Have we any part in the cause? Say:
The cause belongeth wholly to God (3:154).
The Renaissance—the great intellectual revolution
which took place in Europe in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries—regarded this concept of
freedom as little better than slavery. It proclaimed
