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A Foundation for belief in God and Spiritual Uniformity.
Somewhere around 2,500 years ago, there was a remarkable event. A new concept, sometimes given the name of "Perennial Philosophy," entered the human psyche. Eventually it became the benchmark philosophy of all major religions. Its four main principles are:
1. Matter and self-consciousness are manifestations of the First Source and Center, known also as God, Tao, Brahman, Yahweh, Heavenly Father, Allah, etc.
2. God is knowable to all self-conscious, self-reflective minds.
3. The Spirit of God indwells all such minds.
4. The purpose of human life is union with this God-Spirit-Within as the initiating event leading to our ultimate attainment of God, the First Source and Center.
These primary principles persist in all major religions. The path to understanding appears to be improved through special individuals such as those believed by their followers to be incarnations of the Godhead, (Krishna, Jesus, Gautama for some Buddhists) or else God-inspired prophets (Muhammad and his Qur'an). Given these basics, mankind's religious philosophy, at its source, is uniform, and all human life has the same source, the same purpose, and the same end.
Conflict between such religions must be an anathema to the God who created us--perhaps to the point of wondering whether our creation was an error. But that is human-type thinking. So surely efforts to spiritualize our minds in the hope of reducing conflict must accord with God's desire for us.
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