Early Evolution of Religion

86:0.1The evo­lu­tion of re­li­gion from the pre­ced­ing and prim­i­tive wor­ship urge is not de­pen­dent on rev­e­la­tion. The nor­mal func­tion­ing of the hu­man mind un­der the di­rec­tive in­flu­ence of the sixth and sev­enth mind-ad­ju­tants of uni­ver­sal spirit be­stowal is wholly suf­fi­cient to in­sure such de­vel­op­ment.

86:0.2Man’s ear­li­est pre­re­li­gious fear of the forces of na­ture grad­u­ally be­came re­li­gious as na­ture be­came per­son­al­ized, spir­i­tized, and even­tu­ally de­i­fied in hu­man con­scious­ness. Re­li­gion of a prim­i­tive type was there­fore a nat­u­ral bi­o­logic con­se­quence of the psy­cho­logic in­er­tia of evolv­ing an­i­mal minds af­ter such minds had once en­ter­tained con­cepts of the super­nat­u­ral.