Christianity : “Christ came into the world to purify, not to fulfil. He himself foreknew the failure of his mission & the necessity of his return with the sword of God into a world that had rejected him.”― “When all is said, Love & Force together can save the world eventually, but not Love only or Force only. Therefore…Mahomed’s religion, where it is not stagnant, looks forward through the Imams to a Mahdi.” [SABCL 17:99-100] ― “The Messenger suffered on the cross, & what happened to the truth that was his message? The Christ himself foresaw, it has never been understood even by its professors. For a hundred years it was a glorious mirage for which thousands of men & women willingly underwent imprisonment, torture & death in order that Chris’s kingdom might come on earth & felicity possess the nations. But the kingdom that came was not Christ’s; it was Constantine’s, it was Hildebrand’s, it was Alexander Borgia’s. For another thirteen centuries the message was – what? Has it not been the chief support of fanaticism, falsehood, cruelty & hypocrisy, the purveyor of selfish power, the key-stone of a society that was everything Christ had denounced? … Now in its last state, after such a lamentable career, Christ’s truth stands finally rejected by the world’s recent enlightenment (see European Enlightenment) as a hallucination or a superstition which sometimes helpfully, sometimes harmfully, amused the infancy of the human intellect.” [SABCL 17:163; s/a SABCL 13:41] ― All fanaticism is false because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God & of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal & universal & infinite & cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, – those that happened to be in a line from the Bible & to have Jewish or Arabian prophets as their founders. Hindus & Confucians & Taoists & all others have as much right to enter into relation with God & find the Truth in their own way. All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time & finally decline & perish…. God & Truth outlast these religions & manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses. [SABCL 26:483-84] The Mother: “In all religions we find invariably a certain number of people who possess a great emotional capacity & are full of a real & ardent aspiration, but have a very simple mind & do not feel the need of approaching the Divine through knowledge. For such natures religion has a use & it is even necessary for them; for, through external forms… it offers a kind of support & help to their inner spiritual aspiration…. But it is not the religion that gave them their spirituality; it is they who have put their spirituality into the religion. Put anywhere else, born into any other cult, they would have found there & lived there the same spiritual life. It is their own capacity, it is some power of their inner being & not the religion they profess that has made them what they are. [CWM 3:76-81]
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