Human inclination to worshipping

by CR (022)

The first impulse to worship is felt by man in his most primitive stage of evolution. It is perfectly understandable that people in the jungle cannot have a concept of spirituality beyond worshipping fire, lightning, the sun or animals of the lower species. They lack a basis of reasoning to dissuade them from the worshipping perplexity in which they engage.

The primary idea of God, presented by many religions is imperfect, and is therefore interpreted in a different way by many, especially those who reject dogmas and promote the scientific study of spiritualism.

No natural law ever fails, including the law of evolution. In regard to the spirit, evolution occurs through countless incarnations, and only by this means does reason develop on the long way to spirituality. Under the light of spirituality, mysticism loses its form, its sense, its meaning, giving way to merely what common sense and logic admit as true, based on the lessons learned in the book of life.

As soon as a particle of Force becomes a Spirit and begins to reason, in its first stage of an incarnation in human form, the incarnated spirit already feels, although in a vague and confusing way, the existence of a Superior Intelligence which he is unable to define. Hence his inclination to worship which is fully justified by the conditions of ignorance in which he lives.

It is not difficult for an alert observer to evaluate the degree of spirituality of people by their tendency to engage in worship and by the higher or lower degrees of this tendency.

The ways of worshipping and the object of worship vary widely as conscience gradually awakens until the person is able to reject the feeling of worship.

Generally speaking, people worship in order to beg favours and protection. Therefore, worshipping sometimes translates into self-interest, without a hint of altruism and generosity.  

A less evolved spirit through the process of reincarnation, will gradually rise to more evolved classes of spiritually, even though still entertaining this same worship feeling but already in a modified version, more refined to suit his social environment but, deep inside, maintaining the same thoughts and the same ideas that originated this tendency in past reincarnations. 

This disposition for worshipping is also encouraged by religions who often use pomp to impress followers. Most of it is meant to promote worship.

References

[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984

[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese