====== religion ====== it has now become clear to you how there on your planet all the five religions I named, Buddhistic, Hebrew, Christian, Mohammedan, and Lamaist, still remaining there at the present time and which were founded on the teachings of five different genuine saints sent to the three-brained beings from Above for helping them to free themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, how, although all these five religions have gradually become changed, thanks as always to the same conditions of ordinary being-existence abnormally established just by them, until they were eventually turned for any sane mentation into children’s fairy tales, yet nevertheless these five religions still served for some of them as a support for these inner moral motives, owing to which during certain previous periods, their mutual existence became more or less becoming to three-centered beings [[bt>B732]] ff; and [[bt>B699]] **Religion** BTG XXXVIII [[bt>B694]] ff certain peculiar Havatvernoni had been formed, that is certain psychic strivings, the totality of the process of which common-cosmic strivings they themselves had named Religion [[bt>B182]]; one of the chief causes for the gradual dilution of their psyche [[bt>B694]] concerning Beelzebub’s invention to end the practice of Sacrificial-Offerings [[bt>B182]] ff concerning Konuzion’s invention to end the practice of chewing the seeds of the poppy [[bt>B216]] ff. there existed and still exist, ever since the time when the practice of having peculiar being — Havatvernonis or Religions — began to arise and exist, two basic kinds of religious-teachings: one Hasnamussian, the other founded upon the detailed instructions which have been preached by genuine Messengers from Above [[bt>B233]] Religion-for-the-State-or-the-State-for-Religion [[bt>B697]] the dogmas of religion [[bt>B1216]] AND [[bt>B188]] [[bt>B219]] ff [[bt>B223]] [[bt>B244]] ff [[bt>B248]] [[bt>B255]] [[bt>B259]] [[bt>B447]] [[bt>B898]] [[bt>B1001]] ff [[bt>B1009]] ff [[bt>B1016]] [[bt>B1018]] [[bt>B1022]] [[bt>B1119]] [[bt>B1194]] [[bt>B1202]] SEE good and evil, invention, teaching **Religious:** ceremonies [[bt>B460]] [[bt>B464]] ff religious-and-popular-dances [[bt>B460]] [[bt>B464]] [[bt>B475]] feeling [[bt>B224]] festivals [[bt>B201]]; see holiday morality [[bt>B42]] religious-moral subjects [[bt>B693]] schism [[bt>B1012]] antireligious custom [[bt>B1103]] see teaching **Religiousness:** that being-feeling which at times appears in the desire and striving for speedier self-perfecting in the sense of Objective-Reason, or sacred Iabolioonosar [[bt>B623]] my moving-center engendered in my common presence the impulse of religiousness [[bt>B491]] Martaadamlik [[bt>B711]] being-impulse called religiousness [[bt>B576]]