RELIGION: What We Believe - Introduction
Part III of IV
...Thus, the cycle appears to be continuing.
Five hundred years after the emergence of the philosophical approach to understanding the Causative Force, science emerges and brings with it the importance of observation.
The 500 year cycles appear to be continuing with great consistency.
Interestingly enough, we have now ended the last 500 year cycle and are at the beginning of a new cycle, which leads to the question, what next?
There are basically only three means by which we are able to understand ourselves, understand each other, understand our universe, and understand the Causative Force behind our universe.
All three are merely means of understanding, gaining insights, and obtaining perceptions of what we are.
The three means by which we understand what we are, what our universe is, and what a Causative Force is, are perception through faith or what we call religion; perception through logic or what we call philosophy; and perception through observation or what we call science.