Sacred Scriptures of the World

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Excerpt from Sacred Scriptures of the World: Being Selections of the Most Devotional and Ethical Portions of the Ancient Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, to Which Have Been Added Kindred Selections From Other Ancient Scriptures of the World Dear Sir: It is always a great satisfaction to see the budding germs of the seed which one has helped to sow. I wish you all success in your endeavors after a religion of humanity, but success, to be solid, must not be too rapid. The true religion of the future will be the fulfilment of all the religions of the past - the true religion of humanity, that which, in the struggle of history, remains as the indestructible portion of all the socalled false religions of mankind. There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man. All religions, so far as I know them, had the same purpose, all were links in a chain which connects heaven and earth, and which is held, and always was held, by one and the same hand. All here on earth tends toward right, and truth, and perfection, nothing here on earth can ever be quite right, quite true, quite perfect, not even Christianity - or what is now called Christianity - so long as it excludes all other religions, instead of loving and embracing what is good in each. Nothing to my mind can be sadder than reading the sacred books of mankind - and yet nothing more encouraging. They are full of rubbish, but among that rubbish there are old stones which the builders of the true Temple of Humanity will not reject must not reject, if their Temple is to hold all who worship God in spirit, in truth, and in life. Believe me. Yours truly, F. Max Müller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.