Before the monolithic stone structures ever existed, there were people and religion. Religion is just a people's way of life, that's all it really is.
The "first" three religions we will never know about, or perhaps we may discover similar ones in an event like being cast away on a stranded island, or a post-cataclysm world. Maybe a religion of cannibalism would arise, something like Lord of the Flys, or something even stranger. But those religions will collapse under their own unsustainability, and will be forgotten.
The first few hundred religions we will probably never know about. They are lost to time, since they were never written down, and we are now advanced to a point where we probably won't ever get to re-experience the conditions for those religions to come about.
Not until mankind was able to establish a form of civilization and technology where they could preserve their knowledge in papyrus or stone could they tell us about what kind of religion they might have had, which shows how they came to be civilized.
Herbalism leads to medicine which leads to religion and culture. How many tribes and villages and shamans and medicine men there must have been, with all of their amazing worldviews and religions, before empires rose up and preserved the new religions of their people through art and language and minting of coins and spreading of values.
Before Abrahamic religions were invented by gluing together religions of the past, there was Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Islam etc.
The Bible pieces together the religions into a somewhat consistent narrative, to be preserved forever. But it's hard to interpret.
Some think that Abrahamic religion consists of three variants - Judaism, Islam, Christianity. But actually you could follow the evolution of Christianity from the Greek Cynics, to the Stoics, and over to the Christians.
And then Mystic Christianity incorporates the Hindu's knowledge of reincarnation and the 7 chakra kundalini system (yoga). Now we are on a path towards a different doctrine, where maybe Jesus dying on the cross was a metaphor for how mankind becomes enlightened, with God "destroying" his old world (worldview/ego) so he can be born again (resurrected) with a brand new revitalized Christ Consciousness (great deluge / Noah's flood) which he will share with the people to bring them prosperity. You know that's in the Bible right. And this is where The Kybalion spins this concept around with Hermetic principles and Gnostic ideas about Jesus.
Around the time of Newton people started moving away from the natural sciences and became enamored with mathematics, thinking dogmatically about science and becoming "atheist". This is too bad, because we should celebrating every religion. All of them existed. They all represented great knowledge and wisdom about people and culture.
Thinking that these religions were about "believing in make believe gods like the tooth fairy" is downright retarded. These Gods and deities may have been worshiped by plebs, not knowing better or what they represent, but these plebs are your scientism folk of the modern day.
Science and religion belong together. In The Terminator, John Connor represents Jesus Christ (JC) and the T-800 played by Arnold obtains the Holy Spirit in Terminator 2 Judgement Day when he becomes good and fights for JC. We face a technofascist future right now which lacks religion, the Archons of this technofascist future have removed God from the equation. Machines can be our allies, but we need to remember this lesson.
Before the monolithic stone structures ever existed, there were people and religion. Religion is just a people's way of life, that's all it really is.
The "first" three religions we will never know about, or perhaps we may discover similar ones in an event like being cast away on a stranded island, or a post-cataclysm world. Maybe a religion of cannibalism would arise, something like Lord of the Flys, or something even stranger. But those religions will collapse under their own unsustainability, and will be forgotten.
The first few hundred religions we will probably never know about. They are lost to time, since they were never written down, and we are now advanced to a point where we probably won't ever get to re-experience the conditions for those religions to come about.
Not until mankind was able to establish a form of civilization and technology where they could preserve their knowledge in papyrus or stone could they tell us about what kind of religion they might have had, which shows how they came to be civilized.
Herbalism leads to medicine which leads to religion and culture. How many tribes and villages and shamans and medicine men there must have been, with all of their amazing worldviews and religions, before empires rose up and preserved the new religions of their people through art and language and minting of coins and spreading of values.
Before Abrahamic religions were invented by gluing together religions of the past, there was Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Islam etc.
The Bible pieces together the religions into a somewhat consistent narrative, to be preserved forever. But it's hard to interpret.
Some think that Abrahamic religion consists of three variants - Judaism, Islam, Christianity. But actually you could follow the evolution of Christianity from the Greek Cynics, to the Stoics, and over to the Christians.
And then Mystic Christianity incorporates the Hindu's knowledge of reincarnation and the 7 chakra kundalini system (yoga). Now we are on a path towards a different doctrine, where maybe Jesus dying on the cross was a metaphor for how mankind becomes enlightened, with God "destroying" his old world (worldview/ego) so he can be born again (resurrected) with a brand new revitalized Christ Consciousness (great deluge / Noah's flood) which he will share with the people to bring them prosperity. You know that's in the Bible right. And this is where The Kybalion spins this concept around with Hermetic principles and Gnostic ideas about Jesus.
Around the time of Newton people started moving away from the natural sciences and became enamored with mathematics, thinking dogmatically about science and becoming "atheist". This is too bad, because we should celebrating every religion. All of them existed. They all represented great knowledge and wisdom about people and culture.
Thinking that these religions were about "believing in make believe gods like the tooth fairy" is downright retarded. These Gods and deities may have been worshiped by plebs, not knowing better or what they represent, but these plebs are your scientism folk of the modern day.
Science and religion belong together. In The Terminator, John Connor represents Jesus Christ (JC) and the T-800 played by Arnold obtains the Holy Spirit in Terminator 2 Judgement Day when he becomes good and fights for JC. We face a technofascist future right now which lacks religion, the Archons of this technofascist future have removed God from the equation. Machines can be our allies, but we need to remember this lesson.