In order that men should embrace the truth - not in the vague way they did in childhood, nor in the one-sided and perverted way presented to them by their religious and scientific teachers, but embrace it as their highest law- the complete liberation of this truth from all and every superstition ...not such as was effected in the religious sphere by Guru Nanak, the founder of the sect of the Sikhs, and in the Christian world by Luther, and by similar reformers in other religions - but a fundamental cleansing of religious consciousness from all ancient religious and modern scientific superstitions.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Truth must be freed from all superstitions, both old and modern, to be accepted as the highest guiding law.
- In plain terms
- We need to clear away all superstitions to find the real truth.
- What can you take from it?
- Seek truth by removing all superstitious beliefs.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What beliefs do I hold without questioning them?
- How do I define truth?
Another view
This view may dismiss valid historical or scientific insights as mere superstition.
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