Nature and Man

humankind fell prey to debilitating superstitious beliefs and practices. Man fell so deeply into the pit of these falsehoods that his religion and culture were thoroughly imbued with crass superstition. In this matter, the case of modern man is just the same as that of ancient man. The difference between the two is only at the superficial level or at the level of mere appearances. In actual reality, there is no difference between them at all. Ancient man’s fundamental error was that he had come to regard nature as God. Modern man’s mistake is that he believes nature is everything. When he investigated nature, modern man discovered that many powers are hidden: the steam engine is hidden in nature, like the motor car, the airplane, the telephone, the mobile phone, the internet, etc. Inside nature, an entire civilisation is hidden, a civilisation that can make man’s life amazingly attractive and alluring. Modern man’s error was not that he began studying nature and establishing a civilisation. Instead, the error lay in a massive blunder that he made—he took full advantage of the blessings of nature, but he completely ignored or forgot the Benefactor, the Giver of all these blessings— that is, God. These blessings were the creation of God, the Creator. When modern man discovered the blessings of nature, he fell upon them hungrily. Breaking all barriers and restraints, man took full advantage of the bounties of nature that modern science led him to. This was man’s primary mistake. The truth is that to partake of the blessings of God is not legitimate until and