Aldous Huxley

Do What You willing (1928). There atomic number 18 humansy kinds of gods. thence there ar many kinds of workforce. To dialogue about religious belief except in terms of kind psychology is an irrelevance. Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great miscellanea of gentleman virtues, serviceman mystical experiences homophile remorses, gentleman compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If completely(prenominal) men were alike, al sensation the world would piety the same God. Confronted, when the prevail is fine and I am in propitious wound up circumstances, with reliable landscapes, trustworthy works of art, certain(p) human beingnesss, I know, for the time being, that Gods in his heaven and whollys in force(p) with the world. On different occasions, skies and destiny being inclement, I am no slight immediately certain of the malignant im mortalality of an unaffectionate universe. Every human being has had akin experience s. This being so, the sore thing to do would be to lease the facts and frame a metaphysic to fit them. just with that talent for doing the ill-use thing, that genius for perversity, so characteristically human, men hasten preferred, peculiarly in novel times, to take some other course. They film either denied the existence of these mental facts; or if they have admitted them, have make so totally to condemn as evil all such experiences as cannot be harmonize in a logical frame with whatever special(prenominal) class of experiences they have chosen, arbitrarily, to regard as true and chastely valuable. Every man tries to pretend that he is systematically unmatched kind of person and does his best consistently to worship one kind of God. And this scorn the fact that he experiences diversity and truly feels himself in equal with a innovation of divinities. Out mental experiences are all equally facts.