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This page is still in the process please do not delete. thanks. If I seem to be jumping everywhere I am still working on a variety of ideas and just trying to commit them to paper so that I can iron out my thoughts into cohesive form. The title of the article may change as well as the writing format. I will have sources as I am able to grab them. This is a "pet" project that may take me awhile to complete and I do appreciate patience.

New article name is World Religion Explained Currently there are many world religions and most religions today are very similar in thought. They have different ways of explaining the same basic premise. The idea of this article is to provide a different way to understand the various religious ideas and to provide a deeper meaning to the main ideas and beliefs within the religions of the world.

The Life Force and Religions of the World

In every world religion there is the knowledge that the breath of life permeates everything. Breath in many cultures is synonomous with spirit, this is particularly true of the Chinese culture. Qi also spelled Ch'i is a vital energy force found in all things. This also ties into the native american beliefs as well as many paganistic beliefs throughout history and the modern era.

"Later, the syncretic text assembled under the direction of Liu An, the Huai Nan Zi, or "Masters of Huainan," has a passage that presages most of what is given greater detail by the Neo-Confucians:

Heaven (seen here as the ultimate source of all being) falls (duo 墮, i.e., descends into proto-immanence) as the formless. Fleeting, fluttering, penetrating, amorphous it is, and so it is called the Supreme Luminary. The dao begins in the Void Brightening. The Void Brightening produces the universe (yu-zhou ). The universe produces qi. Qi has bounds. The clear, yang [qi] was ethereal and so formed heaven. The heavy, turbid [qi] was congealed and impeded and so formed earth. The conjunction of the clear, yang [qi] was fluid and easy. The conjunction of the heavy, turbid [qi] was strained and difficult. So heaven was formed first and earth was made fast later. The pervading essence (xi-jing) of heaven and earth becomes yin and yang. The concentrated (zhuan) essences of yin and yang become the four seasons. The dispersed (san) essences of the four seasons become the myriad creatures. The hot qi of yang in accumulating produces fire. The essence (jing) of the fire-qi becomes the sun. The cold qi of yin in accumulating produces water. The essence of the water-qi becomes the moon. The essences produced by coitus (yin) of the sun and moon become the stars and celestial markpoints (chen, planets). —Huai-nan-zi, 3:1a/19"

This also ties into the beliefs of Christianity. The Bible is a compilation of many semitic texts all written by various authors with one main purpose and that is to explain the knowledge of the ancients to us in the modern era. It is a possibility that the Garden of Eden is the based on the same premise as the above passage from the Masters of Huainan.