Evolutionary Religion—Early Evolution (Part 3)

The dream origin of the belief in a future existence explains the tendency always to imagine unseen things in the terms of things seen.  The primitive doctrine of survival after death was not necessarily a belief in immortality.  Instead, beings who could not conceive of infinity and eternity thought of recurring incarnations.

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