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Religions evolve. This has been true since the first time a human being prayed. The evolution of religion and how that evolution is taking place has been one of the more important messages I’ve been conveying on The Pageless Book since its inception. What I haven’t pointed out, is how important it is to understand the past in order to move forward into the future.

Because I am an Omnitheist and a Unitarian Universalist, I cannot limit myself to the history of just one religion. Doing so would be against my religion… Even though I pride myself on being a heretic’s heretic, there are some limits I must obey. I believe it to be important to read and understand all the holy texts of all religions. Yet, I have not even began making way in accomplishing this goal. Why not? To put it lightly, it is a time consuming endeavor.

I will, however, persist. It may be a daunting task, but have a few holy texts crossed off my list already. In order to help myself understand the evolution of these texts, I thought it would be interesting to write a time line on when these texts were written, who wrote them, and their significance. When I set out to do this, I thought it would be interesting to post my time line on The Pageless Book for your enjoyment. Then, I was knocked down by the shear weight of the material I had to wade through. This is not an easy project.

Yet, I had already mentioned this project in one of my earlier articles and I wasn’t about to let my readers down. I decided to break the time line into three sections: Western Civilization, Eastern Civilization, and Alternative Movements. Western Civilization includes such religions as Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Mormonism. Eastern Civilization includes such religions as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shintoism. Alternative Movement would include Paganism, Gnosticism, Occultism, Theosophism, and New Age Spiritualities.

When I can, I will including link to the actual text in question so that it may be read. I will also include affiliate links to Amazon.com so that copies of the texts may be purchased. The next post in this series, Western Civilizations, will be up either tomorrow or the day after. Please tell me if there is anything missing from my time lines that you would like to see included, and I’ll see to it that it is included. My hope is that you find this information useful.

Thank you and Namaste.