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Such false prophets prefer to believe what narrow-minded and primitive people have fearfully copied down long ago while listening to those whom they considered to be gods because they came from the sky. They should instead believe the message of the Elohim that has been given now to people who no longer kneel stupidly before all that comes from the sky. These latter people try to understand the universe, and they can be addressed as adults. But if you look around, you will see the crowds of fanatic and obscurantist religious sects, which attract young impressionable people thirsty for the truth. A philosopher once said: ‘Jesus came to show people the path to follow, and everybody kept staring at his finger.’ Meditate on this sentence. It is not the messenger who matters, but the person who 14 ta - ar Do not go astray among the sects of the East - the truth is not on top of the Himalayas any more than in Peru or elsewhere. The truth is within you. But if you want to travel, and you like exotic places, go to all these distant countries. You will understand then that you have wasted your time, and that what you were looking for was inside you all the time. Travel within yourself, otherwise you are only a tourist - someone who passes by and thinks he or she will find the truth by watching others search for it within themselves. They may find it, perhaps, but those watching them certainly will not. To travel inside yourself, you do not need to take a plane. The East has nothing to teach the West about wisdom and awakening the mind. Rather, the opposite is true. How can you find wisdom amongst people who die from hunger as they watch herds of sacred cows go by? mn 1 sow? hae e " 1 : 1 On the contrary, it is the West with its intellect and its science that comes to help people who, for ages, have been shackled by primitive and murderous beliefs. It is not by chance that countries in the West 1 c 1 1d CL ms iw 11 own no longer face the same problems ‘as those of the Third World. Where the mind rules, the body does not die of hunger. Where obscurantism 208 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS sends the message, and the message itself. n 1 ra