To come to know these patterns is to become wise in nature's ways. To be initiated into nature's patterns is to understand the processes and relationships which govern the world around us. Such understanding becomes the foundation for all fields of knowledge.Here is the gulf which divides revealed religion from natural religion.
Natural religion grows from observation, understanding and intuitive realisation. Nature is both the teacher and the model. Change and diversity are implicit. Revealed religion claims to be once and for all time, fixed and immutable series of laws usually encapsulated as the word of god. The friction between these two models is ongoing, even in the early stages of a new millenium
(Extract devised from The Kabbalah Experience by Naomi Ozaniec)
