This book is dedicated to God. To all great beings, masters and teachers past and present and to all people all over the world who continuously work tirelessly to ensure a more peaceful world where love, understanding and peaceful co-existence is the experience
Ellington’s book comes at one of the most strategic periods of our human existence.It is hypothetically like that prophecy of a book that would come in a generation which would dissect the intricacies of the world’s religions, the madness of its attendant idiosyncrasies, opening it to give us the hidden scroll which we had since longed for.This book would never have come at a better time than now. With our 21st century being almost literally splashed into pieces along religious lines, I can only hope that those who will read this book would do so with the utmost depth with which Ellington has delivered its theme.
The book challenges us to rise above Religious fanaticism, understanding that the entire world cannot be like us, like what we like, eat what we eat, or wear what we wear. That time, place and circumstances affects our religious and moral upbringing. It reminds us that religion was made for man and not man for religion.
This book also makes us understand that unfortunately most greedy and wicked leaders hide under religion to preach hate, supremacy of their religion, tribe or race and by so doing instigate wars and conflicts all around, this should make us Question everything we hear or are told by our spiritual leader.The book is indeed a must read and I recommend it, feeling honoured to have been among the first to read it.
Green Ndume
Editor-in-ChiefNigerian
Times Newspaper, Ghana
This book by Bakumor Ellington is nothing but a masterpiece from a mastermind. I have known the author for over fifteen years as a lover of spiritual things and I am least surprised his many years of spirituality has coalesced into this masterly work which I believe will add to the vast library of transcendental material worldwide without which the world would be mystically barren and forlorn.
The thematic value of this book is undoubtedly topical. It is not trite but newer than tomorrow though older than yesterday and that is why it is going to be invaluable for bookworms, mystics, scholars, journalists, researchers and devotees of all religions and even non-believers! What I like about this book is that it is not the propaganda of a sect or a dogmatic work but a creedless and timeless document and that is why it is going to be a priceless piece to its readers.
The history of religion has been replete with violence and iniquity no doubt if you consider the jihads and Inquisitions but the author goes beyond the letters to the spirit of religion and that is what makes this book so refreshing. Here religion is taken from dogmatism to spirituality. The form and function of religion is academically presented and represented by the author in a very concise and precise manner that makes the book readable. The architecture of religion is what this book is all about and from chapter to chapter you see its thesis, antithesis and synthesis which are Truth, Love, Peace and Bliss.
PROPHET UFOUMA BERNARD
PRESIDENT GODISM
RELIGION
Man is by nature a spiritual entity and he is somehow conscious of this even without the help of a religious teacher or system.As he grows and confronts life and its seeming challenges he begins to ask very important questions, these questions have led to what we now know to be religion. There is no concrete information on how religion started, what most of us know is that religion is as old as man, and because religion didn’t start in a particular place.
• Religion didn’t start from just one place or holy land, religion started in every race simultaneously arising from culture and way of life of the people.• Religion was largely influenced by TPC (time, place and circumstances) for instance what was law or way of life in one land is outlawed or not a way of life in another land.
• Religion arose from an innate need to connect to that higher being, or force or intelligence we have choose to call God, who architected this wonderful world.