Can faith be acquired through organized religion?
The simple answer is no. Real faith can only be acquired through real knowledge of all the Laws of God and the experience of them. The thorough experience of Creation and the knowledge of the Laws that guide the order gradually leads to the conviction of the Perfection and Wisdom of God. It is the conviction of the Perfection and Wisdom of God acquired through experience that leads to faith. It goes without saying that this can neither be acquired through learning at Colleges or through the dispensation of any Church. It is the inner personal experience of one’s life that leads to it. For this each individual must walk his own path alone. He must acquire his own experiences and investigate the questions about life himself. What he hears and reads and then adopts as personal beliefs will do him no good. These will always remain foreign as he had not personally experienced these himself. It will always be the adoption of an alien volition. It will never be real to him. It serves no purpo
