CHAPTER 1 - MAN IS WHAT MAN HAS PERCEIVED

Man was created from love.  His very existence produced a ripple in the fabric of time, which will continue to become refined, and lead him to harmony with His Creator.  This co-existence, like that of a child and parent, was not only the ultimate gift, but also God's ultimate goal.  Throughout time, learned men have believed that harmonious interaction is the path to enlightenment, and through this text I hope to spark enlightenment, resulting in great harmony. 

GREEK PHILOSOPHERS PREACHED HARMONY
Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher, believed that creation was a harmonious and mathematical undertaking, and through these relationships the lawfulness of the cosmos, bodily processes, and social interactions are fortified.  He believed that life was meant to co-exist by following the laws of nature.  Aristotle proffered a similar philosophy that Man's direction should be to find the happy medium, or the harmonic point.  Each understood the value of Man living together in peace.  Although they are simple generalizations, not because of the era in which they were proclaimed, for modern philosophers continue to discuss the same theories without having made further improvements; these concepts profoundly describe the basic premise of advanced civilization.  Other ancient Greeks contributed to the realization that all things are connected, such as Democritus, who believed that all things are made up of materials, including atoms, and the space between them.  These "atomists," to whom Democritus belonged, proclaimed that Man's soul is merely constructed of finer atoms.  The ancient Greek philosophers were

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