Religion, as we know it in our current time and culture, has become extremely limited and narrow in the contemporary understanding of the word. At the same time that it represents something inviolate and highly personal, it has in a general sense moved towards a more impersonal and detached form.

That is, religion has become devoid of the truth and paradigm it seeks to relate. It is now alternately treated with a certain amount of reverence or suspicion, especially when in the context of so-called "organized religion".

It is first necessary to suspend such suspicion and cultural bagage in order to come to a working theory of what the word truly means. In doing so we find that religion is a systematized way for people to explain, understand and internalize the realities of existance. And those "realities" are nothng more than what we make for ourselves. Reality is a construct of our minds, an illusion created and recreated on a continual basis. It is the maifestation of that illusion by which we realize the metamorphosis of our transient realities. One person's reality and concept of life may differ greatly from another's.

Religion should ideally be a system of belief concerned with the meaning and origins of life, the cycles within, and the continual evolution and betterment of society. The concepts which come together to form a religion or belief system are highly interperative. They will be different from person to person, and even from period to period in one person's life experience.

The concept of the veil and of reality as illusion are the same as that of the Mysteries; that which is hidden, unseen, mystical. They are those things which can not be told, they may only be known through relatively subjective and firsthand experiences. The willingness to question the initial impressions of societies teachings and one's own perceptions is at the root of realization and comprehension. Questioning is how the seeker is taught, it is the method by which one can achieve and answer, albeit only when they are ready for such. All of this leads towards an objective understanding of the metaphysical workings behind the phemomena.