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The reading notes on the
Path of Life below are written by Willow Calm,
Vincent Chu, and Donna Selby; and finally edited by Robert Anderson. They have read the entire book for many
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The book The Path of Life for our understanding -- Reading Notes
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What kind of book is The Path of Life?
In our understanding, we have three basic estimations of it.
1. The Path of Life is the most—most—important
book in human history. It depicts Creator Pan Gu opening the sky and
forming the earth to create the cosmos and the human world. It tells why
and how the Creator created the cosmos and the human world and where
present-day mankind is headed. The book points out that every person in
this world must carry out an agonizing tempering of one’s agonizing heart
and soul, reforming and sublimating one’s spirit, accepting a serious
examination, and, finally, settling a general account for one’s past good
and evil words as well as deeds. Those who pass the examination will get
into the splendid future eternal world, which is the final destination for
mankind. The subtitle of The Path of Life contains the words
“mystical and true,” which means that the descriptions and narratives seem
miraculous yet in fact are true. Some of the events depicted in the book,
such as 9/11, have already been proved by the reality of history. Because
this book was actually written by the Creator, he himself tells us the
origin of the world and of mankind and the final destination in the
future, so it concerns the fate of all of humanity and connects with the
fate of everyone in this world.
2. The book tells us that this world was
created by Creator Pan Gu, so questions about everything in this world can
get answers from this book. The answers are not lying clearly on the
surface; one should read the book again and again, pondering deeply, then,
gradually comprehending at first, one can get sudden enlightenment. The
first volume of The Path of Life seems full of fairy tales, such as
the account of 9/11 in Chapter 10: it reads like a myth yet ten years
later history proved it true. The second volume talks about science; the
third volume describes the splendid future eternal world. In fact, The
Path of Life is an encyclopedia, containing information on innumerable
subjects, including the fields of culture, science, and civilization.
Such as:
The
formation of the chaos and the cosmos; the formation of astronomical
constellations within the universe; the geographical distribution of land
and water areas; the fact that there will be no high mountain ranges in
the future world; nor will the earth be a sphere, rather a round, flat,
pancake shape;
The
center of the chaos; the fact that there are actually two centers;
The
formation of the cosmos and the human world; the fact that the human world
was created three times; the world we now live in being the third creation
of Creator Pan Gu; that there are twenty-five human worlds apart from
ours; connections to people from outer space;
Philosophy:
advocating using deductive and inductive methods to gain a wide
perspective of all the things of this world; discussing the relationship
between materialism and idealism and putting forward an entirely new
philosophical point of view to lead mankind to recognize the world
correctly and to reform it;
History:
putting forward center-correctism in the historical field; putting forward
predestination and prearrangement in history, telling people to observe
and study history by using this point of view, to research the real causes
behind the development of human history;
Politics:
the coming into being of nations, nationalism, national flags, etc.;
China’s Cultural Revolution and how it represents Mao Zedong’s carrying
out the scheme of Pan Gu to temper humankind;
Economics:
socialism, communism, and capitalism all discussed; the development of
science making possible a situation in which employers do not need to
exploit workers’ hard labor, depending instead more on science and
technology;
Creation
of culture, language, and written languages;
Anthropology:
involving the theory of evolution;
Ethnology:
why there are several races and colors;
Physics:
putting forward the idea that there is a more powerful energy source than
nuclear;
Chemistry:
putting forward the fact that there are 115 chemical elements in the
world;
The
evolution of creatures, the origin of species;
Sociology:
comparisons of several kinds of societies; the division of labor in the
future world;
Medical
science: the structure of the human body, medical treatments, the
relationship between body and soul; why people contract diseases, etc.;
Religion:
the origin of religion and its future;
Sexual
relationships: as the basic relationship in the chaos;
The
family: in the future world five generations of one family living together
in one great estate, each unit within the large family having its own
smaller home;
Cities
and suburbs;
Communications
in the future world;
Commercial
and currency issues;
Marriage:
the style of marriage in history and in the future;
Birth:
why pregnancy needs ten [lunar] months; the relationship between family
planning in present-day China and the plan in the future eternal world for
every couple to have two children, a boy and a girl;
Why
the age of human life in general is about fifty.
Mortality
and immortality: the fact that humans’ bodies are made of matter, and
matter is immortal; why humans die; how in the future world humans will be
immortal;
Why
people in this world cannot remember their own childhood;
Fate:
that 90 percent of everyone’s fate is preordained, only 10 percent being
subject to one’s own choice to do good or evil; then facing the final
judgment; then the decision as to whether one gets into the future eternal
world or not; those who do get in becoming immortal;
Health
and happiness for everyone in the future world; no more handicapped
people; the majority of presently handicapped people getting into the
future world, but some people (if they do not reform themselves seriously)
being eliminated forever;
The
correspondence between one’s fate and one’s fingerprints and palm
patterns; morality, standards of behavior.
This latter category leads to the central idea
of The Path of Life. The whole book emphasizes and teaches
repeatedly from its beginning to its end that all human beings should
carry on an arduous tempering of one’s mind and soul, putting forward the
standard for everyone’s behavior: take kindness and benevolence as basis,
take frankness and friendliness to heart; speak with reason, treat with
courtesy, act with emotion, accomplish result.
3. Those who do get into the splendid future
eternal world after undergoing arduous tempering will be immortal, will
never contract any disease, will never die. They will enjoy an abundant
material life and a colorful cultural life. Pan Gu Shengong, created
based on the principles in The Path of Life, is the golden road
leading to the splendid future eternal world.
The above passages recommend, appraise, and
explain briefly the contents of The Path of Life; from them, people
will not have difficulty in understanding the importance of this book.
Thus we repeat that The Path of Life is the most—most—important
treasure of a book in human history; it concerns the destiny of all
mankind and also the destiny of every individual in the present-day world.
By the way, here let us discuss the magical
phenomenon associated with this book: that since The Path of Life
carries with it information from the Creator, it possesses a
disease-curing function. Some people have felt an energy field while
reading The Path of Life; some diseases have been cured by the
reading process itself.
Another strange phenomenon is that many
people, when reading The Path of Life, will fall asleep. If not
the first time, perhaps it will happen the second or third time. Some
people may ask why this would happen. From our understanding, it is
because the Creator, in the center of the chaos, tells us the origin of
the cosmos, tells us that we mankind were created by him and then came to
this world millions upon millions of years ago. Now this book is guiding
us to go back to our original home, back to the humanity’s ancestors.
When people are reading The Path of Life they are passing through a
long, long time-tunnel and therefore become drowsy—whereas in fact in such
a wonderful process the soul is becoming awake!
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