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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about it.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.