God The Invisible King — Herbert George Wells

Perhaps all religions unless the flaming onset of Mohammedanism be an exception have dawned imperceptibly upon the world A little while ago and the thing was not and then suddenly it has been found in existence and already in a state of diffusion People have begun to hear of the new belief first here and then there It is interesting for example to trace how Christianity drifted into the consciousness of the Roman world But when a religion has been interrogated it has always had hitherto a tale of beginnings the name and story of a founder The renascent religion that is now taking shape it seems had no founder it points to no origins It is the Truth its believers declare it has always been here it has always been visible to those who had eyes to see It is perhaps plainer than it was and to more people that is all nbsp It is as if it still did not realise its own difference Many of those who hold it still think of it as if it were a kind of Christianity