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    <publisher>Watchtower Bible and Tract Society</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1951</dateIssued>
    <edition>2,000,000 edition.</edition>
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    <extent>350 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>What has religion done for mankind? -- The standard for judging religion -- When there was one religion -- How the false kind began -- Development of the false before the flood -- Apostasy after the deluge, with variety -- Further revelation on the sacred secret -- Egyptian cult menaces the true worship -- Establishing a national worship under theocracy -- Prophetic patterns -- Compromise with demonism a snare -- Kingship and priesthood : why separate -- Fall to idolatry and recovery -- The spread of Hinduism -- Buddhism, a salvation by psychology -- Confucianism, a system of morality -- The sacred secret of the seed solved -- World religion and the seed of mystery -- The poor transferred to Abraham's bosom -- The "sacred secret of this godly devotion" -- The falling away from Christianity -- Islam, Mohammed's religion of submission -- Christendom rejects the kingdom of the seed -- The remnant restored from mystic Babylon -- Red religion and the "man of lawlessness" -- Pure religion alone survives the world's end -- New world unity under theocratic worship.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Includes indexes.</note>
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    <topic>Jehovah's Witnesses</topic>
    <topic>Doctrines</topic>
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