Idea for a New Religion - Chapter 33 - 'The Marriage of Humanity & Nature' and 'Communion With Nature'

THE MARRIAGE OF HUMANITY AND NATURE 1) All humanity and nature are part of the same body. The damage which we do to nature, we ultimately do to ourselves. 2) God, who is all, expects human beings to respect all living things; every plant, animal, fish, bird, insect, arachnid, worm and fungi. 3) Take only as much as nature can afford to give and do not take from Nature without giving back to nature. 4) We have to behave as the beehive does and not like a plague of locusts. The bee never takes nectar without spreading pollen. The bee takes from the flower but does the flower a good service in return and thus helps to weave the sweet fruits and beautiful flowers of nature. The locust is ravenous and callous. It eats up all good things and gives nothing in return and so spreads famine, starvation, poverty, suffering and death.
5) Do not upset the delicate balances of nature. Learn to live with them or be part of them. 6) Love of nature makes us better people. As we treat nature, we treat others. Do not harm or enslave any living thing; be a friend rather than a master; love and take joy from all life.

COMMUNION WITH NATURE True communion with God is communion with nature, other worshippers and ourselves because God is not in symbols or in words but in the living world. Speak the communion, not in a church, but among the living things, steeped in the air and sun. Fill your lungs with air and your heart with the bounty of beauty, for the breath that we breathe is the breast of our God and sunlight, her revealing vision. Blessed mother of all mothers; all heaven is within her and to her starry womb, we shall return when all our lifes duty is done. The maturity of man and woman comes from their becoming children of the Earth. The freedom of their souls shall only be won when they are bound to nature. The stars of heaven are close at hand. Their constellations are found in the branches of a tree. Starlight glistens within every blade of grass and a sun is inside every flower. Above is below and all the universe is within, and by touching the Earth to our hearts, we are joining ourselves with the limitless and immortal cosmic being; mother universe, our god.