ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to define the difference between revealed religion and natural religion, elaborates the theory of how something comes to consciousness and shows how revealed religion prevents it, whereas natural religion favours it. In revealed religion an almighty being suddenly overpowers an individual, who becomes enslaved to this extraneous force. Natural religion arises out of ontological reflection. Ontology is that branch of philosophy the sphere of enquiry of which is reality itself. One might put it that the rest of philosophy and of science are concerned with specifics: the nature of time, the origins of life, the nature of consciousness, epistemology, perception, cognition, the historical process, chemistry, physics, astronomy, biology, sociology, religion, and aesthetics. The doctrines that come out of revealed religion prevent an act that comprehends reality. The person who passed from being a believer in revealed religion to being rationally convinced in the ontological basis of natural religion was L. N. Tolstoy.
