E.) Unitarians  and Universalists

        Currently, the unity and universalists have a leading place in religious communities, not only in the United States of America, but also in Europe and elsewhere.

       They renew their instructional and educational activity along with their preaching activity: it is a society for the development of a moral and spiritual life with a harmonized personality, with expansion of the mind and integrated society being the most immediate goal.

        The Unitarian idea is concentrated in the most important area, of religion, hope, and love: those spiritual attributes of humanity which formed the historical and cultural continuity of the people's support in the past, at present, and in the future.

       For a Unitarian, the primary view is the one presented by Reverend Mikota in 1987 in Prague: "I believe that I am a part of an infinite life with the basic creative power of the universe that many of us call God and that was called by Jesus Christ a Heavenly Father. The Father of all of us who are his children.

       I believe in man, his hidden powers, and in his destiny to become a co-creator of God's kingdom as proclaimed by Jesus.

       I believe that God's Spirit is helping us to uncover our secret powers and leading us to internal knowledge of his tasks, responsibilities and goals.

       I believe that man's mission is to realize the harmony of sense, sensitivity, will, knowledge, religion, and activity, the harmony of truth, love, and goodness... I believe that our religion must be accompanied by powerful and focused activity, in order to carry it over into everyday life.

        The religion of the New Age is manifested not only in Europe and the USA, but it is also strongly supported in the countries of the Third World and also in the developed natural religions and sects that primarily survive in Africa and South America where they have hundreds of thousands to millions of members, a total of about one sixth of the population of the world.

        The origin of these new religions can be found deep in the past, e.g., in prehistoric times, in Africa, and has developed from old African traditions and rituals.

       Many of them were created and changed by the influence of Christianity and Islam, and others began by combining different movements and religious ideas, such as the famous vodou.
 

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