Every significant religious system stands upon a sacred text. This text is indeed its temple. Inside, its heroes and their history are enshrined. Although leaders of varying degrees of divinity are always involved in the creation of a new sect, they usually have short lives, often come to bad ends, and their influence, diluted by disciples, soon disappears as water does in sand. What the leader leaves behind is "Mein Kampf "or its equivalent: his testament. Occasionally, by the indolent, an existent text is chosen, or a compilation selecteda golden treasury. From time to time, other writings...