Friday, a handwritten letter that Einstein wrote a year before passing sold at an auction to the hightest bidder for $404,000. The person who is the coveted new owner is said to be someone with “a passion for theoretical physics and all that that entails.”

The letter was written by Einstein to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954. In the letter Einstein writes “the word of God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

This is proof of Einstein’s agnostic views and his disapproval of organized religion and belief in a force of a spiritual nature that exists in the Universe. This is from the man who introduced the law of relativity which talks about how a large amount of energy could be released from a tiny amount of matter. This theory was a major milestone in physics and great accomplishment for Albert Einstein.

Everything we need is within us. It cannot be taken away. Not a building, or an event will give us more or less. It is already within. This is proof that one of the most intelligent Scientist’s to ever live, with a clear belief in the Universal Spirit, was a step beyond the rest and very much ahead of his time.