Joumblatt, in step with the charismatic political leaders of the East, namely Ghandi, and in line with Western Spiritualists, like Teilhard De Chardin, aspires in his Revolution in the World of Man to create a political religion which reconciles ethics with politics and fuses moral ideals with praxis. He attributes evolutionary progress with a moral purpose and strives to bridge the gap between the oriental monistic religions of the East and the modern Scientific findings of the West, particularly the theory of equivalent interchange of matter and energy which confirmed the intuition of the ancient Chinese Taoists and gave credit to the insight of Heraclitus who envisioned a world in which ^«All things are an equal exchange for fire (energy) and fire for all things.^» Joumblatt who devoted many years to the study of Heraclitus rejoiced in listening to the ^«logos^» of the Greek dialectician telling him that ^«All things are one,^» and that beneath and behind dualities and multiplicity there lies the ^«unapparent connexions which are stronger than apparent ones^»

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