This paper documents a structural convergence across eleven human civilizations and traditions on three fundamental questions: why pride is universally condemned as the root deviation; what the devil — across all names and forms — actually is; and why good, in every tradition, points in the same direction. Drawing on the Meta-Origin Theory framework, the paper demonstrates that Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, ancient Greece, Zoroastrianism, Kabbalah, Sumerian civilization, and the Yazidi tradition independently arrived at identical structural conclusions. The paper argues that the divergence between Christianity and Islam operates at the level of decoding, not at the level of the signal itself, and identifies this recognition as the epistemological basis for reconciliation — not through concession, but through a shared acknowledgment that the signal was always larger than any single container's capacity to receive it.
Chen et al. (2026) studied this question.