Surah 25
The Separation
1. Bountiful is He, Who descended the Separation onto the abider in Him, to be to the worlds a warner,
[In COB’s opinion, the Separation is a phenomenon that happens every time a major message is delivered; in this case it was the Qur’an,
A separation took a physical sense, on top of the esoteric one, when the Ten Commandments were delivered, and the sea of humanity was parted …
And one morning, in the early hours, a solar eclipse happened, causing the water of the Red Sea to recede to the lowest possible level, making it possible for a short period to cross on foot, where the water is not very deep in normal conditions …
The separation, as the believers are told, is sign that for a period of time: they will be the elevated ones, in every way …
But they have to keep watering those seeds which they have sown in themselves,
Because, if left to dry, weeds and ivies grow in their selves instead, stifling their spirit, forcing them to dormancy with the others …
What will be left for them is pride of an elevation they have not anymore, and an illusion of privilegism.]
2. He, Who has the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth, did not take He a son, nor did He have a partner in the Kingdom, created He everything, and destined it to a destination,
3. And they took below Him deity: they create nothing and created they are, they reign for themselves no harm and no benefit, they reign not death neither life and nor dispersion,
4. And said those who distanced: “this is but fake, he fabricated it and helped him in it some other people”, they thus have brought darkness and forgery,
5. And they said: “fairytales of the first ones that he wrote, it is being dictated to him in the mornings and the evenings”,
6. Say: “descended it He Who knows the secret in the heavens and the earth, that indeed He is Pardoning Compassionate”,
7. And they said: “what about this messenger, eating food and walking the markets, if only an angel is dropped onto him, to be with him as a warner,
8. “Or that a treasure is delivered to him or that he has a garden from which he eats”, and the darkened ones said: “you’re following no one but an enchanted man”,
[As I read this and remember that Muslims believe that an angel was dropped onto the prophet from the sky to give him the Qur’an,
And as I read every verse of this Grand Book, and remember the beliefs, the traditions and practices of the Muslims:
I wonder, like I wondered before, if Islamic scholars of all persuasions, past and present: can read Arabic at all …
I also wonder, if non-Islamic scholars and men of religions: are able to read Arabic, and hence stop their campaigns of religious hatred and division …
Perhaps those should look at their own fairytales first, before hurling their stones onto others …]
9. Look, how they set the examples for you [addressing the messenger], hence, they are lost, and are incapable of a Way,
10. Bountiful is He, Who, if He will, He would make better than this for you: gardens, the days stream underneath them, and makes He palaces for you,
11. Nay, they have falsified the Hour, and We have set up an inferno for whomever has falsified the Hour,
12. If it [the Hour] saw them from a far place, they would hear of it anger and breathing,
13. And if they find in it a narrow place, close to one another, they would call out there insistently,
14. Call out not for one stay today, call out for many stays,
15. Say: “is this better? or the garden of eternity that the refuging ones were promised?”, it is for them a consequence and a becoming,
16. In it they have what they will eternally, a promise that has been upon your Lord a responsibility,
[The cycles or, as COB has called them, the orbs of existence: begin and end, and are iterated to resume from where they have left …, under different skies, opening new corridors for the human mind, allowing new modes of consciousness, creating new morality and civilisations …
In a new orb, every soul is remitted where she best fits,
Those who have failed to evolve to compassionate and mindful beings: will have to come back to the earth, or a similar place: where they have to live and die many times over, where they earn their living by the “sweat of their faces”, and suffer from illness and old age …
This is the hell that all the Books have warned the people from …
But many people love it …, and even the paradise they dream of is nothing but it: where they can be in it eternally, recycling their passions and their organic matter …
It is a place of learning and experimentation …
However, if the Law is unknown: the dark energy and dark matter thus generated by the passions of want and fear: will threaten to devour the entire planet …
This inferno, however, can be turned into a haven of peace,
Many messengers of the past had visions of it being peaceful and virtuous … in a far future time … after many orbs of existence …
When people, wherever they walk they come across friends only, and even wild animals become docile and harmless …
This is a promise, the millions of years which it might take are just a wink of an eye, for those who remember the Universe since it was freed, and every time it reincarnated.]
17. And the day He gathers them along with whom they worship below God, He says: “is it you who misguided the abiders in Me, or is it them who lost the Way?”,
18. They [their masters] say: “Thy Transcendence, we were not to take below Thee any patrons, but I gave them [we read “متعتُهم"] leisure, also their fathers, until they forgot the remembrance, and they were a brutish people”,
[As has been stated a few times in this Book, people should blame only themselves for their bewilderment,
Satan and Iblis do fear their Lord,
They are the projection of consciousness in darkness …
Where the fear of the unknown can generate horror, crime and ugliness …
But can be tamed, and lit to be human …
Nothing that is in null or existence is alien to Existence, there is no battle between good and evil except in human ignorance,
The Law is self-sufficient, in it all the potentials of null and existence exist simultaneously,
It needs not to be challenged, and suffers not from self-conceit and arrogance, as some falsely inserted or interpreted Books of Hikmah have stated.]
19. They have falsified you [the messengers] in what you say, you cannot dismiss or support, and whoever darkens of you: We make them experience a great suffering,
20. We sent not of messengers before you but only that they eat food and walk the markets, and We made some of you a dazzlement to some of you, will you forbear? and your Lord has been Seer,
[No super powers are bestowed on the messengers, except what they acquire by their mindfulness and hard work and a lot of forbearance,
They too can drift off the Way, and suffer the consequences,
Thus, Universal justice gives not privileges to anyone, all have to undergo the same trials and prove their proofs to qualify for a virtuous existence,
And thus, their teaching is not theory being lectured from an armchair or an ivory tower, but indeed from the mountains, plains, valleys and oceans of the world, so it can be truthful and compassionate.]
21. And those who beg not for Our Encounter, say: “if only angels were made to descend onto us, or that we see our Lord [in flesh and blood by the flesh and the blood]”; they have pride in their selves and they are haughty with excessive haughtiness,
22. The day they see the angels: no tidings are for the criminals then, and they [the angels] say: “[this is] a restricted restriction”,
[High worlds are unreachable to arrogant and selfish people, who have reduced their minds to the minds of biological beings.]
23. And We’ve come forward to what they’ve done of deeds, We rendered them scattered ashes,
24. The people of the Garden then are in a better settlement and a better residence,
25. And the day the sky opens up its clouds, the angels come down coming,
26. The rule today is the Law of Compassion, and it is a rough day for the non-believers,
27. The day when the darkened one bites his fingers, saying: “I wish I took a Way with the messenger,
28. “Woe to me, I wish I didn’t take what’s-his-name as an intimate [master/supporter],
29. “He diverted me off remembrance after it had come”, Satan has been to mankind a source of disappointment,
[However we describe this: religions will jump up to say to their followers: this is us and those are our enemies of other religions …
Not realising that the Law goes not by the criteria their holy men have written for them,
People’s disappointments will be proportional to their hopes and wishes …
As the world has moved on beyond hopes and wishes, and embarked on investigating the causes of things: the people of religions, old and new: still believe their hopes and wishes,
So, to put it crudely, if you say to them: there is something very wrong in your belief,
They’ll quickly answer: this is all written, our god will reward our prayers …
It is hard for people of religions to advance from religion to reason,
This has been the Age of Reason, since delivering the Hikmah,
The nations which followed reason, even in the slightest degree, are happier and better off than the ones which stuck to their pagan practices, also the individuals …
Not that there was no reason in the messages of before …
But it is the way it is expressed in different modes of consciousness, under different skies …
It is hard to comprehend a say or an expression: across different modes of consciousness …
This has been people’s dilemma with their Books, and now with the uncovering of ruins of works of art and masonry of ancient and pre-ancient civilisations …
Although every mental and physical activity starts off with an intent deep in one’s psyche, this too has to be taken as a cause and effect …
When the intent is aimed at universal good, even when the comprehension of it in the present context is still limited: the power of it is good and gears towards good, and a way to a broader comprehension is opened …
The many descriptions of a day when “angels” descend from the sky, in Books and legends … do not say who will be elevated and who will be outcast …
And who these angels are exactly and where they come from: can only be a guess … until they actually do,
In COB’s opinion, those are the residents of Earth Interior, who were the guardians of the world in a past time beyond archeological reach …
Although, some symbolism in pre-ancient arts and structures do suggest the presence of such people …, and some stories carried down from many generations in various parts of the world: do hint to their presence,
When they do come, no one knows when, they will set up temporary bases, with the help of people, on high spots on mountains around the world …
Just to guide and direct, and save the world from catastrophic self-annihilation driven by religions and self-selection, greed and political ideologies …
Many people will not believe them, as they don’t make their presence very conspicuous …
And civilisations will resume thereafter: at many levels of intelligence and geneses …
Too many families of consciousness want to have a stake in the earth’s quagmires …
Why? I can only wonder …
A group of people are making a strong presence: the seekers of life’s origin …
They love to have a known unknown and an unkown unkown, as one madman phrased it …
They will deny everything that is not born in their laboratories of experimentation …
The Law will furnish their journey, with answers and questions, sorrow and joy, wins and losses …
The human journey in the mazes of the universe is, for many, the aim of existence,
To the knowers of the Law … there’s joy in observing the manifestations of the Law, in knowledge and in ignorance.]
30. And the messenger says: “my Lord, my people have taken this Qur’an forsaken”,
31. Thus We’ve made to every prophet an enemy from the criminals, and your Lord suffices as a Guide and a Supporter,
32. And those who disbelieved say: “if only the Qur’an was descended onto him in one lot/sentence”, thus it is to affirm your heart in it, and We recited it as a recitation,
[Books are heard inside messengers’ heads, sometimes by words individually to expand into a euphoria of awareness, and sometimes word for word …
The Ghita and the Qur’an were of the latter, hence the constant First Person, in singular and plural,
Humanity must take such Recitations very seriously,
Although, they should be wary of madmen who have lots of elusions and limited vision, and they use such pronouns to impress the people …
The knowledge of the True Paragons has never been and will never be easy, until the skies have turned back to forgotten positions, and the Separation becomes visible.]
33. And they can’t come to you [the messenger] with similar, We’ve come to you with the Law, and a better interpretation,
34. Those who are gathered to their vision/faces into the inferno, those are in an evil place and a lost way,
35. And We’ve given the Book to Moses, and made with him his brother Aaron: a carrier of a burden,
36. And We said to them: “go both to the people which falsified Our Paragons”, and We destroyed them destructively,
37. And the people of Noah, when they falsified the messengers: We drowned them and made of them an example to the people, and We set up for the darkened ones a painful suffering,
38. And Ad/Eden and Thamud, and the people of the grave, and civilisations between that that are many,
[The word “رسّ", could mean well or grave, according to old usages …
COB finds “grave” more consistent with the sarcophagi (huge stone coffins) discovered in pre-ancient South America and Egypt,
Those were used in COB’s memory as a retreat for the sick and the seeker of a supposed spiritual journey beyond the tangible world,
The sarcophagi were placed in deep shafts in the ground, where they resonated with the rumbling of the earth,
Thus, inside, a very low frequency sound penetrated the head of the willing, causing a kind of hypnosis, and illusions in their vision,
But often people were euthanised therein, due to lack of oxygen, and an immense pressure on their consciousness, only to be taken out as corpses and declared as martyrs and holy people …]
39. To each We drew the Models, and each We crushed crushingly,
40. And they had come to the country which was rained by the ill rain, did they not see it? nay, they didn’t hope for liberation,
[Again, another verse, consistent with recent observations by alternative researchers, many of whom have theorised that some highly hot solar flare or god-knows-what hit the earth perhaps around ten thousand years ago, the effects of which can still be seen as burns on walls and structures above a certain level off the ground, in Egypt and South America,
But the civilisations which came after this disastrous event didn’t seem to mind rebuilding, or building on top of such ruins, giving no heed to the alarming signs of the destruction.]
41. And when they see you [addressing the messenger], they don’t take you but derisively: “is this the one God sent as a messenger?
42. “He was just about to divert us from our gods, had we not been patient about them”, and they shall know when they see the suffering: who has lost [we read “ أضلَّ"] the Way,
43. Have you [addressing the messenger] seen the one who took his passions as his god? so you [want to] be the sponsor of him?
44. Or do you [addressing the messenger] think that most of them [can] hear or reason? they are but like domestic animals, nay, they are further lost on a way,
45. Have you not seen to your Lord how He laid the shadow, if He will, He would make it still, then We brought the sun over it as a pointer,
46. Then We retrieved it to Us, an easy retrieve,
[The Models are in our existential memory … they come to us in our dreams or in meditation, and as we wake up, we tend to think of them as nonsense …
But at higher levels of consciousness, light doesn’t propagate in a straight line, but it just flows like a fluid, and everything is self-luminous …
The early visions of light as we know it is associated with a tree and its shadow on the ground, which moves with the sun’s movement …, and the concept of collinearity is thus conceived …]
47. And it is He Who made the night an astonishment, and sleep: stillness, and made He the day: a dispersion,
[The word that we translated to “astonishment” is from the root of “لبس”, which points to covering something with something else …
Hence: “to dress” is one of its metaphorical usages,
Also: to cover in order to confuse for the purpose of evoking wonder, is another usage. This is the one that is appropriate for understanding this verse.]
48. And it is He Who sent the Spirit [the messenger Gabriel], glad tidings between the hands of His Compassion, and We dropped from the sky Immaculate Water,
49. To enliven by it a dead town, and to make what We’ve created of Bounties and people: drink it, profusely,
50. And We’ve expressed it between them, for them to remember, most people declined, except from disbelieving,
[Only the most immediate natural meanings of those verses have been noticed by Islamic and non-Islamic scholars alike.]
51. Will We, We could send in every country a warner,
52. Obey not the disbelievers [addressing the messenger], exercise jihad against them by it, in a great jihad,
[So it is by the Word that the jihad has to be carried out, then and now, to put an end to falsehood …
And while the wars that Muslims have waged are not spreading knowledge or teaching any virtue:
Islamic and non-Islamic scholars alike would prefer to stick to “combat” as a meaning of jihad, each from their position of religious division and hatred,
And Muslims don’t seem to have learned a lesson from their past,
That even if one group of them conquered all the others, and went on to conquer the whole world, peace and settlement will be short lived,
Because as soon as disagreement occurs about any issue, big or small: they’ll split and go back to the battle field once again: because it is what they believe to be their duty and their way to salvation.]
53. It is He Who let loose the two oceans [of humanity], this one is fresh and this one is pungent brine, and made He between them a tract and a restricted restriction,
54. And it is He Who created mankind from the Water, so He made lineage and casts from it, and your Lord is Capable,
55. And they worship below God what benefits them none, and neither harms them, and the distanced one has been to his Lord: turning the back,
[Islamic enthusiasts have been looking all around the world for a place where fresh water and saline water run side by side without mixing …, in order to prove their religions,
When they couldn’t find one, they fudged such news, they even told false stories about Western explorers, claiming that they found such a place and adopted Islam immediately …!
The Qur’an, and every Book for that matter, proves its truthfulness by its truthfulness, on top of which there is only the Absolute,
Science and geographic information are worlds below this …
It is those that draw their truthfulness from the Word … that is above them,
The philosophic understanding of such essences is skies above the natural understanding of intelligent Islamic scholars …, as their interpretations and explanations clearly show,
Give not your jewels to the dogs or your sacred things to the pigs: was truthfully said in the Gospel,
But this has been an existential experiment that had to be had,
Because some were capable of elevation, and many have fallen down …]
56. We’ve sent you [the messenger] only as a bringer of glad tidings and a warner,
57. Say: “I ask you not for a reward for it, only that whoever want to take to his Lord a Way”,
58. And do rely on the Living Who dies not, and transcend in His Okeanos, suffices He, in the errors of the abiders in Him: Well Informed,
[The true essences of “سبح" and "حمد" have been explained in other Surahs.]
59. He, Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, then surmounted He the Throne, Compassion/Brahman/Avalokitesvara, ask the informed of Him,
[The expression of “six days” which has featured in Genesis and in the Qur’an cannot be taken to mean earth days, as those were not manifested yet at that stage of Existence,
Rather, earth days should be seen as a projection in nature of a higher Model in Existence,
In the Ghita it is said that a day of Brahman is a thousand years …
Again, I can’t see that the years as we know them can be taken as a universal measure,
Even more illogical is to express the age of “Existence” in a number of earth years, as someone has done in the book of “Points and Circles”.
It is difficult for the human intellect to conceive Time that is not expressed in terms of units of time that can be observed on the linear track of time …
A leap into non-linear Time can be achieved in high levels of transcendence, but once down from them: the intellect struggles to recapitulate … and the language fails to describe its Source … of Image and Animation, above linear observation.
As for the Names, I find it uncoincidental that the word Rahman in Arabic and the word Brahman in Sanskrit are similar,
They should not be taken as homonyms (sounding same but pointing to different things), but in fact same …
In Buddhism, the word Avalokitesvara is used to point to the Absolute that is above the Law that is Ishvara,
How the Vision of the Absolute reaches people’s vision, as expressed in the Qur’an and the Hikmah; or how Avalokitesvara dissolves in the onlooker, as expressed in Buddhism; or how one becomes one with Brahman, as in the Ghita …: is a personal experience that is not explicable …
When religions set definitions, using exclusive names, taking ownership of ... or declaring themselves the sole knowers, agents, angels, abiders in or children of … : rest assured they are revolving around the circle of monotheist beliefs akin to pagan beliefs, however glorified their self-awarded titles are …
Theatrical piety and behaviourism, dressing and grooming or the lack of it … are only signs of belonging to particular religions and political parties …
Union is worlds above.]
60. And if they are told: “prostrate to Compassion”, they say: “what is Compassion? are we to prostrate to what you [the messenger] tell us?”, and it/He increases their rejection,
61. Bountiful is He Who made the Zodiacs in the sky, and made He in it a lamp and a luminous moon,
62. And He, Who made the day and the night a succession, for who want to remember or want to be grateful,
63. The abiders in Compassion who walk softly on the earth, and if the ignorant ones talk to them, they say [a say of] peace,
64. And the ones who settle in their Lord prostrate and upright,
65. And the ones who say: “do ward us from the suffering of hell, indeed its suffering is a passion/penalty”,
[The root of “غرم" has among its derivatives words for: passionate love, penalty and rival.]
66. Bad it is as a settlement and a station,
67. And those who, when they expend, they do not squander, and nor do they constrain, and they are between these straight,
[Of course, this can be taken as a commandment about financial management, as a midway between wastefulness and parsimony,
But at its higher level, it is about the use of the world’s matter altogether, the waters, the land, the air, and the life in it … that should not be taken as one’s own dispensable property,
And at an esoteric level, it’s a commandment to take what one needs without the passion of attachment …]
68. And the ones who do not call another god with God, they do not kill the self that God forbade, except by the Law, they do not commit adultery, whoever does this will acquire sinfulness,
69. The suffering will be multiplied for them the day the of the Up-rise, and in it they remain despised,
70. Except those who repented and believed and did good deeds, those, God exchanges their ills for good, God is Forgiving Compassionate,
[Such commandments have come in every Book and Discourse of prophets, without an exception …
So why can’t religions and their branches notice that they essentially have the same kind of moral teaching?
The answer is straight forward:
Their religious authorities have set definitions of virtue and vice,
Definitions which have allowed vice to flourish, under the guise of virtue,
Thus, in the name of religious piety and holiness, crimes of all kinds are being committed, in all religions in all cultures, all before the blind eye of religious authorities, and sometimes with their blessing …!
The state of anarchy that the world is gradually descending in: is what religions have facilitated and wanted, each believing it’s part of their god’s grand plan.
To the people who “remember”: it is virtue that projects its practical application in place and time.
If a certain course of action points to virtue: it is virtue that is the aim, not the course of action,
This is a stage of awareness that religions have failed to reach,
In all their branches, names and self-awarded titles …
What they quarrel about is their displays, while on the same platform of physical understanding …]
71. And he who repents and does good deeds: he repents/returns to God repentantly,
72. And the ones who give not false witness, and if they pass by gossip, they do dignifiedly,
[I don’t know if the religious people who are passionately or practically involved in the conflicts of the Middle East: are aware that false news and conspiracy theories … are in fact the fuel which keeps the fires of their wars flaring …
Nothing can justify giving a false witness or the fabrication of news, and evil cannot be resisted by evil …
If you suspect that an evil action is being done but have no proof: your suspicion and your view about the perpetrator: do no justify the fabrication and the propagation of false news,
And at peace time, the propaganda wars and the portrayal of rivals as evil or backward: do not help neither the receiver nor the propagator,
When there’s good intent: the focus would be on critique that is endorsed by reason, and aimed at improvement,
But often, people and entities, embark on campaigns of painting “the other side” as the source of evil in the world, unnoticing that they are an integral part of it: by their very campaigns …
They also embark on painting themselves, their religions and ideologies as the only good …, creating thus a sense of complacency and formulating a delusional self-appraisal,
Religious authorities, not exclusively the Islamic, have all participated in flaring fear and hatred, perhaps in the belief that their god will be happy with them if they did …]
73. And the ones who, if reminded of their Lord’s verses, they do not fall on them deaf and blind,
[This Circle have put you all to this test. Tell your men of holy and academic titles and political power, that the world is run by its causes, not by their hopes and wishes.]
74. And the ones who say: “our Lord, bestow on us from our pairs [alphas or souls] and our descendants [our future lives] comfort to the eye, and make us imams [forefront] to the refuging ones,
[In this verse is evidence from the Grand Book itself that imamhood is not hereditary, but indeed the outcome of hard work and dedication.]
75. Those are rewarded by the Peak of Knowledge [we read “ألعرفة”] over what they forbore, in it their Livelihood is Peace,
[Although the Peak of Knowledge should not be represented by a physical existence, a “Chamber” is perceivable, where the Highest Beings sit around …]
76. Eternal in it, a good settlement and a good station,
77. Say: “what/no attention does my Lord pay to you if it were not for your invocations?/, you have lied, hence it will be an obligation”
[I’ll leave this to the highly achieving reader …
If an explanation is provided, by the nature of language, it will turn to belief, in the minds of religions and atheists alike …: and invocations are a religious duty …
People who do not have such beliefs, but are driven by the universal pulse, their good innateness has not been stifled by religions and political ideologies …: have better guidance,
Such verses bring out the Union (tawheed) of the reader in their own mind,
Those do know the relationship they have with their Creator]
