The Solitary in His Identity

[This is one of the Hikmah books of the Druze,

Although some Druze do not acknowledge it, COB does find it authentic and as truthful as every Book, before the Hikmah or after it,

COB stands by its view about the time and place when and where it was descended and kept secret, during the long period of persecution that the people of Union were subjected to in then Egypt and Palestine,

The copy of it which was sent to an Indian king, together with “The Quintessence”, being the Fifth Knowledge – which has been read in English and posted on COB’s website -: made their way back to the Levant, and COB believes that this is the reason behind calling those Books: the Indian Hikmah,

This one was meant to shed light on the esoteric verses of the Qur’an to allow their true essence to shine, at the time when, not unlike today, Qur’anic interpreters were very busy writing shariah laws and issuing fatwas,

Shariah laws and fatwas which indeed go against the spirit of the Qur’an and the High Standard that it teaches.

In contrast with the English reading of the Qur’an – whereby words are referenced by their three-letter etymons, pointing to an essence rather than a physical concept -: in this one, I often felt free to keep the physical concepts, as the esoteric layer is right at the top in any case,

This is the reason why the Hikmah Books were originally meant to be out of reach to the masses,

Not only is it not possible, in most cases, for the words to be read and for any sense to be made of them, but also the immediate meaning is often totally indiscernible,

But as COB has argued many times, since all the Books are essentially esoteric: the teaching that can be drawn from them is universal, and can be tailored to fit the time and circumstances,

And this one should’ve been the duty of the clergy of all religions,

Those, unfortunately have been busy scouring the lines and the words in the dictionaries that they themselves have written: in search for the “difference”!

Difference which puts them on top and everyone else on the bottom, and guarantees salvation for them, and eternal suffering to everyone else,

This is the frame of mind that has generated between religions and sects thereof: one war after another, and no end seems in the horizon,

Today’s universal problems have exposed the fallacies of religious beliefs,

It’s not for nothing that those readings are being made and offered openly to the peoples of the world,

To demonstrate that the Books, old and new, are One Book, free from the fallacies of religions, free from pagan beliefs founded on stone and people worshipping, free from the commandments of vendetta and constant strife …

The chapters that were posted before will be re-posted, just so that a track of thought is reestablished, and as I promised recently, the chapters which weren't posted before will be read and posted,

And the remainder of the chapters which haven’t been posted yet, will be, when available,

The word “Cob” that has been used to name the chapters of this Book is meant to convey the meaning of the Arabic word used for them, namely “عَرف", pointing to a top.]

Cob 1

The Opening

By Him, and to Him is The Homage, for this Light, the thanks and gratuity are from those of the Connections, our Masters The Dimensions, may the prayers be by them, before and after, and the people of Union in their abode restore what The Lord commanded to be connected.

The Homage foremost, is to Him Who blessed us by knowing and guarding The Philosophy [al-Hikmah] in our chests, of His Book: The Solitary in His Identity, we recite it enlightened, and from Him the Heaven of Capability dawned, by the avails of the wealth of the Manifestations, twelve sources have effulged from it, the people of Union have identified their beverage wherefrom.

The Homage is to Thee our Lord, Thou hast opened the doors of our hearts to its wisdom, its judgments, and its literature, its original and its analysis, and Thou hast inspired to us the comprehension of its essences, in its truth and metaphor, and its concision and expansion, and called us to adhere to the firmest of its foundations.

We witness that there is no god but Thee only, no consort hast Thou, the witness of a witness conscious, certain and trusting in the days of his judgment, and we witness that our Masters and Lords the Dimensions the Creators: Thou hast made the connections to them: are the explication of Thy Utterance, and the tongues of Thy Identity, they are the joiners of the threads of Verity, and the summoners of the people of Union to the Repast of The Abode, from Thee to them are the connections of the prayers, so long as is the Eye of Certainty.

Our Lord, in Thee we trust, and to Thee we concede that this Book of Thine is the light of the straight path, brought to us, offered to us, nearing the comprehension of the kernels of our hearts, high in its secrets and teaching, boredom is attained not upon its recitation, distaste comes not from its sweetness, its surface is elegant, and its interior is deep, its immediate meaning is wise, and its far reach is knowledge, it is reconciliatory in disputation, and reform comes from all the people of Union, between the two worlds, for the lengths of the lives of the people, its darts run not out, its knights retire not, it is the whole and the parts, and the sum and the division; by it the Brethren are rostered, there is no investment except by it, all is to it.

Our Lord, we open with it, praying thankfully and gratefully, as we have folded the farness by faith, and we have trodden the Gardens of the Paradise of the Ultimate, unveiled from Thy Eyes. And those verses of Philosophy of Thy Book: our hearts recite them, of Munificence of Thee, to protect by it the character of our being from the fire on nullity. In its recitation our Lord, we see the unveiling of light and darkness, in our sleep and our settlement, in our rest and travels, in our peace and wars, in our health and illness, and in our cradles as we grow up and in our elder days senile, and in our lives and deaths, and in the lows and over the tops of the stars.

Thou art our Lord, The Lord of all the lords, and the Best Supporter.

The Solitary in His Identity

Cob 2

Aim and Introduction

By the Aim of our Lord, and by His Will, The Highest The Loftiest, and by the one in Union and [who is] a witness, who has come believing and contemplative in all his comings and returns, and in his discreetness and in the uncovering of his Proof, I say, having the two Heavies as witness, and from atop the Peaks, by the Summum of this body manifest, calling and repeating to the Aim of our Lord The Sovereign, and by His Will, The Highest The Loftiest.

Said it Hamzah son of Ali, the Invested Monitor: say: O people, you are in a day when the times have turned unto you, in it we have completed for you the Evidence, and have manifested to you the Word, so have you been taking notice, or are you distracted and amused, happy with what is between your hands and behind you? And The Proof has gleamed to you.

His say, Hamzah the son of Ali, the Invested Monitor: say: He is calling you to what you have been foretold in many cycles, and He invites you to what is beneficial twofold to you and your seed. He commands you to what nears you to the Manifest, to The Sovereign, to God, to your Truth, so are you returning to the Monarch of all religions?

His say, Hamzah the son of Ali, the Invested Monitor: the essence of this Message, O Isaac’s father, is that Eternal Mount, and that is the Quintessence (the Fifth Knowledge). And we have appended to their heritage: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad, and we made a pair of each. God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth, and for each of those speakers is an olive tree, which neither rises nor does it set, thus Noah lit in Sam, and Abraham manifested in Ismail’s mount of light, and Moses’ sun arose in Joshua and Aaron, and Jesus the son of Joseph’s word in Simon the luminous, until Ali inherited Mohammad.

And you shall hear O Isaac’s father the remainder of the Message without reading it, but when it [your conscious self] reaches the throat, and you are all then looking, there you shall hear its expiration and inspiration.

Hence, he who wants our Lord to open up his chest to faith and Union, and those who tread the road of the demand of faith and Union, and those who have demonstrated their longing to quaff the healing chalice, all those, and I privilege you over them O Isaac’s father: ought to emancipate yourselves and your Identities, and to sanctify them from all incidental matters, by elevating your hearing above listening to those who gather information and learn, and have hence bewildered themselves and others, while his [the dark one’s] soldiers and henchmen are feeding those around them the venom of the fangs of their serpents, and to remove your souls away from suspicion relating to our Lord, He Who could take you by your aorta, then He would turn it on to you again, then He would make the night befall you eternally, are you awake? So, do rely on our Lord The One The Oneness, and not the Unity Ubiquitous, but rather, The Manifesting Unity in Ubiquity.

O you breakers of the Covenant, say: have you checked if He has turned your water to pungent brine? Which Lord do you have who brings to you, from you, amongst you, a Source from which you drink? It is on His terra firma that you build your stones and chambers. Who other than our Lord withdraws the overcast above you, like He withdrew it for earlier ones, and now in their turnings they are in eternal bliss. The peace be upon them who followed our Lord The Highest The Loftiest, and peaked at His Sacred steps.

His say, Hamzah the son of Ali, the Invested Monitor: tell, tell, tell of Isaac’s father and say: O you reverting ones, why do you demand Paragons, then you turn back upside-down in repudiation, and if He barred them from you, you would say falsehood about Him, and your muster would rumble in the towns.

And we shall demonstrate to you what our Lord has prohibited to you, of the wealth and the good aliment, in your cycles and your places, and you are hence contrite. O you who believed before, why do you trust a part of the Book and disbelieve the Sender of the Book?

You and what you worship will be embarrassed of your own faces, the day when the crier of your Lord The Sovereign cries from a far place: this is the day you have been promised, following which will be the days of suffering, you are forever, and whence have not an escape.

Look and then look, and do recall the past days, how many a worshipper was begging, awaiting the Manifestation of The One The Oneness, The Sovereign Ubiquitous, The Numberless Soleness, according to descriptions known to everyone who lent an ear while in witness. There, the gates of care did open, and the abundance of gratuity did rise, and the sun of the unseen did shine in the Horizon of Capability. And now, and after the lucid verses, you have falsified what you see, and have repudiated The Ruler of all the rulers, and moreover, you are distancing yourselves from the encounter of Him, that is the Eye of the Encounter of God, as the Book declared it: and your Lord came with the angels in arrayed arrays. Or else, do tell me, you stubbornly bewildering ones, did a master other than Him come to you with his armies? Show me if you were honest. Did you not covenant Him and you put your hand underneath His? Did He not call upon you, and He took it as your covenant and said: God’s Hand is above your hands? To all of this the Book has testified.

[“Isaac’s father” who is frequently mentioned in this Book was the wali of then Palestine, in whose house the author was staying, after fleeing Cairo, during the period after the assassination of al-Mansoor, when massacres were being perpetrated by al-Dhaaher bi llah - al-Mansoor’s son, with the encouragement of al-Mansoor’s mother, against the tribes and the individuals who refused to admit al-Mansoor as god,

The mention of “God’s hand is above your hand” was never a reference to a ritual of initiation, but indeed an experience of Union that happens in a high state of awareness, unforgettable across the lives of the experiencer, and real, although the only physical element to it is one’s own physical body, as the hand rises voluntarily/involuntarily, to take its Covenant, and the vision is elated,

The “Witness” mentioned in all the Books is within one’s own consciousness, when it rises to its highest vision. Al-Mansoor and his son and their followers turned it to a pagan belief and practice.]

Cob 3

The Call of The Divine Eminence

And do say: [keep on] legalising [things] for one another, in matters about which you differ, drifting farther.

Is he who walks his roads blind and facing downward, lost in what he found his fathers have been upon: more guided: or he who walks straight, enlightened by the Light of Union, on the path of our Lord The Ubiquitous?

You are deaf to listening to the Philosophy, mute to the mellowness of its pronunciation, and you plug your fingers in your ears from the thunderbolts of what your hands have brought forward, and of what you have reaped, you and your ancestors. And he who is not enlightened by acceding to Union of our Lord The Sovereign, he has no light, and he is in this one [the low world] blind, and in his [forthcoming] cycles on a farther bewilderment.

Have you not looked at what is in your hands of the verses, and is it not by them that you believed? And He took a binding Covenant from you: am I your Lord? You said yea, and you witnessed yourselves, then you turned back on your heels debased. And you took custody of the obscurities of your own future, which connected with the cause of what was behind you, and it is a big ask of you, except to those who raised their vision to the heaven, there they will find guidance, comfort and peace in faith. And our Lord has sealed the hearts of those who do not believe by covers, and in them [their hearts] are concealments, that they discern not the verses.

Is it not time for those who have darkened to remember the Call of The Divine Eminence, which is witnessed secretly and openly, and in cycles of the ages of the heavens and the earth? Say: do whatever you may for your settlement, and we are the doers, and our Paragons will appear to you in your selves and in the Horizons, in between the heaven and the earth, and our Lord, to combining them, whenever He Will, is all too Capable.

And here we called upon you in the vale of the Right Spirit [the Self], not one of you responded to us. And every time Evidence [the Mind] manifested to you, you slothed in your gatherings, winking [at one another], arrogantly and defiantly; and every time a group of his [the Messenger’s] people passed by him, they derided him, said he: if you are derisive of me, we are derisive of your derision, and you shall find out. And here your Lord has come, and informed you of what is in your selves, you took shelter in your excessiveness, but the outcry will take you [by surprise], like it took the ones before you, of your earlier ancestors.

And our Lord, your Lord, has said it: the model of those who darkened is like a bad tree, its root is in hell, and the model of those who do believe is like a good tree, its root is firm, and its branch is in heaven, it produces its fruit timely. [Reference to the Qur’an]

And how many an angel prostrated during an invocation: my Lord, make not of the darkened people on the earth a director. And in order for the people not to have an argument against God, He manifested to them amongst them, blindness blinded their eyes, and they remained in the darkness of their arrogance lost. Then the turns turned upon them, and we re-constructed them in what they would not know, and your Lord increases in His creation whatever He will, and we came to them with the mellowest of the holy tunes, by the Light of the Eminent Ubiquity, may the thirsty in the deserts of farness be guided to the waters of nearness, and the lost in the somber of ostracisation and separation to the pavilions of nearness and Union, so the cloud of bewilderment retracts, and from the horizon of the Spirit rise the brilliant sun of guidance, illuminating the roads to the sources for the thirsty ones.

Cob 4
 

Descent and Manifestation

O people, did the news of the Descent reach you? When he [the Christ] sheltered in the tree of knowledge, after he heard the Call, he forsook all that was in the earth, and forbade to himself your food, drink, comfort and sleep, to face the rise of the sun of Godly Guidance, there he rid himself of physicality, and Godly attributes inundated him, and Divine Light manifested in him. And when he surpassed the company of the fire of hell, and cried out his cry, which could not be ignored, neither by demons nor humans, and he [Satan] whispered in his ears: leave the earth, you are of the close ones, and for you and your companions is a station, when you settle and when you are on the move, is not God sufficing the abiders in Him? Said he: begone! You and those who follow you altogether. Then the Temple stood high over them [him and his Brothers], [the hint is to visions of Union], until your Lord came, and the angels came with the fire of Christian Love, and the veils of Jewish limitations were burnt, and thus our Book spoke, bearing witness, giving glad tidings and warnings and calling by our Leave, and an incandescent lamp. And our Lord said announcing His Ubiquitous Identity, by His Self to His Self; I go and I return, and He returned after the physical body cried out that cry. I go and another one comes to say what I say and complete what I start, and God begins the creation then iterates it, a promise due on us in the Torah and the Gospel.

And when our Aim came, and your Lord manifested to the Mount, you were confused, like the ones before you were, their selves and their elders confused them, so their vision was blurred, God blurred their hearts, and they are wrapped and unguided, so he was diverted from it and from you, and the sentence of suffering befell them, we dropped on them damnation from the heaven, a tremble shook them and they started a new day in their round still. So walk the earth and look what was the consequence to them, they have inflicted [things] on themselves, and/after being [once] requesting vision. [I have left it to the reader to figure out to whom the pronouns in this paragraph refer].

Alas to you, if only, in the manifests of Union, by God’s Eye, can you witness, and to the armchairs of this embodied one could you peak, and from his aliment would you eat, for it is all, from the Heaven of Capability, descending to you, and in your selves, do you not vision? Allahum, do drop to us a Repast from the Heaven, which may be an Assembly in our beginning and our hereafter, and the Book said truthfully: for every prophet is a [point of] reference, and you shall be informed.

[This Cob and the previous shed light on the essences of the Human and the Divine, which featured in the Hikmah as Nasoot and Lahoot,

The two essences aren’t alien, however, to Islamic philosophy, upon which Sufi and mainstream Islam differ,

This Page has posted a few articles on this subject, most important of which is the one by the title “Hudood” which is on the website, under the surtitle of Hikmah,

The problem is, the more the two essences are explained, the more intellectual they become, and hence their essence is lost, even as a philosophic subject.

Although this Cob seems to refer to the Christ, and whether this is a reference to the Messiah or to John the Baptist, the reference is immaterial,

The aim of it is to highlight the divide in Abrahamic religions regarding the acknowledgement of The Creator, if it is to be achieved intellectually and philosophically, as a road to witnessing the Truth,

To put it in simplistic terms, Abrahamic religions still differ on whether god can be known in/by a human,

If they rightly believed that the Creator, transcends He, is not begotten and gives not birth … they’ve sought god in places and stones …

It they rightly believed that the Creator, transcends He, connects to them by an abider in Him … they’ve sought the worship of humans …

In either case Union has not been achieved, and Union is not an intellectual, philosophic and religious admittance of one concept or another, and certainly not a racial or tribal lineage …

As said many times herein: Union is a station of awareness, existence and spirit, and this is not a definition.]

Cob 5

Alarm and Guidance

Look at the sun of your world, it is, in its rises and sets, a few of the early ones, and a handful of the late ones, and the days: we circulate them around the people. And He is your Lord, The Lord of the sunrises and the sunsets, and The Lord of the two rises and the two sets [being the sun and the moon, symbolic of the Mind and the Self], so if you believe in your Lord The Sovereign you are safe, and He brings you your reward twofold, or else, do whatever you may for your settlement, we are the doers.

And this is an announcement to the people, before the Sun of Enlightenment sets, and a day come when there is no trading and no friendship, it is the day when faith benefits not a soul which had no faith before.

And if your Lord The Sovereign were to judge you by your darkening yourselves and drifting off His Path, He would not leave any walker of you, but he delays you by a monotonous and repetitive day, we re-turn you in it, the one of your right is due on you, and the one on your left is for you, and uncomfortable is your lodgement.

[Alluding to the working of the wheels of karma, and the “right” and “left/north” or “alpha” and “omega” are symbolic of giving and receiving, or equally hard work and leisure.]

And faith has been a big ask to you, and on your foreheads is humiliation from what your Lord has come to you with; and where do you stand from the stations of elevation, and division and unification of Holy Manifestations? For, these Summa and Adjectives are to the Beginner of His Identity in the stations of division and unification.

So if you recognise what He pointed to you in this spark, you would peak to the secrets and the essences of the assuming, of that Eternal Beauty for Itself: in every station, a specified name and a peculiar figure.

It has been a big ask, for those who have darkened, to see God conspicuously as their likes, and their hearts were lost, and they thought He was like their bodies and images. Those who have an illness in their hearts, God has increased their illness, and furnished them in the tyranny to go astray; as for those who believed, and from Him the Word of Goodness foreran to them, He manifested to them, to award them the Providence of faith, inborn in the tree of guarded knowledge, in whose shade the Wielders of Determination of the Messengers took shelter, so that the mortal images are not deprived from the fruit of everlasting Vision. May they succeed and earn the Wisdom, by the Manifestation of The Glorious The Sovereign; these are the flowing rivers, and dangling fruit, and this is the aliment of everlastingness, by the faith of the ones who bear witness: what we feed you is for God’s Sake, we want no gratitude or compensation.

And your Lord spreads witness bearers from yourselves, over those who repudiate, so long as the heaven and the earth are. And your Lord The Glorious The Sovereign has deferred those who denounced the Call, and made their aim [reduced] between themselves; they plugged their fingers in their ears, they veiled themselves by their clothing, they became secretive and arrogant.

Those who darkened are at wonder that God came to them with the angels in arrays around the Throne, and it is He Who makes whomever and whatever He will a means to manifest His Compassion, and He took Abraham as an intimate friend.

[Once again, the clarification of the experience of Union is attempted, in order to thrash the commonly held beliefs in certain personalities being god himself, transcends God all names and adjectives.

A similar statement can be found in the Ghita, worded very simply, saying that it is the weak minded who believe that Existence manifests in a single body of a single life of Krishna,

Then the statement goes on to sound self-contradicting, as it admits an image and an embodiment …

This is the sharp edge one has to traverse between two opposing theses, in order to witness the Truth that has made both theses manifest …

Abrahamic religions ought to understand, at least intellectually and philosophically, that this midway cannot be tread simply by blind faith or stubborn convictions,

And that Union is a long journey, that cannot be accomplished in a single life, by being born to certain tribes and religions, or by the practice of rituals and traditions …

And that it is not a political allegiance that determines faith or facilitates it. So that their wars of coercion end, before they bring on everyone’s end …

And so that they stop judging one another.]

Cob 6

Warning and Judgement

If you were to wear a pair of slippers of fire, your brain would boil from the heat of your slippers, and this is easier and less painful than rejecting the Call of your Lord The Sovereign, after Direction has become distinguishable from delusion.

O people, be warned of a day, when those of you who were best off in the world, and turned away from Truth when it came to them: will be plunged once in the fire, and [it feels] as if they never experienced comfort before; and the day when those of the believing men and women and the faithful men and women who were wronged, will be plunged a plunge in the Garden, and their Lord will illuminate what surrounds them, so they rejoice, and as if they never experienced the heat before.

And your Lord is informed of the falsehood that you said about Him, and He furnished you with all the causes for it, and will He, He would take you while you are unconscious. And beware of a day when you witness yourselves, the day on which if one of the people of fire breathed in your prostrations, and in them are a hundred thousand, one flame would flame them all, leaving no flesh on the bone, but falling down to their heels.

Did your Lord not defer you in your creation for many rounds? You have begotten none but darkened ones and cast out of the Providence of their Lord.

O people of this land, I have announced to you, and told you secrets, and revealed to you the Paragons [hudood] amongst those who preceded you of the early ones, some of them have believed, and some have lost their way. You prefer the beverage of darkness which, if one bucket of its filth was dumped in the world, the entire of humanity would rot.

This is their drink, every time one of them asks for water to quench the thirst of his darkness, he is helped to stale water, he sips it but unable to swallow it, and death comes to him from every direction, and he is not dead yet.

Have you not heard the Sun of Unity carrying the sword of warnings, giving glad tidings and warnings? And if they ask for water they are helped with a liquid like magma, it scorches the faces, the worst drink of a most evil source.

Say: O people who have been extravagant in darkness and bewilderment of themselves, and have been too proud to follow their Lord The Truth, your Lord will drop onto you drops of your own food [that you asked for], for you to experience demeaning suffering. If one drop of your poison drops in the oceans of the world, it would despoil the food of the people of the entire world.

And you do read what you have been given of the uttering of the Bird of Paradise, of what David sang in his Psalms, it heals whatever suffering that the people of Israel have poured in one’s heart.

It is a tree rooted in the source of hell, its fruit is like the heads of demons, they eat from it their stomachs’ full, on it, for them, is a cocktail of rusty liquid, and then to hell is their return.

So after this discourse are you still vain? And you want your providence from yourselves: you are distracted by those selves [of yours] which are persuasive [to bewilderment].

O you who have repudiated our Paragons and became arrogant after their Lord came to them with Evidence, carry on legalising for one another the things about which you dispute: is he who walks facing downward more guided and closer to an elevated station , or he who walks on a straight and a luminous path?

You are walking in what you inherited from your fathers the early ones who will cop their own suffering, so long as the heavens and the earth are, except those that your Lord will rescue, and the [good] consequence is to those who take refuge. Verily, God is of forgiveness to the people, to an allotted term; and when they are shown to their Lord, He informs them of what they have been doing.

Are you disabled about discerning the truth? And we have come to you with verses, or is it that the paths have been obscured to you, while you are looking? And we shall recount to you the stories of the early ones, as an example.

Alas to you, not a time did any one come to you with glad tidings and warnings and you were not derisive of him. And we have established you in the earth, in it you sojourn wherever you will, we made it a trial for you, then we repeated it for you, so you can bear witness of the people and yourselves.

And we wrote on yourselves a binding oath: that do honour your Covenant, by which you covenanted your Lord, you declined and stepped aside, and remained on the path of bewilderment astray, you quaffed from a spring of boiling clay monstrously, and this is your residence the day you are brought to us. Bad is the drink of those who darkened the people by themselves and they were aberrant. And here you are, the ones that your Lord The Sovereign made [as] an example of suffering, by which He frightens His abiders in Him. You and what you worship are the firewood of hell for yourselves, you dark ones.

Did your Lord not ban you from eating that tree, and showed you the Paragons in the ones who preceded you, the ages were too long for you, and delusion took you about God. And your Lord did hear, while in Mount Light in your hearts, when you invoked one another, if it was not for Compassion from Him He would not leave any walking/living one on it of you. And there, the pigeons of the Tree hummed to you; shall we force you to it, while you are detesting it?

[Mount Light is understood to be Mount Sinai by mainstream Islamic, and I would imagine, Druze clergy.

But Mount Light is reachable in one’s own head, when one dedicates one’s consciousness to one's Lord. Alas, when people do this, while “praying” or invoking, their minds dwell on worldly things,

This Page has said this to them a long time ago, but they weren't sure! They insisted on asking the heavens for favours when praying ...]

Is it not time for you to look with the eyes of your [inner] vision, and to eject the gleans of your eyes?

Those who repudiated the Paragons have darkened, the Paragons of our Lord The Glorious The Gracious, when Guidance became conspicuous to them, and from witnessing them they declined. And when the Suns of Unity rose to them they were incapable of hearing them, they were perplexed in their vision and got lost, mist mystified them, they started a new day in their circles [while] still. In their hearts is an illness and their Lord has increased their illness, and furnished them in their tyranny astray. They are those who have lost the first one [the present life] and the hereafter, they are damned in their turnings wherever they are found, they have the deadliest death. If all who are in the earth beg forgiveness for them, God their Lord The Sovereign The Ubiquitous will not forgive – The Numberless Oneness, The One The Oneness – their errors, and if one of them paid all that is in the earth as ransom, it will not save him.

[Because the consequences of thoughts and deeds have to eventuate …]

We have honoured mankind, except those who exchanged what is good for what is low, they have written on themselves that they beget none but the bearers of darkness, bad is what they have been worshipping.

[One has to look at the condition of the world today, and particularly the Middle East, where those words were said around a thousand years ago …: to realise how accurate the description of the suffering that is caused by bewilderment and irrationality is …]
 

Cob 7

Repudiation and Repentance

Those who have repudiated the Paragons of our Lord, after that He has manifested to them, and by this their hearts and minds bore witness to their darkness, and helped themselves to the food of illness, bad is what they have done, the one of them cannot reach mature age until he has earned his living by the trickery of the beings [the possessors of] deception and [the minds of] the ones with claws and canines.

They are like animals, they have defected to turn themselves to the world of the clay, thus the clay has returned to its origin, like we began the first creation we iterate it, a promise is due on us, we shall not break our promise. They have exchanged the first life for the second one, like the ones before them; they prefer their immediate living over the culmination of their lives, bad is what they do.

[The photocopy of a handwritten version that I have seems to read “على أواخر حيوانهم”, which would make sense if we translate “حيوانهم" to lives or animations.

Otherwise, “حيوانهم” would have to be a mis-transcription, and the correct word would have to be “حيواتهم” which can only be translated to “lives”, and we hence come back to the same English reading.]

O people, take shelter from a day when the sun darkens, and the stars scatter, and the earth has expanded in its people, and the balance is reset by The Law, this is the day you have been promised, it is the day we gather you all, and we say to those who darkened: have you found what you have been promised true?

And a crier cries from the Cobs, behold our Lord The Sovereign’s damnation that has befallen those who reverted after that Guidance was demonstrated to them, and they favoured blindness. Verily, they are deaf dumb blind, and they return not.

And your Lord has been informed, He is The Knower The All Informed, that you plug your fingers in your ears from the thunderbolts of His Verses, and you think that your castles are protection for you from something of His Aim, for, there is the most virtuous of tides, and the most rewarding reward.

And now that what you have disbelieved has been established, and your Lord did manifest in Cycles to the faithful ones, do you aspire to your Lord’s Compassion, when you have darkened yourselves and remained distant? Here you are pretending and deceiving God and those who have believed, openly, but you deceive only yourselves, and you do know.

O you, for whom the verses are burdens, why do you talk confidentially about things that you know not? It is strongly disliked by your Lord that you say what you know not.

Say: O you who have been extravagant in darkness to yourselves, then you turned around and believed and did good, your Lord The Sovereign does pardon your faults, and will descend safety unto you after your fright.

This is the reward to those who have come forward to their Lord, when He manifested to them in the Bountiful Tree to a [certain] time, and He is our Lord and your Lord, The Sovereign, The One The Oneness, and not the singular Ubiquity, but rather: The Manifesting Unity in Ubiquity, The Numberless Oneness, those are the ones who have believed and then rose up, Blessing and Compassion descend unto them from the Heaven of Capability, so long as the heavens and the earth are, then to Him is their return altogether, and their deeds are acknowledged, they are walked to the armchairs to their Interviews.

[The semantics, which are not easily translatable from Arabic – and hence our careful choice of words - : are meant to point to the Truth that cannot be witnessed in a singular object, however holy and sacred that object might be believed to be …

The text quickly picks up the words to re-phrase the essence that might have been lost in the conceptual dictionary meanings and the interpretations of Druze and Qur’anic scholars, to point to the Ubiquity of Manifestation …

But again, the words can only attempt to uncover Existential Essences, and the hard work has to be done inside one’s own mind to witness those essences. Dictionaries and volumes of books of religion will only increase the bewilderment.]

Cob 8

Divine Exhibits

O people, indeed you’ve forecast the Divine Exhibits, and when your Lord manifested to the Mount you pilgrimed to His Scene, and you listened to the Godly Verses, and He lit up the Cosmii from the rise of your Suns, and He is The Lord of the Sunrises and the Sunsets, and The Lord of the two Sunrises and the two Sunsets, if you, by God’s Eye, witness.

God warns you from your own selves, else, be prepared for a war from The One of Majesty and Might. He will lift up all that is in the chests of those who face forward to Him, in earnest, and will descend safety after their fear.

Damned are the suspicious ones, who demand the Paragons [hudood], and they are in doubt of what they demand. And we shall come to you with some of what they repudiate.

You are disbelieving the sun of your time, by which you live, and by which you die. So where are you and where is the truth of your knowledge from the Suns of Truth, which rise from the dawns of ancient times, for they are the means of delivering the Manifestations to all humanity, and they are The Exhibits [which are] Divine, Wholly [and] Holy, of making His Adjectives and Summa known, hail, to Him the Creation and the Aim, Bountiful is God The Lord of the two worlds.

Have you not seen the sun of your days and what you eat, it is [but] some of His Miracles and His Live Wealth, these are models that He sets for the people, may they discern.

As for those in whose hearts is an illness, those are incapable of visioning the Suns of Verity, in the Trees of Union, they are deprived from the fruit of Singularity, and the leaves of Abstraction, and from invocation of Knowledge and Certitude, and from the essences of the Philosophy [al-hikmah] of articulation. It is the Providence of those Essential Suns, which have absorbed the Dawning of The One of Glory and Elevation.

Have you not seen how God resurrects the Creation after its death by the rise of those Suns? In it the rivers of the flow of life, and the two peoples are rejuvenated, and by it the seas of Radiance are replenished, and the clouds of abundance ascend over the creation, sending the breeze of goodness to every figure of every existent thing. There is Providence, and a Grand Kingdom, and Paradise transpired the tides of Love, which descend unto the Creation, all from those Godly Suns and their essential sparks, providing everything of a soul with life eternal, for it to exchange those decaying bodies by other bodies. Then we construct you in what you know not, and to us you are returned, and we inform you of what you have been doing.

Is it not time for you to know the truth of this Sun, the like of which there is nothing in the earth and neither in the sky: every existent thing is sustained by it, the cosmii are filled by its effusion, they all return to it, and like we began the first creation we iterate it. All things and adjectives emerge from it, and to the repositories of its Aim it returns. Thus spoke the one of the Muhammadan Sun. there is nothing for which we have not the repository. By its Sovereignty the potentialities of all beings were begun, and to its vaults they are returned, “by the Sun of return, and the earth of the gap, this is a say of decision, and it is not of derision, they plot their plots, and I plot my plots, do procrastinate the darkened ones, do procrastinate them patiently” [quotation from the Qur’an].

And the Treasures of your Lord The Sovereign have manifested, and those Sacred Sunrises became numerous, and your Lord came with the angels around The Throne, and He took Abraham as an intimate friend.

“And We were not to make the people suffer until We send/in order to send a messenger, and you throw not when you throw, but it is God Who throws”, thus testified the Book, that is the Book of the Creation and the Aim.

[I should clarify that a possible reading of the Qur’anic verse 17:15 is commonly understood to mean: we shall not make the people suffer until we send a messenger,

And this is the basis of divine justice in all Abrahamic religions,

But in this Book, the verse is taken to its esoteric level, and followed by “and you throw not when you throw but it is God who throws” (8:17), to allude to Ubiquity, rather than point to religious justice and godly support when fighting kuffar.]

“And when it reaches the throat [your conscious self], and you are hence looking”, and those who have an illness in their hearts, and fog is in their vision, and a block in their ears, [to them] those adjectives are [multiplied] in numbers, and the suns have arisen periodically, damned is mankind, and how patient is it over the fire of its damnation. And if it was not for forerunning Compassion from your Lord The Sovereign, not a whisper of the darkened people’s aims would He have left, and those Suns would have remained sublime over all descriptions, for, the displays of the Summa and the Essences have no route to their Throne, and neither do the tides of their adjectives have a way in the Monarchy of The One of The Glory.

Transcends he, The One of The Glory and The Beneficence, above the reaches of the minds and the visions, Sublime is He over all adjectives and definitions. Transcends He that His chosen ones be described below their Identities, or His prophets below their Selves, high are they above what the people utter in their descriptions, and High is God above what they describe.

[Visions of Union are hinted to, and if they are taken by their dictionary meanings: their essences are reduced to the suns which rise periodically, in a physical existence bound by the cycles of the natural law, and the messengers and prophets are followed by their individual lives.]

Cob 9

Faith and Reversion

O people who believe, whoever of you who revert from their religion, after that their hearts were in certitude, except if coerced, their Lord and Master will make them suffer a suffering that none of the people of the two worlds have suffered, and those who have believed and have straightened, their Lord forgives all that has passed of their errors, that they have not tasted the aliment of the Shelter, and have not seen the Sunrise of Manifestation.

O people, have you not heard the Call of the Eminent Godhead, and the Delegation of The One of Glorious Ubiquity, while on the Throne amongst you? Glory is to all the believers, who, if this memory is recounted to them, they breakdown in prostration [down] to the beards, while rejoicing in the Providence that He provided them, that He did not give to anyone else.

[This is but one of several grand moments during which Manifestation, without a medium, physical mental or otherwise, occurred in the visions of them who were capable of a witness …

During that period of time, made reachable to the minds of the faithful by the then geometry of the sky around us …, The Absolute reached the visions of them, as was foretold in the Qur’an,

Several such Visions occurred, in large gatherings and in people’s solitudes, all around the world, and this was not exclusive to Egypt or to a particular family or a tribe of people …

A king in India had similar visions and wrote about it. And if one goes back to old history records in China, similar witnesses should be found,

But the many who weren’t capable of a witness: they saw nothing, and worse is when the awe of the moment made them project their darkness onto a person in their physical vicinity.

At that time in Egypt and in Palestine, perhaps most of the messengers, prophets dark and radiant and their assistants …: were present. People chose who to project their vision upon, according to their degree of faith and awareness, and their karmic legacy.

This is reminding of one of such moments. Further reminders will be mentioned in forthcoming Cobs.]

And Aaron was not far from you, when his people said to him: “rejoice not, God likes not rejoicing people, and do seek, in what God has given you, the Home of the hereafter, and ignore not what you earned in the low life, and donate like God has donated to you, and seek not to despoil the earth, God likes not the despoilers”. Said he: “what I have is of my own knowledge”, did he not know that God has destroyed the nations of before, who were stronger and more resourceful? When man is beneficent his beneficence is for himself, and when he is an ill-doer it is upon himself, and so long as you are, from exhibitionism, far.

And your Lord took from you a binding Oath that you shall not worship anything but Him. Hence this would be the clarifying Truth.

O you who have wandered in the gardens of the Philosophy, and have tasted its fruit, The One of the Scene has destined you to hold on to the assured hand-hold, it is the one which severs not, until you come out with the Light of Guidance from the night of bewilderment, to enter under the heaven of Confirmation, to shelter in its shade, and lay down the burdens of your selves, to secure yourselves from a hot fire, fueled by a timed source, so you may distance yourselves and your people from eating poison ivy, which made the cattle [people who live just to vegetate] of your world hear the inhales and exhales of hell, while it is in motion, is more [explanation] required? From it, do protect yourselves, to absorb the Light of The One of the Manifestation, The Numberless Oneness.

Thus your Lord lavishes you after you have become faithful, and feeds you from the fruit of the tree of Knowledge, so you do earn the Contentment of the Lavisher, who made you of the anointed ones.

Cob 10

The Two Luminaries

Say: “O you two prison guards, what you have been promised is actual, and cannot be repelled, and the two Grand Pillars that are Constant are the two Luminaries”. So I do swear by the Sun and the Moon, and by the Night when it darkens, and the Morning as it unveils, thus we show the Pragons to those who have darkened, by the Sun and the Moon. Thus your Lord has determined in the Heaven of your religion two Luminaries, they are the Sun and the Moon set mathematically, and the Stars and the Trees [to them] do prostrate.

And the Sun did light in the Heaven of Islam, so He determined your fast, and you befriended the Moon, hence there is prayer.

[Far from being ritualistic practices, fasting and prayer in Islam were meant to be an abstention from engaging in actions which lead to attachment to worldly interests and pleasures, and embarking on actions which reestablish the connections between one and the heavens,

As for the rituals, those were never a means for purification or a road to spirituality at any time in the past, and never will they be at any time in the future. And the belief that those rituals were once an obligation on the believers, and were lifted thereafter by the Call of Hamzah, the Connections be by him, does not stand. Knowledge can only be reached in the mind; this is an existential law which does not change in place and time.

Our reading of the Qur’an proves this point. If some groups who believe that they followed Hamzah’s Call were unable to read the Qur’an correctly, they were unable to realise that Union (Tawheed) is also in the Qur’an and indeed in all the Books which preceded it, and hence their attempts to define Union by words and deeds and other physical things, not unlike the beliefs and traditions of other religions.

The two prison guards are the ones mentioned in the Qur’an in the Surah of “Joseph”. They are what is referred to in the Hikmah as the two opposites. Those are by no means opposites of the Mind, as many Druze have been led to believe. For, from the Mind emerges the Self, and from the Self emerges the Word or the Expression … and so on. The two opposites are created in the somber of the unknown, when the Self and her Brother the Word venture in the world of duality …]

And those who came forward to their Lord, He engaged them with their selves, so they may know them, thence is the Water of Baptism.

[The word that is translated to “baptism” actually translates to “purity”, if commonplace dictionaries are used. But the choice of “baptism” is meant to point to that “Baptism” and “Wudu” (ablution – which is a ritual of washing, prerequisite to performing prayers in mainstream Islam) are not rituals of washing by any means …: but indeed visions of Union or approach thereto.

By using Qur’anic expressions, this Book has pointed to the esoteric layer of the Qur’an and indeed the Books which preceded it.

Unfortunately, the message doesn’t seem to have reached the minds of Druze clergy, who believe that the Qur’an has entirely been tampered with,

This is why, right from the early days of its launch, this Page has been saying: if one doesn’t understand the Books which preceded, and the ones which followed the Book that one believes in: one can’t understand the Book that one believes in.

This has been universally demonstrated by the lack of acknowledgement, and indeed the presence of animosity, between all Abrahamic religions.]

As for those who turned away from Him, those have been engaged by themselves; bad are their returns in the horizons. Your Lord has sealed their hearts and vision with fog, to them is demeaning suffering.

[It’s the “fog” that blinds them from being rational and stops them from acting virtuously and harmlessly. The pious people of Abrahamic religions and the clergy who feed them with anger and irrationality have caused stupor to themselves and brought upon themselves a lot of suffering,

The rituals they practise, their academic achievements, their charities, their noble tribal origins, their money and weaponry … will not bring out their minds from their self-imposed imprisonment.]

Cob 11

The Wondrous Legions

O you who believe, be not deterred by fear of people to say the truth if you know it, and do know that the best deed that you place between the Hands of your Lord is the say of truth before a ruthless arrogant one.

The Wielders of Determination of preceding time have called out: corruption has shown on land and on the waters, of what people’s hands have earned, to this the Book has testified, and you shall bear witness. An inquirer has inquired about suffering befalling the darkened ones, that cannot be repelled, and out of every hilltop they perforate.

We are delivering to you the tidings of the narrative which came in the Book of our Lord The Sovereign, the day when He sent him as a Messenger to some believing ones of the Call, the ones who wield knowledge and determination, when He gave him the prophecy of settlement, and evidence for promulgation, to those who are endowed with sense and vision, and it was kept and guarded, and now it is time to declare it and uncover it.

Said He, and He is The Law, transcends He what the ignorant ones describe: when Our Promise is due, We send to them servants of Ours of great might, they infiltrate through the homes, to people incapable of confrontation with them, are the lambs capable of combat with the wolves? They are a people our Lord increased among the creation in power, impact and stature.

They appear with claws and canines, like the beasts of the jungle, and He has made four eyes for some of them, two in the chest and two in the head, some of them walk on two and some on four, and some of them use their ears, one for dormancy, and the other for obscurity, they have been called to believe and have disbelieved, they are outcast.

We left them then, some raiding some, destroying whatever is in their way, of kingdoms and castles, uprooting whatever they come across of protruding things and trees, they pass not by an elephant nor a beast or a pig until they have eaten it, and if one of them dies they cut him up between themselves. They drink what they find of rivers like thirsty cattle, their conscience allows them to fight whoever is in the sky, they shoot arrows to it, they return to them red in blood, they think they killed all in it, bad is what they think.

They come of every island, like locust they spread, and to the monoliths they rush,

They surround Simon the Luminous and his Sun, and those with him, hence the Spirit is alarmed, but neither a demon and nor a human, he attempts, with those with him, an escape, but is incapable, and finds no way out, so he holds on, he cries out his invocation, he regains strength and turns not his back. The Numberless Oneness inspires to him: I am making you conquer the wondrous legions, and am taking your enemy by Might and Capability, and making them an example for those who reflect. Their Lord thrusts His Wrath upon them, of their own sins, until he sends to them maggots in their throats; they become stunned still, like the stumps of dead palm trees. The earth fills up with their corpses, body parts and blood, and our Lord sends to them the flyers on vessels, they carry them and dump them in a deep valley, and He descends from the sky a Heaven of Profusion, to erect the round earth, until He turns it [looking] like a polished rock, or like the sky on a constantly sunny day. And it darkens not as it is turned erect upright, until it is one with the most festive of garments, of lushness and a cloak in green.

Then the Holy Spirit demolishes the places of rituals and kills the pig, he sets the monetary law, and money becomes abundant, but no one accepts it, bountifulness descends from the heavens and all the good things, but the desire for them has diminished, and the hopes are cut short, for, they all know now that close is the Day of Judgement.

The Beams of the Split effulge from the [point of] return, only wishful thinking is now repentance and faith, and the gates have been closed off to the desperate escapers knocking on the Doors, this is the day when faith benefits not a self which had no faith before, or has not gained any good from it.

And the Qur’an was lifted upon the Manifestation and the Sunrise, only scrolls have been left, not a word in them is worth recitation, except in the chests of those the eyes of whom our Lord has blindfolded, they have lost their way, for they are them who deceived themselves.

[No editing has been done to this reading which was done a few years ago …, apart from the "d" in Doors, which was a lowercase before.]

Cob 12

The Shudder

Are those who disbelieve not afraid of the day when it dawns, and they have forgotten what is between them, they have lost their selves, have lost the way, and their visions are blinded while they look? The day when the sky brings on visible smoke fogging the people, this is a great suffering. This is the day we make some of you experience the harm [you have caused] to one another, you stay in what your own hands have made for forty days, it fills up between the east and the west, so we make it a memorable example for you and a consideration for those who have a kernel, and we enter it through the hearing of those who darken till their heads are like the heads of stubborn bulls.

So be warned of that day, O you who believe or your nostrils will be blocked, and the earth has been resurrected and lacks none.

And our Lord’s Command comes, so its atmosphere is soft breeze, more fragrant than the tides of perfumes, sweeter than the spirit and the essence, and the garden of abundance, kinder than the breeze of the believers’ dawn.

There is the bells’ toll, what is the bells’ toll, and what do you know about the bells’ toll? [reference to the Qur’an] the day when it leaves out not a believer in whose heart is a grain-worth of faith until it grabs him, and the darkened ones are left in their illusions astray, for a hundred eras, they know no religion and they discern not, they revel on the roads like donkeys’ reveling, they shy not of themselves and are not embarrassed, the most pious one of them says: if you veered off the path it would be better, but they are of his say deniers.

It is upon those that the Hour sets, and the Sun of Manifestation rises in the east of resurrection, while they are buying and selling, measuring and scaling, coming and going, they wait for none but a cry which takes them [by surprise] while they finalise [their trade], they are incapable of registration and return not to their homes, the man tilts his jug but gets not his drink, and the hungry lifts his food and reaches not his mouth, the two men spread the roll of fabric between themselves but they finish not the trade and roll it not up, and the people have lost their dreams from [the intensity of] wakefulness, and the demons are frightened like them, and beasts have come to them from every deep valley and have mixed with them.

O people take refuge in your Lord, the shudders of the hour is an enormous thing, when you see it, every nursing mother is stunned and cuts off her nurselings, and every burdened self lays off her burdens, and you see the people inebriated while they are not inebriated, but the suffering of your Lord, God, your Master, is severe.

And when the sun is rounded, and the light that is in it is dulled, it is plunged in the Ocean of Capability, and its supplies are sent to it, they drop on it and it turns to fire, this is the day of confinement for the darkened ones, that is uneasy; and the Heaven of Will is opened, after all its causes are cut off, the army of our Lord The Loftiest The Mightiest have descended from it, and the planets of Capability are now like the loose beads of a necklace.

[Those are depictions of the final stages of different cycles and their sub-cycles, not referring to the one single phenomenon/event. The first part of it describes today’s world, then the period of peace and good geographical conditions. Then it is followed by the time when people are made aware of their past existences, and those who never believed in reincarnation are stunned and confused. And finally, it is the death and resurrection of the sun and the solar system, and perhaps the entire universe.

Interestingly, it has been recently discovered that a number of stars in a far distance in the universe, which were known and being observed: suddenly disappeared, and that there’s no explanation for their disappearance,

COB has said a few years back that parts of the universe can disappear, into … perhaps the dark matter surrounding it, to reemerge …, and that the entire universe is subjected to such deaths and rebirths constantly,

And as if the “memory” that is in the matter causes it to continue on in the new resurrection from where it left off, this is how a sense of continuity can be experienced,

The “size” and “age” of the universe that we theorise and calculate will be proven in a future time to be conceptual rather than actual.

Such Grand Scale phenomena inspire awe and humility before the Might of the Law, in the minds of people who have a grain of faith in their minds, while the people of religions and materialistic beliefs are busy hiding from the gods and devils of their own minds and the conspiracies of their enemies …

The mention of the “cry” or the “bells’ toll” … or the “blow in the apex” … are all different ways of experiencing the “end of time”, when the memory of previous existences is opened, and people become aware of their existence that is as “eternal” as the cosmic manifest itself,

Past lives become rememberable, enemies who were once friends and friends who were once enemies … are recognised. This is why the Books persistently warn the people who believe not in resurrection that this experience of joyful awareness of existence: is frightening … to them who blocked off all the windows of their minds with beliefs of religions and materialism.]

Cob 13

The Models

O you people who believed then disbelieved, believed again and then increased in disbelief, have we not told you the news of those who disbelieved before, and are you informed about their shelter in their re-turns in the horizons? Bad is the lodgement of those who have an illness in their hearts, they are damned by the tongues of the Suns of Unity, they are dead manifold.

Have you not seen how God drew the models to the people, may they discern by the evidence. Do listen O you who have a kernel.

God has drawn a model of a slave, owned [by someone], incapable of anything, and [another] one whom we've provided good providence, he expends from it openly and secretly, are they equal?

And your Lord, The Premier and The Final, The Exoteric and the Esoteric, Who is God on earth and God in heaven, manifests He wherever He will, Bountiful is The Manifest in every Scene, said He: and has there ever been a period of time for mankind when it was nothing mentionable?

And He drew for you the models. Those are two men, one is mute and disabled, and dependent on his master, wherever he directs him he cannot do any good, is he equal with someone who rules by justice and is on the straight path? Also your Lord The Numberless Oneness drew a model, a man with partners in disaccord, and a man Salman [in peace] to man, are they equal models? The gratitude is to The Lord of the Callers who sit on Thrones and Couches face to face, to be taken as remembrance and counsel to everyone who lent an ear as they witnessed.

[Those karmic consequences of choosing darkness over light have happened every time a new Message was delivered. Religions have interpreted that it is going to be a hell of fire in some invisible world in a far future time.

And although this is existential justice, it does not mean that people should sit back and watch one another suffering, for the sake of experiencing schadenfreude. It’s people’s duty to help one another, under all circumstances, and as if they are trying to repair some past wrong by compassion, and some people do turn back to the light by compassion.

People were not doomed to be bad from the beginning, this is all Abrahamic religions’ false understanding of justice. This Book has made it very clear that people go up and down in their lives by their own thoughts and deeds.

The best “evidence” is the one which talks to the human mind, as this Cob unequivocally declares it. As for the dazzlement of magic: this one was supposed to have been thrashed in the court of the Pharaoh, when Josef and his brother Moses spoiled the magicians’ show by exposing their tricks. Unfortunately, their act of providing tangible evidence was thought to be an act of magic, by all Abrahamic religions!

Those still think that god is a magician, and they think that the power of “be” is about magic.

Those will drive their followers down the abyss of irrationality, however lofty the titles they have awarded themselves, and high the paradise and salvation they have promised themselves.

The world now is one built on reason and understanding of the natural law. Nations that are irrational will bring on devastation to themselves. This is demonstrable by the wars which have been brewing in the world. It will be the nations which are least irrational that will be on the top, regardless of the wishes and the slogans of political, religious and economic ideologies.]

Say: are you safeguarding yourselves from Him Who has manifested? And Capable of all things is He, to re-assemble the rivers and the oceans, so the brine mingles with the healing fresh pure water, after He made a tract between them that they do not overflow, and the mountains [of knowledge] have returned obtuse and surmountable, the day when youngsters suddenly grey.

[The two “waters” which have been mentioned in the Qur’an and the Hikmah are the two humanities: being the radiant and darkened. Although the two humanities are separated every time a new a message is delivered, as it is alluded in all Books: the two oceans re-mix, as time passes by, by people’s own deeds and stations of awareness.]

O you who have doubts in your hearts about the aim of your selves, await, and we are with you awaiting; and your Lord, The Ubiquitous of Ubiquity, The Heart of the people of Union, The Eye of the knowledgeable ones: will demonstrate the miracles in those who are turned away by their pride from His Aim, the day when no pregnant woman delivers her newborn, nor a pregnant she-camel, nor a pregnant sheep or goat. This time has befallen, and the apex of your selves has been blown into, and stunned are all in the heavens and the earth, also those who have deluded you about God your Lord The Sovereign The Numberless Oneness.

[Different stages of ends of cycles and sub-cycles are described symbolically in a number of places in this Discourse. The words used were heard inside the heads of the writers, they were the best sounds that could describe such phenomena that do not have appropriate terminology in any language.

The blowing of the apex, which has been read by interpreters as the blowing in the bugle, is in fact a blowing sound which will be heard in the very top of everyone’s head. It opens a gate in your minds which reveal past lives, and as if they are part of the present memory.

The Qur’an describes it by saying: they look and say so how long have we been in it? And those who know tell them: longer than you thought, haven’t your prophets been telling you?]

We shall annihilate those who have darkened to us and believed [only] by their say: by death lasting till the grand day of resurrection, every time we revive them we exchange their skin by another skin, for them to experience the suffering, they remain for forty eras before Disintegration; the day when we fold up the sky like an old dress, then we disintegrate it, and we re-construct you while you look.

On this day we bring the shariah, [that is] the law of the ancient ones, and it is folded like the book cover folds up the book, a promise is due on us, the day we take the land and the sky from their edges, the earth dies and flows like magma, then it becomes reddish gloss, then He makes it thick smoke and the sky is changed by another, and the second earth upon which we gave you life [is turned to] a bare expanse until the day they are remitted; thence you hear its expiration and inhalation, the day they hear the Call by The Law, this is the day you exit.

[This event of an Existential magnitude has happened many times before. COB argues that Mars was once a planet buzzing with life, with a human population that had migrated from Earth.

This passage hints mainly to this eventuality. COB is confident that in a not too far future, Mars will be visited by humans from Earth, and the ruins of a far past civilisation will be uncovered.

COB also goes further to believe that some humans are still living underground on Mars where they have managed to survive, and a chapter of the history of humanity in the Solar System will be opened.

Will deforestation and urbanisation continue on ruthlessly and thoughtlessly on earth, until it is a “bare expanse”, as perhaps can be read from this?]

Your Lord is The Sovereign in your selves, do you not vision? On that day the earth breaks off you and you come to us rapidly, this is a gathering that is to your Lord all too facile.

Cob 14

The Prayer for an Encounter

Say, your Lord is Better Knower of you, take, quaff and provision yourselves, for, the best provision is the refuge, and face Him in your turnings, day and night, counsel one another and come close, your Lord nears you to the shade of a lush arbour. And we have descended to you from every edge/letter a prayer, in the day and in the night.

“My Lord, if I invoke Thee out of love, Thou art the Solitary, Better Informed of what I invoke. And this heart between Thy fingers calls Thee, for Thou art the prayer.

“My Lord, it suffices him who thinks of Thee suppliantly, that Thou fillest him with Thy Secret, in his outermost and his innermostness.

“My Lord, how can he who moves him, from Thee to Thee, the longing; and senses, while facing Thee, the Eye of loyalty?

“My Lord, Thou hast provided me and made me taste a sip of the drunkenness of the chalice’s chalice of Thy Love. I have enjoyed its taste, then my self wished to quaff from this quenching source, and who else but Thee O Lord of the lords possessest the capability to provide me from it satisfaction and fulfillment.

“Have preceded us, my Lord, lovers who sincerely loved Thee, so they have enjoyed Thy everlasting contentment; join us Thou with them, and usher us in the garden of the lovers of Thy Beauty,

“Our Lord, between our Adamness and clayness [both implying physicality]: and the world of Thy Love, is a far stretch; and between Thy Contentment and triumph over passions and the ego is a toiling toil, and we have no means, our Lord, in the battles with the ego, except to request support from Thy Eye.

“Our Lord, for our hearts in Thy Love is desperation, lamentation and supplication, at the far ends of the night and the extremities of the day; at those ends, our hearts are dedicated to Thee alone with Thee, so long as the night is a veil for them. A Ghost of Thy Love has passed by them, they quickly approach Thee, and supplicate to Thy Holiness to grant their request. Our Lord, let not those tears go dry in the Okeanos of Thy Holiness, for, love has flared up in our identities.

“Our Lord, make us walk by the foot of the spirit, until the far deserts of distance and abandonment are folded, and we entre in the contentment of nearness and connection, and we earn, in our selves the godly selves. Our Lord, the roads to those stations, the stations of the Suns, are not travelled by the body’s feet, and cannot be made reachable by those to the Target: the Identity of the Eye of Existence. Thy Peace our Lord be upon them who followed the Law by the Law, and were upon the road of the Aim, on the coast of knowledge, by the Summum of the Numberless Oneness: firmly standing.

“Our Lord resent us not about what the fools of us have done, and make us not carry their burdens, and affirm us in the Call for the Call, and remove hatred from our chests, the shariah goes before our own eyes, and salvage us from those who have not believed those Paragons who have appeared, and the promised sun that has arisen in the horizon of manifestation, and the sun of knowledge that has been rounded and darkened, and have not sensed [that] the moon of rulings and primary knowledge has been eclipsed and gone. And we have come to Thee, our Lord, to place our hearts upon the path of truth of certainty, by the eye of knowledge of certainty, and the wings of the eye of certainty, to witness, in our vision, some of our own secrets.

“Our Lord, we transcend in Thee, the far ends of the night and the extremities of the day, O Thou Who hast sphered the night around the day, and hast sphered the day around the night, and hast lodged the night in the day, and lodged the day in the night, to Thee is the Homage, in the low world and the hereafter, Giver and Taker, Content and Discontent.

“Our Lord, do extend to us the ropes, the ropes of the heavens, so we climb up on them and be with those who are prostrate, amen, O Thou, Possessor of the Round and the Rectilinear, Solitary in Thy identity, Sublime over adjectives.

“Our Lord, blindness has blinded those who have darkened, and the thanks are to Thee Reprising. Our Lord, we see by our own eyes, and we are over them witnesses, and Thou hast opened for them a door of heaven, they have remained oscillating [going up and down] in it, so the befall has befallen, whose befall is undeniable, lowering [some] elevating [some], and shuddered the earth a shudder, and their chests are pulverised pulverisedly, so they became scattered dust, and their visions are sealed, and they said we are a bewitched people, nay, they are the bewichers and they are the liars.

“Our Lord, to Thee is the Homage, as Thou openedest our chest wide to Union, and guidedest us, and madest the chests of those who bewildered in narrowness and embarrassment as if they toil in the sky, while it is ablaze to them, and they are haters of it. The Homage, the thanks and the gratitude are to Thee, O Solitary in Thy Identity, Surpassing limits/definitions and adjectives, Thou Who art not outrun to changing ones like us, and to resurrecting us in what we never know, Thou art of everything Capable, amen.”

And we have facilitated this prayer, and we made it a remembrance to the wielders of hearing, and [to] whomever want closeness, and we made a known time for it, an obligation upon you to the set of the sun through to the settlement of the night, that to the male and female faithful ones are grades in their Lord, and contentment, and for them who fear their Lord’s Station: the prayer for Encounter, that the prayer of the Dawn has been compassion for you and an embracement. And we have made it an obligation upon a creation before you, they ignored it after they demanded it, so the say was due upon them, blindness blinded them, can you see of them a remanence?

And we facilitated this prayer for those who believed of you, and [while] they are guided. It is not for those who have dwelled on their statues, frequenting, bowing, prostrating, that our Lord opens for them the Gates of His Compassion, even if they did like you, while they are haters [of it].

Haven’t they recited, those who darkened after their belief, what the Book testified: has come to mankind a period of time it was nothing mentionable? Or did you think you would be left, and God has not known those of you who have striven, and have not taken below God or His messenger or the believers: a hiding lodgement? And God is in what you do All Informed.

It has not been for the apostates to take you as masters apart from themselves, and they have said darkness about you, nay, it is them the darkened, frustrated are their deeds, and in the inferno they are eternal. That so, who take you as masters are them who believed in God [as] their Master, and in His Manifestations in the Horizons, those are upon guidance from their lord, those are the faithful ones.

O you people, be not taken by the admonishment of the admonishers. And your Lord has written upon you and your seed a binding Covenant, that He made in your mouths [at] the setting of every prayer. Say, if your fathers and sons, and daughters and spouses, and tribes and lovers, and money you’ve inherited and trade you’ve accomplished that you fear might decline, and dwelling you’ve liked and fortified towers that you’ve taken as your protection, and abundance about which you will be asked the day you are brought to your Lord: dearer to you than your Lord, the Sovereign of all the sovereigns, and [than] striving in His Redemption: look out for the suffering when it comes to you from where you have not sensed. And it has come to the ones before you, while they were in their afternoon nap, and we made them an example to you and to those after you, may you refrain, the day when your belief benefits not, so what do you fake?

O you who have darkened, if you don’t refrain, will make you suffer your Lord, at the hands of those who have believed and those who are of your own selves.

And wrote upon His Self your Lord: Compassion and Forgiveness to them who have repented and believed and did a good deed before death came to them, and [before] it sets: the Sun of Oneness, in the Horizon of your eyes and the horizons of your hearts, and the Flyer of Manifestation has taken shelter in the tree of the Terminal, and if only there were repentance [accepted] thence.

If you mustered yourselves from the poles of the heavens and the earth, and you were backing up one another, over that you [want to] harm God your Lord the Sovereign that you witness, you are incapable to a path to this and He is the Dominant over the abiders in Him so what do you fake you falsers?

And the day when those who are in doubt about their Lord cry out: alas, I have been disregarding in my Lord’s side. Now that it has befallen: what you’ve been deniers of, that so, wants your Lord to mercify you, and to bring you out of the doubt of yourselves, as you travel in the randomness of your dreams and Satan wants of your selves to cast in your hearts the love of the low life, so are you refraining?

Take shelter from a day [when] the darkened one bites his hands [fingers], calling from a far place: I have been disregarding in my Lord the Sovereign’s side, if only I didn’t take what’s-his-name as an intimate friend, if only I took with the faithful, the ones in Union, a way. It is a word he is the sayer of, the day when he is brought to what he has done of good deeds, and we turned it scattered dust.

[The deeds that are thought to be a trade with the heavens: are scattered dust. Even charity as such, harms more than it benefits.]

O you who have darkened of the people of this country, let not your numbers impress you, they enrich not you and nor do they ward the suffering off you, when the land is narrowed in you by what it expanded, then you turned running backward, [badly] wanting to ascend to the skies, and you are frightened. And will instill panic your Lord in our hearts, so where do you go?

[Describing accurately the condition of all today's pious peoples of religions.]

Are you [kept] in our eyes, or those who strove in their Lord’s way by their monies and their selves, and He became Content with them and they became content with Him, blessed is the reward of the believing workers, those, if their Lord is mentioned, their hearts are awed, then He descends tranquility upon them, and they become equanimous, not fearing thirst in their ventures, those are them who are guided, them who are uprising.

Cob 15

The Evening Prayer

O you who have believed, this is the Evening Prayer that your Lord promised you, do approach Him embracingly, brings He you awakening/inspiration in your selves, and Spirit and Essence in your turnings; and for every prayer is a settlement, and you shall find out.

“My Lord, [it is] Thou Who hast loved me by Thee and made me happy, by being close to my heart without an invocation, and it is happy every time Love makes me long to Thee, and leads me to the Door of Thy Capacious Throne. How glad I am, my Lord, that Thou madest for me an eye that tears profusely, every time it is moved from Thee by Thy Hand of Care. My Lord, I pray, invoking and begging, that my tears be the first rainfall after which will descend from Thee the Rainfall of Compassion, so Thou erasest by it the somber of ignorance’s pitch-dark nights. So, my Lord, I supplicate to Thee, in this submissive stance of mine, that Thou protectest me from the illusion of my ego, the one with the hopes and the confusion. My Lord, Thou art the Constructor of my heart that it opens up, after Thy Forgiveness, so I may see the Beauty of Thy Effulgence in Thy Kingdom.

“My Lord, I can’t deny what I have of affinity, longing inside me to Sanctify Thee and come nigh to Thee; and can I, my Lord, hide what Thou hast made me experience of feelings of Thy Friendliness? For, this, the eye of my eye, my Lord, is ever looking from the identity of its innermostness, in its projections, to the marvels of Thy Making, within it and without it, and in Thy Creation. And those ears, my Lord, my heart’s ears, are longing to hear every caller in Thy Summum. I do swear by the day of my faith in Thee and by Thy Elements, that every time I sensed from Thee Sympathy, Closeness and Radiance: passed my heart tranquilities, expanses and gardens, and returned to me: repentances and psalms. My Lord, transcendest Thou, Thou art Sublime above that I live in agony demanding nearness to Thee, and Thou art ever Near, Compassion the Compassionate.

“My Lord, that I feel my heart faces Thee, every time I call my Lord, and as though I am in the garden of Thy Contentment, and in the Paradise of celebrations, the celebrations of them who believed and wanted Thee by their faith, they’ve hence found Thee, they entered in Thy Gardens and have not come out yet.

“My Lord, I have not tasted, and no lover has tasted the joy of Thy Love: unless overwhelmed by euphoria of a lofty breeze and holy longings, and he thus returns from a world untarnished by the ego’s lust and its low desires.

“My Lord, by Thy Glory, every time I come close to Thee from Thee, I sense and I feel the Hand of Thy Care lifting me up, every time I retreat in the pitfalls of Adamic impurity.

“My Lord, Contentment of Thine is not an observance and a prayer, or a deed that I approach to Thee from Thee, but indeed, O Lord of the lords: success from Thee, brought upon by the abider’s sincerity and submission to Thy Grandeur and Glory.

“My Lord, Thy Love, O souls’ Lover, is inborn in them like Thy Light is inborn in the eyes of them who are guided by Thee.

“My Lord, supply Thou me with the holy inspirations which emancipate me from my Adamness.

“My Lord, Thou hearest, while I converse with my ego about Thy Love, O Spirit of my soul, Thou art Hearer of that conversation. Between her [my ego] and me, my Lord, are talks that have filled the audios, that argumentative objectional one. After all this, O my Lord, she has come to Thy Holy Eminence and dared to demand closeness and to ask to come back. And after this, O my Lord, I counsel her at her night by the best counsel: are you aware O ego from Whom you demand closeness and nearness, and are you in clarity about Him, to Whose Tree of Whose Terminal you are eager? My Lord, has increased in her: her infatuation with Thee, and the fires of her longing in her identity have flared, thus illuminating for her the road to Thy Cobs.

“My Lord, every time my self hears the Call from Thee, she’s stunned then awakened, as the Call sparks in her depths the Tree of Thy Love and Identity.

“My Lord, the demand is dear, and the travel is long, and between this we are subject to [life and] death, and the road to salvation has a curb of misfortune, and the path of bewilderment has a curb of lust; and those egos, my Lord, are amused by hopes and wishes, and have for this low life an intense penchant, make Thou, my Lord, for them: discipline that they take to [approach] Thee, reform Thou them and purify them. Thou art, my Lord, the Lord of whomever turns and demands to return, O Thou, the Responder to them who beg forgiveness, our Lord, amen.”

That those who observe the prayers, and the Prayer of the Dawn, find not in it fire and darkness, rather a reward of harmony. For, [it is] your Lord to Whom you pray, when you rest and when you disperse. That those who have lost the Path of their Lord will earn suffering from it, so where do they go? Isn’t He Who created you capable of creating your like? Nay, is He the Creator the Omniscient. Have they not looked at the earth of their selves, how many a wondrous tradition have We sprouted in it? that in your selves are marvels, but most of them know not.

And has clarified your Lord in those Pages of every model for you, most people have declined except disbelief, and they have worshipped below their Lord what benefits them not and harms them not, and our Lord of their errors is All Informed All Seer.

O you people, come to the Water that your Lord has descended from the Heaven pure, to enliven by it them who believed, then He spreads you a new creation and many populations.

And has drawn to you your Lord in those Pages of every model, and is he the Knower of what’s in your selves, and knows He which return you will return. And knows He those who are in comfort/alone with their demons, and knows He the guided ones and the forbearing. And your Lord was not to cause suffering to those who darkened while they demand the Paragons in order to believe, so as soon as they saw Guidance, they repudiated Him, and turned back to their demons derisively.

Have wished those who darkened to see God conspicuously, or in their selves, or in some providence, or in suffering that becomes to them, so when He came to them, they darkened to Him and said: “a human one of us are we to trust? we are hence losers”. Nay, they have indeed lost the path of the Law, and have [since] been the most argumentative people, here [they are], has enlivened them their Lord twice and deadened them twice and they were brought out of the home of the Animate while they know.

[The mention of two enlivenments and two deaths, which featured also in the Qur’an, is reference, in this instance, to the two Manifestations, being the one to Mount Light (Toor Seeneen) and the one which has been an inspiration of Hikmah Books, as they enliven the onlooker, but when forgetfulness occurs again, death becomes the lives of people. This is when the perception is reduced to that of a natural being, incapable of true vision, as Surah 95 (The Fig Tree) declared it: “We created mankind in the best genesis, then We rendered them the lowest of the low ones”.

The word that we’ve translated to “animate” is usually used in the sense of “animal” in today’s Arabic. The two concepts, however, aren’t totally disjoint, except in their usages.

The “Animate” that is the essence in this instance, is a higher station of awareness than that of a natural being, including humans who do not follow a path of mental and spiritual self-development.]

O you people, speak rightly, and do good, before a day comes, in it the earth will be exchanged for another/no earth, and they all come out to God the One the Dominant, the Sovereign the Singularity, the Numberless Oneness. And if God were to reprimand them, who darkened, by their darkness, He would strip what’s in their spirit of animation, but He delays them to a term.

O you who have been guided, if you be good, you are good for you selves, and if you be bad, you are bad for them, and you shall see this in your turnings, and your Lord is not unfair to the abiders in Him. Say our Lord, then leave them in their commotion playing. And has made you your Lord with them who said Thou art our Lord, blessings thus descended unto them from their Lord, and they became, in the gardens of their front/vision, eternal.

Cob 16

The Letter to Abu Isaac

The Rankings of The People

Our letter is to Abu Isaac (Isaac’s father), Muhammad al-Luddi, regarding our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified be His Mention,

His say, Hamzah the son of Ali, the Invested Monitor: we don’t want to tire you, Abu Isaac, by this letter, but rather we recount to you some of the news of the Unseen, perhaps, by knowing God you are enlivened, and by His Light guided.

Made our Lord the Pen into a Round (represented by the Arabic letter “نون”), after it was fueled from the Sun of Capability, thus the people-of-Union’s night was illuminated. Then made He with every Pen a Round, and the Round remained singular, and He is Dominant over the people. And by this the Book testifies, [when it says] the Round and the Pen and what they scribe, and paired He every Round with a Pen, and the third Round remained singular. Those, O Abu Isaac, are the ranks of the first abiders, it is difficult for many of our Lord’s creation to grasp them, and made our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified be His Mention, the line/pen of Tomm, Adam the round of Jinn, and the line of Rumm, Eve the round of emotion, and there corruption appeared in the land and on the sea by what people’s hands had earned, when that our Lord was manifesting to the Mount.

[The early memory of becoming makes many projections on people’s Vision, and often go unnoticed by people who don’t show interest in mind matters, or have blocked off their vision by belief and ideology.

The many different narratives of Creation in the different cultures of the world should all be respected as valid, and if one studies them analytically, also from a spiritual perspective, the parallel lines between them start to crystalise.

The geometric narrative herein resonates perhaps best with people of scientific and mathematical backgrounds, as it starts “earlier” than the known Creation theory of Abrahamic religions, and in-deed Evolution in modern times’ science.

The sequence of events must not be taken literally, as those “becomings” take “place” simultaneously, and the ranking is only indicative of the pyramid Cosmic structure of Power.

In COB’s view, which has been expressed in a number of posts, but particularly in the one with the title “Adam and Eve”, and also “The Narrative”: those Alphas which were projected in their Omegas: became self-contained from the perspective of the Omega, hence it is said herein: the omega remained singular.

As for the third omega which remains singular, this is perhaps pointing to the physical projection.

As for the Adam of Tomm and Rumm, the starting sound of the letter has to be a reference to the primordial sounds which are associated with the becoming of each rank of consciousness and animation.

In a manner of speaking, this is the alphabet of becoming, or the postulates of existence.

The mention of the corruption is that it is the outcome of downfall in dense matter, and what that entails of self-centered consciousness and the basic karma-generating modes of wanting and repel-ling, mentioned in the Ghita and indeed every Book.

The eventuation of the universal manifestation, however, is a “story” older than any mind can grasp, and has re-eventuated more times than any historian or cosmologist can demonstrates, albeit, be-stowing a different sensory and conscious impression every time on the observing living beings.

The beliefs that are built on the conviction that a one theory is true: is a jail sentence, and indeed a torture cell: for the soul that is Free, to be what it can be by the Law …]

And indeed, there have passed [many] times, until that human bore descendants who forsook the Lord and followed lust, so God avenged to them, and the land upon which they were: darkened, and blinded He their vision from seeing Him, and were lost in their darkness confused.

Then another earth rose by its Lord Light, and your Lord manifested to the Mount, and by this has testified the Book to this other creation: ”and when your Lord said to the angels I am Maker in the earth of a descendant, said they: dost Thou make in it one who despoils in it and sheds blood, and we transcend in Thy Worship and sanctify Thee, said He : I know what you know not”. And [thus] was Adam the lowest, Adam of the clay, Adam of the polished scorched mud, thus you are and them and those[others], if they don’t believe.

[COB has maintained from the beginning of its launch that this quotation from Surah 2 of the Qur’an refers to the latest creation, which happened around 12,000 years ago, after the sinking of what is known as Atlantis, one which has continued to our present world, after around 6000 years of its demise and re-liberation. A narration of this can be found in the footnotes of Surah 2 on our website.

The relics of those pre-ancient civilisations are a testimony to their different mode of intelligence and awareness, and hence their different perception and different civil engineering technologies and indeed their different aesthetics.

The mention of Adam of the clay … refers to today’s humans, who acknowledge only physical perception and all that this entails of mundane and shariah laws which judge by measurement, and the spirit which is a ghost that frightens them, and all the gods of monotheist beliefs who reward with a supply of material needs and threaten with corporal punishment.

The text, however, hastens to say that this is not a destiny that is forced upon the people, but indeed earned by them, and that it is not an eternal sentence, but indeed one that can be dropped once trust in one’s mind and a refuge in the Lord, Glorified is His Mention, are sought and reestablished.]

Then came the Speakers, so they were the sticky substance, the fleshy tissue and the bones, and our Lord, Glorified be His Mention, dressed those bones with flesh, thus the appearance of the creator became in a human image that is friendly. And the image remained following the image, until your Lord came with the Angels in arrayed arrays, and the Angels around the Throne. This is why, Abu Isaac, your Lord manifested to those who believed, and they saw Him in their selves, and they spoke to Him in their tongues [languages] and their hearts, and they sat with Him, and we were to those sittings witness, and He was veiled to the eyes of those who darkened and did not see guidance, so they repudiated Him, and He is of them, and closer to them than the Jugular vein. But the hypocrites are in a far bewilderment, and by this the Book has called, like the legacy of the people of the Pharaoh and those before them. Those, Abu Isaac, are the remaining remnant of the seed of the Adam of Binn, darkness persisted in them, and the land of their hearts remained dark, and has not been lit by the light of faith.

[It is obvious that the Manifestation mentioned herein does not refer to one particular “incident”, as it is thought to be the case in mainstream Druze belief, but indeed an Event that takes place every time a message is delivered, albeit in various intensities under different skies and heavenly positions.

The parting of the sea in the days of Moses was metaphorical of the parting of then humanity by their faith. The faith which was supposed to be embraced as it was on the Mount, and was to all the people, as the Book testified.

The remembrance of Manifestations is a matter of personal experience in the deepest depths of one’s psyche. No religion can claim monopoly of it and no religion can deny it, and when they do either: they are in a trouble of their own making.]

And if you were [around], O Abu Isaac, when God exchanged the earth for another earth, [in] the hearts of those who believed by what he descended unto them of the rainfall of Nobleness, dropping from the clouds of Compassion, from that Heaven, when the earths were exchanged for the lands of knowledge and wisdom, hence, do transcend in your Lord’s Summum, the Master the Lofty, how many a tree of Union sprouted in the groves of their hearts, and how much fruit have those trees born, and they ate of the fruit of Encounter, and how many roses of Verity of Knowledge and wisdom opened up in their chests: homes to many lamps. Those are them in whose hearts our Lord the Fidelity, Glorified be His Mention, injected the Light of knowledge in their hearts, He thus lit up and guided, and this is the Quintessence, which is consecrated to the Lord, and the darkened ones have not in it or from it a share. And by this testified the Book, do consult it, Abu Isaac, it calls out: “taught him [prophet Muhammad] [one] of strong Power, of Motion then settled/surmounted, and He is in the Highest Horizon, then came near and dangled, so was two cubits close or closer”.

If only, Abu Isaac, the chests and hearts of those abiders are sanctified, and purified of their dirt, and what been written upon them from their dark world, so they may succeed, and thus the lights of the suns of knowledge and meaning manifest, also the secrets of the Philosophy [al-Hikmah] of discriminants. For, this the secret of the exchange and the change, and the vision of our Lord the Sovereign, who appeared to us [in] the appearance of Truth, cast light upon Him His Sun. By no other means is it possible for those hearts, eyes and visions be a venue for the apparition of the Essences of Identity.

And we repeat to you the news, the day when the earth is exchanged [by] another earth, and this ex-change is by the Compassion and the Elevation of the Breeze of Goodness of the Sovereign over Existence, so behold the condition of this earth apparent: has thus changed, if only those people, Abu Isaac, in the secrets of the Apparition ponder, and from its Source they drink.

Do ask him, O you student, he might spread for you a self-guarded land in your heart, and sprout in it new essences, and marvelous roses by His Ingenuity, and self-guarded trees, in luminous chests. Then, return the vision, Abu Isaac, two rounds, and look our Lord the Sovereign, how He folded by His Right Hand of Capability: the heavens of religions which were atop before the Manifestation, and the Heavens of Apparition and Clarity have arisen by His Aim, and self-decorated by the Sun and the Moon and the Stars, from His Marvelous Commands descending. These are the secrets of the letters and the words [which] have been revealed and appeared without a veil for the wielder of vision.

Tell, tell, tell O Abu Isaac, may they comprehend the morning of meanings, so the lanterns of suspicions and illusions are put out, by the Power of reliance and severance [of physical attachments] after faith, and are set alight in the niches of their hearts and chests: the lamps of knowledge and certainty, and thence you [all] are in a new creation.

Then make them hear, Abu Isaac, the news of him to whom his Lord gave the verses and the clarifications, after he asked for them, so when it came to him he exuviated them like a snake exuviates its skin, and followed his passions, and he was hence a deluder. And had he believed and attained Union, and did good, his Lord the Sovereign the Fidelity would have raised him by it, but He sentenced him to the earth eternally. The model of this is like the model of a dog, if you load it, it pants, or you leave it, it pants. Do narrate to them the narration, O Abu Isaac, may they reflect. And has let loose, our Lord, in the inferno of repudiation, many of the likes of those, and made for them hearts which grasp not the Truth, and eyes by which they vison not the pointers, the markers and the miracles of our Lord the Sovereign the Fidelity, and they do not foresee by consideration, and ears by which they hear not the verses and the sermons, for management and consultation. Those were created, and with them were their likes, they are like the cattle, they comprehend none and vision none and hear none, nay the cattle are better, for, they accept not harm and run away from it, and follow what benefits them.

And we shall relay to you, Abu Isaac, the remainder of our Lord’s Compassion, Glorious is His Will, and we’ll complete the foundations of Union, and you shall see a veil between the two tracts, from Abdu’laziz al-Qadi, and I shall raise the narration high [to base comprehension], and shall follow it up, and I say, speaking about the Possessor of Verity, our Lord:

[The mentioned person must’ve been known to Abu Isaac, and must’ve been delivering to him false beliefs and false practices while claiming knowledge and piety. The “tract” or distant between pagan beliefs and faith becomes recognisable to people of faith and Union, when the two communicate with each other, but to the followers of pagan beliefs: whatever truth is said: is either incomprehensible because it doesn’t conform with a certain tradition of verbosity and expressions, or translates immediately to acts of ritual practices.

And as this Glorious Book is being read in English, the staunch believers in mainstream Druzism take it perhaps as heresy, that holy expressions, words and sounds are replaced by a foreign language. The measure of true faith and union to them is the correct use of certain expressions in Arabic, on top of being a tribal lineage.

Not unlike the incorrect understanding of the Qur’an, the Hikmah too is believed to be a set of concepts and expressions.

This letter to Abu Isaac tells how people have fallen down to a physical understanding of their Books and lost their way completely.]

Our Lord has made above us Seven Tough ones, He willed them as He destined and willed, not as a ruling for a purpose, but a destiny of His Will, hence was the Speaker, the Base and the Silent, and He raised them above one another in ranks, and for each one of those is a Sunrise, Light and Shine/Clarity, Bountiful is our Lord the Best of the Creators.

And thus our Lord surmounted the Seven Toughs with the G of the Mind, so a nation were bewildered by this Divine Effusion from the Wilder of Magnificence and Might, and they began reciting it as a worship and an inducement, while oblivious of its meaning, we have supplied [all the ] supply in their lives, like they were: our Lord appointed [rulers] for them, and our Lord wrongs not the people. and the apostates reckon that for that Effusion there is an exoteric and an esoteric [aim], they hence were lost and made [others] lose the Path of the Law, they reason not. Woe to those, they vision not by our Lord the Truth’s Eye, nay, by the eye of what they worship, bad is what they judge.

[The “esoteric” meaning of the Qur’an, and indeed the Hikmah, is often thought to be a secret behind its lines, known only to a high ranking few.]

And those who have darkened reckon that their Lord sends a messenger from the sky to them, inspiring to some of them verses, this is the dazzlement of them that went too far in their disbelief, and they followed it [their disbelief] with suspicion, that suspicion makes one not unneeding of the Law, they are the firewood of the hell of their hearts.

God our Lord knows where to put His Message, so He sends the wind/spirit glad tidings between the hand of His Compassion, so it sets off clouds, He drives them to a dead town, and thus He overflows by the forerunner the Sacred Power, purely represented, it connects with the Sunrise and this is something that the ones with egos which command [bewilderment] do not comprehend, and “the Possessor of the self and what straightens her, so He inspires to her her pestilence and her refuge”, and it is Him Who made in every sky seven stars, and it is Him Who made between the body and the soul a tract, and Adam was cooked sticky clay, so he was severed from the Wielders of Resolve and severed from Closeness, and returned as he once was.

And Compassion has forerun from our Lord, so He trailed them by Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, and we augmented them by Sam, Ismael, Joshua and his burden carrier Aaron, Simon and Ali, so by those was to exoteric, and by this testifies the forerunning forerunners, those are the close ones.

Say this, and let them in their commotion play, until comes a day, no trade is in it and no close friend, and they are brought to their Lord the Truth, you have come to us as we created you the first time, and a fence with a door is struck between them, its interior is compassion and its outside has suffering in front of it.

And we know that we have delivered to you a hefty say, and this is only that you may know, O Abu Isaac, that we do know what their egos whisper to them, but we want to lavish you and give you in-sight into what you didn’t know, and you have asked repeatedly, and we’ve come to you with what you want, and we were not to make them suffer until we clarify to them what they’ve been differing about.

And if those pondered a bit, and were honest, they could’ve seen the doors of meanings and explication wide open before their faces, in the East and the West, and they would’ve seen the sciences without a cover or a veil. And do know, that those and these states are but to recover their selves and to purify them, and emancipate them from the cages of ego and passion, and that our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Capability and High is His Wisdom, is All Self-Sufficient in His Identity above all humans’ and other things’ knowledge, and He is Dominant by His Existentialness, above His abiders, unneeding of all potentialities, a breeze of the Breeze of His Goodness makes every one in the world cry out of pride by the garment of wealth, ecstatic be the world by a drop of His Ocean of Good [that] bestows upon existence the honour of everlasting life.

Do warn your tribe and relatives O Abu Isaac, that your Lord has guaranteed for them who believed an everlasting life, for as long as the heavens and the earth are, in all their sunrises and sunsets, and you are not made guilty by the grudge of a people who are bewildered, and they followed their passion in their self-delusion, and they became the most argumentative people.

And how often have those ignorant ones demanded the perfection of their creation, forgetting the causes of their creation, and “I have not created humans and demons except to abide in me”. Lost are them who said we are to our Lord returning, and He will usher us into the paradise that He promised us, of what not an eye has seen, nor an ear has heard, and never crossed the heart of a human, and that eternal young boys will hover above us, with jugs and glasses, and a chalice of a pure drink from which we never have enough and never get distaste, and the flesh of birds of what we covet, and there are women with big beautiful eyes, like pearls in the shells. And we don’t want to repeat to you , O Abu Isaac, their say and what’s in their egos of this earthiness that has connected them with the umbilical chord of their Adamness, be killed those, how patient they are over the fire of their direction, and the inferno of their arrogance. That our Lord the Creator, the Dominant over His creation: has perfect the creation and completed the construction, and is He Content with them with whom He is to the endlessness of time, and immortalised He the creation, Lofty is God above the inadequacy of the inadequate ones, the liars, who followed what dictated to them the front men of their demons.

[I hope that the men of religions and high status of authority do read this and ponder it, to rethink their theories about the creation and how to set oneself free from it.

The status and events of today’s world have trashed all theories of religions and evolution. If the people of high authority haven’t noticed, they’d better take another look.

It is in their inadequacy that people are totally oblivious of the universal eventuation, but it does get more intense, they have then no choice but to panic.]

Say, who has informed you of God’s Knowledge, O you ignorant ones? and it is Him Who created mankind, taught it discrimination, and made flow the two humanities, and completed the universes [as] another creation, came He with the Sun from the East, and with the Moon and the Stars; not the sun is allowed to reach the moon, and nor the night overlaps the day, and all are in the orbits of Capability swimming, and He is uncompromising God the Sovereign, that His Light be completed, even if the repudiators hate it. They’ll find out those what was hidden to them in their returns, and they’ll experience suffering in their turnings, for as long as the heavens and the earth are, and it won’t vanish: our Lord’s Creation.

[The mention of the universes being another creation raises a major philosophic issue …

In the mainstream Creation theories, as well evolutionary science: there was the natural universe, then life emerged in it.

COB has been saying that the man is the universe and the universe is the man. And this is in summary what all the Books have been saying, and much so herein.

It would be hard to conceptualise this postulate, as it contradicts common sense, and suggests that man has full a priori knowledge of everything.

And this is only true. The purpose of all religions, and indeed Pantheist philosophies, and all the meditation practices of the Far East: is only to unveil this universal truth, for people to uncover the innate knowledge that they are.

Eons ago/away, in COB’s view, is that the Creation was manifested in what can be considered as planetary systems, and souls were resurrected in celestial entities, such as we perceive nowadays by our naked eyes and far reaching telescopes.

Our observing of those near and far reaches of the universe is only a kind of reminiscence. This is how “people” existed at one stage.]

As for those who have believed and our Lord has bestowed upon the wise and discerning selves, and they [their selves] have been purified by their direction, and emancipated, and hence have neglected passion, and abandoned lust: they are nourished by an effusion of sciences and knowledge, that have been dropped down to them by the Guides’ path to our Lord the Sovereign the Producer. If only you were amongst them, O Abu Isaac, so you succeed the greatest success, as you depart from this body, there is the purified world, the world of Spiritual Light, so you are happy in returning to your Home in which you were [before], so you have returned being content of, you and them who followed you of the people of Union, O you equanimous self, return to your Lord content in Contentment, enter in my abiders, enter in my Garden, for, this is the grand Up-rise, that our Lord the Truth has promised, if, by your Gabriel you are guided; and upon his path you set foot, this is eternal everlasting providence.

As for those who have an illness in their hearts, have been annexed and thrown into their hell: their selves, and will rest [in it] eternally, and every time they exit from it they are returned to it, and its guards receive them, there are the pains and the ongoing maladies, and every time their skins are done, we exchange them for other skins, so they experience the suffering, these are the days of their Toller and their Due, and he for whom our Lord has not made light: has no light.

And will come: your Lord’s Day, the day we stand on the Cobs/Tops as witnesses, O Abu Isaac, so, whoever supported us: we know them by the radiance of their faces, and the Union of their hearts, and whoever begrudged us: we know them by the blackness of their faces and the illnesses of their hearts. Are not equal, the people of darkness and repudiation, and the people of faith and Union; the people of faith and Union are the successors, they are the ones who feared the days, when hearts and visions turn back, so they strove and laboured, and made good on what they covenanted their Lord, the Sovereign the Producer, about; some of them lost their lives and some are awaiting, and they were not bastardised [any] bastardisation, they are of them whom our Lord has created, it is them who guide by the Law and by it they judge, the forerunners forerunning, those are the close ones, in the houses of their hearts Suns have risen, so our Lord has permitted that they [the houses] be erected, and that His Summum be therein mentioned.

What shall I recount to you of the tidings of our Lord’s Unseen? with those close ones, from whom our Lord has bought their selves, their families, their monies, by that for them is the Paradise in the Sunrises of their becoming, so they fight on the path of the Law, [that is] our Lord the Sovereign, the Wielder of Glory and Munificence, they kill and get killed, by this their selves are content, and they are cheerful about their trade that they’ve traded with Him, and this is the greatest success.

[Needless to say that the mentioned Killing is not meant to be that of a battle field. A lot has been explained in our English reading of the Qur’an. War has never been a purpose of life. If it has to be faced, it ought to be honourably. A god who demands constant military conquest is a pagan god that ought to be totally ignored.]

Go back Abu Isaac, and ask the people of remembrance [the people of the Books], they do know, but they believe not, be they dead the fabricators, so, do listen to that call, the call of the Gabriel of their minds. Or, do those who perpetrated ill deeds reckon that we make them like those who believed and did good? equal are their living and their dying, bad is what they judge, their shelter is the fire, every time they want an exit from it, they are returned to it.

And, has it come to you? the news of the two rivals who had a disagreement about their Lord the Sovereign, so, those who darkened, garments of fire were cut for them, was cast over their hears: magma, life is forbidden to them, they became in the fire of their uncertainty motionless. And those who believed and called to the Way of their Lord by the Philosophy and the good Counsel, and they strove on His Way by their selves and their monies, and so long as their alphas have reigned, their sides retreat from the beds, we have rescued them from worry, and thus we rescue the people of Union.

[The Qur’anic expression of “ما ملكت أيْمانهم” which has been interpreted by Islamic scholars to mean: whatever your right hands possessed: which opened the doors wide to legitimise obscenities, is paraphrased herein to point to the meaning that Islamic scholars, and indeed every Qur’anic interpreter whose aim was mainly to slander the Qur’an: could not see: despite its clarity.

In some verses of the Qur’an it meant: “your alphas won’t reign”, as is 4:3, and rarely in the sense: “what your right hands possess”, as in 4:25.

But in this text, it is: “so long as your alphas have reigned”, as in self guiding ego.

The word “ما" has multiple meanings and usages, as a pronoun and a preposition, hence the confusion.

But one would argue, so how are we meant to know the “right hand” can also mean “alpha” as in the soul from which all lives emerge, and this is a mythological concept that is not necessarily clear to the intellect.

The answer is that when the intent of reading the Books is pure, and when guidance is taken from the mind, not from the circumstantial wants and shuns of the ego: the intellect is guided innately to look for the true layer. And whether “right hand” is interpreted as soul or not, it becomes clear that it is symbolic of the guidance of mind over passion.]

It is a big fib, that comes out of the mouths of those who repudiated, when they said: we won’t come back to a new creation until the Day of the Due. Say, O Abu Isaac, begone you in your turnings, you say none but lies. Then look how they repudiate those and they have Gabriel who witnesses this, and a great sin is upon a country that we vanquished [by] that they do not return.

[The frequent to ask Gabriel, is saying that it is by the same human Gabriel in his different comings to the world that all your Books have been delivered.]

Until when Yagog and Magog are opened, and they from every hilltop perforate, and the promise of the Law has come, their visions are thence fixated, the visions of those who have darkened, woe to us we were oblivious to this, nay we were darkened. They have forgotten, those, this day, and it has befallen them while they are not feeling, and they are aggregated over the faces of their facing, until blindness has blinded them.

[The words Yagog and Magog, which featured also in the Qur’an, refer to the pairs of opposing powers of the world and the wars they wage against one another and everyone else …

We are now indeed living in the age of Yagog and Magog … whichever way we look. And as world events keep pointing them to put their grudges aside and cooperate for the sake of everyone’s survival: they cling ever stronger to their grudges, believing they can make a perfect world of their liking if they annihilated every enemy and everyone cooperating with them.

But little do they know, and as history demonstrates, that even if they had their wishes granted and all their enemies have succumbed to them: they soon split among themselves to make enemies of themselves, or they start stirring trouble everywhere they can, to make new ones.]

Have they not seen how has furnished them, our Lord the Sovereign: with life abundantly? Now justice has crystalised, and my lord and our Lord’s Promise has become, my Lord the Sovereign and your Lord, and folded He the Sky like a cover folds a book, like we began the first creation we iterate it, a promise due on us, that we are doers. So, if some responders believe to you, O Abu Isaac, write for/upon them their covenant, and that they make good on their testament. And if one of them re-turns to darkness and doesn’t turn his face before/to the Capable the Dominant, our Lord the Dominant, our Lord the Sovereign the Provident, will make our Lord for him dazzlement and leisure for a term, and say my Lord judge Thou by the Law between us, not by our invocation, Thou art the Aid over what they narrate, and delay them ponderously, and forecast a day when the sky becomes to them with a clear bad omen, blinding their eyes, this is sever suffering.

[Indeed, peoples of religions need a grain of intelligence to realise that god is not an agent for them, who supports them against whomever they hate. The invocations they all invoke against one another: would’ve been sufficient to destroy the entire humanity many times over: had those gods existed, and had they listened to those invocations.]

Cob 17

The Dawn Prayer

They ask you, those who disbelieved and the heathen, about the self; O Abu Isaac, and our Lord knows their selves, and what their chests conceal, inform them that for one of them to squeeze themselves through a needle’s hole, or to stack up the east upon the west, or to make their way out of the orbits of the skies and the earth: it is closer to them and more doable, than peaking at the innermostness of their selves. And if the sea were extended, extending it from behind it: seven seas, the sea would run out, before you could reach the innermostness of the self, even if we came with an extension like it.

Behold the eyes of their minds blinded, hence they lost the ways, hence suspicion cast a fence around their selves, and they were unable to demolish it. Can you make the deaf hear an invocation, or can you guide the blind out of their perplexity? leave them, and turn your face to our Lord, praying, invoking, calling to be salvaged, [while] scrunched up or sitting cross-legged, and will dawn: our Lord to us, from the Dawn prayer: a Source from which we won’t be thirsty ever after:

“My Lord, I face Thee with my Identity and my identities, honoured by standing between Thy Hands, no humiliation is to them who inhaled the scents of Thy Roses, the roses of Thy Garden that Thou descendedest from the heaven of sacred inspiration, so they spread, and they germinated of every brilliant pair, and the ears topped the stems, and Thou hast blessed them, a grain has germinated seven stems, in each stem are a hundred grains. Multiply Thou my Lord my honour, and daze me with the breeze of the Dawn, the dawn of the people of Union, the close one.

“By my honour in Thee [I swear], Thou my Lord, and by the prostration the farthest: [in] my heart’s Throne, which is Thine, if those [the people] were to experience a mote of the drops of the Amrita of the Source of Thy Nearness, they would be stunned of euphoria, before the Source of Nectar, so the breeze of the Dawn passes by those hearts, to enliven them of ecstasy, and reconstruct them as another creation, Bountiful art Thou my Lord, Creator, Iterator, Constructor.

“My Lord, deaden Thou me in the Sources of Nectar of Thy Nearness, then enliven me by this breeze, the breeze of the Dawn of the night of arrival.

“My Lord, by my honour [I swear] of my nearness to Thee, I don’t call Thee to be rescued from the manifestation of Thy Light in the front of my heart, rather, that Thou lavishest and expandest this heart, for it to expand to Thy Throne and that Thou blessest those houses in which Thou permittedest that they be erected, and that Thy Summum in them be remembered, before the nights of Duality and Unity, and the mornings of the ten nights of that Dawn.

“My Lord, how happy is my heart when it calls Thee O my Lord, for, it is ever longing, not of farness, but the memories of what is between the two Constructions [or "creations. Memories of pre-creation] frequently return to it. And those mountains, they sway and call Thee, how honoured is the creation upon the call. This heart, O my Lord, ceases not to remember the Summum of the Loved One, it finds in each Summum a secret of Thine, how Grand is Thy Constitution.

“My Lord, debar Thou me from the good upon which evil grows, who of a salvager and a rescuer from the dazzlement of the low word, and its flowery spring and its ornament do I have? that of what blossoms in spring kills of illness, or is gathered [rubbish], except the eaters of Green, leave Thou me not with those, so I join them, the possessors of providence in Thy Holy Immanence, so Thou makest for me a road to those Elements. My Lord, that the eaters of the Green, those, have eaten the Manna and the Honey, so that when their stomachs are extended, they receive the eye of the Sun, in its oscillations and its reckonings, so they deliver what’s inside them, and they have accumulated and given out their inside’s content, then they returned, then they retreated in Thy Providence and Elements, and there it is in their inside green and sweet, returning it to the inquisitor and the deprived, and the homeless and the ones on the Way.

“My Lord, I resort to Thee from taking money unjustly, and from eating gluttonously. How noble I am my Lord by the power of the knower of Thy Aim, as Thou straightenedest me, and inspiredest to me, so how happy I am by this Spirit, Bountiful art Thou, Creator, Aimer, Constructor.

“My Lord, since the Dawn of the day of Essence, quaff that drink, from the Chalice which is filled from the pressers of the Source of Amrita, has cried out this heart: my good news: has melted my body, and my mind cries out: how happy I am, has honoured me my Lord by the pressers of the Nectars of Spirit. My Lord, I have been stripped from my forces before the podium of supplications, the supplications of my soul in the slumber of its darkness, dawning upon souls which have long been thirsty for that Essence, and were stray, since they were dropped from the dwellings of those stars, until they settled behind the perimeters of the clouds.

“My Lord, since Thy Melodies have called this soul, she is incessantly remembering her Joseph at every Dawn Prayer, so the visions of the miracles of the other Descent glimmer to her, when the souls were absorbed by the orotund voices of those psalms.

“My Lord, how Grand is thy Constitution, by farness Thou hast neared me, by death Thou hast enlivened me, transcendest Thou, my Lord the Sovereign the Liberator, bringest Thou the living from the dead and bringest Thou the dead from the living. Sparks thrust from a Source within her, named Amrita, behold, the Fire of Capability quenching the thirst of them who want it.

“My Lord, how happy this heart is when it recalls the memory of that Dawn, when its birds sang the holy melodies, so they cheered from atop the positioned pedestals, and the cushioned seats, they thus transcended in God the Sovereign the Lord, to the swaying of those pure inspirations and melodies.

“My Lord, how miserable are they who haven’t heard this swaying, and haven’t faced those inspirations, and haven’t listened to those melodies; they hence have been humiliated, and the honour is the believers’, the people of Union, who will inherit this and the other and every one on it, and in our Lord is more to come.

“I trust in Thee my Lord and never have been a disbeliever, and I distrust their lords and never have been [of them] a believer, transcends He Who constructed me a believer and a disbeliever, no one is Capable except Thee.

“My Lord, how mellow is this essence that Thou allowest me to quaff, is there more after the satisfaction? the honoured one by Thee is [ever] thirsty for that Manifestation. My Lord, I can hear the strikes on the wall, as it’s set for demolishment, demolish Thou, and by the prayer of the Dawn humiliated are a people diverted, and by Thee are honoured the faithful.

“My Lord, every time I supplicate to Thee in the Dawn Prayer, I feel close to Thee, from me, from Thy Identity, the Identity of Manifestation. But, my Lord, every time I’ve come closer, longing increases in me, so I go over looking again for that concealed Core. Ah … my Lord, in the deep bends of this soul, and in her brighter and highest imaginations: I glance my bright luminous lamp. From where has it got this light? Is it fueled by a spark of fire? or is it the everlasting rising infatuation. My Lord, I am astonished by this meagre waning body, alive dead in this Enlightenment.

“Ah … my Lord, increase Thou for me, how happy this heart is in its love of those who love Thee, and it is at home with them who yearn for Thy Countenance, and becomes attached to Thy Love.

“My Lord, only those for whom Thou uncoveredest the covers: love Thee this love; their visions have hence made their visions vision, they thus have known in Thee all the Beauty and the Radiance, so they travelled, O my Lord, with the convoy of Thy Lovers, the road to longing, conscience, capability and destination, O Thou, Possessor of Destination and Radiance, and so from the beginning O my Lord. That everyone who has left their life and its leisure, and dedicated it to Thee sincerely: has succeeded in Thy Contentment and has proceeded, and everyone who has proceeded to this Town, striving to be content in Thy Contentment, has been honoured by Thee, my Lord, and has reigned.

“My Lord, how Great Thy Compassion is, and how Aloof is Thy Constitution. That those children, Thy Lovers, in their innocence, mercify Thou them when they grow up and their powers have strengthened, and those elderly are lovers of Thine, as long as it is to Thee their supplications and in Thee their refuge. My Lord, how many of Thy Creation have had their selves purified in Thee, and sublimated to dissolve in Thy Love, Thou art their Lord. Those are some of Thy lovers, and others are nations in their low world and its heavens, Thou knowest them, and Thou, O my Lord knowest which of us is closest to Thee. My Lord, transcendest Thou, Thou art the Sovereign the Liberator, how hast Thou selected Thy Lovers? And madest Thou for them light that advances between their hands, and about their omegas/left hands, and by their alphas/right hands, for them from Thee are the glad tidings and the radiance and the comeback, and much more. My Lord, they are not saddened when they are deprived from the leisure of the low life, for, they are in eternal providence of Thy Contentment that is much bigger. My Lord, and which providence in our low world equals what we have in our hearts of love that grows and is guided by? My Lord, how happy those hearts are at the dawn of the Manifestations of Thy Beauty’s Light upon them, thus their paths are lit, so they may not be lost ever. My Lord, that the entire of Thy Creation, and the knowledgeable ones in its beauty: are all eclipsed in the ears and the vision of them who have known Thy beauty. My Lord, Thy Beauty is permanent in the soul and this heart, as for the beauty of what Thou hast created, it is disintegrating, and it is pleasure that terminates and can’t be guided by. Protect Thou those hearts, our Lord, between Thy Fingers, for, they are ever calling Thee, not of remoteness, but rather for the love of the call.

“My Lord, now, and at every moment, I profess not that I attained by my prayers the Doorsteps of Thy Holiness, or that I have mastered my duties of Thy Obedience, and I profess not that I have fulfilled some of what is due on me of adherence and perfection to abidance in Thee. This prayer of mine, in it are my supplications, and it is the reflection of what’s in my self and in my thoughts, and Thou, my Lord, knowest what is intended of it, and what I beg from Thee in my supplications. My Lord, that prayer of this dawn is the connection of a lover’s hope to Thee, and it is the truth of what is imprinted on my heart and my beliefs. If I have my Lord, a faithful intent, accept Thou my faithfulness and remove by it my obstacles; and if I have not accomplished its expressions, Thou, my Lord, hast created this heart and those words, Thou art Best Knower of what lies within them. And if in it there’s what contents Thee, my Lord, accept Thou it, or else, I am wanting and loving Thy Compassion, O Thou Creator of Words, I trust in Thee my Lord the Sovereign the Producer”.

Do ponder this prayer, Abu Isaac, and examine its announcements, facing our Lord the Sovereign the Creator, and pray to Him at the conclusion of every dawn, so it may pass by you: the aroma of the Breeze of Knowledge, sent from the Country [“مصر" is not meant to be Egypt in this Book] of Compassion, and the Sprit reaches by the Goodness of the Lover’s Clarification: to the Garden of Certainty; for, the dormant ones and the denouncers among those people have been maddened by their low world and have ignored the causes of their creation and the howness [from how] of their returns in the horizons, so that they have not comprehended the meanings of those prayers and announcements, arriving [to them] and connecting [them], far reaching and complete.

[And indeed, all pious people of religions ought to ponder it, perhaps they realise the true purpose of praying, in the “farthest prostration” - literally “the al-Aqsa mosque”, an expression used in this prayer to point to its true meaning - of one’s own heart …

But pious people of religions are still worshipping their gods of their own concepts, places and people …

They write very eloquently about their piety and their love to their god, their prayers are specific words and expressions, their god is upset if they used different ones …

Their piety is not solving any of their problems, is not expanding their minds, is not removing barriers between them, but indeed doing the opposite …]

Cob 18

The Manifestation of The Sun of Truth

And The Chant of The Eternal Dove

Tell, tell, tell, Abu Isaac, and our Lord the Sovereign the Liberator witnesses that I have told, and warn your clan, and those around you, and write, and inform all the towns, and let your telling reach every home, and let every ear hear it, and warn them in the day and in the night. Tell, and say to them a nice say, may they remember, or fear, and call to the Way of our Lord the Sovereign the Creator, the Liberator by the Philosophy [al-Hikmah] and the good counsel, and debate them about what’s between their hands [of Books] and what’s behind them [of Books], and by the better one [word], for, it is the Word that is the eye of their minds.

Had they believed, He would’ve opened the Door of the heaven of meanings, our Lord, and they would’ve known those roads, the roads of the Pen, the Throne, the Primary, the Determination, and the high and low Helium, then the Sun, until they reach by their faith to this Unity, and that is the Two Origins.

[Hudood, or Dimensions of Existence, have featured in a number of different vocabularies in this Book as well as the Qur’an. And often people read the Summa and never notice them, and indeed they see, hear or sense their natural exhibits or essential reaches and never notice them. As once said on this Page: it is a purpose of existence: to know them. Because once known: doors to Union are opened.

The expression “the Union that is the two Origins” is stating the Unity that is in the Duality, at whichever level this is taken.]

And there, Abu Isaac, is that Union, for, there is the Tablet and the King and the Successor and the Determination, and the Image, and how do you know what is the Image, that, whose lights have been turned off but it remained, so, do those [people] know, O Abu Isaac, about your Lord’s Creation the Sovereign, and have they secured [themselves] from His suffering? say to them, that He Who lifted what you drink, then piled it up [in the sky], then sent in the wind, so it [the water] returned to you from the identity of returning, measuredly, so hence you are by it living, is indeed Capable to exchange people like you, indeed you reason not.

That He who bequeathed this to you, you walk on its surface safely, you eat from it whatever you covet, and made He for you in it: bounties, and constructed He by your hands [many] likes of it, and made He for you from it many benefits, indeed is He Capable of sending from His Softness another people, He loves them and they love Him, humble before the people of Union of faith in our Lord the Sovereign the Liberator, proud before every cruel and darkened one, to fight you, you and those below you who have darkened, thus He makes you suffer at their hands, then to your Lord the Sovereign is your return so you experience what you’ve earned, you falsers.

Say to them, O you bewildered people, every time your Lord descends a Paragon to you and thus showed you it, you forgot [everything] except what your selves covet, you are hence, of it, in a confusing doubt. Then here you are demanding what we descended upon your fathers before, so you read it and your selves are in certainty of it, and we’ve burst it above you like we burst the Mount over the people of Moses, and they were an aberrant people.

And we said to you before, behold this repast and provide yourselves from it, for, the best provision is the refuge. And here we are lavishing you, as the early ones foretold you, may your bodies relive, after their death, by the light of the Sun of Truth, by the Excellence of the Clear One the Sovereign the Liberator, so you may earn the selves of the possessors of the armours and the thrones. And do hasten to a road from your Lord the Sovereign to drink from the imperishable cups, so long as life lasts, because the breeze of that Spirit, coming from the Country of the Loved One lasts not forever gusting, and the rivers of clarification remain not forever flowing, and the doors of contentment remain not open permanently, and there will come a day, on it: flies off its branches: the Psalmist of Paradise from the garden of Jerusalem to the Godly Settlement, thereafter you hear no melodies from those birds and you see not the beauty of the roses.

But, as long as the Eternal dove is singing of euphoria, and the Spring of Sovereignty in Forwardness of Gladness and Inclusion: you ought to hasten to sip the ginger of Wisdom from the Chalice of the Source of Nectar, so your hearts’ ears may not be deprived from listening to that echo, and may your hearts be healed by the breeze of the aromas of that tree.

If those [people] embrace faith to you, write the Covenant upon them, and let two of the people of Union, the forefront the close ones, known for justice: witness, and that it [the Covenant] be recited to them melodically.

And do remind those who renounced [faith] after they heard about the Providence of God the Sovereign onto the people of Cyrus and the dwellers of the Caucasus and the Spartans and the clan of the Russians, before this descent in your homes, when came those out of their homes, by their thousands, cautious of death. So, said to them God: die you, then He enlivened them, that God is of elevation over the people, but most people appreciate not.

[The mentioned civilisations were during what is generally called “Bronze Age”. Alternative archeological research suggests that they perhaps still had the knowledge that pre-ancient civilisations had, which enabled them to build similar structures to pre-ancient ones, or to extend them with their own. The presence of elongated skulls in the Caucasus, similar to those found in South America, and DNA testing by alternative researchers suggesting that “migrations” took place from the Caucasus to South America, suggests that there’s a huge vacuum in our academically based knowledge of history. This passage of this Book is turning our attention to such facts.]

That whoever does good in this one, multiplies his Lord for them may multiples in their turnings in the horizons, and God wastes not the reward of the radiant ones, then to Him you are returned. Haven’t we told you, Abu Isaac, that those who believed: radiance from us is foremost to them, and as for those who declined, our Lord knows of what’s in their hearts, but darkened people are the most argumentative of the people.

And if it wasn’t for your Lord’s seeing of your countenance’s turnings to Him, so he gave you for them one verse after another that content you, and now if their decline dismays you: take a tunnel in the earth, or a ladder to the sky, and how can you. If our Lord the Sovereign willed to muster their hearts on guidance, he would’ve done it, but they are blinded from following the Law, that those who respond are them who heed and reason, and the dead: our lord remits them deaf and dumb in darkness.

[The expression “blinded from following the Law” sounds to implicitly command “following the Law” …

Surah 47 in the Qur’an is the only one in which this expression has featured (47:3), and COB has argued that the commandment of “following the Law” is not Tawheedic, and that for this and other reasons cited in COB’s English reading of that Surah, the authenticity of that Surah is questionable.

An expression can be said not to be Tawheedic if the essence it conveys is solely natural,

So, although it may be commanding a good command in the circumstances of it being said, the fact that its scope of application is limited to natural existence: it fails to point to Union.

The Qur’anic verse, however, followed by a verse stating explicit combat actions and war strategy, upon which Islamic interpreters have based pretty much all their calls to war, even between Muslims themselves: makes it clear that the intended commandment is not Tawheedic, and the complete absence of an esoteric layer to both verses 3 and 4 affirms this premise.

Hence, the dichotomy of the Qur’anic verse confirms our doubt in it, while the absence of it in this text points to a Tawheedic essence.]

And how many a caller called nations before them, O Abu Isaac, so who believed were those who believed, and was due, your Lord the Sovereign’s Word upon them who wronged the people, took He them by misfortune and hardship, they did not supplicate, and their hearts hardened, and they decorated for one another what they were doing. We defer them who repudiated until they forget what they were reminded of, our Lord the Sovereign opens up for them the doors of every apparent and hidden goodness, so they rejoice by what they’ve earned and are maddened by it, befalls them the suffering unexpectedly, while they are perplexed.

Your [own] brothers have taken [away] your hearing and visions, and have sealed your hearts so you may not reason, hence, who have you below God the Sovereign your Lord, to bring back hearing, vision and hearts, to what do you fake O you arrogant ones? and do you remember, O Abu Isaac, how they broke off you those who repudiated in the farthest prostration? so our Lord’s servant, at the conclusion of the Great Descent cast suffering upon them unexpectedly and conspicuously, so, quashed He the people darkened.

[Although this can be taken as a hint to early Islamic history, when Arabs were being told not to prostrate to the Cube, where pagan rituals were being practised, and that Abu Isaac was an incarnation of Omar, who built what is known today as al-Aqsa mosque, in order to divert the attention from the Cube to that Mount …: at the present only the esoteric level of those events is relevant, and the “farthest” prostration should be taken to mean the one that takes place in one’s own heart, very far to bewildered people, closer to their own selves to the people of faith and Union.

The word that we translated to “servant” is “وليّ" in lowercase letters, as it points to the people that the people take as “أولياء" (servants) below God, going by Qur'anic nomenclature.]

And knows He, Abu Isaac, that they listen to your say, and they are deaf, and they look you and the truth and they can’t see, so, don’t let your self lament them, and we have said to you before that they are a people who discern not.

And if our Lord the Sovereign had not written on His Self: Compassion, He would’ve hastened the suffering for them coming to them from every side, but He delays them, thus it surrounds them, those who don’t believe: their darkness, and that evil tree has not born except the fruit of repudiation and darkness, and our Lord is the Dominant over His Creation, so what is it about those who don’t reason?

Have they not pondered, those who repudiated their Lord God’s Capability, how He enlivens the breeze of their selves after their death? nay, they are people who discern no knowledge and do not vision. Say, He Who blew in you the breeze, rounded He it over you the day and the night, and made He it by the sun: life for you and for what you eat; had He willed, He would’ve left it in you dead, and would’ve determined death upon you, and come with another people, and the earth would’ve been exchanged with another earth, so where do you go, you falsers?

They wish, those who have their fathers’ illness in their hearts, they could deceive God, the One the Oneness, the Spread Manifestation, the Ubiquitous, Sublime above pairs and numerousness, He Who passes not by minds and illusions: and the faithful and the people of Union, and He is Deceiver of them, and they deceive none but their [own] eyes, and they do know.

[The word that we translated to “Spread” is “فرد", which in other instances points to “singularity”.

The essence in this instance is not singularity, as the wording would suggest a particular image or person, and that is far from being the aim of it. Hence the essence of “spread” is tawheedic in this instance, and is followed by expressions of tawheed.]

Say to the faithful, the premiers, the people of Union, the forbearing: it has closed in: the closing one; no remover of it below our Lord is for its befalling, let no apprehension take you in its tumult, or fear in its swells. And there is the ship, our Lord’s Ship, sailing across waves like mountains, until it settled on the Joodyy. And it is said, away with every low cast swearer, winker, goer by peaching, preventer of good, aggressor, sinner, savage, and after that a pretender; will smack him our Lord on the snout, as He smacked the many before him.

[I can assure Islamic as well as Biblical scholars, that al-Joodyy is not a mountain in Turkey. The faked archeological discoveries will not sway the heavens to the side of their religions and institutes …

In the Qur’an and before it in the Torah, the name Joodyy points to a Mountain that can be visioned, and has no physical existence. If it projects its essence onto the earth, it can happen on any “mountain”, not a particular one …]

Cob 19

The Testament and The Covenant

O you who believe and have achieved Union, guard yourselves and your tribes [from] a fire: you hear its inhalation and exhalation in all your cycles. And herein are the Testament and the Covenant by which you bind yourselves, for them to be for you and upon you, the Day you are brought forward, witness and sacrifice, and in this one [the low world]: a bringer of glad tidings and a warner.

The Testament

I trust in God, my Lord the Sovereign the Loftiest the Highest, the Lord of the two Sunrises and the two Sunsets, the God of the two Origins and the two Branches, the Constructor of the Speaker and the Base, the Exhibiter of the complete Image by His Light, He Who surmounted the Throne, and is in the Highest Horizon, then neared He and dangled; and I trust in Him, the Lord of the return, and to Him is the here and the hereafter, and is He the Exoteric and the Esoteric; and I trust in the Wielders of Resolve the Messengers, the Possessors of the Daybreaks of the Holy Manifestation around it [the Complete Image or Horizon], and in the Eight Carriers of the Throne and in all the Dimensions; and I trust by deed and commitment every commandment or prohibition descending from our Lord the Sovereign, and I have surrendered my self and my Identity and my identities, outwardly and inwardly, by knowledge and action, and that I strive on the Way of our Lord, covertly and overtly, by my self , my money and my offspring, and what my hands possess, by speech and by deed, and I have taken as witness to this accedence all that He created in my daybreaks and died in my day ends, and [I have] committed and obliged this upon my self and my soul in my sound mind and conviction, and that I admit to this uncoerced or dishonest; and I take my Lord the Truth the Sovereign as Witness, He Who is God in the Heaven and God on Earth, and I take as witness: my Master, the Guide to the responsive ones, the Reprimander to the affixers and the apostates: Hamzah the son of Ali the son of Ahmad, by whom the Eternal Sun has arisen, and [by whom] it spoke, and to him are the clouds of Abundance: that I have disbanded myself from and left all religions, sects, dialectics and beliefs, the old and the new, and I trust what our Lord the Sovereign has commanded, He, to the abidance in Whom I affix no one, in all my cycles. And I repeat and say: that I surrender my soul and my body, and what my hands possess, and my children, to our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Mention, and I have accepted all His Rulings, [whether] for me or upon me, unobjecting and not denying anything of it, whether this pleases me or dismays me. And if I revert or try to revert from the Religion/Redemption of our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Mention, that I have written now and had my soul and self witness it, or [if] I indicate to returning to [someone] other than me, or [if] I repudiate or transgress a commandment or a prohibition of my Lord the Sovereign’s Commandments, Glorified is His Mention, and [returning to] the farness of Hehe [a nickname of Satan], [then] my Lord the Sovereign is Free from me, and I am deprived my lifetime from all the Dimensions, and becomes due upon me: the punishment in all my cycles, from the Liberator of the souls, Glorified is His Remembrance; and upon this I have Thee my Lord and my Master: Witness, Thou, in Whose Hand is this covenant, and I accede that Thou art the Sovereign the Divine the True, the Abode and the Aim/Imam the Existent, Glorified is Thy Mention, so make Thou me of the people of Union the winners, whom Thou placedest in the highest Heights, a few of the early ones, and a handful of the late ones, my Lord if Thou willest, amen.

[So, this is the Testament to Union, for those who are willing, not obliged or coerced, not wanting good luck in the world or paradise in the hereafter,

For those who have despaired from the futileness of religions and ideologies of all persuasions and colours, and freed themselves from grudge and self-selection,

No one can stop you from taking it,

Nothing can stop you from taking it,

And if sincere, the traffic lights will signal,

This doesn’t mean that the road is now smooth and easy,

But you are joyful in treading it,

And how many in the past took it, without actually learning those exact words,

They just had them in their hearts and minds,

And the entire Universe and the Heavens heard them,

No one stopped them from saying them,

Nothing could stop them from saying them,

As it is repeatedly said in this very Book, and indeed in the Qur’an which preceded it: that people are created only to abide …

The Door to the Abode is never closed, and the Call to enter it is never muted,

No human can close it or silence it,

Not by political decisions, nor by a desire to be its exclusive usher,

If you haven't taken it in a past time, you will be awed by it ...

And if you have taken it in a past time, you will be even more awed by it ...]

The Covenant

This is the Covenant and the Testament that our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Remembrance, commanded writing upon all the people of Union who believed in Him, Glorified is His Mention. And that they make good on their Testament that they covenanted, O Abu Isaac, then that witness to this: two people of justice from the people of Union, the forerunners, over every covenant.

And whoever reverts of them who have believed to darkness, and does not turn their head towards the Capable the Almighty, our Lord the Sovereign the Producer, will make for them our Lord dazzlement and leisure for a term.

And this is what they write and witness, the two witnesses, possessors of justice, by the tongue of the individual and his/her assertion, and here it is:

I rely upon our Lord the Sovereign the Oneness, the Spread, the Ubiquitous, Sublime is He above pairs and numbers, He Who is not taken by unconsciousness or slumber, Wielder of Manifestation and Daybreak, and He Who is God in the heaven and God on Earth, and has acknowledged “name son of name”, an acknowledgement that he obligated upon himself, and has made witness it: his soul in all his cycles, while in sound mind and body, and his sincere aim, complying not under duress or coersion, in his demeanor and his intent, believing and not pretending or deceiving, that he has revoked all religions and sects and dialectics and beliefs, all of them, in their unaccordances and differences, and that he affixes to abiding in our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Mention: no one, past or present or forthcoming, and that he has surrendered his soul, body, money, children and all that his hands possess in all his cycles, for as long as the two news (day and night) flow, and the two peoples (darkened and radiant) go, and for so long as the night is rounded over the day and the day is rounded over the night, he and his descendants, in their many cycles and lives, to our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Mention, and has contented himself by all His Rulings, for him or upon him, unobjecting or denouncing any of his deeds, whether this dismays him or pleases him. And if he reverts from the Religion/Redemption of our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Mention, and this is what he has written upon himself, and had us witness it upon his soul, or [if] he indicated to revert from it to another [person], or [if] he violated any of its [the Religion’s] commandments, he thus, “name son of name” becomes stripped from all the Dimensions and our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Remembrance, is Free from him, and the believers and the people of Union [also] in all their cycles, and he thus deserves the punishment from the Liberator the Lofty, Glorified is His Mention, at the hands of the believers; and that “name son of name” has acknowledged that there is no god in the sky for worship and no imam in the earth existent, except our Lord the Sovereign Glorified is His Mention, and high are his Rises and Daybreaks; thus “name son of name” is admitted and becomes of the people of Union the faithful the successors, the forerunners. Was written this in the month of “month” of the year “year’ of the years of the abider in our Lord and His Servant Hamzah the son of Ali the son of Ahmad, the guide to the responders, the reprimander to the affixers and the apostates, by our Lord’s Sword, Glorified is His Remembrance, and by the Firmness of His only Authority.

[COB finds that the Testament is between one and one’s Creator, that no mundane authority is in charge of policing or enforcing,

Whereas the Covenant is a statement of allegiance to a group of people, and this is why the two witnesses are required,

At the time when there were no registries of births and deaths of populations, such covenants were not uncommon,

With their high standards of self-conduct and social traditions and manners, the Druze have built an iron curtain around themselves, to protect themselves from the corruption of other sects and religions,

The strategy has worked very well for them, and in principle there’s nothing wrong with it. But as modern life led them to mingle with other communities, they had to either lower their standards, or pretend something they are not …

That’s not to mention having to hide their belief in reincarnation, which was incomprehensible to other Abrahamic religions, and still broadly is …

This has been an issue for them that their clergy were unable to resolve …

In COB’s opinion, that is because the essences of their codes of conduct, and faith in their minds as their only guide … were fading …,

And because the reality of reincarnation is in all the Books, but their clergy weren’t able to understand those Books, driven by the belief that the Hikmah has overridden them,

They thus became captives of the literality of the Testament and the Covenant, and their books of shariah – that’s the only word that I can find to express it -, written by their highly esteemed clergy and imams, like many other religions before them and alongside them …

And now as they read this, they think they are too good to take advice from anyone. Because in their interpretation of their Testament and Covenant, they see that as violation of them …

But like all conservative religions: perhaps with the exception of communities around the world which truly observed self-isolation: the Druze have happily used many of the modern world’s innovations, technologies and indeed ideologies …

So, what would one do? would one embrace the modern world, in the belief that it doesn’t clash with spiritual beliefs? or would one try to adapt to the modern world within the guidelines of one’s spiritual belief, at their own pace and convenience?

The small country of Bhutan has taken the second option very successfully, until recently, when modernisation seemed to have gone a bit too far too quickly … causing cracks in their once perfect social coherence …

The Druze clergy, who were meant to guide their communities, don’t seem to be aware of this dilemma at all …

If they are, and are keeping it secret, they obviously don’t have any good advice to give to their communities …

This is not an easy issue, and there is no standard solution to it. Time will always subject people to the toughest of tests,

Impermanence will always prevail as a natural law, regardless of success or failure …

The Testament of the faithful and the people on the Way to Union, whether Druze or other, all around the world: is the only Spirit that erodes not in time and circumstances … ]
 

Cob 20

The Prayer of Thankfulness and Homage upon Faith

And has obliged us our Lord, Glorified is His Remembrance, with the prayer of thankfulness and homage upon faith, that He descended upon the heart of every returner and enterer in his Lord’s Redemption, Glorified is His Mention. And that every born faithful of the people of Union recite it facing towards their lord, Glorified is His Mention, by it at the evening and at the sunset of every prayer or an error.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, the Homage and the thanks are Thine, [as Thou] hast constructed me, looking Thee, so I see Thee in my heart, and in everywhere, and [that] Thou hast not made me of those who look Thee and vision not. They have been blinded: those who do not see their existence: a string of light of a spark of guidance of the Light that is Thy Existence, hence they‘ve travelled in darkness upon darkness, while they look.

“Transcendest Thou, Possessor of the Helium, and in their selves, but they vision not.

God, and of Thy Elements is reflection and meditation, that Thou madest as a means for happiness for those selves and their settlement, so, have wandered those souls in the oases of the gardens of eternity, so have bent: the branches of their vicine hearts’, and have chanted the birds of their Union in their nectar, they are in euphoria from which they are yet to awake.

“My God, transcendest Thou, and the Homage and the thanks are to Thee, as Thou hast satisfied me by the Equanimity that Thou hast descended onto my heart, after that it saw the Primary Truth of life, and that is Thy Existence that is Thee, O Soul of my soul, my Beginner at the Dawn, when Thou createdest me, my Guru, my Love. Woe to them who have not arrived at the Tree of Knowledge, they circulated around their suspicions, and have not been guided to the way of consolation for their tormented selves’ comfort, and have not faced Thy Light which endows every sick heart with comfort, if it is guided to the Way of Philosophy that they have long sought, then the Pleasure and Calmness and Equanimity for every lost one, eager to the Court of the Old House.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, have wandered those selves, searching, then they were content in Thy Existence, but they have admitted to their inadequacy in comprehending the innermostness of this Acknowledger of Existence the Causer of Existence.

“My Lord the Sovereign the Producer, I trust in Thee and I turn my face to Thee, sheltering, seeking forgiveness and taking refuge in Thee, O Thou Who hast become Apparent and Manifest, and dawnedest in Dawns that Thou determinest and knowest. I trust in Thee by this Dawn, Thou, no god but Thee only, no ruler except Thee, O Thou, Possessor of the Book of the Solitary in Thy Identity, Thou Whose Existence in Conspicuousness: a Proof to whomever looked, then declined and took a far side, and a return and providence to whomever saw, they thus acknowledged and gravitated to Thy Holy Doorsteps, around the Gardens of Thy Sanctuary.

“My Lord the Sovereign, transcedest Thou, in Thy Manifestations of Thine, Thou hast appeared to us, and we saw Thee by our eyes and hearts and thoughts, and we turned to Thee and spoke to Thee and our moods found comfort in Thee. And when Thou uncoverdest the covers of our visions, I have come to Thee, resorting to Thee from deluding my self about comprehending Thy Identity in the Displays at the Tor of Thy Light, so, I didn’t see Thee and I didn’t witness Thee in a thing or from a thing or on top of something. And the Truth by which I knew Thee and saw Thee, my Lord, is in Truth unlike anything in the earth or in the sky, nay, transcendest Thou, now, I know Thee and I see Thee in the earth and in the sky, Bountiful art Thou, Possessor of Summa and Manifestations.

“My Lord the Sovereign the Provider, I’ve known Thee within this self, which has for long searched for Thee, Thou art her Guru, so, she saw Thee in her self, and has known Thee, my Loved One, from her Self. My God, I am the believer in Thee, the acknowledger of Thy Suns and Rises, the admitter of the one who absorbs [the Self, that is] and the one who is hailer to the people of Union, the seekers of the Shade, the returners, Thy Sword the Descender upon the necks of the affixers and apostates, Hamzah the son of Ali, the Guide to the responders, possessor of the Guarded Tablet in his oscillations, and by whom Thou lavishedest us by dropping, by him onto us, this Luminous Book, from the Heaven of Thy Will, titled The Solitary in His Identity.

“O Thou, Solitary in Thy Identity, Sublime above adjectives, I resort to Thee that [no] transgression happens by me, so Thou ostracisest [not] me from Thy Sacred Doorsteps around it [the Whole Circular Horizon], of the Holy Incumbencies, after that Thou guidedest me. And this identity resorts to Thy Identity from the eventuation of aims, and seeks a sip from the Possessor of the Eye of Dimensions, and the Road through the fecund Fecundation. How happy, our Lord, is he who is guided by the light of the forerunning forerunners, those are the ones brought close, to green lushness, and giant trees upstanding, and shade extended, and water served, and plenty of fruit [that is] neither seasonal nor out of reach, and a highly raised placement.

“I resort to Thee, my Master and my God, from asking for closeness without [presenting] obedience and action, and from audacity, not to Thee, but to errors, for, this is the scandal, and from treading a road without Thy Guidance, and [without] asking those who are directed by Thy Light, else, this is bewilderment, and vain are my breeze and journeys.

“My God, transcendest Thou, Thou art the Sovereign the Solitary, Manifest before us, Conspicuous to our eyes and visions, it is Thee that we see as we see our selves, it is Thee the Surmounter over Thy Throne, by which Thou manifestedest to us as Us, and figuratedest with Thy Soldiers, in arrayed arrays.

“My God, transcendest Thou, I thank Thee, and with sanctification I pay homage to Thee for Thy Elements, that Thou madest me with them whom Thou purifiedest from seeing and knowing others, they have hence known that those are other and Thou art other, and everything that they have known or their visions have reached or their selves have sensed: is other, for, Thou art Him, Whom thoughts do not objectify, and visions do not reach, and Thou art the Sunrise of those lights in those thoughts and visions, and I thank Thee for this thankfulness, which is part of Thy Elements.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, it is in Thee that I have trusted, Creator, Light, Knower of the Unseen, of Timeless Constancy, Thou art the Holder of the Quickening [the low world] for the length of the sunrises, and to Thee is the Judgement afterwards for the duration of the sunsets, O Thou, the One of the Throne, and the Abode of the Eight.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, O Thou, the One of the Units, the Bringer into being of all things, the Constructor of the two worlds and their distillate, Thou, Who art Noble by Grandeur and Nearness, and by Might and Compassion, and by destinating the march of the Kingdom and the Regalia, I trust in Thee, Thou Who hast surpassed that any thing be like Thee, or that Thy models be traced by the descriptions of a describer.

“I ask Thee, our Lord and Master, by the Grandeur of the Glory of Thy Capability and the Light of Thy Authority, for Thy Guidance on the roads of those of Thy Creation who have achieved Union, I ask Thee, by my faith, and by the early signs of Thy Union and Sublimeness, and the negation about Thee of [any] likeness, that Thou obligest me, like Thou hast obliged those who were guided before, by Thy Absolute Knowledge, and the Effusion of Thy Obedience, and the arrival to Thy Contentment, and the adherence to Thy Aim and Commandments, and the avoidance of Thy Prohibitions and Admonishments, and the forbearance over what strikes me along my obedience to Thee of direst striates and calamity.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, I ask Thee, by what Thou Knowest and what I know, that Thou lightest up my estate and that Thou guidest me to it. And by Thy Ruling upon whomever veers their identity away from transcending in Thee and glorifying Thee to another: veer not Thou my Identity and my indentities to other than Thee, after that Thou hast guided me. For, I have come to Thee repentant, adherent, acknowledging Thy Divinity, that Thou art the Sovereign, Sovereign by Thy Identity, the Beginner the Terminator, Possessor of “be”, I have thus emancipated myself from every deviant darkened one in Thee, or an enemy of oneself by Thy Guidance, O Thou Who art Sublime over [having] any partner, my Lord, transcendest Thou, Thou Who hast overlooked for me, and forgiven my errors, and erased my ill deeds, thus exchanged them by Thy Compassion and Munificence for good deeds, O Thou, Possessor of Elements and Bounties, the Making of the becoming of my knowledge of Thee, that Thou hast bestowed upon me, eternal in my self, for, there is no god but Thee and no abode except Thee, O Thou Who hast appeared in the Image, so was the Absolute Confirmation, hence Thou manifestedest in Thy Regalia, and flaredest the fire of longing in Thy Wanters’ chests. Transcendest Thou, have seen they Thee in their selves, and have visioned, so how hast Thou disappeared in the Effulgence of Thy Manifestation?

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, to Thee is the Homage for Thy Elements, that Thou hast been named by our names, and appeared in our figures and our deeds, then Thou cast off all our adjectives, and called us to Truth, Knowledge, Existence and Sublimeness, thus was the Confirmation the Absolute the Immaculate, and in this we have trusted, upon it we live and die, to Thee is the Aim, before and after, as to accepting us under the Eye of Thy Care, in our turnings in the horizons, O Thou, Possessor of the Round and the Rectilinear, our Lord the Sovereign, Allahum, amen.”

[Thus, the roads of emancipation from thought, images and senses … is not as easy as it first appears,

The intellectualisation of absoluteness falls short of Absoluteness, hence in the Far Eastern tradition, the Way has been to relinquish all the passions of the ego, and to foster compassion …

It is this those that conjure those complex illusions, in whose mazes even highly intelligent people get lost …

The road of the Books of the Middle East will lead to Union, if followed sincerely …

The infatuation with the love of the Beauty of Absoluteness is flared with the visions leading to and in Union …

The contradicting verses mentioning image and the absence of it … are because Union is prior to expression …

The giant tree of Knowledge … has been mentioned in almost all Discourses,

But such “events” must not be taken singularly or at a single level of manifestations …

As has been said many times on this Page, every image that forms up to our physical eyes, inner vision or imagination: has its essences in many layers above it,

Before the One Sun was reflected in the Helium in an infinite gestalt of images …

The purpose of such prayers is to evoke such “holy” memories, before the gradual downfall in denser forms of existence …

Upon reading, those who have approached or experienced Union before: can read again …

The essences of “absorption” and “possession” have featured in the Greek Philosophy as well. If memory serves, Plotinus’s Enneads mentions them.

The clergy of Abrahamic religions, the Druze included, believe that god sent his message first in Hebrew, then in Aramaic then in Arabic …

They have set definitions for words … which were meant to point to Essences, high above their meanings in today’s dictionaries …

They judge faith by their rules of language and holy expressions, in the belief that god is happy only with those expressions …

However elaborate their explanations and verbose literature may be: this is not short of pagan beliefs, whereby a god sets his rules by which he divides and judges …

By reading those Books in English, COB has freed the Books from theft and monopoly, the Essences that the Books point to: are not slogans for self-selection and political competition.]

Cob 21

Compassion

And let those who have believed know, that our Lord the Sovereign, Glorified is His Capability, and Encompassing is His Chair the heavens and the earth: knows how and where He begins the creation then iterates it, and knows He their returns and their lodgement, and what benefits them and what harms them, and knows He the forbearing ones and the despairing ones.

Say, no one despairs from God the Sovereign’s Spirit except the darkened ones, and it is not for a male or female person of Union: if our Lord the Sovereign has ruled an aim about their lives’ aim, or copied a ruling: that they have a choice about their aim, and whoever disobeys our Lord in His Commandments and Prohibitions: that so, they have turned over their faces, lost the low one and the hereafter, and bewildered are they in a great bewilderment. And has lavished our Lord: the descendants of Adam, when He carried them on the land and on the water, and rescued them from the laws of the darkened ones and guided them to the two Estates.

[The word that has been used in the Qur’an and herein that we’ve translated to “copy”, is the Arabic word “نسخ",

In its etymological sense, this is what it means,

When the “copying” replaces an old ruling or a statement: it doesn’t automatically mean that the old one has been cancelled, in the sense that it must be discarded or dismissed altogether, as can be the case in civil laws …

But if the essence of the ruling is not grasped: it is natural that the literality of the new ruling be put into effect,

Hence, Qur’anic interpreters, and by the look of things, Hikmah interpreters as well: were quick to say: our Book has cancelled the previous ones …

Ironically, the “cancellation” had to take effect within the Qur’an itself, as many verses are believed to be “cancelled” by other ones …!

Such a logical quagmire cannot be resolved by the literality of the verses, but rather by their essences,

And when those are considered, it will be noted that the verses are copied but never cancel one another …

Of course, one might argue, for example, that the kosher rules of the Jews have been cancelled by the halal rules of the Muslims …

And this is true when kosher rules are robotically executed, in the belief that this is what makes god happy,

And this has been the predicament of the halal rules of the Muslims as well, which are also executed robotically, in the belief that this is what makes god happy,

In both cases, the essence is to teach healthy eating rules, of hygiene and of choosing healthy sources of meat, if this has to be eaten …

That’s if the esoteric layer of those commandments, regarding not adopting beliefs which veer one from the path of Union, and reduce one to a spiritless being: are ignored: in the context of actual food and eating,

Those esoteric layers are same in the Books of both beliefs, although the wording is different,

Nowadays, both Jews and Muslims should’ve noticed that their halal and kosher rules have not made them healthier or less prone to disease than other communities …, and has definitely not made any of them more virtuous than the other, except in their self-assessment,

A whole new set of rules need to be set now, with the abundance of processed and packaged food and meat of unknown sources, and indeed the different theories of nutrition are doing that,

COB has used the issue of food according to religion: a number of times, due to its typicalness, and so that the essence of taking a commandment out of its literality be extrapolated to other commandments, which have also flared many vain debates and arguments,

But until people stop using the measuring tapes of their ancestors, and until they think logically and sensibly: they will continue to go by rules which benefit them not, all in the illusion that a god is happy with them, however short their measuring tape is, and however narrowminded this is causing them to be …

Hence the next paragraph, which highlights this issue very concisely and articulately …:]

And said those in whose heart is an illness, this is what we chanced upon from our fathers, and we are on their footsteps directed. Have lost, those, what our Lord the Sovereign has declared, Glorified is His Capability, to their fathers before, when He said to them when We copy a verse or make it forgotten We bring forth a better one or a one like it, don’t you know that God is Capable over everything? but those who have disbelieved some of what our Lord descended, and believed some, they preferred blindness over guidance, and they do not want, those, that your Lord the Liberator drop Compassion from the Heaven of His Authority upon the lands of their hearts, they remained in the darkness of their estate astray.

Fear not the darkened ones, O you faithful people of Union, and fear your Lord God the Sovereign to Whom are your returns altogether, so you see what upside-down turn they [the darkened ones] have turned.

Cob 22

The Will

O you people of Union, it has been written hereupon to you, that when death comes near one of you, and he happens to be of means, that he should write a will that benefits the less fortunate and the poor of you, who do not beg the people persistently, also the people who uphold the matters of your religion by the Hikmah and good counsel, by one part of twelve parts of what he has left, and that those who uphold and manage the matters of your religion: guarantee the share, those who recite the Philosophy and the prayers of the Book of the Solitary in His Identity, the actors by it, the rulers by it between the people of Union justly, those who are considered khalifs of the Dimensions/Messengers.

And has made, your Master, this and all: purification for your errors, from the dawn of your manifestation till your nightfall. And those who are parsimonious after that guidance has been distinguished for them on their roads, their model is like them who hoard gold and silver and expend not it, neither secretly nor openly, the day it is heated in the hell of their parsimony and their deeds, will be scorched: their foreheads by it, also their backs and their sides, behold what you’ve hoarded for your selves, do experience what you have been hoarding.

And that the ones who’ve achieved Union of you: provide themselves before the Shifter and the Up-lifter, for, the best provision is the refuge. And be not like those who repudiated the Law, while it was being recited to them, and they thought they would not die except their first death, nay, it [their error] has accumulated over their hearts, for, they reason not. Say, die in your anger, wishes benefit you not, the days when [if] one of you invokes from a far place: my Lord the Sovereign, return Thou me, perhaps I do good in what I left; no, it’s a word he is the sayer of it, and behind them are the tracts, until the day they are resurrected.

This is the state of those who have not expended, and have not written a will before their death, will join them our Lord: with those who repudiated and did not believe in their lives, and to God your Lord the Sovereign, before and after: the aim of the abiders in Him.

[The commandment to give money to the poor and to the guardians of religion and to them who uphold the traditions and oversee the carrying out of the laws …: is being revived again, after that it was turned into a business of political propaganda …

The commandments in the Qur’an and the Gospels to give to the poor and to those “on the way” … had turned into to such a business, and a correction and reinstatement were needed …

But after a thousand years have passed: my suspicion is that the commandment has turned into such a business in the Druze communities now as well.

Religion should never be a profession. Even teaching the Books and giving advice to the people, at the expense of one’s own livelihood: cannot be a profession, and when people do that they shouldn’t be asking for compensation, as this Cob clearly commands …

Financial assistance must be given, if needed, without a demand of it, and in complete secrecy, so that “the left hand knows not what the right hand has given”,

Once the money factor is introduced into the teaching of religion: it can very quickly corrupt it,

The making of money can become the purpose of it too quickly, and this will certainly, in the best of cases, dilute the service given, if not corrupt it completely …

In the nations where such practices are common: the politicisation of religion is widespread, and religion thus becomes a tool for corruption which results in the impoverishment of the low socioeconomic classes …

But not to worry, religions and their wealthy partners will donate to them the breadcrumbs of their feasts, and make sure that the media are there to record and broadcast their benevolence …

A major political leader in Lebanon, famous for his massive monopolies and fortunes, was recently saying that the people are going to go back to primitive life …!

This is unfortunately a prophecy in many Books of religion, including his own faith’s …

But in his limited understanding: the prophecies are taken as instructions rather than warnings …!

Indeed, religious and political leaders of that part of the world are racing to be the most nefarious guardians of hell: in the belief they are serving a good purpose …]

Cob 23

The Prayers of Shariah

O you who have achieved Union, be warned, would wish, those who remained frequenting their statues, if they could return you to their religion, and [to] their ideologies that are false, so you exchange what is good and lawful for what is low. That their prayers, of bodily kneeling and visual prostration, and their taking of the Word of the Book for exhibition and as a means [for worldly aims], deceiving God the Hedonikos and the people of Union, and they deceive no one but themselves, and they do know.

They are bewildered: a people who face with their bodies: the house of the stones of their hearts, they have gone too far in their darkness, so cast He upon them five prayers every day, and they lost the Way of the Lord of the House, Glorified is His Remembrance, while He is with them, and manifested He to them in the Sunrise of the Sun of the Human, the one of the two Sunrises and the two Sunsets, Lofty is God, the Master of all the masters, above the inadequacy of the inadequate ones, and the confusion of the arrogant ones, and in their selves [is He] and they vision not, their wishes have deluded them, the wishes of the statues of their Cube and its gods.

O you who have heard by the ears of your hearts and the chant of the birds of Union, on the branches of the tree of Knowledge and the Handout [of it], purify yourselves from nearness to and listening to the bewilderment of a people who have favoured blindness over guidance, and do know that your Lord is the Lord of the Daybreaks and the Day Ends, and wherever you turn your faces: is God’s Countenance, your Lord the Sovereign. That so, connection/prayer is in the arteries of those who are guided to Truth in their turnings, and have achieved Union. That so, those who fear God, amongst the abiders in Him, are the knowledgeable the knowers, them, whose sides are unsettled in their beds, while they bewander in the Gardens of the Beloved One, and quaff from the springs of Amrita, mellow and sweet, a pleasure to the drinkers. As for those in the arteries of whose hearts is an illness, by what they chanced upon from their fathers, those, are ostracised from the roads leading to the Gates of Truth, in their ears is the block of their arrogance, our Lord was not to guide a people defectors to hypocrisy, intertwined with bewilderment, they’ll beget none but outrageously darkened ones.

[It is unfortunate that the “forbidden house” (ألبيت الحرام) has remained a holy site for Muslims, after that the Qur’an commanded them unequivocally to turn their faces aside it,

But both expressions “forbidden house” and to turn their faces “aside the forbidden house of bowing” (شطرَ المسجد الحرام) were taken to mean the opposite,

And that’s why the Qur’an and the Hikmah repeatedly say that people’s heads turn upside-down, by their worshipping of stones, totems, and people or other living beings, or any created or manmade thing in general …

And indeed, two mosques were built in the early years of Islam to point them “aside it”, the one in al-Quds near the Mount, and the one in Cairo,

But Islamic historians preferred to believe that the one in Cairo was a mistake …!

I can assure them that a mistake it was not,

Its architect and builders knew well the astronomy of the time, and given the closeness of Cairo to Arabia, it was as clear as the clear night skies to them …: in which direction the “forbidden house” was,

And why would God command the people to quit pagan rituals, only to tell them to continue praying pointed in the direction of their old statues …?

But Islamic scholars of all colours and persuasions have insisted on pointing themselves to the forbidden house, after a lot of debate had taken place about this matter, which lasted a few centuries, and which has been totally and intentionally obscured, in order to affirm it in the general Islamic public’s belief: that the forbidden house is the holiest place in the world, and that it has been so since the early years of the spread of Islam …

COB has written extensively on this subject in its English reading of the verses of the Qur’an which mention the “forbidden house”, and has called into question not only the ritualistic practices of the Muslims, but indeed all religions …

There are two sides to this matter,

Firstly, that certain places on earth are special and holy, whether manmade of naturally occurring,

Secondly, that “prayers” should be performed only according to certain bodily gestures, while one is in the vicinity of or pointed to those holy places or facing certain statues and objects …

Both beliefs stem from pagan practices,

Muslims, and indeed people of all religions, are meant to reach the kernels of their hearts and minds upon reciting the verses of their Books: for their prayers to be a “connection”,

The bodily positions and gestures, if they were taught by prophets and their assistants in the past: were meant to help the people relax and concentrate, to relinquish their passions and worries, and surrender to their Creator …

If certain bodily gestures and positions help them to achieve that, it’s fine,

But if they believe that god is happy only if they performed them according to certain instructions, and that he’ll burn them forever in an oven if they didn’t: they haven’t gone, not one step, ahead of their pagan ancestors …

The problem with such beliefs is that they close off all the doors of rational thinking in one’s own mind,

Rational thinking that leads to true faith, to open one’s heart and mind, eager to be the whole world …

Let’s not forget – and I can’t count the number of times I’ve repeated this – that Abraham, the father of Monotheist beliefs: started off by a very simple logical argument, when he said to his people that they were the makers of their statues, so how could they worship what they made?

Monotheists today have to build on his legacy, if they truly believe that their religions are based on the concepts that he brought forth,

Rational thinking thus becomes their guide out of their wars and grudges, and certainly out of their intellectual and spiritual backwardness …, and truly sets them on the road to Union,

One can indeed say that all the cultures of the world have an irrational corner in their minds,

And the Ghita truly says that the mode of Tamas, being the lowest mode of natural existence, bound by blind faith and stupor, is a mode that no one, even the deity, can be totally free from,

Hence, the daily “prayers” and meditations … for the purpose of purifying one’s thoughts, feelings and actions, and shining light on every somber avenue of one’s mind …: are essential …

But the corridors of the mind will be blocked off, at the individual's own choice, and the prayers and meditations themselves: can do the opposite in such a case ...

The vicious cycle of darkness is that it increases its own darkness and dwells in it and demands more of it. This is the rock bottom of hell that all the Books have warned the people from …

It turns the intelligent virtuous godly Human that the Creator created: into an instrument of its suffering,

The suffering that is none but the darkness of the ignorance of its dual existence,

The road to Union is the road out of this hell …]

Cob 24

The Tidings of The Early Ones

In Bharat and The Indus Valley

O you people of Union, we deliver to you the truest tidings, the tidings of the early ones,

Our Lord has heard the debate of him who argues with his brother about his Lord the Loftiest, and opens for him the doors, the doors of faith, and his brother and his party are in a far bewilderment. So, our Lord descended upon the heart of his abider the faithful: equanimity, so became [one] of the messengers in the mountainous roads of the early ones, so he stayed with his people three hundred, less thirty years, calling them openly, then he declared to them, then he talked secretly, they turned away and took a hiding, they shunned arrogantly, hence, our Lord, Glorious is His Capability, dropped upon them damnation from the heaven of Capability: behold their homes empty at their thrones, roam the earth and look how was the consequence to them who darkened themselves, and were aberrant.

And since our Lord’s Compassion precedes His Suffering, and His Giving precedes His Deprivation: endorsed He the forth with a fifth, so He dawned in Multan, and ornamented its skies with lamps, and made them defence against their statues’ demons, so He rescued them from misery, after they were dazzled by their egos and their offspring.

And we stayed for [many] years with the people of Bharat and the Indus Valley, calling to the Way of Philosophy/Hikmah and the good counsel, and we bequeathed that land and what was on it to our abiders in Union, excepting a few, who dwelled on their statues frequenting them, and they disputed our aim between themselves, and secreted their invocations, so we said to them, woe to you, fabricate no lies about your Lord, confuse not truth with falsehood while you know, will charge you He with suffering, frustrated is everyone who fabricates. So, we left them as an example for you and for whoever comes after you for a term, and we made for the believers many benefits in it, from them they eat, and for you in it are stacks upon stacks of gold and silver, and for every news is a settlement, and you shall find out. Then we came upon a destiny so that the Book may be completed, and thus our Lord’s Radiant Word has been completed upon the Eight Carriers of His Throne.

O you people, take refuge in your Lord the Sovereign and know that He, Glorified is His Mention, is the Light of the heavens and the earth, not a measure of a mustard seed escapes Him, whether in the earth or in the sky, and is He with you [all] wherever you are, knows He your destination and your dwelling, and is He of a severe consequence.

And He were not to hold His Compassion from [reaching] His Creation, and how many a Paragon dawned by the Light of its cycles, and the Balance was set justly, and has a time come to mankind [when] it was nothing mentionable?

And those who have embraced their Lord the Sovereign’s Call, upon hearing it, said to them the Pharaoh of their fathers: have you believed him before I permit you? I shall cut your tongues off, and rip your ears out and cut you in halves, and so you know which one of us is of a tougher punishment and more resolve. They said our hearts have dawned by our Lord’s Light, we won’t favour you over what became to us of evidence, can’t you see the earth dawning by our Lord’s Light Who illustrated us? rule you what you may, that those low lives you spend will return you to the worst of lives, there the inheritance will be to the people of Union, and whoever has been self-assuming [will be] frustrated.

And how often have we inspired to you: that do take your Lord’s Way, you have shunned, do aggregate today O you aggregating ones, the days we say to you: behold your mother [as in nation or imam]. So, when they see him present with them, they say: woe to us, we have been darkened, and they reminisced and returned to their pride blaming one another, apologise not today O you ignorant ones, rot in what you have forwarded, only wishing for a breakout.

That those who darkened are in eternal suffering, for as long as the skies and the earth are, easing not on them, surrounding them while stunned. And how often have they plotted intrigue, nay, by your Lord the Sovereign [I swear] we are the plotters.

And do remember our Light by the Law, when it dawned in the Kingdom of Esfahan and Kabul and Bulgaria, and they were worshipping a statue below our Lord, so their wise man said to them: why do you worship what hears not and reasons not and harms not and benefits not, you are a people of no knowledge. They said this is what we chanced upon from our fathers, and we are by their footprints directed. Said he: even if your fathers do not reason? they said O you wise man, take what you will of our money and leave us frequenting it. Said he: but you are a bewitched people. So he rammed to him [the messenger] in desecration of the Right, so they came to him in crowds. So he said: do you worship what you carve, and we created you and what you fake? Begone you and what you worship. And they plotted intrigue for us, so we made them the lowest, and how many a garden, a grove, and a high station, and how much providence in which they were celebrating have they left? thus we bequeathed them to our abiders in Union, their gardens wept not over them, neither did the sky or the earth, and they were not looked.

[The mention of those parts of the world is saying emphatically that the same messengers are the messengers to all the world,

The Bronze Age civilisations mentioned herein lend credence to the story of Gautama that COB wrote a few years ago,

Buddhist history of the early years is not evidentially known, and like other messages, Buddhist history has also suffered tampering, confusion and in some instances: total loss,

COB stands by its recount that Siddhartha and Gautama were brothers, and the two names were confused later. The short hint is to their story at the start of this Cob …

Then the mention of a number of Bronze Age civilisations, and the messengers who were sent to them … points to the continuity of the Message, delivered by the “Eight” carriers of the Throne, leading up to the time of delivering this Book,

There was never a time when messages were lacking of Light pointing to the road of Union or Enlightenment. And as the text puts it, it was sometimes open, other times secret …, depending on the social and political circumstances …

So let’s put it loud and clear again, as we’ve put it a few times in the past: that all the Books point to Union/Enlightenment,

And although many of them have suffered tampering and misinterpretation, or were hidden in the belief of their exclusiveness to certain tribes of people: the message of Union is One in them all …

The pitfall that all heads of religions from the Far East to the West have fallen into has been the comparison: which, as a natural law, leads one to think that one’s belief, Book and messenger are somehow the best …

The road to Union aims at bypassing the comparison, on the road to acknowledging the Spirit: that is the Essence of All Thing or No Thing …

This is a joyous road of inquisition and knowledge, that can be trodden along the many Books, languages and traditions: to ultimately shed them all …

Once the route has been identified, the obstacles are identified, and the ways to remove them can be worked out … in the Light of the message …

There’s no point in comparing the codes of behaviour of one culture with another …

The exercise is futile, and aims at self-praise and self-selection …

Of course, some cultures have gone very far off their track that has been set for them by their past messengers …

The way to bringing them back to their track is not war and argumentation, but rather providing help and guidance, and showing understanding and acceptance …

All this sounds impractical now,

But it is so only because many centuries and perhaps millennia have gone by, and the effort was invested more in deepening the divisions: than bridging them …

Of course, the task is much harder now, and near impossible. But with a sincere will and a lot of devotion, and total empathy with the misery of the miserable ones and their suffering …: nothing is impossible.]

Cob 25

The Generations of The People of Union

O you people of Union, expend of what your Lord has provided you, may your Lord mitigate [the suffering] for you, and rescue you from what has surrounded those who apostatised and refused around you. And if one has their provision rationed for them: then a word of reform by the Highest Standard is an obligation between the people of union, we make you accountable only by what we’ve forwarded to you, and we shall make for the unease a two-fold ease. The Lord of the people of Union were not to tighten His Fists while they’re thanking. And it was not for the people of Union to make gods of their passions, that so, the guided people of Union are them who are followers [of their guidance], not inventors.

It is highly detested in your Lord that you say this is from our Lord the Sovereign, and it is what your dignitaries have thrown onto you, this is haram [illegitimate] to the people of Union.

[The moral is that when people of power and wealth donate openly:

Firstly, they do to advertise their religions and political parties,

Secondly, if their wealth has been accumulated by improper and unjust means: the donations are equally improper and unjust, and are aimed at affirming a corrupt system, under the slogan: our leader is so pious and generous, and goes by our religion’s commandments …

This is the two-way street between corrupt governors and their corrupt followers,

Druze clergy will never reveal how they interpret such commandments, or perhaps ignore them, in the belief that some other commandments written by highly acclaimed clergy of holy tribes and origins: override them,

The gap between rich and poor in Lebanon, going wider constantly, with the blessing of religions of all colours and persuasions: tells a sad story, and exposes a time old rotten system, that perhaps hasn’t changed since the days of the Pharaohs and the many tyrant kings in the Levant, from that time and all the way to the present.]

Have you not looked at the Sun of your Lord, it was rising in the heart of a man who secreted his faith, so He dawned to other people? and when the promise of the hereafter came, we sent to them servants of ours, wielders of might and power, they infiltrated the circles/homes, and it became a destined destiny.

[The moral is that faith should not be secreted, and worse still: covered up by pretention. In communities where pagan beliefs are the norm, one can always find an opportunity to cast light, and alert people will notice it. And the purpose is never to advertise for religions and political alliances.

When people of faith deprive others from the light they have: the light goes to another people, according to this passage. For, the purpose of it is to spread it, and not to monopolise it.]

And your Lord were not to make you suffer before the rise of the Sun of Guidance, so He came to you with the reachable fruit of the tree of the gardens of the ones arriving at the Tree of the Ultimate, and he took what He brought to him by Power, to him from Him are the Sparks when he retires and he bewanders. So if you visioned there the generations of the people of Union, as they herald the front of the convoy to the Beams of those Up-rises of Union, or you’ve heard those melodies, of those calls to rescue, from the chant of the Psalms of the lovers, amidst that convoy, leading them are their longings to the Loved One’s Beauty, so when He lit up in their hearts: Adamness succumbed, and trailed them the glory of the humility of chastity, and they were to Him two cubits close or closer, or if have you watched the run to the seekers of forgiveness in the dusks, the fearful in the trail of the convoy, you would know that you’ve been severed under the barrier of despair, at the tree of Ghylan’s [the angry one] mother. Hurry, hence, to the shade of the Tree of Eternity, the one of Tri-Radius, and the Beauty of a Kingdom that perishes not; he who hasn’t witnessed the Beloved One’s Beauty knows not what’s in the lover’s heart.

Those are them who have been guided to their Lord the Sovereign the Truth, they swayed with those mountains, which, if you saw them, you reckon them still while throbbing. Thus we’ve narrated to you the tidings of some Sacred Sunrises, for you to reckon with it.

[Again the visions of Union escape the most capable and articulate of pens, but have to be expressed, in order to inflame the love of Truth, in the hearts and minds of them who have grown out of intellectual concepts and relative vision, born in a dual existence …

But this can’t be reached if one is still unable to arrive at the stations of abstraction and hence unification …

And as has been told in a chain of posts on Meditation, when people meditate, they will see what they believe …

The process of purification from belief is a long and joyous journey, and the shedding of concepts is victory to be celebrated …

Religions must not prescribe a standard vision or way of Union, and if they do, they unwarily fall back in the pitfalls of concepts, and celebrate false freedom, only to realise that they still have a way to go, when Time subjects them to another trial of Compassion …

The agony that religions have cast upon the road of deliverance is a sign of their shortcoming,

Because, once Union is … even if approached: the striving turns into pleasure, the labour into calmness, and the images of the null into Existence.]

Cob 26

The Dawns of Union

Hasn’t it been gifted to you, after that we’ve bequeathed to you the homes of those from the most of whom we had no testament, that we are capable of exchanging [people] your likes, and we distance you or we near you where we will, thus we strike you by your own errors, then we remit you in a new creation.

And those who have believed of you and turned their faces to their Lord the Truth and died on His Way, they are them the loved ones, and by the example of those, the labouring ones ought to labour, and give the glad tidings to the forbearing ones.

And those who are amused by their money and children, they love them like they love their Lord the Sovereign the Solitary the Hedonicos the Compassionate, suffering will take over their hearts, their faith benefits them not, their Lord was not to wrong them, but they love blindness, their hearts hence have been blinded, and have lost the Straight Way, begone with the darkened people.

It is a big fib in your Lord to say we believe by your tongues, while your hearts are [still] passionate. That so, the sincere people of Union are them who have believed secretly and openly, and when they speak it’s Hikmah/wisdom, and they are the wise ones, and whoever have been given the Hikmah have indeed been given plenty of good; and when they contemplate: manifests to them: their Lord in the Sunrises of their hearts by His Bright Lights, there is the Seniority to the people of Union, by whom their Lord’s Summa’s Adjectives have appeared, they bewander in Him, upon concealing the secret of Privilegeness of the manifestation of the clayed human, they throw not when He throws, in the manifestation of the encompassment of the Divine, by the Capability the Sanctus, of the Sovereignness of manifestation of abidancehood. These are your pedestals at the Sunrises of your Union, do protect them from the darkness of reversion, and the confusion of suspicion, and the ignorance of the self, so the malady may [not] overwhelm the physician, the ignorance [not] the educated and the agony [not] the lover.

[The Qur’anic expression “you throw not when you throw, but it is God Who throws”: is an allusion to Ubiquity. Unfortunately, in the hands of the men of religions, it has translated to a god who does the fighting at war on behalf of his pious soldiers …

By that understanding, man does everything else …!

The philosophic errors which the interpreters of religions have made: have generated for them those same errors: indefinitely …

They are the contours of their minds, and the road signs in it that lock them inside them …]

O you people of Union, you are the needy and your Lord is Needless, we differentiate not between any of you, your kings and privileged ones and your commons, your elders and your youngsters, altogether you are weak, poor and humble, except those who strive in us by their selves and monies, this is the rank that our Lord the Sovereign made a veil to: from the peaking of the eyes, thus was the covering between the people, Bountiful is our Lord the Best of the Creators: would one of you hope for the knowledge of the Truth the Hedonicos the Compassionate, when He is closer to him than the weakness to knowing this, [even] as he has not weakened yet? hence the heart lied not about what it saw, do you doubt it over what it trusts, when His Witness has effulged and his witnesses have vanished, and its Lord has taken over it, the Lord of all the statuses, the Possessor of the Round and the Rectilinear. Transcends He, by Whom His secrets are revealed, and by whose Light His Somber is lit, in the niches of the lamps, except them who were snatched the Primary Snatch, so they went [back], hidden from the definitions of the definers, and far from the description of those who describe.

And has your Lord the Truth ruled, that whoever of you, whether male or female, does a good deed unhypocritically, secretly or overtly, or holds up this Book of the Solitary in His Identity, luminous on its path, and is not taken by the reprimand of the remprimanders, and fears no one in it except his Lord, and is distracted not by the ego from it: will state his Lord to him the earths and the skies the high, that they become to him willingly, and for him in them are many livelihoods, and is He his Help, his Shelter and his Comfort, and it is him who protect the people of Union from where they don’t expect.

[The allusion is to rebirth in the more advanced planets and worlds …

And I have a strong temptation to make this comment on this subject …

The search for alien life continues to be a subject of research and disagreement between the sceptics and the enthusiasts …

The problem with the enthusiasts is that they can only envisage a highly advanced evil race that wants to enslave humans and use them for their … … what benefit?

Both teams come from the backgrounds of atheism or religion …

And there might be a planet or planets out there, with only one interest: to conquer and to exploit …, the like of the majority of our earth’s humans, and it’s obvious that the fear that the alien life enthusiasts want to generate is based on earth’s history, and the physical vision of life shared by all agreeing and clashing religions and secular ideologies …

It only makes sense, though, to believe that there is a higher station of mind … capable of building harmonious and virtuous societies, free of ill and selfish intent, self-governed without ideological politics and economic theories worth killing and dying for …

You’ve got to bear in mind, that those theories are there only to curb human greed and ill intents, with their different theories and laws drawn from them, for the purpose of spreading wealth and generating general happiness …

But those are quickly adopted by ambitious leaders, who think they know how to rule by them, and by corrupt populations who believe that laws and governments can better their lives and make them happier ...

The communist attempt failed in the Soviet Union, but doesn’t seem to be failing in China, albeit under China’s own version of it …

The capitalist attempt worked for a while, but is creating now excessive wealth by creating and spreading abject poverty and fueling wars, and burdening the world with a lust for consumption …

In a world where humans have surpassed this self-centered state of mind and passion for control: the need for those systems, and indeed for religions to threaten and promise: is totally absent,

This is where humans live to enjoy their existence, in whichever way they vision it …

Some such planets live a life that has little to do with what we call technology,

Health, beauty, arts, music, mind laws … would be their interests …

Some would be highly technological, with their ability to tap on the source of the sources of energy, they are not in constant search for oil wells and energy generating blackholes …, one of their interests would be to roam the infinitely vast universe, to play their games in space and time …

But in such places, humans are innately transcending, they waste not a moment in forgetfulness, undriven by persuasion from religion, because this is their true nature set free and unveiled …

It makes sense to believe that in the future we’re going to have to make contact with all different kinds of humans]

As for them whom He guided and descended onto them from every letter a prayer and an imam and a proof, and we are still in those generations dawning, and we suffice as witness, and they thought they were mightier than their Lord and have the round and the rectilinear, those are them who have favoured blindness over guidance, as they repudiated the Paragons of their Lord, and [repudiated] the Loftiest the Highest, and the Seven Twos, and the Eight Carriers of the Throne, and our Lord of the Erect House and the Elevated Canopy and the Arisen Ocean, Possessor of the Cause, the Tor and the Testament penned in the tenderness of the liberated heart, and they have forgotten what their Lord the Hedonicos has descended, and were not guided by His Light, and they followed their passions, will defer them our Lord the Truth, then makes He their aim fall apart between them, so they go about their matters deaf, blind and mute.

[The “Seven Twos” being the Surahs of the Qur’an which are introduced by letters, there are 14 such Surahs.]

Have not their Lord’s Paragons come to them by the Law, they were blinded to them and forgot them, and thus they forget the days the thunderbolt of demeaning suffering takes them, from where they are incapable of turning it back, and overtakes them what their hearts and hands have afforded in their turnings: enter you in the doors of the inferno, today you are distributed, the days you call out from a far place, O you on the Throne, ask our Lord the Loftiest the Highest to ease the suffering for us, we are repentant, and we are contrite about what was committed by us in the past, says He: be humiliated in it, and speak not to me, this is what you falsified that has befallen you, experience what you’ve earned, as it is the Great Descent and you were vain. And you thought that your Lord the Sovereign the Truth knows not a lot of what you know, that your darkness you have darkened to our Lord the Hedonicos and your falsification his Dawns: has ruined you, and you’ve dayed and nighted [in the fire] and the fire is your lodgement, be forbearing, you are not to take a step out; where are your companions who have ornamented the repudiation of what’s between your hands and behind you [of Books]? call them on the days of contrition, if they are able to respond to you; they are them whom our Lord the Sovereign the Truth has placed under your feet, to experience the suffering of humiliation, they are the lowest, this is their reward, in it they are eternally.

O you people, why couldn’t you be with them who trusted in their Lord and what He descended in the Sunrises, so their hearts went content on the ship of fear, and aspiration guided them, they journeyed led by longing to Him, thus His Lights dawn from those hearts to light those roads, so they see Him the two Scenes, or they will be stunned. Transcends He, His Lover’s hearts still bewander not conscious in their drunkenness, adamant that they won’t wake up but in the Vision of the Loved One; in their euphoria: they hang between depression and arousal, in everlasting happiness. It is Him that they demanded, so opened He the Doors for them, and ushered them into His Courtyard, and made them sit on seats facing one another, and He whispered to them and removed off them the covers, so they peaked at ranks that are high, and has provided them our Lord immeasurably, thus they became the people of His Select, and realised the ranks of the privileged ones of His Lovers, and above every possessor of knowledge is a Knower, and raised He some above some, and elevated them over many whom He created [by a great] elevation.

[The repeated mention of the “two Scenes” is an experience of Union, best expressed in the Ghita, in Chapter 11, and Chapter 10 which introduces it …,

But one can say that the vision that Sanjaya said that Arjun was having was that of the Cosmos, in pre-materialisation, and the Trinity of Whole Mind, Self and Word (the Creator, the Imager, the Animator), which stunned his mind, so he demanded a vision of Existence in a human form, with the four wings, mentioned also in the Qur’an, so his consciousness settled down upon that …

Then he went to apologise to Krishna for addressing him as a friend, while totally oblivious of his spiritual rank …

This tells how Encounters happen, when it’s a witness of Union, by the intermediary of the Trinity of the Whole Mind, as for Union, this will always transcend description and expression …

It is easy for the mind/intellect/consciousness to get confused by its own concepts and their definitions …

Whether those are “high” or “low”, “fun” or “boring” … is the “nature” of consciousness and its own concepts …

The Mind, or Existence, is a witness of the beginning of all things. Religions and pantheistic philosophies can never see their meeting point, if they can’t relinquish their own definitions, even if they deny having them, as well as being open to other definitions …

Compassion encompasses all the feelings, concepts and their definitions …]

Have drifted, those who repudiated the Law, when they said we shall inherit paradise eternal in it, sheltering in its shades, hopes have deluded them; say, yea, by my Lord the Sovereign the Truth [I swear], you will enter the dungeons of the darkness of your hearts, drinking from the blaze of your errors, as in it burst out the sources of lava which scorches the faces and boils the stomachs, under the shades of fire, around the tree of eternal death; every time a nation of you enter in the dungeons of the lava of their selves: the inferno erupts with the ghosts of your souls, and clamor the demons of your selves in the rock bottom of its blaze; every time you are taken out of it we return you to it to experience the suffering, for as long as the heavens and the earth are, and God your Lord Who diminishes nothing from your deeds has judged death upon you.

[The graphic depiction of suffering in hell, that is in the Books of Abrahamic religions, was meant for the peoples of their times …

This method of deterring doesn’t work with most people anymore, but indeed evokes laughter …

But when one takes a deep look at the status of the world: the suffering that many are experiencing today, even in the most affluent of countries, at every level of their psyches and physical existence …: one can comfortably say: although the description of suffering in hell is caricaturistic, the intensity of it is real …

But we should never let ourselves be tempted to say: this is their own making, as the Books have said, so let them suffer …

If we feel we have a degree of control over our own suffering and do not sink easily in it: it’s because we are meant to help those less capable …

However few, some want to come out of it …, knowing too well that it might be a long road for them, if they haven’t tread it ever before …]

And your Lord the Sovereign the Truth manifests to the people of Union, for as long as the heavens and earth last. Is he who burns in the fire of his darkness like him whom we make enjoy the providence of faith, while walking on a straight path? those are selves which are content in the peace of the fire of their [selves'] lofty holiness, in the beauty of the completeness of their [selves’] humanness.

Say, O you people, hasn’t it come to you, the tidings of the one who said: if my Lord the Sovereign brings to me His Providence/Elevation, I shall be of the trusting ones, and with them who have striven by their money and their selves; so he tied up the ties of faith and tightened the oath, and took witnesses to his testament, and our Lord knows that he is of the dishonest ones; so, extended He the causes and brought to him His Elevation, so he was cheerful in his seat, and he declined and stood aside, and said disbelief, and he went too far and was unhiding, so he set his plots, then came out and was haughty in the earth and became tyrannical, and said: I am your lord the highest, and thought that we were incapable over him, so our Lord avenged him, after He warned him of the lowest suffering, and the say of truth was due against him; so we brought him from the house of the low cast in a prison like a dog in a cage, cursed and crushed, and in his neck was the Covenant testifying against him, so he was Iblis who iblisised, and the filthiest of the pigs, and our Lord is Uncompromising, that He will make the hypocrites experience eternal suffering, and the Lord of the people of Union has sufficed/spared the people of Union the fight.

[The hint is to Tut Ankh Amun]

Cob 27

The Prohibitions

They ask you, what has our Lord the Sovereign prohibited to them:

Say, obscenities, the open of them and the concealed, and sin, and the say of falsehood, and the concealment of truth between one another, while you know. And those who consume the orphans’ and the meek of the people’s monies, and what you’ve been entrusted with, those [are them] who have exchanged guidance for bewilderment; their trade profits not, and they return darkened.

[Can any list of dos and don’ts reform people who have an illness of greed, lust, envy, love of control …, and more importantly, can it cover every aspect and activity of their lives?

Perhaps never …

But those declarations have to be made anyway, and have been made in every Book as a reminder to those who seek to live a virtuous life, in case they are obliviously making grave errors, in the belief it is their entitlement, just because the traditions and laws of their societies allow them …

And you see the different religions and cultures of the world critical of each other’s laws and traditions, pointing to the errors of others for the purpose of praising themselves, as being free from those errors …

The best thing different religions and cultures do when they see others’ faults is to check if they have them themselves, and they may be surprised that they too have them in a different form and practice …

Of course, some cultures and religions have sunken deeper in irrationality than others …, and today, irrationality is the biggest of sins …

But mild variations of an illness don’t justify slandering extreme cases, and certainly don’t give one the right to judge themselves as “better” and others as “bad”,

If a nation or an individual believe they have the right understanding of things: the best thing they do is to teach it, and the best method of teaching is the practical method,

Undoubtedly, Buddhist teachers have perhaps the best practical teaching approach, by giving examples from everyday life, in the work place, at home and in the streets …

I’ve also heard from Bahia people, that they too teach their children in a weekly kind of gathering, starting from an early age how to be tolerant to others’ faults, how to be cooperative and to have good manners and codes of social behaviour …

In theory all religions do this at home,

Busy life, however, and a false understanding of personal freedom, plus some questionable theories …: have all contributed to a decline in moral and behavioural standards, and the mere mention of such words is now considered backward,

This is perhaps the main driver behind the new wave of religious extremism all around the world,

The world was not created for people to go by a set of laws, however,

Laws should never be a purpose by themselves,

The world and the circumstances of people change constantly, rendering existing laws redundant, and requiring new laws and standards,

It is when virtue is absent that this reality is not understood or noticed …

And you see pious people of all religions going strictly by their laws and traditions, with the false belief it is what pleases their god, and guarantees them a good life here and hereafter …, while completely blinded to the errors they are making in their daily lives,

Errors which have been created consequently to new activities, created by new circumstances and life styles …,

Or simply because they are long-held tradition that no one has questioned …

Causing themselves and their societies stagnation, corruption and suffering,

So they intensify their rituals and invocations, they go to extremes with their religious laws and practices …, but to no avail …

Their clergymen tell them: be patient be patient, god is testing us, and we shall be rewarded,

This is a bad predicament, that many societies have fallen into,

It can be remedied only by rational thinking, and by talking reason to ordinary people,

Inflammatory speeches, and calls to adhere to beliefs and traditions they have inherited from their ancestors …: have never worked, and will not work.]

And we have drawn for you in this Book every model, and taught discrimination and guided you to the even way, and [to the] roads of direction, so you may rule between one another by justice, and by what your Lord the Truth has shown you. And be not enemies to the traitors, this is corruption in your Lord and a lot of pretention. And those who commit ill deeds and sin, or make an error, then they throw it onto an innocent person, they have charged themselves with lies and a great delusion, this is forbidden to the people of Union.

[The reputation of heroism that is gained by slandering wrong doers is worse than the wrong deed itself. And often people who are keen to expose the ills of others have those ills themselves, and this last passage is highlighting that.

In Druze communities, if certain traditions, which are believed to insure the assumed purity of their tribal lineages are broken, the person who breaks them is disowned by their community …, in a total contrast to the commandment,

But again, different circumstances require different laws, and most of the strict traditions of the past were set for a good reason that was envisaged at that time. But in today’s world, those strict laws are the Middle East’s imprisonment that is stopping them from engaging intellectually and culturally with the modern world that has imposed on everyone new activities and customs …]

And be not [close] to those who deceive themselves, so they may take you as a [supporting] hand, while you don’t know. That those who argue on behalf of those who’ve darkened are them who dissent the Call, and were derisive, and whoever dissents the Law, after that guidance has been shown to them, and then bewilders, when the Light has dawned, their Lord puts them in charge of what they charge [themselves], and makes He them attend a fire that fades never.

[With the confusion about what is “the law”, faith … and the Call …, and bearing in mind the multitude of ideologies that have made their way into people’s minds, in many cases under the banners of faith and Union: this commandment ought to be taken from a different perspective …

It should be a commandment nowadays that people debate those matters of faith and traditions openly, in a civilised manner, and without generating grudge and animosities, and definitely without pre-judgement and accusations …]

And take not the males as an object of lust without women, and approach not adultery or the customs of casual relationships, that this is bad in your Lord, detested, and a distancing sin.

[Here we come to the most sensitive of subjects,

Firstly, same sex relations …

At a time when some countries are legalising same sex marriage, this is not going to be accepted easily on either side of the protagonists and the antagonists of it,

But to be realistic, gay relations have always existed, and have been dealt with by different attitudes, traditions and laws across cultures and ages:

From total acceptance and indeed encouragement, to total vilification and perhaps a looming death sentence …

But if we bear in mind that laws and punishment, or piety and rituals, do not change people’s sexuality, our approach makes the situation much less difficult …

It has to be accepted that some people are attracted to their sex in various degrees and various times of their lives …

How societies deal with this is another question …

There’s no one right answer that fits all cultures and religions. A constant refinement of such laws, to accommodate ever changing social attitudes, is a key factor to dealing with this rationally, and without causing harm at a social and individual levels,

Secondly, adultery,

What is adultery is in fact any sexual relation between consenting adults outside the wedlock …

Hence, in today’s secular societies, where the words marriage and relationship have become interchangeable: the concept of adultery has consequently disappeared,

Of course, to conservative people this is decadence, and transgression of the law,

And people shouldn’t be made to feel guilty or be labelled as backward for having such beliefs,

It’s when vilification takes place in either direction, that the issue becomes marred with political ideology, and is never dealt with rationally,

Let’s not forget, that when societies were conservative, “adultery” never stopped, but was secretive and a privilege to the rich and the well-connected, who could get away with it without the legal or social consequences,

I don’t believe that there’s a law that can be said to be perfect, and that fits all nations …

If we take any society, they might think of their laws as good, while they are totally blinded to their errors …

But it’s when those laws are believed to be god’s laws that they become more of a problem than a solution, because changing them or indeed discarding them is thought to be disobedience to god …

And let's not forget the ever true call in the Gospel: "whoever of you is sinless, that they throw a stone at her",

The guidelines that are in the Books point to the virtue of family life, and aren’t meant just to facilitate or prohibit sexual pleasure …

In the end, as this Book and indeed the Qur’an said repeatedly, that people are given time to try their laws and beliefs, to see if they work for them and to experience their consequences …

When they don’t work, and indeed cause trouble, to the total inattention of the religious and legal authorities …: people can’t expect an easy life and a pat on the back,

And shall I say, that in my opinion, the preoccupation with sexual pleasure, whether “straight” or other, is a result of a big vacuum in people’s minds, created by the pressures of modern life, to be a high achiever, in business or career, so they can generate a lot of wealth and be good and obedient consumers …, of goods and services, which are heavily advertised according to the advice of experts, who research in the secret labs of the psychologists and scientists …,

The happiness that they advertise is fake, and is in fact making people unhappy and aggressive,

The advertising techniques talk to the irrational part of the minds of people, which was the most prominent in their childhood …

What’s worse, is that politics is now pretty much a matter of consumption promoted by advertising as well, of ideas and passions about … phantom causes, drummed up to be the road to wealth and happiness …

In such a world of irrational choices between different brands of fake happiness, fake aspirations, fake ambitions … don’t be surprised if sex is the only comfort and pleasure …]

And has forbidden to you your Lord alcoholic beverages, and whoever takes them for drunkenness: they have begotten descendants who have lost direction and followed lusts, so, do remember O you possessors of kernels.

[The never-ending debate between Muslims and Christians about alcohol is the highlight of the ludicrousness of their both spiritual standing …

As if, on one hand, god is happy if people drank,

On the other hand, god is wrathful if they did,

And as if, in heaven, a major criterion of piety or the lack of it: is the drinking of alcohol, and the breath analysers in heaven are so sensitive, they can detect the minutest traces, even many years after death …

And in the modern world, and indeed the ancient, the drinking of alcohol is a signature of affluence and sophistication,

But the guzzling of it is a sign of a troubled mind and severe unhappiness,

Why do people drink …? for different reasons,

Some drink to be more attached to the world and its pleasures of money, power and sex …

Some drink to forget all that, and to take a break from the world and its pressures and silliness …

Some drink just to socialise and go with the flow …

A person who practices meditation and mind discipline can’t drink, because they’re innately needless of drunkenness …, and alcohol can indeed fog the corridors of the mind that have opened, and it would take some time to re-clear them …

When we set strict laws forbidding the drinking of alcohol, however, we just push people to drinking toxic drinks …

Alcohol should not be advertised and glamorised, and its packaging should not be made so attractive, like tobacco now in some countries …

If we’ve managed to introduce such laws concerning tobacco, we should be able to do the same with alcohol …

In any case, and because illicit drugs haven’t been mentioned in any Book, pious people took it that they are OK by god. Hence producing them, manufacturing them, trading them and using them … all have been deemed halal – or at least not haram - by Islamic scholars,

And when you find out that jihadis are given amphetamines and thrown into bloodbaths, you can’t but be horrified …

That’s not to mention the shisha cafes in conservative Islamic cities, the mass production farms of stupor and physical unfitness …

As for the pious drug lords in Latin America and their religious beneficiaries and supporters …: it's a tragedy in a different playout …]

And lend not your money to earn usury in multiples upon multiples, that upon the people of Union this is cautioned, and your Lord has forgiven those who take it from other than people of Union, obligated and not transgressing.

[One can imagine that in the old days, the only resort people had when they needed money was to borrow it from family and friends …

And if the lender is capable, of course it would be criminal to charge them interest for it, unless it is for business, in which case they can agree to be partners …

In today’s complicated financial systems, banks and whatever else do all kinds of things, with the acquiescence of their governments, and the blessing of religions …

For the simple reason: there were no banks and so on in the days of delivering those Books, and hence there’s no mention of them in them …

On top of that, greed is not an issue in any religion, even though it is said in the Gospel that it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s hole than for a rich to enter the kingdom of heaven …

And that was said for the simple reason that massive fortunes are accumulated often by unfair means, and a sector of the population are often deprived from their fair share of it …

But all religions have justified various forms of unfair money-making practices …, the world is now being torn between excessive greed and poverty, that is fueling rebellion and instigating wars …

Hence the next passage urges people to use their good innate nature to understand and judge fairly, because it is within their minds and capability, if they have tapped on those holy corridors therein …

If they make mistakes, they’ll correct them. But if they believed that their clergy’s interpretations are god’s law: they’re never going to correct anything, and in misery they will reside.]

And how many a verse you have falsified, and it is in your selves, don’t you see? and it is He Who made you to the destiny of your mothers, and made between you [all] a destined destiny, and lineage and bondage [in-law relations], for an allotted term, then made He you another creation, and constructed you in what you know not, then He returns you, then He resurrects you, is He the Sovereign the Hedonicos the Truth, Bountiful is our Lord the Best of the Creators.

And of His Marvels that He made of you the white, the black, the red, and the yellow and between those many, to an allotted term, and among you are the easy, the melancholic, the good-hearted and the wicked, and between those, and if He willed, He would’ve made you one nation for one day, and is He the Sovereign Capable over the abiders in Him, asked He is not about what He does, and asked you are, and it is He who showed you the two Estates, and guided you in the day and in the night and taught what you were not knowing.

And if a person of Union seeks shelter with you, do shelter them and deliver them to their safety; or if calamity strikes them, all of you sponsor them, that so, the people of Union’s bloods are equal, they are one hand against others, and your Lord is about what you do All Informed.

[Of course, tribal unity was the state of affairs in those days, when in the most stable of political situations, sultans or walis governed loyal tribes, not populations …

And this is still the preferred sociopolitical tradition in the Middle East and perhaps beyond …

So, without having to go into the details of this complex subject, one can certainly say that the tribal system is at odds with the modern democratic system, which is what most of those states of the Middle East claim to have,

Democracy cannot be exercised if tribal heads still rule side-by-side with, or on top of democratic institutes,

We would’ve loved to see Lebanon, for example, and indeed Syria, before its current autocratic rule: effect a transition from the old tribal system to a true democratic one,

But it doesn’t seem there was any interest at the level of populations or leaderships, and the political parties of all kinds don’t have an understanding of those issues and aren’t aware of them,

And Lebanon now is going through a painful time due to corruption, which cannot be examined and remedied by the tribal system which needs the corruption in order to survive …!

In such circumstances, the commandment in the previous passage isn’t helpful if taken literally, but indeed entrenches the tribal system deeper in people’s psyches as well as their leaders’ …

But if there’s a real will to improve the situation, rather than to please a god: leaders and populations would start to think: of course, God wants us to stop competing, fighting, monopolising wealth, creating injustice and poverty …

And they would hence realise that there’s no place anymore for their tribal tradition which continues to divide them rather than work for their general benefit …,

They would hence realise that if they united as a nation for everyone’s benefit: they would in fact be guided by the spirit of the commandment, and never violating it,

All this can be carried out in a consultative manner, involving heads of tribes and dignitaries, in each sect of each religion, then across the many sects and religions, so that questions are raised and answered, and everyone is listened to …

When there’s good will this can happen, but as long as hypocrisy and selfish aims, and a guarantee of permanent residence in a paradise, or the exclusive inheritance of the entire land: are being taught to be the holiest of each party’s god’s promises and commandments: don’t expect an easy and prosperous life just accidentally or by miracles, and do expect more misery and more strife, and more arms sales in their countries and foreign interference, this is just a natural law, you don’t need a crystal ball to see it.]

And be not tolerant to them who rejected the Call and shunned, they, if they turned their backs to you, they observe for you no loyalty and nor agreement, they say by their mouths the right, and their hearts denounce, and most of them are aberrant, consider [this] O you possessors of a kernel.

[So, what is the “Call” today, and who has shunned it …?

We can say, all the calls of Union: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Druzism, and indeed Bahaism should be counted, although there are sects who believe the Bab, and reject Baha’u’llah …: are the “Call”,

What makes the people nowadays: acceptors or rejectors: is not their being born to one or another, or converting from one to another …: but indeed: their going by the spirit of the Call in all those calls: that is to be good humans, who cooperate for the benefit of all, and God be the Judge …

The time of self-preference and self-selection is over, it is over …

If any group believe they are the best: it has to be their wisdom and preparedness to spread their knowledge and wisdom to all, and not to gain political and financial benefit from it …

But the warning about crooked people who find it hard to be honest and to have a good intent: will always be there, across the ages and the cultures. The ways of dealing with them, however, differ,

Civil laws deal with such issues from a legal perspective, but at a personal level, the best approach is never to return the ill deed or the ill intent. This indeed entrenches the ill. Forgiveness that translates to an effort to understand the motives deep in such people’s minds can help them, and can indeed help the receiver of the ill deed or intent not to be drawn into grudge,

Hence the following passages warns about violating that good spirit.]

And those who severed what our Lord the Sovereign commanded to be connected, and did not approach, by the side of humbleness, their fathers, and those who are haughty in the earth and not reforming, they changed God’s creation, they have their lust’s eyes in the lockups, they earn suffering within themselves and from above them and below their legs, casting darkness upon them, so our Lord takes them by their hearing and vision, far to them now is guidance.

That so, the faithful the people of Union are them who conducted themselves by what He commanded, and refrained from what He deterred and warned, and called to the Ways of our Lord the Sovereign by the Hikmah/Wisdom the guarded, that He bestowed upon them.

And whoever has been forced into darkness or obscenity, while faithful and in Union, or has done bad out of ignorance, or was dumbfounded and forgot, our Lord resents only those who have committed sin willingly, those have a timed suffering.

[This last ruling has featured in all religions, but is often taken as a blank cheque to live a life of greed, indulgence, carelessness …, until old age: when you see them suddenly turn pious, changing their attires, constantly reciting holy expressions loud to be heard, acting politely and kindly around people to be noticed …: all in the belief that god promised those who bewilder that if they repent: their piety wipes clean their errors …

Such trade with the heavens that religious interpreters have set rules for: defeats the purpose of all religious teaching. The purpose of religious teaching is for people to be good for the themselves and others, to build good family and social traditions. If this is not pursued: all the teaching of religions is to no avail, whether salvation and paradise are waiting those people or not, their personal lives, communities and countries will be corrupt and miserable …]

O you people, come on to a word equal between us and you, that we abide in no one except God the Sovereign the Truth the Solitary the Oneness, Who begot no one and is not begotten, and Who has no one equal to Him, that you find with you written in the Qur’an and the Torah and the Gospel; then return the vision twice, returns to you the Vision disappointed and lamenting. You want to extinguish the Light of the Law, and to eclipse the Suns of Oneness, and has that Light indeed snatched the visions of your minds, bad is what you judge.

[This is confirming again that the Call to Union is in all the previous messages. The philosophic bases of Union are One in the Books. Religious authorities have differed on concepts and definitions thereof, and sadly on: which god?

As soon as god is pointed to, intellectually or physically with the index finger: horizontally or vertically: the error is made, hence, at that level of inquisition they all are equal …

This is why they have to continue their journey, and to stop throwing stones in each other’s ways, and certainly stop making judgements on behalf of god, and stop harbouring hatred and despising one another, and guaranteeing for themselves exclusive salvation …]

And those who darkened of you say: that this Qur’an guides to what is straighter, and upon it we have found our fathers; say, if you were upon guidance, you would’ve believed in it, but you know none but what your egos covet, and you are ignorant; we are better knowers of what is in your hands, we are the descenders. Have we not said to you before: they wish not those who disbelieved, of the people of the Book and the affixers, that good descends to you from your Lord, and God privileges whom He will by His Compassion, God is of the Great Elevation, what we copy of a verse or make it forgotten, we bring a better or a similar to it, do you not know that God is over all things Capable? and for every nation is a messenger, when their messenger comes, judges he by Justice between them, and they are not wronged. They have bewildered those who want to govern by the Qur’an and to take it as a system, then by it they disbelieve, after that the Right has been made lucid to them, say isn’t the Right more rightful to be followed?

[The Qur’anic paraphrases are pointers to their correct meaning, which can be found in COB’s English reading of them,

The Qur’an pointed the people to the Highest Standard and brought out the Light of the Torah and the Gospel, and corrected the misinterpretations of them …, and called to end pagan ritualistic practices and the affixing of stones and people to God …

Unfortunately, the Qur’an has been ignored by the different sects of Islam, and a shariah, based on assumed discourses of the prophet, the khalifs and the imams - of questionable sources and often content - has replaced it,

A shariah which reinstates the traditions of heathen Arabia and the Levant,

A shariah which has turned non-Muslims away from the Qur’an, and gave a false explanation of it …

And our reading of the Qur’an highlights a total divorce from the practices of shariah of all Islamic sects and branches,

The destiny of the Qur’an has been no different from that of the Torah and the Gospels, in that it has been turned into a divisive issue of politics and power, and has itself undergone distortion, in interpretation as well as transcription.]

O you people of Union, take your precautions, many of those who have been blinded would wish to return you disbelievers after your belief, of envy and ignorance of their selves, after that the Law has been made lucid to them, and they are in the arrogance of disbelief confused. Has known, your Lord the Sovereign that you’ve been betraying your own selves, and you loaded them with burdens on top of yours, and you’ve overworked them and went down the roads of darkness, bad is what you’ve done.

[This is indeed addressed to the Druze themselves today, who have been told their salvation is guaranteed by admitting the divinity of the Fatimid Khalif, and the clergy who represent this belief will go to any extent to affirm their institutes and titles, in the illusion that their promises will come true, not unlike other religions …

They too have covered the Hikmah with their own books of explanations and traditions, and have imposed a law of excommunication and sometimes execution upon whomever questions or contradicts them …

This is when it takes faith in one’s own mind and good heart: to face the monsters of fallacies and fright …

Indeed, the people of all Abrahamic religions are all facing those monsters; the truly faithful, with the power of their minds and the vastness of their hearts: they are able to deflate them.]

That those who have committed ill by their distancing, will confuse them our Lord the Sovereign the day we turn them over from the right to the left, and we trail them with humiliation, they have no protector for them from it, as if blocks of dark night have blurred their faces and minds, those are the people of fakeness, they are in it eternally; has not wronged them, our Lord the Sovereign, but it was them who wronged themselves, so, He said to them your place is with your affixes/partners; and destined He death onto you, and divided between you, stand aside each of you, O you criminals. Is he who guides to the Law more worthy to be followed, or he who guides not until he is guided? So what’s it with you, how do you judge? You have lived in the suspicion of your selves, and forgotten what’s around you of Truth, that suspicion suffices nothing from Truth; you have disbelieved what you have known and what you haven’t and said gossip about the Truth, and our Lord’s Word is due upon you, away with you and what you worship.
 

Cob 28

The Prayer for Transcendence

Say, O you who believe in our Lord the Sovereign the Hedonicos, be seated on the armchairs of Union, and eat of what our Lord has provided you, that the best provision is the refuge, and drink from a chalice, its cocktail is prepared camphor, and return what you drink [as connections go in both ways], then transcend at nights’ ends and days’ extremities , sheltering in Him from a return:

“My Lord, I shelter in Thee from standing in the station of the liars, and [from] treading the ways of the deluded ones, the ones amusing and abusing themselves and each other, who have been dazzled by the elements, their days have gone and their errors have persisted, their sins have tied them up.

“I shelter in Thee from looking at else than Thee, and far it is to me, and matured it has upon its stems, and liveliness is now due upon me from Thee, to return to Thee, to eye, and to be with them who have journeyed upon the discipline of our Lord’s Sharpened Sword, and the Way to the Cause of the causes and the Great Paragon: they are them upon whom Thou bestowedest, and with whom Thou art Content, and increasedest Thou in their genesis whatever Thou willest, for however long Thou willest and however Thou willest, they are them who have reached the threshold and waited not, Thou opendest the Doors for them, and it was said to them enter you in nations that departed before you; and be seated on the pedestals of nearness and oneness, their light labours between their hands and behind them, they have shaded themselves in the Pavilions of eternal happiness, and thus they became the orthodox tradition.

“My Lord, I thank Thee for Thy Elements that Thou endowedest me with, I shelter in Thee from their departure. My Lord, if those [people] could experience those endowments, nothing in them would accommodate them, except our Lord the Sovereign the Hedonicos.

“My Lord, I called for rescue to Thee and I sheltered in Thee, so I have pleasure in Thy Contentment, and I have guarded my self from Thy Wrath and Punishment, and I have resorted to Thee from Thee; for, the Light of transcendence of the close ones is what points my heart’s eye to Thee, and blinds it from what is not Thee; but, O my Lord, it transcends in the oceans of tears of clashing fears, sheltering in Thee from the dropping of curtains and the closing of doors, so it returns not to the shades of the blaze of the tree of in-between.

“Transcendest Thou, my Lord, as Thou hast protected our heats’ eyes from the fogs of dormancy, and healed them from looking to the ways of bewilderment.

“Transcendest Thou, the minds of Thy wanters have rejoiced, Thou hence nearedest them, and the hearts of Thy rememberers have lit, and Thou hence contentedest them.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, I am baffled by them who are preoccupied by their selves’ luck and have forgotten their most major luck everlasting from Thee, and how they want a substitute for Thee, and find friendliness elsewhere.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, how many an image faintly enters this mind, but it doesn’t discern it, so the heart is self-content in its Okeanos, there is colouring, then the filtering is far reaching providence, for, warnings do not suffice.

“My Lord, I shelter in Thee from the comeback of the I, after that it subsided and returned He without him, and surpassed He the colouring, and [entire] oceans attract Him and ushered Him, hence separates He by what is seeable and what is unseeable, and the oceans are elevated above the shore. Transcendest Thou, elevatedest Thou my Illustrator/Beginner, hence, came He back by Manifestation and Cause without a Beginning/Illustration.

“How often have the arrivals sheltered in Thee upon their travels from turning to and singling the abundance of that providence, so it might [not] lead them to other than the road to witness.

“My Lord, I heed, then this self repeats its gratitude, so it responds, and why wouldn’t it, and Thou hast made [] and no beginning is for it and no end, and time, for which Thou madest not two coasts, for Thou art Life, it is [self] in Thee, it is Time in such Existence.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, Sanctum Sanctorum, here is the heart returning after the comeback of its skies, the far end of the night and the extremities of the day, hence, panoramic are its mountains and in equilibrium, and its earth is shaken, and by the outbursts of Union it landed upon the Joody.

“My Lord, tanscendest Thou, at the Dawn when Thou removedest my drapes, and purifiedest me, and usherdest me in the Nectar, and distilledest me for Thee, and leftest in me no remnants of attendance and forthcoming to other than Thee. They wonder, those who witnessed not the Light on the Way of Exuberance, how did those ghosts shed the attires of their illusions, and wore parts of quanta of their timelessness, so, enlivened was what had died in them by the light of them who face Thee and come forth to Thee, when the throats are dedicated to the witness and immortalisation.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, this heart shelters in Thee, that remembrance of other than Thee passes by and it listens, or light to bewilderment and it sees, burn Thou it my Lord in Thy Providence, for, to Thee are the here and the hereafter, it has affixed [something] and due upon it is the word of suffering.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, I shelter in Thee from sorrow over what can’t be recaptured after it has gone, and can’t be reached after it has passed, and from thought between the two thoughts, and self between the two selves.

“My Lord, I thank Thee for the Identity to my identity, and for my identities before the Light of Thy Identity, and I shelter in Thee from the blindness of those who seek amusement, and the stupor of them who decline the declination of seers, after they were dazzled and reckoned they were guided.

“Allahum, our Lord the Sovereign, Lord of all the lords, we transcend in Thee the transcendence of the arrivals, and remember Thee the remembrance of the knowers, and we invoke Thee the invocation of lovers, and we trance in Thee the trance of infatuated lovers, and we live in Thee by the death of enchantment upon the Way of the Truth of Certainty.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, how honoured is this self, which shelters in Thee from the malice of itself before the mausoleum of her heart, while retiring from her weakness, and spirited by her euphoria.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, which of Thy Elements can this self, comforted, self-blaming, deny, after that Thou overwhelmedest her days, in her settlements and her travels, by the melodies of nearness and friendliness, and liftedest Thou the misfortune, and removedest the dazzlement, and didst with her what Thou art more Entitled to, than her to herself, and undidst the fetters of her own identity in her imprisonments, and exalted her from the impurities of her self’s procreations, and raisedest her above the dwellings of warnings to the witness of the Proof of Divinity; and Thou gavest her about her, and terminatedest her from her, and Thou camest forth by her to Thee, and madest her witness the innermostness of Thy Creation, and cheeredest her by the effulgence of Truth in the nights of her confusion.

“My Lord, transcendest Thou, how far is that lip to those who want Thee, while in their howdahs they come on the reindeer of longing, and from behind those veils they sway along, as they smell the aromas of the scents of the breeze of the Pavillions; so they continue the procession and they are in them, but in euphoria of drunkenness of their ignorance, then they fall short of a witness astray. And here they are, a state of nearness has signaled to them, they look on those carried upon the identity of the tablets of their invocations and the coaches of their longings, thus their ships sail in the seas of nearness and farness by the gusts of Union, and the breeze of sincerity and abstraction, they are them who assured it by the ties of faith, and the foundations of the covenants, so they encountered in it the causes of Peace to the Home of Peace, there are the melodies of the purebred birds around those Pavillions, and they are, since, in everlasting happiness, transcending in God the Sovereign, their Lord, dawn and dusk”

Cob 29

The Obligatory Rulings

These are the obligatory rulings, in clear verses, for them who have embraced Union and have faith, and became guided, for them is life in the low one and the hereafter, for so long as the heavens are; and each one of you is bound by them, whether male or female, after binding the obligations of the Dimensions. And those who are intimidated by them, that they have pleasure a little, then they will be returned to their Lord the Sovereign, so He pays them the most fitting reward.

[It should be noted by now, that there are two avenues which go parallel, and need to be tread simultaneously, as if one foot is on each avenue,

The prayers aim at inflaming the love of Existence Abstract, Beautiful, and Virtuous in its Self-Sufficiency,

So that the human capacity to love and long … are directed to its Origin, and so that a comeback is possible …

The rulings and prohibitions, on the other hand, are meant with setting standards …, which would translate to virtuous sentiment and action in their time and circumstances, to purify the ego from its selfish aims …

It is when religions take a physical – literary or other – projection, or indeed ignore the existence of the Abstracts: that the prayers in this Book, or indeed the prayers of every religion: fall short of deliverance, and turn to a mind-numbing futile exercise …

And it is when the literality of the rulings and the prohibitions, or indeed the rejection of them: are adopted: that the rulings and prohibitions deliver not virtuous sentiments and action, but are indeed used as a pretext for crime and corruption …

The intrinsic separation between Abstract and Virtue thus proposed, is implied by the teachings of the Books and the Ghita,

Let’s not forget, that Arjuna is told about human virtues in the context of an advice and a warning from dark nature and the ill fate that it leads to as a result of greed, lust and anger …,

On the other hand, the poetry and the imagery of the praise of Ishwar … culminated in his consciousness hovering above the relative aspects of his dilemma in the battlefield, and delivering himself words of praise, of poetry and eloquence of the highest order …

This two-fold approach Hinduism shares with Abrahamic religions and Sikhism,

While Buddhism, and I’m sure due to misinterpretations and ancient traditions, avoids enthusing feelings of love, admiration and awe … even if aimed at the highest of Abstracts/Essences,

In Buddhism, “essences” seem to point only to high standards of behaviour, guided by compassion, aiming at alleviating suffering from all sentient beings …

While such an aim is highly noble, and can indeed induce the high consciousness in which physical manifestation and activity are seen as inexistent: the explicit expression of love and admiration is avoided, and the essences of Beauty and Completeness, prior to manifestation, and past manifestation: do not feature,

Perhaps the attachment to those “concepts” might evoke an attachment to their physical manifestations, and hence the avoidance,

But, let’s not forget, that the attachment to virtuous action and sentiment: in particular circumstances: is also an attachment,

And the attachment to non-attachment is also attachment …

This is when action and sentiment are at danger of being mistaken for purpose per se, and this is a mental confinement in which all religions, including Buddhism, can potentially fall,

With this lengthy introduction I can only say: that the aim should always be to go higher than the circumstances: for essences and virtues to be approached, whether those are sought in action and intent, or in love of beauty and completeness …

It is the most stultifying experience: to have a set of dos and don’ts, as all religions do, that they use as a pillow for their eternal dormancy, in the hope that the god or the karma will eventually salvage them,

Their existence is meant to be inquisitive: mindfully, feelingly and behaviourally, for any religious or other teaching to be meaningful and fruitful …]

O you people, approach not adultery, that it is to the people of Union a caution, and the adulteress is not coupled except with an ignorant or an affixer or an apostate, and the adulterer is not coupled except with a female ignorant, or an affixer or an apostate, and this is forbidden to the people of Union, and your Lord the Sovereign has overlooked what has passed.

And those who approach obscenities, after that guidance has been demonstrated to them, they will be paid back worse than they were doing, and will return them their Lord to the rock bottom of destitute living. And those who accuse their well-guarded spouses, and they haven’t brought witnesses, those are damned in their turnings, they come to us with blackened faces, from the doubt of their lies, and it is unallowed for the people of Union to be their companions.

That those who would like that obscenity become rampant among the people of Union: have the worst home, will make them suffer your Lord at the hands of the people of Union, do hold on to the binding of your oaths all of you, and be not dispersed, or you fail, and your spirit dissipates, and you are like the spinner who dropped her yarn, do consider O you people with a kernel.

You are not in error, upon your returns in the horizons, that you enter uninhabited homes, or lodge yourselves in them, or that there is comfort for you in them, and your Lord knows what you disclose and what you secret.

And it’s upon the women of Union to draw their veils over their gaps, and that they guard their children, and that they remember what your Lord the Sovereign has descended before about them, and that they show not their beauty except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands’ fathers, or their children, or their husbands’ children, or their brothers, or their nephews, or their sisters’ children, or their women, or the children which haven’t looked out to the privacy of women; and she who transgresses our Lord’s limits has wronged herself, and has a two-fold suffering.

[In the exceedingly patriarchal societies of the Middle East then, it is understandable why such strict rules …

But like every ruling, the essence has to be the purpose, and not the actions per se, otherwise the rules become pictorial, devoid of virtue …

The essence in this ruling is the teaching of self-respect and the togetherness of family ties …

But even in their mildest form, such rulings can be seen today as male chauvinism and derogatory to women, especially in secular societies …

In COB’s opinion, and that has been expressed before, there’s no rule that fits all societies at all times, and societies have to constantly modify their rules and traditions, as the norms change as well as social attitudes, in the light of the commandments of their Books,

And this can happen only if the interpretations of such rules are not taken as god’s immutable law, and that god would be angry if those interpretations are violated,

If this sounds too lax to conservative societies, and backward to secular liberal ones: both must remember, that only a few decades ago the liberal societies of today’s were as patriarchal as today’s conservative ones …]

That those who say we have trusted our Lord the Sovereign and the Dimensions/Messengers, and we have bound ourselves with the Covenant, then they turn away after that, and those who have been called to the Way of the Centre of the Compass to judge between them by the Law and the Philosophy, then they declined: even if the right is to them, they come to Him defeated, those are them in whose hearts is the illness of doubt, them who darkened themselves, and their families, them the transgressors. That the people of Union the faithful are them, who, when called by their Lord the Sovereign to judge between them, they say we have heard and obeyed, and to Thee Lord we have faced, those are the achievers the honest, who honoured what they covenanted their Lord the Sovereign the Hedonicos about.

They allege, those who darkened, that they are better than them who are in the earth altogether, and closer to the heaven with the throne, and that they are upon guidance from their early fathers; say, we know better the falsehood of your fathers that you’ve been made to inherit, and what triggers falsehood and what returns. And if you were to look by the light of that essence/abstract from which you’ve been stripped, and [if you] cleared what’s on your selves of the somber of their fogginess, and removed what’s in them of grudge, and became mindful by the causes of that essence/abstract, you would’ve realised that you are in the rock bottom of the bellies of hell, and that it is the utter falsehood of your elders that has re-germinated in your hearts, and thus your visions have been blinded by it, and you remained [like] lightless stones, and an unpolished mix [of water, fire and earth], and sticky clay, and a heavy accident in dense selves, so how can you discern? bad is what you judge.

[This last announcement summarises the story of every Abrahamic religion without an exception, and can be extended to the religions of the Far East, namely Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism, although the illness self-manifest there in different symptoms,

The state of the Middle East, and the wider Islamic world, and the wider Christian world … are a testimony of having lost the essence of their Books …, and took it upon themselves, each group, to select themselves as the inheritors of the heavens and the earth, and everyone else as the seed of evil …

And any attempt to wake them up is taken immediately as part of their enemies’ conspiracies …

And no light can be seen at the end of the tunnel,

But indeed, leaderships and populations all want to hold on, in the hope that their god is going to reward them for their patience and stubbornness …

And memories of far past do hint to them, that similar mistakes were made in the past, that brought upon the world destruction and a total annihilation of human civilisation,

The human mind can indeed implode in a blackhole, or expand to encompass the entire world …, all by the mindful choices that people make,

But once the road down the abyss is taken: vision there is limited, and reality is projected within it, and the words of the Books, or any piece of advice and warning: are projected within it, even the physique of people changes without their notice, and subtle signs of stupor and beastliness start to show on them, not visible to the physical eye …, regardless of their self-classification, their wealth and education, regardless of their standards of beauty and elegance …

This is a bad predicament,

COB stands by its posset that the different races of apes around the world were once humans in far past time cycles, and the Qur’an does hint to it, and perhaps other Books did but the hint went unnoticed …

As the “skies” change the positions of its directors of life and activity, new geneses emerge, old ones decline or completely vanish,

People today should be keen to preserve human civilisations, so the journey can resume, otherwise, self-destruction and a restart will be inevitable. This is a bad destiny … ]

Cob 30

Mutual Witness and The Nectar of Manifestation

That those who believed in their Lord the Sovereign, the God of the early ones and the God of the late ones, are them who honoured their faith, hence the spirits attracted them, and they became the close ones to Him by two cubits and even closer, and they are constant until they see Him by His Vision, and the truths of those stations manifested to all their pursuits, so He removed from them caution, separation and fear, and they sublimated, and far are the ranks of the knowledgeable ones, and have settled the lovers, by the Eyes of their Lord, poured He happiness down upon them and dawned He joy to them.

O you who believed, and trusted the Truth when He came to them, be forbearing and help one another to forbear, that your Lord God is with them who forbear and whose hearts are content, so they sensed friendliness in Him and their longing was quenched; and there is the witness witnessing, for, He is with them never Absent, they have breathed for themselves from Him comfort and compassion.

O you who have been extravagant for themselves and rejected the Truth while arrogant, that God is with them who have believed, is He their hearing that they hear, and their vision that they vision, and their hand that they strike, and their leg that they walk, and God is He forthcoming to them in their selves, before their breeze that has dwelt in their hearts: the Light of their Lord’s Nearness, by it they perceive, and is He their Guide, they see none of a thing but their Lord is Closer to them than it. So, when the night takes over them, and hearts and eyes are fast asleep, and motions have calmed down, and everything’s senses have settled: they are alone with their loved ones, and have let out what’s in their chests transparently, so they are enthused by their sentiments, and the spirits of their identities have lifted, they rested in the happiness of nearness content, loneliness has quit them, and paradise and fire are now equal to them, also summation and differentiation, no self knows what has been confided to them of comforting eyes; and have realised those who’ve been ensuing their way, that paradise’s way borders loath-worthiness, and that of fire lust, and that everything they have missed and was returned to them afar by their Lord, else than their Lord, otherwise facile, and that every bit of luck to them, else than their Lord, is too little, and behind that: petty.

And if those who demand the Sun were honest, it would rise upon their hearts in the skies of its obelisk, instead, they came carrying their loads and the loads of those before them, and God our Lord knows the honest ones and knows He the crooks.

And say, look you falsifiers at those who loved, and their loved one was the Cause of everything, and nothing veered them from him, they found his fingerprints within themselves, and manifested they in his manifestations, and our Lord’s Radiant Word was completed: you are closer to Us than the selves of your identities in their oscillations.

And of His Marvels are within you, and you are in Him where your lookouts, thus He inspires to you, like He inspired to the ones before you, for, is He Allah, the Sovereign, the Hedonicos, Hari, Shiva, Brahman, Arhat Karma, is He the God of the Sunrises and the God of the Sunsets, Possessor of the Nectar of all Manifestations, the heavens and the earth all but crumble above you and underneath you, if it weren’t for our Lord’s Bestowments and Providence upon you, and the destined Final Descent. And it is He Who made mankind, the Sun and the Moon: One Spirit, and made it [the Spirit] Mere Truth, for them who have lent an ear as they witnessed, and most people do not understand; and even when the people of authority are careful, they are not faithful, except them to whom the Light has forth come.

[I can’t find a reference to “Arhat Karma”, apart from the Arhat, in Sanskrit, being the 16 possessors of power of wisdom, the messengers’ assistants. But this is misplaced among the other Names cited.]

Cob 31

The Custodians of Justice

Say, O you who have turned to the sunrises of disbelief, isn’t it time for you to thank your Lord as He assigned you to the shade of Three Sectors, not shading and not making [you] needless of the flames, and completed He His providence upon you, as you were enemies and He reconciled between you, and you were on the cliff of the hole of hell, and he rescued you from it, and brought He you out of the darkness to the light, but the prideful ones are in [their] business distracted; indeed, bad is what’s in their stomachs of the dross of their darkness, indeed bad is their conduct, the day when they ask that the pressure of their loads be diminished for them, and they hope [many] hopes, and what’s in the inside of their selves is exposed, also revealed are the stems of their hearts. So by what are you backing up yourselves O you falsifiers? is it by the whiteness of the countenances of your faces at your Liberator? or by what you’ve afforded of the labour of the ones of Union and the radiance of the ones with a kernel? here you are quaffing from your accumulated tears, and has surrounded you: the filth of your sins, and you have sat on the chairs of affixism, and from the aliment of the identity of repudiation you feed.

[In other words, it is also in the shade of Trismegistus that “dark” ideologies and religions are given existence and life, for the purpose of improving the lives of them who love this world with its passions and activity …

But such ideologies and religions do not free one from the dark nature of the world in which they are needed, and hence thrive …

The Ghita talks extensively about the demigods and their worshippers, who keep coming back to them, believing they are being rewarded and punished by those demigods, but in fact it is Trismegistus that is conducting the march of time and the cycles of existence, without their notice …

The firm tone is meant to assert the seriousness of the consequences of taking such worldly pursuits,

As time goes by, and the skies have changed their directors …, the remedy becomes ineffective in new circumstances, and all the virtues of faithfulness and perseverance, which once helped their holders achieve great material achievements: turn against them, by their own laws of localness and impermanence …

At that point, it takes true faith in the Mind, to acknowledge the vainness of all worldly pursuits, to face the imminent danger …]

They have bewildered, those who consume people’s money unjustly, when they support the corrupt ones, and they have not upheld justice between themselves, and have covered up to the eyes of the people. So, whoever is given a gift as [solicitation of] support, and has accepted it: they have gone through the doors of the hell of usury, and whoever has not judged by what our Lord the Sovereign the Hedonicos has descended: they have sinned and lost the Way, and is [now] of the darkened ones. That so, bribery is for them who have disbelieved and are unguided, they tuck fire under their arms, them and those who kept it in their necks. That those who inflict wrong upon people, or would not lift it up from them except if given a support of money, multiplies, our Lord for them the suffering, and comes to them [the suffering] from where they don’t anticipate.

[Amazingly, no Abrahamic religion’s authority have noticed the evil of bribery, and bribery in their supposedly heavenly laws does not feature as a sin, worthy of suffering in hell …

And even more amazingly, Druze, who have been told explicitly in this Book not to engage in giving or taking it: don’t seem to notice the warning, and don’t seem to understand that bribery is one major cause of the backwardness and the corruption in their countries …

And if they say that they knew, but the people have been judged already, hence it is pointless to teach anyone anything …: this is even a much bigger sin …

But time is revealing to all nations which turn a blind eye to bribery, that it actually corrupts their countries, and potentially drives them to total ruin …

Abrahamic religions are yet to understand that nothing has been prohibited in their Books for no reason, or at the whim of an arbitrary god for the purpose of testing the people,

There’s no point in having a secular system in those countries, if irrationality still dictates their traditions and ideologies,

The West has figured out that bribery corrupts governmental as well we private sectors, and distributes jobs and services unfairly, and in the long term will cause frustration and distrust, which will culminate in a dysfunctional system …

Also China has declared a ruthless war against bribery and corruption, although their rivals believe that the one party system there is innately corrupt,

But it remains to be seen if countries of all ideologies around the world can put an end to corruption that is now pandemic …

The West is yet to be convinced that political donations, i.e. money given to political parties by corporations and wealthy individuals, to fund elections campaigns and commercial style advertising: are actually bribes,

And no one there is prepared to ring the alarm bells about this form of corruption that is gradually wrecking the once fairly integrous systems,

People have to figure out what’s best for them, by being cooperative, just and rational …,

The gods for whom the clergy of all religions speak have no clue what’s good and what’s bad for the people.]

O you people of Union, we have made you the custodians of justice in the earth, so you may govern between each other by the right, and that you follow not the footprints of the hypocrites; and those who govern not by what our Lord has descended, their hearts have sinned, and [they] travel in the obscurities of darkness astray, the days when we bring them over with the mobs of the apostates, to be served a drink of putrid tears from the lands of the adulteresses, bad is such a sojourn and bad is such a beverage.

O you people of Union, resents you, your Lord God the Sovereign, about verbosity in your faith, as He resents you about what your hearts have earned; so, make not God your Lord an exhibit of your faith, except them who assured faith, to them is forgiveness, and for every people is a guide.

[This is a commandment that has been repeated in every Book, since the Ten Commandments,

The people who are exhibitionist about their faith call the Names of Allah and God loud constantly …,

If they want to call the people to faith, their rational minds and cooperative and kind hearts would, also their selfless deeds …

But people swear by those Names and invoke them loud constantly to advertise their political religions and to stand out as good and pious people among the people …, but God only judges the people, not the people …]

And we have created the heavens of the acknowledgment of Union, and we ornamented them by the lamps of oscillations of statuses, and we made them treadable for those who took off their slippers/burdens at the threshold of the sacred valley, and recited what was written by the pens of sacredness and pardon and Union and the prayer that has the dawns, in their hearts they hear that echo: abide in God as though He sees you, for if you don’t see Him, He does see you. And your Lord, God the Sovereign has lit in their selves, and blessed/expanded their hearts, they are them whom God the Lord made forget what they were in of severe suffering, and paradise was brought close to them not far, they wandered in their gardens, shaded by the birds of peace, and we have more.

Cob 32

The Duality and The Unity

O you who have believed in their Liberator, and in the rises of His Ten Nights, and have reached behind the Duality and the Unity, take your tablets and read, then return your visions so your hearts may find equanimity in them, and thank Him as He has lifted from you the Tracts of Kaaf and Noon [letters of the Arabic word “كن”, which means “be”, and whose shape represent a journey between unity and duality], and it is He Who made the Image of the Exuberant Light: the Nectar of Clearness and the Obelisks of the Mountains of the [Primary] Helium.

[This is consistent with what came in the Ghita and the Qur’an, about the Days and Nights of Brahman, implying that Existence comes into being and returns, and while in becoming: the dual existence is at a tract from what can be visioned as Exuberant Light of Mountains and Waterfalls, of super-cosmic scales, from which the Elements of becoming become …, and the Primary Helium, the highest Substance taking image and animation from a dual consciousness,

The model of the Fiber Optic Tree (available on the website) that COB proposed a while ago is perhaps the best depiction of the world of duality and its images/illusions …

For any human, however, to claim that they know what happened and how, whether based on the discourse of a messenger, an Avatar or a Buddha: is more illusion on top of the illusion …

This is why the experience of Union is one that surpasses all the attributes of existence born in a dual world …

If people like emptiness and they believe it is the highest station of existence/annulment: they can develop the meditational technique to achieve it,

If they like a perfect world, of scenery of beauty beyond physical, and mental capabilities above what is normal: they can practise the prayers and invocation, and perform all the sacrificial action or inaction, and the selflessness and the deprivation of sensual experience …, and they will come to this state of existence,

If people like a world of sensual pleasures, of food, wine and sex, and they’ve gone correctly by the laws of their religions: their karma will at some point of their existence grant them those wishes …

None of those, however, should be certain that they’re not coming back to this world or another similar, and in fact, all of them will …

This Page can assure you, and it has done so a few times in the past, that all the messengers, Avatars and Buddhas, as well as the dark deity and demons: have come back many times after they delivered their message(s), and at this crucial time of human existence, they are all here …

The belief that this one time we’re all in now is the only “time”, and that somehow this should end, either by an end-of-days scenario at a god’s decision, or when every being has achieved Buddhahood and have had their selves vanish in null: is mere human thinking, based on concepts born in duality, having no real existence …

The Buddha says that every being is Buddha, because there’s only one I, The Solitary in His Identity,

Whether this I is to suffix upon duality, or be in Union while there’s duality: is a question no human can answer or is meant to answer at some point along this time line …, and moreover, it’s a question no one knows how to word …

So, although the Unity can be “described” as emptiness, from it many levels of “becoming” emerge,

Each of those is visioned to the now self-conscious I,

This is where self-knowledge - or knowledge for that matter – and vision are confused,

And the process of unification is none but the purification from the confusions of consciousness, until the I is reunited …

Different “religions” point to what appear to be different ways and aims …

At their low levels: their difference is dictated by their spatiotemporality, which should fade, if the traveler perseveres …: driven by the love of deconceptualising, that can be said as compassion …

At its start, this Page offered the example of the climbers of a pyramid, starting from the different sides of its base,

If asked, what do you see, they’ll provide totally inconsistent descriptions …

But as they rise, their scopes of vision start to overlap,

And if they persevere, they’ll reach the same top, where the entire horizon is, and all the visions are below them …]

Isn’t it He Who constructed you from the Tree of Eternity - and you thus became the fruit of it - Capable of running rivers underneath it, so He serves you from the water that runs not out, a pleasure to the drinkers, and it is He Who sphered you over the night, and sphered He the Sun and the Moon, each of you flows by a calculus, and to an allotted term, so that when you come to us we make you as we will, for what we will, where we will, and we made you peoples and tribes so you may know one another, the fastest one of you to those stations is the most refuging.

And when those who repudiate the Law hear our Lord’s Verses, they turn their faces away, and their tongues, and overwork them: the remnants of their arrogance, and they say we are upon guidance from our forefathers, and we are not to follow your Lord the Sovereign, we have our deeds and you have your deeds. And they went, while in the wrapping of their hearts’ illness they were confused.

[Indeed, this has been the story of every followers of Abrahamic religions, when new messages were delivered, to correct their deviation from the straight path, and to free them from heathen laws and pagan practices …

Their disagreements now stem from their misinterpretations. God’s Word is one, there’s no alteration to His Word, as has told them the Qur’an.]

It is a big ask, to those who repudiated, to adhere to the way of the Dawns of Godly Manifestations in the Human Image, so they went in the pitch darkness of their suspicions, and the somber of their information, interpreting, they lost the vast ways of dawning, and made gods of their passions, bad is what they do.

[We come again to an issue which evokes controversy, blind faith or total disbelief …

The problem with saying God, transcends He, manifests to the few of the few of the people of Union in their vision in a Human Image: is that it’s quickly taken as a call to deify a particular person who were born and needed to be fed to grow …, by those people who, due to their karmic heritage, are too ready to embrace the concept …

On the other hand, there are people who, due to their karmic heritage again, shun the idea of an image for the Absolute altogether,

In both cases, each side finds only repudiation and disbelief on the other side …

On a number of occasions this Page has attempted to tackle this issue, which can never be resolved by logical arguments and philosophic analyses alone, since it involves the innermost content of one’s heart and mind,

This one takes many lives, and over many cycles of time, to get resolved and bypassed in one’s own self, with the help of the Books of course, and one’s personal effort …

So I say to the first group, that they have to keep in mind that Manifestations occur in the vision of the individual without a physical medium, such as a human or thing, or any other thing for that matter …

And I say to the second group that all Abrahamic Books have told the believers that God, transcends He, looks them. And let’s not forget the Opening Surah of the Qur’an, which in fact is a short prayer, addressing the Lord in the First Person, asking Him for an “eye”, which has been misinterpreted as asking for “help”,

But the Qur’an goes on to say that God looks the faithful people, a few times …

Of course, Islamic interpreters have been too quick to understand that the look translates to food, health, money and offspring …, and you’ll often hear pious people asking god to look them, when in need of “help”, and the actual “look” is thus understood to be the reward of the final judgement at the end-of-days,

In the days of the message of Hamzah, and as was the case in the days of the message of Salman, when the Qur’an was descended, or indeed the previous message of the Messiah, and before that of Samuel, and before, that of Akhenaton …, and others missed a mention …: there was Manifestation in the vision of the few of the few of the people of Union,

Those, of their open and good mind, want to tell everyone …, to perhaps look to see for themselves …, but are ridiculed and often tortured and killed by pagan people …

At that time when al-Mansoor was born, with his mother’s visions pointing to his important karma, she and the people who believed him were quick to say: this is god …

Those, today, look for another human god, in an Indian guru or other …

As for the Christians, their clergy have refused to recognise the coming of the Messiah after his Grand Coming when he taught the Gospels …

As for the Muslims and the Jews, those have persisted on worshipping the stones that their ancestors had worshipped, and still are …

As for the Hindu, those think that the image of Krishna is “the image”, although the Ghita denies this unequivocally …

As for the Buddhists, any mention that is not of emptiness is immediately taken as an attachment, which is essentially the same concept of affixism in Islam (ishrak), and hence bewilderment short of enlightenment …

This issue will have to be resolved soon from a political and ideological standpoint, so that all Abrahamic religions, as well as Hindu and Buddhist: admit that the way to reaching Truth is a long way that has not come to a final end yet, but indeed many are still at the very start of it …

This is how they can respect each other’s beliefs and traditions, and turn their ideological rivalry to mutual understanding and cooperation at every level of their existence …

I hasten to say, that the witness of Truth doesn’t hinge on events in time either, and can be experienced by the people of Union above or upon their timeline …

Time, however, does position stars and other celestial objects by its impeccable Geometry, which enables the witness, without having to have lived a life of piety and seclusion and so on …, and this is mentioned in this Book and the Qur’an as “nearing and dangling” (دنى فتدلى),

The Heavens, however, aren’t going to inform any religious authority about who earns this privilege, that is not subject to their definitional faith, tribal heritage or academic qualifications …

It is easy for people to exhibit piety, going by codes of dress and conduct, and awarding themselves, or indeed buying, holy titles …

But it is impossible for a human to acknowledge the soul that is devoid of negative thoughts, intents and emotions, and harbours only love for Existence …, that is so pure that has the witness, in a universal Effulgence …

As mentioned in this Book and the Qur’an, those are them who are “snatched the primary snatch”,

They often “martyr” of joy …

Where do they go?

Again, it is not for any human or religious authority to tell their destinies in the horizons …

It all depends on each individual’s innateness …]

That the abiders in our Lord are them who took refuge, and when they hear what is being said, they follow the best of it, so He kept fear and sadness away from them, they are hence safe. And when death is mentioned, their hearts are nostalgic, and they peak at their other life, and they have been brought out of it, and He was Content with them and they were content with Him, then they were returned to their Gardens eternally.

O you people of Union, thank your Lord day and night, it is He Who brought you out of the darkness of inexistence to the Lights of the Philosophy the eternal, and made He that light labour between your hands and within your alphas/right hands, you thus became in the ranks of the secrets of the Godly Elements. Travel in the earth, coming forth to the Doors of the heavens, for you are the highest.

As for them who rejected the Call and declined, then turned their faces towards their falsehoods, will make, our Lord, their exoterica sever from them and set free, so they control nothing of them, and their esoterica [is set] ablaze, in it boils lava, the one of them sips stiches spitefully; and when they awake from fainting of pain, they cry out I wish I didn’t take what’s-his-name as an intimate friend, he has misguided me after that remembrance had come to me and the unequivocal guidance, I wish I took, with the people of Union, a path, I wish I was dust. And the gardens are brought close to the people of Union, and the Lights of their faith effulge, and the Nectars are neared by their profusion, and by this dangling close fruit.

O you who believe, that those who fret lies on their Lord, and confusion, and they say to you that this discourse is from God, and it is not from your Lord, to make you dissent from your faith, and to create suspicion in your hearts, have been damned they, wherever they are known, and defeated a great defeat, and has whispered God Their Lord to them about war from Him and from the Carriers of His Throne, and makes He them suffer at the hands of the people of Union of you, until the day they are resurrected, and that they carry their scruples complete, and on top of them are the scruples of those who misguided them, and there is no self of the selves of them but with a logbook of her errors, their Lord hurls them in the inferno, every time they are brought out of it they are returned to it, that is by that they are a people who do not reason.

And those who trust not the Paragons of their Lord the Sovereign, and they falsified the Law, while they were looking at it, they are them who exited, since the days of repentance and faith, like an arrow exists its bow, they have been stripped from religion/redemption, they return not to it, they are the worst creation and the worst character, our lord has hence debarred repentance to them. Do consider O you wielders of kernels, may you thus achieve.

O you who believe, you were dead and we enlivened you, and made for you Light to guide you among the people, if you were to count your Lord’s Bestowments, you couldn’t tally them. As for those who darkened and refused the Call, after they saw the Law, those are in the darkness, they are not exiting from it, and more we have.

Cob 33

The Truth of Prayer and Faith

Say, faith is not that you turn your faces aside the forbidden house of bowing, facing the house of totems, or aside the sunrise or the sunset, or climbing up the mountain of errors and statues, or that you follow the tradition of the early heathenry; rather, faith and Union is in them who trust in our Lord the Sovereign, Lord and God, that there’s no Abode except Him, and in this Book of The Solitary in His Identity, and the Way to His Elements and Gardens, and by the Dimensions the Lofty the Godly the Spiritual, possessors of the roads, the [ones of] human form in all their manifestations across the ages, and by the Holder of Time, Possessor of the Round and the Rectilinear, He Who upon the Throne surmounted, and [them] who provide money and light of their love of the close ones, the orphaned, the poor and those on the Way, the inquisitor and [constant] watcher, and [them] who up-hold justice between the people of Union, and [them] who honour their covenant if they covenanted the faithful and the people of Union, and [them] the forbearing in hardship and disasters and in tough times, and [them] who guard their gaps, and command by the Highest Standard, and deter from obscenities, and them who take no master below the faithful and the people of Union, and them who favour the faithful and the people of Union over themselves, even if in hardship. And it is them who observed the Covenant that they covenanted their Lord the Sovereign from before, and diminished nothing of it, this is them to whom God the Sovereign has redeemed their rewards, and shaded them under the branches of the tree of Contentment, and hosted them in the most honoured Station.

[The word that I translated to “aside” herein and in the Qur’an, has been understood to mean “to” by Islamic scholars of then and now …

And as this Book mentions it, the understood meaning is actually intended, but for the sake of consistency I’ve kept COB’s reading.

Every Book has declared it, that the trust in it guides to faith and that faith guides to trusting it. This is only possible, however, if the reader is literate in the language of it,

In ordinary people’s minds, the emotional attachment to the culture and tradition play a major role,

In today’s world, and as all available information is almost at everyone’s fingertips, the inquisitor will make an effort to learn the Books they find interesting, driven by their innate inquisitiveness and karmic directives,

If people trust in the Books that they can read in their native language, it is faith that drives their trust. But when this trust is invested exclusively in one Book, at the directive of religious institutes, it creates division and hatred between religions.

The destiny of the Books as such has to be changed. This can only happen at the will of the believers in them,

No Book has dismissed previous Books or declared an end to "messages", except in the interpretations of political religion. And until such a truth is understood and adopted: Abrahamic and other religions will continue to create division and war between themselves, and bring about destruction …

The orphaned, the poor, the inquisitor, the close one, the one on the way … have been understood by Islamic interpreters to point to their physical meanings of poverty, blood ties, homelessness and parentlessness …

While the commandment remains virtuous if such meanings are to be taken, it is important to equally highlight the esoteric layer of seclusion, self-development and truth seeking …

The trust in the Dimensions is featured again, and the assertion of their humanness is emphasised,

But, although the clarity and unequivocalness, Druze clergy seem to have taught that Hudood (Dimensions) are supernatural mythological beings only, that have never been in a human form …

Which is not only at odds with their belief that god himself was born as a human, but also with their knowledge of previous incarnations of them …

The covenant that people covenant with their tribes and imams is made once again clearly distinct from that with their Lord, which was taken “before” …

I hope that the mention of the “gap” that the faithful and the people of Union are commanded to guard: has alerted Druze clergy to the esoteric layer of it in the Qur’an, where it is taken by Islamic scholars to mean bodily gaps only, for the preservation of a halal sexual conduct …

And again, a commandment not to take “masters” from the people of no faith and no Union,

I can imagine why in the past such a commandment would extend to every aspect of one’s life, including, for example, business and professional relations, also co-citizenship and office-holding …

The world was not, practically speaking, as interdependent as it is today. So, to generalise such a commandment, for example, to prohibit work for governments, private organisations or businesses which are ruled or owned by an entity of another religion: not only is impractical, but also keeps the evil spirit of discrimination and division alive, to stir up war and trouble at every occasion, and in the name of a holy war, war is fought over senseless matters, in the belief this is god’s commandment.

One can comfortably say, that the major root of the problems of the Middle East in general, and now Lebanon in the spotlight, is the refusal, at least in theory, of interreligious government-and-citizen cooperation and relations, whereby the staunchly religious refuse to cooperate or be “bossed” by other religions, with whom they share everything, from land, air and water, to governments, economies and infrastructure …

Their clergy see no exit from this paradoxical situation except by going to the final war that their god promised to help them with, to assert his rule on the earth and vanquish the kuffar and atheists …

Don’t be surprised, if highly educated people there still hold such a belief, but won’t divulge it,

This Page has been calling for a true separation of religion and statehood, whereby religion is a spiritual and moral guide that can guide people, above and separately from mundane laws and systems,

The Books do not recommend a particular system of economics and government, and any belief to the contrary is based on political religion, that is based on an adopted version of the hadith of the prophets, khalifs and imams, and indeed the Church, that is aimed at favouring one group of tribes over another …

The Books are for all the people …, and the people should go for all the Books]

That so, the people of Union the wise, are them who have believed what their Lord inspired to them, is He the Head of their Hikmah which He bound to their necks, and it is it whose original/interpretation is known only to them who drank from it, their hearts hence were content by it, them and their descendants, so, take what your lord has obliged upon you, the Sovereign the God the Abode, and do thank Him that He made you inheritors of the earth.

God your Lord the Sovereign knows those who have mistrusted and apostatised to their religion of truth, and has missed them: what they were worshipping from before, them and their fathers, in their darkness they go back and forth. So, when our Lord provides them, they shun, and they take the far side, and they forget what they were in, and when their selves’ illness besets them, they are of a loud invocation; will make our Lord the truth surround them, and will show them His Paragons in the Horizons and in themselves.

Isn’t it sufficient that our Lord the Sovereign is over everything Capable? behold, they are in doubt of their selves, and in disbelief of the encounter with him. Behold, is He all around the darkened ones.

That those who took their lives as entertainment and play, and has deluded them about their Lord: their delusion, those will see the suffering in their selves, the Hikmah has been banned to their hearts filled with the lusts of their demons, begone with them who do not reason.

[At some point in the past, the Hikmah Books had to be hidden from the authorities of pagan religions of Egypt and the Levant, when the Hikmah was considered heretical. Even within the ranks of the “Druze” themselves, there were those who deified al-Mansoor - and some: his descendants - and there were those who took the message of Hamzah and his brothers truthfully …

The banning of the Hikmah, however, is self-enforceable upon the people …

And if you gave the Hikmah to the educated people of Abrahamic religions today, including the Druze themselves: they wouldn’t be interested in it …!

They prefer a fiery speech by the head of their sect or their political leader, or some self-evident behavioural advice from modern gurus, and indeed some acts of magic …

This is why it has been repeatedly said in the Hikmah and the Qur’an, that the Word is a “hefty say” to the ears of the people who are irrational, and follow their passions sincerely …

But as times have changed, it is pointless now to keep the Hikmah, or any Books, secret, and people are attracted to the teaching that resonates in their hearts and minds …

It is the religious authorities’ duty, however, to promote and support the freedom of belief, and to stop judging others and waging wars against one another,

The philosophic debate, on the other hand, should never stop, within the limits of reason and mutual respect. The propaganda wars of politics and religions all around the world is a losing one, for those who are waging them and plotting them, and they will backfire at them,

Every religious and political entity in the world today feels threatened by its own falsehood and past errors. And every one of them is desperate to stay alive in this treacherous eventuality, and by their own laws of survival of the fittest: they will all destroy one another.]

O you people of Union, that your peace and war are by your deeds, that you carry out, and whatever you present to yourselves of good, you find it in God your Lord. So, do good deeds, before a day comes when a self’s faith benefits her not, if she hasn’t had faith before.

And those who remember their Lord, upstanding and down-sitting, and on their sides, in pleasant times and harsh times, those are them who will earn guidance from their Lord, and drops He upon them the Lights of the Identity of the Truth the Sacred. As for them who are still switching between the arrogance and the subservience of their selves, those will earn from Him suffering that they cannot escape, for as long as the heavens and the earth are, those are them who have been deluded by the delusions of their selves.

Say, that so, the faithful people of Union are them who shed their attachments and scruples by their faith, and they turned their faces to Him in their selves, emancipated, and dedicating to Him their redemption/religion, is He with them wherever they are, and within them wherever they turn, they have become the exoteric and the esoteric, and the day and the night, blessed is the reward of the labouring ones.

Cob 34

The Two Heavies

God your Lord is He Who created man in the mysteries of the universes, then He sphered them [the universes] over him and brought him out and shaded him in the shade of the branches of the tree of animation, then He taught him discernment, and above him is the Cause of the causes, so, which of His Elements do you repudiate O you two Heavies? then brought He him close, and taught him discrimination, and took the veils off him, so he saw the ways of the humans and the demons, so, which of His Elements do you repudiate O you two Heavies? then came He near and dangled, and placed him upon the high station of Green, and the genius of Effulgence. Isn’t it time for you to believe O you two Heavies? and your Lord the Sovereign is He Who created the two oceans, this one is sweet fresh, from it the people of Union drink, and that one is pungent brine, made He in it tender flesh, eaten by the people of wisdom, and jewels worn by people with kernels, so which providence do you repudiate O you two Heavies?

[The passage is inspired by Surah 55 of the Qur’an, with the same repeating theme …

The first few sentences allude to the early stages of a Creation and the development of the human mind in a physical containment,

The “sphering” of the universes is consistent with COB’s vision of a preceding “universe”, which, in a manner of speaking, was afloat on a denser kind of “helium”,

Then the sphering occurred, driven by … perhaps gravitational forces, and humans’ desire of life in a denser existence,

And being born in such physical constraints obscured the heaven that was clearly visible before …

Hence the teaching was due, and the directions …

As for the way of the human: this one should point back to where everything came from,

As for the way of the demons: this one aims at permanence in the physical world.

The concept of the two Heavies can be summarised as the pair of diametrical views which emerge from one truth or one value …

The two are right in their own right, their rightness is hence relative …

In their emotional and intellectual involvement in the relative right: each of the two Heavies cannot see the Right, this is how they repudiate and become darkened …

The world is not meant to be a battlefield of good and evil,

It’s by people’s choice that it has become so,

But it is meant to be a place of “learning” and “enjoyment”,

Even in its hardships and on its obstacle courses …

It’s the emotional attachment to the world that turns every aspect of it to a tragedy,

Even the fun and the easy time …

Of course, emotional attachment is part and parcel of being alive …

Without it perhaps no motivation exists for any “achievement”,

This is where prayers, sabbath and meditation come into usefulness …

They are meant to put the brake on the avalanche, for us to remember not to get carried away with emotional, mental and physical activity, so that a disaster is avoided,

In a far bewilderment, however, prayers, sabbath and meditation are themselves an activity which empower other activities …!

This is a very sad predicament.]

That those who equate [something or someone] with their Lord the Sovereign the Truth, severe suffering will reach them from Him, this is forbidden to the people of Union who affix nothing and seek no turn away from Him, that your Lord is Powerful Mighty, and with the believers Caring Compassionate.

[It wasn’t an arbitrary decision to write this passage immediately after the previous …

This one sheds light on a truth which is viewed from opposing points, causing difference and rivalry, and this has been discussed a few times on this Page,

So, for example, the Muslims find affixism (ishrak) in the Christians’ belief that Jesus was the son of God,

But they don’t find ishrak in their saying that God prays upon the prophet,

Both statements equate a person with God, although the dictionary written by their advocates won’t admit to that,

And this is also clear in their testimony: in the name of the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit,

And: I witness that there’s no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah,

Both beliefs equate God with a human,

But both originate from the truth which came in the Gospels and the Qur’an,

That God is the Father of all humanity, as the Christ himself said: my Father and your Father …

And that God “prays” upon you all, also His angels [pray upon you] to bring you out from darkness to the Light …

So, however “fatherhood” or “praying upon” are understood to be: they are His Compassion encompassing His Creation …, the ignorant and dark one included …

Hence the age-old animosity between religions and branches thereof …, which never subside, but indeed are constantly fueled by the rhetoric of the men of religious attires, in the belief they are making god happy, or indeed … in no belief whatsoever, but as an opportunity for political gain and competition …

Hence the suffering which results …, and to which now everyone is witness …

But the many forces of relative right hold ever stubbornly on to their political and ideological positions … and the suffering is exacerbated,

If reason doesn’t prevail, this could bring on more catastrophic destruction and total annihilation of all the pagan beliefs …

And the Christ’s prophecy will come true, when all the pagans leave Jerusalem, to give way to the true believers …

Hence we say on this Page that all Abrahamic religions have to admit that the journey of faith and Tawheed (Union) hasn’t ended by their statements and understanding, and that they all still have a long way to go in their self-development and education, and that they hence should respect each other’s beliefs, and debate between one another for the sake of helping one another, not for the sake of throwing bombs on each other. If they read their Books correctly, this is what their Books have commanded them all, and to this they will be held accountable.]

O you people of Union, if you speak, be just, even if it’s a close relative [that you speak for], and the Covenant of your Lord and the believers’: do honour [it], this and all has commanded He you, may you remember, and that this is your Lord’s Way Straight, do follow it, and follow not the ways of them who disbelieved when they saw the Law, so you disperse [not by it] from His Way. This and all is what your Lord commanded you, may you take refuge.

[A total ban of biased witness, biased opinion and biased support … which are all widely practised, nay, considered to be the duty of the “brethren” of any religion or political entity,

And this is how justice is never served in any respect, and wrong is perpetuated …

If people, whether religious or atheists, think for a second that this is OK, and that loud propaganda can cover up lies and bias, or deliver to them good results …: they’d better think twice,

Several books were written in the last century about the power of deception in politics, so much so it has now been universally believed that what’s hammered down people’s heads: becomes true …

One would have to have a computer’s brain to think along such lines …!

The propaganda wars that are raging in the world today aren’t helping their launchers, but indeed, distracting their followers from pursuing facts,

And this, in the long term, causes failure, not only to the propaganda campaigns, but to the ideology itself that they were meant to promote …

This is common sense, and a minute degree of faith in one’s mind, and sense of one’s universal responsibility: shows it clearly …]

O you people, has come to you: evidence, and a clarifying proof, and inspired He guidance and Compassion between His/his hands, who disbelieves it and shies from it, our Lord will punish them [with] the worst suffering. And those who disbelieved have been waiting that our Lord comes, or that some of His Paragons come. And when the Suns of the Soldiers of Oneness rose, and our Lord the Master the Sovereign manifested: they turned away and stood aside, they lost the Way. Say, do await, and we are awaiting.

And your Lord the Sovereign has taken from you a binding Covenant, that you abide in no one but Him, and radiantly with the Parents. And those who strove in their Lord and were not taken by the reprimand of the reprimanders about it, those, He will guide them to His Ways, and is He with the radiant ones.

Cob 35

The Call, Justice, Reliance, Compassion and Effusion