Chapter VIII

Incidental Image

Let all be reminded, God created The Cause of all the causes, The Beginner of the heavens and the earth, encompassing them above them He transcends them, all the images are His, and not an image Is He, accidentalness is below The Cause, and transcends He all.

Images are comparable, and comparability resides in duality, and God created duality,

Those who know Him by comparison, whether by the metaphor or by an image, are affixers,

He is The Uncounted Oneness, His Chair encompasses the heavens and the earth, Capable of all things is He.

Wherever you look is His Countenance, His Eye looks in the eye close, His Light effulges in the skies of those: He loves them and they love Him.

And darkened people are deprived from the encounter of God, said The Book;

And when the mountains of knowledge are flattened, said The Book, and the Truth is one cubit, or two, close, and even closer, those who repudiated their Lord will be contrite,

The encounter of The Truth is a privilege of those who cognise The Truth and submit to His Compassion.

For, He does manifest to His Creation, of Love of Him and Compassion, those who recognise His Glorious Manifestation remember and are taken by Love, in the Elevation in The Truth.

And those who have darkened are distanced; their dark prophets set the example for them, did not God manifest to the Mount? Said The Book; did He not come with the angels in arrayed arrays?

Those who repudiate their Lord have only fear, they want a god in an image, or they cannot look.

What they describe is only their doubts, for God created description and describableness, and transcends He everything they say.

 God has the Radiant Summa, said The Book; He inspires His Word to them, they are His Dimensions in world, He makes The Truth known by them, and by them He guides those who abide in Him to His Straight Path, they are His Connection to Him, and the Callers to His Religion.

And when He descends to the darkened people’s battle-fields, bad will be their morning, said The Book, and worse will be their night, for His Arms are invincible, His Will is above all, His Will is The Law.

Chapter VIIII

Creationism

It is not for nothing that the Greek Masters considered self-knowledge to be the mother of all the virtues.

And if we say it again we do not say it often enough, that self-knowledge is the basis of ethics, and a logical mind has no difficulty in accepting such a reality.

But when the mind asks itself: who am I? It needs directions, as to where to look for an answer, and as though the quest for self-knowledge, itself, has to start with preliminary self-knowledge.

It is this starting point that people cannot change, radically, in their selves, it is their birthright.

For humanity has been asked quite a few times: “who am I”, and some did recognise the inquisitor, and some did not,

Those have been looking in the wrong direction since.

So the atheists are happy with their theory of evolution, although it does not point them to “who am I”, but rather to “what I am not”.

It tells them that they do not exist, except as an illusion, created by the wiring, the chemistry and the anatomy of their brains.

And this is really a pathetic outcome of a Big Bang, plus fourteen billion years of hard labour.

At least, if they give themselves some credit and say: “thank you and well done, it is amazing that we are capable of looking and admiring”.

Those who sincerely believe that they do not exist: one wonders why do they cling frantically to their lives, and are so greedy to protect them and prolong them, sometimes at the expense of other people’s lives and wellbeing, and as though the entire world is their proprietary.

So if such a desire, the desire that drives humanity to strive, to contrive, to explore, to enjoy, to know, to build, to destroy... is nothing, what is the thing? We ask.

Or is their say just a say to conveyance their base morality?

Indeed, some people deserve not the organic matter from which they are made; it is too good to carry void minds.

As for the monotheists: they have jailed their minds inside the walls of their houses of rituals, and gagged their selves by their physical needs; self-knowledge is not an issue in their ideology, their ideology, they believe, has all the answers.

They say: “if it were not for God’s Providence, how would we survive? If it were not for the legs which He made for us how would we walk?” ... believing that their arguments are faith.

In reality, their rhetorical questions which are based on assumptions and convictions are blatant affixism.

And little wonder, the world sits in their minds separately and piece-wise, so no matter how many times per day they utter: “we believe that God created the world”, it is only in their say, and hence the many overlapping absolutenesses they perceive.

Their god sits in their minds separately: a third party in a far unreachable place, he is indiscernible, thus he is only an assumption and a conviction: run from such a god.

Such a god makes man from earthly clay, and blows in him an invisible spirit, enforces the morality of the carrot and the stick, by the laws of place and time.

Chapter X

Information

O people, this is the age of information, and more is yet to come.

But be warned, information does not necessarily increase your knowledge: information is about actualities, and knowledge is remembrance, knowledge is an experience, it is about The Truth; knowledge is the summing of all information and all experiences.

If information can guide your vision to The Law, it has achieved a good purpose, but darkness generates information incessantly, to distract you and convince you that actuality is truth.

Actuality is incidental, impermanent, variable and relative, and the truth is constant and ubiquitous.

Actuality is needy of the truth to express itself, and the truth is self-sufficient.

Actuality is complex and the truth is simple.

Science has exposed the misconceptions of religion; science examines physical phenomena and presents them in scientific terms, thus is cannot identify The Cause.

Science is a tool of man’s intellect, which is a projection of The Law, but in both religion and science: darkness has had mankind believe that The Cause must be sought outside man’s mind, because man’s mind does not know the tree around the corner; in fact, man’s mind does know the tree and the unknown, and this is the setting of the scene, and the tree around the corner is incidental, also is the unknown, and the linear procession of time is the miracle of the creation, and so are the iterations of eventuality.

Mathematics, philosophy, music and the arts, health sciences... are gateways to reality, but darkness has usurped those kingdoms and closed the gateways, to trap you in actuality.

O people, be not deluded by dark prophets and their agents coming with dazzling information about the world and life, the creation and the unseen, history of mankind and the universe: information is wrong by its very nature of incidentalness, even if correct, because it is incomplete, completeness is only in reality.

Information cannot free your shackled self, so take it and put it where it belongs, and seek the truth in yourself; in the light of the truth all known and unknowns are insignificant.

God’s Book and The Sacred Philosophy do not bring information, God’s Book and The Sacred Philosophy are a remembrance, said The Book,

But the word remembrance (dhikr) refers to the present life in the dark minds, which they have narrowed down to their flesh and bone, which they value so much: they believe it is them which will be resurrected on Judgement Day.

And now they are desperate to prove that scientific information originated in the Book, to backup their ideologies; little do they understand, that by doing so they give science a station above the Book, and as though it is science that proves the Book;

They have come with lies and distorted facts; do they not read in the Book that one day they will be asked to provide a proof?

The Book is a warning and remembrance, those who take it as a source of information are in a great doubt of it, they reckon that man’s intellect can measure it, hence their many interpretations of it.

Dark prophets were given The Book and The Sacred Philosophy but were unable to attain knowledge, recounts The Book; in their dark minds The Word was dwarfed in information and a law, this is its low projection; so they differed between one another, and their followers continue fighting their differences.

Chapter XI

Democracy

Enough has been said about the sins of the political system other than democracy, but very little, if any, about those of democracy itself.

What does the word “democracy” mean today? Its scope of usage has expanded; we hear it being used in arts, media, business, technology, entertainment...

In its casual usage it point perhaps to accommodativeness.

As for political democracy, it seems to mean different things to different people.

The original meaning of the word is: the rule of the people: worded simply. Lengthy definitions given to intuitive concepts serve particular purposes, and veer the mind from their virtue, and are often self-contradictory.

So, intuitively, one can say there is democracy when the people are able to choose their rulers from themselves, the rulers who will govern according to their ideas, and aspirations, and this last possessive pronoun can refer to either of the people or their rulers, as the distinction fades in democracy.

But in countries which consider themselves as democracies today, there is a handful of people who want to be rulers, and it is them who deem the issues of governance, and it is them who make the decisions about addressing these issues, and all the people can do is to vote for them.

What we see therefore is ameliorated autocracy and a far cry from democracy.

The fact that, in those countries, there are several candidates for rulership, with perhaps different “lists” of issues and agendas for the people to choose from: does not necessarily guarantee that the people’s ideas and aspirations are represented, and their needs regarded.

So let us remind you how those candidates acquire their candidateship, and how they conduct their elections campaigns.

They have climbed up the echelons of their political parties, and they want “the job” badly.

They have at their disposal a machinery of services, and batteries of experts and consultants in all fields, to draw up a list of issues they believe they can “market”, to attract the votes of the voters.

Not to mention the training they get in public speaking and perhaps acting, public relations and dressing and hair styling.

Then comes the elections campaigns and the funds have poured onto them from interested corporations and wealthy individuals: their lists of issues must attract those entities too, so their financial assistance and moral support are granted,

Funds, which are used to “campaign”, or shall we say: to advertise, commercial style: whereby, by the clever wording of their inflammatory speeches and their visual impact... the aim is to reach the corridors of passion, anxiety and fear in people’s hearts and minds, to paint the candidate as the sapient saviour who is capable of rescuing them from the incompetence and recklessness of his opponent.

Then comes the day when the voters cast their votes, and there are “winners” and “losers”, and to our horror, these are the words used to describe the outcome of elections.

The winners set out to do their job of governing, the major part of which is to ward off the relentless attempts of the losers’ to obstruct their work and to bring on their complete break-up.

So the relentless attacks and counter-attacks: the distortion of facts and often the lies and fabrications, baseless statements and miss-representation of information, and the match-sticks magnified to look like the pillars which hold the skies... go on, to the pleasure of the media, and the boredom of the majority of the public.

And in those countries: in all industries: there are performance standards and professional ethics to which an employee has to adhere,

But they do not all apply to politics, so when questioned about their performance, whether the government or the opposition, whether by the media or in the houses of parliament: politicians unashamedly lie, evade answering questions and beat about the bush: tactics, which, if used by any person in any situation would make sufficient reason to sever all relations with them: professional or personal.

So one wonders: how have Western democracies been able to develop public services and amenities that are the envy of the world, and how did they progress in science and technology?

And most importantly: how did they foster and promote a spirit of civility and social cooperation and respect of the equal rights of all members of their own community?

We say: what makes any political system work is the honest will of the people,

It is the good will of the people that drives them to abide by their laws, to foster a cohesive and fair society.

It is the good will of the people that sets the laws and implements them in place and time.

Western democracies have built their civilisation on the teaching of the Greek Philosophy, Judeo-Christian values and scientific disciplines.

This is the spirit which has guided Western peoples to righteousness and rationality,

The spirit which was conveyed to them by the martyrdom of Sir Thomas Moore, the faith of Isaac Newton, the images of The Law as painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, the music of the cosmos as composed by John Sebastian Bach and Ludwig Van Beethoven, the ethic of humanity as taught by Benedict Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, the equality of all men, as ruled by the Magna Charta and Abraham Lincoln...

And the list can go on, of the builders of Western civilisation: the conveyors of The Spirit.

The spirit which dark prophets and their servants want to cover by the supernatural and the fallacies, by the surrender of man’s mind in irrationality, by the equations of politics and war, chemistry and money...

And the political institutes and religious institutes – appropriately named The Tyranny in the Qur’an – want to claim credit for the achievement of Western civilisation? And it is them who have impeded its progress, and are now pursuing its demise.

Political systems cannot create civilisation, but conversely, it is civilisation which requires a political system.

Western civilisation has been a renaissance, long before Western democracy became the political system of Europe and America.

Political systems are not the aim of human civilisation, but only a tool for self-expression, and an embodiment of a spirit.

And when they become an aim by themselves their spirit quits, thus they turn destructive.

And it is the nature of everything on earth to have its inherent code of self-destruction, and when Socrates alluded to this reality, it was taken as superstition.

The wise regard the cycle of life and death with admiration; while the ignorant weep.

But Western civilisation will not vanish; it will give birth to a new civilisation.

The woes of humanity today cannot be relieved by democracy or any other political system. The peoples of the world are being miss-led by their political, religious and academic leaders and self-proclaimed experts, because they have become philosophically and hence morally bankrupt.

They have not a clue of what is going on in the world, and more is yet to come, to turn the hair of an infant grey.

The world cannot be governed by the laws of its peoples; the world is governed by The Law, the creator of man’s laws, mundane or heavenly.

And history does not submit to the plans of any of the warring tribes of the world, their plans will disappear as quickly as the writing on the surface of still water.

And the physical law and its projection in politics, religion and science: will fade, like a photograph overexposed.

And during the time of the extremes, the sins of human ideology are magnified, and its absurdity is prominent.

These are reminders we have to deliver to you, may you remember.

You have seen despots, megalomaniacs, insane individuals, thugs, fools and clowns... become rulers by democratic processes.

You have seen also the clever ones: those who know how to present themselves as wise and self-controlled, passionate about serving their country,

Those are only a well-dressed cast of the former, and as soon as their territorial claim is invaded the hooligan inside them is awakened.

And with their composure, charm and speaking skills, they often manage to “win” the backing of their people, to get away with awful wrongs and crime.

Their view of their country and the world is taken through the lenses of their egos: with all its passions of greed and lust, and all its insecurities and fears; and if their country or the world does not conform to their view it deserves to be punished.

They do good deeds, to use as a sweetener, to serve poison to their people’s minds, the poison they have brewed in their own dark minds.

The democratic system can be an effective immunisation against such parasites, only if the people are well-informed and have high moral standards.

The religious institutes of the world have failed to grasp the golden thread of God’s Religion across place and time; they fell in the traps of definitional morality and conditional good, and have hence been unable to convey any guidance or any spirit.

It is their failure that has left the world with religious bigotry as old as history; it is their failure the major crisis of the world, and their failure the vacuum of people’s lives, the vacuum which has been seized by politicians, commercial advertisers, entertainers and megalomaniacs of all sizes and shapes.

And when Darwinian ideology is the weightiest in people’s minds, man’s morality is a mere necessity for survival,

Thus man’s morality is just an equation of politics, money, chemistry... balanced to serve an immediate material need.

So legality takes the seat of morality, and the laws that of the ethics: virtue is non-existent and the spirit is supernatural,

On the outskirts of humanity everything and anything is doable, so long as it suits the agendas of the politicians, the corporations and the clergy, and so long as public opinion has been swayed favourably by their rhetoric and commercial advertising.

And even when public opinion cannot be swayed, politicians in democratic countries do carry out their agendas against the will of the people, so where can the line, separating democracy from autocracy, be drawn?

Should the democratic process be an on-going process of voting in the democratic institutes and directly in the populace?

This stipulates that the populace and their representatives be sufficiently and accurately informed, and this is a big ask from ordinary people, who, themselves, are in need of guidance to manage their own ordinary lives.

And most importantly, it stipulates that the rulers are honest and their intent and motive is an open book.

And this is a big ask from politicians, of all countries, of all systems, of all times.

So whichever process or legislation is introduced to better existing democracies, there is one ingredient without which they will not deliver the required result: it is honesty.

So tell Winston Churchill, that yes there is something better than democracy, it is honesty; it is the thing without which democracy is not what it claims to be.

People and their leaders can continue arguing that man’s nature is dark: the monotheists believe god created them dark and gave them the laws and the rituals to cleanse themselves; and the atheists go to the extent of saying that man’s darkness is the outcome of an evolutionary process and a survival technique.

By so believing, both have instated dishonesty in their minds and glorified it, as this good bad thing which triggers laughter, a duck of the head, jumping eyes and a crooked mouth... all remnants of the ugliness that Iblis first displayed when he declared mutiny.

So to say it is man’s nature: it is darkened people’s nature.

 And God’s messengers and prophets all of which are humans will not cease reminding you of the consequences of taking evil routes.

Not because The Law is a policeman, and not because The Creator is an arbitrary ruler, transcends He man’s reckoning which He created;

And because virtue is thus too far to dark people’s minds reach, laws are delivered; but in the dark minds laws are delivered by their wording, so they have been jostling with the definitions of dishonesty, theft, crime... evils plainly damned in the Book, bluntly exercised by the peoples of the Book.

So if democracy is the panacea of humanity’s well-being, why is not exercised in the United Nations’ Security Council, we have asked?

Or is it the case that “globalisation” has not been “democratised” yet?

One would think, if there is one place where “globalisation” should start, it is in the United Nations’ Security Council, run democratically.

Or is democracy a blessing that only heavily armed nations and the nations which submit to them can have, and hell is the rest of the world?

And one would imagine that the weight of a nation’s vote should be proportional to its population, and not to the range of its ballistic missiles and their destructive power,

But in today’s world of giant empires, this would just transfer the power from one group of nations to another, to institute a new form of injustice and global dictatorship.

In international affairs today democracy is just a convenient slogan, not unlike religion, and litmus to taint the nations of the world as black or white: if you have this take it, or be warned, as said the Book.

And many of the nations in the protectorate of Western democratic nations are not democratic, and some which are outside it do have a form of democracy, but it is their allegiance that in fact matters.

And of course, any criticism of democracy is blasphemous and deserves appropriate punishment.

So if Western democracies are the champions of freedom and democracy, why do they not let the peoples of the world rule themselves by themselves, according to whatever political system they choose, to learn from their own mistakes – like all nations do – to develop the rule that fits best their beliefs and culture?

But no, the powerful nations of the world see their destructive power as a mandate to be the dictators of the world, contrary to the democratic spirit, contrary to the freedom they believe.

The powerful nations of the world are driven by the animal instinct: “different, therefore predator”.

Will the lions and the hyenas live in peace one day? Perhaps never; but at least their canines and claws have not evolved to a size that is so big that it  puts life on the entire planet at risk, and this is the intelligence of wild life, that mankind is yet to acquire.

And are they surprised that their military arsenals create panic in smaller nations? And why would those smaller nations not be fearful? Two world wars, plus sporadic ones all around, at the discretion of the superpowers... make anyone very anxious.

And do not ask: what do they do to appease the fear they create in the world, because every time fear is created by their action, more of the same action is acted, and hence more fear,

By being, themselves, paranoid from dwarf nations and the mobs...

And of course, from their own allies, who, in a change of circumstances, might flip sides: treachery and perfidy are approved in the nature of darkness,

And the notion of “my country’s interest above all” opens the doors wide to all avenues, some of which lead to disaster: in a world that is global, as they have recently acknowledged.

And if the size of a nation’s arsenal is proportional to her paranoias, we know which nations are the most paranoid nations of the world.

They are also driven by the animal instinct: “what I want is right because I want it, what you want is wrong because I will not give it”,

International politics today is a parody: it entertains the wealthy peoples and those who submit to them, and frightens the less fortunate ones and the less conformist.

They were told to love their enemies; they took it as an excuse to disobey God.

And as though we do not know that it is a big ask, if they were honest, they could give their enemies the rights they believe they have, were they not told all people equal in God?

That would have been a true expression of love if they were honest; but the love they know is not love: it is egoism, therefore their misunderstanding of God’s Command.

In their dark minds, God’s Word is edged about its location in the mind, so it points not to virtue, but to more darkness.

They have edged The Torah, The Gospel, The Qur’an, so they find themselves left with no choice but to war.

The nations of world, big and small, in the east and the west, which are warring and harming one another, are warring and harming one another because they have failed their humanity, they disobeyed God therefore failed their humanity.

There has always been one and only one challenge for humanity: and that is to live up to her humanity.

Circumstances change and the challenge takes different forms; yet the ethic of humanity is constant:

One day it is about trade and trade routes, the next day it is about land and natural resources; yet the value of equality of right is same and overrides place and time.

It is dark minds which require laws for the trade-winds, but the trade-winds are circulated by the laws of nature.

And The Master dropped all the laws and taught humanity that there is one law only, and that is to love all and wish all the same good one wishes to oneself.

This is the ethic of humanity which humanity has failed to live up to.

This is Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Baha’ism, and Sikhism...

This is also rational thinking that subscribes to no particular mainstream religion.

No political system, democratic or other, can heal an ailing humanity, and no dentist magician can fix a tooth, decayed so much: it is eroded by cavities.