Problems of incongruity and missing logic
The teachings of religion today provides a lot of explosive substance. Still are many people captured in their limitations,in religious dogmas. Divine teachings are always all-embracing and positive, also easy and good to comprehend. In contrast to them human religious teachings are often quite complex, very limited and often in the spirit of separation. They emphasize the differences instead of focusing on what we have in common.
In all “holy teachings” the truth, the divine, theistic core can be found easily. Further on its part is often very short as “human teachings” are more interesting. For me it is fascinating that on the one hand a religion presents high divine teachings and on the other hand human teachings which are not congruent with the divine part. So in fact for someone who is able to use his brain it is quite obvious where incongruities lie and where the logic is missing. Indeed such topics can be solved with real arguments – logic!
You may ask why did it no one before. By religious education the “thinking part” of the brain is technically (psychologically) “wiped out”. Imagine your religious teacher tells you to repeat always the same “holy texts” until your brain is overwhelmed, until you are no longer able to see the wood for the trees. It is in fact “brain washing”. You can call it also psychic warfare.
Imagine a religion says that God is all-mighty, all-embracing in his comprehension, in his mercy and love. So these are theistic facts, true divine teachings. Imagine that a religion says some sentences further on that only a few people are loved by God because they are from the right religion as presented by an ambassador of God (the only and last ambassador and certainly the only right one (!?!) ). So when you use your brain, you come to the conclusion that this can´t be true as the second statement does not fit to the first one. We call this incongruity – a matter of logic. The absolute God with all his attributes can´t be limited to one single religion or to a few people on earth while all other people are ignorant or godless. In second, a follower of a religion must differentiate between God and his (maybe) human ambassador. An ambassador is not equal to God and so an ambassador can not be evaluated in the same way like God. An ambassador and his teachings are quite relative – only God is absolute and perfect. So it can be a real tragedy to mix up both.
A fantastic phenomenon can be examined when a religion has two or three ambassadors of God which occur in different ages and taught different things. It is unthinkable that God, the absolute, changes his mind concerning a topic. So how should it be possible that ambassadors give different teachings? Indeed their teachings are relative. Only the real divine teachings have never changed through the ages.
Humans are incredible in their power of ignorance and bad selfish characteristics. Unfortunately humans learn the most through pain and agony – not by divine enlightenment.
I am curious how the reformation of religions will take place. Someone / God, has to dissolve the dark mental and emotional clouds which keep many people in ignorance. And a real enlightenment is necessary.
This is one of my favourite posts, Ray. I find myself not infrequently pondering this perspective, perhaps because of the times we live in, or maybe just my own circumstance.
Also consider this – if Divine Providence has seen fit to create the manifest world in the 3 dimensions of thought, emotion and ‘thing’, then what is it to place a single dimension above all others? How can the tenents of a truely absolute religion require or forbid a certain physical action or task without consideration of the mental or astral?
It seems to me that the holiest mystics of any religion are well aware of this, yet they accept that the average worshiper is much happier with a simple set of relative, man-made rules than trying to grapple with and balance the tri-planar world.
Hi Peter,
thank you for your comment! Certainly there are good reason why there is something absolute and why there is a diversity of relative “things”. And certainly everything has its sense. The whole creation is built on laws and on sense.
The initiators and leaders of religions had their reasons for giving simple instructions for their followers. Everyone has to receive what he individually needs. Therefore the exoteric religious teachings were invented to satisfy the normal people and for a few refined souls the inner or esoteric teachings have been provided.
New or good developments have to come from the initiates as only they provide all necessary wisdom and knowledge. And these “developments” are just a matter of clearing, healing and refinement for both – inner and outer teachings for those who are willing to receive. Dedicated to the divine light and with full respect to the god-given free will.
Besides this, the world follows higher principles which includes the action of good and bad. But people can decide by free will to turn to the light, to live in the light and to work for the light. This is an option to the “normal” world. SURA-ITF will provide and serve this option.
It is all just a matter of choice. For everyone.
At last – evil will be always evil and good will be always good. We are here to learn to differentiate between good and evil and to decide consciously which action we take. I know that there are several “initiates” who love to interprete the evil for their own selfish purposes “doing evil is good” but this is wrong and they will meet the judges of the Saturn sphere. Something different is destructive action when it is lawful and foreseen. Then it is neutral.
The universal religion is no invention. It is nothing artificial. It is just the natural relationship between God and his creation. It is just a matter of love, wisdom and care.
Thanks for your insight Ray. I am reminded of the myth that Moses brought down the highest, most sublime teachings of the Quabbalah inscribed on the tablets of stone, but when he cam down from the mountain and saw the chaos around him, he went back up and came down with the 10 commandments.
On the question of evil, how is the truely santanic distinguished from the more normal case of the workings of Maya and the cosmic tide of illusion that lulls us to sleep with the oblivion of the senses? To properly merit the name it would seem that a santanic action would the need the actor to understand the nature of maya, but to nevertheless work to further entrap our divinity. In the same way, most religions and creed admit that a far greater transgression is to have accepted their high creed but to have later consciously denied it. Divine blessings, Peter : )
Hi Peter,
as far as I know Moses had a kind of initiation on the mountain. For me is the question what you want to receive by God and what you want to pass on to your brothers (initiates) and to your followers (uninitiated ones)? A kind of prophecy? Wisdom? Laws? Teachings? Great stories? From my point of view it is clear that Moses gave his followers some laws for good behavior – what else should have he passed on? What would you pass on? What are your followers able to receive? The true divine teachings are always very simple, like Jesus said “Love thy neighbor as thy self” and this says all.
Evil, satanic behavior is certainly somehow a question of definition. For me conscious, destructive behavior, misuse of power for selfish reasons and the perversion of divine teachings are evil, satanic. Conscious selfishness at the expense of others is satanic. It is the decision for the dark side.
Certainly what is called Maya plays a role. Maya is a term with many misunderstandings. Originally it means something like the mother of creation and that by the veils of Maya the other planes of existence seem to be separated from the material plane, separated from our senses. This leads to the illusion of being an independent individual which has to work for his own survival – a good arguement for selfishness. But humans are social beings which live and work in communities, so the idea of Maya is somehow misused by negative people to justify their behavior.
And yes, there are really evil leaders who know about the higher planes and God, etc. but try to hide it to keep people in a state of slavery. On the other hand it is comparably stupid to say that all humans are divine but they just are not aware of it. Without transformation by long training human beings keep being human beings.
There is so much mixed up in our world. It is so important for everyone to understand who he is, where he comes from and where he goes. Orientation is everything.
Peter, your fine intellect will find soon good food in our community. So far I can say that we will have several refined souls for good discussions and deep analyses. The think tanks are also waiting for you. 🙂 Ray