UNDERSTANDING
I found
that religion was a improper response to the Divine. Religion was an attempt
to pin down the divine. The divine was eternally in motion, growing, forever
moving, shifting shape. that was it's nature. It was absolute, true enough:
Absolutely mobile, Absolutely transcendent. Absolutely flexible.
Absolutely impersonal. It had it's god and goddess aspects, but it was
ultimately no more male or female than it was a star or a screwdriver.
It was the sum of all those things,
but the sum could never be chalked on a slate. The divine was beyond description,
beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the divine was creation
divided by destruction was a close as one could come to a definition. But
the puny of soul and the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted
to hang a face on the divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human
emotions (anger, jealousy, love) to it, not stopping to realize that if
God were a being , even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him
to death long ago.
The divine was expansive,
but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the divine to
a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeon
it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers
of can't and spikes of dogma, we crucified again and again, trying to nail
to our stationary alters the migratory light of the world.
Thus since religion bore false
false witness to the divine, religion was blasphemy, And once it entered
into it's unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and
repressive force the world has ever known.
To deal effectively with this universe, we need a pragmatic and extremly
sober approach. SPIRITUALITY is an empty ideality, an assertion without
bassis that we believe to be very beautiful because it is encrusted with
literary concepts and poetic expressions, but which never goes beyond that.
for in reality their is only a predatory universe in which intelligence
or awareness is the product life and death challenges. Spirituality
is simply a description of something impossible to acheive within the patterns
of the world of every day life, and it is not a real way of acting.
I will
not name the source of creation as GOD because religions tend to personify
God and make it an enity that had rule and sway over our lives. When you
increase your perception to the abstract level and understand the
universe as a neutral power available at everyone to create their world
as they wish, to veiw God as a creator and a personified entity seems
rather foolhardy. Many times people have expanded their conciousness through
meditation or through religious euforia or near death experiecnes, they
encounter a beam of light, and they come back thinking they have found
God or the ultimate answer to creation . They have only seen the mold of
man and when you have met this human mold you are finding energy that is
all that is human. When a person dips into this energy, the first reaction
is they have found everything , projecting and expanding from that state
to all creation and mistakenly, I think creating it into God in our image.
the emanations of the universe is the source of all creation. The principle
source from which all manifisations emanate. The human band of enamations
is just one very narrowone out of an infinite number of bands. To think
that we know the sum total of existance soley based upon the human capacity
to perceive is walking the tightrope of foolishness.
I've been
reproached for not including concepts of love and spirtuality in my works
but these words now have a different meaning for me and because of society
definitions impossible to use. I find that those concepts are empty concepts,
not love or spirituality themselves, but the use of these two words. the
line of argument is as follows: If we really consider our selves immortal
beings, who can afford the luxury of living amongst gigantic contradictions
and endless selfishness; if all that counts for us is immediate gradificaton,
how can we make love or spirituality something authentic? For these concepts
are lacking, lifeless , words that no one is willing to back up. It seems
that when we are confronted with these contradictions, we solve them by
saying that, as human beings we are weak. We human beings are never
taught to love. We are only taught to feel gratifying emotions, pertinent
exclusively to the personal me. Infinity is sublime and without pity, there's
no room for fallacious concepts, no matter how pleasent they may seem.
It has
to do with our reason for being. Our reason for being is to face infinity.
We're all going to face infinity, at the moment of dying, Why face it when
we are weakest? When we are broken? Why not when we are strong? why not
now? You have to face it pragmatically. No idealities allowed.
Where would JESUS fit
into all this? where would buddha fit in?
They are idealities. They are
to big, to gigantic to be real. They are deities Idealities cannot be used
in a pragmatic movement. Allowing your preceptions to break the interpretation
system - a tree ceases to be a tree and becomes sheer energy - that is
a pragmatic manuver. It is nessasary to deal with that which is extremly
practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality.
The
word of God is unchanging. It is a living universe. What is in flux is
what is alive. An unchanging word must by definition pertain to a dead
world. In a universe that is forced to change there is a written word not
forced to change? That the world of a taxidermist.
A warrior
knows whatever he sees he will not see again. We are all alone. The universe
is not predictable no matter what scientists tell you. it's a theme hit
hard upon, That we are truly alone. God dosn't love you beleive me. The
problem is that we are so trapped in our own egos, that we never see the
bigger picture of our existence. We are not individuals surrounded by other
individuals, or houses or shopping malls. We are individuals surrounded
by infinity.
