Religion is Cosmic Culture

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Religion is Cosmic Culture Joseph J. JEAN-CLAUDE October 13, 2018, © Copyright [email protected]

Abstract Multipartite discussions about God are always a delicate and risky exercise in human culture, since they have historically led to dissension, ostracism and ultimately mutual destruction, an incomprehensible paradox in human experience. God may well be the greatest and most intractable object of discord in human culture. If there should be a clash of civilizations, it will probably be instigated by the apparent unreconcilables of our non-negotiable ideas about God from one culture to another. Therefore I do not pretend in the following to present dogma or teach God to anyone, since I am not a priest or a theologian. My foremost motivation for this writing is to expose a rational perspective to scope God, and to initiate a form of conversation about God that may, if practiced, help keep us together thru our cultural differences instead of pulling us apart as usual thru discord and hatred.

Keywords: religion, knowledge, faith, theology, philosophy, Catholic, Muslim, Church, mosque, Islam, God, Animism, Buddhism, priests, theologian, cosmic, mandala, Sun Star, Life force, Anima, Animus, Androgyne, chirality, light

1. Introduction Far from me the idea of demonstrating the existence of God by utilizing rational methods. Even Saint Augustine had failed in that undertaking with regards to Roman rethoricians whom he sought to convince. My attempt here is to show from the standpoint of a believer that being keenly rational about God can counter-intuitively deepen our faiths, while strengthening our mutual ties as human beings and human groups. All too frequently the egocentric world that we have collectively built for ourselves takes us apart and away from slightest wisdom, contrary to God’s obvious purpose as revealed by the tremendous amount of diversity that we see in nature. We do not have to be priests, theologians or devout believers to discuss God. If everyone of us must meet the burden of full compliance to canon to qualify as a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, an Animist, etc., none of us would be one, not even the best Pope, best Prophet or Imam or Mambo… We can fully discuss God in a meeting of cultures without bitter disagreements and mutual animosity if and only if we can discipline our ideas about God in some measure.

2. God is Because S-He Lives Inside of Us Above every man’s or every woman’s purpose is the higher purpose or purposes of God. However God is not foreign or exogenous to any living soul, because God lives inside of each one of us. If we stop thinking of God as an entity beyond us and independent of us and start thinking instead that a part of the essence of God pointedly lives inside of each of us or is within each one of us, then we open the way to the most truthful personal experience of God. God lives and is

manifest within us as our irrevocable conscience of the Good, which is truth, righteousness, justice, love of every nature and the desire to live, among other qualities and virtues. God is thus manifest within us as the very root of life that galvanizes our existence and creates that tacit unspoken and unquestioned desire to live and live on. In that regard, consider that even the apoptotic process of destruction of a cell in our bodies responds to the fundamental call for persistence of homeostasia, which is the towering haven in which every cell of the living inhabits. Hence the force for life in us partakes of the nature of God or IS GOD.

3. Androgyne God If God lives within us individually as the Life Force that sustains our existence, and because every human being is gendered, then the question of whether or not God is gendered inescapably arises. The masculine in us is the “God-given” gift of projection and imagination, ultimate agency of human innovation under the sun. The feminine in us is the “Godgiven” gift of contemplation and regeneration, ultimate agency of the perenniality of the human race. These two forms of potentials inhabit every man and every woman individually, this bi-valuation being ultimately supported in the chirality of human anatomy. Until one sees with own eyes the purposeful behavior of one lateral half of the human body, evidenced in biological accidents or uncommon forms of illness, and which can be tangibly at cross purpose with the other half, one never gets to understand ontological unity as a result of integrated dualism in the Life Force that sustains us individually. This

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truth, albeit extraneous to Western thinking, is firmly predicated in Animism, particularly African Animism [9]. Therefore to deny the perspective of an Androgyne God, is to deny the naturalness of chirality in the human body thru the Life Force that galvanizes it. Few realize that our bi-lateral anatomy, whether resulting in right-handedness or left-handedness, makes us all Androgynes in potentiality, before being gendered, because of the full personality that each chiral partition of our body represents. It is only the predominance of one potential over the other that creates gender. C. G. Jung’s psychology in which the notion of Anima and Animus [3] is prevalent is very eloquent in that regard and firmly rejoins the Animist predicate. From there, one can understand that Perfection is in equality or equalization of the two life streams that make up the Force For Life or Bodisattva. It is thus natural to understand that Anatomic Hybridity in the Androgyne state, together with its associated Mystical Exaltation, emerges as an evolution of bi-lateral anatomy with its associated sexual exaltation thru intercourse. An emulation of this State is achieved in Sainthood per Catholic Canon [4], of which the history of the High Mystics of the Church undeniably witnesses. With almost no exception, they have experienced Spiritual Exaltation, many times in their own words, as this unspeakable and delectable manner to experience or enjoy God (i.e. Saint Theresa of Avila). Consequently, if one were to seek the most profound descent of the Bounty of God, it is the Androgyne signature which provides that stamp.

4. Representation of God and Self It follows from the above that best understanding of self is a pre-requisite to the understanding of God. This intimate understanding is what enables every human being to rise to his or her best and most authentic representation of God. It is clear that a superficial understanding of self which is limited to conscious experience and ignores the universe of our individual unconscious experience at the root of our existence may not produce the required depth and scope for the most thorough representation of God. Conscious experience delimits the life and boundaries of Self. The Force within is not perceived in conscious experience because the object and purpose of consciousness is to experience the outward world or the external environment. That is the reason why the conscious Self translates the intuition of God as a direct duplicate of the Self or tends to purport God as an individual. The resulting representation is that of God as a super capable Man or Woman, creator of all things and beings. But it equally produces the more complex representation that God is the intelligence comprised within the Physical Laws of Nature, as well as the positivist or materialistic representation that God is unnecessary to

the human mind and soul in order to achieve self-worth and for nature to be intrinsically sensible. All of those representations assume a God who is physically foreign to and independent of the individual. Everything would change should we come to the understanding that God is within us, not just as a representation, but as the ethical sense alive in every human being by which he or she can distinguish the good from the bad and aspire to commit to the good. That fundamental sense of the nature of bounty is present even in the worst criminals. The unbeatable desire to live and to live on that we all harbor is the manifestation of the Force For Life in every one of us, and that is indeed the root of all human representations of the Good. This unrelenting push for Life is what comes to materialize in human conscience as the conscience of the Good. Indeed it is the sprout of God in every man and every woman. This also means that every time that you’ve seen the face of a living soul, you’ve seen God! The question of representation of God is probably the first order of business in teleology and theology. This question must be answered at the end as God in total in the form of spread of the Life Force, of which every human being and every living entity is a form of expression in their quintessential nature. In that sense, God is totalitarian1, universal and constitutes the foundation of every individual life thru phylogenetical lineage. In that manner, God transcends individuation, individualisms and individuals while remaining the Force within for every living being.

5. Self as a Challenge for the Experience of God The matter of the relationship between Self and God is the same as the question of the relation between Self and the common Good, which has been a subject of long debate. What I would define the common Good to be is not a desire, an objective or an undertaking extraneous to the individual, but very much a component of personal psychology incarnating an extension of the Force For Life at the cognitive level. The enemy of the common Good is not necessarily an uncontrollable devil or bad genius that goes around spreading evil in the World, but the ego-centric instance of every individual’s psychology, because of its very mission of apprehending the world. This “devil” is manifest in what the Self believes to be the exercise of his or her absolute freedom. Alive indeed in every man and every woman from all generations.

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We use the term totalitarian to mean infinitely encompassing, but not its usual meaning of authoritarianism.

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It is clear that the principles of Higher Ethics, which are justice, hope, love, tolerance, etc., cannot be achieved under any regime of primacy of the Self and its individual freedoms, because those values only exist at the other side of the instance of Self. The true course of human progress will not be fulfilled if every individual remains unable to reach across this wall to assume communion with the Force For Life that lives in each of us. This is far from utopia. In Scripture, the prescription to achieve this is given in the timeless principle that: You shall not do unto others what you would not like them to do unto you, you should only treat others as you would like them to treat you. Until such time that we can collectively take the steps to create a new order of life based on such wisdom of sublimation of the SELF, human kind will continue to go awreck from one age to the next, thru quasi useless socioeconomic revolutions and senseless automatization. Great spirits that have lived among us have exemplified this moral elevation in the conduct of social change. When you can order a man to take the son of another he hates to raise him, give him shelter, parental protection and care for his well-being as if his own procreation, or two brothers to stop their violent in-fighting once and for all, lest I renounce to life myself thru a hunger strike because I have become unworthy as a caregiver to those entrusted to me, then your name is Mahatma Ghandhi, who liberated India thru moral authority resulting from sublimation of the SELF. When you can take on your-SELF to spend the best decades of your life in reclusion in opposition to mistreatment inflicted to your kindreds, not because you expected something back from them, but because the suffering of the kindred is intolerable to your soul, your name is Nelson Mandela, the liberator of South Africa from the Ego of Apartheid. When you can kneel in prayer alongside the assassin who attempted but failed to murder you, in joint invocation for grace before the MOST HIGH, the Universal Force For Life, your name is Pope John Paul II, who the youth of the World universally loved because he provided food to their soul as none of their national leaders could.

6. Legacy of Sublimation of Self The covenant between the Jews and the Most High stipulates their part of the bargain is to promote the Spirit and show the road to Celestial Jerusalem to the peoples of the West and Mid-East. The Providence of Manna would take care of their physical needs as the counterpart of the Covenant. The Force For Life behind the Covenant revealed himself/herself as the “One Who Is” or the “Name-less or SELF-less One” and told Moses to go tell his people that the “One Who Is or the SelfLess one” is the one who has sent him… (Exodus 3-14)

In the renewed covenant by Yeshua, the Most High prescribed the principle of sublimation of the Self in exercising mutual equity of the self: treat your kindred as Self. “Show the other cheek” is the principle of Salvation or Elevation of the Spirit thru Liberation from Self. Cornerstones of the Christian Church. Thru Gautama, the Illuminated, the Force For Life instituted the principle of the Eighth Way for the peoples of the East, a path to development and higher Perfection of the Spirit thru sublimation of Self by containment of personal desires [6]. To Mohammed, the Most High became manifest as the talking Voice, interestingly not inside of him but outside of him, from the one, the intelligent one, who he yet could not see. Simply because the Force For Life is omnipotent and cannot be contained in simply One, and that in itself is the seminal testimony of harmony and SELF-lessness that Mohammed is entrusted to relay to his people above all. Further the meaning of the word Islam itself is Yield, or, if you will, curb the Self. The common thread of human history is really not that difficult to comprehend. Orthodox Judaism with its exclusive pursuits of material welfare, Renaissance staunchly ingrained in the satisfaction of material desires thru colonization and the development of automatism, the repressive theological control for satisfaction of the priesthood in Mohammed’s land, are all our reverse responses to the timeless and relentless calling of the Force For Life upon us all for sublimation of SELF. It is not by negating God that one can assert One-SELF. To attempt to create a space for self is to become blind to the fact that all individual freedoms are surrounded by limiting asymptotic situations that make them only minimally approachable and never reachable outright. If one believes in the enchanting idea or ideal that full freedom is for us to have, that really makes us all puppets of a mirage. What I have seen instead from those who have lived to uncompromisingly sublimate their Self is a tremendous Force, inherited from the Force For Life, and incredible levels of achievements for mankind thru power of the Spirit. Or so I believe…

7. Faith v. Atheism Questions of the meaning of life, long debated, have been particularly the object of 20th Century Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy of existentialism. So long as one appreciates and values one’s own life, so long as one’s desire to live perdures, then does it matters a single bit whether one believes in God

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or not? A conclusion to the negative should not be the ultimate consequence of Jean Paul Sartre’s famous existentialism. Because things do not exist just because they exist as existentialism would have it, and that’s all there would be to it in conclusion. By all accounts, life in you, you have not given yourself. You are an individual experience of Life, Life has fashioned you thru phylogenesis and ontogenesis. Indeed, this Life Force is God. It is only because this Life Force does not permeate common individual consciousness in all clarity that we have discussions and arguments about the existence of God or not. Once we come to a clear comprehension of the instinctual impulse for Life, which is at the root of our individual existences, as a reflection of God, then there is no more theism or a-theism. There is a fundamental movement that embroils all things in existence. It is totalitarian expansion. That expansion is for sure an expression of the Life Force, and it is the vector that gives us the most profound sense of Righteousness, Ethics, Bounty, Benevolence as much as sense of what is Good. I am sure all will agree that the worth of a person is not in how much material wealth he/she has amassed for his/her Ego, but how much Life he/she has spread around himself/herself thru empathy and assisting and caring for others. Indeed Benevolence or the Beatitudes start with the very act of procreation. And that is why the Tradition handed down to Man from the Most High is fundamentally based either on Patriarchy or Matriarchy. Yet, no man or woman has pro-created another thru individual ingenuity, self-intelligence or own intuitive knowledge. Every individual life is a timeless achievement of Life or the Life Force. So therefore re-contextualizing our representation and understanding of God seems to have become a must to all of us, scientists, atheists and believers. Otherwise we are all going to succumb to intolerance, egocentrism and destructive warfare, no matter how devout to any religion or the religion of atheism that we think we are.

8. Self and End of Evil At the personal psychology level, if I think of God as another Man out there, invisible and powerful though he might be, it will be my personal God, my own God, the one who talks to me, and prefers me, the one who shelters me and preserves me from evil coming from others. This God will have the attributes that I egocentrically attribute to Him. But if I think that God is the Goodness in every Man, that my relationship with God is the relationship that I maintain with all my other fellow Humans, that it is the individual Life Force in them that creates the collective Stream by which we achieve Society and Culture which both sustain and feed

my own life, then I assure you it will be the beginning of the end to evil in the World. Therefore, if evil comes from a Devil, it is not its sole origin, because the first of all Devils, in the context of human culture, and in light of human history under the sun, is Self. The cardinal way of killing this Devil is thru sublimation of Self.

9. Instinctual Trust in God If we endeavor to keep away God as an invisible abstraction residing in some abode above us, and cater to a Real God personified in the Goodness in us, every single one of us, whether believers or a-theists, will sooner or later discover that this God is our individual Life Force, present and represented in every fellow human being. The challenge is thus to understand God thru plurality or diversity and as promoter of the same. When we come to this realization in fullness, we will become more and more accepting of each other, more tolerant to each other, and hopefully we will come as well to an understanding of the meaning and purpose of our differences. Our ordinary egocentric view of God leaves us with a tremendous deficit in visualizing how much our individual lives are based on TRUST of each other. The home where you are sheltered right now, you trust that its builders built it so that you can be secure inside of it, you did not and could not verify every single one of its structural components for such trust. You trust that the entire teams of fellow humans who collaborated to build your car, did not build it with flaws that will cause it to explode on you. You trust that pumps at the gas stations have been calibrated to give you the exact amount that the pricing is calling for, you don’t know who the calibrators were. You trust that the road and bridge built by others for your ride will not plummet under you. If you trusted State for these assurances, then you have trusted even more people. The most fundamental currency of our lives is TRUST, and it is ultimately trust in the Goodness of every other one of us. As a laborer, when you do your work with love and instinctively put the best of you in it thru what we call work ethic, you do so primarily for others. The Goodness in us is the foundation of our Lives, because if it was the evil nothing built would stand. The Life Force-God flows thru everyone of us toward every other. Unquestionably. It is very much untrue that competition or destructive competition is the propellant of our Culture. The seminal bond that glues society and the global Culture together is Trust. Competition comes as an overthrow on the underlying fabric of Trust and only contri-

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butes to greater good when it is experienced as competition for perfection. It is time for us to finally come to the realization of the foundational role played by mutual Trust in our lives. This Trust partakes of the state of Goodness that is subjacent to the individual human Soul. The ultimate purpose of every Religion is to instill in us that higher form of consciousness. So I believe.

10. God Thru Open-Mindedness The way that everyone generally represents God makes indeed for a very personal and intimate experience. Because for many it is the place we go when we need to brace ourselves in the most difficult moments and circumstances. You will hear the a-theists call for Goodness (My Goodness! – For Goodness sake!) in those moments because Goodness is their God, perhaps unknowingly so. Nevertheless, the mutual sharing of our representations of God or Goodness may prove to be one of the most powerful means for the meeting of cultures, which may ultimately lead us to universal peace. If you are a white man, God is probably for you a white man. If you are a white woman, God is probably for you a white man as well, by education. If you are a person of dark color, God is most probably for you a white man as well, due to transculturation on account of colonization. To a person of dark color who has overcome transculturation, God will probably be a black man. If you are an Asian person, what would be God’s race or appearance for you? Would God be of Asian appearance? Would God be instead of dark appearance, akin to the Buddha Gautama? It is natural that everyone of us thinks that God is of one’s own race. If you are an a-theist you probably still believe that your race is the owner of Goodness. But then, is it not an unsustainable reductionism to constrain the person God to be at your sole own image? How can we deny someone of a different ethnicity faculty and right to “naturally” represent God as a higher person of his kindred? Can the single person God be of all races at the same time? No, is my firm answer, because it would be a physically impossible artifact. At that point we can play foul and turn God into an abstraction, an ethereous entity somewhere in an unphysical place, or a principle of some kind, so that we can still live with that selfcentric representation of God, whether to accept it or to reject it (atheism). It is only with the recognition that the OTHER God or the OTHER’s God, physical and racial as we all represent Him or Her, is God too, that we may come around full circle and with all honesty. At that moment you will have seen Greatness and Goodness in someone OTHER, and you

will have probably met his or her Humanity for the first time thru the God in him or her. Because, from the premise that I have set forth, a personal and physical God cannot be ONE, but ALL of us at the same time. It takes an open mind like this, or for us to open our minds like this, to appreciate the vastness of God. The name I put on this is Higher Consciousness. The secret of universal peace. Again, if we can have patient, rational and acrimonious conversations about God, we can all come to a place of deep mutual understanding and tolerance, beyond our differences and maintaining our differences.

11. Agnostic Science The Agnostic Science of the West that we practice does not believe that the existence of God is a necessary condition to an explanation and understanding of physical reality, nor does it view the notion of God necessary for individuals’ motivation to be a good human being. Science proclaims objectivity for itself and subjectivity for all notion of God, because God is not in that perspective an empirical or experimental subject of Knowledge. Objectivity is understood to be a result of empiricism in that it is a product of observation, which makes it something we can all agree on by experience. Whereas Subjectivity is a result of personal psychology and produces views that we are presumably doomed to disagree on because it is a result of individuals’ particular window on the world. So views our agnostic science, and that is why in science, by norm we give primacy to Objectivity and disfavor Subjectivity. Yet, many “empirical” observations in science turn out to be wrong and become later invalidated by better science. Example: the astrophysical observation of a “static universe” in vogue in cosmological physics for quite a while (pre-Hubble). Whereas some scientists with unusual insights about a problem, decried by peers in their time, are able to properly seize own intuition and produce innovative views that become the problem solvers. Example: the statistical physics of Ludwig Boltzmann. So, to start with, we should be cautious about scientists’ views regarding the value of objectiveness and subjectiveness, let alone philosophers. Further when it comes to the famed philosophy of existentialism, incompleteness is a fair criticism because it has not ascertained to best satisfaction the relationship between God, Universe and Man. What both science and existentialism propose is that the universe has no meaning in itself, it only has meaning because meaning is a product of

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mankind collective psychology which infuses purpose to matter thru the visualization of an intelligent God. One can revert that entire perspective thru the other perspective that I have contended here regarding the nature of God, and the relationship of God with Man and Universe. Furthermore, what Science assumes of God is what priests have for long and forever taught the faithful, but not what is essential in religious doctrine. For Christians, one of the cardinal principles in canon is: Do not do onto others what you would not like them to do onto you. Only treat others as you would treat yourself. This means that you cannot define the Good or what is good from self. You cannot define how to be a good human being in and of yourself. You can only define Good in relation to others. What is good for you is only what will be good for others as well. What is not virtuously good for you is not good for others either. So the State of Goodness is a collective ontological state that transcends the self. It is not an Abstraction, it dictates collective experience at the same time that it arises from collective experience, and it is Totalitarian. The State of Goodness is the Spread of the Life Force that subsumes Mankind and beyond, and she only knows of unrelenting flow. That is the best and most faithful representation of God that emanates from Scripture. This universal doctrine is above Science, because science is truly and only about how we become aware of the world beyond us. Science simply represents the workings of Consciousness in its necessary apprehension of the world around. At the moment, its premises cannot validly address the profound and indispensable matters of existentialism or humanism.

12. God Thru Life and Death If God is the seminal Force within, can God abide in a criminal subject, you wonder? How can that ever be? Higher wisdom reveals that death is an essential component of Life. As scholars and laymen, we must ultimately consider that our bodies would not remain alive and vibrant if the continual process of cell auto-destruction known in biology as apoptosis was not there to orchestrate death to the army of cells that have become unnecessary and compromising every minute of life. King Solomon’s higher wisdom teaches us in Ecclesiastes 3: “There is a time for everything, a time for birth and a time for death… a time to kill and a time to heal… a time to destroy and a time to build… a time for tears and a time for bliss….”

God is not afraid of evil and suffering no more than S-He is afraid of the experience of death. Because in the Life Charter of God, evil and suffering and death are only a means to Transcendence. An absolute fracture in the tapestry of existence cannot occur because in the purest of void there cannot be a hole of any kind but only another class of void, if there should be. Death, as much of a traumatic experience as it might be, is always a gateway to new freedoms. God is therefore not afraid of death. That is why God has instituted the High Tradition of Sainthood based on Martyrdom. In the Christian Tradition, God has not principally died to rescue us from our sins and evils, as priests exclusively have it, but essentially to put before our eyes the exemplary experience of vanquishing death and evil thru yield and above all, I believe, to show us that is the fundamental reason for our lives (of suffering) under the Sun.

13. God or Gods Fair to say that all ideas about God come from the particular forms of thoughts thru which we prospect the nature of God. There are three modal representations at work in our cogitations on that particular: 1.- God does not exist but only a conscience by which we naturally tend to do Good (we don’t need to believe in God to be a Good person). This is the minimalist or monolithic form of thought which grants God the most minute existence there can be in the form of a punctual human conscience. 2.- God at the image of Self as a stylized and highly able being endowed with the power to Create the world that is conceivable to us. This form of thought is slightly more open than the previous, since it gives God existence beyond the strictly individual and proper ontology in Nature. This representation is the one cultivated by the priesthood in most religions. 3.- God Transcendence, which is an asymptotically open form of thought in granting God broad-encompassing attributions in terms of the vital force that subsumes and animates both the living and matter, a sort of boundless cosmogonic being. This form of representation is present in all scriptures but not promoted by the priesthood in general for many reasons, not the least of which is that they don’t understand it and cannot translate it. Although it might have always been part of human culture, the first form of representation has historically been a reaction to the second and has ironically been visualized as a form of Enlightenment. In the second form of representation, the question of God or Gods, or whose God is God, naturally arises with all its specter of conflicts and violence in the name

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of God. It had caused some to think that God had made a choice in terms of which human cultural group S-He naturally belongs to. Only if we can rise to the third form of interpretation, do we have a chance at an authentic and harmonic vision of God. If you are going to communicate with someone, your best approach is to speak his language and assimilate his culture. If God lives in us, then S-He must accordingly become manifest to us thru the elements that define us biologically and culturally. God did not pick and choose a race or group to manifest himself/herself materially. God is manifest thru all and every culture of mankind thru many different forms of epitomizations of Himself/Herself, in accordance with Culture. How I know the Entity remains the same is because the message is the same in all religious doctrines. As alluded to before, the Christian principle of Yield (as shown i.e. in show the other cheek) is the same as that which is proclaimed in Islam thru the principle of Martyrdom, the word Islam itself meaning Yield. In Animism no one can receive the propitiatory auspices of the Spirit without having been submitted to the initiatory rite, which is a protocol of Yield and Humility [8]. This understanding makes the question of a ranking between the epitomizations of God as well as the question of God or gods a moot argument.

14. Why Animists Believe that Matter is God In the West, Animists are considered as savages that need be civilized, owing to their strange beliefs that matter may be God or represents an experience of God and as such worthy of devotion. What this form of thinking in the West remains blind to is that everything below the cell structure down to the atoms and particles that make up our living bodies is inert matter. If you should consider, in all openness of minds, that God is the Force that animates the entire Universe, and that there is an ontological component of inert matter to all living entities, then you will understand that:  you can never separate inert matter from living matter.  what makes one differ from the other is a question of behavior.  the boundaries between the living and the inanimate are not known.  and that well thought out ontology must seize all beings in their Unity. That is what incontestably legitimizes Animists views about God and Nature [7], a form of thinking that equates matter to life and life to matter and which by the way is integral

part of Hinduism and Lamaism, not just African Animism. Now, you may disagree from a Cartesian point of view, but it is only because Cartesian forms of thoughts have no visibility at those depths. It is interesting to note that such claims of animist savagery have never been applied to the Ancient Kemetic Kingdom of the Sahara which was ruled by Pharonic Theocracy of the Sun-Star. The West has always remained in awe of the uttermost stylized artforms developed under the Kemetic Animist vision, to the point that 4000 years later they became object of widespread looting for exposition in European capitals. Furthermore, the entire Greco-Latin civilization took deep inspiration from Kemetic intellectual, spiritual and material constructions, except for the colossal pyramids of which no one to date has been able to figure out how in the world they have been built by Kemetic human hands. Most people don’t realize in full awareness how dependent their lives are, biologically and experientially, on the Sun-Star. We talk about mother Nature in a vague manner without realizing that she, the Sun Star, is really our Mother in Nature or the closest thereof. Not only that the particles and precursory hydrogen atoms of which the more complex atoms that make up the first existential layer of our bodies do all come from Her, she also provides the prime and endless light energy that keeps our human bodies, once formed, well alive thru metabolic activity, insofar as relates to every other form of life in the biosphere, in particular those of our “food chain”. The entire flora spread out on this planet, which is directly part of our food chain, participates on its own of this vivid form of experience with the Sun-Star (chlorophyll assimilation thru direct absorption of Sun Light.). She is thus the alpha and the omega of life. Further, she is the owner of the most important bio-rhythm that regulates our existence from the Cosmic backdrop of what we call day and night. No one can live without the inner gravitas of this Cosmic alternation. Just a few years ago, the story referenced by the link below, of much relevance to the matter being hereby discussed, circulated in the official Western news media as an oddity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLR3KaATUM If indeed, and only if, yogi Prahlad Jani has lived 70 years with no ingestion of food but direct absorption of light from the mother Star, thru profound functional changes in visual perception and metabolic activity, then he would have demonstrated that human life and karyotic life in general are not primarily dependent on planet Earth, but that every human and living being is a Cosmic entity under the direct regency of the mother Star. And that life, in its bewildering diversity, is not a result of random conditions in planet Earth environment,

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but directly dictated by the Sun-Star and nurtured by her without end.

phylogenetic line. Some texts of millennia past call them the fiery Archangels!

This most profound truth which towered the Animist Kemetic Kingdom represents indeed the gravitas of all Religions handed down in human culture. It is evidenced in the golden domes of mosques,

Is this the foundation of Monotheism which is an element of high pride in Mid-East-founded religions? Is there any closer to Men a more vivid example or expression of the Force For Life in its unrelenting, ubiquitous and most self-less spread? What is the Cosmic order that fuels the Hierarchy by which the Force For Life experiences its totalitarian expansion? Is the Hierarchy of Responsibility the principal Cosmic axis of the evolution of Life? What is the Cosmic cartography that instantiates Human Ancestry? These are questions for every man and every woman to answer for himself or herself whenever they have started to make any semblance of sense. If a man or a woman is unable to ask and answer these questions, beyond the common musing about the meaning of life or the abode of Heaven, it is to no prejudice to his or her abilities and faculties. They shall however marshal a motion that will someday enable them to See the Light. In the Boddisattva [5] language, this realization is called Illumination, as exemplified by the Buddha Gautama, or Yeshua, the Light that came into the World but that the World could not see (John, 1:10). If you believe that the representation of the fiery Angels and Archangels in the Catholic Church’s mystical tradition only stands for stylish artforms of mystical inspiration, think again!

the ritual turning to and around Mecca as the central celestial globe that attracts the faithful in the form of a gravitational mandala (mural form of the Mosque and pilgrimage lines) akin to orbiting planets, as much as the elevated golden ceiling and rainbow windows of Christian Cathedrals which irradiate splendorous Light with delightful colors as living manna over the faithful.

These representations consign in a sophisticated manner the Higher Truth that Quintessence in every Man is an instance of Cosmic progeny as mediated by the Mother Star which ultimately institutes the direction of Human Ontological Evolution.

15. God Manifest

Let alone the ubiquitous ritual fire in the much older religions under the Sun. Yes, I hold religion to be Cosmic culture indeed, a legacy of the Higher Spirits that came before us in the

A broad understanding of the dynamic Universe and God Almighty requires a totalitarian form of mentation. According to such thinking God is boundless as much as the Universe is edgeless, and God Almighty is or must be a God-Universe. However, this representation is still spiritually vacuous if it not grounded in the firm perception and belief that quintessence in every man is a sprout of the Almighty Universal

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Force For Life; and that every man or woman is an atom of God. It is possible that a human person having achieved a Higher state of Grace and Benevolence would have to be perceived by us in behavior and faculties as an unspeakable Wonder. Man of this era has never directly seen one, however the sacred texts have given us testimonies of the existence of these beings as integrants of the Order of Angels and Archangels, as previously mentioned. In the West specifically, it is from them, by reading Scripture between the lines, that we ultimately have to learn Divine Transcendence or Boddittsava. Belief in God does not take anyone very far. Only the experience of God is transformational. There are many ways to that experience, one of which is sublimation of the Self, amply discussed previously, once one has fully understood Boddisattva in Self and all other human beings with no exception. God himself has established a simple path to that experience for every man as a way to stir every human being onto the path to Transcendence. Because human history continually unfolds and passes away, material witnesses of the Spirit ultimately becomes fading Memorials. That the Apostles, for instance, spoke in prophetic language at Pentecost is today no more than a fable even to the Evangelist. That is why, I believe, God has become manifest in physical Memorials expressing testimony of the Immaterial in a way that defy time. Ever since Enlightenment in the modern era, God had multiplied the material signs of his or her omnipotent presence globe-wide. Men of all ages call this form of testimony miracles. By remaining isolated in Self, one can always take the position of staunch disbelief in miracles. In fact, the Church today, as diminished as it has become, is not asking anyone to believe in miracles, as I view it. What the Church today is asking of anyone is to come see one. The Marian phenomenon is spread on every continent, for anyone and everyone to come witness God Manifest. For instance, the Church openly invites anyone to buy oneself a plane ticket to Paris, 140 Rue du Bac, Chapel Notre Dame de la Médaille Miraculeuse, come see the bodies of Sainte Louise de Marillac or Sainte Catherine Labouré, deceased for now two centuries and yet with their bodies inexplicably intact. Nuns and priests have wholeheartedly kept that Chapel free open to all. http://www.chapellenotredamedelamedaillemiraculeuse.c om/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/P1010142.jpg The higher purpose of these “mysteries” is certainly not to mystify human beings but to establish a material testimony of the omnipotence of the Force For Life that is at the same

time immaterial to the unfolding of human history. Should one insist in approaching the question of physical or empirical manifestation of God in terms of belief or disbelief in miracles, one is then purely and simply playing foul. Given how widespread and accessible these manifestations are, we must conclude that in the West, province of Christendom, it is out of temerity and utter bigotry that science and atheism can discard and close eyes on this timeless “empirical” patrimony of the Transcendental long nurtured by the Catholic Church, to simply say the least.

16. Conclusion If any religious doctrine teaches God as a God Individual, who bestows the Good onto some and chastises others, then it has not arisen from workings of the Spirit who is ubiquitous within every and all men. Such a religious doctrine has no more worth than the doctrine of atheism. If any religious doctrine professes hatred and intolerance, then it is not a legitimate and authentic cast of the Spirit and has put itself at the same level of the Evil that it preaches against. Such doctrines are artforms of human consciousness and in most cases corruptions of original inspired doctrine, and they do not contribute at any sensible rate to the expansion of the Force For Life. If any religious doctrine promotes practices resulting in or destined to damage the human soul, then it is a catastrophic affront to the Spirit. Priests of every religion have historically done a very good job at teaching every group that their God is the only God or the real one, without ever bucking at the ominous level of self-centrism there is to this conception of God. We are where we are in deep-seated cultural antagonism today very much thanks to these grave errors. That is why the faithful ought to take the scriptures in their own hands nowadays in order to remove from them the hatred and self-centrism, otherwise called dogma and orthodoxy, under which God had been oftentimes buried. And the best way to that avenue is in attempting a rational, patient, meticulous and all respectful conversation about God. God, well understood, is an opportunity for us to understand each other and to discover each other’s humanity. If there is a group of people who can fruitfully jump start that undertaking, it is certainly the educated. It is ultimately up to us to let our egocentrist gods lead us to mutual destruction or let the Goodness in everyone of us, aka God, positively transform us into agents of Life.

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