THE BOOK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Reader: In direct resonance with firstly the Title of this Work, and secondly with Lowell’s perceptive insight; “In the strife of Truth with Falsehood”, I have quite clearly “chosen a side”! Everything that I write and/or quote herein will therefore unequivocally testify to the only “choice” that really matters!
In terms of Acknowledgements, therefore: Yes, in the very first instance before all else, we certainly do absolutely acknowledge the Singular Source of Pure Knowledge that graces this Work, but not in terms of earthly ‘publishing requirements’. Such protocols do not even begin to approach the Sublimity of what you, reader, will be “illuminated” by, without which this ‘book’ could never have been written!
In this Work, therefore, we are thus Mandated to Proclaim The “SPIRIT OF TRUTH” and HIS “ALL-TRUTH”! --------- (John 16: The Bible)!
In truth, the words of our languages are totally inadequate to describe that stupendous Event, long-prophesied to come to earth; and did in the 20th century! Reader, take what you have just read as “gospel”; irrevocable, inviolable, unchangeable --- Ordained!
For the Power of His All-Truth --- to which you will yet be exposed much more throughout this Work --- will enlighten and illuminate you to a degree that at this moment you could not even begin to comprehend.
In general terms in meaning and application, therefore, the word, Acknowledgement, really only pertains to ancillary input from authors whose writings are sufficiently meaningful to use in this Work. We all know that the literary world is loaded to the brim with “stuff” that has no real value for the ennoblement of the human spirit --- us!
By contrast, in just the one page we have given you thus far from The Spirit of Truth, you will have surely noted the clear logic of His Words, for it tells us in no uncertain terms that the 21st century brand of religious extremism that continues to brutally-destroy the lives of so many is not from, nor could it ever be sanctioned by, THE CREATOR ----- By GOD!
Inherently associated with Divine Power and Purpose, with an overarching aegis of Divine Justice and Divine Love, the knowledge of Divine Truth that awaits you is ultimately gifted to all on earth. And only from out of The LOVE of GOD, through His Envoy --- The “SPIRIT OF TRUTH” --- could it be so!
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AN ESPECIAL NOTE: --- (Post-completion)!
So, who really deserves our “acknowledgement”? Throughout history particular individuals have contributed more decisively to the dissemination of the actual Truth of God than the purveyors of the main religions, whose task it should have been. Because those so-called religious “leaders” rarely fulfilled any kind of true Spiritual Mandate to hold The Truth of God in its once-pristine state as delivered by the great “Truth-bringers” to the various peoples and cultures each in turn; “lone voices in the wilderness”, “boat-rockers”, emerged periodically to challenge the religious status quo.
The list of murdered prophets and teachers martyred for the cause of Truth will probably never be known but surely numbers in the tens of thousands --- and that is more in what we would term the long-distant past. Since the ultimate and constant thread binding that long line of “true servants” had to represent clear and logical meaning, and thus lead to a point of final resolution in the present era, we can now look back into just recent history and note a few key people whose contribution actually helped paved the way for the entry of The “All-Truth” onto the earth in the 20th century.
On that note: The initial emergence of “classical music” and thence to its evolution over the centuries to become a “force” in the very cultural-psyche of a large part of global humanity was surely not without serious, higher purpose. And neither was it, for the great classical compositions in their own development also represent a clear thread of ennoblement and spiritual elevation.
Under the Creation-aegis of The Law of Numbers, the pure mathematics of the chromatic scale employed by those human beings now forever known to us as “the great composers” brought forth “music” in perhaps its purest form. So that “journey”, too, also signalled the approaching entry of The All-Truth in the 20th century, for classical music can be seen to have peaked in power and complexity --- but also great beauty --- in the 200 years preceding His arrival. So, the “great composers” were also “preparers of the true way”.
For science, Sir Isaac Newton, who recognised the great consistency in the Laws of the Universe and understood their Origin to be from what he termed An Almighty God. They are now graciously gifted to us as the knowledge of The Divine Laws of Creation! ---- (Newton’s work has largely driven N.A.S.A.‘s space programme.)
Martin Luther, a “boat-rocker”, par excellence, very correctly and very bravely challenged the power of “the Church”, condemning the Vatican’s “prayers for money”. For his trouble, and under threat of death from the Pope, Luther had to flee to safety. They are just two of the truly great men among many of the past few hundred years, but whose seminal influence simply cannot be underestimated, for the impact of their life and work resonates very powerfully in their “field” to this day.
Yet even the English King Henry VIII contributed in no small measure to a far more expansive outcome for Christianity by breaking with Rome. The believed right of the Pope and his “church” to excommunicate whoever did not bow to their “religious” protocols --- despite the whole business being silly and hypocritical in the extreme --- at least from then on freed many from Catholicism’s oppressive brand of religious conditioning. The “unlearned” and the fearful could sleep just a little more peacefully.
Now we get to the heart of the present era and “this current” Work. In direct and absolute concert with the Title of the Work: To fully detail and logically elucidate all the subjects we must cover; it was imperative that we find the greatest depth of knowledge available for our purpose. To that end, obviously the “primary” face-books of the three monotheistic religions i.e., the Koran, the Bible and the Torah were absolutely necessary to begin with.
However, the Foundation for this Work and, indeed, of all things, is The “All-Truth” of The “Spirit of Truth”, for which “discovery” this writer remains eternally grateful!
Now, because we must logically speak of and quote the actual “Words” of The “Spirit of Truth”: Of the three religious Works, it is The Bible that holds primary place for definitively bringing that Divine Title to the attention of humankind.
Even Islam --- in order to claim “Ownership of Him” --- in its many publications and even in Koranic commentary, has simply had to acknowledge that Title as stemming from John 16. [Reader, you will necessarily learn much more about that reality as we proceed into the “meat” of this Work.]
So, in order to quote “correctly” from a “more correct” Bible, the key was to find that particular Bible --- which, thankfully, from the many diverse books available online, I did. It is a Bible translated by Ferrar Fenton more than one hundred years ago.
Particularly for earthly science and religion, perhaps the greatest revelation to come out of any Bible is ‘illuminated” in his translation, where he, alone, finally clarified the very problematic and centuries-old controversy i.e., --- Creation versus Evolution. In his amazing work, his intuitively-correct interpretation of the Book of Genesis, particularly Chapters 1 and 2, perfectly reconciles this quandary, one that still divides science and religion today.
In one stroke of “correct” translation and interpretative recognition that could only have come from powerfully-guided insights, he has rendered every other Genesis ‘Bible translation’ -- completely irrelevant.
What that means in final terms is that his correct recognition of Creation and Evolution is exactly that --- Correct --- for all religions, for all of global humanity, and for all time. Even now in this 21st century, spiralling events are already unequivocally bearing out the truth of this statement.
Moreover, the epic scale of Fenton’s achievement brought to light appalling distortions covering virtually the entire range of the primary tenets of Christianity as upheld for centuries and still to the present-day by virtually the whole of global Christendom. Re-translating the Bible from original sources and languages -– and not simply producing a new ‘glossed over’ copy expressing the same basic narrative primarily from the Latin Vulgate -– unveiled a completely new “world of knowledge” that could then emerge into real Light.
Previously hidden by illogical religious dogma, Fenton’s invaluable contribution is thus the cornerstone of “Bible knowledge” for this Work. In that context, therefore, Fenton’s crucial spiritual insights into the Bible has done something that over fifteen hundred years of ‘theology” never even got close to --- and perversely, still has not to this day.
In terms of the great Love of God, what He has gifted to us in both The Spirit of Truth and His Living Word permits us to know of the Majesty and Power of The Pure Truth of His stupendous and humanly- incomprehensible Creation!
So: Science and religion, within the parameters of what you currently teach as “your truth”, what you can actually have through Fenton is a sure foundation upon which to build truth upon truth, discovery upon discovery! For he has “harmonised” the age-old but pointless battle between Creation and Evolution and, quite logically, therefore, the actual “Origins of Man”!
(Reader: we will enter into this subject more completely in its appropriate place in the main text. In addition, you will learn much more about this remarkable man and true ‘Spiritual scholar”, and hopefully recognise what the “churches” have not; that he came to “put right” their inexcusable errors held as ‘sacrosanct church truth’ for over fifteen hundred years.)
In our Acknowledgements, Therefore we, very thankfully, accord Ferrar Fenton especial kudos, for only with his invaluable contribution does this Work carry --- for the Christian Churches in particular --- what we will term “religious authority”!
[Reader: it is important to reinforce this fact. The especial dimension of my personal recognition of The Spirit of Truth and His prophesied All-Truth means that the use of that “greatest of knowledge” for this Work is an imperative.
For without It, this “book” would be worthless! And because such recognition of the Author of that Divine Truth cannot possibly be described with any degree of sufficient human depth, that seminal, profoundly life- changing experience produces a welling-up of gratitude that also cannot be adequately described.
What that produced for me was the desire to offer some kind of “Dedication of Gratitude” to THE CREATOR for the sublime gift of His Divine Truth! It is that which now drives this Work directed to the three monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism --- primarily! Secondarily, you will learn how and why the terrible state of many human societies globally can be placed at the feet of human religion.]
So, reader; because the deeper knowledge is primarily derived from The “All-Truth”, what you will read in this Work is clear and logical elucidation of the great “Questions to Life”. In addition, and quite apart from that never- before-known knowledge and its associated ancillary writings, the overall scope of the Work will be considerably broadened by adding extensive input from Islam and Judaism in the first instance, but also from Christianity.
Commentary from relevant scholars therefrom, along with my own analyses and commentary --- of which I am confident you will find “refreshingly logical” --- will take the crucially more important “spiritual analyses” to the furthest point possible.
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The Title and associated subject matter of this Work obviously means that I need to look to Muslim scholars for serious contribution and measured commentary on the primary issues that must be addressed herein. Whilst we will quote relevant Koranic verses from several different Korans, the primary one we will use is that of Muslim scholar, Maulana Muhammad Ali (hereinafter referred to as M.M. Ali).
His detailed Introduction to all things about the Koran, along with the extensive commentary that accompanies most verses of “his translation”, by far offers the best possible insight into what Islam is supposed to be about.
Finally, and crucially: In concert with the purpose for which this Work is written, sincere and very grateful acknowledgements are seriously accorded to “Guides unseen” –- for which I make no apologies. The decisive subject matter herein and its associated translation of form into the logical explanations necessary for our very fractured, very illogical, and increasingly desolate 21st century “human world”, has especial and powerful originating- resonance from beyond "The World of Matter” ---- which is the actual “real world” anyway.
Quite clearly, if humankind had followed the True LAW -– CREATION- LAW -– the present “global madness” that we all see in real-time would not, could not, have ever arisen.
Those who “watch over us” are as appalled as certainly many here on this earth. Therefore, to them who guide this Work, I offer deep and profound thanks!