THE BOOK
A “SECONDARY” MANDATE
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Why a “SECONDARY” MANDATE?
In terms of what are usually described as standard or acceptable “literary” protocols, “mandates” rarely feature as a necessary adjunct for a book, simply because a book is usually just that! However, precisely because the Text that you hold in your hands; without fear or favour challenges all that earthly humanity in its many and varied groupings holds as sacrosanct and correct; this Work also Corrects the too-many errors and distortions of Divine Truth that have come into being from the much-vaunted world of “academia”.
For that more intellectual side of human endeavour, this tome “acknowledges” a particular and especial Secondary Mandate. It is one from the long-distant past.
Of necessity, this “Secondary” Mandate centres on the world of academia ---- religious and scientific! Noting that the subject matter for this Work stands on an absolutely unassailable foundation far above any kind of earthly, religious, academic, or intellectual consideration, the question of the necessity for an earthly mandate is probably actually irrelevant.
Nonetheless, as a “sop” to especially everyday religious academics in the various schools of theology of religions many and varied, we will yet offer this “Secondary Mandate” --- not, however, for your permission, but for your very necessary “elucidation”!
That “elucidation” centres on you knowing the great and unbridgeable difference between two aspects of what should be two perfectly balanced aspects of the human entity --- the “Spiritual” aspect, and what should always have been its “complementary partner”, our intellect.
Since it is our too-strong reliance on the earthly intellect that has brought humanity down to this 21st century point of a world in dire crisis; at this early stage, let us get some real understanding about it from The Hand of The Spirit of Truth.
As we proceed on this long and necessary journey, therefore, we might learn to “see” the incredible damage that the one-sided use of our intellect has especially wrought in religion and in many disciplines within the academic world.
Reader: Here is something very logical for you to consider. If science and religion are continually asking questions; that must logically mean that they have not yet discovered real answers! This excerpt from The All-Truth is from a Lecture appropriately titled:
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THE CONFLICT
All that has so far taken place has consisted of one- sided attacks by the intellectuals, which to any dispassionate observer must appear obviously unfounded and often absurd. Scorn, hostility, and even persecution of a most serious kind await all those who seek to develop themselves higher in a purely spiritual sense, even when they maintain silent reserve. There are always some who try by ridicule or force to pull back and drag down such aspiring ones to the dull insensibility or hypocrisy of the masses.
Thus many were bound to become actual martyrs, because not only the masses but therewith also the earthly power has been on the side of the intellectuals. What these have to offer is already indicated in the word “intellect”. That is: A narrowing of the range of the perceptive capacity to purely earthly matters, and thus to the minutest part of real existence.
It is easily understandable that this can produce nothing perfect, nothing good for a humanity whose existence moves mainly through spheres which the intellectuals have closed to themselves. Especially so when one considers that just one brief earth-life should become a significant turning-point for the whole existence, entailing as it does decisive interventions in those other spheres which are completely inconceivable to the intellectuals.
The responsibility of the intellectuals, who rightly considered have already fallen deeply, is thus enormously increased, and as heavy pressure it will help to push them more and more swiftly towards the goal of their choice, so that they will at last have to partake of the fruits of what they have persistently and presumptuously advocated.
By intellectuals are to be understood those who have unconditionally submitted themselves to their own intellect. These people, strange to say, have for thousands of years believed that they had an absolute right to impose their limited convictions by law and by force also upon those who wished to live according to another conviction. This very limitation brings them a so-called peak of comprehension, whereby such presumptions are bound to arise in the imagination, because they believe they really are standing on the utmost height. This is actually true as far as they are concerned, since they have arrived at the boundary they cannot cross.
But their attacks on seekers for the Truth, so often inexplicably malevolent, clearly show on closer observation the whip of the Darkness brandished behind them. Seldom does one find in these hostile acts a trace of honest volition, which might somewhat excuse their often shocking manner of proceeding. In most cases there is only blind fury devoid of any real logic. --------
The unfounded and paltry nature of the attacks is always kept quite strikingly apparent from the very fact that these are never kept purely objective! They are always a veiled or open defilement of the person of the Truth-seeker. This is only done by someone who is incapable of replying objectively. ------------------
The word must be examined, not the person! It is a habit of the intellectuals to seek always to regard the person first, and then to consider whether they can listen to his words. Owing to the narrow limitation of their perceptive capacity, these people need such an outward hold, because they must cling to externals to prevent them from becoming confused. --------------------------------
The ironic reference to “lay preacher” or “lay interpretation”, so often used, shows such a degree of ridiculous presumption that every serous person senses: “This is a shield used to conceal shallowness at all costs. To cover their emptiness with a cheap signboard!” -----------
It is just this frequent reference to “laymen”, this strange looking down upon those who through their strengthened and less influenced intuitive perception stand much nearer to the truth, and who have not built walls for themselves through rigid intellectual forms, that exposes a weakness whose dangers cannot escape the notice of any thinker. He who believes in such opinions is at the outset excluded from being an unprejudiced teacher and guide, for he stands much further away from God and His Activity than any other man.
Knowledge about the development of religions, with all the errors and faults, does not bring men nearer to their God, and just as little does the intellectual interpretation of the Bible or of other valuable writings of the different religions.
The intellect is and remains bound to space and time, that is to say earthbound; whereas the Godhead, and thus also the recognition of God and His Will, are above space and time and above all that is transitory, and therefore can never be grasped by the narrowly-confined intellect.
For this simple reason the intellect is not called upon to bring enlightenment to eternal values. Indeed it would be a contradiction. Therefore he who in these matters boasts of university qualifications, and would look down upon those who are not so influenced, thereby declares his own incompetence and limitation. Thinking people will at once sense intuitively the one-sidedness, and use caution against him who cautions them in such a manner!
Only those who are called can be true teachers. Called ones are those who carry the ability within them. These abilities, however, do not ask for university training, but for the vibrations of a refined intuitive faculty, able to soar above time and space, thus beyond the limit of comprehension by the earthly intellect.
Moreover, any inwardly free man will always assess a matter or a teaching according to what it brings, not according to who brings it. The latter is the strongest possible evidence of his unfitness to be an investigator. Gold is gold, whether a prince or a beggar holds it in his hand.
But just in the most valuable things of the spiritual man, one seeks obstinately to disregard and to alter this irrefutable fact. Naturally without any more success than in the case of gold. For those who are really seeking seriously do not permit themselves to be influenced by such distractions from examining the matter itself. But those who do allow themselves to be so influenced are not yet mature to receive the Truth. It is not for them.
But the hour is not far distant when a conflict, which has been lacking as yet, must now break out. The one- sidedness will end, and a sharp confrontation will follow which will destroy all false presumption.
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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Readers: Note His words: “the dull insensibility or hypocrisy of the masses”. Now also note ---again --- the Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard’s, sage insight:
“It is not the truth that lies with the masses, but the untruth. The crowd is the untruth.”
In accordance with what you have just read --- and since most of you make up “the crowd”, we expect that you will do exactly that which The Spirit of Truth points out --- attack both this Work and its writer, probably very vehemently. What you really should do, instead, is open up yourself to His Words of Unassailable Truth!
For in this early stage, the explanations of the great and really insurmountable difference between intellectual and spiritual thinking and all that must naturally stem from both already gives us a very clear insight into the current state of why human societies are failing.
Establishing this fact from the knowledge of Divine Creation-Law permits us that discernment to the greatest possible degree. The terrible time of the Inquisition where “the whip of the Darkness” was “brandished”, thus driving the actions of “the Church” that yet hypocritically carried out their torture “in the name of God”, categorically shows us today that it was not Spiritual Love that ruled then, but the aspiritual intellectualism of the “church fathers”!
Crucial examples of the “damage” our “intellect” has inflicted upon us you will read in detail in the main body of the Work, for it is the purview of that Main Text to reveal the in-the-end uncountable numbers of distortions of Sublime Divine Truth that “religious scholars” have fed to their flocks. That, very unfortunately, is the norm, and has never been otherwise!
So, from It you will have more than just an “insight” into how much the so-called “great religions” have distorted that SUBLIME TRUTH OF GOD and, by extension, the critical knowledge of HIS stupendous CREATION!
In addition, historically, veritable “rivers of blood” have been spilt over centuries by those very religions, just to maintain the “great lie”! Is that true “spirituality”? No, it is not! It is nothing more than human religious dogma --- born of darkness and evil!
So: Back to a “Secondary” Mandate. Without any kind of academic qualifications for a ‘book’ of such serious purpose, in the purely earthly sense I will call upon a man considered to be a true servant of God, and a brilliant intellectual. His approbation fits perfectly, for I do not “belong” to any religion and, in no uncertain terms, I do not consider myself religious in any shape or form.
In fact, it is a word/term I personally dislike, for the connotations of it are very, very clear historically to the present day and do not need to be ‘spelled out’; just watch the television newscasts every night. If I am not religious, why, you might ask, am I even bothering with this book and subject? Well: The answer is crystal clear! It is in my DEDICATION!