THE BOOK
FOR THE “BIG THREE” OF MONOTHEISM:
We have said that the ultimate MANDATE for this Work stems from the standpoint and all-encompassing parameters of Divine Creation-Law --- THE LAW! In its immutable and absolute “permeating nature”, the general purview of academics possesses little reference to The Law, simply because they do not have access to the Source of that Absolute.
Yet they could have it if they so wished and/or were sufficiently spiritually open to recognise it for it has been amongst us for close to one hundred years. For only under immutable and inviolable Creation-Law do we all have our life and being. From the point of view of academics, therefore, the magnitude of this seriously-crucial Work --- clearly signalled by the Book Title --- presupposes that I probably should possess the necessary ‘academic’ qualifications for what is obviously a very contentious undertaking, far-reaching in its import. That is generally what earthly academia would demand of any author.
However, with regard to the “truth-equations” of the main protagonists who feature in this Work --- and to whom the content is primarily addressed --- after fourteen hundred years of Islamic history, books about Islam, and certainly about Christianity, would surely number at the very least in the tens of thousands by now, and all written by ‘scholars’ of one kind or another. All, of course, convinced that their interpretation or pontificating position holds a measure of relevance.
Thankfully, I do not fit into that “religious scholar” category. The simple truth is that I do not possess any earthly-academic qualifications whatsoever, which obviously translates to the fact that this book is a “very different beast indeed”, with commensurately very different overall-content to ”what has gone before”.
What academic mandate, then, do I possess for such a mission? Since I cannot offer any “letters after my name” imposing enough to cause some academics to sit up and take notice; nonetheless, the very thrust of this Work possesses a Mandate that powerfully “Corrects” the critical religious impasse between Islam and Christianity, just for starters.
So: What ‘authority’ can I name for endorsement of what will be written and revealed herein ---- for academics? Perhaps more pointedly: Whose authority permits me to even consider such a project?
Now that is a very different proposition. However, such is the stultifying sameness of “academic intellectualism” that what we will offer will likely find little accommodation in ‘scholarly’ circles. The great Einstein, (Ideas and Opinions. p 42-3) stated:
“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelation of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man. And if one asks whence derives the authority of such fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.”
“I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”
So: Without apology to, or permission or approbation from, any academic, religious or ‘earthly spiritual authority’, we, too, will employ revelation -– from intuition and “Guides--Unseen” --- for this journey of “unveiling- knowledge”.
Yet despite what we will reveal, in all probability the religious “battle” we have given name to; vis-à-vis: “Ownership” of the “Spirit of Truth”, will probably never be resolved satisfactorily by the primary protagonists anyway. In truth it can only be resolved one way and, unfortunately for most, will be --- without fail!
Therefore: On the question of an “earthly academic mandate” ---- and commensurately in concert with my DEDICATION --- the great writings of the Apostle Paul and his very logical explanations to his followers, especially for academics of religion, powerfully endorses this Ordained Work!
Paul, the Apostle of Jesus. Paul, very curiously mentioned in Koranic commentary by M.M. Ali as having:
“...introduced the pagan doctrine of sonship of God into the Christian religion, so that it might become more acceptable to the pagans ”; ----------
Paul is therefore not one worthy of note to Muslims. By virtue of his “Conversion” to true insight into The Will of God, he could not be described as just being simply “religious”, for that seminal experience infused him with the very Truth of God.
Therewith an unflagging activist for the Teachings of Christ, and a very strong “servant” for The Creator. His amazing ministry to the end of his life, activated and given life by the extraordinary spiritual experience of his “Conversion” from Saul the Persecutor to Paul the Apostle, clearly speaks of total dedication to spreading the Message of Jesus, and not simply fostering crass “religiosity”.
Unfortunately, however, that today is precisely the end-outcome of his ministry; appalling distortions by the “Church” of some of his major pronouncements, with those inexcusable errors now “sacrosanctly-embodied” in church doctrine as some kind of inviolable truth.
Despite the fact that Islam denotes Jesus as just a prophet --- and therefore Paul as the servant of a “just a prophet” --- given the rhetoric spewing forth across our tortured earth from “experts all”, Paul’s rationale for determining who should speak on spiritual matters and who should not, surely derives from true wisdom, and not simply from just religious expediency.
Regarded as a noted intellectual thinker and scholar by Christian academics throughout history to the present day --- perhaps more so in Catholicism --- let’s now take clear note of Paul’s sharp admonition to the academic elite of his time and apply it to the present, and thus to this writer!
From Paul to his followers: For University academics, for Christian theologians, for readers of this book, and especially for Muslims; From “The Holy Bible in Modern English” --– Ferrar Fenton’s seminal Work --– in Corinthians 1:26-29, we read:
“For, contemplate your vocation brothers: that not many
philosophers, not many powerful, not many high-born –- on the
contrary, God has chosen the foolish of the world, so that He might
shame the philosophic ...” “Therefore none can boast in the
presence of God.”
...how many of you were wise in the ordinary sense of the word,
how many were influential people, or came from noble families? No, it
was to shame the wise that God chose what is foolish by human
reckoning...”
(Same Scripture, Jerusalem Bible. All emphases mine.)
There you have it, blunt and direct, resonating with the clarity and logic of Truth! I therefore count myself blessed in being one of the “foolish”, and similarly blessed for the writing of this Work, even despite the risky nature of its subject matter. A popular hymn has this stanza; perfect for “His foolish”:
“Not many rich or noble called
Not many great or wise;
They whom God makes His kings and priests
Are poor in human eyes.”
Now: In terms of the “unlearned-foolish” daring to write on spiritual-truth matters, Mir Moazam Husain --- a translator to the 1978 Edition of THE HOLY QUR’ AAN, With Complete Arabic Verse. By M. A. Haleem Eliyasee and M.M. Pickthall --- narrates a personal experience and ties it to a quote from the Koran, perhaps to “upraise the religious scholar”. From:
INTRODUCTION:(Page XXXI, --- (Italics mine).
“When serving with [UNESCO] I have known Literacy-Adult Education seminars
and training workshops in several Asian and African countries start with this soul-
stirring verse which galvanised the listeners and honed the urge for knowledge.
And could there be a healthier and more efficacious slogan – if one may use the
term in the learning context – which set off such exercises than the saying of the
Prophet: “The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the
martyr.”
The verse is clearly very poetic, and akin to: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” (Original, ‘Arms give way to Persuasion’. Cicero). However, for this non- academic writer who gratefully stands in the company of “the foolish”, the word, holy, would not ever be ascribed to any scholar, let alone his ink. For in my universe as you learned in the opening pages --- the word, HOLY, describes only ONE: ---
HE WHO GAVE US LIFE: -- THE ALMIGHTY!
On that Iron-clad statement, both kinds of Mandate should therefore become self-evident to the “spiritually-perceptive” reader. By that dual ‘authority”, the very nature of the detail about the great questions to life which man has thought about since first walking upright on earth, will be answered herein. In terms of the Koran, both Mandates fulfil their purpose in assessing its “knowledge-quotient” in both the religious sense and in any relevant academic aspects. Of course, the Koran is where Muslims very naturally, but often also very vociferously, claim all knowledge resides.
And because the Koran is deemed to be perfect through revelation --- without equal ever --- then no other writings, past, present, or future, can possibly compare with it. That surely must be the boldest claim ever. So, reader: We shall see!
When I speak of “Guides unseen” [Acknowledgements], these are not the ‘forces/entities/voices’ that drive the drug-ridden and the insane, for instance, to commit horrific acts of violence and murder, then claim they ‘were told to do it’, and then plead diminished responsibility. Historically, there are many recorded instances of “voices” guiding great events in human history; Islam for one through Muhammad.
So, there are voices, and then there are voices. The rabid Jihadists who revel in public beheadings of “unbelievers”, will no doubt say they “received” their mandate to do so from “voices” too. However, to clearly determine which are beneficial, and which are not, one must be knowledgeable with all the Laws of Creation, exactly as we recently quoted from His All-Truth. If not, then the requisite level of knowledge or, indeed, the necessary degree of true spiritual insight to so discern correctly, is either vastly diminished or non-existent.
For if all such so-called “Islamic fighters for god” lived their religion “spiritually-correctly”, they would not indiscriminately slaughter even women and children of their “faith”. In the Muslim idiom, ‘The Creator of All the Worlds’ would not smile on such evil and cowardly “deeds”!
Inviolable, sacrosanct, unchallengeable -– as The Divine Laws of Creation must logically be and are –- the unassailable outworking of these great and immutable Laws will always reveal which “voices“ are exactly commensurate with the inner condition of whomever a ‘voice’ might be directing itself to. So those who are genuinely spiritual will naturally receive deeper and more profound insights and even visions, as history has many times testified to.
The other end of the spectrum is ‘peopled’ by individuals whose psychic abilities will range from the natural base level of that ‘ability’ all the way down to insanity -– as history has also similarly testified to -– yet with this group invariably declaring, usually quite vociferously, that their “seeing” is from “the very highest source”.
In our case, under the outworking of precise Creation-Law, the “Guides- Unseen” who lead and support this Work have their connective Source only to the Highest Realms. The subject matter herein, therefore, unequivocally testifies to the veracity of that statement. The very content should clearly tell you that the “Guides unseen”, who also naturally stand under the same Mandate, could not possibly be from a dark or lower Realm.
However, despite the explanations we will offer within through just plain and simple logic without any overtones of religious emotionalism and impossible scenarios, what you will read in this Work will have little impact on the primary religions and their differing doctrines that often even diametrically clash with each other.
What should that tell you? Simple: No unity of Truth and its associated knowledge anywhere amongst them. So, this Work is ultimately addressed to you, the individual. For “reader”: You are the final arbiter of your own destiny, and thus will you be addressed so throughout this Work.
It is therefore addressed to you in the very first instance, for the “collectives” of religion are already locked in stone in their “faiths”. As we have made clear, no new book will shake or even disturb their foundations; such is their sureness of where they believe they stand. There is a famous saying from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’: “Be true to thine own self.”
Often quoted sagely as though it possesses the greatest wisdom, but does it really? Surely that would depend on the actual nature of a person and thus the individual characteristics ranging from selfish to magnanimous, but still “true to oneself”; in whatever.
No: One should be true to Truth, for only Truth has Eternal Values, cannot be changed, and in its all-embracing Power rests all of Creation -– we included. A quote from Jesus in Luke 6:31-32, Fenton Bible “tells us all” how it always should have been.
“And as you wish men to do to you, do the same to them. For if you love only those who love you, what credit is it to you? for even the wicked love those who love them.”
Just think on that, reader: If we on our ‘blue planet” home -– for we cannot simply pack up and leave –-- truly lived that ideal, I would not have to be at this keyboard to achieve; what?
Of course there would perhaps only be a few on earth with the commensurate spiritual maturity and magnanimity to “love the wicked”, for, surely, much of what we see on daily news telecasts perpetrated by truly evil people literally “turns the stomach” in almost disbelief. Despite our abhorrence towards all the evil so strongly entrenched in our human world, as we proceed, we must nonetheless deal with such subjects in order to show the final way out for those willing enough to accept it.
A brief point! Ordinarily, most books proceed along recognised lines with each completed Section following the other, then a review or reviews to “hone” the finished product. In the case of this Work, however; by precise ordination it does not follow such a path.
For what is named as THE “FOUNDATIONAL TEXT” was written “after” the completion of PART I and two “Discourses” of PART II.
And whilst the Title, and thus “subject matter”, was eminently clear; what had not been “definitively stated” was the “FOUNDATION” of, and for, that Mandated TITLE --- and, by natural association, also for the Main Work. Thus, the Knowledge of Creation-Law is graciously gifted to us from out of DIVINE LOVE!
In the following Text, we hammer the key point that in wretched human thinking the “POWER OF LOVE” would seem to be not the primary driver in most religions and many cultures. Note that we have said the “Power of Love”, not the nauseating, earthly emotionalism that now passes for “Love”, but does not even get close to the true meaning of that most especial Word!
What you will therefore discover in this Work you will not find in any other publication. Notwithstanding my necessarily-unambiguous stand; even if you do not agree with what you have read and you reject this book outright -– and that is your right which we would certainly respect –- rejection of it by any person, group, or religion, is, in the final analysis, irrelevant.
It is not written for approval or approbation by any human being, for it is a PROCLAMATION, pure and simple. To that end, rejection of what this Work contains only delays the inevitable recognition that it really is so. The problem is, reader: will your ‘personal’ recognition be timely enough, or will it be too late?
For, quite obviously, if you are not told how can you know? Well, you are! In this Work. And because we cannot unlearn what we discover, any reader exposed to the contents of this Work cannot then say: I did not know!