THE BOOK
SUMMARY
As we track our way through the many Discourses of this searching analysis of primarily the Christianity versus Islam, the Bible versus the Koran, paradigm; we will seriously examine this word and form called religion. The most important task of all will be to define --- and separate --- Truth from just religion. For Truth can only be defined in meaning as the very Highest of the actual “Essence” of “Life”, in both the “Concept”, and its accompanying spiritual and material “Form”! Whilst we have our life and being in that very TRUTH, we have no actual input into it.
We cannot shape it, we cannot move it, and it is completely indifferent as to what we might think about it. What we invariably do, however, is attempt to claim it as our own, or as belonging to our ‘group’, yet all we really offer to Pure Truth are our lies, our non-understanding and our inexcusable distortions. As we have already stated, and will do often in the course of this Work: By its very nature, the Source of Absolute Truth automatically precludes any possibility of a human earthly religion or denominational association. That is untenable, for HE is not denominational.
For we are sure that even the most rabid of religious fundamentalists of at least the three monotheistic religions would agree that:
1) There is a Creator, A ONE GOD, Who brought into being His complete and incomprehensibly-vast Creation [of many levels or Realms], of which the lowest and smallest part consists of the physical/material universes that we human beings ‘down here’ marvel at in a seemingly infinite expanse.
2) And that such a Being, by sheer virtue of that marvellous Creation as a home gifted to us to experience conscious life; is therefore incapable of creating so-called gods of evil, dark forces, purgatory, hell, animal gods and every other aberrant form.
3) By virtue of the attribute of free-will that we humans inherently possess, we are the actual creators of such aberrations. The consequential result of exercising precisely that free-will attribute for aspiritual purposes produces “forms” of whatever we may wish, including so-called gods. Having produced the “appropriate form”, the long conditioning process within the affected ‘group’ or society for acceptance of the particular “thing” is thereby set in train, to finally culminate in actual worship of the ‘object’. Humanity, by such a simple process, drives itself into ever darker and narrower conceptual–beliefs, and therefore away from truly enlightened knowledge and revelation, for it all stays at just the earthly level --- or lower.
So, as we once more state: Whilst the major thrust of this Work is directed towards assessing the ‘battle’ between Christianity and Islam, the very nature of a Spirit of Truth Who will bring Truth to humankind means that the other main religions will also be brought into this analysis, for there cannot possibly be thousands of final truths. There can only be, and there is, just One! Apart from any other argument, it is completely untenable to believe otherwise. That is the position which this Work unequivocally postulates, and throughout its pages will incrementally demonstrate why.
In summary, the primary aspect is clear cut, Jesus, and Muhammad. Over many centuries, fact, legend, and perhaps even myth, have brought in their train two very different ‘historical’ narratives centred on them. Whilst examining various aspects of the lives of both men and their “mission” and where ‘religion’ places each one, perhaps the greater emphasis for assessment needs to be their post-earth lives; thus their overall legacy and contribution to the peoples of the earth according to their respective adherents -– and to the ‘scholars’, of course.
We may also look at the ‘stand-out’ spiritual events attributed to both men during their life on earth, for such happenings carry the possibility of great distortion in the re-telling of them over centuries.
The main points of difference and contention in the primary Tenets of each “religion” will set in place one of two things, reasonable accommodation, or implacable opposition, from one to the other. In 2016, even Hegel’s “dialectic process” would not work in this case. Nonetheless, in order to ‘cut through’ the increasingly strident “Jihadist” mentality, an especial benchmark of reason and logic is clearly required. That is the foundation upon which we will conduct our analyses. Note that we say reason and logic, not simply more religiosity; and certainly not “religious emotionalism”, for such mind-sets are not, in any shape or form, attributes of reason and/or logic, so cannot be considered even remotely associated with The CREATIVE WILL.
Any religious view to the contrary is untenable in the extreme. Despite that truism, to the objective observer it certainly does appear to be “religious-emotionalism” that is unfortunately driving a growing and hate-filled campaign to convert so-called “unbelievers” to Islam. The danger for religious “zealots” of any religion is the very real possibility of that zeal metamorphosing into “religious over-emotionalism”, and then into actual “religious insanity”. History records many periods when that did occur, and such episodes were always characterised by extreme savagery and much bloodshed.
Bible Scripture: “...for all who draw the sword, will die by the sword.” (Matthew 26:52.)--- (And Koranic verse 10:82, says):
“So who has done an atom’s weight of good will see it, and who has done an atom’s weight of evil will see it.”
“True believers” in The Creator, however, must surely know that in the humanly-incomprehensible distance between us and HIS Divine Realm, by virtue of HIS Perfection, the Laws that govern and sustain HIS Creation must therefore also be perfect. Perfect Laws for a Perfect Creation, gifted in Divine Love. The only “spanner in the works”: We human beings of planet earth with our myriad religions.
So: Where do we find these Laws? They are known, and are available, but not sought by the religious of the world, and certainly not by ‘religious leaders’. And therein lies a very unfortunate paradox for the three monotheistic religions in the very first instance, but ultimately all other faiths, belief-systems and doctrines as well. For it is the time of Final Determination for we on earth, proclaimed by far-sighted men a very long time ago.
As we have previously strongly declared; in comparing differences in the major Tenets of Christianity and Islam, our analyses throughout the Work will use the unassailable benchmark of the Perfect Laws we again give name to:
The DIVINE LAWS OF CREATION -- From out of DIVINE WILL – “CREATION-LAW”!
That is the mechanism by which we can make sense of a subject so sensitive to one side of this “ownership battle” that adherents of that side will seek to destroy all opposition to its ‘doctrine’. In terms of the religious ‘hold’ that Christianity and Islam have over their respective followers, it would be fair to say that believers in Islam generate more “religious zeal” across their “religious spectrum” than would ordinarily be seen in Christianity today.
In scribing this path and journey into what we say is clear and absolute knowledge from The All-Truth; by virtue of its very ORIGIN from out of DIVINE WILL, transcends ALL “earthly-religious” parameters.
By that very reality and in this Work, we certainly take note of the challenge laid down in Part VII, 9, of INTRODUCTION in THE HOLY QUR’ AN, English Translation by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall vis-à-vis:
9: CONCLUSION: “Now to conclude, all the Major Religions should put before Mankind their systems, realistic as well as idealistic, in all the spheres of human life as taught by their Basic Books, so as to preserve the basic purity bearing the Seal of Authority, Numerous accretions and additions, however accepted, should not be permitted to share the Authority of any Basic Book, which alone is accepted as the Standard of Religion. So let the Basic Books speak for themselves. This is the only way to settle the future of Religion for Mankind after comparative study.”
In the context of Pickthall’s ‘challenge’, we do not offer even a basic Book of Religion, for religion is not what we choose to accept as TRUTH. We nonetheless sincerely hope that Koranic, Christian and Jewish scholars alike -- should any choose to read this Work -- will possess the humility, inner grace and greatness to accept points of explanation within that offer greater clarification of their “religious doctrines”, Tenet by Tenet, than is currently the case. And thereby be led to a most especial Book that will simply --- speak for itself!
By virtue of its Origin and Content, it will “...settle the future of Religion for Mankind...” for all time! --------- For it is from The Spirit of Truth --- written by His Own Hand! Since this Work is Mandated to state that reality and draws its illuminating knowledge and concomitant explanations from His Very “Message”, we will feature many more excerpts from IT wherever and whenever it is relevant ----- or where the “Guides-Unseen” bid me to do so!
Therefore, before we begin the main body of this Work, it is crucially- incumbent upon me to offer His advice on how we of global humanity should approach His All-Truth! For only with His Truth, can we find a way out of our self-imposed global mess.
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IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH.
“The hearer and reader of my lectures should always work within himself, keenly probing and building bridges from one lecture to the other, as well as out into the great and small world happenings! Only then will he be able to understand [My] Message and find that it gradually shapes itself into one complete whole, without leaving any gaps. Again and again in all the happenings the reader will come back to the basic features. He can explain everything and deduce everything without having to change even one single sentence....
“The Word of [My] Message lives, so that it permits only those people who really carry the honest desire in their souls to find abundantly! All else is automatically rejected by it. For the arrogant and those who seek superficially the Message will remain the book with the seven seals!”
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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Reader, note that I have used the word “[My]” as a parenthetic replacement for what is the actual Title of His “Message”! I have done this at this early stage simply because this is not the point in the Work where a full revelation of It is appropriate. Despite that small but nonetheless necessary change at this relatively early point, the “sense” of His Words is not altered in any way. The relevant full disclosure about His “Message” will be in a specific Discourse in the main Work!
In addition, you will obviously have noted that those Texts are in much larger print. That will be the format throughout this Work. One, each will stand out --- as The All-Truth is surely meant to; and two, --- there are no excuses to not being able to read His Words clearly!