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DISCOURSE 14
THE LAW OF RECIPROCAL
ACTION
THE “CREATION-LAW” OF “SOWING AND
REAPING”
“Decisions Produce Consequences!”
“Do not err; God cannot be deluded: for what a man sows, that he will
also reap.” “If he sows for his sensuality, he will reap perdition; but
sowing for the Spirit, from the Spirit, he will reap eternal life.”
(Galatians 6:7-8, Fenton.)
The key word in the above Scriptures is will. It is not a word such as perhaps, for example, or might, or maybe, or possibly. No, the texts are quite unequivocal. They clearly state that we will reap what we sow! Other Bibles use the word “shall” in this context, but the meaning is obviously still the same. The Koran, too, along with all the major religions in their primary tenets, concurs with this clear and logical “Truth”.
In terms of the severest outworking of this Prime Law on the whole of the human race now, its immovable and implacable tentacles reach into every single niche of human thinking and deed. PART I illuminated the path of “what should have been”! It also indicted the religions for their never-ending distortions and denigration of TRUTH --- most crucially that of the torture and murder of The Son of God, Jesus ---- about which “Correction of Fact” is one of the ultimate purposes of this Work.
We have said it before, and you will read it again more than once or twice before we are through: The final recompense for Golgotha has yet to be paid; and this time in full.
To that particular end: The severest outworking of this Iron Law will therefore take greatest effect among the believers and followers of the three religions of monotheism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, for they have transgressed to the greatest possible extent. For in the case of those religions, what should have mattered most was always the correct Recognition, Meaning and Purpose of the entry of Jesus onto the earth! But you didn’t “get it” way back then, and absolutely do not “get it” today”!
So, whilst that outcome is inevitable and assured --- the outworking of which is already clear to see now --- it is nonetheless still incumbent upon us to “flesh out” the knowledge of this Prime Law in everyday human life. To that end, let’s first look at some serious “earthly” examples of transgressions against it, and then examine the more crucial, but nonetheless “connected”, spiritual aspect of it.
You would think, however, that precisely because it is so clear and logical, we of the human race might pay more attention to it. But we don’t! It’s easier --- and more convenient --- to blame someone else, some other group, some outside agency, for our “problems”.
A perfect example was Hitler’s Nazi Regime. Based completely on lies and deceit; from a state of being the most cultured of peoples, Germany’s march into madness and destruction could not be halted.
Let’s bring in “Bomber” Harris once more. Head of Britain’s Bomber Command during that necessary fight against a monstrous evil, he sagely and so truthfully remarked:
“They sowed the wind. Now they will reap the whirlwind”.
We have already stated that twice before this point. However, as an absolute Truth; both in its Divine Essence of Truth and in its horrendous outcome for the German people at the time, no better statement and subsequent example could be given as a primary illustration of cause and effect ----- “Sowing and Reaping” ----- for the start of this particular Discourse!
The German people had a clear choice: To follow Hitler or to follow Another Who was there living amongst them at the time. (Reader; we have made clear reference to Him in the Discourse, “The All-Truth of Imanuel”, so you know Who he was then. In addition he answered the question centred on the Stigmata of Therese Neumann.)
And so, the German nation, more culturally-advanced than most other peoples, “chose poorly”! In the “whirlwind outcome” of their own making, they died in their millions in the rubble of a once proud and beautiful country. Yes! They certainly exercised their inherent human attribute of “free will”, but did not consider the greater, more decisive aspect of it; the Spiritual Responsibility and its resultant “reciprocal effect” that should rest in all decisions, and which must therefore be a crucial accompaniment --- if there is to be any kind of beneficial outcome.
Let’s therefore look at this critical “Life-Word” --- Responsibility --- and out of the Highest of Knowledge, really learn its true meaning.
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RESPONSIBILITY
IMANUEL/ABD-RU-SHIN:
SON OF MAN
AND ETERNAL MEDIATOR!
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What did we just read that is the essence of one of the three Prime Laws of Creation, and is also the purpose of this Discourse? This is what we read!
Adamantine stands the Law: “What a man sows
he will reap many times over!”
RECIPROCITY: --- The reason why or for “in the return”! Here we must once more state what we are about! In that Lecture, you have once more been exposed to The Love of God in Its constant desire to show the way out of the mess we human beings are now well and truly mired in. Love and Justice! We already well know that they are one, and thus cannot be separated. Purity stands as the third leg of that Divine Triune, which is also a fundamental part of It; never to be separated from!
The Lecture, however, is about Responsibility, and thus the sure outworking of The Law of Reciprocal Action in the exercise of the quality of responsibility in our every thought and deed at the individual level. So should it also be, collectively. That was how it was always supposed to be!
In “Proclaiming” the reality of The Spirit of Truth and the entry of Him and His All-Truth onto the earth plane in the 20th century, the non-recognition of Him by the greater part of the human race has obviously meant that the ignorance of the great Laws of Creation --- as they actually are --- could never be disseminated globally so that more could awaken to Recognition!
And thereby begin to bring about the change/s necessary for a more spiritually-enlightened human race. Remember reader; that could only have occurred under the knowledge contained in The Grail Message, the secondary part of our Proclamatory Mission!
So: The global reciprocal outcome of so much failure, especially by the very ones who had once pledged to serve Him and carry His Living Word to all peoples on earth --- is what we are now burdened with in the second decade of the 21st century. Now: To once more hammer home “the reason why or for in the “return”, we need only turn to the great Prophet, Isaiah, for the answer!
The “Earth” also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the “Laws”, changed the decrees, broken the everlasting covenant.
Of course, we are not going to take the least bit of notice of that hard and brutally-deserved Truth, simply because we all think we know better. After all, we have our science, our modern communications, and all our religions that can’t agree on anything.
Yet there it stands in that indicting prophecy given over 2,800 years ago; the very reason why everything is rotten and wrong in the human race. We broke --- and continue to break --- every nuance of every one of The Divine Laws of Creation, not to mention The Great Commandments of God -------------- especially The First and Greatest --------------- yet still ask His help when our stupid decisions bring the hard Reciprocal Return!
Reader: Despite the primary subject matter of this necessary Work being spiritually-sickening in the extreme, I count myself very fortunate that it nonetheless shows me the <Why of Isaiah’s hard prophecy. It is ultimately and finally all about what global humanity refuses to recognise, and thus what The Law of Reciprocal Action will “return” to us as long as there is no real “spiritual awakening” of global humanity, especially for --- as we have well-stated --- the “Unpaid Debt for Golgotha”!
As we have also said before; it would be so much simpler if we all dropped our “I want the world to be my way”, and just embraced The Grail Message of The One that somewhere around half the planet say they are still waiting for. How insane is that?
Because that is clearly not going to happen, what we will now do is once more simply point out examples of our incredible stupidity and arrogance, the reciprocal effect of which will bring the destruction of all that “stuff” --- and all who continue to cling to it.
We have already noted the rapid rise of Nazism and its equally rapid fall into incredible destruction, which thus reveals the Power of this great Law of Reciprocal Action we are currently examining.
Now, in terms of this Prime Law acting on the different religious beliefs of humankind; no exemption is made for any of the different faiths that flood the earth. So, despite the fact that a very wide gulf exists between Christianity of the West and “Eastern religious thinking”, the aegis of The Divine Laws of Creation take no account whatsoever of such disparities, for it was always incumbent upon us all to recognise at the very outset our “Spiritual Responsibilities” towards our Creator --- that we might honour the gift of conscious life given over to us.
In a general overview of “Eastern religious thinking”, an unfortunate and too-strong an emphasis on “fatalism” in even everyday life seems to hold sway. This means that the reality of the human free-will attribute for us human beings has been seriously compromised in those religions, so non-recognition and thus insufficient understanding of a God-Willed gift does not resonate as a natural part of “life” for a very large part of the global populace. Still: Reader; do we not always arrive back to the Great Prophet’s so-far-sighted prophecy: “Only the few will know”!?
To now ensure that we anchor more strongly the very essence of Divine Truth with this great Law at the beginning of this key Discourse, we will let Imanuel, The Spirit of Truth, speak once more. From the relevant Lecture:
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FATE
IMANUEL: THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
And “SON OF MAN”
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Reader: if we were intelligent human beings, what we have just read should be sufficient to extrapolate from it the wider knowledge, connotations, and ramifications of human history and all that we have “produced”. In addition, and in direct concert; if we truly were intelligent, we would note the crucial essence of just that small part of the complete Lecture in the single sentence: ‘Immovable, inviolable, incorruptible in its continual operation’.
For by that very reality, we could finally understand that the silly, totally unworkable, human notion that: ‘God can do anything He pleases because He is God’ is, in a word, “rubbish”!
Shock, horror! How can that be? The Creator of All the Worlds must surely be able to do “anything” He wishes to! Once again, people; on the surface, apparently a sound belief, but that is from the very narrowly constrained, mainly religious, human point of view. Those of you who think this way --- and there are certainly billions of you out there --- get this into your obtuse heads once more:
Perfect Laws from the very beginning of Creation from a Perfect Creator-God cannot possibly undergo change! If that were the case; then The Divine Laws of Creation at their inception would not be perfect!
If we cannot understand --- or choose not to want to understand --- that simple reality, then we doubt the very Perfection of God in His Flawless and Sublime Perfection! There is nothing more to say there, for that’s exactly how it is!
However, to spread our knowledge-quotient a little wider, Paramahansa Yogananda, the man who introduced yoga to America; on page 563 in his “Autobiography of a Yogi”, explains something of the eastern religious concept of this great Law in the single word, karma!
“In eastern religions the word “karma” is generally used to describe the very same reciprocal effect/outcome. This particular word, however, unfortunately produces negative reactions in many Christians. Yet the very word perfectly represents the exact Law that Its Bringer, Jesus, taught. Thus: “A knowledge of the iron law of karma encourages the earnest seeker to find the way of final escape from its bonds.”
ISLAM’S INTERPRETATION OF THE “IRON LAW OF KARMA”.
Chapter 67, Koranic verse 3:
Who created the seven heavens alike.a Thou seest no
incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent. Then look again:
Canst thou see any disorder?b
M.M. Ali’s commentary b from that verse gives us Islamic acceptance of uniform laws on the one hand, and on the other, the essence of The Law of Reciprocal Action as a given. However, he seems to allude to a differentiation between ‘natural laws’ and ‘spiritual’ laws when in fact they really are one and the same.
3b. Attention is here called to the regularity and uniformity of the laws working in nature. There is no incongruity, so that things belonging to the same class should be subject to different laws, nor is there a disorder, ... so that a law should not work uniformly. The verse, while calling attention to the existence of a Supreme Being, as witnessed in the regularity and uniformity of the laws working in creation, draws special attention to spiritual laws, which also work uniformly, and thus evil and good must each bring its special reward.
Now let’s look at what Islam evidently terms a “Law of Retaliation”. Of course, in The Laws of Creation there is no Law actually named as such. Nonetheless, for this Discourse, two verses are well worth examining; verses 2:178 and 179. Respected Islamic scholar, M.M. Ali, gives his interpretation.
‘O you who believe, retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain: the free for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female.a But if remission is made to one by his (aggrieved) brother, prosecution (for blood-money) should be according to usage, and payment to him in a good manner.b This is an alleviation from your Lord and a mercy. Whoever exceeds the limit after this, will have a painful chastisement.’
178a. ‘The Jewish Law of Retaliation is greatly modified in Islam, being limited only to cases of murder, while among the Jews it extended to all cases of grievous hurt. The words retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain, mean that the murderer should be put to death. After that law in general terms, the Qur-an proceeds to describe a particular case, viz. that if a free man is the murderer, he himself is to be slain; if a slave is the murderer, that slave is to be executed; if a woman murdered a man, it was she who was to be put to death. The pre-Islamic Arabs used in certain cases to insist, when the person killed was of noble descent, upon the execution of others besides the murderer; they were not content with the execution of others besides the murderer; they were not content with the execution of the slave or the woman, if one of them happened to be the murderer. The Holy Qur-an abolished this custom.’
178b. ‘There may be circumstances which alleviate the guilt. In such cases the murderer may be made to pay a fine to the relatives of the murdered person. Such money is called diyat or blood-money. The reference to the alleviation of the guilt is plainly contained in the concluding words of the verse: This is an alleviation from your Lord. A comparison with 4:92 makes it clear that when homicide is not intentional, blood-money may be paid.’
The reference to “blood-money” as being somehow sanctioned by The Almighty Himself does not resonate with this writer to be any kind of spiritual --- or in this case from the Islamic viewpoint --- Divine “OK reality”, or even as a possibility. It is certainly very tribal, very medieval; the Biblical adage of “an eye for an eye”, “a tooth for a tooth”, etc. The only redeeming possibility here may be that it was instituted to modify an already-existing practice amongst the Arabian tribes, but one which was perhaps too rapacious in its demands. It seems, however, to be more a distortion of Muhammad’s “true teachings”.
To this present-day, the widespread historical practice of the payment of blood-money for all manner of reasons has been a corrupting influence in the societies that sanctioned it, for its very nature meant that in some cases demands for reparations could never be satisfied. In the final analysis: An evil practice!
Verse 2:179 ‘And there is life for you in retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves.a’
179a. ‘Life cannot be safe, we are here told, unless those who are guilty of homicide are sentenced to capital punishment.’
Well, reader, from primitive societies to some present-day ones, here at least most would probably agree with Koranic verse 179a. Since it should be in our “higher-than-animal” nature to want to protect and nurture what are effectively the helpless; particularly in the murder/s of children there resides in most humans unsettling abhorrence towards such a deed. We may laud all our so-called “human achievements”, but such is the spiritual paucity of humans overall, that a child’s murder is a not uncommon event. Even in countries where death sentences are carried out for this crime, it still doesn’t stop.
And, of course, in the endless wars of we humans, the slaughter of children in their thousands was, and is, also not uncommon. There we have just one more reason why a comprehensive cull of the human race is in the offing. There is simply too much evil in the whole of global humanity for it to continue unchecked!
“JUDGING” UNDER THE AEGIS OF “RELIGIOUS” LAW
Reader: Since this series of Discourses is about THE LAW absolute, and the associated reality that the “face-books” of the “big three” of monotheism --- the Koran, the Bible, and the Torah --- are, in distilled essence, ultimately about “Law” for those religions; the claims and counter-claims, their “battle”, is therefore about which “religion” has the right to hold “top place”. By each religion’s individual definition, Jews are the original and forever “chosen people”; for Christians, every “believer” has “automatic entry to Paradise” because, by their “scriptural” estimation, Jesus came to die to “wash away their rotten sins." Muslims, of course, say that both are wrong, because Muslims are God’s “chosen ones”, so only they, by some kind of “believed” Divine mandate, have “automatic entry to Paradise”; for, by their very vociferous claims, only they are the “true believers”.
To that end: Let’s reacquaint ourselves with some relevant “stuff” in M.M. Ali’s very extensive Introduction to “his” Koran! In Part 3, ‘Relation to Earlier Scriptures’, that particular Section is noted as:
The Qur-an as a judge in existing differences.
‘The Holy Qur’-an further claims that it came as a judge to decide the
differences between the various religions. From verse 16:63,64:
‘We certainly sent messengers to nations before thee. ... And We have not
revealed the Book to thee except that thou mayest make clear to them
that wherein they differ.’
As already stated, the Qur’-an proclaimed that prophets had been raised
in every nation, and, therefore, that every nation had received guidance
from God, yet nation differed from nation even in the essentials of faith.
The position of the Holy Qur’-an was, therefore, essentially that of a judge
deciding between these various claimants. (M.M. Ali.)
Well, let’s look at Ali’s grandiose claim. The historical record certainly shows that very learned men incarnated into various races and peoples at intervals in our long history so that the people would be “elevated” to a higher level of “knowledge” than was previously the case. Reader: We have already learned about this Divinely-ordained process, which purpose was to --- incrementally and step-by-step --- eventually bring all of global humanity to the same level of “spiritual awareness”; that we might all recognise Spiritual Truth!
That “new knowledge” for the various peoples was, unfortunately in every case, subsequently subverted to become just a “religion”; with much of the original meaning lost. For it has to be seen as an absolute “truth” that the original “Truth-Bringers to the nation” absolutely understood what they were tasked to introduce and teach --- otherwise what is the point of them being there to begin with in the first place? Now that’s not “rocket science. No: It is just brutal logic.
That being the case: Why --- over millennia --- have the self-appointed, so-called, “custodians” of that “knowledge” wrought changes in the original teachings? Here we are talking about the endless parade over the centuries of Priests, Popes, Imams, Rabbis, Shamans, and every other pretender to various “thrones of knowledge”, who each in turn have dissected and reinterpreted their predecessors’ religious determinations of the once original and pristine teaching. We cannot say that these things didn’t happen. They did, for that is the nature of religious “leaders” or, more accurately, religious “scholars” --- a grand word, indeed --- who always seek recognition for their cleverness and erudition.
In the context of what we are saying, a word we absolutely cannot use here is “intelligence”; for the intelligent thing to do would have been to have left the teachings alone in their once-pristine state. Then, in comparing them all in their sequential entry onto the earth, we would have recognised exactly that which we have already learned from The Spirit of Truth; that the sequential nature of the teachings over that long time actually formed a “flight of steps” leading to, and culminating in, the recognition of the Final Truth ----- HIS All-Truth!
That, of course, dear reader --- as you have surely understood and recognised by now --- is not the Koran. Nor is it any other religious work; for there is absolutely no comparison, no affinity with such Sublime, Divine --- let’s coin a new term here:
“TRUTH-POWER”!
Now: We are going to be in this space for a little while yet because we are going to learn what the great Creation-Law of Reciprocal Action is really all about.
In its Divine Essence, it should be about recognising that this Creation-Law of “karma” is actually about looking at ourselves. Whether we apply this reality to ourselves on an individual basis, or collectively in and to our races and cultures --- and certainly in our many religions and what they have wrought throughout our blood-soaked history --- in the final analysis, all that matters not one whit. We have brought our present 21st century world of global religious terror --- just for starters --- deservedly on ourselves.
In its distilled essence, whom do we blame for that kind of evil and bloody-minded rampaging? Naturally, personal decisions play the major part in that we choose to commit a particular act, or we choose not to. That’s the “decision-making” part of the equation taken care of.
What comes next is the reciprocal outcome in its subsequent “return” to the originator of the “activating decision”. However, the Perfection of Creation-Law is such that the “reciprocal return” for the deed committed will manifest at its exactly appropriate time, so may take a very long time before the “return” is evident or, alternatively in some cases, it may be quite swift.
Either way, the precise time of when the return “strikes” the perpetrator will be at the exact and commensurate moment, thus fulfilling the great Divine Admonition: “Vengeance is mine”, saith the Lord. “I will repay!”
If we are “intuitively awake”, we will understand that that one “Divine Declaration” represents the perfect outworking of all The Laws of Creation. Now we know that that is a very profound statement, and we know that to get to the commensurate understanding of its profundity, we must delve more deeply into this new knowledge!
Still, despite that reality, reader; at this early stage of Creation-Law revelation, we give you this next truism to help your spirit --- the real you --- to begin to adjust to what all human beings need to really come to terms with if they wish to ascend to the Realm of Creation that is our true home. So: Think deeply on IT! Thus:
IMANUEL, as THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH and THE SON OF MAN --- Who brought the final knowledge of The Law to humankind --- admonishes:
Through the perfect and just outworking of all THE DIVINE LAWS OF CREATION --- we thus “judge ourselves”!
Because a major purpose of this Work is to show that Islam is not in any shape or form “the final religion for all people” --- simply because it does not possess anywhere near sufficient knowledge of Creation and all that that has to mean --- let’s nonetheless hear what Islam has to say about the oldest monotheistic religion; Judaism. We will let M.M. Ali’s commentary on two particular verses about Judaism take centre stage.
M.M. ALI’S CONDEMNATION OF JUDAIC LAW
Verse 5:44. ‘Surely we revealed the Torah, having guidance and light. a By it did the prophets who submitted themselves (to Allah) judge for the Jews, and the rabbis and the doctors of law, because they were required to guard the Book of Allah,b and they were witnesses thereof. So fear not the people and fear Me, and take not a small price for My messages. And whoever judges not by what Allah has revealed, those are the disbelievers.c’
44a. ‘Verses 44-47 are supposed by Christian critics to be evidence of the purity
of the text of the Torah and the Gospel. This is not true. That the Torah was a
Divine revelation containing light and guidance has never been denied. What is
denied is that that light and guidance were kept intact throughout the ages. It is
further denied that these two books were meant for the whole world and for all
ages. They certainly contained light and guidance, but only for one people --- the
Israelites, and for a limited time. Notwithstanding the light and guidance
contained in the Torah, the Gospel was sent down for the Israelite people, which
shows clearly that the light and guidance contained in the Torah were not
considered sufficient even for the Israelites for all ages, to say nothing of other
nations.’ (*)
44b. ‘The statement made here is that the masters of Divine knowledge (*) and
the doctors “were required to guard the Book of Allah”, i.e. the Torah. The Qur-an
does not say that they were actually successful in doing so. On the other hand,
alteration of those books is clearly spoken of in 2:75 and 2:79. As against this, the
guarding of the Holy Qur-an is spoken of as the work of God Himself; see 15:9:
“Surely We have revealed the Reminder, and surely We are its Guardian.” (**)
44c. ‘It should be borne in mind that by judging is not meant only the judging of
civil or criminal cases, but judging in all matters of religion, (***) so that those
who did not judge the revelation of the Holy Prophet by what was revealed in the
Torah were disbelievers. (***) And note that the adoption of the words what Allah
has revealed instead of the Torah is not without significance. It shows that the
whole of the Torah as existing then was not looked upon by the Holy Qur-an as
being the Divine revelation.’ (****)
(*) In 44a, Ali’s notation that “the Torah (was) not considered sufficient even for the Israelites for all ages, to say nothing of other nations” is obviously correct; but not because the Koran was to supersede every other religious Work. Reader, in the past 500 pages, have we not well and truly shown that belief to be simply untrue? Muslims, however, will still choose to collectively cling to such a view.
(*) The reference to the Torah as being of “Divine knowledge”, and “the masters/doctors” of that knowledge being “required to guard the Book of Allah” would have meant for the time-frame over which the Torah was in its ascendency. For it really was, then, the true repository of “knowledge from The Divine”, as handed down to the Old Testament prophets. However, to call the Torah the repository of actual Divine Knowledge is not quite the same thing, for we know that all societies fortunate enough to have had Divine Knowledge gifted to them by their “Truth-bringers”, invariably wrought later change in the original. So not quite the same!
(**) Reader, seriously note M.M. Ali’s assertion that: “As against this, the guarding of the Holy Qur-an is spoken of as the work of God Himself; see 15:9: “Surely We have revealed the Reminder, and surely We are its Guardian”.
What does that really mean, and does M.M. Ali actually believe what he writes? Obviously, he must, otherwise he would not wax so certain about everything he states. Yet, here is “the fly in the ointment” --- a good analogy. For what Ali is actually inferring from both the relevant Koranic verse and his interpretation of it is that, firstly: The Qur-an “is the work of God Himself. In truth, that is not so, is it? It’s the same hoary old argument again and again; that HE can somehow make a quick descent to earth whenever He wishes, just to do menial tasks that are the responsibility of what are supposed to be “spiritually-aware” human beings, but who must be open to Divine Guidance, however. In the case of the Koran, Muhammad, and/or scribes with him, wrote was given through the Archangel, Gabriel. So: Not the work of God Himself.
In any case, if that were truly so, there would not be any dissension in the religion of Islam across the world --- for who would challenge and reinterpret the work of God Himself. As real-time live-streaming shows in its entire blood-red colour, Muslim against Muslim simply destroys that very foolish and clearly unworkable belief. So, no: But certainly the knowledge from HIM, precisely commensurate, of course, for Muhammad’s mission, and the historical time- frame in which he and his people lived. That is crucially important to understand!
Now secondly, the phrase --- “We are its Guardian” --- referring to the quite strange yet strong assertion that God Himself “guards the Koran”. Here’s an ultimately pointless question that we now ask, precisely to show how really silly our ideas are of HIM: How does HE be the Koran’s Guardian; or of any other religious book on earth ---- and why? Precisely for the same reasons we stated above; that, too, not so!
People: We, “down here”, gifted so many times at appropriate intervals with incrementally-increasing knowledge, we must be the “guardians” of those gifted Truths. That was always our responsibility, and to also keep it in its original, pristine purity. Having thus been graced with knowledge from the Highest many times; unfortunately, all we did with it was produce “man-made religions” concerned with earthly power, ritual, contention, dissension and war and blood. Let’s not kid ourselves, M.M. Ali!
(***) Here in asterisked point 3, we get to more the essence of this current Discourse in terms of The Law and Who or What judges “who and what”. In M.M. Ali’s commentary, he states that the Koran does not just judge civil or criminal cases, but, seemingly in the eyes of all Muslims, the Koran’s “status” as the supreme book is such that only it is able to judge “in all matters of religion” --- “so that those who did not judge the revelation of the Holy Prophet by what was revealed in the Torah were disbelievers”.
I guess, reader; that makes most of us on earth “disbelievers”. In a previous Discourse, we asked this pertinent question: --- “Disbelievers” of what?
By Islam’s conceited reckoning, are the rest of us just poor “spiritually-blind infidels”? Does that “Muslim label” therefore also make us “disbelievers” of The Almighty and of His wondrous Creation and His Perfect Laws too?
Or are those of us who choose to be “disbelievers” of global Islam and its Koranic religious tyranny, actually just “disbelievers” of a flawed and distorted earthly religion?
That would be a very good thing to be a “disbeliever” of, would it not? For why would one want to be otherwise? If we are “disbelievers” of distortions and totally unworkable interpretations, but believers of Divine Truth, then that surely is the right place to be.
(****) In M.M. Ali’s commentary, e.g., “It shows that the whole of the Torah as existing then was not looked upon by the Holy Qur-an as being the Divine revelation”; indicates that we have here the same Muslim assertion. The Koran is the one and only measure of “everything” that has ever been and will be in the future. All we will say to that is: WRONG!
As The “Spirit of Truth”, Imanuel, warned humanity in the 20th century. “Conceit is already stupidity”!
Very clearly evident in M.M. Ali’s commentary about the next verse is a not-so-subtle reference to Islam’s ownership of the Truth, as portrayed in the Koran.
Verse 5:46. ‘And We sent after them in their footsteps Jesus, son of Mary,
verifying that which was before him of the Torah; and We gave him the
Gospel containing guidance and light, and verifying that which was before
it of the Torah, and a guidance and an admonition for the dutiful.a’
Ali’s commentary on 5:46a.
‘The description of the Gospel as containing light and guidance conveys the
same significance as the similar statement regarding the Torah, for which see
44a. In addition it is stated that the Gospel verified the Torah notwithstanding the
fact that it introduces many new doctrines in place of those given in the Mosaic
law, as in the case of divorce, the law of reprisal, etc. This description of the
Gospel clearly shows that by verification is meant only corroboration of the
general principles and broad doctrines of the faith, such as the unity of God and
equitable dealing with men, or the declaration by one prophet of the truth of a
previous prophet, as the declaration of the truth of Moses by Jesus and of both by
the Holy Prophet. It is in this sense that the Qur-an is spoken of as verifying the
Torah.’
The whole idea that the Koran is the final arbiter of “all things” certainly finds its more extreme judgemental style in the next verse, vis-à-vis --- 5:45.
‘And We prescribed to them in it that life is for life, and eye for eye, and nose for nose, and ear for ear, and tooth for tooth, and for wounds retaliation.a But whoso forgoes it, it shall be an expiation for him.b And whoever judges not by what Allah has revealed, those are the wrongdoers.
Similar in form to Old Testament law, M.M. Ali, at 45a, enjoins us to consider the Law of Moses in (1) Exodus 21:23-25 and (2) Leviticus 24:19-21.
| (1) | ‘But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.’ (NKJV) |
| (2) | ‘Anyone who injures their neighbour is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being must be put to death.’ (NIV) |
In M.M. Ali’s following explanation of 45b; in terms of whether to enact punishment or not, at first glance seems straightforward enough. However, what he does not make clear is whether the reference to “his brother” means a family member, or someone of the faith. For depending on which it is, perhaps a serious “conflict of interest” could arise --- though we should expect that ‘enacting the law’ would be the key consideration here, vis-à-vis:
‘If a man forgoes his right to an act of reprisal against his brother, this shall be an expiation for any wrong he may have done.’
So where stands Creation-Law in the matter of “Judging”? Well, reader; the very fact that all religions are now just much-altered “shadows” of what they originally were when first introduced to the respective peoples and cultures, the only way that we human beings could ever be led out of the conflicting mass of religious untruths and distortions was for the Final Truth to be gifted to us--- but in written form.
At this point in the Work, we certainly well know now that in order to bring to an end today’s so-called “guardians of previous truths” from continuing their distorted “judgemental pontificating”; that is exactly what occurred.
From that wondrous, seminal moment in the 20th century, no teaching, no religion, no faith --- that did not have the recognition of IT and was prepared to embrace that ALL-TRUTH of the actual SPIRIT OF TRUTH --- could then stand. For IT has:
“Made Straight The Way of The LORD”!
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To that end, and before we continue on; let’s strongly reiterate what we stated to you close to the beginning of this Work. What we revealed to you then in the relatively small excerpts from out of The Grail Message of Imanuel/Abd-ru-shin, clearly showed you how appallingly distorted the once pristine Teachings of the great Truth-bringers now are.
Tragically, they possess very little of what was then the great gift of Truth to the various peoples of the earth, each at their commensurate time of developing maturity. For only at the appropriate era of the particular “human grouping” concerned could the gift of Truth ------- for that time ------- be permitted; but through the incarnation of their relevant “Truth-bringer”!
So here we very necessarily repeat what we stated at the beginning: Despite all the distortions and non-understanding that the “followers” subsequently applied to those Teachings, what is still evident in the basic tenets of each religion is at least the foundation of Truth.
Now: Notwithstanding the fact that we previously stated absolutely-categorically that there cannot be any comparisons made or even inferred between those religions and The Grail Message; the very fact that we must show those distortions through quoting relevant texts from the Divine Knowledge of The All-Truth, may thereby have given the impression that this Work does make comparisons.
Seven hundred odd pages on, and many excerpts of Divine Truth in the process, we seriously restate the same initial message; that with regard to any thought or belief that this Work promotes comparisons, hear this again:
BE SERIOUSLY ADVISED: THAT IS NOT THE CASE --- IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM!
Reader: As we unequivocally stated in the Foundational Text --- in this PART II and forward, ensure that you really expunge the word, comparison, from your thought-processes, and replace it, supplant it, with the concept and thus “form” of the word ------- CORRECTION ------ as we continue to Correct the terrible human denigration and denial of
HOLY DIVINE TRUTH!
For only with that necessary change in your thought-processes will you then have the right “picture” of what this Work offers you --- and, of course, all of global humanity, if they so choose! May that be so for you!
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Right: Thus far in this Discourse about the great Law of Reciprocal Action, we have let Islam take the first part. Because Christian doctrine stems from the Bible --- from which we have cited examples of this great Law --- the Christian view is thus more or less clear-cut.