Spirituality Guide

By: Seeker
Our Cosmos is stranger than even most people of fifty years back could imagine. The once widely held view of a stable, infinite universe with neither beginning nor end that existed when Einstein began to think about how things are has crumbled under an onslaught of strangeness.

For a start, the Universe is much bigger than was thought – better instruments have shown us an incredibly complex and vast environment, with energy, matter and structure that belittles the idea that there is only Man in all this vastness.

Many of the things we have thought of to explain all this require more than the three dimensions that were once the entire description of the cosmos. Extra dimensions make things incredibly complex and difficult to visualize and mathematics is sometimes the only language in which things can be expressed.

If we look out into space, we find that it goes on and on, farther than we can see, out for billions of light years and in all that unimaginable distance, there seems to be matter and energy, stars and radiation in numbers that require thirty or more zeroes to write.

When we look down to the smallest scales, we find… nothing! Atoms, once thought to be the indivisible smallness, are simply aggregates of smaller bits such as quarks. It’s is thought that way smaller than those parts of atoms, there are strings – hypothetical bits of probability which perhaps only exist because consciousness perceives them, and which vibrate in and out of our Universe in complex ways.

So where, in all the large vastness and in the tiny smallness, is there room for a God who could be as petty or as vain as that we are told is the one God of All?

By: Seeker
So just who is this God that so many people around the world hold in such awe? Browsing the internet and looking at the times of Enoch and the stories from the Sumerians, it seems a lot of what the Judaic religions think of God and his works actually emanates from earlier times.

The Epic of Gilgamesh predates the times of the Hebrew by a couple of thousand years. There is a case being built by people like Ralph Ellis that the Hebrew were actually the Hiksos tribe from Egypt, expelled when the multi-gods priesthood there took back their nation from the one-god tribe who had stewardship of the Necropolis at Giza.

Archaeology tells us that if Noah rode out the Flood, he must have done it at least eight thousand years before the Bible says he did. That was the time of the last of the end-of-Ice-Age floods.

So it would seem that the Judaic God is really an amalgam of the Sumerian Enki and Enlil. If you read about them they would appear to bring two disparate views of Man to the story. If you can accept the Judaic God is a combination, then the schizophrenic nature goes away. Enki tried to help Man all along the way – Enlil was far more judgmental of mankind.

And the strangely limited God is explained in another way as well. Enki and Enlil weren’t Supreme Creators, they were beings who held an intelligence, science and knowledge that was far above that of Man. There were family rivalries, emotional judgments and fallible decisions in their behavior.

But to the primitive beings that was Man in the time of the Annunaki, these were Gods, mighty beyond all and to be obeyed in all they said.

By: Seeker
If you’ve patiently read through earlier posts in The Birth of Religion, What is Religion? and Original Scripture? Or Hoax? you may be wondering about how I feel about God. You could be a bit puzzled about whether any of the information presented above has any relevance to a Universe with God in it. I think it does.

In my view, the God of the Bible, the Torah and Koran is a peculiarly limited being who has some rather serious flaws. And the universe He purportedly created has some serious questions to be asked if it is as described.

I brushed on the psychological flaws of the biblical God earlier – it is a strange being indeed that claims to Love unconditionally and then puts the condition of worship or die forever on those he loves.

It is a rather viscious attitude to take a nomad tribe in the wilderness and lead them out to destroy nations whose sweat and blood had built up a civilization.

It is a petulant child who creates a fallible race and then puts a temptation in their way that he knows in advance they will fall for and then condemns not only them but their descendants forever to a life outside paradise.

It doesn’t sound a lot like a supreme deity of Love who would allow a palace revolution in the first place, then allow the loser to go commit depredation among the helpless victims of the Tree of Knowledge plot in the second instance, and allow things to continue downhill until he sends a flood to destroy virtually everyone alive. In reading the bible, there isn’t a lot of effort put out by God before the time of Noah. He pretty much lets a race go downhill from their initial failure to obey His Command until he decides to destroy them.

By: Seeker
In the histories of many of the early civilizations, they have attempted to establish a connection to the purported writer of this document. Thoth has been called the originator of writing, the holder of all knowledge and the father of civilization, yet reading his story in The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Atlantean he makes it clear he was simply a survivor who brought through the cataclysm the knowledge of his race.

No matter what your background, or whatever you believe, take the time to read through the tablets, at least once. Try to leave any prejudices behind and simply let the words flow through you as you read them.

And remember as you read, I have so far been able to uncover anything which denies this story, apart from the assertions of those who hold beliefs and in particular, beliefs that we, the modern civilization, are the highest of all possible societies, that we have had a steady progression of advancement from the cave to skyscraper.

There are many who simply accept that the ‘history’ we have been told throughout our school years is not just true but is solidly backed by fact and documentation. It isn’t. Just take one actual fact – the victors of any battle get to write the history.

This means that anything we see in our modern history is only the story that the winners of any conflict want us to know. Just remember that the losers had their own version. Those who died in Troy probably had their own reasons for refusing the Greeks.

So, given the discoveries going on around the world, the lessons science teaches us about looking at the evidence and the discrepancies between what we are told against what is out there, it isn’t so unusual to wonder if the details of Thoth’s life are not a more real reality than that we’ve been spoon-fed.

By: Seeker

So what is this document?

From the preface…
‘The wisdom contained therein is the foundation of the ancient mysteries. And for the one who reads with open eyes and mind, his wisdom shall be increased a hundred-fold. Read. Believe or not, but read. And the vibration found therein will awaken a response in your soul.’

From the writings…
Wisdom is power and power is wisdom,
one with each other, perfecting the whole.

Be thou not proud, O man, in thy wisdom.
Discourse with the ignorant as well as the wise.
If one comes to thee full of knowledge,
listen and heed, for wisdom is all.

Keep thou not silent when evil is spoken for Truth
like the sunlight shines above all.
He who over-steppeth the Law shall be punished,
for only through Law comes the freedom of men.
Cause thou not fear for fear is a bondage,
a fetter that binds the darkness to men.

Follow thine heart during thy lifetime.
Do thou more than is commanded of thee.
When thou hast gained riches,
follow thou thine heart,
for all these are of no avail if
thine heart be weary.
Diminish thou not the time of
following thine heart.
It is abhorred of the soul.

They that are guided go not astray,
but they that are lost cannot find a straight path.
If thou go among men, make for thyself,
Love, the beginning and end of the heart.

If one cometh unto thee for council,
let him speak freely,
that the thing for which he hath
come to thee may be done.
If he hesitates to open his heart to thee,
it is because thou, the judge, doeth the wrong.

Repeat thou not extravagant speech,
neither listen thou to it,
for it is the utterance of one
not in equilibrium.
Speak thou not of it,
so that he before thee may know wisdom.

Silence is of great profit.
An abundance of speech profiteth nothing.
Exalt not thine heart above the children of men,
lest it be brought lower than the dust.

By: Seeker

If the document is really what it says it is, our world is a very different place from what we’ve been led to believe. If the writer is who he says he is, the Fall of Man has been both of different nature and a lot further than we could have dreamed.

Sometimes, just deciding whether or not pieces of information are relevant to your path will make your head hurt, but I’ve found that returning to the original document and seeing what it says can help with these times.

Some background… In earlier posts about the Birth of Religion, I brushed across references to earlier times, and the possibility that there was once a thriving civilization, differently valued than ours but at least as competent in technology and possibly far beyond us.

The end of the Ice Age brought cataclysm, not just once but maybe three times. Events where tsunamis hundreds of metres high swamped the lands, when the seas rose virtually overnight and swamped the coastal towns and lands brought down the civilization, then wiped out the attempts to restart and scoured the evidence from the land.

If true and not merely(?) an expression of Truth, the document has been written and passed down to us by a remarkable being, one who survived the Fall and who possessed knowledge to make our ablest sages look like kindergarten children.

If not true and merely(?) an expression of Truth written a long time ago, the document provides thought provoking passages of morality and ethics for us to absorb. It describes the struggle of Light against the Dark, of higher Man against the lower orders.

By: Seeker
At the beginning I mentioned an interesting document I found. In the process of trying to provide some context for how I felt when I read it I’ve wandered down the path of Truth and Religion and separated out Religion from religion.

When I read the document, it felt like there was a reverberation in my deepest parts. It reads like science fiction, yet there is a sense of truth about it. It has sections that speak of ancient times that match with some of the books I have read that try to explain the monumental and megalithic mysteries around the world.

It may be a work of fiction; I wondered about that so much I went looking for evidence that it predated modern times. I found references to it being around before, and possibly the reason for the establishment of, the Library at Alexandria. It seems at times to have surfaced, or at least copies of some of the knowledge have been used, to alter the views of some of the most influential people throughout our history.

There is extant in the world, a conspiracy theory which talks about the world being manipulated towards being controlled by a secretive group or groups – this document seems strangely related to what I know of at least a couple of those groups.

When you research the information in the document, it leads into some strange areas. You will learn about Egypt, about how Man developed, about some of the reasons why our society is the way it is. You will journey down strange paths of knowledge and reach crossroads where you need to decide if you really wish to push ahead.

To this day I don’t know if the document is genuine or simply a very good piece of old writing.

By: Seeker
In Old Testament times it was bad enough; do the wrong thing and there were punishments and make-up steps to take to get back to being ‘right with God’ but the Christian era brought a whole new level of sin. By twisting the words of Christ around, suddenly you could be sinning simply by having an errant thought.

This makes a nice little corral for the masses. Everyone has a variety of thoughts, nearly all of which are not acted upon. This is particularly true of sexual thoughts. A person sees an attractive member of the opposite sex and genetics thrust forward a thought of sex.

By making sex a sin, the Church managed to make all people guilty. The Original Sin of Adam and Eve has a huge gaping hole in it. To many, being made guilty for something someone did thousands of years ago wasn’t a Christian thing. How could Christianity or other religion preach forgiveness of others when the God of All couldn’t even forgive those who were separated by thousands of years from the acts of the original pair?

So is it Truth that sex is sinful? I sincerely doubt that anyone lined up before the Pearly Gates facing the black book will find an account of their sexuality in there. Compared to destroying entire races, purging any who dared have a differing opinion, enslaving entire populations, giving smallpox blankets to those with no defences, assisting tyrants in their efforts to commit genocide… these are sins. Finding pleasure in natural acts of affection and love would seem to be more on the positive side of the journal than the negative.

So… to me, Religion is abomination. It corrupts and has been corrupted, it kills, mains and tortures in the name of the very principles it is breaking as it does it. Religion convinces people that they, and only they, are right and all others are wrong and if they will not convert to the Truth, they are damned.

Small ‘r’ religion on the other hand is an expression of the highest states of Man; the words used tend to echo in the mind, to spark a stirring in the soul, and to make us wonder if the wonderful possibilities of which we’ve dreamed are actually available in spite of our darkest fears.

By: Seeker
From the perspective of the receiver of information, perhaps the most workable definition for Truth is that it is whatever works for you.

Too often people forget the basic test of things – does it work! Many people accept a set belief system, perhaps because it was their parents system or because those around them seemed to achieve a better life or frame of mind from adherence to a particular dogma.

They will stick rigidly to the system, blindly following along, across years and decades, even when there is no result, no release and little relief from so doing. Sometimes it seems that the less results they get from it, the more fervently they espouse the dogma, almost as if they think that by being more dogmatic in belief they can force it to work for them.

Are those who are not getting results still attached to Truth? If you listen to those preaching the dogma, yes they are, and it is always the parishioner who is at fault. The institution has a vast array of guilt-trips available for those who begin to doubt. From lack of faith to secret sin, it always comes back to the one who isn’t seeing results.

Another working definition for Truth might be what it isn’t – Truth is not what someone has to convince you of and once seen, it doesn’t need to be reinforced by others. Everyone is capable of seeing their own Truth and following it. (or not) To have it forcibly implanted by others simply invalidates it – Truth can only be accepted, it can’t be imposed.

By: Seeker
So what is Truth?

It seems a central question for Religion AND religion. For Religion, it is what they tell you from ‘above,’ be it pulpit or altar. The established church has an expressed set of precepts or a dogma that it requires the masses to believe implicitly, usually simply because the institution tells them it is Truth.

And strangely, most of the major Religions will simultaneously preach about the evils of wealth and ownership alongside demanding the parishioner hand over money and goods to the establishment.

For Religion, anything other than what the institution espouses is heresy and throughout the ages, heresy has routinely been dealt with by exile, torture and death. In the Christian religion, the hypocrisy of preaching a loving God while killing all who didn’t convert faster than the sword blow which followed the words seems to have escaped most of the adherents.

In religion, Truth is a far more personal world view or belief set. Truth is individual and more encompassing where each is allowed to have their own personal relationship with their specific higher purpose, be it God, Universe or Energy.

Within religion we find all manner of belief, from personal salvation through to ways of achieving enlightenment, from love of all others through to renouncing the physical world. A shaman will embark on perilous journeys to help another soul recover its parts so that soul can better live the life plan for which it came to this realm.

In religion, meeting someone who doesn’t have identical beliefs is a time of expansion of understanding, not a reason to kill.