8. The World

8.1: Various Issues

It should be kept to the original purpose of politics, which drove forth its existence, why it was created in the first place. Politics should be centred upon the needs of the people and their welfare, in making them able to have a decent and dignified lives, and to enjoy fairness and progress in the society. It has everything to do about that what is considered best for the people. But it should never be preferred an ideology above the people themselves, which such ideology was created for and meant to serve. How hypocritical thing it is to repress and oppress people while the idealist is stubbornly trying to make a point that his ideal is being right! Should all the people suffer for the sake of empty words which came into the head of one man, which he could not let go of? It should not be shown blind loyalty to a specific ideology, as if such ideology would be permanent or always the best one. But an ideology does only have value for as long time as it can benefit the people, or rather currently benefit them most in comparison to all the other ideologies. If there will appear a better ideology in the future then it should be adopted, while the obsolete one should be discarded, regardless of that where it is originated from. The sense of the truth is the best ideology, and justice is the best government. The methodology of politics is irrelevant to personal merit, a sense of truth and justice, in determining whether the contenders are being honest and competent and responsible enough. Such political tricks are only bound to the time before the man was elected into an office, while it does not deal with the challenges which happen after the election. It can perhaps help deal with that man’s image in the eyes of other people, that the man will able to hold his office a little bit longer, rather than by losing their trust too soon. But political tricks do otherwise not make the man into a better person, a better leader, or a better reformer. All men can wish for a good consequences or outcome, but the difference does namely consist in the means, ‘how’ it can actually be achieved, by what or whom, above others. This is why people do disagree with each other and become divided into political factions. It is not like the man does first need to belong to a specific ideology or a political faction, before he can finally become wise and competent enough, in discovering proper solutions and applying proper resolutions. For the truth and the justice is originated from the divinity, where the man is merely receiving from its abundance, while having created nothing and contributed nothing on his own. The solutions are originated from within the individual, but he does not need to implicate it to a specific ideology or a political faction, since that only appeared afterwards. Each proposal should be evaluated by its own merit, rather than by being mixed together with other irrelevant proposals, belonging to the same political party. It should be elected the best proposal, and the best person, which had a good enough sense to propose it. Political factions are somewhat identical to the medieval setting in Europe, when many irrelevant fields or studies were mixed together, rather than by being separated. For example, it was mixed theology with practical fields, so the theology only got in the way of the other, creating needless presumptions and restrictions in the process. It is the same thing with political factions in our times, because it includes both wise and foolish persons, wise and foolish proposals, which are mixed into one whole. It would have been better if political factions were abolished, while it would rather be elected independent individuals into office, and voted for proposals, without the factional attachment. The concept of ‘the public opinion’ and ‘the majority’ is overrated. It is not quantity which makes the opinion right, but it is rather based upon its quality. The group consists of individuals, and all opinions are originated in them. It happens in one man at a time, and there is had one opinion at a time. The prevailing public opinion does not explain ‘why’ the people have such opinions, based upon what inner source.
               When a man does bad things then it does not belittle and undo the good things which he has done. And when the man does good things then it does not belittle and undo the bad things which he has done. It is being a good thing in itself if all the good things manage to outweigh all the bad things. The man is being redeemed by that in what good way he has chosen to react to the previous bad things. If the man had once been bad but he is now being good; then it is preferable to that if the man had once been good but he is now being bad. It does not make any sense when honest and competent men are being slandered and condemned and rejected because of something bad which belonged entirely to the past. (This does of course apply to weaknesses and mistakes and humiliating incidents which are not being concealed crimes.) It corresponds to that if a champion in sport would be belittled and not allowed to compete, because he had once been bad in this sport far back in time or that he had once made mistakes during his training far back in time. Or a healthy and strong man is not allowed to participate in a challenge, because he had once been sick and too weak to do so back then. Even so we should consider our past faults and mistakes as temporary setbacks that happened in our path to spiritual progress. Back then we had believed something to be right and tried to do the right thing, but because we were still being ignorant and did not know any better then we ended up doing something misguided. Now, when we look back, then we clearly understand what had been so misguided about it, and we choose to omit or discard such (written down) opinion instead of choosing to stand by it and fall with it. Once we have learned from it and improved and managed to reach spiritual progress in the long run (as our final destination); then everything before it ceases to matter and is no longer to be held against us. It has been said that evil prevails when good men do nothing. It can also be said that evil prevails when a man with good qualities loses faith in himself and he does not aspire for good things, because bad men which lack all good qualities have ganged up on him with continual slander and accusations. The success of bad men is founded upon the low self-esteem of their victims. Or even that the good man is now doing everything perfect on his behalf then the majority of the people do still allow themselves to be swayed by superficial and petty things, as if the mention of past faults and mistakes could undo every good work of the good man, and that it would instead be favoured those that never do any good things. Bad men have nothing good to be praised for, so they seek to find fault with the opponent in order to to divert people’s attention away from their own incompetence.
               It can be unfair to say that a ruler is a bad ruler solely because he inherited a time of adversity (bad times). And it can be uncalled for to say that a ruler is a good ruler solely because he inherited a time of prosperity (good times). This time of prosperity and a time of adversity was not of the ruler’s own making when he finally came to power. Let’s say that a king is being a good ruler, where he manages to make good use of available resources and invest in important things in the kingdom, and he saves/amasses much money in the treasury for unexpected setbacks in the future (rainy day). When that king dies and his son becomes king instead then the latter does inherit a good state of the kingdom and much money in the treasury. Let’s say that this king is being a mediocre ruler, where he is neither being wise nor foolish. He is wise enough in not making foolish mistakes in squandering all the money in the treasury, while he is at the same time not being wise enough in adding more to the treasury. Things in the kingdom stay the same during his rule and he only manages to maintain the good things he inherited. After having invested in something and paid everyone for their service then the original treasury stays the same. When this king dies and his son becomes king instead then the latter inherits things in such state. Let’s say that this king is being a foolish and incompetent ruler. During his reign he manages to squander all the money in the treasury upon something totally self-indulgent and needless. This is something which happens in the course of decades and it does not immediately begin to affect the people of the kingdom. While there is still some money in the treasury to be squandered then the people of the kingdom do not experience poverty and hardship until sometime later in the reign of that foolish king. When that king dies and son becomes king instead then the latter does not only inherit empty treasury, but also all the debts and problems which the previous king had promoted. It is like that king does begin with nothing good in his hands and he has to solve problems which were caused by the previous king. It would be unfair if the people of the kingdom would blame that king for all these bad things in the kingdom and rebel against him, because the underlying cause of these problems happened further back in time and it is being reaped something which another man had sown. This king is actually being a good ruler if he somehow manages to solve problems in the kingdom and increase the treasury for important projects, even that he has not managed to solve all the problems and invest in all important projects. He has managed fine/okay even for the shitty cards dealt to him.
               What would be the ideal government? No man is worthy to be called a leader except Jesus Christ. He is our Lord and Saviour, the very embodiment of truth and justice. Let’s say that there would be made a throne, and yet no man would be allowed to sit on it. That throne would remain empty while it is waited for the return of the rightful king. And on that throne is written: ‘This throne is dedicated to the truth, the sincerity, the outspokenness, the understanding, the wisdom, the knowledge, the goodness, the charity, the purity, the innocence, the inner beauty, the justice, the fairness, the compassion, the mercy, the generosity, the humility, the courage, the temperance, the patience, the long-suffering.’ Or, ‘This throne is dedicated to the truth and every good quality there is’. That empty throne would serve as a symbolic gesture, that we are meant to be ruled/governed by the good things which come from God and belong to Him, even that we cannot see God and even that we do not know whether the Lord will come back in our time. It does not matter whether we can see God or not, so long as we submit to God in our hearts and we abide by the moral principles that He does stand for. It is not like somebody is supposed to become a great man/leader, which is supposed to know much and be capable of much, while everyone else remain ignorant and uninspired and incompetent. When we have faith in God and acknowledge His power in our lives; then we wait patiently for God to rouse our heart and spirit, to inspire us with good sense of the matters that need to be decided, and to make us aspire for that which is being noble and beneficial to the wellbeing of the whole. It would be something like this: We pray to God and ask Him to help/lead us through the matters at hand. Then we all wait until God will choose to rouse (stir up) the heart and spirit of someone somewhere. Then that person will step forward and share that what God has put into the heart of that person. It is like God is able to make anyone anywhere at any time into a helper for the community. It does correspond to that when God chose judges and sent them as saviours to the Israel people. It would be a divinely inspired government of the heart and spirit, where every man is being equal before God and where God’s distribution of spiritual gifts can reach to anyone. If it comes to that then God is capable of making some fool experience an inspired and wise opinion, where it is something which comes and goes, and which is being inspired and wise in a single matter. It is like that fool is acting out of character, where he continues to be a fool after this inspiration just as he had been before receiving it. A same thing can apply to a weak and timid man in experiencing a courageous aspiration in standing up to injustice and corruption. It would not involve ‘theocracy’ as what has hitherto been tried in the human history. It would not involve false and corrupt men pretending to represent God in everything, as if their every opinion was supposed to be an ultimate truth and the voice of God. It would not involve that in taking the name of God in vain, like when impostors implicate their own self-interest to the will of God. It does not work out when it is tried to mix that which is spiritual with that which is carnal, when it is tried to make the spiritual things serve the agenda of the worldly things. (Like when God is supposed to support an unjust war and offer justification for that war being waged, when that war is really being founded upon covetousness for dishonest gain and rivalry of proud men.) A priest is someone who is meant to pray for the people and plead before God on their behalf. The priest prays that God might prepare the hearts of the people for God and open their hearts to Him and make their hearts right before Him, that they might possess pure and good intentions in everything, that they might know how to approach God in the right way and ask God for the right things. The priest prays for a ‘civic virtue’ in his countrymen, that God can rouse good things in them and draw out good things in them between them, in what way they see/notice and treat one another. And yet the priest is at the same time being ignorant and incapable in worldly matters. He does not really know anything about making wise decisions and capable executions in worldly matters. That is something which does rather fit a king-alike person. That person is meant to be naturally endowed and educated and experienced for handling worldly matters. So the priest helps the people possess pure and good intentions, while the king-alike person helps the people to make good things come true, in what way they need to react and act in the matters at hand. The priest helps guide the people in what direction to turn to, while the king-alike person helps the people on/during the way and he helps them to reach the destination. The king-alike person gives a good personal example and he is the first one on the fore-front, that his force-driven presence might encourage everyone else to follow and do the same things.

All good qualities are originated from the divinity, while all bad qualities are originated from the devil. It does not matter whether a person is being a man or a woman, because good qualities and bad qualities do either way not belong to a gender in particular. It is not like a man should tell himself: ‘because I have these womanly qualities and preferences then I should be turned into a woman’. Neither should a woman tell herself: ‘because I have these manly qualities and preferences then I should be turned into a man’. What happens within the person is being irrelevant to its human body. Let this be a due consideration. One is not claiming that transgender persons should not have been altered into the other sex. Neither is one claiming that they should reverse the process. One is not condemning anyone. One is not trying to arouse guilt and regrets in those involved. Let every person consult with its own conscience and follow its own conviction in the matter. The one writing this was born a man and he consider himself to be a man. And yet he no longer experiences bias in regard to those of his gender and those of the other gender. Good qualities are to be acknowledged and commended in those that have them, regardless of gender. Bad qualities are to be recognized and disapproved of in those that have them, regardless of gender. Why should one take a side with one gender over the other before hearing what the debated matter is about? Why should one seek to exalt those of the same gender at the expense of those of the other gender; when it was by mere chance that one was born like that. What if one had been born as the other gender? What would one then feel about being in such position? Hence we should seek to avoid everything that is being self-centred, and everything that is being unfair/uneven and discriminating to those that are not like us, since it is a hypocritical thing to subject others to something that we ourselves would not want to experience. Let’s say there would live ten men and ten women upon an island. The ideal thing would be if all these men and women were being good, and that there would be one man for every one woman in forming good relationship, making it ten couples in total upon the island. But what if five of these men are being unworthy in regard to their attitude toward women and their treatment of women? What if these men are being false, covetous, unfaithful, disrespectful, abusive, and rough/cruel, which makes them utterly unlikable and undesirable in the eyes of the women? Should five of the good women consider themselves obligated to form relationship with such men? Is it not being understandable and reasonable to assume that these women will rather be be drawn to the better part of the men, namely the other five men that are being good? Maybe these five good men will have two women each, or maybe four of these men will have one woman each while the fifth man (the best one among them) will have six women. It is not like the five unworthy men can afterwards complain that all of this is being unfair/uneven to them. It is something which they brought upon themselves because of their despicable approach to women. They allowed the devil to make them digress from the good things originally intended by God, and by doing so they ended upon denying good things to themselves.
               It can be discoursed upon unequal division of wealth, when the rich people become even richer while the poor people become even poorer. It can be ridiculed that when the men in power refuse to increase the salaries of the poorest workers, while trying to hide behind some technical issue, a term which belongs to an educational fields like business and economics. Such technical issue might seem to sound intelligent and outlandish to the common people, where they don’t know how to respond to it and are ready to accept it as a valid explanation. It is because the common people do not thoroughly know the field in question, where they lack a comprehensive overview, the context between the terms and when it applies (the conditions). That technical issue is merely a pretext, an excuse which was invented afterwards, while it is not the original reason, explaining why the men in power refused to even things out as had been demanded by others. The men in power deem everything to be possible in regard to their selfishness, while everything is supposed to be impossible in regard to other people, since these men do not want to help other people at the expense of their own self-interest. That is the root of the problem, the selfishness of the men involved. The men in power do not possess the will to help other people, where they do not feel the need to do it, and do not want to do it, and do not choose to do it. It corresponds to a situation if a rich man would come across a dying man upon the road. Then the rich man would refuse to help the dying man, by claiming that it was because of his beautiful clothes, that the material was not being suitable for the occasion. As if the clothes worn on the body were being a hindrance to that what could be done with the body? Or that which was afterwards put on the body was somehow supposed to restrict that what the body could do at all times. Such an excuse is of course foolish and irrelevant, because the rich man did only need to intervene according to his human capability. His own lack of initiative prevented his own body from being of good use in the situation. It can be mentioned a hypocrisy in our times. Let’s say that in a small town and/or school then the majority of the people have been bullying the minority, or discriminating and excluding the minority. Because the minority has been treated like trash/garbage then they have low self-esteem and they have been disrupted from that in having a healthy/ordinary life like everyone else. When all the people have grown up then the majority does have ordinary lives while the minority has been pushed sideways in the society (outcasts). The ordinary people never attended to the minority in their time of distress while the ordinary people focused upon having a healthy/ordinary and happy lives of their own. But later on in the society there has been mismanagement and unequal division of wealth, so the ordinary people are no longer able to have healthy/ordinary and happy lives of their own. Now all of this is supposed to be so unfair to the ordinary people and they demand justice in the society, when these same ordinary people never cared about the minority while the latter had been denied healthy/ordinary and happy lives. The medium fishes that ate the small fishes complained that it was unfair that the big fishes ate the medium fishes. Ordinary people have been despising and excluding those that live in weakness and are different from them. Ordinary people have not been showing any understanding and mercy to those that are considered below them. And yet these ordinary people expect a different treatment from those higher up, as if the rich and the powerful people were supposed to show them understanding and mercy. It is a pointless thing when it is tried to convince the rich and the powerful to cease being selfish, that they should do something out of character and become generous to the ordinary people. We should not seek to convince those above us to show us mercy, but we should rather convince ourselves to show mercy to those below us, those that are being more exposed in their weakness and which have it worse than us. First we should do that, and then who knows? Maybe God will respond to our merciful choice by making something alike happen in those above us, that they should all of a sudden find themselves willing to show us (below them) mercy. Or that the rich and the powerful are at least being rebuked by it, that they have not been doing alike to us (below them) as we have been doing to those below us.
               Law and order is not only meant to protect innocent people and punish criminals. The spirit of the law is meant to free the people from all fears of criminals, where the people will not have to be constantly looking over their shoulder and they will not allow criminals to disrupt their manner of life. The spirit of the law is also about a preventive measure, to encourage honest conduct and discourage dishonest conduct, so that people will not consider the latter to be worth the trouble. The law is both meant to punish the criminal after the evil act and to prevent further harm, since there would otherwise be more crimes and victims in the future. The main problem does consist in the criminal’s deliberate will to sin, where that will must either be separated from the person or that person will be separated from the society. This is why convicts are either given the possibility to be rehabilitated or to remain in isolation. The man did create the laws of the society, but the laws did not create the man. The laws and their regulations are meant to make it easier for the people to obtain justice, to make that process efficient, and less likely to be abused or exploited in any way. The laws and their regulations should thereby adapt to the human beings, when it comes to fulfil their needs, maintain their freedom and security and dignity intact. But it should not be preferred the regulations above the welfare of a human being, like when it does involve needless formalities, sluggish process, and stupid technicalities, which fails to protect honest citizens in time. The fight against organized crime must always be flexible, responsive, and adaptable, by heading straight for the root of the problem and come up with decisive/necessary measures, since that guilt is already transparent for all to see.
               If a crime does only involve transient things and lifeless objects then it should not call for harsh punishment, unless it had deprived the victim of basic necessities in order to survive. For it merely involved loss of superfluous luxuries and no person became harmed in any way. The life of the criminal is more important than the material possessions which were stolen or destroyed. Imagine how stupid it would be to esteem a human being to be of equal worth as these or those objects, no matter how expensive it was, since it was not being that necessary to the owner. It can be commended those criminals which possess a sense of decency, by being compassionate and merciful enough in leaving innocent people alone and unharmed. A destitute man might have stolen in order to survive, and a mentally-suffering man made use of illegal drugs in order to feel better, but it has to do with human frailty and seemingly forcing of circumstances above any deliberate wickedness. A truly wicked person is dictated by malice, where it seeks for opportunity and pretext to do wickedness. A truly wicked person seeks to exploit and abuse the weak. But the humble sinner does have the heart in the right place and is being decent in the greater matters, despite all his misguidance and failings. It does not make any sense when the society wants all criminals to suffer for their acts, regardless of the act itself, even that the criminals differ in their intentions and choices. This can apply to the conditions within the prison, when the worst criminals abuse the better sort, which does far exceed the official sentence/punishment of the latter. That in selling illegal drugs is a crime, but far worse crimes consist in that when criminals trade human lives to the highest bidder, when they enslave helpless people and force them to work for them (human trafficking, sex slavery), and when they threaten and harm those that are unwilling to comply with them. That should call for harsher punishment and multiply the years of the sentence in comparison to crimes which are not being directed against the person. It is a wicked thing in itself when the wicked get rich by selling illegal drugs, since they will make use of that ill-gotten gain to sponsor more serious crimes and to further human misery. Every crime involving a despicable treatment of a human being should call for a harsh punishment, like when it is betrayed the trust of a mentally impaired person and defrauded it, when it is played with the feelings of a person and openly shamed it, when during relationship it is sought to isolate the person from everyone and everything. And when it is bullied those that are physically lesser or unable to defend themselves, when it is abused a child or a family member (as a more precise example, when of course any abuse of any person is being wrong), when it is sexually abused a person, when it is inflicted violence for the purpose of intimidation or shaming or permanent harm. Even if a particular crime might not seem to be as serious as other crimes then it is not a question of that how much dishonest gain was had from it, or how much consequences it had upon the victim, but rather how despicable such attitude of the criminal was in the first place. It is something so despicable in itself that it should not even have been gone that far in considering the possibility of doing it.
               Fanatics and terrorists are to be found in all countries. They are namely those which prefer a specific ideology or religious errors above the welfare of human beings. The fanatics do not love or care about other people, but have instead based their life upon hatred and impulsiveness. Such men do first want to harm an innocent person, and they do afterwards invent reasons as its pretext, as if there was something rational about the wicked deed. Fanatics seek to distort the interpretation of religious writings, until they will get the meaning which they want. They want to be allowed to kill innocent people, as if such wicked deeds could be openly approved of for being good deeds and they would not be held accountable for their wicked deeds. It can be mentioned when fanatics persecute innocent people for some imaginary transgressions, like by accusing them of blasphemy or having failed to uphold some religious customs. But such fanatics are at the same time guilty of far worse errors against the divinity. Such men have ascribed their own foolish and wicked opinions to the divinity, taken the name of the divinity in vain and lied about its divine will. The fanatics have sought to make the divinity become their mouthpiece of propaganda, as if the divinity did only signify their self-interest, and by doing so they have pretended to be the divinity (impostors). Are not such fanatics being guilty of the worst blasphemy there is? Hatred and impulsiveness had already existed in the fanatics from the very beginning, even before any human enemies appeared on the scene. And the same evil nature will continue to exist in the fanatics after such enemies are gone, so the fanatics will instead turn against their own people through new pretexts. It is because the fanatics are still looking for opportunities to unleash their hatred upon someone. If there are no human enemies then the fanatic does tend to ‘invent’ enemies to be hated, where he looks for enemies elsewhere until he can make an enemy out of someone. It can be mentioned when fanatics speak about committing all kinds of atrocities ‘in the name of the whole’, whether it is supposed to be for their own country or for the wellbeing of their own people. But it proves to be hypocritical in its nature, because these same fanatics do not care the least about a single person which they can meet with. The fanatics do not evaluate the life of a human being as precious in itself, but only according to some selfish advantage to be had from it, as if the person was a mere means or tools for some selfish ends of their own. The whole mankind consist of individuals, and a crime against one individual is the same thing as a crime against the whole mankind. It is a common practice among fanatics to blame foreigners for all the problems in their own society, where it is attempted to create a fear about the unknown. But the fanatics themselves prove to be the worst problem, because they possess the deliberate will to inflict suffering and shame upon innocent people, which is far worse than anything else in the world. It is indeed a mad thing to presume that the murder of an innocent person is somehow meant to help the society, in making the people more virtuous and enlightened in their affairs. It is not like fanatics do only apply to religions, but it can also apply to racists and fascists, when specific fanatics pretend to be fighting against another kind of fanatics. It does not matter where the fanatic is originated from, if the attitude and the conduct is the same. A white racist is being just as self-centred as a black racist, because in both cases they are exalting their own race colour while discriminating everyone else. But if the white racist had been born black then he would have exalted that colour instead. It should be seen this in context with Muslim terrorists and fascists within the western society. For that both groups want to persecute innocent people that belong to the other side, and they are ready to corrupt their own people from the inside, in the name of unity against a ‘common enemy’. It should be condemned terrorism in any form, regardless of that whether the terrorist does come from within our society or somewhere else. When a war between countries is involved then it does not make any sense that the decent men among them should be killing one another on large scale. Should it not rather be fought against the wicked men found within each country! Should it not be fought against those which have been deliberately undermining that country from the inside and disrupting the lives of ordinary people! This does apply to organized crime, or namely any organization which treats human beings in a despicable way and makes a profit of their misery. It does apply to those individuals that are most hard-hearted and unrepentant and cruel in their wicked ways. Surely wickedness is the only justifiable target, meant to be uprooted and wiped off the face of the earth.

The human race has been pondering whether life does exist on other planets, whether intelligent ‘aliens’ would be involved, and whether they would possess the ability to invade the earth. This has been pondered after the human race possessed the technology to explore space and travel for a limited distance, and yet it proves to be somewhat self-centred in it nature. The technology has changed and the man’s perception about himself, but everything else has remained the same, concerning the earth’s position in the universe. The earth is still revolving around the sun. All this technology has not made the earth become the centre of the universe, something which all possible life-forms on other planets are likely to be modelled after and evolve in the same way. The human race does implicate its own technology to possible aliens, as if it was only an exaggerated version of that what does already exist upon the earth. It does correspond to science fiction, where the future is supposed to be a bigger proportion of the present time, but the objects are otherwise identical to each other, concerning their general role. For example, about forty or fifty years ago people imagined the distant future involving bigger spaceships able to travel to more distant planets, and yet it was still being imagined the computer technology to be primitive as it was at that time. It is nothing like the digital/computer technology in our times. And if we go further back in time then could a man during medieval times have accurately imagined what our present world would be alike? Would not that man think that the people in the future would still be fighting wars with melee weapons (spears, swords)? Hence when people imagine the future they are still seeing the present things in the future and they are unable to look outside the box. It can be a superfluous thing to know whether there is a life on other planet or not, distant as it is, while the human race is destroying its own planet. If the human race is being negligent and irresponsible of its own planet then it will also be unworthy of other planets in the future. The human race is it own worst enemy, because of its selfishness and indifference. If human beings treat each other in such way then they will be no better to aliens, at least in the long run, after having become accustomed to their company. Let’s consider how human beings have hitherto treated the animals upon the earth, and what scars/wounds they have left upon the vegetation of the earth. Would not human beings end up doing something similar to life-forms on other planets? It can be claimed that the aliens would be better off if the human race had never discovered them. For that if aliens exist then it means they have already been able to survive and prosper on their own, without the involvement of the human race. And these aliens would continue to do so, whether the human race knew of them or not, so it is like everything would already be acceptable as it is during secrecy and discretion. Such arrangement would make much more sense than if the human race would first discover aliens on another planet, and then decide to leave them alone or do them no harm. What is the point of that when biologists explore jungles and manage to discover new species upon the earth, when through that same discovery hunters or tourists will come to know about the location of these life-forms and travel to that place and end up wasting everything upon touch?
               Some people have speculated whether the human race had been created by aliens, where intelligent life-forms could have used their advanced technology in order to do something to that end. But such theory does not solve anything, nor does it disprove anything about the divinity. If there were some aliens that created the human race then these aliens must in turn have been created by someone else, and so forth, until it would be traced oneself back to the divinity, the original creator, the being which came first before everything else. This is why it can just as well have been the divinity which created the human race directly, rather than if there would have been some intercessors involved. It has even been speculated whether aliens are manipulating the human race behind the scene, by pretending to be the divinity or some supernatural force at work through the human history. What if all these Biblical miracles and supernatural signs did actually happen, and yet these same things were really ‘special effects’ produced by technologically superior aliens, exploiting the credulity of primitive humans and ‘stifling’ their natural progress (collapse of the Roman Empire, superstition during dark ages and middle ages)? What if these same aliens have both pretended to be angels and devils, both working for God and working against Him, that they might keep the human race in check and hinder them from progressing? These ‘spiritual beings’ were all the time carnal, making use of cloaking technology and ‘appearance-changing technology’ (a spaceship could look like a cloud). There exists a good force and an evil force in the universe, and these two are always opposing each other in every aspect, dividing every living being into either camp. The human race is unable to witness the process directly, what does happen in an invisible way behind the scene, how an angel and a devil are fighting each other. The human race does only need to concern itself about the spiritual struggle, concerning free will and moral choices, what kind of values or principles belong to either source. It does otherwise apply that the evil force seeks to deceive and manipulate the human race behind the scene, but not through some physical form and materialistic technology. The evil force can change its outward appearance and shape, so that some people presume that they are seeing aliens, mythological creatures, dead persons, or something they are afraid of. But it is merely an illusion, something which only happens in the eyes of the human beings, while the evil force continues to be impalpable, spirits that have no substance. When we experience visions of other-worldly beings then it is either evil spirits pretending to be them, or evil spirits as telepathic beings are behind us conjuring such illusions in front of us.
               Just like people can create convincing illusions in computer and in television; then evil spirits can create convincing illusions in our mind and in our dreams. Different things are put together to present a convincing world, a convincing story, and a convincing characters, whether it involves video games or movies. A real person does lend its voice to a fictional character in an animated film or a video game, where that fictional character does not look like the real person. A similar thing applies when evil spirits conjure imaginations of people that we know of, and the evil spirits put their own words into their mouth (or they say/repeat something bad at the same time we see these imaginations). A human actor participates in one staged scene at a time, which is then cut and mixed with other staged scenes, that it might create the illusion of a continuous flow of time and course of events. A similar thing applies when evil spirits conjure memories of a single moment taken out of context with the event in whole, and they immediately implicate/mix this to another memory of a passing moment, that it might enforce a narrow-minded view of the past. In our times people can change their outward appearance through the use of costumes and make up/over (including prosthetic) and special effects in film industry. In our times any foolish and evil person can make use of such things in order to look like some heavenly being (or as what people presume that a heavenly being would look like). It is not far-fetched that technologically advanced aliens can make use of corresponding things in order to deceive and manipulate the human race, and that they have already done so many times in the course of the human history. Let’s say that the devil would appear in his real form to the man. The devil would look ugly and deformed/distorted and pale to the man. The devil would then claim something false and foolish and indecent (morally wrong), and ask the man to do something false and foolish and indecent, which the man refuses to do because of that how transparently bad the outward appearance of the devil is. Let’s say that the devil would leave the man, and next the devil would put on a costume alike that of a beautiful angel and carry a device which produces bright shining light around him. Then the devil appears again to the man in this beautiful and shining form, and the devil now claims exactly the same false and foolish and indecent things, and asks the man to do exactly the same false and foolish and indecent things. And now the man becomes filled with fear or awe, and he is now ready to do these false and foolish and indecent things, solely because of the outward appearance of this spiritual messenger, even that it involves exactly the same content/essence of the first/original visit, and its compliance will lead to exactly the same wrong reactions and consequences. It should be taken this into consideration regarding every experience which can seem to be supernatural, whether it involves visions or dreams or hallucinations. It is not enough that we can witness or experience a visit from a being which looks other-worldly, as if we were then supposed to immediately ‘swallow’ everything that it says to us. It should be looked beyond the outward appearance of that being, and rather focused upon that in evaluating its message to us, whether it does conform to that which is being true and wise and decent (morally right).
               On its own one’s life is not important. It is of importance to abide by the principles of God and discover something further about them which can be shared with the human race. Even that one can die then God will continue to be God and the truth will continue to be truth. The same principles prevail as what applied to the righteous men in old times. These men could be persecuted and killed by their enemies, and yet their wise teachings have been preserved and known by later generations. Jesus Christ is no longer among us in His physical body, but He is being near to us in His spiritual body. Even that we cannot see what Jesus Christ does look like then we are still able to know Him through His teachings and principles in the Scripture. It does involve the spirit or the essence behind everything which Jesus Christ said and did. If we abide by the same things as Jesus Christ then we will be able to know and accomplish the same things as Him. We cannot see the ‘hero’ but we have an access to writings that reveals to us the heart and spirit of that ‘hero’, what it was that drove that ‘hero’ from within and that made him do these things. It does not matter that we did not live during the same time as Jesus Christ, that we did not personally see Him and did not see these events regarding Him. It is only sufficient to believe the testimony of the Scripture, that we might spiritually discern what comes from Christ and which belongs to Him, what things Christ had done and which He would have done in our position/situation. By knowing these things we will be able to see through every illusion and deception, and reject every presumption and error that might contradict it. Even if someone would look exactly like Jesus Christ, and claim that he was Jesus Christ, and that all kinds of supernatural signs were following him; then none of these things on their own would manage to impress us and make us sway from our conviction. We would first consult with the teachings and principles of the Scripture, and evaluate whether that person was being consistent with the very same things. It is ultimately about that whether something is being true and morally right. Let’s say that the man dreams that of being contacted by a seemingly supernatural being (Jesus Christ, a saint, or an angel), which is supposed to bring him message from God and bid him do something. Then it is a good rule of thumb that the man should afterward (when awake) pray to God and ask for confirmation, whether this supernatural being was really being of God, or whether it was the devil (yet again) pretending to be a messenger of God. It is acknowledged that God is able to make a miracle and contact us in a supernatural way, and we really want to hope the best and believe something to be of the good. But we also acknowledge that we have hitherto come into contact with so many devils in dreams and had so many false experiences in dreams; that we will not be surprised if this new dream experience turns out to be yet another lie and deception.
               The man is likely to experience hallucinations or visions of supernatural beings when he has been mentally unstable and distracted and neglectful of himself in the long run. It does not make any sense that the man should boast of that in having seen a supernatural being and received some seemingly supernatural message; when he is at the same time being so mentally impaired that he is unable to maintain focus and unable to make sound decisions and unable to take care of himself. It is preferable that the man be spiritually sober and sound while experiencing no supernatural visions in his life, rather than that the man should experience supernatural visions in his life while being enslaved by the mind. A virtuous life (including good sense, good qualities, good works) without supernatural visions is preferable to that in having supernatural visions without a virtuous life. Truly the good things which come from God and belong to Him are the greatest miracle. That the man might feel good and aspire for good things, and notice other people in a good way and treat them in a good way. Supernatural signs are irrelevant to the goodness of God and what His goodness can do in our life. The faith does regard/involve things which exist and yet are not seen. The following can be said about dreams most of the time, although one is not sure whether it can said about all dreams all the time. In dreams the man can see things which are lacking/absent in his life, while the man does not see things which are already there in his life. The man does not see the angels of God while he is being good, and the man does not see devils while he is being bad. Exactly the opposite thing can apply. If the man is being blameless in his life then he does have bad experience with devils in his dreams and he sees them, because he is not under their bad influence when being awake. The devils persecute/haunt the man in his dreams because during his awake the devils are not getting anything from the man. But if the man is full of blame in his life and/or he has spiritually reached the bottom in his life (desperation); then he can have experience with angels of God in his dreams and he can see or hear them (singing), because the man is not being under their good influence when being awake. The angels of God are trying to encourage the man to have faith and hope, because the man has not been willing to receive anything from God (which they represent). If the man is already being good then he does not need to experience contact with angels of God in his dreams, because he does already have these angels in his life. If the man is already being bad then the devils do not need to try to persecute him into becoming bad, because he does already have these devils in his life. The man does not see the spiritual beings which are already present within him, in what way his heart is governed and what moral choices he makes.
               When the man closes his eyes and sleeps then he can see within himself (dreams). When the man comes into contact with various persons in his dreams then he should not be fooled by their outward appearance, since it involves the same spiritual beings ‘shapeshifting’. (Either they are really shapeshifting or they somehow manage to project such images in the man’s eyes.) If there exists corruption in the man’s life then the evil spirits draw life-force from it, so that they can take on a ‘fair human form’ or look like someone the man knows. But if the man is free of corruption then the evil spirits will become ‘spiritually bare’, revealing their true form, which is ugly and distorted and pale. If the man is spiritually blind and corrupt in his life then he will dream seemingly ‘positive’ scenarios with the evil spirits that are feeding on his life-force. The man is spiritually drunk and participating with them in spiritual debauchery, without realizing that all of this is one great illusion and really being at the expense of his soul’s condition. But if the man is spiritually sober and free of blame then the man will often experience ‘sleep-paralysis’, where the evil spirits harass him and seek to intimidate him. It can happen that an evil spirit comes at the man suddenly from the sides and the man becomes startled by it. It can happen that an evil spirit grabs the man from behind, takes him up and flies with him some distance (as if the man was hovering little above the ground). It can happen that an evil spirit grabs a part of the man’s body or bites/nibbles it. All of this reveals the weakness of the evil spirits, since they crave the man’s attention and they cannot sustain themselves without him. Also the evil spirits are being so cowardly and pathetic that they only dare to attack the man while he is lying paralyzed in his bed. Even that the evil spirits might look so monstrous and deformed that the man becomes afraid of their appearance; then it is still not the same thing as if they were being courageous and strong. It is only sufficient to be willing to look the evil spirit straight into his face and tell him that one is not afraid of him, even that one cannot move and defend oneself.
               The evil force seeks to deceive and manipulate the human race through the mindset, where evil spirits insert their own thoughts into human beings and try to make the latter think that these are their own thoughts. The evil spirits do so telepathically. It is slowly pushed human beings into a wrong direction until the common mindset has gotten so bad that people strive against one another on a large scale. The evil force makes use of subtle and indirect approach, as when a shadow follows the man (imitating) and is near enough (to the point). The evil spirits do not want to reveal themselves by going too far, but they try to make these thoughts somehow related to the man’s current position and then one step ahead. It is like someone close to the man and knowing about his personal life would begin mentioning something which the man already knows, and next play with that how the man is being affected by it, and then suggest something improper as its assumption/reaction (stretching that matter to extreme). It is much more subtle than if that someone would immediately suggest something extreme and improper to the man, as if completely unexpected, since that would make the man suspicious of the suggester and questioning his motives. While the man is being so absorbed by that how thoughts affect him then he fails to notice what is causing these thoughts. It is like the evil spirits know the things we know, and they manipulate that knowledge against us while making it seem like we are telling it to ourselves (since we do not presume anyone else to know all this about us). Human beings should cease to see enemies in each other, but they should rather notice the true enemy within. If the man gives himself time to be silent within and cease all effort within; then he will become aware that these thoughts keep coming over to him (automatic), that he is in no control of that what thoughts are passing through, that it is not really himself which is thinking this and calling for it (manually). Human beings should unite against these invisible spiritual beings, where it can hopefully be invented technology which can reveal these spiritual beings to the waking human eye and protect the human mind from their telepathic attacks. These invisible beings are able to spy on us and monitor us our entire lifetime, where they know everything which has happened in our lives (both within and without), and they seek to make use of that knowledge against us in order to quell down our progress. It is like a mature man would be making use of all kinds of methods and tricks in order to convince a child to have low self-esteem and to aspire for nothing good in its life. Or that mature man would be doing everything in his power to annoy/bother the child, and to make the child become so fearful and angry that it monopolizes everything within it (thereby leading to neglect of all its good qualities).
               The fear of death does never make the man into a better person, more capable of understanding himself and overcoming his own human restrictions. Only the divinity can determine the man’s ultimate fate, in what way he will live and what happens after death. It is not like the man is able to guarantee a better lot after death, by relying upon false prophets as intercessors or by investing upon specific service which the world does offer. All such means are useless, because those involved cannot even determine their own fate, let alone those of others. It does not make any sense when psychics are supposed to be contacting deceased persons on behalf of the living ones. It is a contradiction, because either a person is alive or dead, awake or asleep. If the person is already dead and asleep then it will be unable to contact anyone. And if the person is already alive and awake then it is unable to know the state of death (on the other side). How are we supposed to imagine the darkness if we have always been in the light? Or how is a seeing man supposed to imagine the state of a person which was born without sight? While we are living then we tend to foresee death in a living way, when death proves to be fundamentally different from life. The psychic is revealing personal information which is supposed to have happened in the past, or what other people are thinking while they are still alive in this world. Even that such information might seem accurate then it is still irrelevant to the actual state of death. It can rather be said that the evil spirit could somehow access the memories of the living people, the ones consorting with the psychic and exposing themselves to him. But that evil spirit, being spiritually dead, is still bound to this world. It is like a fraudster would spy upon a specific person, and then pretend to be that same person to someone else. An evil spirit could say ‘I did this’ or ‘This did happen to me’, which makes the sentence false in whole, because the evil spirit claims to be that deceased person. An evil spirit can insert his own thoughts into the man’s mind, which when passing through the man’s mind the man can mistake for his own thoughts. Hence when a psychic knows what the man is thinking then it does actually belong to the evil spirits in their lives, where the evil spirits seem to point to and support one another. Even that the evil spirit can know what the man is currently thinking or what he is planning to do; then it is still bound to the present time. The evil spirit can come up with vague predictions about it, like when one thing is supposed to signify another thing, not because evil spirit can foresee the future, but because it is likely to happen based on current information. It is something which any human being could do if it had access to similar information. There does not exist any realm of the dead, unless the one consisting of devils, while the devils are still tempting the human race and is still taking place within this world. But all the deceased human beings are now asleep, in the good care of the divinity, until there will be a day of judgment.
               In our times unscrupulous people can collect information about website users to monitor their online behaviour. It is then targeted that users with tailored advertising. It is spied on that what persons do, that it might be known their taste and preferences, and then it is come up with a lure which appeals to the same things. All of this is being done for the sake of avarice/greed, or pursuit for unscrupulous gain. It is like these people are thinking and acting in the same way that devils do. Devils are able to spy upon us and know the things that we know. It might seem like our ‘brain’ is arousing these and those memories (of incidents that we know of), and yet these memories are being too selective and manipulative. We keep experiencing memories which are personally directed against us and trying to drag us down with it. It is either mentioned bad incidents from our past or interpreted something bad from ordinary incidents. We are constantly being tempted into changing our attitude about someone or something, when it comes to notice ourselves or other persons in a different way, all for the worse. As the devils try harder to attack us through selective memories then they expose themselves the more. We come to realize that all of this is being too deliberate for a mere body organ (the brain). Devils can know everything that has happened in our life, which includes our desires and tastes and preferences, what we are more inclined to give attention to and what we are more likely to pursue. It is like a human psychologist would observe us and make a ‘personality profile’ of us, which would then be used to exploit our weaknesses and manipulate our behaviour. This does not involve true prophecies or a miraculous foretelling of the future (completely unexpected). It is something which is calculated based upon our current character or mindset, what we have hitherto been intending and doing in circumstances, and what we will continue to intend and do in upcoming circumstances. It has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, because it has already happened and been done in the times of old. The devils are making use of an old system/methodology of temptations, where if it is said this or done that then it can be said this or done that, where one possibility can lead to various reactions and answers, so it is already calculated all kinds of outcomes which can happen and be done. If a devil makes a seemingly accurate prediction of that what a specific person will do or what will happen to it; then it is not because that devil can truly foresee the future, but exactly the opposite thing does apply. That devil is rather looking back to the past, what kind of system applied then as is applying now, what kind of trick and method is now repeating itself in the lives of other people. It does involve a corresponding essence, even that the details are not exactly the same.

How can the man blame God for that what kind of person the man has turned out to be! How can the man blame God for that he has not been following God! How can the man blame God for that he has not become virtuous! Let’s say that the man would be entrusted for a specific plant in his garden. The man is supposed to attend to that plant daily, in watering the plant in due measure. If the man keeps attending to the plant on each and every day then that plant will gradually grow with the time, and reach maturity in the best health, and be able to bear fruit for food. But what happens if the man allows his loose habits and self-indulgence to lead to the negligence of that plant? Like if the man would forget to water that plant for many days in a row, and finally when the man decides to water the plant then he pours so much water that the plant almost drowns (because the man foolishly presumes that this excess of water can make up for previous negligence and/or be able to nourish the plant for the next days without him needing to attend to it). If the man has been neglecting that plant in the long run and it fails to reach maturity, where it is being in bad shape and totally unfit in bearing fruit; how can the man then become angry at the plant and accuse it for having failed him? Even so the man must not neglect the voice of God within on each and every day, if he is to become virtuous. The Spirit of God is not being damaged by one’s negligence of it. Such negligence does rather prevent one from further developing a sense of truth and a sense of decency. A little and immature conviction makes the man unfit in confronting great and many challenges. Such little and immature conviction makes the man fail to rise over the temptations in his life. The Life can be likened to a long-distance running. We, human beings, are participants in this running. It is not really a race between competitors, who finishes before or after the other, but it is a victory in itself if we manage to be patient enough in finishing the long distance. Whatever happens then we should keep moving on. We should not look to some spectators at the side-line, and not allow their noisy rebukes and/or advices to interrupt us when we are already running. And we should not make comparison between ourselves and other runners. One foolish man decides to stop running and assert that he is being righteous and deserving. Another foolish man decides to stop running and assert that someone else is being unrighteous and undeserving. A third foolish man decides to stop running and he asserts that it is unfair that he does not have something which someone else has. A fourth foolish man decides to stop running because he thinks that he already has everything he needs. A fifth foolish man decides to stop running because he thinks the running itself is being unfair. A sixth foolish man decides to stop running because he fancies that it can be relied upon something else than his legs to move forward. A seventh foolish man thinks too far ahead and is being troubled that there could be so much remaining distance to the finish; that he does not bother to focus upon present spot and take one step at a time. We must keep moving through all these spiritual hindrances and distractions that can occur to us, without deliberately settling for any excuses and assertions and justifications. There is really nobody preventing us from running at this moment, but only we ourselves, when our eyes begin wandering and we fix our attention elsewhere and form opinions to such effect. God is the true judge of the way we run, and He judges our performance in running, and He is the one who gives us the power to run on each and every day. Regarding our progress then we should compare ourselves today with ourselves yesterday, whether we have become better or worse in our attitude and choices. We should not become troubled by that how other people are inwardly and how they choose to live, but we should rather consult with our own conscience and convince ourselves to live well, as something deemed acceptable before God and which we can live with. And we should allow God to judge us in everything, whether we manage to advance or we stumble upon something or we come to a halt. We should keep our head straight when running straight, without raising our head when meeting with good fortune and without lowering our head when meeting with bad fortune. Whatever happens and however it might affect us then it only has priority to keep running and finishing the way in the long run. We are not really hastily moving in our mind and/or body, but our soul is being in a continual motion. It is like our soul is standing in front of an escalator (moving stair-case) and all kinds of things move toward us, and go through us. And as more things go through us (without us being stopped by it) then our progress is being measured by all these things that lie behind (being overcome/surpassed). It can be come up with another description. The Spirit of God blows our heart and soul into a specific direction, and it sets us a straight course for some time. And later when we begin to slow down and come to a halt; then we are meant to believe again in the Spirit of God and allow it to blow us again further ahead. As if we were sitting on a wave of the sea and being temporarily carried by it, or that we are temporarily given magic wings which take us up with them and fly for us (as if it was being on autopilot) without any will and exertion of our own.
               It is a more challenging and more difficult thing to experience undeserved adversity than an undeserved prosperity. It is a more challenging and more difficult thing to experience persecution by devils than to experience a visitation by angels. Jesus Christ is the true hero because He was both willing and able to experience all these undeserved bad things for the sake of His people. Even if a false/phony believer does experience prosperity in worldly matters then it has no bearing upon that what position he does hold in the eyes of God. Even if a false/phony believer does not experience any spiritual adversity by devils then it does not mean that he is already free of blame and doing the will of God. Self-righteous people presume that when something good or bad befalls a specific person then that person must have first done something to deserve it and call for it, when it is really something which is beyond the control of that person. When the man is constantly being haunted by the mind and experiencing misleading signs in the body; then it might give the impression that the man has already been guilty of that in sinning and that he is now experiencing its bad consequences. And yet the man has not been desiring anything bad, and not been seeking anything bad, and not been saying anything bad, and not been doing anything bad. All this adversity of the mind and the body is being undeserved and uncalled for. It is precisely because the man is being a true follower of Christ that he is undergoing these bad unwanted things. It corresponds to that what happened to the man Job. There was a debate in heaven between God and the devil about the motive of Job’s faith. Will the man keep believing in God and keep justifying God in being true and righteous, even that the man does never seem to be rewarded for it, and even that it seems that he is always being punished for it? That is the true test, what is the worth of the man’s personal conviction. Is it gold-alike and able to last through the burning fire? Or is it like some cheap material which easily breaks down? It can apply that even that the man has done something good then he cannot stop having bad experience. There does not seem to happen anything good within, where the man does not feel any better and there is had no spiritual relief from the bad experience. And yet the man keeps doing the good thing because it is the good thing to do. All this personal experience has no bearing on the man’s conviction and choices. It is not like the man must first have a good experience before doing a good thing, as if that was supposed to be some kind of sign that guarantees that it should be done. Neither should the man be swayed by that when he has a bad experience while considering doing a good thing, as if that was supposed to be some kind of sign to dissuade him from it. The man’s faith is able to pass through all these spiritual walls. Let’s say that when playing a role-playing games it is encountered a giant which is being so powerful that he can kill one’s character upon a single successful hit. It would be beside the point whether one would first seek to increase the hit points of one’s character to some maximum number, since he would either way get killed by a single blow of that giant. When we believe in God then it is like we are always having only one hit point remaining, as if we were no longer at our best and already being weakened and having little strength left. And yet by some luck we do never get killed by that giant, where no matter how often that giant tries to hit our character then he never makes a successful roll of a dice. Such is the difference between that in relying upon our own human strength and that in relying upon the grace of God.
               The man can find himself in a situation where he is being deprived of good things and bad things are being forced upon him. The man has no control of the situation, where he cannot get the good things back again and he cannot make the bad things go away. If the man finds himself in a situation where he has been backed into a corner, and he cannot avoid the bad things that are chasing him, and he will either way suffer bad things; then the only thing that he can do is to confess the truth about it and be willing to suffer it through. Remember that the man Job had all good things taken away from him and he could thereby not offer any good possessions (sacrifices) to God. Job was being afflicted by so many bad things at the same time that he was not in any position to do good things to anyone. It was like Job was being naked. He had been stripped down to his heart and soul, as the only remaining things. Sometimes the only thing that we can do in a seemingly impossible situation is to open our heart to God and confess the truth. That we are being frail and just as much in need of God, that God is a true and just judge whose verdicts we submit ourselves to. It can happen that we do something wrong and we experience guilt about it afterwards. Like when we experience situation where we know what is the right thing to do, and yet we find ourselves unwilling to do it and we maintain our distance from the person that is in need of help. We have been shutting our heart to someone and discriminating him. We have already made a wrong choice and we cannot change what has happened. There is nothing that we can say and do in order to defend or justify that wrong choice. However, the thing remaining is to confess the truth about it, and allow God to judge us for it, and wait for things to turn out the way it pleases God. That God might forgive us, and help us to receive His forgiveness. That God might free us from all concerns about our self-image, self-interest, and self-preservation. That God might help us to be only concerned about the wellbeing of the person involved, instead of us being only concerned about that how our neglectful treatment of the person might make us look bad in the eyes of other people and make us lose their esteem. That it is not important what bad things can happen to our life and how we can be affected by it in a bad way, so long as God is blessing the person involved which we have neglected. That God is able to make things up to the person which we failed to do good to. And we confess that it is one thing to come up with beautiful words or seem to say all the right things, while it is another thing whether we truly mean it in our heart and find ourselves willing to act upon it. Hence we ask God for help to set things right in our heart and prepare our heart for it. That to begin with it can actually be felt that which is being right, before we begin say anything seemingly right. Instead of us pretending to be perfect and saying ‘something’ beautiful then we rather ask God to convince us of that which is being true and right. That instead of us becoming fearful and considering ourselves obligated to say ‘something’ before God (centred on our self, reaction to our self); then we rather wait for God to say something to us which will ‘blow’ us into the right direction. That with the time, later on, we can have better feeling/sense for the matters involved. It is not like we wait for some kind of sign that we are ‘off the hook’ and that we can afterwards feel better about ourselves. If God forgives us and we no longer experience guilt over the matter; then it does not mean that we should raise up our head (become self-confident). We keep bowing down our head under God’s jurisdiction. We continue to be just as humble throughout all these situations. The good things which happen before and after, and the bad things which happen before and after; these same things do not change our attitude in remaining humble before God.
               Even that we have been experiencing good lot for a long time and it is like bad things have been far away from us; then we should still never sleep on our spiritual guard and begin to judge/condemn people in our heart. We committed great and many sins in the past, and God has forgiven us all these things and made us forget them for most part. We should not remember the details of our past sins (that we might not again be tempted into doing the same things, and/or that we should not allow personal attacks to make us lose faith in ourselves in living well today), but we should still remember that these sins were being great and many (general description). Instead of thinking about other people in a bad way and consider ourselves in position to judge/condemn them; then we should only be mindful of that in giving account of our own sins before the divinity. We are now experiencing good times because we are now under the grace of the divinity and the divinity has hitherto chosen to tolerate us. But we would never have experienced these good times if the divinity had not chosen to forgive us all these great and many sins back then. Hence our position now is being just as frail as our position back then. The divinity is capable of recalling everything in a blink of an eye. It can be confessed the following self-righteous thing. When we have experienced good lot for a long time then we begin to take it for granted, and we forget what is like to experience the bad things which other people are now going through. Hence we become indifferent toward those that are now having hard times. It can happen that we come across a person that is having it bad and is in need of spiritual help/support. And yet we are being so occupied with our own life and its routine that we consider ourselves not have time for that person and we do nothing in that regard. Afterwards when we realize our lack of charity then we can experience guilt over the matter, and yet that same guilt is being made upon wrong basis (self-centred). For that we can become afraid that our wrong choice will have repercussions on our good life, that the divinity will punish us for it and make us lose our good lot (prosperity). We can consider ourselves obligated to ‘help’ the person in question, as if that was supposed to be expected from us, or that we are trying to save ourselves through that person. But we are not being genuinely concerned for the wellbeing of the person and there is no firm conviction behind that how it can be helped it. We should not approach the person while we are being insincere in our attitude and doing things through wrong reasons, when it is pretended to show the person interest when we are really expecting something for ourselves. And we should not try to say something ‘clever’ and ‘helpful’ to the person when it feels pretentious and shallow, like when we try to force things (to become resolved as soon as possible) and end up overreaching ourselves, or when it feels like we are being a ‘salesman’ trying to ‘sell an idea’ (like the false evangelists in our times). Hence we need to confess our frail position to the divinity, and wait until the divinity has managed to make us have a right attitude toward the person. We need to ask the divinity to help us feel the right thing toward the person, to help us develop personal conviction and to know that what we are doing. We need to wait until the divinity deems it to be the proper time for us to approach the person and try to help it.
               Let’s say that because of the man’s ignorance and restrictions then he is regularly misunderstanding the circumstances and making mistakes, and making fool out of himself and having a humiliating incident. However, because of the grace of God then none of these things manage to ‘touch’ the man and affect him in a bad way. Something somehow manages to shield/prevent the man from receiving these things too personally. The man does not consider this initial bad experience to be ‘that bad’ experience, and he does not choose to make this into a problem in his eyes. The man does not stop his life and dwell upon the lacking things beyond his control. The man does not stop his life and become angry/resentful about it. The man does not complain to God and assert something bad about God. The man is like a little child which just keeps trying to learn to walk, regardless of all the failed attempts prior to it. He is like a ‘mind blank’ child which looks straight ahead, and which only focuses on the things in front of it, and which only focuses upon doing one thing at a time. It is a good thing that the little child is too simple to know about the cares and worries of the world. It is like the little child is living inside a ‘bubble of innocence’, which shields the child from being aware of all the wrong possibilities in the world. Because a little child is being sincere and innocent then nobody does hold it against the child for not knowing about something or not being able to do something. The innocence of the youth manages to make up for everything and override all the lacking things. Because the man is under the grace of God then he is able to ‘slide smoothly’ along all these temporary setbacks and adversity, so that he really never comes to any spiritual harm and loss. He never develops any ‘roughs spots that tear into something upon contact’ (angry/resentful outbursts). Also the grace of God is like a blanket which covers all the man’s weaknesses and inner lacking, so that he is somehow able to find grace in the eyes of the people that witness his signs of weaknesses and shortcomings. By some divine luck the people involved do not choose to hold anything against the man, and they treat him better than he deserves. The devil is a master of clever and crafty tricks, when it comes to deceive and manipulate and defraud a person. However, the devil is unable to deceive a person which is being too simple to understand what he is talking about. A little child cannot be deceived by all these clever and crafty tricks of the devil, because the child does not understand him in the first place or does not understand that language at all. But a false and selfish and covetous man is able to grasp all the filthy and despicable language of the devil, where it does immediately appeal to that man’s filthy desires and fancy, and it becomes most difficult for that man to let go of the filthy prospect involved. A man that is fully mature in selfishness is fully able to get fully taken by the speech of the devil, to fall into all the lures and traps and snares which the devil can come up with. An intelligence in lesser matters becomes a trap for those that do not possess intelligence in greater matters. The man is being ‘intelligent’ enough to be fooled by the intelligent speech of someone more intelligent than him. It would have been better if the man had neither understood nor pretended to having understood all these concepts involved which appealed to his vanity and greed.
               That to be dead is to be blind and deaf and mute and lame/immobile, all at the same time. That to become spiritually dead to the power of sin is to become spiritually blind and deaf and mute and lame toward every sinful activity in oneself. That one chooses to becomes temporarily blind and deaf toward the bad experience one is having, toward the evil influence within oneself, toward the temptations one is facing, toward the fear which is following one and seemingly shrouding/clouding the things at hand. That one chooses to become temporarily blind and deaf toward every spiritual hindrance/wall while one keeps moving forward with a blank and empty attitude, without having any expectation and foreboding in what way things will turn out upon arrival. It does correspond to that in seeing no evil and in hearing no evil, as if it had never been seen and heard anything in the first place, and where none of this has managed to affect and/or impress one in any way. It does not mean that one is being so blind and deaf in understanding that one is easily taken/persuaded by temptation. By being blind then one refuses to recognize that there is something alluring about the temptation in front of one, and by being deaf then one refuses to listen further to the temptation uttered to one, and by being mute then one refuses to enter into discussion about the validity of the temptation presented to one, and by being lame then one refuses to be aroused into doing something in regard to that temptation. What can be said about that when one finds oneself in circumstances which are beyond one’s understanding and capability, when one is being so incompetent and prone to clumsy mistakes that one is constantly revealing one’s ignorance and weaknesses to other people and making a fool out of oneself in their eyes? One is being aware of one’s inner lacking and restrictions, and one really wants to learn from it and improve, and yet one cannot help oneself when again finding oneself in such circumstances. It is like the heaven has decreed that such things are not given to one, that it is not in oneself to get better in this, that one fails to find or experience it in oneself. It is totally beyond one’s control, where things keep staying the same and nothing ever changes. Hence it is like one is already being spiritually blind and deaf and lame in regard to that factor. One does afterwards experience memories about one’s previous incompetence and mistakes, and such memories are being followed by bad thoughts which personally attack one for it, as if one was supposed to be feel dejected over it and lose faith in oneself and become too timid to confront things in general. But that is like the mind would be blaming and accusing a blind man for having not been able to see in those previous circumstances. And no matter how much it is thought back and forth about the matter then the blind man will still be unable to see in upcoming circumstances. All these thoughts in the meantime, with all these contemplations of that how it can be prevented blindness and anticipated that in seeing things in the future, fail to give eyes/sight to the blind man. Hence we should learn to accept that our weak factors are our weak factors, and keep to our strong factors, instead of dwelling upon our weak factors at the expense of our strong factors. Even that we are being spiritually blind and deaf and lame in a specific factor; then we should still make use of our healthy and able/functional body parts in other factors. It is not blameworthy to be initially incompetent in something new undertaken, but it is being blameworthy to pretend to be competent for the challenge involved, as if one knew what one was doing. That after the first few tries when one realizes that one is not being fit for such challenge; then one should withdraw from the same and not try to force things through against one’s better judgment. If one does not know what one is doing then one should stop trying to do it. One is being guilty of a fault and mistake, and yet one does at least respond to the same in a proper way, by repenting and confessing the truth about it, by letting these things be and not escalate them (like when it is foolishly tried to defend and justify oneself, or blamed some outside/irrelevant factor for it, or kept obtruding upon a person which disapproves of one’s fault). Let’s say that an incompetent man manages to get an important position in healthcare. Because of his incompetence he turns out to be idle and indecisive in things which need to be resolved, or he forces needless changes which lead to needless problems, or he keeps making wrong decisions which undermines the well-being of his clients and the effectiveness of his staff. And when such incompetence is finally being revealed in the society then what does this incompetent man do? Instead of assuming responsibility and stepping down for someone more fit for that position; then he tries to save his own skin by sacrificing someone on his staff and send the latter on leave. Hence it involves double blame, a blame added upon blame, or a blame in blame, when it is stubbornly tried to hold longer unto an important position that is obviously not working out and making things worse.

False religions involve gods which are supposed to be just as delusional and corrupt as the man himself. These gods are either supposed to have committed selfish deeds, or they are preaching something which is not being pure and altruistic as the divinity is. When false gods have their presumptions and weaknesses then it does merely reflect the restrictions in/of their human creator, because he had been like that from within. It cannot be united all the worldly religions and their teachings into one, as if all of them could be right at the same time, since that truth and lies always contradict one another. The divinity can never be of more than one nature, for it does otherwise no longer involve the same being/person at all. The human nature finds itself in between, where the man will be both contacted by the good force and the evil force, and he will have to choose between them. That to try to mix them both into one compromise is being originated from the evil source and not the good source. Only one God can be true while all the other versions are false. And only the true teachings do actually lead to good and beneficial effects, while all the false teachings lead to bad and disruptive effects. It does not matter whether the worldly religions can be improved in these or those matters situated at the top, because their very foundation does ultimately collapse along with everything which has been added/built on it. The worldly religions might seem to have a different beginning, concerning beliefs and doctrines, and yet all paths lead to the same final destination, which is namely superstition and self-constraint. It can involve all these vices/weaknesses which belong to the extreme of self-righteousness. It is like these self-righteous qualities ‘prepare’ the person for that in being weakened within before the evil force will strike that person in full force and exploit/manipulate it into total desperation. All religious reforms are doomed to failure, because it is sought to prolong the wrong things, which should have been fully rejected at the outset. It would correspond to that in adding a little fresh thing to keep a dying monster alive a little longer, or by doing a partial reinvigorating to prevent a decayed building from collapsing, when such thing can never last on its own. The man should rather allow all worldly religions to collapse by their own weight with the time, since the divinity did never exist in them to begin with nor did it ever take their side. The divinity will only keep to its own pure foundation, with its pure truth and pure goodness, but it will never support anything which is created and promoted by the evil source.
               It should be approached the divinity in a decent and dignified way, and appealed to its decency and dignity, so the divinity can help the man to become decent and dignified in his own life. But it should not be tempted the divinity, by asking it to fulfil our selfish desires, or that the divinity should help us obtain success in dishonest pursuits, at the expense of other people. It should also not be taken the name of the divinity in vain, by implicating it to our vain opinions and trivial/petty issues, or namely anything which is irrelevant to its truth and goodness. The divinity is a moral and intellectual being, and the man should approach it in a corresponding way. The man should be honest about his true intentions, confess the truth about his position, make himself clear and comprehensible, and get straight to the point, as what the man does find in his heart to say at that moment and by appearing like the person he truly is. But all flatteries are useless, and so are all the man’s pretensions, when he tries to seem something else in the eyes of the divinity and tries to conceal his ulterior motives from it. It can correspond to human relations, where it can easily be discerned when another person is flattering us, while secretly coveting some selfish advantage from us. For that person is only saying that what it thinks that we want to hear and there is no underlying sincerity in it. And it is not enough to always repeat the same things over and over again, in only listening to ourselves speak, while it is not bothered to notice and listen to the other person. If we are able to discern such signs during human relations and read between the lines; then should not the divinity be even more capable of it regarding our life! The divinity must surely know us more than we do know ourselves, when it comes to discern what kind of position we find ourselves in, what we are going through in our life, what are our real intentions or premises, and whether we are being truthful at that moment. A prayer is something which must be made willingly each and every time, when we have a simple-spirited turning in our heart, something which smoothly draws us into feeling like doing it. It can be prayed according to our true needs, necessity, critical times, or its importance to the persons involved. That kind of moderation is always able to last in the long run, when it is preferred the quality of a prayer to mere quantity, since our faith is being genuine and sincere every time we pray. But it is not so when the man forces it upon himself to pray too often, and when each prayer is longer than it needs to be. For the man might be present in his physical body, but his heart and spirit is being totally absent, concerned about other matters during each and every prayer. The man should rather give himself a sufficient time and space, in praying when he really wants to do it, and in expressing himself as much as what he does really mean in his heart. The man must first approach the divinity like the person he is before the divinity can receive him, and through it make the man able to understand himself and improve his own life. A single sincere worshipper is greater than many false worshippers, where one genuine prayer is greater than many pretentious prayers, and few truthful words are greater than many flatteries. This is why the divinity does tend to favour few saints above the multitude, since it is all about the rightful approach, in knowing what the divinity is all about. It is better to say nothing than by coming up with sweet words that are not really meant, and it is better to omit mention of specific matters if one is in no position to pass verdicts on it. It should be confessed one’s current attitude, position, and personal experience, whether one can really afford to speak this or that concerning other people. It should be confessed one’s own frailty, selfish intentions, bias, and personal grudge, if there is any, rather than by saying nothing and resume having it deep down in one’s heart. It is all about confessing one’s ignorance before one can begin to know, and in confessing one’s current restrictions before one can begin to change for the better.
               All men can read religious texts, speak about religion, attend to religious buildings, uphold religious ceremonies and customs, and preach religion when trying to convert people, regardless of that whether they are being sincere or false, honest or dishonest, faithful or hypocritical. This is why many superficial issues can just as well be excluded from the genuine faith, if the issues in question are irrelevant to truth and goodness. That to stay loyal to God is to stay loyal to one’s conscience, and that to stay loyal to one’s conscience is to stay loyal to God, and that separates the true believer from the false believer. But there does not exist anything in between, as if would be enough to uphold some religious customs and show ‘minimum’ piety to become qualified as a true believer. There is nothing holy about religious buildings, because the actual building is made of matters that are not holy and the building has been made by men that are not holy. It does thereby not matter what that building can afterwards be called by people. The divinity is not more present in such building than elsewhere, but the divinity is rather present in the heart and spirit of the true believer, wherever he might be. And it does not matter whether people can attend to religious buildings and come up with temporary outward show, as if the divinity was more likely to see and hear them there than elsewhere. It is more important what people will feel and say and do in general, what is their attitude most of the time, while they are outside the religious building and making actual choices. It does not make any sense when religious men are willing to suffer want in this world; because they are being greedy for all kinds of luxuries and carnal pleasures in the fancied ‘afterlife’. They imagine that the ‘afterlife’ is an exaggerated version of similar/identical things as are in this world. Such men pretend to reject the temptations of this world, while they continue to covet exactly the same things in their heart. Therefore are they not being true believers, spiritually pure and devoted to the divinity, since that love in good faith is meant to replace all selfish desires.
               It must first be understood the noble and altruistic nature of the divinity, before it can be understood why it should be obeyed its principles in all things. It is about understanding its depth of love in all things, the good values which it does stand for, the spirit of its message, what kind of benefits will be promoted from within the man. If the believer is going to make a proper decision then he must do so according to love for the person involved, rather than by calculating the advantage to be had from this or that. Let’s consider our faith in God, when we are meant to acknowledge the Scripture in being the truthful testimony of God, and that we are meant to obey everything in the Scripture in order to confirm that we are following God. But what if something seemingly written or translated in the Scripture does seem to contradict the goodness of God? Are we really showing faith in God when we seemingly follow the letter of the law at the expense of the spirit of the law, or are we showing faith in God by overlooking that letter of the law in order to uphold the spirit of the law? That we are meant to love our brother (same-of-man) and show him understanding and be merciful to him in his human weakness. If we have to choose between that in loving our brother or that in stiffening up against him because of some seemingly hard saying in the Scripture; then we should always choose love over the other. A noble man does not want other people to live in fear of him and to serve him like slaves, but he is only concerned about their continual welfare. The divinity does notice the man as he is and it receives the man as he is, but the divinity is not gazing upon his shadow, no matter how big the shadow is following the man from behind. The man can continue to be the person that he is, even that he did once have a shadow in his life. The evil nature can take on many difference voices and tones, but they all have it in common to appear forth in the mind. The man should immediately reject the subjective voices, without first needing to sort out anything with himself, since it is only sufficient to know where the temptations are originated from. It does not change anything when such voices might seem to be friendly, sweet, or positive, since they lead to exactly the same effects as when aggressive and negative thoughts are involved. The voices always lead to negligence of fundamental values, making the man instead live in self-constraint, forcing everything upon himself, against his own willingness and better judgment. It is like the man is serving a harsh and oppressive and manipulative tyrant, whom is exploiting the man’s credulity and weakness, and ordering him around like a slave. The man might presume that he is serving the divinity, but everything in its bearing belongs to the evil force. It is like the man has betrayed the divinity in all but name, although unintentionally, since he showed much eagerness but too little sense in his devotion. Human beings are like ignorant children which do not know what they are doing. People tend to have good intentions when doing all these different things in order to promote supposably good things, and yet they are being misled in a different way by the same tempter. It is a tragic thing in itself when one misled person (self-righteous fanatic/ideologist) seeks to punish another misled person (selfish pleasure-lover) for faults which itself does not have, while failing to realize that it is in a corresponding position. The former person is also being a spiritual slave, being manipulated by thoughts and impulses within, and still being far from pure truth and pure goodness. The Enemy is the one to blame for causing all these lies and corruption and injustice in the world. It has the most priority to overcome the Enemy within and be free of his evil influence, instead of gazing upon blaming and punishing people that are unintentionally being deceived by him. Those that seek to brainwash the youth with propaganda into doing evil things, those same are guilty of the greater sin.
               To me the philosopher Epicurus is not really criticizing and disproving the faith in God, but rather religious delusions with their fear and self-constraint. Should we not hate it when the devil pretends to be the voice of God in our mind, or that he pretends to be speaking something on behalf of God, which is meant to make us become anxious over nothing (illusion) and spiritually enslaved to unfair demands! And to me the Tao/Dao philosophers Laozi and Zhuangzi are not really criticizing and disproving righteousness, but rather self-righteousness with its obsessive perfectionism. It can be described as the man’s mind version of righteousness, when the man’s self is being implicated to righteousness and thereby is that not being a true righteousness on its own terms. Also it is had an imperfect notion of that what is being perfect, and thereby it is not being a true perfection sought for and able to last. And to me the descriptions of Tao/Dao is the same thing as descriptions of the Spirit of God, in what way the Holy Spirit functions behind the scene and when it comes to sense its inner voice. The ways of God are being mysterious and unsearchable and past finding out. Only the Spirit of God can choose to reveal its ways to the man. Otherwise the man is unable to do so without the Spirit of God. The teachings of Tao/Dao are being consistent with that in having silent faith in God, or a faith of heart without resorting to vocabulary, without relying upon the sight of the eyes and the hearing of the ears. It can also be mentioned Tao’s/Dao’s emphasis upon none-doing or none-action. When Jesus Christ was being tempted by the devil in the desert then the devil was thereby trying to encourage Him to do something presumptuous and needless in the situation. By rejecting all these temptations then Jesus Christ ended upon doing nothing in that regard. This applies to that when the believer is meant to be constantly rejecting temptations within and abstain from doing something misguided and needless. By mastering his desires and passions then he is being made spiritually free from all selfish measures in trying to save himself and obtain a place in the world. He is not of the world because he refuses to comply with the corruption of the world. When Jesus Christ was in the desert then He did not try to change that desert into a garden of Eden. Even so we should acknowledge the evil nature in us to be an evil nature, something spiritually barren and empty, which cannot be changed or redeemed by our human effort.

The one who is writing this confesses that he has not been having an ordinary life like most people, when it comes to have a full-time job and raise a family, and travel to new places and get to know new people. One has not been experiencing all these worldly demands and challenges and responsibilities which most people have to go through. One is thereby in no position to comment on such things. And yet one does not need to teach ordinary people to have ordinary lives. That is something which they are already able to do on their own and they need no help in that regard. One does not need to heal a part which is already being healthy and functional. But one is rather in position to help people in regard to the spiritually sick part in their lives, which has hitherto been distracting them and troubling them and disrupting their inner function. By having written all these things in this work then one is able to help people to be alone with their thoughts, that they can remain spiritually free amidst all these thoughts, and that they can rise above all these thoughts. All these troubles and sickness of the society in our times, that is being originated from the selfish mindset. This selfish mindset has hitherto been encumbering people within and preventing them from reaching their full potential. The one writing this confesses that he lacks genuine feelings, and he lacks understanding of even simple matters, and he lacks initiative in doing things decisively. His strong factor consist in that of having at least a sound attitude (of the heart), in confessing the truth and in what direction to turn to/toward, while he still lacks able limbs (arms, legs) to travel the path through and make it across to the final destination. The other strong factor of his consist in that of continually withstanding temptations within, when it comes to let go of things and allow things to pass through himself and shift the attention elsewhere. It is like mastering the spot between the eyes, and hiding underneath in one’s heart. One has been of service in regard to these two parts of the spiritual body, while other people can be of service in regard to all the other parts (limbs, organs). This spiritual body in whole, which the Church of God is, the community of all the true believers.