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THE HIDDEN AGENDAS OF THOSE PLAYING THE PHONY ROLES OF “THE SUPER RELIGIOUS ONE” AND / OR “THE SPIRITUAL GIANT”
“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
THE SIXTEEN BASIC PRECEPTS OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR RELIGIONS
(All of Which Evolved from “Sacrificing” and / or Killing Virgins)
Consider the ignorant, non-realized masses (who are also usually affiliated with one organized religion or another or with one cult or another).
Were they to suddenly aim to be awake, aware, conscious, and free of ignorance-based beliefs, they would have to admit to several truths in order to move through the steps in the process:
They would have to admit that are trying to manipulate their God (or gods and goddesses) by supposedly sacrificing to Him (or them) in order to gain from Him (or them).
Both Jewish and Christian dogma teach that their members should give and give and give, reporting that giving to God is a sure-fire investment plan because he will give return to them an amount that is not seven times seven - as some religions taught - but will give back an amount that is seven times seventy of whatever they give.
What investor would not jump at that rate of return?!
So the first prerequisite for realization to happen (that is, for being free of ignorance and delusion) is for “followers” to admit that their leaders are encouraging them to try to manipulate “The Power” and that they are subsequently trying to do exactly that.
The second prerequisite is to admit that they have been fooled into believing that The Power is there to assure that “something good will happen to them” if they play The God Game effectively.
Again, Maharaj explained that realization is nothing more than freedom, specifically, freedom from learned ignorance (that is, freedom from being fooled, from having been made a fool of) by leaders that are manipulating them.
Don’t take the word of anyone over scientific fact. How do we know that Maharaj was reporting a scientific fact when he said, “you have invented [dreamed up] God”?
How can you know that there is no “Creator”? By understanding the following: stated in the simplest terms, all is matter or energy or matter / energy and neither matter nor energy nor matter / energy can be created or destroyed.
No creation? Then no Creator; thus, a Creator god is a figment of imagination, dreamed up so that “God’s representatives on earth” can use the belief in Him / Them to control the masses and to milk the masses financially.
The third prerequisite is to understand that the whole invention of God can be used to remove responsibility and to provide (a false sense of) hope.
Wildfires have left thousands homeless in parts of the Hawaiian Islands. One such person said, “We just have to turn it over to God. He has a plan, and we don’t know what the plan is, but He does. There’s a godly purpose to all this destruction, and the purpose will eventually be revealed.”
The same was said after “The Great Flood which is a story common to most “holy books.” Same goes for Sodom and Gomorrah. Same goes for the pestilence on Israel which killed seventy thousand.
Same goes for the time God instructed the Israelites to kill every man, woman, and child among the Canaanites.
So let’s look at the sixteen basic precepts of the world’s major religions which evolved from “sacrificing” and / or killing. Here’s how the bogus “Fool Them Steps” unfolded:
1. The priest offers a message of hope and a means of “saving you”;
2. Some people can hear the voice of a god better or clearer than others;
3. Followers are to be guided by one who is “holy” (originally, “holy” simply meant “different” - some claim they are different from others because they are in closer contact with the gods);
4. Truth is best found by gathering together with a religious guide rather than by being alone to tap into one’s own intuition, sixth sense, and the ability to tap into the logic and reason and rationality of their pre-fooled days.
5. There are Supreme Beings from other worlds that are directing every aspect of our lives here on earth, down to whether it rains or not;
6. Each god chooses certain people on earth as representatives;
7. The gods can get very angry and when that happens, they will allow you to die or will kill you or will order followers to kill you;
8. Male gods value virginity, so strict controls must be placed on the sexual conduct of followers;
9. God wants people to make sacrifices (including property and even life);
10. The followers are to be under the control and influence of their priest, obeying the guidance he receives from god;
11. The followers must adhere to the priest’s strict orders about sexual conduct, must recognize the value of virginity, and must follow all commands that both men and women abstain from having sex unless permission is granted by the priest;
12. The followers must accept the assertion that one among them can communicate directly with Beings from another world;
13. The followers must accept that killing in the name of a Supreme Being is desirable and that religious leader will identity those whom God wants to die, how they are to die, and when they are to die (à la the followers of the violence-prone, angry God of the Israelites, à la Jim Jones, à la Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lou Nettles, etc.);
14. Followers are to accept responsibility for meeting all of the priest’s earthly needs in order to free him up to work for their benefit as he mediates between those Beings from another world and “his people” - his flock - on earth. (The analogy is appropriate, is it not, since sheep will follow the leader anywhere, even to their own death?);
15. The idea of dying for a religious cause had thus been introduced to humans, and the idea of death as something positive had been given. The importance of the instinctive, natural desire to survive at all costs had been challenged and the merit of self-destructive (insane) behavior had been introduced. Where all prior efforts by humans had been to endure at all costs, the priest had suddenly taught his followers that to die for god is a noble, honorable, and deity-pleasing behavior;
and
16. You can get what you want from god if you are willing to sacrifice, if you have faith that the sacrifice will work, and if you are willing to go even to the length of (a) killing for god or (b) suffering and / or dying for god.
Gee, who wouldn’t fall for all that?
Oh yeah:
The wise.
The realized.
The awakened (some among the so-called “woke” and others that are now awake and aware and conscious).
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
