Civilizational Conspiracies: Religions And Spirituality
Philosophy Podium: Civilizational Conspiracies:
Religions And Spirituality
There is only one way for the individual or a group of individuals to inscribe their name in the history pages of humanity: offer humanity the exceptional. To offer humanity what it considers exceptional is to create in the consciousness of groups and societies a psychological impact that is powerful enough to lead them to reconsider their choices and the reasons that lead to these choices. Events, whether created or perceived, always present themselves to our consciousness accompanied by their heroes, meaning either their creator or simply the one who has opened our eyes to what we have forgotten to take into consideration. The human being knows intuitively that there is a need for the exceptional to change the course of human history. Against the savagery and the barbarism of humanity, the realization of the existence of Gods and the search for good is an enlightenment of our consciousness; but in the situation where good is perceived as a normal way of life, the concept of evil has the same psychological impact. (the exceptional). We rediscover evil with the same excitement we had when we were discovering good. It is so true that when to take is too easy, to bend down is what becomes difficult. This principle simply exposes the corruptible nature of the human being. Excitement is then a determining factor in mass movements and in every turn of our history.
Human beings only remember the exceptional. And the exceptional does not occupy the space between the best and the worst, because the space between the best and the worst is nothing but a passage - a path to be taken towards the goals that do not need to interest us or attract us, as long as our excitement does not fade. Our tendency then to push frontiers and boundaries, whether into evil or good is, in reality, what we know about ourselves. We do not go to war with a goal to destroy the other, because that will make us beings that voluntarily occupy the position of the destructors of the world; but it is the goals beyond the war and the aggression of the neighbor that lead us to perceive those we are combating simply as obstacles that need to be wiped from the path that is supposed to lead us to the ultimate pleasure.
To work, then, towards resolving what we perceive as a problem becomes a situation that is very exciting for the human being because, for the moment, the society or group appears to clearly know what is presented to it as a goal or reason for existence. For the moment, the "problem", in a very ironic way, gives or allows the individual to give themselves a reason to exist. It is not difficult, then, to understand why the modern society succeeded so easily in bringing humanity back to the paths that have been already taken. It is not difficult to understand why humanity is drowning in moral and spiritual barbarism. The same acts that we were committing as individuals, naked and walking barefoot in jungles and plains, now can be repeated while we are wearing silk, satin, or cotton with golden watches on our wrists and machines to take us where we want to go, etc., while we keep a strong opinion that we have evolved!
What we perceive as quality or faults or what we perceive as deserving of our effort is, in reality, only determined by the dimension of existence we are taking into consideration. If the question of knowing why we arrive on this Earth without asking for it and die despite our attachment to life does not lead us to think and research, it becomes difficult for the life we live to have a sense. We are then condemned to diminish and eliminate our ability to think and to only approach existence because we have chosen to believe the diverse superstitions the modern society has created for us.
We must recognize that the human being left on his own is nothing but a savage barbarian and a rebel with no cause; he needs a reason for everything he does, and the more reasons behind his acts are credible to him, the greater his faith and determination become. The society will not survive the behavior of the individual if it does not offer him a reason to live or if it does not work in maintaining that reason in front of his face. This is called the pacification. The search for the Gods and the channels passing through the world of the ancestors and the spirits before reaching the Gods have been since the illumination of the human consciousness and is what we call spiritual activity. Whatever the place we want to arrive, we can only go there from where we are. The human being, before anything, is a human being. We cannot believe, then, that whatever the dimension of human life we are taking into consideration that there is a direct channel between the individual and his God; if that channel existed, the human being will not need his own parents to arrive in this world. To create us, even the Gods, despite their powers and the greatness we allocate to them, needed to pass through our parents. This simple fact sheds light on the importance of the ancestral spirit.
The paths leading toward Gods, despite the fact that they are made of every aspect of existence, impose on the human being an intellectual process and discipline that is rigorous and unmatched. It is a path that, even though wide, becomes thin every time we dare to lift our eyes toward what we consider to be the perfect model. Our evolution toward that perfect model is only possible if we stop searching for evil throughout the world and start within ourselves and if we stop giving the evil within us excuses and reasons to be.
A spiritual life, in reality, is not a matter of belief or emotional delirium, but a matter of intellectual honesty towards all the aspects of our lives. To believe that one is good can be reduced to the definition of our understanding of goodness. Goodness, as defined by the sacred documents, can be understood as the application of the seventy-seven commandments in our lives, but in the year 350 after the closure of the temple of Philae, the Roman army was sent along the Nile Valley to apply the ordinance of the Roman Empire, ordering people to only follow ten commandments. This was even before the creation of the myth of Moses as receiving ten commandments from God!
Until the years before the Islamic invasion of the Kemetic lands (740 AD), the clergy of the Christian religion presented itself, with the Roman army, as the liberators of the Black continent and the world. While the army was looking for ways to legitimize itself by proclaiming that it was liberating Black people from the Pharaohs, the clergy was trying to legitimize itself by proclaiming it was Liberating Black people and the world from the rigidity and the rigor of the spiritual life. Christianity, then, was presented as a religion that came on Earth to free humanity from spiritual obligations.
The attack on the human spiritual life started with the invasion by the Roman army of centers of spiritual education and temples that were dedicated to the diverse deities. While this army was exercising terrible repression on the masses and looting the territories that had been conquered for their Caesar, the missionaries of the clergies were occupying people and burning sacred texts (especially those containing What was then known as the Code of Human Behavior). They were eliminating within the commandments of the Code of Human Behavior the commandments that were not serving the interests of the colonizer. To the masses, it was told that if the spiritual code was difficult to follow, there was a solution: eliminate it! Then, through elimination, the commandments were reduced from seventy-seven to ten.
We must recognize that it is not difficult to convince the individual who is preoccupied with life after death (and convinced that it is through sacrifice and discipline guided by seventy-seven laws that he will obtain a place in the world after death, ruled by the God Wsr) that he will reach the same place without having to follow the spiritual laws.
The solution to this problem of colonialism can only be found through the elimination of the logical approach to spiritual life! It became necessary to turn the human being into a believer because a person who believes does not question. Belief became a favorite territory of religions. The individual who believes is easy prey, and is always submitted to the talent of his interlocutor. He will believe that it is possible to access his favorite God through the channel of his emotions and prayers. He will even believe that his God inhabits his own fantasies, that his God will listen to him every time he raises his voice or simply every time he thinks of him. He will then believe that the fact that his belief that he is good will be enough to convince his God about his goodness... and he will believe it because his pastor/ priest or his Imam has convinced him that the only thing he needs is his belief to access Gods!
This logic comes to confirm the corruptible nature of the human being. The system of colonialism has exploited this tendency. Instead of working toward approaching Gods, we have simply created our illusion of Gods - the Gods that, are in reality, not expecting anything from humans or worse, Gods that are there to serve humans; the Gods we can reach without having to change our ways of life, those we believe we can access just by applying ten commandments which in reality are nothing but social laws. In a very subtle way, the politician, the colonizer of humanity, has succeeded in obtaining from us what he was looking for: the transformation of the human being into the image of the society that he wants to build; this while the individual is led into firmly believing that he is accomplishing a spiritual act. With the religions, the politicians of the new societies have succeeded in taking the human away from the paths that lead to the perfect model distracting him from his march towards Gods.
