It is about time that man should know
there is no such thing as secret knowledge. There are instead secret interests
that are not confessable, and on account of them truth has been harshly
distorted.
It is regrettable that, in a age of
high technological advancement, the deistic, godlike worshipping concept is
still deep-rooted in many spirits.
The Spirit is Force, Intelligence,
Power, with capital letters. All without exception, are subject to the same
principles, to the same rules, to the same evolutionary process. There are no
privileged spirits, such as the would-be gods and their imaginary sons.
The principles of evolution are tied-in
to the rule of natural and immutable laws which are absolutely equal to
all. All invariably follow the same
course and travel the same cycle, and in this there is a high and laudable
principle of justice.
Those who still pay homage to an
abstract god will realise (after as many incarnations as are needed to reach
the necessary enlightenment) that such cult is a foolish one. It is just as ridiculous
as the idea, also entertained by civilised men of the past, of worshipping gods
represented by the natural elements or by animals of inferior species.
To most people god is an entity that
promotes punishment, distributes mercies, and convicts or acquits either on an
eternal or temporary basis.
Great spirits, driven by ideals of
reform, have descended to Earth with enormous sacrifice to themselves, trying
to debrutalize the human mind engrossed by hedonistic feelings and excited by
sheer material pleasure.
Such stout spirits like Jesus, Buddha,
Confucius and Mohammed, however, besides not being understood, ended up deified
by the illiterate masses.
Once the idea of divinization took
hold, the respective religions were created, each preaching a different form of
speculative worship, and the followers of each flocked together.
In a world like this where souls of
various classes mix, and where most people live more for the sake of matter
than for the sake of spiritual values, it was not difficult to gather together
countless legions of worshippers under the flag of each religion.
In Brazil, as in many other countries,
Jesus is worshipped. Nevertheless, there is no difference at all between his
worshippers and those who turn to Buddha, Confucius or Mohammed.
Behind a facade, they all hide a
servile, flattering attitude with which they hope to receive larger rewards in
the present or future, or forgiveness for their sins.
Such attitudes are a destructive
practice which weakens one's character.
If flattery and subservience are
repulsive to enlightened incarnate spirits, it is easy to realise what effect
these would have on highly advanced desincarnate spirits if such feelings could
reach them.
The faithful may worship a piece of
wood carved with human features because their free will gives them the right to
satisfy their irrational urge to worship.
No worshipper is able to dissociate the
ideas of worshipping and begging. The reason is obvious: worshipping and
begging are two identical crutches for a single mental disability.
It should also be noted that this god,
to whom the requests are made, seems so ill-advised and lives so aloof, apart,
and indifferent to human problems, that his attention to such problems is
awakened only by the appeals he hears.
He will not be moved to pity unless
people ask him to be pitiful. He will not be merciful unless people beg him to
be merciful. If people want peace they have to ask him for peace. He will not
be fair unless people ask him for justice.
Secret knowledge
by Luiz de Mattos