Principles of a new religion
by David R. Griffiths
It is the duty of a being when they reach a high level to start a new religion, and while I have quite a few thoughts about what passes for religion, I don't seek to stop other religions, I'm not like that please, that's what I am against.
Laugh if you will, it will probably go through a few revisions. I have wanted to do this for some time and today sorted a few thoughts and I am fairly happy with the results.
I don't seek to be worshipped, I'm not sure too many others really did either yet their followers through perversity, (read Nietzsche on this), always seem to want to blame somebody else for existence.
I am for life rising up, the spirit being liberated, the bum becoming a God, not in name but in essence.
I am a Scientologist, maybe not the best, I am a gnostic, a mystic all my life. I don't choose wordly success, I can be the guy at the edge of the stage unnoticed, playing the game but not believing in it too much, seeing through the illusion. I am not a cynic. Alternatively I can be the guy leading the charge. If I worship anything it is the good I see in others.
Religion frequently ends up turned on it's head. If Buddha came back to see the idols erected to him he would most likely laugh, or cry. I have put together a few principles for mortals, and for Gods.
Rules for mortals
The problem of death is the entrance to religion. It occurred to me while thinking about the murder of a man, while he slept in his car at the side of the road: “What does this all mean?” I've been thinking for some time about starting my own religion, of course I don't need any members but to focus and express the ideas.
Life is a mosaic One life is part of a cosmic mosaic. Be (or see) the mosaic. To understand the rules of the game is to be free of it's traps. Life seems to appear in a non linear fashion. Truth exist in the moment, a moment is infinity. Comingness is also goingness, existence coexists with its contradiction. But form is not essence. Be faith. When the cosmic kaliedescope changes – roll with the punches and come out stronger.
There are many Gods. This dissertation could be titled “Rules for Gods, Rules for Mortals” Mohammed tried this, with his discussion of Jihn, but while I have taken an interest in Sufi thought, the failing is the over emphasis on the one whose name they invoke.
Religion should not belittle. We can be a part of a whole, in the way we are part of a football club, one can take a more active role, eg leader or player, or more passive, supporter. The spirit runs through the whole, but we exist on many levels, we can subscribe to many groups and also our own identity. There are too many rules in some religions, people seek rules so that they do not have to be responsible for moral choices. What is moral choice, it is the willingness to be as a representation of an idea in life, to be a rock in the stream. One also has to be able to be the stream. A lower grade expression of this idea is “do one to others as you would like done to you”. The problem with rules is that they spiral down and become their opposites. Therefore I don't presume to give rules.
Nietsche said “God is dead”. I would say he is a criminal in so far as “There shall be no other God but me”. However He did not say that, it was a lunatic named Josiah (ref 2 Kings Chapter 23). Up until the supposed discovery of a hidden book in the Temple Israel had been multicultural. Whether he wrote it, or just compiled sources with a little added spin, Josiah set about murdering priests of other religions. This was the beginning of fascism in the three religions that came from the Book. But neither should this truth invalidate moments of fineness in that stream.
There is a concept called “Godhead”, when the spirit runs through you. Whose spirit? Not someone else, not either just you.
I am proud of my own achievments, I could always do more an better. I equally pour praise on admirable things I observe in others. What are these? Qualities, different aspects of Truth.
Truth comes after action. As L. Ron Hubbard pointed out in Scientology religious philosophy, the physical universe tends to stop an individual, or he agrees with it and becomes it, with a scale from free infinity down to stopped solid. (It is thanks to his work I stepped out of the morass where I can of course express my own ideas while still having the greatest respect for his, see several points above.) Many or most religious people have stopped activity to seek truth, this more often results in further agreement with the physical universe and obsession with bodies.
Keep bodies to a minimum, that is use them to the hilt with discipline and a certain spartan attitude which must be reversed from time to time with the pursuit of pleasure. The simple aim is not be encumbered but as reversals apply when you shrink from the whole, this is how truth spirals down to its opposite.
Seek order. It is better to be orderly than chaotic, so while I may eschew all rules, usually I don't because of the effects on others.
Be willing to act, “Vengence is mine saith the lord”, rubbish, that is how evil gets away with it when good men do not act fast enough or with enough resolve, they are 'so good', the whole group can sink as has been the miserable history of earth as complete lunatics who are not so restrained because they are compulsive, move in and take over. They often destroy a whole culture, but of course they go down too and somehow someone starts up anew, a spark of ultimate truth. We have to act, but not to focus on the enemy such as not to see our own faults. It is better therefore to focus on truth than error.
Rules for Gods
These are a set of connected ideas, if one seems hard to understand, read the next as it it most likely refer back
Establish the zone.
Pretty much what Gods do really.
Play “music”.
There are many universes, spirit appears in different places, not at the same time, as time only applies to one place. Just as an author is to a novel, Gods are to existence. Let there be more! Gods are a capricious lot and don't take to being given advice. Existence is the music of the gods. Perhaps when that music reaches its crescendo all time and space will be reshaped. My message: being, survival, not death is how to bring on "the last judgement".
Use the efforts of evil to destroy it.
(Kung Fu in a mortal sense is holy writ, yet in practice it has ended spiraling down to effort. It applies equally to politics as to fighting and war. One should be willing to fight, controlling the wider scene, and so in most cases not have to, by diverting things before they occur.) In essence there is only truth or being.
Find the spark of truth in evil and be truth.
That bum that has about the life of an ant was once a god who through the traps of the present order, and of course his own action, seems nought.
It is time to reshape the game.
Most of existence in this universe has been to make things solid and persistent, but it lacked an "un do" key.
