CHAPTER 6
OF BECOMING A GREAT SOUL
i. Everything that lives and possesses immanent motion has a soul! Do you want a debate on that? Simple, tell me any invention of man that is self- propelled? The nearest we have come to that, is the novel solar system whereby some prototypes of electrical machines are energised by the power of the sun. This would definitely benefit those living in the tropics and that explains why European scientists are dragging their feet over their mass production!
ii. But what are our so-called professors in engineering waiting for? When shall all those warming academic stools in our glorified universities in the tropics compete with their counterparts? In order not to derail, let’s focus on how one can aspire to and eventually become a great soul worthy of mention after one's lifespan on earth!
iii. What or who is a great soul? To answer that question let us consider some great statements that have changed the course of man's history and identify those who made them; - “The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.” Guess who made that everlasting statement!
iv. “If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognise the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.” I hope you will get this very easily, can you?
v. “I submit that an individual who breaks an unjust law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”
vi. Have you attempted to find the Great Souls that made those watersheds of eternal truths? If not, you need the services of a historian of repute to unravel their identities! Let me give you some more clues.
vii. Add this to the first quotation; --– A diminutive man possessed of an indomitable will, who not only secured national independence for his native land, but also introduced to world politics a concept of active,non-violent civil disobedience an idea whose myriad applications have only begun to be explored. Have you remembered him by now?
viii. Add this to the second quotation; --As an anthropologist, she advocated progressive social action, as is evident in one of her most famous quotes: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”
ix. Add this to the third quotation; -- When he was in jail, he wrote, “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here”, and then addressed this to his fellow clergymen… “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
x. If by now you have not guessed anyone of the three Great Souls correctly, then stop reading this Kenezian Ethics, for it will do you no good! You need to refine your thoughts, enlarge your heart and begin to learn new ideas about humanitarian principles! Study a little more from history books!
xi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma (Great Soul) wrote the first one in 1949, in his book: NON-VIOLENCE IN PEACE AND WAR. He is today regarded as the greatest revolutionary of the century. He has many disciples, to date, including this author!
xii. Margaret Mead, while popularising anthropology through her field studies on the cultures of New Guinea and Samoa, wrote the second quotation in 1935, in her classic: “SEX AND TEMPERAMENT IN THREE PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES.” She argued that culture and society, not biological inheritance, determine individual character. The idea disarmed theorists who asserted that personality and intelligence, like the colour of skin, stemmed from biology, and it discredited arguments that supported race-based policies of segregation.
xiii. Martin Luther King, jnr. wrote the third quotation in a book compiled from the letters he wrote on scraps of paper and smuggled out from prison cell in 1963, entitled: “ LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL.” The letters were mainly addressed to his critics in the clergy who opposed his civil rights marches.
xiv. King credited Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi for the non-violent methods of civil disobedience he used against unjust laws. In subsequent years before his assassination in 1968, King – against much resistance – led the drive toward civil rights legislation while promoting peaceful civil disobedience as a universal method of demanding social and economic justice.
xv. Have you learnt any veritable lessons from those quotes of Great Souls? I deliberately chose from three different cultures and from both sexes, to assert that great minds exist in most men and women of great repute! You too, can become a beacon of light in this present life and a source of inspiration after death!
xvi. A single voice can change the world! Whether the voice describes a new scientific theory, tells the stories of a culture, or speaks for a previously voiceless group of people! It can reach across national borders and across time to influence a wider world and transform the world that follows.
xvii. That voice could be yours. Start today to have universal thoughts that will benefit the whole human race, not yours. Yes, that’s the way all Great Souls began! Influential thinkers perform such feats! You too, can become a Great Soul!!
xviii. The twentieth century is nearing an end. Powerful ideas in physical and medical sciences, arts and humanities, politics and religion have changed our social relationships for better or for worse! Don’t sit on the fence. Choose a role model today and begin to emulate him or her!
xix. Some great minds have altered humanity, increased understanding between individuals and cultures, and helped to define our present world for good or for bad. Nothing ever remains the same always. Change is a natural law that we all must obey at all times!
xx. Do you want to make history? Today is your genesis! Seize the opportunity of this moment. Let this meditation on becoming a Great Soul be the impetus that you have been waiting for! Don’t procrastinate! It is a lazy man’s excuse!
BOTH IN RURAL VILLAGES AND URBAN CITIES, IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT ONE’S BEHAVIOUR CLASSIFIES ONE AS CHILDISH, REGRESSED, ADOLESCENT, ADULT OR ADENESCENT. WHERE DO YOU BELONG IN THIS CATEGORISATIONS? YOU CANNOT BE RESPECTED AS AN ADULT WHEN ACTUALLY YOU ARE STLL A CHILD!
CHAPTER 7
EIGHT AGES OF MAN
i Now we shall consult another expert on the development of the toddler. How does the infant acquire some personality traits? In other words, how did you become the individual you are today with all your peculiar mannerisms? What roles did your parents and relevant others play in the shaping your present personality traits?
ii Erik Homburger Erikson, while practising at the Centre for the Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford, California in March 1963 wrote: “CHILDHOOD AND SOCIETY”, a Pelican Book, that was the result of more than ten years of clinical observations of two American Indian tribes.
iii On the front cover he summarised his work thus: “While tribes and nations, in many intuitive ways, use child training to the end of gaining their particular form of mature human identity, their unique version of integrity, they are and remain, beset by the irrational fears which stem from the very state of childhood which they exploited in their specific ways.”
iv Professor Erikson is a Freudian. Using a number of fascinating case histories as springboards for theoretical discussions of the formative years of childhood, he reveals human life as a delicate balance between bodily, mental and social influences in the masterpiece!
v. You just have to locate that handy book and read it in a hurry, in order to follow my conclusions here! The title of our chapter is lifted from his book and coincidentally it is also a chapter seven! I can only summarise them here, and my précis may not convey all the information you need. So, find it and read it!
vi. The first age of man, Erikson labelled as; “Basic Trust versus Basic Mistrust” which refers to the relaxation the infant feels with parental provision of his basic survival needs. “The first demonstration of social trust in the baby is the ease of his feeding, the depth of his sleep and the relaxation of his bowels. The experience of a mutual regulation of his increasingly receptive capacities, with the maternal techniques of provision gradually helps him to balance the discomfort caused by the immaturity of homeostasis with which he was born”.
vii. In practice, the infant’s first social achievement, then, is his willingness to let the mother out of sight without undue anxiety or rage, because she has become an inner certainty as well as an outer predictability. A maternal bond formed by long and regular breastfeeding ensures this! Such consistency, continuity and sameness of experience provide a rudimentary sense of ego identity. The lesson to learn from that analysis is that parents should take the blame if their children do not trust anyone in later life! Build confidence in your little infants today!!
viii. The next age is labelled: “Autonomy versus Shame & Doubt” which has to do with locomotion. Maturation of the limbs and the ability to move around brings in its wake anxiety! Muscular maturation sets the stage for experimentation with two simultaneous sets of social modalities; these basic conflicts can lead in the end to either hostile or benign expectations or attitudes. These are very important facts which parents neglect either due to ignorance or dereliction of duties towards new-borns that are priceless gifts from Mother Nature!
ix. “Thus, to hold can become as destructive and cruel as retaining or restraining, and it can become a pattern of care: to have and to hold! To let go, too, can turn into an inimical letting loose of destructive forces, or it can become a relaxed “to let pass” and “to let be”. In other words, we need to realise that self-confidence and independence depends on how much autonomy we allow our children in early life. Allow them to be on their own. Don’t over-protect nor pamper your children. When they fall down and start crying, allow them to get up by themselves! I practised it!
x. The age of “Initiative versus Guilt” follows, which Erikson describes as the most important factor in morality development! There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a New Hope and a New Responsibility for all. Such is the sense and the pervading quality of initiative.
xi. The criteria for all these senses and qualities are the same: a crisis, more or less beset with fumbling and fear, is resolved, in that the child suddenly seems to “grow together” both in his person and in his body. He appears “more himself”, more loving, relaxed and brighter in his judgement, more activated and activating.
xii. He is in free possession of a surplus of energy, which permits him to forget failures quickly and to approach what seems desirable (even if it also seems uncertain and even dangerous) with undiminished and more accurate direction. Initiative adds to autonomy the quality of undertaking, planning and “attacking” a task for the sake of being active and on the move, where before self-will, more often than not, inspires acts of defiance or, at any rate, protested independence!
xiii. The point for all adults around growing children to note is that we must permit freedom to infants to makes mistakes, bear the consequences for their indiscretions and thereby learn to obey norms and mores on their own initiative rather than to please anyone! Does this make any sense to you? Moral codes must be rationalised and internalised on their own, not by religious or parental coercion!
xiv. The next age is that of “Industry versus Inferiority”, wherein Erikson next introduces the genesis of laxity, truancy and malingering. The last stage is the foundation of initiative, thus the inner stage seems all set for “entrance into life”, except that life must first be school life, whether school is in a field or a jungle or a classroom! The child must forget past hopes and wishes while his exuberant imagination is tamed and harnessed to the laws of impersonal things – even the three Rs!
xv. With the oncoming latency period, the normally advanced child forgets, or rather sublimates, the necessity to “make” people by direct attack or to become a papa or a mama in a hurry! S/he now learns to win recognition by producing things, becomes ready to apply her/himself to given skills and tasks, which go far beyond the mere playful expression of her/his sexual organ's modes of pleasure in the function of his limbs.
xvi. The growing child or teenager now develops a sense of industry – i.e., s/he adjusts her/himself to the inorganic laws of the tool world. S/he can become an eager and absorbed unit of a productive situation, and to bring it to completion is an aim/objective, which gradually supersedes the whims and wishes of play! A successful adjustment results in a well-balanced adult! So, guide your kids to achieve independence and industry in later life and you would have scored a 100% as good and dutiful parent!
xvii. The fifth age, Erikson called “Identity versus Role Confusion” which simply states what is happening as the teenager evolves into an adolescent. With the establishment of a good initial relationship to the world of skills and tools, and with the advent of puberty, childhood proper ends. Youth begins!
xviii. With the maturation of their gonads; menarche in females and wet dreams in males, they are now primarily concerned with what they appear to be in the eyes of others as compared with what they feel they are, and also with the question of how to connect the roles and skills cultivated earlier with the occupational prototypes of the day!
xix. The integration now taking place in the form of ego identity is, as pointed out earlier, more than the sum of the childhood identifications. It is the accrued experience of the ego's ability to integrate all identifications within the vicissitudes of the libido, with the aptitudes developed out of endowment and with the opportunities offered in social roles!
xx. The danger of this stage is ROLE CONFUSION! Where this is based on a strong previous doubt as to one's sexual identity, delinquency and/or outright psychotic episodes are common! But when properly resolved and to keep themselves together, they temporarily over identify, to the point of apparent complete loss of identity, with heroes of cliques and crowds!
xxi. This initiates the stage of “falling in love”, which is by no means entirely, or even primarily, a sexual matter – except where the mores demand it. To a considerable extent, adolescent love is an attempt to arrive at a definition of one's identity by projecting one's diffused ego-image on another and by seeing it thus reflected and gradually clarified. This is why; so much of young love is conversation and an over-dose of chattering spiced with giggles!
xxii. “Intimacy versus Isolation” is the next age of man, according to Professor Erik Erikson! The young adult, emerging from the search for and the insistence on identity, is eager and willing to fuse his identity with that of others. S/he is ready for intimacy, that is, the capacity to commit her/himself to concrete affiliations and partnerships and to develop the ethical strength to abide by such commitments, even though they may call for significant sacrifices and compromises.
xxiii. The physical body and the egomust now become masters of the organ modes (instinctual energies) and of the nuclear conflicts(sexual urges), in order to be able to face the fear of ego loss (inferiority complex) in situations which call for self-abandon (self denial): in the solidarity of close affiliations, in orgasms and sexual unions, in close friendship and in physical combat, in experiences of inspiration by teachers and of intuition from the recesses of the self!
xxiv. The avoidance of such experiences because of fear of ego-loss may lead to a deep sense of isolation, withdrawn personality traits and consequent self-absorption. These predisposing factors lead to masturbation, homosexuality and lesbianism! Be observant and rescue your little ones from these abnormalities early in life! Show them true love.Display genuine heterosexual relationships whenever you and your spouse are in front of them!
xxv. The seventh age of man then, is “Generativity versus Stagnation”, a term that encompasses the evolutionary development that has made man the teaching and instituting as well as the learning animal. Generativity, then, is primarily the concern in establishing and guiding the next generation of human beings, although there are individuals who, through misfortune or because of special and genuine gifts in other directions, do not apply this drive to their own offspring.
xxvi. Generativity thus is an essential on the psychosexual as well as on the psychosocial schedule. Where such enrichment fails altogether, regression to an obsessive need for pseudo-intimacy takes place, often with a pervading sense of stagnation and personal impoverishment. This is the predisposing factor for the variety of abnormal sexual behaviour mentioned earlier! In fact, some young parents suffer from the retardation of the ability to develop this stage!
xxvii. And finally, we arrive at the last age of man; “Ego integrity versusDespair”, which the learned professor describes thus; “Only in him who in some way has taken care of things and people and has adapted her/himself to the triumphs and disappointments adherent to being, the originator of others or the generator of products and ideas – only in him/her may gradually ripen the fruits of these seven stages”.
xxviii. “It is the ego's accrued assurance of its proclivity for order and meaning. It is a post-narcissistic love of the human ego – not of the self – as an experience which conveys some world order and spiritual sense, no matter how dearly paid for! It is the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions: it thus means a new, a different love of one's parents” affirms Erikson!
xxix. “The lack or loss of this accrued ego integration is signified by fear of death: the one and only life cycle is not accepted as the ultimate of life. Despair expresses the feeling that the time is now short, too short for the attempt to start another life and to try out alternative roads to integrity! Disgust hides despair, if often only in form of a thousand little disgusts which do not add up to one big remorse”, concludes our learned professor!”
xxx. My dear reader, with the wisdom gained here, you can now assert that it is not religion that makes one feel guilty, develop into a sex pervert and/or become a recluse! Modern man has to learn to de-emphasise scruples induced by religious injunctions and accept his responsibility for personal failures in life! If that is the only lesson you have learnt from this chapter, you are a wise person!! Go ahead and implement that principle in all your dealings in life!
CHAPTER 8:
MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN
i Another recent research scientist that studied childhood in detail is Lawrence Kohlberghas, an American psychologist, who stated that as we grew up each one of us passed six developmental stages of morality! He carefully monitored and documented how infants develop the sense of right and wrong. He is a current scientist, and we can learn a lot from his research!
ii Stage one, he labelled; PRE-MORAL , here moral development is essentially at the pre-moral level. Children at this stage behave properly simply to avoid punishment. They show an unquestioning deference to power /authority, moreover, the physical consequences of any action determine its goodness or badness for the child.
iii. Stage two, is INSTRUMENTAL-HEDONISTIC, morality here is like a marketable commodity for the teenager. What is considered right is primarily what is good for the child himself; occasionally, the satisfaction of other’s needs is a factor, but the outlook of these persons is essentially an instrumental-hedonistic one; e.g. ‘You scratch my back, I scratch yours.’
iv. Stage three, is PEER GROUP APPROVAL; morality is what is approved by others. Peer group satisfaction gradually replaces parent’s approval. At this level the child is able to take the role of others; he can understand what will please them and tries to gain recognition as “the good child”.
v. Stage four; The LAW–AND–ORDER stage. Here, children’s respect for authority, whether parents, teachers, policemen, priests or pastor originates in anticipation of honour and avoidance of dishonour. The orientation is to do one’s duty, obey fixed rules and maintain the social order.
vi. Stage five; AUTONOMY, principally behaviour is based on what is right or wrong, decisions are made on what is proper or improper on the basis of contracts, social or personal at the stage. Adolescents are able to take into account the viewpoint of society in general or play the roles of adults.
vii. Stage six; is the UNIVERSAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLE orientation. According to Kohlberg, only Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King jnr. have displayed in their lives; respect for the rights and dignity of their fellow human beings and had been concerned that this mutual respect becomes a universal law!
viii. From the information garnered from Lawrence Kohlberghas, most of us humans are still struggling to graduate from the third stage of moral development and this accounts for so many puerile and purposeless leaders all over the globe!
ix. The second stage of moral development fits what we observe in Third World countries, whereas, only a few of the so-called Fist and Second world country are fixated at the third stage.
x. In INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT. (I.S.M.), the target of each member is to reach the sixth stage within ten years of joining the fellowship. Any one who lags behind will be asked to resign his/her membership! It is a sure proof that such a one is neither rational nor scientific and we detest such regressive behaviour!
xi. If as scientists or rationalists we are agreed that only AN UNMOVED MOVER or AN UNCAUSED CAUSER was responsible for existence, the universe and life; then we are brothers and sisters with equal rights, privileges and responsibilities to one another.
xii. Some philosophers prefer the term ‘The Summum Bonuum’ but we are not restricting our discussion to languages that are cumbersome for some to master. ‘The Supreme Good’ is neither an idiomatic translation nor an adequate literal translation! More over both are subject to myopic misrepresentations as what is ‘good’ to one person or culture may be ‘bad’ to another, for example, polygamy whether polyandry or polygyny!
xiii. At this point it might be fundamental to summarise what Gestalt Therapy has to offer! The mainstay or the notion here is that people are born wonderful, happy creatures and would remain that way if allowed to grow up naturally.
xiv. It is the society one grows up in which begins to influence us as children, that sometimes pushes us onto the wrong track. Our problems occur when we absorb other people’s value-judgements, like our parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, teachers, religious or political leaders.
xv. When these value-judgements are in sharp contrast to our own real feelings, life-long conflicts arise. We often experience these conflicts as self-disapproval for own genuine feelings and rather impose the opinions of our culture or religion!
xvi. That alone spells the beginning of the end. So in I.S.M. it is your duty to identify these impositions and ratify them based on the divine natural laws the Almighty Creator put in the universe. This is the basic theory and practice of Kenezianism
xvii. Finding them is easy. Look inwards and find the natural laws written boldly in your heart. The little voice that speaks to you anytime you are about to violate the natural laws are international and non-partisan. What your parents and culture tried to do was only to stifle it and imprint what they thought would be good for you!
xviii. You are the final arbiter in what you think, decide and implement! No one can imprison your mind, thoughts and words. Yes, no one can bend your will–power if you are resolute. Are you going to be the driver in the seat of your vehicle (your material body) or are you going to be a passenger? This and only this is the golden price ISM demands of you, and thereafter you can gain eternal freedom! The accurate use of this knowledge will set you free for ever!
xix In Kenezianism, only One True God exists, namely; GOD,THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR! He initiated, initiates and will forever initiate all thoughts, words and actions that are global, eternal and metaphysical in all beings, animate as well as inanimate. He is the Only One that deserves our unalloyed worship, praise, honour and adoration!
xxi. Every other being that ever existed, exists or will ever exist, does so at His pleasure and comes under His Natural and Eternal Laws that govern all macrocosms and microcosms He created! Hence every other great religious leader, dead or alive, those acclaimed as divine prophets, gurus, saviours or mystics are all classified as ‘lords’.
xxii. Therefore Shankara & Ramanuja, K’ung Ch’iu (Confucius), Siddhartha Guatama (Buddha), Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, Jesus the Christ, Peter and/or Paul the apostles, Mohammed the Prophet, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Sa’i Baba and/or any other prominent moralist must be referred to only as ‘Lords’!
xxiii. None of them or anyone else that may come hereafter is near to or co-equal with Our Almighty Father, who created and sustains everything in existence! This knowledge and its eternal acceptance as the stepping stone to all educational programmes are the first steps for the beginning of wisdom for scientists of all generations, as well as for all shades of religious affiliations!
xxiv. Our great grandfathers knew that much! So why did some fanatics deify their heroes and idolised what was created and finite at any stage of its material/physical existence in this universe? Ignorance is the one and only correct answer!
xxv. None of these famous religious leaders was there at the dawn of creations. There was no one else with the Supreme Being and so all the doctrines and dogmas of any one else being involved in creativity when the world began is false and demonic! Reject the lie. Read the books credited to Job, Solomon, Isaiah, Sirach, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. None of these authors suggested anything like that! No, not even the great Patriarch Moses who founded Judaism was ever credited with dualising the Godhead, not to mention Christians tripling it!
xxvi. Even the great apostle of the gentiles, Saul of Tarsus, later called Paul after his miraculous conversion, emphatically states that the Almighty God is One and has no equal or deputy! Read more of this in his first letter to his loyal converts at Corinthians, Chapter 8 verses 1-6. Moses did a better job in the whole of his book named EXODUS!
xxvii. So let us all stop this buffoonery of attributing equality in personhood to anything else! It is not only idolatrous but sacrilegious and irrational! It breeds fanaticism, segregation, partisanship and finally syncretism. It is the harbinger of all-religious differences, schisms, feuds and wars!
xxviii. The world of science, medicine and electronics have demonstrated that all human beings can believe, learn and accept certain universal ways of doing things! This is because these areas of knowledge are impartial, objective and devoid of sentimental attachment or any form of socio-political patronage. We hold international conferences on most departments of academics and arrive at world-wide principles and standards, so why not in religion?
xxix. The answer is simple; Religion is constructed on the shifting sands of emotions, politics and hero-worships. These are inimical to modern man. And the sooner we recognised it and addressed it, the better for our generation! Computers, cellular phones and the Internet are amicably used by every semi-illiterate despite the plethora of religious, racial, political and/or cultural affiliations. That is all that I.S.M. stands for. Join us today, and provide the human race with a scientifically oriented spiritual fellowship where all are brothers and sisters. Thank you and God bless everyone!
*** Christian fanatics should read Matt.19: 16 -30 or Mk.10: 17 -31 or
Preferably the doctoral synthesis that the Secretary /Physician wrote in Lk.18: 18 -30,
And thereafter recognise that it was Saul of Tarsus that deified Jesus at Philippians 2: 6 –11;
Realising that Is.45: 23 given as a foot reference does not confirm nor corroborate that deification!
It was a Pauline error, which has diverted the true worship of the only Creator - Almighty God!
So also did the Doctrine of Holy Trinity, which was copied, from Hindu religion and from Greco-Roman mythology!
CHAPTER 9:
CONTROVERSY CAUSED BY RELIGIONS
i My dear reader, can I now call you a disciple? It will help me avoid the error of many religionists who unwittingly masculinise all their injunctions with “he, his, and himself” as if only males are moralistic! In today’s world, women are more religiously minded than men, yet many preachers and evangelists still deliver their sermons as if the womenfolk were not around!
ii. My dear disciple, have you ever noticed the competition among various churches and ministries around where you live? Would there be so much strife, slandering, castigation and/or outright condemnation of each other if leaders of these groups really understood the existential meaning of religion?
iii. The true meaning of the term “religion” is “to bind oneself to doing something willy-nilly”. Whether it is the belief in or the worship of gods or a God, as the dictionaries would have us believe, the word originally came from the Latin root “religere” which literally translates to “to bind”, as if tied with a rope. Its origin was derogatory. It was meant to castigate the early Christians whom Nero ‘the mad emperor’ tied to stakes and made sport of, by allowing lions to tear their bodies apart while the victims screamed in pains!
iv. Read historical writings about how the early Christians were martyred and you will even realise that today we have very little faith. Where is the LOVE that these early Christians demonstrated? Where is ‘the sharing all their belongings among themselves’ that Chapter 4 verses 32 –37 of the Acts of the Apostles credited them with? When shall the present crowd of hypnotised fanatics realize that they are being taken for a ride by ‘a brood of vipers’ or demonic preachers, ‘whose only god is their belly’ as Jesus, the Christ referred to them in the Christian bible? Hypocrisy has been elevated to such a lucrative business that yields millions for these half-baked preachers, charlatans and school dropouts!
v. We have lost true love and religious piety that to greed, selfishness, avarice, pride and the monetisation or commercialisation of religious worship, crusades and other clandestine activities, all in the name of religion! While these pastors smile to the banks, their followers wallow in penury, starvation and ignorance! Did Christ or any other religious leader in history ever preach competition, hatred, calumny, gossiping, slandering and a myriad of other divisive behaviour that characterise today’s mode of pecuniary evangelisation antics?
vi. So, my dear disciple, can you now see the plan of the Evil One that was predicted in the Bible, the Anti-Christ and his devilish strategy? Don’t ever be caught up in their materialistic religious deceptions! Free yourself today. Rationalise what you hear, choose the one that satisfies international ethics, as all altruistic moralists would enjoin us. This is the scientific age, not the early or prehistoric ages when everything was based on introspective vituperations or theological speculations of self-proclaimed visionaries. Logical arguments and satisfactory conclusions should be your guidelines in religious activities, not emotions!
vii. If you have not acquired any logical skills, then now is the best time to learn the basics of scientific reasoning. It is the solution to so many differences of opinions in life. I encourage you to be rational in your thinking, discussions and actions from now on. You will be surprised by the amount of freedom you will feel. Take time to evaluate all you have accepted from childhood as truths without having had neither the chance nor the capability to reason them out by then! Free yourself from self-imprisonment! Throw away those dogmatic and doctrinal shackles that have held you hostage for so many years.
viii. Witness these practical samples of Kenezian wisdom: everyone uses telephone, whether cellular or non- cellular, these days without quarrelling over who invented it; no arguments arise from the use of computers or the internet; and so does transportation either by land, sea or air! None of these has ever brought any strife neither between any religious groups nor between nationalities of various nomenclatures. Why does religion generate so much strife and disagreements? The answer is very simple! It operates on the level of irrational emotions; what appeals to one group of worshippers do not appeal to others, because they are primarily based on personal opinions of their leaders. Moreover the human mind is so egocentric, impressionistic and parochial! It dichotomises what naturally does not need any divisions, segregations or compartmentalisations.
ix. Check this one out. Will two medical doctors quarrel over the treatment of headaches or bruises or fractures? No, is the natural answer. But often we do not realize why! That is exactly where Kenezianism comes in as a science of morals that cuts across national, political and religious boundaries. It reduces every concept about the supernatural to logic, facts, data and practical knowledge that are independent of its originator’s personal opinions. The concepts in Kenezianism are natural phenomena that are replicable in any part of the world, irrespective of the literacy level of its practitioner!
x. An example will demonstrate its universality. In Kenezianism, all human beings are accepted as brothers and sisters for the mere scientific fact that we have similar blood groupings, identical anatomy, comparable physiology and heterosexual behavioural patterns! The proofs are there for everyone to see and accept rationally, not emotionally nor parochially! We intermarry; blacks, whites, and yellows interchangeably; and produce children not apes. And these off springs of ours are neither ethnocentric at birth nor apartheid in social relationships until their parents introduce them to stereotypic child-rearing practices and segregationist education! This Gestalt Therapy deals with. The avid reader can explore it!
xi. The principle of Kenezianism abhors such, and will not be dragged into such mundane socio-political balderdash or any religious buffoonery! Its mission statement spells that out in the KENEZIAN CREED and the LETTER TO ALL EDUCATIONISTS. Read them over and over. Rationalise their universal utility for a more equitable and egalitarian world government! If you cannot accept nor internalise the concept therein, drop this book here and now and never border to read any other publications of the Kenezians! It is very essential that we abrogate ethnic, racial, status and religio-cultural divisions in our world of today that has become a global village. The way we fight pandemics and terrorism should serve us well in socio-political dimensions also! We must genuinely be our brothers’ keepers!
xii. The literacy level of many adherents of various religious groups is very low. Add to this, the reluctance of human beings to adjust quickly to changes, and then you will better appreciate why many wallow in ignorance. Many do not like to explore unknown areas of knowledge in their short life spans. Most accept the religion they were born into, swallow all their parental injunctions and cap them all with the dogmas/doctrines manufactured by their myopic leaders. Thus we have religious wars, crusades and jihads today, that culminate in terrorism of varying magnitudes; the highest of which was the now notorious “September 11th of U.S.A.”
xiii. When shall we ever learn? Did Confucius, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus or Mohammed ever preach syncretism? The answer is an affirmative NO! Only Moses did, due to his depersonalisation syndromes emanating from years of the enslavement of his kith and kin in Egypt and his personal refugee status in Midian before he was recalled to lead them out. He was the one that inadvertently introduced segregationist concepts encapsulated in the Mosaic laws of ‘clean and unclean’ religious injunctions that culminated in ‘the Jew and the Gentile’ and other racist policies Jesus failed to address succinctly before he was sacrificed.
xiv. As far as we are concerned in Kenezianism, that was a costly price for every religious leader who fails to resolve ethnic issues in his sermons. Did he reconcile the descendants of Esau, Ishmael and Jacob? No! Did he identify with the Samaritans, Greek or other ‘Gentile’ citizens of his epoch? No! Did he integrate the Roman Rulers of his time with his ethnic group? No! There were many other leaders, religious and/or political, in history that paid for the same negligence. The concept that he died for everyone is not only obsolete but also idiosyncratic and outrageously fanatical, for up till now, present Jews and previous ones never acknowledged that idea. To-date, the Jewish race is still expecting a Saviour! It was Saul of Tarsus who marketed the idea, as he was making reparations for murdering Stephen and many early followers that he had dispatched to impromptu graves!
xv. The truth will always surface no matter for how long it is buried. Let us learn to apportion blame wherever and whenever they are due. Hero worship never pays lasting dividends. Idolising a great leader detracts from total loyalty and the true worship we owe to the Almighty Father, the Indisputable Creator of the universe and all of us; human beings, plants, animals, animate microcosms and other inanimate macrocosms. It is time to proclaim the true Unitarian Godhead! Trinitarians are idolaters who copied from the ancient symbols of the religions of the Far East and those of Egyptian mythology!
xvi. Pragmatism, Rationalism and Existentialism (P.R.E) remain the tripod on which Kenezianism rests! Subject every novel idea you learn, to the acid test of satisfying those ‘Three Kings’ and if it passes, then internalise and practise it in your daily life. If not, vomit it, for it is a counterfeit and therefore it is anti-thetical to the present scientific age of man; ‘the Homo sapiens’! You are hereby appointed a judge of all our write-ups that do not meet those criteria, namely PRE. In addition, every injunction of Kenezianism must be people oriented, meaning that it must be truly humanitarian in all ramifications; thus giving us the formula; k= (ica / pre) hapo, where ‘k’ is same as Kenezianism, ‘ica’ equates to; ideas, communication & actions, ‘pre’ represents the three kings just mentioned above, whereas ‘hapo’ stands for; humanitarian and people oriented! Ask a mathematician to explain the rest to you, while we proceed to other pressing fundamentals.
xvii. Whereas other spiritual organisations emphasise ‘beliefs-systems’ and ‘dogmas/doctrines’ Kenezianism emphatically encourages you to know, experiment and prove beyond every reasonable doubt, every construct we propose to you for a lucid evaluation that can formulate the building blocks for an all-embracive world government. We do not believe that God exists; rather we know that HE/SHE/IT exists irrespective of our acceptance or otherwise of the great truth! God is the ONE and ONLY GODHEAD that is and has no need for a Trinitarian explanation. We prefer to refer to this godhead as ‘The Almighty Creator’ at all times and use the pronoun ‘IT’ as there is no proof that IT is either male or female!! And as the Prime Mover of all else that moves, it can manifest as sound, light, energy and even as a physical entity!
xviii. The ambition of all Kenezians is to internationalise ‘obedience to all natural and eternal laws as the bedrock of a world spiritual fellowship of realists and/or scientists not a congregation of theologians; neither fanatics nor religious mystics. There are many international religions already existing in the scientific community, like the FIFA, OLYMPIC COMMITTEE, the WCC, the ICRC or even the latest and most popular religion as at now; THE INTERNET (Google or http/www.org) to mention but a few. All we do need at this point in the history of mankind are dedicated adherents from all walks of life who are ready to achieve lasting world peace through the practice of these principles of Kenezianism. We already have hydra-headed esoteric/mystical sects and a variety of mundane/fanatical fraternities or denominations that we can ill-afford to increase the number. Rather, we crave to stand in the gaps to bridge the sentimental divides and knock down the perennial walls of differences in doctrinal conflicts.
xix. We know that it is possible to get all intelligent people to agree to and share an international concept provided it appeals to reason and arrests the interest of literate citizens of the global community who feel concerned. Our Integrational Spiritual Fellowship, hereafter referred to as ISF, is based on scientific principles that obey all natural laws in creation. You, too, can contribute your altruistic quota to the consolidation of this brand of interdisciplinary, inter-racial and inter-devotional organisation. Any bright formulation is welcome provided it meets the basic requirements stated above as summarised by our scientific formula.
xx. You may refer to us as the UNAID, UNICEF, UNO or WHO of all known, registered and yet to be registered religions. We are, in a real sense, the meeting/melting point of all belief-systems. All the “isms” end in ISM Integrational Spiritan Movement a.k.a Kenezianism. Every rationalist is welcome! If you appreciate what we stand for, communicate with us today. Use our e-mail: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk now! Don’t postpone or procrastinate. That has always been the bane of ‘never-do-wells’ or ‘lay-abouts’! I hope you are not one!
Historians inform us that Christopher Columbus actually set out to discover another route to India when he stumbled at the Americas and thus opened up humanity to a large continent partitioned into northern and southern halves but connected by a strip of islands. Today, the Panama Canal has made it possible to access the Eastern Regions of the World while travelling continuously to the west! Inventors, Discoverers and occasionally, religious leaders emerge from obscure communities of despised nations to beam supernatural light and divine wisdom of the Creator!
No comments:
Post a Comment