WHO
KNOWS?
“Who knows what evil lurks in the
hearts of men? – The Shadow knows!” These words were the dramatic opening lines
of an American radio show about a super detective that reached its peak of
popularity when it was narrated by Orson Welles, about the same time I first
heard the crackling static of a radio set that I built myself with a Quaker oatmeal
box, copper wire, and a quartz crystal in the little town of Pilot Knob in Arcadia
Valley, Missouri. That was many years ago, but now is a good time to ask that
question again, because evil certainly does lurk in the hearts of men, and women,
or whatever some of the poor, deluded citizens of our world today imagine
themselves to be, in these days of deliberately induced confusion.
Words have meaning, but their meanings
are imparted by the intent of those who are speaking. In these days when clever
politicians can be bought for a few million dollars, and our elections are decided
by carefully worded lies, who can know what the truth is? and who can know what
evil lurks in the hearts of those who lie? The answer was given by a certain
Jewish man named Jesus, who spoke at about the same time the evil of the Roman
Empire reached its peak in the depths of the Dark Ages on this planet. Using analogies
that existed in nature so anyone could understand, Jesus said, “Beware of false
prophets. Just like thorn bushes do not bear grapes and briars do not bear
figs, evil people do not produce anything that is good. You will know them by
their fruits!” In other words, don’t be misled by the words that politicians
and thieves use, but instead, understand who they really are by looking at the
fruits of their actions.
If you are offended by my promotion
of the words of a man whose memory became the icon of a huge religious
organization, then you are a part of the problem at the heart of the sickness
that infects our civilization today, not part of the solution. Remember that Jesus
was not a Christian, just as Krishna was not a Hindu, Buddha was not a Buddhist,
and Mohammed was not a Muslim. Jesus was not a Jew either, not according to the
Sadducees and Pharisees of Orthodox Judaism at the time. He was a Spiritual Master,
not a religious or political man. Religious organizations are not necessarily spiritual,
they are just as religious and political as the individuals who run them. They reflect
and magnify the evil, more often than the good, that lurks in the hearts of men.
We can know what people and organizations are by their fruits, not by what they
call themselves, or they promise!
A liar will promise whatever he
believes will persuade you to contribute to his cause. But because he is a
liar, the outcome of his cause, and consequently of your contribution, will not
be good. So, be careful to avoid contributing to causes that have produced evil
results in the past, or even to causes that might produce evil results, because
by doing so, you risk becoming either deliberately, or unknowingly, complicit
in the perpetuation of evil. The world, and indeed, even the universe and the
cosmos are governed by inherently natural laws of mathematical logic and
precision, and unfortunately, ignorance of those laws does make you immune to
their effects.
Because we live in a physical world
whose continued existence literally depends upon the stability of balanced
dualities, from the quantum level to the cosmological scale, the minds of conscious
beings in human form, including yours and mine, contain elements of both good
and evil. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, “Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof.” Unfortunately, human religious and political organizations tend
to magnify the extremes. So, in order to distinguish truth from falsehood, we need
remember the historical past. As philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot
remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” And the past is replete with serious
religious and political mistakes that violated natural law, resulting in untold
misery and pain, death and destruction. Things better to be avoided.
If we are to avoid repeating the actions
that led to horrible results in the past, it is very important that we remember
our past history as it actually happened, not as we wish or imagine it may have
happened. When we take an objective look at the fruits of their actions in the
past, there is very little difference between religious and political
organizations. They are both social organizations, and social organizations,
based on religious and political ideas, have produced both good and bad results.
In fact, human social organizations, regardless of what they are called, are formed
and motivated by a mixture of religious and political ideas. Thus, like human
consciousness itself, they contain both good and evil. But one thing is obvious:
When social organizations are based on materialism, the pain, suffering, death,
and destruction they inflict, are likely to be more horrific. This is because materialists
are either ignorant of, or willfully reject the existence of the underlying
spiritual nature of reality, and believe that ultimately, they will suffer no negative
consequences for evil actions they may secretly commit against others. They
believe that when the electro-chemical sparks that animate their physical brains
flicker out, they will simply cease to exist. This is the most dangerous
delusion of human existence because it involves rejection of the logical
cause-and-result nature of reality, and the immortality of souls.
On Christmas Day we celebrate the
birth of that Jewish man named Jesus, and we must marvel at the evil of the humanity
that sought to kill one whose only desire was to save them from their own inherent
evil. As I see it, the humanity that did that still exists today, not very much
different in spirit from the humanity of 2000 years ago. Instead of opening our
hearts to Him and the realization of the eternal nature our souls, most of us
still worship at the altar of materialism, regardless of what we profess to
believe. But let not your heart be troubled, The science of TDVP and the
mathematics of the Calculus of dimensional Distinctions, mentioned often in my
Transcendental Physics blog www.ERCloseTPhysics.com
prove beyond doubt that your soul is immortal and fully capable of receiving
the consciousness of Christ. Have a
Merry Christmas, 2023 and a Happy New Year.