About GOD (II)
By yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru
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Divine laws are the rules of the game
The whole manifestation, the entire Creation, is a gigantic game that GOD the Father is constantly playing. This gigantic game unfolds in the entire Macrocosm, in the three universes, and always relies on the existence of the divine laws that GOD the Father (and nobody else) conceives, makes them exist, and then incorporates them into this grand manifestation. He plants them with His perfect, total, unparalleled wisdom in the entire Macrocosm, and thus makes all three universes work accurately.
If we have a certain degree of intelligence and some power of intuition, we realize that the existence of objective laws throughout the manifestation, both in the physical material universe and in the astral and the causal universe, highlights the mysterious existence of Him who conceived and wisely incorporated in the manifestation the laws that even scientists would discover afterwards and, although they are atheists in their vast majority, these laws will at some point urge them to acknowledge the obvious reality of GOD the Father.
Those times are not far away. They are drawing near. The discovery of quantum physics will, in the near future, make scientists discover scientifically the existence of GOD the Father, and then there will no longer be skeptical scholars, blatant atheists, denying GOD with fervor, and foolishly believing He does not exist.
Therefore, if we are to consider that the entire manifestation, the entire Macrocosm, is the mysterious and grandiose game of GOD Father, then the universal divine laws are the rules of this mysterious game.
In the light of these revelations, we can say that in order to properly integrate ourselves in the grandiose play of GOD the Father, we need to know, as well as possible, the mysterious rules, the universal divine laws that govern the whole manifestation and act both in the physical universe, and in the astral and causal universe.
Through the profound and thorough knowledge of these mysterious sui-generis rules of divine play, we are best integrated into the divine harmony and at some point it becomes possible for some of us to cease the game if we want. Then we attain the state of supreme spiritual liberation.
In other words, if we engage in the play of Godly manifestation, according to the endowments and capacities awakened in us, we can be victorious or we can lose and ultimately be defeated. Only when, and only for a human being who attains the ultimate spiritual liberation, the divine game is suspended, it ends forever. An example of this is the fact that for the human beings of opposite sex who love ardently, the love-based games of transfiguration, the consecration of the fruits to GOD the Father and the perfect amorous continence are a sui-generis reflexion of a divine game.
The clockmaker of all times
The existence of laws in physics, mathematics, and in all fundamental fields of knowledge implicitly and categorically indicates the eternal existence of a mysterious legislator. In the absence of this legislator, the laws could not have possibly appeared. This is the first proof, we dare say, the shattering proof of GOD’s existance, because if it wasn’t for His manifestation as a wise legislator, all these laws would not have existed.
Now looking at the whole creation from a different point of view and considering, as some scholars or philosophers considered at some point, that the whole universe is like a giant watch, we realize that there is consequently also a watchmaker who is much bigger than the watch, and at the origins He made the watch wheel by wheel, He assembled it, and then made it work.
Thus, the existence of objective laws, both in the physical and in other areas of human knowledge, implicitly reveals the existence of a legislator. For if that lawmaker had not existed and if we started, by absurdity, from the foolish and at the same time unreasonable conviction that the whole universe, the whole manifestation is the result of an endless series of events, as some ignorant materialists believe, then it would have been impossible that all these random happenings, all these series of small or great coincidences, to cause the laws of the universe to appear through this chaotic chain of hazards.
We must realize that this materialist, atheistic vision, which considers the whole universe as an aberrant result of events, of chaos, could never have caused the harmony, symmetry, precision, and beauty of Creation to appear.
Moreover, considering that, by absurdity, such a materialist, skeptical conception is a reality, it would mean that all the saints, all the sages, and all who have revealed GOD have been deceived, and all their testimonies and proofs are unreal, they have no value; all the wonders that have been attested, would have actually not existed.
By carefully analyzing such a mad, reductive, superficial, partial conception, we realize that those who are deceiving are the poor materialists who project their ignorance, their obtusity and their inability to feel GOD, conceiving a so-called chaotic reality, the fruit of hazard, devoid of Divinity, and who believe that all those who have felt Him, who have discovered and realized through direct spiritual experience that GOD exists, are mistaken. Such pitiful human beings resemble the man whose chronotic chuck had annihilated his sense of smell. Because of the fact that he was incapable of sensing the smells of all kinds, he superficially and foolishly thought that there existed no olfactory sensations.
Errors of the Foolish Materialism
To give you an idea about skepticism viewed as a philosophy, here are some defining elements of this system of thought, created by Pyrrho of Elis who lived between 365 and 275 BC.
Skepticism neither affirms, nor denies anything. It does not say anything about the issues discussed as being false or true, according to the theory of knowledge. It does not consider anything good or bad from a moral point of view. Suspension of any judgment is its culminating point, and the complete silence of the mind is its objective.
The Greek philosophers Aenesidemus and Sextus Empiricus have outlined the four skeptical arguments in a speculative form:
1. The plurality and contradiction of all opinions makes it impossible to separate them, so any criterion is an additional thesis;
2. The need to extend the definitions indefinitely;
3. The need for unverifiable postulates, the only way to put an end to them being an endless regression;
4. The existence of the vicious circle.
Skepticism has its source in the thinking of some sophists such as Protagoras and Gorgias. This philosophical stream was cruelly fought in the Middle Ages, being considered a sacrilege or unrighteousness. In current language, skepticism denotes any kind of doubt that occurs and manifests itself in no matter what field. It is also the synonym of mistrust. A follower of this bizarre philosophical current is philosopher David Hume, who considers himself a representative of moderate skepticism. David Hume does not dispute either the reality of the world or the possibility of certainty. For him, a secure knowledge is possible through mathematics, and in terms of objects of nature, he considers knowledge to be probable. When viewed from a certain point of view, the philosophy of skepticism appears to us as a speculative philosophy of human beings with a hardened heart and with an intellectual, empty and sterile predominance.
Another philosophical current that impregnated the thinking of the last two centuries and which still has an impact here and there, especially among scholars, researchers and scientists, is materialism. In a philosophical sense, materialism is a system according to which the totality of the real is of a material nature or, more precisely, a product of matter. Essentially, materialism is realistic. In its view, the material substance exists independently of the representation that we make about it. This current of thinking is anti-idealistic and therefore anti-spiritual. Materialism reduces the totality of what exists to a single substance and that is why it is an ontological monism. Almost always, materialism rejects the existence of GOD, of the world beyond, and when it admits the existence of a soul, it reduces it to a phenomenon or a material epiphenomenon. In a current vulgar sense, it is the conception and attitude of the human being who, in the absence of any abstract ideal, only believes in the pleasures of the senses, and therefore does everything to experience them.
Who does not believe, does not have access to truth
Let’s see what atheism is. Atheism is a sterile doctrine that denies the existence of GOD. This negation can be expressed in two ways: the one of struggle and the one of indifference. It’s one thing to say that GOD does not exist, and it’s another to think that GOD does not even deserve to be denied. In such a situation, denial is not asserted. The immediate atonism of atheism is materialistic monism. In its vision, there is only one substance and that is matter. In reality, those who support this fact simply forget that matter is nothing else but energy structured in various ways and they fiercely deny the substance of the spirit.
Materialism removes from a blow the possibility of a superior and all-encompassing spirit, such as GOD. To the extent that certain traditional orders were based on religious beliefs and practices, atheism is in fact an attitude of obvious rupture, based on the idea of a strange freedom and exalting a so-called endless power of man.
Another aggressive philosophical current is agnosticism. The name of this current comes from the Greek term “agnostos”, which in English translation means “unknown”. This term was created in 1869 by T.H. Huxley, who confesses that it was suggested to him by the inscription honoring the unknown god, in Greek, Agnosto Theo, which St. Paul noticed on an altar in Athens. Agnosticism designates a strange point according to which the Absolute, the origin, the intimate nature and the end of human beings and things are – if, of course, these expressions have a certain meaning and impliy a reality – inaccessible to our mind, which consequently cannot utter, with regard to these issues, neither affirmations, nor negations.
The man who practices this conviction is agnostic. Agnosticism urges us to have a bizarre, but still, specific attitude to fundamental questions about the existence of GOD, on which it always refuses to pronounce itself. Agnosticism is, therefore, a strange point of view that assumes a middle position between deism that asserts the existence of GOD and atheism that denies it. Though it rejects the possibility of knowing the Absolute or GOD, ancient skepticism can not be considered agnosticism. The agnostic, though an unbeliever, is not an atheist.
It is obvious that each of the philosophical streams of which we have made a brief survey, propagates a certain point of view on reality which, assimilated as such, makes all those who embrace such partial and shallow systems, become afterwards exactly what they predominantly think.
By looking carefully and lucidly at those who adhere to such philosophical systems, from the point of view of the one who revealed GOD within himself, who had spiritual experiences and is fully certain and edified that He exists, we can easily figure out that such human beings are self-deluded. Their vision of reality and also of GOD the Father is partial and clearly reductionist.
The pitiful human beings who embrace this kind of philosophical current have hardened hearts. That is why they believe that if they do not feel anything regarding the existence of GOD, then it goes without saying that GOD does not exist, and all who assert that GOD exists or feel His reality and presence are wrong.
Such people do not even ever doubt that their point of view is wrong. They are the victims of belief systems that highlight ignorance and superficiality.
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May 19, 2017
