ISLAM

by Paul Bond
© January 2001

Nbond@bigpond.net.au

With the Middle East conflict festering like an open sore in the matrix of conflicts on our planet currently, it may be time, for those who have open minds and are willing, to explore the planetary records. In so doing, we may discover the truth and therefore, through that discovery, subvert the oncoming destiny that seems inevitable. It is worth some effort. Herewith:

"Islam is the religio-cultural connective of North Africa, the Levant, and southeastern Asia. It was Jewish theology in connection with the later Christian teachings that made Islam monotheistic. The followers of Mohammed stumbled at the advanced teachings of the Trinity; they could not comprehend the doctrine of three divine personalities and one Deity. It is always difficult to induce evolutionary minds suddenly to accept advanced revealed truth. Man is an evolutionary creature and in the main must get his religion by evolutionary techniques.

New religions cannot be invented; they are either evolved, or else they are suddenly revealed. All new evolutionary religions are merely advancing expressions of the old beliefs, new adaptations and adjustments. The old does not cease to exist; it is merged with the new, even as Sikhism budded and blossomed out of the soil and forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other contemporary cults. Primitive religion was very democratic; the savage was quick to borrow or lend. Only with revealed religion did autocratic and intolerant theologic egotism appear.

It was during the times of the writing of the Upanishads that Buddhism arose in India. But despite its successes of a thousand years, it could not compete with later Hinduism; despite a higher morality, its early portrayal of God was even less well-defined than was that of Hinduism, which provided for lesser and personal deities. Buddhism finally gave way in northern India before the onslaught of a militant Islam with its clear-cut concept of Allah as the supreme God of the universe.

Buddhism, later on, was much affected by Taoism in China, Shinto in Japan, and Christianity in Tibet. After a thousand years, in India Buddhism simply withered and expired. It became Brahmanized and later abjectly surrendered to Islam, while throughout much of the rest of the Orient it degenerated into a ritual which Gautama Siddhartha would never have recognized.

The strength of Islam has been its clear-cut and well-defined presentation of Allah as the one and only Deity; its weakness, the association of military force with its promulgation, together with its degradation of woman. But it has steadfastly held to its presentation of the One Universal Deity of all, "who knows the invisible and the visible. He is the merciful and the compassionate." "Truly God is plenteous in goodness to all men." "And when I am sick, it is he who heals me." "For whenever as many as three speak together, God is present as a fourth," for is he not "the first and the last, also the seen and the hidden"?

Within a short time after the destruction of Jerusalem, Antioch became the headquarters of Pauline Christianity, while Philadelphia remained the center of the Abnerian kingdom of heaven. From Antioch the Pauline version of the teachings of Jesus and about Jesus spread to all the Western world; from Philadelphia the missionaries of the Abnerian version of the kingdom of heaven spread throughout Mesopotamia and Arabia until the later times when these uncompromising emissaries of the teachings of Jesus were overwhelmed by the sudden rise of Islam."

And so it is that we see both a monotheistic religion spring forth from Judaism and Christianity only to become submerged into a militaristic cult that promises its followers sovereignty over all other religions. Does this not sound all too familiar? And now we witness the following:

"World wide confederations of nations-the United Nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments-those with weapons of mass destruction.

In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the U.N. and declare war. You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty.

"As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle of national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of super-national power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind."

Peace is a delusion until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a truly representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all peoples of earth create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative government based on one vote, one nation, or truly democratic world power controls the world's land, air and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail - but not until then.

The leaders of both the conflicting parties in the Middle East see nothing of this, nor do they listen. For both are bent on the destruction of the other, based on national sovereignty. There will be wars and rumors of wars.