The difference between culture and Truth: as it applies to modern views of Islam & the difference between spirituality and religion from Universalism
What is the true spirituality and how did culture attempt to infiltrate it? What is a Name as opposed to a Description? What is the difference between the hypocrites & idolaters as compared to the entrants of Heaven in the company of GOD?
This is a response to a question by my good friend in Life, Love and Soul, John Blake. The question is posted at the end.
I will begin by stating the difference between Culture and Truth. Culture, contains the word Cult and is precisely that. It is a set of agreed rules & statements that supposedly works. Upon deeper examination beyond what Culture itself permits of an individual, this entire hallucination is found to be a hallucination created by human limitations on Infinite Consciousness with no attempt to actually comprehend the Gift that is Life.
Let’s examine Truth for a second. Truth is not derived by the whims and fancies of opinions. GOD says in the Quran that “had the universe followed their whims and fancies everything would be in ruin”. Truth is that which stands for itself independent of which observer.
Truth is backed up by flawless formal logic and is self referentially consistent. It is Justice Embodied. It is Light, it is Love, it is Pure, it is Wholesome. Ultimately, Truth is the fabric of Reality.
Anybody who rises above the delusions of Culture which includes religion and faux spirituality, such an individual will always come to the agreement that All is One, and that One is Love and You are That, That I Am That I Am. That is the self evident Reality of the design of GODHEAD who is LOVE.
Truth can be found by looking within, the same cannot be said of Culture because Culture is an external hierarchy of beings who have destined themselves to Corruption and thereafter a Hell of their own making.
It concerns itself with the whims and fancies of material hedonism, a limbic response to the elements of pain and pleasure. Culture in my eyes means Socially Reinforced Corruption. It is the handiwork of The Adversary, a form of energy that vortexes in precisely the opposite direction to Wholesome Nature, into complete non-Wisdom.
Truth is reinforced by Wisdom and cannot be attained without Wisdom for Wisdom is the door to Truth and there is no other path to Truth but Wisdom alone. I would recommend reading the biblical Book of Wisdom on this matter, it is 19 chapters long and can be read in one go within half an hour.
Ultimately, leave aside Truth as there are many viewpoints on that. What is however truly Just is to hold Wisdom in regard for Wisdom is Objective Virtue and can be agreed upon by all irrespective of individual reality tunnel. Wisdom can be called MetaTruth but is entirely binary – either it is Wise or it is Unwise. There is no halfway here, for it is Absolute.
Then consider the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom. Someone can be intelligent and unwise but one cannot be Wise and unintelligent simultaneously. GOD says that many of the tribes that were destroyed for their wrongs were given exceptional intelligence but they misguided each other and earned the salty side of the Law of Cause, Effect & Requital.
Truth always exists alongside Wisdom. Culture however can be unwise and very often is as such. The deeper you look inwardly and reflect on your True Nature as BuddhaSelf or GODHEAD, the more culture disappears and the more Knowledge arises of Breath/Spirit/Ruh/Shakti which is Eternal, independent of body, Infinitely Wise and All Aware.
Culture is based on belief, a hope that something could be true while Truth is not belief and cannot be. The works of Adyashanti or Jan Esmann are wondrous in explaining the nuances of this topic. Truth stands on its own two feet while Culture is a parasite feeding ultimately on the lust and weakness of minds and without that weakness cannot exist.
Either GOD exists and no belief is required or GOD exists not and no belief is required. In either case belief is futile and does not serve Good, and is nonwise. The Quranic terms “Iman” and “taqwa” do not mean belief as is held by cultural Muslims but are based on certainty: certainty that GOD is the Absolute Knower of all. There is no room for belief because Iman actually means Strength of Spiritual Certainty and not “vain intense blind faith in a doubtful situation”.
A cultural Muslim still questions to themselves whether GOD does indeed exist or not because they have failed in the mandatory requirement upon every Soul by GOD, that you shall look within, Be Still and Know Me.
A Spiritual Muslim of Truth & Wisdom knows GOD with absolute certainty. Their faith is not with GOD, because they know GOD as Absolute Truth, their Faith is in themselves and their ability to draw near to GOD who is LOVE
Without that inward look, one cannot be a Muslim in Quranic Sight, but one can still name themselves Muslims and deceive in the Cultural perspective. GOD says “the hypocrites have taken their oaths as a veil for deceit” and also “they think they fool GOD & those who have Iman/Spiritual Strength, but they deceive none but themselves”.
Even more importantly, there is no clergy in the true Path of GOD as there can be none in between a Soul and Creator – no intercessors, no authorities. GOD says that “they have taken their clergy and leaders as GODs beside GOD”. Quranically there is no clergy and each Soul is said to come to GOD alone, on resurrection as they have been created alone.
Furthermore examine the statement of Abraham to his people: “you have taken gods besides The GOD as protectors out of mutual affection amongst each other but on the Resurrection you shall disown them and each other and be enemies to each other”
Yet there has appeared a supposedly authoritative clergy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam! And in Hinduism, and Buddhism. How can there be? And now we get to the most serious point to be made: there is True System, which stands as Formal Logic based on Absolute Truth, and then there is Cultural religion: falsehood wearing the cloak of Truth.
The True System is what each and every messenger brought in each and every religion. Speaking as an initiate of the deepest aspects of all religions, a being who has Realised the Self in Nirvana, I find that each religion arose from Culture after each messenger brought the True Natural Divine System.
Culture is the immune system of the parasite itself, as it seeks to encompass its host. All sectarian division in the Single All Encompassing Natural System, which I denote with the label “Islam”, all such divisions arose from Culture. The quran is very clear on this matter.
So there is Cultural Islam, the dress and garb of the hypocrites and idolaters which are all named in the Quran and all their traits are described by GOD in the Quran down to the last detail of their arguments, desires, motives and actions. The Quran states that it is the clarifying Codex between all religions and states that all religions are from GOD, whether Abrahamic or not.
Then there is Peace, that which each soul recognises as the Sure Truth when looking inwards to the Absolute Consciousness, the Source. In Arabic this is called Islam and the Absolute Consciousness is named as The GOD, “Al-Ilah” written as Allah.
These terms, “Islam” and “Allah” have been deliberately mislabelled by Hypocrites of Culture to claim The True Religion as their own. This is where we get the harsh wrathful patriarchal male idol, which essentially is subhuMan’s description of GOD, for subhuman to make GOD in his own foolish image.
The same has happened in each religion. The Quran describes each group, without using Cultural labels. There are three groups: the “munafiqs”/hypocrites, who have knowledge and turn to falsehood, the “mushriks” who do not know spiritual knowledge and are misled by the hypocrites, and those who surrender, the beings of LIGHT who dwell in Love, the True Name of GOD.
The munafiqs are those beings entrusted by GOD with the Truth and to espouse Love but instead they have created a false representation in the wrathful patriarch. When any Soul who looks shall intimately recognise GOD IS LOVE.
The munafiqs do not ever have LOVE and do not ever know GOD though they are the 2nd staunchest claimants to Truth after those who are genuinely rooted in Truth with evidence. The munafiqs have rightfully earned the ultimate requital in GOD’s sight as they espouse the exact opposite of LOVE. The mushriks earn requital for following the munafiqs instead of reasoning that LOVE is a higher esteem than Corruption.
In their actions they the munafiqs subjugate women in one fashion to sex objects and sex slaves, men to slaves of authority and reject the Sovereignty of each Soul. Looking outward to “authority” for permission as if such self proclaimed authority stands as GOD, replaces healthy self reflection of inherent Justice, Wisdom and Truth.
In such cultures it is asked whether a particular fine point of action is “allowed” in the same way a child asks if their “GOD” who is their parents who have full control over their reality, is “allowed” to do basic natural things like go to the toilet.
The munafiqs are the group who have concocted this entire cultural facade and this form of Death/Sin, is declared to be “Islam” in both eastern media which is a proponent of it, and Western media which has rather rightfully declared war on it.
Meanwhile in the media rarely do you ever hear about genuine LOVE – the true Islam of Allah who is The Reality, Shiva who is the Absolute Consciousness, GOD who is LOVE the Most High.
This is not because of the media agenda, which again is a cultural construct. Rather this is the entire lack of Spiritual Knowledge in the media which is very much so shallow and easily deceived by Culture.
It is for these reasons I will firmly stand my ground and call myself Muslim, an adherent to Islam, and a surrenderer to Allah, and guard these labels from the cultural deceivers.
Culture does not have any claim to these terms, not in my sight, not in any spiritually aware being’s sight, and least of all the Sight of The Exalted GOD to whom we shall return to ultimately. And GOD has promised to All, that IT shall reveal to us the full Truth of all that we differed in. So guard yourself for that day, do not succumb to culture, and Be Still and Know Me.
Question by John Blake:
I must admit that seeing somebody with your cosmic understanding promote one religion over the rest (not mans distorted or misunderstood interpretations of organised religion though for sure)
I think I’m an omnist personally, I don’t give any religions pure teachings rank over the others, especially because all 3 major ones have the same roots (abrihamic, as you know).
You know that god is not a human form relation, i don’t know how to describe what it is but I do believe in describing it in more of an existential or experiential or emotive term, to give it a human name and continue the religious understandings of it I don’t get.
Can I ask what makes you see Allah as the divine creator? I assume you had an Islamic upbringing which is where it stems from and I’ll admit I haven’t studied the Quran but Id have thought you’d have transcended and surpassed religious understandings of what they call the divine and had your own corrections to make on the subject, which maybe you do or have, I don’t know, I just wanted to express surprise at the fact that you have subscribed to a particular religion in it’s already defined form and wanted to ask why?, if only to get a better understand of Allah, but also to express that I believe when you go out so far religious dogma is behind you as you have gone further to things no religion has touched on yet except symbolically and metaphorically. Does that make sense or have I not worded this correctly
I don’t believe in heaven or he’ll, just karma and reincarnation cycles and processes. The all seeing all knowing all encompassing consciousness behind this world and the next cannot be described in words, especially ones which apply rules to the masses or threatens punishment for non believers in the afterlife, my understanding of the cosmos cannot compute an entity great enough to be in control of the universe or multiverse, maybe one planet but the universal consciousness in its totality transcends human Understanding (and more importantly transcends man made labels) I believe.
– John Blake