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當西方學者第一次研究印度社會時，他們努力尋找「印度教」的位置。
西方的一神論模板根本無法適應複雜的精神現實，包括大師、眾神、女神以及幾乎每個街角的廟宇和神龕。
因此，最後他們承認，印度擁有的不是西方定義的宗教，而是精神哲學的混合體；他們說，更像是一種社會哲學而非宗教。
宗教一詞來自拉丁文，意即「束縛」；是早期教會所珍視的一個概念，他們會不惜一切代價將靈魂束縛在其中。
在印度的任何地方，西方人都能找到各種類型的大師、智者、神秘主義者和靈媒，他們能夠精準地讀懂一個人的整個過去和未來，並憑空顯現出真實的物體。
舉個例子，一名西方遊客被西藏的一位僧侶問到，他是否在家鄉漏下什麼東西，希望能隨身攜帶。他回答說是的，他最喜歡的小刀忘了在臥室的桌子上。
後來，僧侶回來遞給他那把小刀。
這種驚人的人類力量在西方是不可能被允許的，因為教會和神職人員在所有的宗教和精神事務中都必須是至高無上的。
在印度，神被看作是男或女，甚至兩者都是一種形式。
一個家庭可能會讓其成員選擇不同的《ishta devatas》（神的形式）作為他們的個人神靈...個人可能選擇毘濕奴，另一個人可能選擇莎克蒂，而另一個可能選擇濕婆等。這可能不是人們所喜歡的，但這是允許的。數千年的精神生活產生了這樣的智慧：每個人都是獨一無二，可以自由地想像神，並以最吸引人的形式與至高無上的神相聯繫。
西方人無法達到這種理解水平。西方人只看到令人困惑和混亂的神靈，而不了解人類的真相及其無窮無盡的精神理解和偏好的種類。
對美洲土著來說，西方關於誰是真正的一神教之神的戰爭是幼稚的。
選擇一個符號用於集中精神力量的不可見世界，以滿足一個人與這種力量的聯繫，這是簡單的常識。
物理符號本身並不被崇拜。
如果你在成長過程中聽到（或念誦）濕婆或格涅沙等的1008個描述性名字，你不會把家中祭壇或寺廟中的石頭或銅像與心中活生生的神靈混淆，因為他們的永久權力和屬性。
一個人不會崇拜他用來打電話的電話。
但西方的猶太基督教卻這麼做了。或者，試圖這樣崇拜一個「兒子」，或者，在伊斯蘭教中，暴力的「非形象」，他懇求他的追隨者改變或殺死異教徒。
皈依非信徒、「異教徒」和伊斯蘭教徒一樣，都是猶太教--基督教一神論者的目標。時至今日，世界各地的傳教士都得到資助，利用星期天的捐款、西方教育的承諾和上演的「奇蹟」來破壞原住民的精神傳統，將他們帶到耶穌面前。
印度母親的天才甚至吸收了這些專心致志的破壞者，知道他們只是經過了一個早期的發展階段，在盡力表達他們對神聖的理解。
有一個例外：伊斯蘭教。這個宗教發誓要通過將異教徒從地球上清除來取悅他們的神。
在印度，有多少人因為這種分裂而死亡。當你活到殺死我的時候，寬容就結束了。
穆斯林七次入侵印度，每次都留下堆積如山的人頭以紀念真主。
相比之下，印度禁止傳教。即使是祭司種姓，即婆羅門，也被禁止到印度以外的地方去。印尼、泰國和柬埔寨等國家採用了印度的萬神殿和做法，因為他們觀察到印度的航海商人在進行個人法事，並受到啟發向他們學習和效仿。
因此，中南半島（Indo-China）這個詞，過去和將來都不會有「印度教傳教士」的出現。因此，你所描述的危機中的一神教確實處於過渡時期。
這方面一個有力標誌是女性在文明中回歸其應有的地位。
早期教會懼怕婦女，因為她們總是有異象，並為人們提供可用於指導和靈感的實體。所以他們排斥她們，並殺害了許多人。
即使在今天，一個一神教的「領袖」會公開宣稱婦女要被壓制，因為「是夏娃誘惑了亞當，造成了墮落」。
這種明顯是人為的解釋已經被使用了很久。在男人和女人身上都有一種自然的女性力量，為了全人類的生存，必須恢復其必要的平衡。
人人也可以有幻覺。
伊甸園的故事比基督教早了幾千年。它代表了人類意識的醒覺，它第一次看到了世界上的對立面。男性和女性變得清晰，是人類下一階段進化的必要條件。
在那個時代，蛇被尊稱為智慧的化身，它既生活在地球上，也生活在地球上。
給人以有意識的智慧蘋果，才是明智之舉。人類已準備好接受它。是養育他的神秘女人把它給了他。
你在一神論的人類觀中所感覺到的危機是由於其中的基本限制。它過於僵化和局限，是的，還有性別歧視，無法接受活在每個人心中的更深刻的真理。
這些真理正進入大眾的意識中。它帶來的普遍性、包容性和同情心將醒覺者與那些尚未準備好的人區分開來。
正如你所指的，一神教由於其等級權力結構，最容易受到腐敗的影響。它也無法與任何其他宗教觀點共存，尤其是另一種一神教的觀點。
所有一神教都持有這些信仰，顯然不能容忍另一個類似的信仰：
只有一個上帝，他是我們的，不是你們的。
只有一個兒子或先知，他是我們的，不是你們的。
只有一本由上帝賜予的聖書，而我們擁有它。你們沒有。
獨一的上帝責成並授權我們使你們皈依獨一的真道，或者解除你們在地球上的存在。信仰或死亡。
人類不能再容忍這些一神教給人類帶來的不可能的狀況。我們正超越人為的分裂和以「勝利」和「征服」為生的上下級心態。
有一個更高的、普遍的、充滿愛的真理存在於人類心中，它現在正顯現出來。
一神論宗教總有一個目的。人類的進步是一個走出精神無知的旅程。
那些試圖利用舊等級制妄想來安裝另一種基於腐敗的科學和侵入性技術的精神病性一神論之人將會被甩在後面。
他們是我們的老師。在他們身上，看到了我們所創造的自我毀滅的謬誤，當我們尋求自身之外的真理，並將我們的個人力量交給科學和技術的「牧師」，而這些「牧師」則盡其所能地說服我們這樣做。
當在經歷無限的造物主將真理授予少數人並要我們跟隨他們的幻覺時，一神教就興盛起來。那時我們的知識還很年輕。
這種幻覺現在正逐漸消失於歷史中，我們要的是真相，個人內心的真相。
現在所有的神職都被揭露，他們的謊言不再為他們服務。
我們正活在一神教的最後日子裏。
～匿名
【原文】August 18, 2022 Windlander Letters to the Editor
“When western scholars first examined society in India, they struggled to locate the “Hindu” religion.
The western monotheistic template simply could not be made to fit the complex spiritual reality of gurus, gods and goddesses and temples and shrines on almost every street corner.
So they eventually admitted that India possessed not a religion in the western definition of that word, but rather was an amalgam of spiritual philosophies—more of a social philosophy than a religion, they said.
The term religion comes from the Latin meaning “to bind back”— a concept dear to the early church that would do whatever necessary to bind the soul back to it.
Wherever they looked in India, westerners found all types of gurus and adepts and mystics and masters of psychic arts capable of reading one’s entire past and future with startling accuracy and manifesting real objects out of thin air.
As an example, one western visitor was asked by a monk in Tibet if he had left anything back home that he would like to have with him. He replied yes, his favorite pocket knife he had forgotten on his bedroom table.
The monk later returned and handed him that same pocket knife.
Such amazing human powers could not be allowed in the west where the church and priesthood had to be supreme in all religious and spiritual matters.
In India, god is seen as either male or female and even both in one form.
A family might have its members choosing different ishta devatas (forms of god) as their personal deity…one might choose Vishnu, and other might choose Shakti, another might choose Shiva, etc. This might not be preferred, but it was allowed. Thousands of years of spiritual life have resulted in the wisdom that each individual is unique and is free to imagine god and psychically connect with the supreme in whatever form most appeals to each.
The west could not reach this level of understanding. Westerners only see a bewildering confusion of gods and goddesses without understanding the truth about humanity and its endless varieties of spiritual comprehension and preference.
To the native Indian, the western wars over whose monotheistic god is the true god is childish.
Choosing a symbol to use for concentration upon the unseen world of spiritual power to feed one’s connection with that power is simple common sense.
The physical symbol itself is not worshipped.
If you hear (or chant) the 1008 descriptive names for Shiva, or Ganesha, etc. as you are growing up, you do not confuse the stone or brass image on your home altar or in the temple for the deity who is alive in your mind in their permanent powers and attributes.
One doesn’t worship the telephone one uses to make a call.
But the judeo-christian west does. Or, attempts to so worship a “son” or, in Islam, the violent “non-image” who entreats his followers to convert or slay the infidels.
Converting the non-believers, the “pagans” is as much the goal of the judeo-christian monotheists as its is the islamists. Missionaries to this day are financed around the world to undermine the spiritual traditions of indigenous peoples using money from Sunday donations, promises of western education and staged “miracles” to bring them to Jesus.
The genius of Mother India absorbs even these dedicated saboteurs, knowing that they are merely passing through an early stage of development and are expressing their understanding of the divine as best they can.
The one exception: Islam. This religion is sworn to please their god by removing infidels
from the face of the earth. How many millions died in India over this schism. Tolerance ends when you live to kill me.
Muslims invaded India seven times, each time leaving mountains of heads in honor of Allah.
By contrast, India forbids proselytizing. Even the priestly caste, the brahmins, were forbidden to travel outside of India. Countries like Indonesia and Thailand and Cambodia adopted the Indian pantheon and practices because they observed Indian sea-faring merchants conducting their personal pujas and were inspired to learn from and emulate them.
Hence the term Indo-China.
There never was nor will there ever be a “Hindu missionary”.
So, the monotheism you describe in crisis truly is in a period of transition.
A powerful sign of this is the return of the feminine to its rightful place in civilization.
The early Church feared women because they were always having visions and channeling entities that the people could use for guidance and inspiration. So they excluded them and killed many.
Even today, a monotheistic “leader” will claim publicly that women are to be kept down because “it was Eve who tempted Adam and created the Fall”…This obviously manmade
interpretation has been used long enough. There is a natural feminine power in men as well as women that must return to its necessary balance for the survival of all humanity.
Men can have visions too.
The Garden of Eden story predates Christianity by millennia. It represents humanity’s awakening to its conscious mind which first sees opposites in the world. Male and female became clear and necessary for humanity’s next stage of evolution.
In those times, the serpent was honored as the embodiment of wisdom, living as it does both in and on the earth.
It would be the wise one to give man the apple of conscious knowledge. Man was ready for it. It was the nurturing and mystical woman who gave it to him.
The crisis you are sensing in the monotheistic view of humanity is due to the fundamental limitations within it. It is too rigid and limiting and yes, sexist, to embrace the deeper truths alive in every human heart.
Those truths are coming forward into the mass consciousness. The universality and inclusiveness and compassion they bring separates the awakening ones from those who are not ready.
As you point out, monotheism is most susceptible to corruption due to its hierarchical power structure. It is also incapable of co-existing with any other religious view, especially another monotheistic one.
All monotheistic religions hold these beliefs that obviously cannot tolerate another like it:
There is but one God and He is ours, not yours.
There is but one Son or Prophet, and he is ours, not yours.
There is but one holy book given by God, and we have it. You do not.
The One God enjoins and empowers us to convert you to the One True Way or relieve the earth of your presence. Believe or die.
Our species can no longer tolerate the impossible condition these monotheistic religions perpetrate on humanity. We are moving beyond artificial divisions and the up-down mentality that feeds on “winning” and “conquering”.
There is a higher, universal and loving truth that lives in the human heart and it is manifesting now.
The monotheistic religions served a purpose. Humanity’s progress is a journey out of spiritual ignorance.
Those who are attempting to use the old hierarchical delusion to install another form of psychotic monotheism based on corrupt science and invasive technology are going to be left behind.
They are our teachers. In them we see the self-destructive fallacy we create when we
seek truth outside of ourselves and surrender our personal power to the “priests” of science and technology who do all they can to convince us to do so.
Monotheism thrived when we were experiencing the illusion that the Infinite Creator grants truth to a few and would have us follow them. We were young in our knowledge then.
That illusion is fading into history now. We want the truth. Our personal inner truth.
All priesthoods are being exposed now. Their lies no longer serve them.
We are living in the final days of the last monotheism.”
– Anon
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