JIE. Chapter 5. From A Believer To Knower

JOURNEY INTO ETERNITY

Chapter 5 
 
FROM A UNIVERSAL BELIEVER TO THE ULTIMATE KNOWER   

So, yes, I've read "my Bible" and have taken a lot of concepts and wisdoms from it. But together with it, I dig the Divine Knowledge from numerous sources and refined them into the common Truth, that one way or another penetrates them all.   
And my concept of God is literally "the Everything". It is Universal Consciousness. It's the whole world and reality we know (and those that we don't know). It's the collection of every possible thought of our Collective Consciousness, of every possible probability of realities of the Multiverse in the vast of Eternity, it's an Everlasting Energy that penetrates all and Loves all.   
So, when it comes to my belief in God, I cherish and worship the Whole of Creation, the Everything, the God, the Supreme Ultimate Energy, the Divine Itself. And maybe since it's the way Muslims worship Allah (or the Supreme Ultimate Energy without Its manifestation in a human being) – then I can say that I pray within Islamic concepts of God.   
At the same time, I also  can cherish and worship God through any manifestation of It. And it happened that due to my place of birth I “was acquainted with” Jesus more. And I cherish him with all my heart and gratitude for his immense mission on Earth. And I accept him to be God incarnated with a  Spirit in a Body, as an eternal Act of God, Experiencing Itself, revealing Itself in different manifestations to lead us towards the Salvation of our own Spiritual Nature, which is the same as the Spiritual Nature of the Supreme Ultimate Energy. So in THIS way, I share Christian concept of God’s nature.   
But just like Jesus is one of God's Divine manifestation, the same way other Its divine manifestations like Krishna, Buddha and other Great Souls are highly respected and worshipped by me. This makes me Hindu and Buddhist, right?   
And due to this understanding it feels so easy and so natural to feel this unity with Everything and everyone, to see God everywhere, wherever my heart can feel and recognize the Whole in a Part – The Pattern in a Fractal, The Crystal in one of its Facets, while accepting every Facet to be a part of a whole Crystal. Where both the Crystal and the Facet are of equal importance and divinity. Where we are all fractals of The Everything and all powered by the main Force in the Universe – Love.   
Of course, numerous nations and people will always try to extract their own way to describe God. But eventually, when you really study what stands behind the "image" of God in different religions of the world, you'll see that they do not actually contradict the very essential nature of God.   
But the differences we see in different religions come from people's attempt to imagine the Great Essence of God by endowing Him with different conventional images, specific to certain region/nation/generation (being unable to endow with one universal image, that would be understandable for all nations of all people all over the Earth at all times, because they have different history of development, mentality and different ways of perception and forming images).   
That’s why we can witness so many names that were given to ONE Essence. Over centuries we have been using some of the most conventional ones. Like for example we call this Divine Entity “God”. Or calling God “Him”. Although, of course, this Eternal Energy of Everything cannot be framed into any gender or definition. So, using the word “He” while talking about God is definitely inappropriate. God is rather “It” (of trying to use linguistic signs to attempt to render the essence of God). Because it is something that is above all measurements and categories, like gender (He) or human notions of relations (Father) or the practice of giving It names (“God”, “Lord”, “Allah”, “Jesus”, “Brahma” or “Absolute“). But like I said, it doesn’t matter how you call It, what names or images you give to this Eternal Energy of Everything – It will still stay the same God, – the same ESSENCE of Everything.   
But we are just humans and we use human apparatus to talk and share the notions between each other. So ok. Let’s take an example from Christianity how they illustrate the image of God by endowing Him with humanlike characteristics to the highest extent. Well, actually any religion endows God with humanlike qualities of a character by giving “Him” different adjectives and names. But Christianity added to this image other humanlike qualities, like parental relationship, and call God a Father, and Jesus – a son. I understand why the word “son” was given to Jesus in Christianity – to illustrate the highest and the purest manifestation of a Soul sent by God to our world, as well as other divine Teachers of the world. I don’t want to go deeper into religions and their customs and holy images now. But well, as I was born Christian and a notion of the Father and the Son is close to my mentality to transmit the Holy Unity and Relation of our souls to the Supreme Soul – ok. Let it be. But then I dare to call not only Jesus to be God’s son, but all of us – being a part of God, being an Eternal Part of Everything. And maybe this is what the Bible actually tells us by saying that “we are created in the image and likeness of God”.   
The problem is that every religion has established its own image of God. It happened that Christianity “imagined” and endowed God with humanlike nature and thus took the words in the Bible a bit too literal. And while Jesus was teaching people about their fractal relation to God, people started to worship Jesus as God and taking the words that we were created in God's image also very literally.  But the point is that not only humans were created in God's likeness. It's ALL that exists in the Universe was created in God's likeness, exactly being that fractal of God. And thus, it doesn't mean that if we have our human bodies, the way they are designed is a literal likeness to God. God doesn't have hands, legs, and other biological characteristic of the body we have. There are many more other and other worlds around us. And “people” there look absolutely different, being born on other material planets with their own physiological features, or even in maybe non-material worlds where people do not have physical bodies at all – but only energy ones, and an idea of material-like manifestation of God simply doesn’t come to their mind. What I am saying is that the IMAGE – is just the image, and only the ESSENCE is what matters.   
Why I like Hinduism in this point is because unlike Christianity with their perspective only from Earthly life, Hinduism actually says that the Earth is not the only world that Almighty God created. But since Hinduism was also created by humans, they also endow God with humanlike images and characteristic.   
So other religions of other nations and other peoples endow God with their own conventional images – the one that embodies the highest and the lightest notions and represents the greatest values for them. And we can just guess what other images of God may be “imagined” by people world-wide, including other different worlds and extraterrestrial peoples whom God loves as well as us, and takes care about them by guiding and teaching them, just like people on Earth, but in different ways, which are more proper for them. Maybe they are enlightened more than humans. Maybe they are more mature to behold the Truth in more clear and open way. Who knows. But what I know is that we all are learning here through this Journey of Life, and there are a lot of more new journeys that are waiting for us – on our way to the Truth, being accompanied with His Holy Spirit.   
Because yes, we were created in the image and likeness of God but in a way of likeness to his TRUE ESSENCE. And we are the part of God not in a way of god-like humans on Earth, but in a way of Being Single Whole, together with His Holy Spirit and Endless Love which rules a whole world created by It.   
I brought up this analogy of images of God just to remind that the image – is just the image, what matters – is the essence.   
So in order to try to understand the essence of a Soul, I used the concept of incarnation. Even though it is still difficult to apprehend with our human brain and to embrace the notion of a Soul in one universal image. But I still will keep trying to understand, to get closer, to look wider, to listen to my Inner Self that keeps talking to me, as well as other’s Inner Selves talk to people and help them find their ways.   
And even though it drives crazy all the confessions and believers of all the religions to whom I have spoken, that I manage to unite all of the religions and teachings into One Single Truth sources, I still feel that all of them carry that truth I have always known and which I’m slowly rediscovering again. And unfortunately or fortunately, but I still haven’t found the ONLY religion or teaching that encloses the Whole Truth in its pure manifestation, that my inner could correlate with that Innate Knowledge given to me since birth.   
And maybe this is my greatest trial and greatest gift from God – to find Its presence, traces of the Truth in every religion and not being able to accept none of them totally. As my Higher Supreme Soul “notices” those deviations from the Truth and alarms it down to my human mind. It’s hard to explain. But this is it. And I can’t do anything with it. Because accepting something which my Soul doesn’t accept would be a hypocrisy and treachery. That’s why I take many revelations from different religions and let them through my inner, through my heart, through my spiritual knowledge and intuition, through my perception of the world deep in my heart and through my Soul, exactly that one that is “the One” and that already Knows the Truth.   
Yes, I cannot explain why I subconsciously inwardly accept this revelation and cannot accept the other. Some of the revelations settle down in my subconsciousness, like if they were living there a whole my life. Some of them – don’t; and they feel wrong in my heart, so those ones I cannot take wholeheartedly and thus I do not want to lie either to myself or to other believers of this or that confession. And it is not about choosing the “comfortable” revelations. Because I can tell my heart has taken both of them: both easy and beautiful and also those ones that were hard to take, but, after all – even those hard ones came with understanding of its beauty. Like revelations, which I rejected to look at deeper by fearing to acknowledge them, but which has always lived in my Inner Heart, came with a clear understanding and inner acceptance with time and spiritual maturity.   
So thus, a lot of revelations that have already lived in my Higher Self, were learnt by me with my human self, by studying different teachings and religions.   
Like a long contradicting road to Islam. There was a time that I realized that there would be a lot of things, that my Inner Soul wouldn’t correlate with its Inner Knowledge. But when I came to look at it and its wisdom deeper, I also have found a “t”ruth, I was looking for there.   
The same happened with Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. The same: I cannot accept a lot of things from these religions, like Hinduistic worshipping numerous “gods” in their hierarchy as to the Only Almighty God (or Supreme Ultimate Energy or whatever) instead of realizing that these “gods” or souls are just ones of divine incarnations of It. Although the idea is correct, but the way people interpreted it and began to put into practice went twistedly wrong. Because actually Hinduism was meant to be a monotheistic religion too, and in some way Hindus acknowledge that, at the most fundamental level, God is the One — “the absolute, formless and only Reality known as the Supreme, Universal Soul”. Yet Hindu religion has become polytheistic: populated with myriad gods and goddesses “who personify aspects of the one true God”. But we have already said that there are a lot of personifications and manifestations of the One. Just like Jesus is a personification of God, just like all of our souls are personifications of the One, Ultimate Soul, just like you and me – are also Its personifications. But it doesn’t make us worship each other, right?   
So I have learnt and gained the ideas from the source of Hinduistic wisdom, but not from the twisted way of practicing it.   
Another religion that attracted my attention was Sikhism, that was born in India from two different religions, like Hinduism and Islam. It got me interested in it, because one of its ideas is also close to my worldview. Because it “rejects claims that any particular religious tradition has a monopoly on Absolute Truth”! It is literally what I keep saying a whole my life. Besides, their treatise of realm is also close to mine (a belief in Eternal Incarnation of the Universe and the Divine Union with It).   
Or another faith that originated from Persia called Bah;;;. They believe that there is a single, all-powerful God, revealing His message through a series of divine messengers or educators, to one single humanity.   
The Baha’i teachings promote the agreement of science and religion, gender equality, and the elimination of all prejudice and racism. Baha’is believe in each person’s capacity to find the truth for themselves and accept the validity of each of the founders and prophets of the major world religions and believe in progressive revelation. This unique Baha’i principle views every great Faith as a link in a single, spiritual system, progressively revealed, similar to how chapters in a book tell an evolving story – by God to humanity.   
Isn't it just beautiful concept in today's world, so divided by differences, while we all were meant to be united in Love and acceptance of each other?
And so by learning for example 10-15 religions at once and analyzing them you actually realize that they are not different religions that carry different “T”ruths, but rather different human interpretations of THE “T”ruth and the bearers of “t”ruths, which compose THE ONE. But to SEE the clear message, the purified truth (even little “t”ruth, like one of many revelations) is a hard work to do. I wonder whether it is possible at all. And what means do we use? After all, all of us have a subjective mind (preconditioned culturally, historically, nationally and personally). So HOW to look at the reality without personal and subjective perspective, in order not to twist the VERY MESSAGE, that was meant to be sent to us?... While this rhetorical question stays in the air, I have been using my own way – the one I am talking here all the time. The Inner Knowledge of the Truth, that we already have on a higher level of ourselves. And if it is impossible to see the Truth with our human mind, then we should apply to our higher one – our Soul.   
So thus, through all the stages of my life, I began to re-establish, to prove the inner Truth that has always lived inside of me with the help of existing world religions and philosophies. It was like putting all the puzzles together by learning more and more and feeling more happy and guided towards the Light with every new child step, that the Universe was showing to me.