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Throughout the works of Unarius, there are many admonitions against certain
religious practices, chiefly that of the common subterfuge called prayer. Like
Jesus, who said, "Do not pray as does the heathen on street corners and in
synagogues, or temples", etc., the Moderator (of Unarius) does not believe
in prayer, and there are many important facts and considerations which point out
the falseness of this practice (or for that matter, in religion itself). First,
any person who prays to some god, lord, Jehovah, or any other (so-called) saint
or intercessor, etc., is praying to a false image. There are no such gods, and
any person who prays to one or more of them is deluding himself with a
common image constructed under the pressure of an escape mechanism. It is true,
there are spiritual agencies and Beings who are sufficiently powerful or
developed to be able to bring about certain changes in peoples’ lives when
prayed for; however these agencies and Beings are far too intelligent to grant
such prayers as they are asked for, and under their specified conditions.
The wholesale granting of
prayers would quickly turn the world into wild chaos, far worse than can be
imagined; for, if you think a moment, granting all such prayers would be
impossible without dire results. All people who pray do so selfishly
motivated, even though they may think they are praying for other people
or objectives. They are, in reality, only trying to achieve their own
ends, to exercise power, and to differentiate right and wrong for other
people and conditions of life. Two armies going into battle pray for
victory over each other; that would be difficult for any god to solve, but not
nearly as difficult as answering the hundreds of millions of people all praying
for, not only themselves but that their god should change the world to suit
their personal needs, or what they believe to be a better world. They could not
recognize the obvious fact that in changing either themselves or other people
through prayer, they would be changing the normal course of evolution for all
involved, thus cheating themselves and others out of the beneficial advantages
of a normal course of evolution.
Prayerful people do not
see other obvious facts: that Infinite Intelligence has, in creation, an
inflexible law or principle which equalizes all things, good or evil, and makes
progressive evolution possible to a more intelligent way of life. For every
evil, small or large, there is an equal amount of good, plus a 10% bias which
insures progression. People who pray do not recognize certain psychological
implications which are involved. The granting of prayer, individually or
collectively, would tend to morally weaken any individual and make it more
difficult for him to determine his own course of life. Collectively, it could
develop into a great hypocrisy, for the granting of prayer on a mass scale would
induce even the most vile and iniquitous people to pray for their own ends and
would result in great moral prostitution.
Therefore, any spiritual
agencies or Beings who would have power to grant prayer, do so only on very rare
occasions when circumstances are such that it justifies such changes and when
such a prayer can be granted under conditions which do not generally appeal to
the masses of people or that they cannot capitalize upon it, or that it cannot
be tangibly proven to all, etc. Under such conditions then, prayer and any
benefits from it still remain too intangible to be an effective threat against a
normal course of evolution. Individually or collectively, the average prayerful
supplicant does not know that in prayer, he is actually confessing his sins to
himself, even though he is directing his conversation to some supposed god or
deity. This confession does have some beneficial effect; it temporarily diverts
the straight thought line of certain negations from the repetitious oscillating
process which tends to increase itself with each counter negative reversal.
There is also a slim chance that sooner or later, the supplicant will recognize
the fact that he is in self-confessional; and in a more expanded concept of
life, he will realize that all his trials, troubles and tribulations are really
those of his own making. He committed them in ignorance and perpetrated them in
increasing numbers and forms in the same ignorance of life. In this way then,
through self-confessional, any person can by such objectivism, develop a strong
personal moral responsibility, one which is free from false gods and deistic
intercessions, for such personal moral integrity must be built upon a firm
foundation of self-realization, one’s own personal position in the scale of
evolution—what creation is—and the determinant which makes life possible at
any point in this evolution.
The most difficult task
any person encounters in his personal evolution is in obtaining for himself an
honest objective self-confession or analysis; and before that point is
reached, all people fight like madmen, commit heinous crimes, invent endless
subterfuges, suffer endless tortures before they finally corner themselves—so
to speak—and begin to admit that they individually, are morally responsible
for their thoughts and actions, their conditions in life, and by the same
admission, their future.
Today's chaotic state of
the world is, in a very broad sense, the ultimate result of such endless
fighting against self-realization; and as of today, there is an even greater
variety, a more endless chain of circumstantial evidence which every human now
presently living is using to avoid the inevitable ultimatum which he must some
day arrive at, or face gradual and eventual self-destruction.
Today's religious and
political systems are all part of this self-invented machination which man has
contrived to avoid the inevitable. Just as a prayerful supplicant attempts to
justify his ignorance, his wrongful conduct, his poverty, his pain, etc., before
some fancied deity, so the world, too, indulges itself in mass
hallucination that there will be peace and good will among nations; for how can
there be such when each person is a veritable volcano of suppressed desires and
emotions. They live in an atmosphere of carnal lusts and desires; and they are
literally mired to their very chins in the cesspool-like mud and slime of
insecurity which has been cast as offal into the material world by those who
live it and all its temporal materialism.
Perhaps you personally
might attempt to validate prayer, that it is a relief valve or that it
temporarily deviates destructive oscillating processes. If you do, remember such
excuses or vindications, such as prayer, are only moral opiates, they are habit
forming because you acquire a dependency upon them; and like opium, or other
narcotics so continuously indulged in, moral opiates will destroy you just as
quickly and much more thoroughly than do any of the chemical opiates.
If you wish to
become a better person, to live a better life, then you must do so by first
learning how such a life is lived; that such a life is possible in one of the
many mansions. This is your personal task; but more than a task—for only in
its accomplishment will you find immortal life. And so the next time that you
rail against your circumstances or that you bemoan the evils in your life, your
sickness, poverty, the indispositions of others toward you, don't get down on
your knees to some false god and pray to be relieved of these conditions, or to
change other people; but instead, get yourself off in the quiet corner and
have an honest objective face to face talk with yourself. Try to analyze and
realize that any circumstances in which you find yourself, are there because you
realized and conceived them in your own mind; you believed in them to the extent
that you became subjective to them; and, conversely, realize that when you have
instituted new circumstances, new conditions, etc., and believe in them, just as
completely as you have done with your past circumstances, then these new
circumstances will form your life.
It is almost needless to
point out that these new circumstances should be more desirable and less fraught
with evil indispositions than are your now present circumstances. These simple
elemental metaphysics have been repeatedly stressed throughout the works of
Unarius. They are a fundamental logical approach to self-realization and a
better life. These same concepts were taught by the Nazarene; they have been
taught in a similar form many times by other Avatars and this concept of
self-realization will form the cornerstone in whatever you achieve in the
future.
I will not bend my knee
to seek the truth of life
But
from within it is, I’ll find
and
then I’ll cease my endless strife
