Prior Unity Rules No Kingdom Here
The Totalitarian Politics of
"Revelation" and "Rulership"
Must Be Transcended and Avoided -
By Means of the Global Exercise of
the Principles of Right and True Civilization
By the World-Friend
Adi Da
The three principal religious traditions of the Middle East are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Each of the three traditions is a variant on the religious mode of thinking called "monotheism" (which conceives of the world and the human being with reference to a "God"-idea that defines Ultimate Reality as being both One and Indivisible.)
In their origins, all three traditions have the same general Semitic cultural, social, and political background - except that Christianity, uniquely among the three, was immediately and coincidently developed (and extended to outside and beyond the general Semitic domain of politics, society, and culture) by means of a thorough re-acculturation (and a thorough social and political re-adaptation) to the cultural, social, and political domain of ancient Greece and Rome.
All three of these monotheistic traditions are, in their "official" formulations, thoroughly exoteric (or public oriented) in their nature and context - and each of them has always tended toward the status of an "official" State-religion.
All three of these traditions are composed of three principal elements: the "Book", the "Teacher", and the "Religion".
In Judaism, the "Book" is the "Torah" ( or the "Five Books of Moses") - and the "Hebrew Bible" as a whole is the larger text of the essential tradition.
In Christianity, the "Book" is the "New Testament" (and, especially, the "Four Gospels").
In Islam, the "Book" is the "Koran".
In Judaism, the "Teacher" is Moses (the "Law-Giver").
In Christianity, the "Teacher" is Jesus (the "Savior", or the "Christ").
In Islam the "Teacher" is Mohammed (the "Prophet").
In Judaism, the "Religion" is the "Temple"-cult of Jerusalem (the ancient priestly "Seat of the original Kingdom").
In Christianity, the "Religion" is the cult of the "Eucharist" (both as the ritual of the perpetual "Sacrifice" of Jesus as the "Savior-Christ" and the ritual of the perpetual re-"Ascension" of Jesus to the "Throne" of cosmic "Kingship" as the "Son of God").
In Islam, the "Religion" is the cult of the "Doctrines and Traditions" (of Mohammed, the "Revealer of the Book").
There are numerous particular historical, cultural, doctrinal, and cultic differences between these three monotheistic traditions, but the principal difference between each of them (in comparison to the other two) is in relation to the doctrinal idea of what constitutes the principal (or characteristic and unique) "Revelation" that is the core of the particular tradition.
In Judaism, the "Book" is the "Revelation".
In Christianity, the "Teacher" is the "Revelation".
In Islam, the "Religion" is the "Revelation".
For Judaism, the "Book" (or the "Divine Words") must achieve the "Final Victory" (whereby, at the "end of the time', the politically-established sacramental priestly tradition of Judaism will "Rule the world").
For Christianity, the "Teacher" (or the "Incarnation of the Divine Word") must achieve the "Final Victory" (whereby at the "end of time", the politically-established sacramental tradition of Christianity will "Rule the world").
For Islam, the "Religion" (or the politically-established religious movement "Inspired by the Divine Word") must achieve the "Final Victory", (whereby at the "end of time", the authoritarian religio-political tradition of Islam will "Rule the world").
Fundamentally, among all the religious traditions of the world, only Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are inherently (and aggressively) associated with an expansionistic ideal (and attitude of not only cultural, but also social and political superiority) that irreducibly intends (and actively pursues) the destiny (to which each of those three traditions appoints itself) of total world-domination (or global totalitarian "Rulership").
Likewise, by their very nature, these three religious (and comprehensively and irreducibly cultural, social, and political) traditions are, perpetually, in an intentionally performed state of competition, that always seeks (and frequently achieves) conflict, confrontation, and even aggressive war-fare, with one another - and even with all other religions, cultural, social, and political traditions, systems, or institutions in the world.
Because of all of this, humankind as a whole must especially beware of these three religious, cultural, social, and political traditions (including all of their variant formulations, systems, and institutions).
Likewise, humankind as a whole must, by all right cooperative means, refuse to allow (and altogether, act to prevent) these three traditions - and indeed, any and all other traditions, systems, or institutions - from achieving any kind of larger public state of conflict, confrontation, or otherwise aggressive (or even war-like) opposition either to one another or to any of the other religious, cultural, social, and/or political traditions, systems, or institutions in the public world.
The total world of humankind can easily be drawn into a terminal state of conflict by means of the public theatrical exploitation of the mummer's false-face of exoteric "religion" - only, in due course, to find that a "dark" political, social, and cultural tyranny has been embraced by seemingly "lightest" means.
The world of humankind as a whole must, now, and forever hereafter, embrace and maintain a new, true, and (because of the now global mutuality of humankind as a whole) unique integrity of civilization wherein and whereby all religious, cultural, social, and political traditions, systems and institutions are perpetually disciplined (and, thus and thereby, kept in balance) by means of the civilizing global exercise of the principles of totality, universality, prior unity, tolerance, and cooperation.
If there is a lapse or a failure in that "self"-disciplining integrity on the part of universal totality of humankind, then religious, cultural, social, and/or political factions can (and will) arise in the midst, and even become everywhere (and in a totalitarian manner) dominant, by exploiting the divisions, and the weakness, and the ignorance of the otherwise separate parts of the human world.
Therefore, the now necessary global civilization of the totality of humankind requires the "self"-discipline that is the universal, and comprehensive, and all-including exercise of holistic integrity - or the everywhere exercise of the principle of prior unity, demonstrated by means of mutual cooperation and mutual tolerance (and thus and thereby, the self-enforcement of a global state of peace) - and this rather than totalitarian achievement and authoritarian enforcement of universal global "Rulership" on the part of any separately particularized idealism (whether religious, cultural, social, or political in nature).
By means of the universal global exercise of active true civilization by the "all" of humankind together, all totalitarian idealism - whether religious, cultural, social, or political in their nature - must be required to renounce and relinquish their presumptions of superiority and their programs of global domination.
However, if humankind as a whole does not establish and embrace a truly civilized Global Cooperative Order (and a globally effective Global Cooperative Forum), all those who imagine they have the exoteric "Rights" of ego-based exclusive "Revelation" (whether religious, cultural, social, or political) will never cease (by every kind of exercise of "Power" and "War") to pursue authoritarian and totalitarian world-domination by means of the final establishing of "Kingdom" and "Rule" by their own "Winning Side".
The "Powers" of nation-states that would exercise themselves in the name of one or the other of the three "Great Religions" of the Middle East now presume they can wage "Final War" and, thus and thereby, establish "Final Rule" - and they are now actively moving themselves on that basis.
There is only one human "Power" on Earth that can restore the "Balance of Power" and prevent the global conflagration now planned by the "Mummers of Religion".
That "Power" that must now Dissent, and Nay the course of all the "Holy Plans", is the "Humble Unity" of the all of humankind As One.
