The circle of logic is complete. We see the reason for it. We see why it is in our own best
interest to apply this wisdom. It is no longer an act of altruism, but of practicality. It is simply
what works—for Us. Why is the Golden Rule not taught this way from the very beginning, to
little children?
The question is not, Why hasn’t this been done in the past? The question is, What do you
intend to do in the future? Go, therefore, and teach ye all nations, spreading far and wide The
New Gospel:
WE ARE ALL ONE.
OURS IS NOT A BETTER WAY, OURS IS MERELY ANOTHER WAY.
Speak it not only from your pulpits, but from the halls of your governments as well; not only in
your churches, but in your schools; not only through your collective conscience, but through
your collective economies.
Make your spirituality real, right here, right now, on the ground.
It sounds like You’re talking about politicizing our spirituality. Yet there are those who say that
spirituality and politics should not mix.
You cannot avoid politicizing your spirituality. Your political viewpoint is your spirituality,
demonstrated.
Yet perhaps it is not a matter of politicizing your spirituality, but of spiritualizing your politics.
But I thought that there was to be a separation of Church and State. Don’t we get into trouble
when we try to marry religion and politics?
Indeed, you do, and I am not talking about that. You may decide that Church and State are
best left separate. Based on your results, you may decide that religion and politics do not
mix. Spirituality, on the other hand, may be another matter.
The reason you may decide that Church and State should be separate is that Church means
a particular point of view, a particular religious belief. You may have observed that when such
beliefs inform your politics, you create great controversy and political strife. This is because
all people do not hold the same religious beliefs. And, in fact, not all people even participate
in religion or church, in any form.
Spirituality, on the other hand, is universal. All people participate in it. All people agree with it.
They do? You could have fooled me.
They do, even if they do not know it, even if they do not call it that. This is because
“spirituality” is nothing more than life itself, as it is.
Spirituality says that a/i things are part of life, and that is a statement with which no one can
disagree. You can argue all you want about whether there is a God, and whether all things
are part of God, but you cannot argue about whether there is Life, or whether all things are
part of Life.
The only discussion left then is whether life and God are the same things. And I tell you, they
are.
Even an agnostic—even an atheist—would agree that there is some force in the Universe
that is holding it all together. There is also something that started it all. And if there is
something that started it all, there has to have been something existing before the universe
as you now know it existed.
The universe didn’t just burst into being out of thin air. And even if it did, “thin air” is
something. And even if you say that the universe burst into being out of nothing at all, still you
must deal with the question of first cause. What caused something to arise out of nothing at
all?