"What is the answer to the world's
problems?" is the all-important question of today. "What can
we do to save ourselves from captivity, from slavery, from utter
destruction?" Is there any "pat" answer that can be given to
these queries? Is there any answer -- one that is certain,
positive, absolute? If so, who holds it? Where must we
go to find it? What must we do to obtain it?
Most of the world has tried some
form of ideology, of theology. Scientific endeavor has been
applied. The discussion approach has been used over and
over, yet misunderstandings, bickerings, selfishness and political
fanaticism, like the "dog-in-the-manger," still block any
appreciable progress toward planetary peace, serenity,
security.
Does not the trouble seemingly stem
from the nature of humanity? Has it, from its fabled
inception, brought forth an ultimate other than death to whatever
it purportedly evolved, produced, generated or fathered?
Were not greed, selfishness, fear, falsity and hatred the
motivating impulses that prompted Adam and Eve to partake of the
forbidden fruit, and later caused Cain to slay his
brother?
Who is to say it is a national warp
that must be taken into consideration before we can know
harmony? Who is to say it is a racial quirk that blocks our
progress? Who is to say that color is the "great
threat"? Who is to say that we "labor in vain" because we
have forsaken the God-of-our-fathers?
Yes, one will advance this theory,
that theory, and spend valuable hours trying to convince his
neighbor to the rightness of his particular stand, but is his
particular theory any more valid than that of his
neighbor?
In our works on Infinite Reality,
it has been our endeavor to make clear that the trouble is not
with God, nor with man. We have set forth the nature of
Truth, of Life, of Reality wherein naught beside can be. In
BACHELOR GOD we point out the impossibility of a coexistence of
Life with death, Truth with error, Good with evil, Reality with
absurdity, Spirit with humanity.
Truth is not a theory, not a
humanly devised system for social application or
consumption. Truth asks for no following, and can have none
by the very nature of Its Single Infinite Omnipresent
Totality.
Truth is not undergoing evolution,
nor does It permit or advocate revolution. It does not admit
or permit personal or national enslavement, control,
indoctrination. Truth does not know or promote any "ism"
whereby the masses can be manipulated as herds of sheep.
Spirit is not putting the human race on trial, not trying to sift
the worthy from the unworthy, or testing any "body."
Intelligence alone is the sole
answer to our opening queries. By this we do not mean human
theories, devised forms or systems that will lead us to a desired
end, but Intelligence Itself, that which is sometimes known as
Spirit, Mind, Love, God, the Sole Self-that-is-Life-in-Action here
and now.
To approach the great question:
"What is Truth?" by way of a human doctrine, opinion, assumption
is to entirely ignore Truth. Only Truth knows Truth; only
Intelligence, the Infinite Mind, knows Itself, for naught less
than this Omniscient One can know Itself. For too
long the so-called finite, the human sense called "man" has
presumed to sit in the seat of Awareness, babbling nonsense which
it would pass off as Intelligence! In its self-conceit this
assumed mentality, this finite guesser pontifically pronounces its
decisions as to what is so, and what is not, but so far it has not
touched Infinity, and never will.
Let us no longer cling to opinion,
but let us "begin" with what Infinite Intelligence, the Alone
Spirit knows Itself to be, for this alone is the answer to our
world's problems. How? Because where Truth
is, where Infinity is, where Existence (Life)
is, Its pretended finite reverse ( Its would-be absence)
cannot possibly be!
In other words, this volume (as all
our books on Reality) deals with REALITY WHICH IS OMNIPRESENTLY IN
OPERATION, and not with the finite assumptions of Truth's
negation. In this book we deal with that which is practical,
not with theories which have proven themselves impractical from
their inception. We point out the nature of honesty, in lieu
of dishonesty; Affluence in lieu of poverty, want,
limitation. We deal with WHAT WE BE, not with the assumption
that we are mere chips off the block of humanity.
Should one attempt to read this
volume as he would a novel, he is certain to perceive little if
any, of what it says. If one reads with the intent to behold
a fresh view of an age-old question, he will be delighted over his
"discovery." None can fail to behold a "new world, a new
Self" if he will be honest with his Self as he reads.
That our exposition be even more
clear to the one who picks up this book for the first time, who
"comes to it fresh," let us emphasize that this is not
metaphysics, not theology -- even though we mention God, Spirit,
man, and so on. This work, while pointing out certain
failings of religion, is not anti-religion. The same holds
good for education, but we are not anti-education . In Fact,
we are not anti aught!
Our approach to the momentous
questions of the day is rather one of philosophy, not
theology. To try to read metaphysics into it, is to
adulterate it. To assume that we are merely repeating what
has been said before, is to "mist"-read.
There is a certain amount of
repetition in the context of this volume, but this is
intentional. Our statement of Truth is revolutionary -- our
comments on man, controversial. Because of this we highlight
major facts by reiteration. These will serve to emphasize
important points to the earnest reader, and so prove
helpful.
Semantics are such that a new
viewpoint is difficult to make clear at a single glance.
While we use words that are familiar to the average metaphysician
or religionist, the reader must weigh carefully the deeper
definition of each word, its order, its capitalization if he would
actually behold our meaning. Unless he does, the material
will seem absurd, if not downright preposterous. So, here is
to happy reading.
The Author
NEW YORK,
N.Y.
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SEPTEMBER
1962
