With the help of God

Human Rights

In anticipation that someone will answer that believing whatever one
will is a basic human right and constitutes the basis of democracy
and freedom, I should like to offer you this alternative vision. It
is my hope and prayer that you will see that this vision of human
rights offers freedoms vastly greater than the pittances being
allowed you now. The piece is a bit long. Glean what you will. It
contains a good deal of what I intended to say to you when the idea
of beginning this group was placed in my heart and mind. Having
given this piece over I can stay my conscience in holding my peace -
at least for awhile ;0).

HUMAN RIGHTS

Much is spoken about human rights and human rights violations. There
is an inherent problem with this approach to trying to create a just
world for humans to live in that is conducive to the actualizing of
human potential. Even for the most "humanistic" among us, hearing
the word "human" conjures up associations of that which is flawed
and temporal . For those among us who are of a less generous spirit,
the word "human" arouses visions of that which is barely more than
animal, that which can be exploited and abused, that which is to be
preyed upon. Of course there are those who feel free to decide who
is human and to what degree. The concept of human rights is
vulnerable to being usurped by secular "humanist" who have their own
agenda for the future of Humankind, as will be discussed shortly. At
worst, the really unsavory among us can perpetrate all kinds of
perversions of justice even as they hide behind the banner of "human
rights". It seems clear that appealing to our gentler sentiments with
the subject of "human rights" is doomed to failure. We are in need
of an unequivocal concept that cannot be distorted or used cynically
and opportunistically.

When secular humanitarians speak about "human rights" they are
convinced that they are well-meaningly edging the world toward a
scenario in which everyone is making a good enough living to have
access to enough creature comforts so as to be a bit dulled and
lethargic and not be a nuisance or a threat to those who are getting
really rich at their expense. They want to create a world of
willing, salary slaves who are making enough money to indulge their
passions and fantasies, and thus be addicted to them. In the body of
this paper I hope to demonstrate that this is in fact a regime of
extreme cruelty and is in disharmony with everything that we were
brought into existence to accomplish. We are not intended to reach
the zenith of human potential as envisioned by secular humanists. We
are intended to actualize the GODLINESS which is inherent in each and
every one of us. Preventing a Human Being from actualizing his/her
GOD-SELF, keeping people unaware that this SELF exists, is a terrible
torment, indeed, even if the means of prevention is considered
pleasant and desirable by the individual who prefers to be a slave to
his/her lower Self.

Keeping one's own SELF enslaved, is the gravest infidelity that one
can commit.

When the slaveholder acts cruelly to the slave he causes the slave to
contemplate escape. What merit can be found in the slave who, being
able to walk out free, chooses to remain and be the chattel of
another, even though he serves in a palace? Although it is true that
there are Souls that take it upon Themselves to experience all manner
of hardships in order to bring the Light of GOD to the nether worlds,
these are not the most advanced Souls spiritually. It is possible to
achieve the same wisdom by higher means.

True kindness resides in educating and encouraging the Human race
from our birth to believe in GOD, in Ourselves and in Each Other. It
means making each person know that they are participating in the
great unfolding of the INFINITE. True kindness towards our children
resides in seeing to it that every avenue for spiritual advancement
is open to them and preventing anything from impeding that
advancement. We need to protect our children from falling prey to
those who would hinder their enjoyment of, or interfere with, the
spiritual journey by addicting them to gross physical and emotional
stimulation.

We also have the problem of defining what exactly are "Human rights".
Questions like the following arise: Does every human have the right
to a home? Does every human have the right to adequate food and
hygiene? Does every human have the right to be literate? Does
every human have the right to be healthy and free of pain? Does
every human have the right to reproduce? Do these rights extend to
all humans under all circumstances? Why is it that we see that GOD
has commissioned nature to take these "rights" from some humans? Why
is it hat GOD has given us the power to torment one another? What
are we to say about those humans who willingly give up some or all of
these "rights"? These questions confound the mind because we are
trying to understand what a Human is, and what a Human's rights are
in a secular, materialistic and even mechanical way. We then fall
into the trap of imagining the questions to be of an academic,
intellectual nature. The issues as to what Humans need and whether
these needs can be satisfied and how become crystal clear when we
conceive of what a Human being is clearly.

Actually, a Human has only one right. That is the right to spiritual
evolution. The right to attain the highest possible level of GOD IN
HUMAN FORM that that particular Human can, in that particular
lifetime is the only right that one has. This is the only reason
that we Humans exist at all. And the reason for this is very simple -
we Humans are GOD as IT is manifesting in Self-awareness in time and
space. I will say that again for the secular and the religious alike-
WE ARE GOD ITSELF BECOMING. Our one and only right is the right to
attain the level of GOD ITSELF BEING as well as GOD BECOMING. All
that we need, as GOD incarnate, in order to evolve from GOD BECOMING
to GOD BEING AND BECOMING are our needs as Human beings and
everything that we need to fulfill our purpose will flow to us
naturally once we have consciously dedicated ourselves to this
purpose. We will have to make a concerted effort to attain or
purpose, but will not be in a rat race, having that disturbing
feeling that our Herculean efforts are Sisyphean. Could the answer be
so simple? Yes. One of the very worst addictions we suffer from
when we are in the state of being unenlightened as to our own and
others GODLINESS is addiction to creating problems and then trying to
solve them. Intellectuals love the various wheels created in their
heads by this. Business people love the wheels of wheeling and
dealing created by this. Do-gooders love feeling necessary because,
after all, if there was no human misery, how could they be such do-
gooders? All this is busywork that keeps us from our goal. All this
is vanity and utter nonsense.

Once the above is clearly understood and internalized a lot of
questions dissolve into meaninglessness. When we realize that in
the presence of a Human Being we are in the presence of GOD ITSELF,
that we are being given the gift of witnessing how the UTMOST arrives
at being the UTMOST and that this is true of Ourselves as well, then
we cannot but relate to one another appropriately – with love and
awe and identification and the sincere desire to aid one other on our
shared way toward our goal of attaining the level of GOD BEING as
well as GOD BECOMING.

GOD ITSELF descends to the level of a Soul, which in turn forgets WHO
It is and creates a world to descend into. The Soul has many
adventures in that world for the purpose of becoming a more accurate
version of GOD incarnated. If a Soul is on the level where it
believes that there is merit in suffering and is not yet willing to
eschew the illusions of suffering, the Assembly of Sages of the
Higher Worlds will take a unanimous decision to allow that Soul to be
born into suffering until the Soul renounces suffering as unnecessary
and futile. That is the reason that there are those who are born in a
body or with a mind that causes them an inordinate amount of
suffering. The decision to be born as such must be ratified on the
highest levels of Wisdom. The Assembly of Sages in the Highest Worlds
allows a Soul to take on a defective physical vehicle for the express
purpose of advancing a Soul to the understanding that suffering is of
no avail. No one can make the decision for someone else in this
world that it is for the person's "good" to be maimed, persecuted,
tortured, abandoned, exiled, isolated or otherwise tormented. While
in this world we simply do not have the collective wisdom necessary
to be able to understand these matters. Therefore, we have no right
to hurt one another, but must act in accordance with the guidelines
of compassion as they have been passed down in the Holy written and
oral traditions of all Peoples. We have no right whatsoever to
create socio-economic misery just as we have no right whatsoever to
cause physical mental, emotional or spiritual injury.

There are some Humans who will instinctively know that for a
specified time in their lives, or even for their entire lives, they
must practice asceticism. Or, they must do so because the written
and/or oral tradition of their People requires that they do so if
they wish to advance spiritually. Such people will fast, live in the
most meager of conditions, deprive themselves of an intimate
relationship with another and procreation. Again, one can make these
decisions for oneself, but even then only in accordance with the
ancient agreed-upon tradition of ones People. The various traditions
relating to asceticism were handed down to each People by its own
Prophets, who were entrusted by the Assembly of Sages in the Higher
Worlds to teach their People those practices which are specific to
that People in order to bring them to the fulfillment of their
specific expression of GOD incarnated. No one outside the culture or
acting on his or her own understanding has the right to enforce
starvation, or deprivation of clean, decent, hygienic and healthful
living conditions, education or procreation on another living
being. It is known too, that all of the great world religions warn
against extreme asceticism and self-maiming. God enjoins us to enjoy
the world in holiness and in a circumspect manner as prescribed by
the Sages of every culture who have been named by the Assembly of
Sages in the Higher Worlds to be the keepers of the welfare of their
Peoples in accordance with the varying spiritual needs as they exist
and express themselves in different cultures.

Every culture has the absolute right to It's autonomous existence and
every individual in every culture has his/her right to existence.
Just as every color has it's natural and necessary right to existence
in the spectrum, so every culture represents a "frequency" of
spiritual "light" in the human spectrum and is absolutely essential
for the Divine to be revealed clearly. The taking away of the right
of existence from a person is the exclusive right of GOD or by those
acting in accordance with GOD's laws as they express themselves in
the long-standing religious traditions of the People to which an
accused person belongs. A death sentence must be carried out only by
the Sages of the condemned person's own culture, who, having taken a
joint decision to terminate that personality's existence, come to
that decisions because and only because the condemned person has been
found guilty of a sin that cannot be rectified in this world and
demands that the Soul be given a new opportunity to rectify the sin
in a different world. The Sages of the condemned person's own People
must carry out the execution of the death sentence and they must
declare an oath in public that they are taking the full
responsibility for what they are doing upon themselves, both in
Heaven and on Earth, and that their Souls will carry the full
responsibility for the decision and the action. A life cannot be
ended in any another way by Human agency. In those cultures which
have no established guidelines for death penalties, it may be
understood that the People of that culture are incapable of
committing any sin which cannot be rectified in this world, or are
capable of rectifying any sin they may commit in this world or are
still caught in the wheel of transmigration and will rectify their
sin in another configuration. Such persons may not be put to death
under any circumstances.

The success of those who are acting against the realization of GOD's
plan for this world is based on the following points:
1) They are organized.
2) We allow them to succeed because of our own
erroneous, but widely-held belief that suffering is meritorious and
the path to purification of ourselves and others.
3) We think that once having sinned we are irreparably damaged and
don't turn to God for help, feeling ashamed and disgraced.
4) We entertain a mentality of scarcity.
5) We envy and worship the rich and powerful.

It seems proper to address each of these issues in detail, as a great
deal of happiness or sorrow will come about as a result of our
putting these demons to rest.

1) There are many people in this world who genuinely love peace and
pursue peace. But they imagine themselves to be isolated or are
working in groups that hold views which prevent them from working
with others outside of the group on spiritual matters. If one holds
to the religious view that only the way s/he believes is true
Godliness, obviously the ability of that person to give oneself over
to the critical mass necessary to change this world is greatly
limited. We have been instructed, by the Wise in every culture that a
critical mass of People, working in concerted effort, toward the end
of the rectification of this World is necessary for the rectification
to come about in actuality. Even though spiritual giants have walked
the face of the earth, the rectification has not yet come about
because the cooperation necessary has not yet been attained. This
cooperation is in fact very difficult. We must respect that there are
beliefs and traditions that others cannot give up. There are
traditions and beliefs that we cannot give up, if we are to retain
our integrity as a child of a given People. All of our souls
contracted to take on certain beliefs when we were born into the
People we were born into. We must find, then, a way to think
paradoxically. We need to be able to join together in our common
desire to create a GOD-centered world, which requires that we fully
respect one another, but not relinquish the very religious
differences necessary for the whole spectrum of Godliness to exist.
We need to hold tenaciously on to that which makes us the distinct
expression of GOD that we are, even as we find those areas in which
it is permitted for us to surrender to that which is universal
GODLINESS in all of us. Even though this attainment is a difficult
one, indeed; it is also essential because GOD loves organized,
concerted efforts. This is why those who are not spiritually evolved
are yet able to succeed so long as they form organizations. We,
therefore, too must be able to form an organization of Souls
dedicated to the creation of a GOD-centered world. The alternative to
this is to live under the influence of organizations dedicated to
their own agendas. Please note: There is no intention of belligerence
in this type of organization whatsoever.

2) Unfortunately, many of us have been taught that there is
spiritual value in suffering and that suffering cleanses us of our
sins. We willingly allow ourselves to be humiliated, enslaved,
debased and otherwise tormented socio-economically. The idea that
GOD takes sadistic pleasure in Human suffering is attributing
perversion to GOD! If ever there was a carefully calculated mentality
devised to keep the masses down, this is it. GOD's premiere Self-
expressions are Love and Joy. God loves Joy. In the Chassidic
tradition of Judaism it is taught that the presence of GOD can only
rest on a person performing a GODLY precept in Joy. Let's throw the
masochism out the window.

3) We've been told that rectification of sin is so difficult as to
be well-nigh impossible. We think of GOD as a petty person, who
holds grudges and is unable to forgive. Or, perhaps, we're so ashamed
of having sinned that we think we're beyond hope. Know that the inner
essence of the request for forgiveness is the meditations of GOD on
forgiveness. By asking for forgiveness You are actually GOD ITSELF
bringing forgiveness into being. Not understanding more than a very
few words in Sanskrit, I could hear this clearly in Rajender
Krishan's transliteration of Aarti-the Hindu Daily Prayer (see this
web site www.boloji.com/hinduism/aarti.htm). While those who do
understand Sanskrit intend to praise GOD and beseech It (conceived of
as "Him") to be enlightened in reciting the Aarti. This is clear from
the translation of the prayer which Rajender Krishan offers on the
same web page. When one attributes meanings to words one finds it
difficult to hear the words as they are being uttered by GOD in the
realms above the intelligible. It is at these levels that forgiveness
is being brought into existence. Everything that exists in the
phenomenal world is mirrored in the Supernal worlds. The selfsame
prayers and meditations and chants that we pronounce are being
pronounced by GOD. By erasing the meanings of the words from our
minds, no matter how lofty, and just pronouncing the sounds, we erase
the imagined duality between Ourselves and GOD. One who can do this
is no longer under the influences that lead to reincarnation.

There is no need to fear that forgiveness of sins
comes only after many incarnations. *Know that reincarnation exists
only on a particular band of the entire spectrum of existence.*
Reincarnation exists on the levels of consciousness where beings
create the illusion of space/time and conceive of development in a
restricted way and we imagine that certain forms of existence are
preferable to others. When we want to keep ourselves distant from
other sentient beings or from ourselves in other configurations and
levels of consciousness, we create the illusion of space/time as the
medium in which this distancing is accomplished. We restrict our
understanding of development to mere value judgements. This is the
outcome of our ethnocentrism, prejudice and feelings of superiority
and inferiority toward other sentient beings. One of the advantages
of being in control of the emotions which are the progenitors of
ethnocentrism, prejudice, aversions, fear and delusions of
superiority and inferiority, is being loosened from the shackles of
worry that we'll be reincarnated as a so and so, whatever the bias
may be.

Rectification of sin is most effectively and
directly brought about by prayer. By using our GOD-like faculty of
speech, we jump over the band of existence on which reincarnation
occurs and we bring down forgiveness from very high levels of
Holiness.

Forgiveness too is powerful enough to jettison us
out of the sway of the spheres that keep us transmigrating. If we
are strong enough to forgive, really forgive, ourselves as well as
others, we have become strong enough spiritually to be impervious to
the forces of reincarnation. Clearly, praying for the welfare of
those who we imagine have harmed us creates a harmonic effect of
these two most powerful spiritual tools – prayer and forgiveness and
together they rectify and transform everything our Soul has
experienced. There is a Jewish prayer in which we declare to God that
we forgive anyone who has harmed us in any incarnation, we ask for
forgiveness in turn and pray that God will not punish anyone on our
account. It is a powerful prayer because it rectifies all of what
our Soul experiences in the present, past and future and elevates us
to the levels of Being beyond those governed by transmigration.

Saying prayers for the welfare of others, while
concentrating not on the meaning attributed to the words, but only
on the sounds and vibrations we are producing is most powerful.
Reciting prayers while concentrating only on the sounds and
vibrations being produced by the one/s saying the prayer is not
praying mindlessly by rote. It is praying on the level from which GOD
vivifies that which we are praying for and imbues it with the ability
to abide in this world. It is a very desirable level of prayer to
attain. Below this level words have meanings and therefore
perception is limited and constricted in one world in which laws are
immutable, phenomena are fixed. Here we experience GOD as Other and
that it why we pray to It in second or third person. Above this
level there is no differentiation, intelligibility or separation
whatsoever. We are at the level of the All in the All, all worlds
that exist at lower levels as distinguishable entities are
nullified/existent at once. There is no possibility for creating an
apprehensible, substantial, enduring world of any kind. Neither is
there any possibility of rectification of any world. The aim is
neither to obliterate the worlds nor to be caught in worlds the laws
of which hold us in thrall. The golden mean is to reach the level
where phenomena are being called into existence and are being imbued
with durability, but are not set in one possible interpretation.

4) We may believe that there are just so many resources in the
world, and GOD is not benevolent enough to see to it that those
resources to go around. We think it's really a big deal for GOD to
have to feed six billion people. Here we are conceptualizing GOD as
a petty tyrant. Pray for everything that you need. That means
everything - no matter how trifling the thing seems to you. There
are people who think of GOD as the head of a corporation, or as a
V.I.P. - they pray only for the big things. This too boils down to
anthropomorphizing the Divine.

5) This point is really an obfuscation of our senses, a vexation of the spirit
and a frittering way of precious energy. There isn't a moments' peace for those
who envy. As long as we secretly (or not so secretly) harbor the desire
to be like the people that are making our spiritual and material
lives intolerable, then we cannot become free from their sphere of
influence. Only when we want nothing of what they offer to tantalize
and addict us can we become free. When we stop waiting for our time
to arrive, when we can be the "cream of society" and experience the
dubious thrill of deluding ourselves that we control people's fates,
then they can do nothing to affect our fates.

*Know that the rich and powerful, the warlike and the politically shrewd have
only that which we allow them to have - that which we confer upon them.* The
tragedy of envy is that
the one who envies yearns bitterly for what s/he already has. The
object of the envy is an embodiment of an aspect of the Soul of the
envious and s/he doesn't even know it. The most effective way to deal
with a negative power is to have compassion upon it. To find within
Ourselves that which is creating it and liberate it from being
created in so deformed a way. Know that more than the oppressed need
to be liberated from oppression, the oppressors need to be liberated
from the insane drive to oppress. Their suffering is truly pathetic.
In order to accomplish our own liberation and that of our oppressors
we need to relate to our own consciousness as a beloved but unruly
child, who needs to be trained in self-discipline. There is nothing
to fear, hate, envy or be entranced by at all in any of these
embodiments of that which is in our own Souls and which we are
projecting onto emptiness. Neither is their any reason to allow their
existence to determine our courses of action. Everything that we
attribute to those whom we think control us, who we envy, who we
idolize are the very characteristics of our own Being. All of it –
omnipotence, beauty, wealth, power and more is within us. It only
appears to be standing outside ourselves in the form of others
because we are not aware of, no less in control of, our GODLY
creative abilities. BE these characteristics, but in GOD-
CONSCIOUSNESS, instead of projecting them onto empty space and then
quaking in fear and imagined helplessness or being enthralled by your
own beauty while thinking that beauty belongs to someone else, or
being consumed with envy of that which you possess in abundance so
great as to give it away, of slaving for a living even as it is You
creating all that is.

The above point demands elaboration. A
god is created when we project that which is inside of us onto one
specific point. This point becomes a personification. We worship
that personification, feel at the mercy of its caprices, propitiate
it, build temples and shrines to it at great expense and with much
labor, sacrifice all to it, even our children, and believe that it
bestows of its powers on us, we thus beseech its mercy. This is
idolatry. But this essay is not a diatribe against polytheistic
religions. The writer of this essay is well aware that the
enlightened sons and daughters of "polytheistic" religions know the
ONE AND ONLY. This is a critique of the bogus imitations of
monotheistic religions, and of most economic, social and political
regimes. Those who call themselves monotheists, even as they beg
foundations and government officials for money are idolaters. Those
who confer powers upon governments and industrialists are practicing
idolatry.

It seems logical and reasonable enough to assume that social, political and
economic problems are solved by putting intelligent social, political and
economic programs into practice. These programs are, of course, planned by the
intellectual
elite, implemented by the political elite and funded by the
economic elite. There's one drawback with this – it's never worked.
It never will it work. The planners, implementers and financiers
alike are being driven by their own egos. Even when they are well-
meaning, there is yet an element of ego in all they do. They, in
order to continue to do their "good", and be important, require the
continued dependence of unfortunates to be the recipients of
their "goodwill". Insatiability has always characterized gods. The
last thing they want is for suffering to be eradicated from its root;
they'd be out of a job! The illusion that one is helpless in the face
of his/her destiny and the illusion that a rich and powerful body
can "rescue" the "less fortunate" work hand in hand to perpetuate the
very real ugly specter of human misery which these illusions create .
This is the basis of the myth of the Hydra. You cut off one slimy
social, economic or political head and two grow back in its place.

The only way to do away with human ills
is to declare to all Mankind the real truth: YOU ARE GOD. START
ACTING LIKE IT. Every human ill and suffering comes from the fear of
admitting this Truth to Ourselves. We prefer to suffer the tortures
of the damned than to accept our Godliness. HOW LONG?! We have only
to believe in God and in Ourselves. The wisdom necessary to envision,
formulate and provide all the necessary means and conditions for all
peoples to express that aspect of GOD which they came into this world
to embody exists with us. That wisdom will descend to the lower
worlds from the higher worlds as a waterfall if we allow it to.

In the final analysis we see that we are really concerning ourselves
with God's right to existence in this world. When understood this
way see the colossal arrogance, and understand the ultimate futility
in trying to prevent this.

Let's grow out of our spiritual childhood and take responsibility for
that which we experience. It avails nothing to cry out to the idols
that we have created to save us from ourselves. Let us stop
imagining that GOD is like us when we are unenlightened and begin
recognizing that We are the Divinity in Human form when we are
enlightened. Let's stop relating to GOD only in the third person and
begin to refer to GOD in first, second and third person. As has been
taught: I AM THAT, YOU ARE THAT AND ALL THIS IS THAT.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat