[continued from previous message]   
      
   10:1-2, 22, 38-42   
      
   11:9-13, 17, 29   
      
   12:6-7, 24-28, 33, 51-53   
      
   13:1-3, 10-17, 31-32, 34-35   
      
   14:26-26   
      
   16:1-13, 19-31   
      
   18:9-14, 18-19, 24-25   
      
   19:1-6, 28-35   
      
   20:19-38   
      
   21:8, 32   
      
   22:29-30, 35,38   
      
   23:4, 12-29, 39-46, 49-56   
      
   24:1-10, 36-43   
      
   John   
   1:18, 23, 29-34, 41   
      
   2:1-11   
      
   3:16   
      
   4:1-2, 21-22   
      
   6:47-66, 71   
      
   7:19-25, 40-43   
      
   8:41-47   
      
   10:14-40   
      
   12:1-8   
      
   13:21-30, 34-35   
      
   14:6   
      
   15:12, 17   
      
   18:10, 28-37   
      
   19:13-22, 25-42   
      
   20:1-14, 24-29   
      
   21:12-14, 21-22   
      
   Acts   
   1:1-4, 12-20   
      
   2:44-45   
      
   4:31-17   
      
   5:1-11, 37   
      
   10:44-48   
      
   11:1-18   
      
   12:1-2, 17, 25   
      
   13:5, 13.   
      
   15:13-29, 36-40   
      
   16:37-38   
      
   17:1-4   
      
   18:18-19   
      
   21:18   
      
   Romans   
   6:13   
      
   13:1-7   
      
   14:14-23   
      
   16:13   
      
   1 Corinthians   
   9:19-23   
      
   11:1-15   
      
   14:34-35   
      
   16:22   
      
   Galatians   
   2:1-21   
      
   Ephesians   
   5:22-24   
      
   Philippians   
   4:3   
      
   Colossians   
   3:18   
      
   1 Timothy   
   2:1-15   
      
   2 Timothy   
   4:11, 19-21   
      
   Philemon   
   1:24   
      
   James   
   5:12   
      
   1 Peter   
   3:1-6   
      
   1 John   
   3:7-10   
      
   4:1-6   
      
   Revelation   
   2:13   
      
   13:1-2   
      
   20:7-15   
      
   21:1-8   
      
   22:18-19   
      
      
      
   “Those who practice this proto-psycho-spirituality can easily recognize those   
   demons in human framework. Then, after recognizing them, it is their duty to   
   expose them to others also, to make people understand that they are repeatedly   
   harming human    
   society. It is not enough for one to personally unmask them: one must open the   
   eyes of others also. Only in this way can the well-being of the world be   
   promoted. Thus it will not be sufficient to lie peacefully in wait, like   
   goody-goodies in isolated    
   ivory towers. One will have to spread one's wings and soar high into the blue   
   firmament”.   
      
   Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar   
      
   The Liberation of Intellect – Neo-Humanism   
      
      
      
      
      
   ----------------------------------------------------------------   
   ---------------   
      
   [1] Here one should be careful to distinguish between Brahma (the Infinite   
   Entity) and Brahma' (the mythological Creator of this Universe, who is but one   
   third of a Hindu trinity comprising the Creator, the Sustainer and the   
   Destroyer). One must also be    
   careful about the use of the words God and Allah, both of which have many   
   limiting and anthropomorphic connotations.   
      
   [2] Some philosophers have raised a storm in their tea cups over the question   
   of whether or not Infinity is an entity or a state of being. The same question   
   might also be asked about human existence as well. Is a human being a state or   
   an entity?    
   Nowadays modern physicists recognize the electron as both a particle and a   
   wave. Similarly, a human being is both an entity and a state of being. Why,   
   then, should we not conceive of the Supreme Being, Infinity, as both entity   
   and state? Perhaps the    
   concept of vibrational states is more subtle than the more static notion of   
   entitative existence. However, both points of view are useful and accurate at   
   times. Should the philosophers wish to give a final judgement on this matter   
   concerning Infinity,    
   then at least one of them must become infinite in order to be sure.   
   Unfortunately, or fortunately, in that very instant when the philosopher   
   merges in the Infinite, s/he will cease to exist, for absolute infinity (as   
   even all the philosophers admit) is    
   always only one.   
      
   [3] Exodus 20:5.   
      
   [4] 1 Chronicles 21:1; Job 1:6; Zechariah 3:1-2; Matthew 4:1-11; and   
   Revelation 2:13.   
      
   [5] Genesis 1:28.   
      
   [6] The psalms of David reveal a clear preoccupation with deliverance from and   
   destruction of enemies. See Psalms: Psalm 1, Psalm 2, Psalm 3.   
      
   [7] Let us hope that this is the case. The sad history of the world reveals   
   that whenever and wherever an imbalance has grown between the development of a   
   more scientific technology and the refinement of a more humane civilization,   
   that human society has    
   invariably destroyed itself. Today we find only archaeological remnants to   
   remind us of the once great Greek, Roman and Egyptian societies, all three of   
   which collapsed under the weight of material aggrandizement made possible by   
   the science of the age    
   and untempered by more subtle spiritual values. (Quite probably it was the   
   same cause which led to the cataclysmic disappearance of Atlantis and Lemuria,   
   but there the destruction was so comprehensive that even today we have scant   
   information about those    
   ancient civilizations.)   
      
   One more point should be made. The real crisis today is not the advancement of   
   science nor the development of nuclear weapons – no one can reverse the course   
   of scientific advancement just as no one can turn back the wheels of time. Our   
   problem today is    
   that the standard of civilization lags far behind. While science is moving   
   ahead by leaps and bounds, breaking all the limitations of outmoded and often   
   dogmatic theories, civilization remains steeped in the mire of superstition.   
   Today's challenge is to    
   apply rational and liberated intellect to the pressing problems of   
   civilization – to raise the consciousness of the general populace and to   
   establish more harmonious balance between science and civilization. Those who   
   try to retard or discard the    
   advancement of science (in order to reduce science to the current standard of   
   civilization) want only to keep society entombed with the catafalque of old   
   conventions from which they personally derive a form of selfish though   
   sometimes illusory    
   gratification. Their negative approach, however, has no place in a dynamic   
   society; their pernicious influence in both past and present has done and   
   still does wreak immeasurable harm. A healthy human society must adopt a   
   positive and optimistic approach    
   to life. Human existence is a progressive movement within the context of a   
   benevolent Universe.   
      
   [8] In the sale of indulgences the Church had discovered a fantastic way to   
   raise money with minimal effort. This program was so lucrative that there   
   remain paintings of the event which depict government officials minting new   
   coins so that the people    
   could have the wherewithal to buy a pardon from purgatory for their poor   
   departed relatives. Church propaganda promoted indulgences by assuring the   
   public that those who secured indulgences need not be contrite themselves for   
   the sins of their deceased    
   family members. All they had to do was pay appropriate fees and “As soon as   
   the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.”   
      
   [9] The Mormons, also known as the Latter Day Saints, number almost four   
   million, of whom about 80% live in the U.S.A., including approximately 70% of   
   the population of the state of Utah. Besides being known for maintaining   
   detailed and extensive    
   genealogical records for the alleged purpose of saving the dead through   
   baptism by proxy, the Mormons have also achieved a degree of notoriety for   
   their historical indulgence in and support of the practice of polygamy, and   
   for their steadfast refusal to    
   accept anyone with black skin into their priesthood. Although polygamy was   
   ultimately rejected just before the end of the nineteenth century, it has been   
   only in very recent years that the curse of Joseph Smith, the founding father,   
   which banned persons    
   with black skins from the priesthood has been lifted. Perhaps even more   
   interesting and less well known is the Mormon adherence to a poly-theistic   
   creed that has God evolving from human beings, and the Trinity existing as   
   three distinctly separate    
   entities.   
      
   [10] These may be termed respectively as “geo-sentiment minimitis” and   
   “geo-sentiment maximitis”.   
      
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)