by S. Poulos
the line mister, and the lord will repay you for that," someone screamed. "You sin against the Holy Spirit."
The chairman made a motion to the Teacher to continue.
"The spirits in this case are spirits that departed this Earth preoccupied with similar ideas and beliefs as the ones that are practicing in the" art" of speaking in tongues now, and which grab the opportunities to materialize their beliefs, by occupying the brains of the receptive individuals."
"You are doomed for that. You are going to burn for ever in hell," the heckler continued, turning towards the Teacher just before he reached the door.
"Go on," said the chairman.
"Now as the spirits in their Earth life happen to be of different Earthly backgrounds, they use the language that they happened to learn here on Earth. So, through the brain they invaded, they can recite various religious pieces, which to the unknown ones sound incomprehensible, and pious. They are certainly nothing to do with the Holy Spirit; in fact, spirits that are occupying themselves in the beyond with such things, we can say are ignorant ones, and certainly not holy."
"Damn you!" screamed the same guy as he reached the door.
"So far you talked about sinners. Is there something you can tell us about the opposite ones? The saints? Can you say something about that?" a Catholic clergyman asked.
"Saints as the churches portray them to us do not necessarily coincide with the spiritual laws of sainthood. It may be so, but not necessarily so, for the spiritual evaluation of a soul differs from that of man. In the eyes of man, someone may be estimated highly spiritual, and even pious, but not necessarily be so judged in the spiritual realm.
"In general, I would say this should be the aim of each spirit incarnated on this Earth. But usually the churches canonize as saints only those who were devotees of that particulate denomination. They seldom recognize a saint from a different faith or even denomination, and that alone should put man in to skepticism."
"Do you deny the ability of the church to elect the right person to be canonized? Do you imply that the church is biased to certain people? Either way it is preposterous!" the clergyman said. He stood up, and walked out.
The chairman nodded to the Teacher to continue.
"Why are we listening to this imposter?" heckled one other priest, as he followed the first.
"Come to the point," said the vice-chairman.
"So you are doubtful about the saints canonized by the church. I could tell you few whose sainthood you could not possibly deny. Millions if not billions around the world venerate them. Nevertheless, I don't want to enlarge on that here, I just want to ask you about Mary the mother of Jesus. Is she a saint or not? Should we venerate her or not?" another catholic clergyman asked.
"Mary was a spiritual being who did not have to evolve here on Earth through various reincarnations in order to mature spiritually. Mary came on this Earth with a special mission, and that was to bear the body of Jesus, the Son of God. She accomplished her mission in the utmost honorable way, and we should respect her for that, but not venerate and worship her as is the case today. Veneration and worship should be directed only to God."
"How about all this apparitions with the Madonna?" persisted the priest. "Are we supposed to ignore it to? Do you have contempt for the behavior of these people who worship Mary when they are confronted with this phenomenon?"
"There is an explanation for this behavior. In the history of man, in very rare occasions, the Queen of Heaven appeared not personally, but an image of her came to various individuals, and mainly kids, to admonish or even to give directions in dire situations to mankind. She appeared by herself or holding on her left side the son of man. Unable to explain this phenomenon, Earthmen assumed that this was Mary the Mother of Jesus. I say, they are two different personalities. The mother of Jesus incarnated on Earth once with a special mission, and that was to bear the child of Jesus. The Queen of Heaven occupies the highest possible spheres of the creation adjusted with that of the sphere of God, but never incarnated on Earth."
"Can you tell us something about the gods of various cultures, like the Greek gods, the Roman gods, the gods of various tribes etc.? Were they real? Were they in their imagination or what?" an anthropologist asked, representing that society.
"The gods of various cultures were real as they are still real today. The difference today is that man cannot see them anymore, except for a few individuals, and some tribesmen in remote areas, for man have lost the charisma of innocence. The more intellectual man becomes, the harder it gets for him to understand, see, and 'feel' natural things; so much so, that as the time passed by, all this knowledge became myths, fables, stories that grandmothers tell to their grandchildren in order to put them to bed."
"So they were gods after all?" the anthropologists continued.
"Although they were not gods that does not mean that they didn't exist. In the cases of the Greek, Roman and Scandinavian gods, they were elemental beings, who work unceasingly and unseeingly as they do today. In the case of bushman or the tribesman, these gods are beings without life of their own. The tribesman has created them themselves, through fear and anxiety. They appear as phantoms, specters, apparitions, and others. I have already stated that man cannot help but create his environment. I have also stated the importance of avoiding gaps in man's evolution and that was a part of it. However in the zeal of some well-to-do missionaries, in order to introduce monotheism, they managed to abolish the idea of the existing of the phantoms, elementals, etc., with immense consequences."
"So what is the difference between what the ancient cultures perceived as gods, with today's bushman?"
"The difference here is that in the first case the elemental beings are workers that sustain nature, and in the second case, beings that have been created by humans, without life of their own.
"As for the gods in our case, the right way would be to acknowledge the existence of these beings, and to educate people about them. We should explain that although they were not gods, nevertheless they do exist.
"In the old days before man succumbed to intellect, it was very common for individuals to see the elementals; so much so, that some of them even had rapport with the lords of the elements of Olympus, and Valhalla etc. Amazed with their enormous size, and their capabilities, the only thing they could think was that they were gods. If only man was willing, he would find many cases in human history to substantiate what I am stating here."
"I would like to take you back. You mentioned some spirits that incarnated on this Earth with special missions. Can you name some of them and some of their missions please?" a historian asked politely.
"Apart from Jesus who incarnated on this Earth, there are many more that came here with a special mission to help mankind in times of strife. Some of them are known to man although they managed to twist their teaching into dry, lifeless dogmas, as in the case of Christian churches that turn themselves into big organizations, whose main aim is to gather more and more 'customers,' in order to bring along more power and money.
"We have the case of Moses who incarnated on Earth in order to help the Jews to find their way of freedom from the oppressive regime of the Egyptians. He also brought some canons of how they should behave in the future. Out of disgust he broke the tablet of the Ten Commandments, after his people's disgraceful behavior."
"That is straight forward Zionistic propaganda," screamed someone from the back seats.
The chairman asked the Teacher to continue.
"The incarnation of Prophet Mohammed came with the mission to pacify the animosities that were taken place between the Christians and the Jews. Man managed to turn it into another fanatic religion. The reincarnation of Buddha was an evolved spiritual being. His followers took the wrong way, and instead of following his paradigm, they managed to turn it in to endless army of beggars that are a burden to other honest working people.
"The story goes on and on, always with man twisting the intensions of the original purpose, into dry dogmas
, or fanatical religions."
A medical doctor from the Doctors without Borders association arose and addressed the Teacher. "You said man has free will in order to determine his future. But how can you say that? For my work, I have travelled around the world trying to serve the most unfortunate ones. I have seen misery and despair of the gloomiest kind that no man could justify. I have seen babies born in such circumstances, that they could not possibly escape from their bad environment, regardless of the strength of their will power. I'll give you only one example to point out the impossible situations into which some people are born. It is virtually impossible to escape the trap that they find themselves in.
"Let's say a baby is born in a jungle somewhere in the middle of nowhere. This tribe never came into contact with the rest of the world, so there is no external factor to trigger one for better or different things. They live in a world of their own. Now if we take the better scenario we assume that this child is a strong fearless individual. We could also take the worst scenario, and say that could be a little girl with an incurable disease. For argument's sake, we'll say the former. The most this individual could achieve would be to become the leader of the tribe and that could be as few as twenty persons. Therefore he could die without the opportunity to know better. If we
