From: William Stoertz
Date: June 10, 1999
Re: "The end-all of it all..."
Dear observers of science and religion,
What is the "end-all" of it all?
What do I mean by that question?
Well, if you keep watching the latest research
in science, and keep abreast of the most recent
(and exciting) developments, you gradually get
the feeling that it is all headed somewhere.
You know, all the discoveries of the 20th
century are exponentially greater than those of
the entire previous human history. Furthermore,
the discoveries of the 1990s seem to be vastly
greater than those of the previous decades of
the Twentieth Century (that "great and terrible
century"). And it is yet speeding up. Check
the internet!
How about religion? Well, religion is kind
of funny. It is like a dinosaur, but a necessary
dinosaur. Like spreading butter. That process
has not changed for two thousand years. But
it is necessary. You need to pray, just like
always. That spiritual technology has not
changed one iota. In fact, by and large it has
gotten a lot worse -- more lame and discarded.
We know less about spirit world than Jesus
Christ obviously knew. We don't receive
revelations or divine messages of the caliber
that Mohammed (PBUH) did. Buddha reached
the Divine Light in introspective meditation.
Moses met and talked with God face to face.
Etc.
Religion is necessary. Now what is brutish
about religion? Number One: Religions can't
unite. They are the hardest, the last, to unite.
Businessmen can unite to make money,
politicans can unite by compromising,
diplomats can unite with the threat of armies
behind their backs. Empires can unite by
conquering. But religions only divide and
split up into smaller and smaller mutually
inimical fractions and denominations.
Exasperating, huh?
So, now, after tearing down all the idols
of the market, what have we left; what have
I to offer you, since I just exposed....?
Here it is!
Science is hitting upon the truth of
religion!
With ever more powerful accelerators
and colliders, they are finding out the
unity of all matter and also all energy,
and also finding out that all in all it is....
NOTHING! Nothing but an abstract
mathematical field in mathematical
space. And the space itself is actually
fictitious, created by the matter and
energy present in it. And that matter
and energy is created out of nothing.
CREATIO EX NIHILO! Good Catholic
and also good Hebrew theology.
How about the Hubble Space
Telescope? They launched this fine
hardware over a decade ago, and
had to fix it several times, and what
do they see? They see that the
cosmos is BREATHING OUT! Yes.
Through the Hubble Space Telescope,
the negative gravity, or antigravitational
force, which was hypothesized by
weirdos, was indeed confirmed and
is now accepted cosmology, and
the research findings more and more
fit this one-time hypothesis. The age
of the universe can only be explained
by the fact that the universe is ever
accelerating in its expansion. It is.
Lots of other things. Like, you
know, particles are indeterminate,
which you already knew through
quantum mechanics; but, did you
know that now they have found
out that they are influenced by
humans observing them? I mean
mind over matter. Really. It is
accepted physics now.
What about the Big Bang? God
planned it, planned and designed
and adjusted the cosmological
constants and the relationships
among the four fundamental forces,
and He (She?) invested the energy
from out of Nothing, it's true, and
created it all. That is, I predict,
the end-all of scientific research in
cosmology. But that is just in the
first sentence of the Bible!
What about evolution? Yes, I
believe in evolution. Who could be
so ridiculous and blind as to deny
it, when more and more it is being
proven, in terms of the relatedness
of all species, and genetic distances,
etc. I mean: human races (very close!),
chimpanzees (more distant), whales
(more distant still), plants (still
further away), fungi (even more
remote, but nevertheless related),
and finally bacteria and archaea.
Now there are THREE kingdoms, not
the two you learned about in college.
Well, all living things use DNA, and
they use the same code, and they
also use adenosine triphosphate for
energy -- basic metabolic pathways
are similar for all...
But it doesn't deny God's creation
but rather confirms it when we find
out the relatedness of all species.
However, what is different is the
way it happened. It was certainly not
an accident (random). It was rather
a deliberate, careful, elaborate plan.
Basically, there are two ways of
thought, or approaches to life: "Abel"
type and "Cain" type. Another way
to put it is simple: the short way to
the goal, and the long way around.
Let's put it this way: why walk around
the back of the tree when you could
just walk right up to it?! That's, in
effect, what "Cain" type people do.
It's necessary to question and doubt
everything.
But, guess what? Here's a little
secret: the scientists, with all their
poking and prodding and dissecting
and measuring and rocketry and
accelerators (which you have to
harness a hydroelectric dam to
power, by the way) -- come out to
very deeply appreciate God's creation.
Actually, many great scientists, with
a twinkle in their eye, believe in God,
but they couch It in professional
terms, and lengthy forums at
conventions. But they know.
What happened to religionists?
Well, when they look around and
see their congregations flying all
over the world, visiting each other,
mingling cultures, using euros and
dollars, speaking English or Arabic,
and getting together for good old
secular pursuits, but not for religion,
mind you -- no! Never!
...well, then religious leaders
and their members might as well
catch up with the times and realize
that WE ARE ONE WORLD, AFTER
ALL! That's still a revolutionary
concept.
The end-all of it is: Scientists
and secular-minded people will
eventually conclude there is indeed
God, and an absolute morality in
the fundamental order of the universe;
and religious people will eventually
conclude that, after all, God is One,
and He/She has many, many
manifestations, and the different
cultures and religions are perfectly
pleasing to God, as long as they
love and respect each other and
realize we are ONE FAMILY.
It's really simple and obvious.
Actually, there is a little more
than this. For example, we still have
sin (uggh!), and some people simply
have been trying harder and going
in the right direction for longer, so in
fact there are real differences in standard
between people, and that has to be
reckoned with.
Furthermore, there is an enormously
vast "spiritual world" full of all of our
ancestors, probably nearly 100 billion
people there, going all the way back
to Jesus, back to Noah, yes, back to
the original one pair of human ancestors,
Adam and Eve. They are all up their,
moaning and groaning, or just spaced
out, or in fact causing LOTS OF TROUBLE
here on earth. That's why, even though
we may smile and say, "Don't worry;
Be Happy!", nevertheless, we should
take responsibility to liberate all those
in the dungeons of hell (it means almost
everyone who ever lived, in fact). To do
that, there are concrete things to do. So,
when we realize this, we all have lots to
do to clean up the spiritual world. Now,
in case you do NOT BELIEVE in such
things, I'll just rephrase it for you:
We are psychologically messed up --
I'm talking neurosis and psychosis big
time -- and it's reflecting as wars, kids
in schools shooting their classmates,
sexual perversion, all kinds of weird
things. Just see "Ghostbusters". Anyway,
these hangups and obsessions will not
go away. But I've got a way to get rid of
them, and reach health and sanity again.
Now, for the external, physical world.
The "streets". Aren't they in a shambles?
I went to Africa, and it's worse there. Things
are relatively nice in America. To put a long
story short, we've got a lot of cleaning up
and reconstruction to do.
So, for that, here's my proposal:
Based on the situation of Yugoslavia,
that way happened because of something
unresolved between East and West. Now
it is fundamentally resolved. So there can
be true peace now. But we have a lot of
healing to do. Inner healing and outward
healing. We have to embrace our neighbors,
including our enemies, and including our
own family members, and especially our
husbands and wives, our parents, our kids,
our brothers and sisters, and, yes, our
step-parents and in-laws! All of them.
Now, all the nations of the world should
cooperate together with an ideal and a
vision of the World of Peace and True Love,
starting with Yugoslavia, and rebuild, arm
in arm, shoulder to shoulder -- Serbians
and Kosovars, Russians and Americans,
blacks and whites, North and South
Koreans, gays and straights, Catholics
and Protestants and Orthodox, Moslems
and Jews, all. Then, we should continue
and expand this Kingdom-building to
include the whole world. Africa. North
Korea. East Timor. Northern Ireland.
Palestine. Iraq. Kurdestan. The Indian
reservations in America. The slums and
ghettos.
It'll be a work of love, because the
fundamental contradiction that bogged
us down and split us has now been truly
resolved.
Last time I told you that "The King
and Queen are here". You may think,
"So what? Come on!" But I want to go
on to say we also have a concrete plan
for Kingdom building.
You can pitch in, or just watch. But
please don't get in the way! Also, either
way, you can come into the Kingdom too.
But, let me tell you -- if you help build it,
then it will be more fun, and you'll enjoy
it more when you are living in it; and,
furthermore, you will be already living in
the Kingdom of God, even as you start
to work together to build it, with all races,
and furthermore, at this very moment, if
you determine in your heart to say, "Yes!
That is my challenge, crusade and odyssey,
too! I'm with you!" Then, with elated joy,
you are already in God's Kingdom, and
you will also start to see it manifested more
and more in the external world, the world
about which we once said, "Oh, this world!"
-- WSS. Moscow, 1999.6.10. Peace!
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