Preface
From time to time we Beachwallas receive transmissions from Professor Dadachanji Trimbak. Professor Trimbak is an American historian 300 years in the future who specializes in God-consciousness and religion at the end of what he calls the Old Humanity. We are the Old Humanity today. In these transmissions we enjoy glimpses of the New Humanity, that fast approaching fellowship of "pure love from heart to heart." In Trimbak's world, ¾ of the unnatural karma of our times will be removed. Soon the kindest and purest ones of this time will become everyman.
We surmise that Trimbak lives in the countryside of what is now New Mexico. The limits of his greed seem to be found in his extensive "treepaper" collection. Sometimes, usually when Mrs Trimbak is in a different part of their dwelling, he will open the cases and touch the paper pages with his fingertips.
The following was Trimbak's first transmission of his lecture notes.
The book we are considering,
Consilience by Edward. O. Wilson, was fundamentally a reaction against Western religion and especially against Christianity, although the author did not know that was what he was writing about. Wilson was a 20th century scientolator at the end of the Old Humanity. He thought he was advancing science as the ultimate way of solving the dire problems confronting humankind. In truth, he was reacting against the unnatural, superstitious aspects of social religion, especially his own tradition of Christianity. He was not aware of the Theme of Creation. Science was and is a tool kit to explore the phenomenal world and answer questions, and nothing more. Wilson was fighting dogma with dogma, pompous forms with scientific pomp, and what he disparagingly called "verbal instruction" of religion with his own loveless words. It was an unnecessary and distracting battle against religion because The Awakener had already sown the seeds of the unification of religion we delight in today.
The organized religions of the world often fail to express the real
vision of those who have been the fountainhead of inspiration for
their very coming into existence. Dogmas and beliefs, rituals and
ceremonies, can never be the essence of true spiritual life. When
religion has become merely a matter of external rituals and
ceremonies, it has become a cage for the soul. Nor does it help very
far to change one religion for another. It is like going from one
cage to another. If religion does not help man to emancipate the soul
from spiritual bondage and realize God, it has no useful purpose.
Then it is time that religion should go to make room for God!
I am, therefore, not interested in founding new religion. The world is
already divided by numberless sects, based upon dogmas and beliefs. I
have not come to give another cage for man, but to impart to the
world the illimitable Truth. The world needs awakening and not mere
verbal instruction; it needs the freedom and the amplitude of divine
life, and not the superficiality of mechanized and pompous forms; it
needs love and not the display of power.
The world task ahead of me is particularly creative. Really speaking,
none of you have to receive divinity from me: but what I have to give
is the knowledge and experience of the Oneness of us all.
Man will be weaned away from the allurements of the ego-life. He shall
come into full inheritance of his own divinity and know himself to be
none other than the supreme God Himself; and his heart shall be
unlocked so as to release the dynamic love divine. Divine love knows
no decay, fear or corruption, because it is illumined by the
understanding that all life is One. Let those who are alive to the
real values hearken to this call of mine; they will have ample share
in bringing into existence the New Era of Truth and Love.
Lord Meher, page 2985 excerpt from darshan
to 30,000 people November 11, 1944.
I am often accused of being an admirer of the Old Humanity.
I am. Imagine how difficult their lives must have
been. Imagine if every day you experienced three times as much
instinctual karma as you do today. When you feel angry, imagine it three
times worse, imagine fear three times more paralyzing, attachment
to your possessions three times stronger. Imagine your procreative
instinct much more urgent so you spend you life seized with a
kind of fear your wants will not be satisfied. That was
their plight and I do admire them. They were loving and brave and
brilliant despite a karmic burden that we have not carried for an
hour. Yes, I do love them for their courage.