By Banji Ayoola
The radiance of the Truth is covered only by a thin veil. A thin veil which will soon be swept off in the streams of Light overtaking the earth already.
To suck in the radiation of good human beings floating about on earth, seeking union, and then move on, now more powerfully, to work on the souls of men and on the earth.
The ever flowing streams gushing out from the surging, the surge from out of the exalted Source, a surging which is now more intensified than it has ever been, a surging that cannot be held back, which pulsates continuously endlessly and streams outwards from the Divine over the entire Creation. To make everything new.
He had been thrown into, deepened into the swamp of immorality, base narrow mindedness, selfish calculations, selfishness, greed, inordinate ambition, hatred, hypocrisy, coarse language, dirty and coarse words, of errors, lack of consideration for one’s neighbour, backbiting, stealing without scruples, fraud, idleness, indolence, appalling laziness, lies, excessive greed and love of money, power, influence and position, conspiracy and self centeredness.
Acts that are lacking in love for the other man, even by so called pastors, by supposed reverend fathers, of everything wrong, acts which contradict and are distances away from the Words of Christ – – – Love thy neighbour as thyself and strive in all your thoughts, words and deeds to swing in, and with the Laws of God Whom you claim to serve. And Who you should serve truly and earnestly with your whole being – – –
Despite their clinging, despite their claims and what they want to be taken for, what they parade before incredulous humanity. All products of the Darkness.
Into this disgusting, suffocating swamp of lawlessness, of immorality, which oozes out with a sickening foul odour, to suffocate the senses or anything good or striving towards the ideal, was he thrown years ago, was he compelled to live and work in for this long … Out of love.
For the recognition of the wrongs into which he was thrown, into which he was deepened, in which he was compelled to live and work for this long, and desperate but frustrated and fruitless attempts by him, to introduce or effect changes towards improvement and make things better, helped him.
The exertion, the inner and physical struggles, the sufferings and pains, his disappointments connected with these frustrated, fruitless and genuine attempts at improvement, touched him, shook him and awakened him to the reality, that he was threshing an empty straw, trying to rouse into nobler deeds a circle of human beings who, generally, were not prepared, were not ready for such changes.
As he was striving to direct the gaze of his neighbours upwards, as he was striving to pull his immediate environment upwards along with him, the forces he was compelled to work with were resisting his pull, his intervention, his help.
They were pulling him downwards into the swamp. With their volition, thoughts, words and actions. Bitterly, they opposed him, stood in his way, fenced him off and away. They frustrated him. And so he was cut off.
Such that he could not reach them; such that he could not reach others in need; such that his radiantly good volition, thoughts, words and deeds were not appreciated. So, they fell on stony ground, on barren soil. They could not take root, germinate and blossom. As they should. As expected.
In the process, urged on by their leaders, they repeatedly hurled filth at him in their general volition, thoughts, words and deeds. Which snowballed into the flaming hatred that hindered him, weighed him down and eventually ailed his body. And he was hospitalised for 40 days and 40 nights.
However, comfortingly however, the exertion connected with these inner and physical struggles strengthened him.
It helped him greatly. To gain better recognition about human beings, their desires, limitations and weaknesses. Love of money and power. Desperation to acquire these at all costs, at the cost of marginalising and manufacturing problems for others, and even eliminating all opposition, whatever and whoever stands in their way. Hypocrisy.
Such that he could now see better.
