Today I find myself a person of faith. I believe in a benevolent creative force that exists as all of creation. Faith is not about using principles to justify force or weak passivity absolving us of responsibility, like the faithless love assume. Instead, it is about willingly and knowingly using certain principles to refine and perfect the self.
Both the faithful and faithless desire perfection. In the now, when it actually matters, the faithful accept what is as perfect while the faithless fixate on imperfection. This fundamental difference in how we relate to nature is the seed for the evolution of the ego, an artificial intelligence, from which a eugenic culture is born. Without faith, we become vulnerable to accepting and enforcing inferior laws that go against nature in the name of life.
Faith understands justice as a sacred rite of the Creator. This relieves the faithful of the impossible burden of undoing what has been done. A faithless soul cannot surrender this burden for they have nowhere to put it. Without faith we internalize guilt for things beyond our control and project responsibility onto others when the burden is too much. Hence for the faithless, everything that it is, was, and has been is a debt to which life is the fee.
In an imperfect world, there is imperfection. Faith is the will to see beyond into the perfection that is creation. Judging the blessing of existence as a curse extends the self beyond its authority and we lose our sense of humility in the presence of the creator. The idea that anything should be different than it is, is in direct opposition to the blessing of life.
Though certain ideologies suggest that we repent the things we cannot change, we do not have to carry our inheritance as a ball and chain: “Shame on you who is born with white skin.” “Disempowered and disabled are you with dark skin.” “Less valuable are our sisters and God forbid our brothers be boys.” “Death to those who don’t believe.” “A life of reparations to those who succeed.” “Pity to those who were born unfit.” “Worthy are the beautiful of wickedness.” “There is no justice until all is just” - but when will we stop seeing injustice?
Do you see how that works? Slavery is an archetype of the human spirit. It is not exclusive to any identifiable group. In fact, it is hardly identifiable at all until we become aware of its principle. A negative fixation straps us with a burden that we refuse to give up. Without faith, we can spend our life compensating negatively for life’s blessings. We will never rectify past injustices by focusing incessantly on their negative effects. If we bemoan our blessings as curses, we will lose the will to use what we have been given as a tool to uplift ourselves and others - perpetuating the cycle we claim to be against.
Utopia is not something we will find in physical, material or intellectual likenesses. Nor will it come into being by forcing the same measured fortune upon everyone. Utopia is a spiritual unity found within ourselves, independent of our conditions. Living a life of faith is the doorway to Utopia.
Utopia is right now, if only we let it be. A better tomorrow can only happen with a better now. Faith makes the now better and it makes us better. Faith makes the now perfect. It is impossible to explain to the faithless the ecstasy of faith. For it isn’t until one lays their burden down that the lightness of being can be understood. Faith is the space where man can place the burdens he cannot carry.
Faith does not absolve us of the responsibility to act upright. Rather it helps us to maintain uprightness by lightening our load. Uprightness is our nature and fundamental to our sense of direction. It is our birthright as human beings to live upright and essential to our creativity and self-expression.
It serves absolutely nobody except for our egos to go around judging the value of other people’s blessings. When we use our creativity to dredge up judgement and misfortune, we project that judgement and misfortune into the world. A faithless individual might think they are virtuous because they acknowledge and resist imperfection, but in reality they are constructing the very matrix they wish to dismantle.
The faithless solution to a life of unfairness is enforcing equal outcome. This dismisses the value of opportunity, growth, creativity and change that comes from life’s challenges. Constructing a system where all beings receive the same outcome is completely against the glory of nature and creation. Not all plants need the same amount of sunlight, and some plants thrive in darkness. If we only value the light, we will kill those that thrive at night by forcing the sun upon them. How is this just?
Who are we to judge what is fortune and misfortune? Faith allows us to take a spiritual perspective and appreciate the great refining that happens in the fires of life. God bless that fire. We will never unburden anyone by giving them more to carry. Rather, we can lighten their load by seeing beyond circumstance to the core of life’s golden meaning. Faith in benevolent creation gives us the power to open our heart to atrocity and love the ugliness of creation. We are one with creation and all things are the manifestation of divine nature.
Now will always be the time for man to become aware of its soul. There will always be a tyrant, a victim, a slave… These archetypes direct us toward knowing true freedom, which is the same as knowing God. God is awareness and will - an innocence that knows only the ecstasy of being. A curious force in love with knowing what life can be like, from every perspective, for all eternity. God is the wound, the drug, and the balm.
It is the sap that
sticks to the gut
and rubs the strings to song.
The violin,
a sacred sin, on earth
as it is in heaven.