002 FOUNDATION BLOCKS OF INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW

002 FOUNDATION BLOCKS OF INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT

CHAPTER 1:  AN OVERVIEW

i.                   Oh! Mortal man, why do you pride yourself with such titles as “ Homo sapiens”, “His or Her Excellency”, “His Lordship or His Grace”, His Royal Highness” and finally the “Lord of the Material Universe”, when you can never hear better than a common bat, nor see better than the eagle?

ii.               What achievement has any man made that is not built on what has already been provided by Nature? Just name one. Is it not enough to humble us down to our knees in respect to whatever put us here on planet earth?

iii.            What is it that took care of our forefathers and ensured that they survived to rear us the best they could? Who protected us in our mothers’ wombs and those deadly infant diseases that killed some of our peers so that we survived to flaunt our high resounding titles.

iv.             Now let us all bow our heads. Be silent for a while and listen to Nature communicate wisdom in its simplest forms. When you hear the cock that crows at night, starting from about 3.00am till it is 6.00 a.m. marking out the hours while you sleep, what is it saying? -- It is thanking its Creator for another day. And secondly, it is obeying Him by doing its duty twenty-four hours a day marking out the hours of each day for all other animals and you, man, the lord of the material universe as you choose to call yourself!

v.                It does it regularly and has been doing so before you, oh little creature copied him to make your wristwatches in an attempt to supplant him, but you have failed. The cock is more precise than the best chronometer you ever invented or will soon manufacture! For one thing, it does not need a battery to operate nor does it need servicing!

vi.             So man, learn to imitate the birds that wake each morning chirping their morning prayers of thanks, while pleading to the Lord for their daily bread.

vii.           What of trees that daily release oxygen for your use? Have you ever gone to the gas station to purchase human fuel, either air or water? How much air and water do you use each hour of your life? Who provides and purifies them?

viii.       Did you thank the Creator of this universe for these two items only? When will you do so? Do it now! Stop at this page, kneel down and reverence whatever put you here on planet Earth

ix.            From today when the birds start their own morning hymns, oh you little man, join them. That is why He feeds them on a daily basis, but you have to struggle and suffer or steal to have food on an irregular basis besides our human greed that makes it difficult for his fellow men to even have a little!

x.               Whatever or whoever created us all must have put some laws to govern whatever breathes his air and drinks his water, for there are accidents and suffocation when these elementary functions are performed inappropriately.

xi.            We must eat to live, drink to survive, sleep to rest and procreate to save our species from extinction. Each of these functions we perform from generation to generation, educated or not, civilised or not pious or crooked! It wonderful isn’t it.

xii.           Order and grace, beauty and serenity adorn His creations wherever you find them in their natural habitats unperturbed by the most destructive animal; man! So let us relent!

xiii.      The voice of wisdom speaks in all His creations but only the wise can hear them! Can you interpret the language of honeybees or bring fellow men to march in formation like the soldier ants without coercion and spending some funds on training programmes, which the ants never do even at birth!

xiv.       These and similar precision occurrences like sunrise and sunset should make us more pious and respectful but what do we find? Arrogance or buffoonery intoxicates most of us.

xv.          The wisdom of the Creator shines forth everyday as the sunlight, but we prefer to walk around like blind men vaunting our ignorance of His natural laws that govern our very existence.

xvi.       So how do you assist a blind that does not see properly but claims that he is okay and is not in need of your help, as he will never accept that he does not know everything!

xvii.    That is the problem with our human race. Other animals are ready to learn from their parents and obey them diligently, only man claims to know when he does not! When shall we ever learn as other baby animals learn?

xviii.    The time is now, not tomorrow, not next month, not next year but this very moment. How does one do exactly that, you may ask?

xix.        Don’t ask me, Kenez; rather ask King Solomon, the Wise! Go and read and memorise 1^st Kings, Chapter 3, verses 6-15. Or for an elaborate treatise, find the complete bible edition and read chapter 9 verses 1- 18 of the WISDOM OF SOLOMON.