\u201cSo, I heard you refer to the Christians in the third person, \u2018they\u2019. Aren\u2019t you technically one of them?\u201d, Kay whispered to the relaxed woman next to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, technically, if the word \u2018Christian\u2019 means \u2018of Christ\u2019, I\u2019m the most Christian person in the whole world. In fact, you can call me Christina\u201d, Magdalena giggled. \u201cBut no, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m one of them\u201d, she was now serious. \u201cThey discarded me, rejected me, defamed me, and thoroughly erased me from their history. I can\u2019t even go out there and comfort them because my presence would confuse them so much it would be counterproductive. So no, I am not one of them now. They chose to have the Church without me, and now, well, they have the Church without me. I, on the other hand, have Christ\u201d, she shrugged. \u201cAnd I have his cute giggly sister\u201d, she laughed, ruffling Kay\u2019s hair. \u201cI win\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSure thing, Christina\u201d, Kay giggled and hugged her.<\/p>\n
\u201cGirls, I\u2019m sorry to interrupt your moment, but we are being called to the war council\u201d, Azrael smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain?\u201d, Hypatia\u2019s eyes were wide open.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. Apparently, Sant Kumar has made his move\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey call it \u2018Submission\u2019, or Islam in their language. I\u2019m sharing a memory block obtained from post-mortem interviews with its founder and his multiple fanatical followers. Lord Azazel\u2019s analysis says that it looks as if a mentally ill person hallucinated something out based on what he superficially heard Jews and Christians talking about their religion, and he went through a memorised copy of their scripture – they call it the Qur\u2019an – from the mind of a dead hafiz, which is what they call people who have committed the whole scripture to memory. It is incredibly bad, to the point where one would get brain damage from trying to read it. Kay, I am sorry to do this to you, but please look into this now and tell me what you think\u201d, Vishnu apologetically smiled at Lady Karuna.<\/p>\n
Her eyes and her Jewel flickered for a moment. \u201cI took my time analysing everything you gave me in entirety, and went back in time to report\u201d, she nodded, as the rest of them looked at each other with wide eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree with my husband, but it\u2019s actually worse. It looks like a religion of monotheistic absolutism, and something similar to Judaism or Christianity, but a deep analysis shows it\u2019s nothing of the sort. In fact, this is the religion of Baal, made more extreme, more cruel, more despotic, and it comes with a political agenda, so it\u2019s actually not so much a religion as it is a political system of submission to Sanat Kumar, aka Baal aka Master aka Allah, where the adherents to the religion, or Muslims as they call themselves, submit to the will of Allah, and they are ordered do forcefully subjugate \u2018non-submissive\u2019 people and submit them to Islam, so that Allah will reign supreme because it\u2019s his world and his will must be obeyed. Essentially, Sanat Kumar saw what worked in the past, modified it so that it can\u2019t really be turned to good other than by outright rejecting the scripture, and ordered that anyone rejecting Islam be put to death. In essence, it\u2019s a death-cult of Baal posing as the third Abrahamic monotheistic religion\u201d, she finished gravely.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour observation about it being a re-hashed cult of Baal seems to be spot on, but what gave you the idea?\u201d, asked her husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I read the scripture and saw how the dead Muslims behaved, the image of Athena in her depravity and madness kept popping up in my mind, and I went back to it all to see why. It turned out to be the key to interpreting the whole thing\u201d, she smiled at her love. \u201cBut next time, please let me analyse something nice, like Bhagavad-gita?\u201d, she looked at Lord Vishnu pleadingly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will try, but good things hardly require heavy artillery such as you and your husband, sweetheart\u201d, Vishnu smiled back at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is the current status? From the urgency, I assume this thing is spreading across the vacuum left by the fall of Rome and the plague of Justinian\u201d, Lord Shiva asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are right. It\u2019s spreading by conquest and self interest. Basically, one has a choice of either being oppressed, or joining the oppressor class. You can guess what happens\u201d, Vishnu frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see Alexandria is no longer Christian. Cyril\u2019s accomplishment didn\u2019t last, but he would have made a good Muslim anyway\u201d, Hypatia grinned with a taste of bitter irony.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot just Alexandria, but the entire Northern Africa as well\u201d, nodded Vishnu. \u201cAlso Persia. They are spreading like locusts, because what they are preaching feels close enough to what people already believe, that they don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth the price to oppose them. The problem is, they don\u2019t understand the theology well enough, and the Muslims lie in order to get them to convert, and once they do, it\u2019s death penalty if they convert back. The whole thing is deeply disgusting, deceptive and satanic in its nature\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre there any good sides to it that we could exploit and modify in order to use it for transcendental purposes?\u201d, asked Lady Shakti.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some. There is belief in an afterlife, but it is of non-transcendental nature. It promotes charity. It discourages arrogance and boastfulness, but the problem is, it does so in a manner that looks like Athena\u2019s disgusting submission to her Master, rather than the way we worship each other. It turns people into lying, pathetic, cruel worms. Its absolutistic monotheism can probably be modified into worship of the fundamental reality, but one needs to be really motivated and just take a thing or two out of context and ignore the rest of the nonsensical and vile ramblings of the scripture. It is going to encourage family values, and strongly punish crime. It also promotes in-group respect and equality. There\u2019s no human sacrifice. Other than that, it\u2019s one of the worst things I\u2019ve seen\u201d, the Lord frowned in disgust. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a religion of slave trade, pillage, murder, both male and female genital mutilation, cruelty and subjugation, built upon the basest human nature and total lack of sexual restraint by its founder\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mean, they are going to go around the Mediterranean and abduct Christians to sell them on the slave markets and Muslims are going to systematically rape Christian women in the conquered lands?\u201d, smiled Azazel.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think you are joking\u201d, his wife responded gravely.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeriously?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYup. Imagine Athena\/Anthea leading a religious conquest in the name of her Master, taking vengeance against the nonbelievers for what she endured in that temple basement and you\u2019ll get the picture\u201d, Lady Kay\u2019s eyes were now glistening with tears, and her voice was no longer steady. \u201cIt\u2019s the worst, most virulent calamity Satan ever let loose on the Earth, and I\u2019m including the Plague of Justinian in the analysis\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBloody hell\u201d, Azazel swore.<\/p>\n
\u201cYup, that\u2019s what they will turn the Earth into\u201d, his wife nodded. \u201cImpaled men, raped women, globalised slave trade and Allah-u-Akbar\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre they worse than the Assyrians?\u201d, asked Lord Shiva.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, yes\u201d, Kay nodded, still in tears. \u201cThe Assyrians were limited geographically and couldn\u2019t extend this much, and they were a nation-state. Islam is a highly virulent mental illness that spreads through vileness of human nature, and is aided by Sanat Kumar, on his home ground. I\u2019m trying to see how this could be any worse, but my imagination is failing me\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure we\u2019ll see worse\u201d, Lord Shiva rumbled gravely, scratching his head. \u201cIt\u2019s that kind of a place\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre there any positive elements to this?\u201d, asked Lady Mary. \u201cI mean, there is always an upside to every calamity and depravity\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I think so\u201d, Kay was now brightening up. \u201cI did a projection. As they are establishing long trade routes, assimilating cultures and unifying the language across a large territory, it is expected that they will spread good and useful sciences and technologies across that space, and since they will interact with the adjacent territories, to them as well. Europe is basically on its knees at the moment, almost all knowledge of Greece and Rome forgotten and lost, books burned in silly conquests and lost to decay and neglect. Significant treasure troves of literature were preserved in the Middle East \u2013 Alexandria and other places \u2013 and there\u2019s lots of good stuff in Persia, as well. It\u2019s all likely to be spread across the islamic space and adjacent territories, and it might restart things from the point where the fall of Rome and later calamities ended them. It might serve to restore Europe\u2019s heritage after the catastrophic downfall\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOr it will just run Europe over and bury it under the eternal darkness of Satan\u201d, replied her husband. \u201cIt\u2019s a toss, really\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cEurope is already under the darkness of Satan\u201d, grinned Lord Shiva. \u201cIts ability to fall further is limited by the unpleasant fact that it\u2019s already splattered on the ground\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are significant bright points to all this\u201d, voiced Hypatia. \u201cThe transcendental concepts and energetic conduits have become the inevitable part of collective thought. Christianity is still there. The scripture remains. The guardian angels are enhancing this, and that part is stronger than ever. We have Buddhism still. Hinduism is getting smarter as well; the Upanishads, Mahabharata, Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavata-purana. I\u2019ve read them recently as requirements for my work, and recommend that you do so as well; there\u2019s actually stuff about some of you there, and some of it seems to be spot on, as if the author actually had enough of a vision of the real Gods to inspire his work. It\u2019s actually on par or better than what currently passes for Christianity. Buddhism and Hinduism seem to be cross-pollinating, as good ideas from one are adopted by the other and vice versa. If I had to think of an analogue of this, it would be cross-pollination between Christianity and Neoplatonism\u201d, she finished on an optimistic note.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so grateful that we have you, Piercing Insight\u201d, bowed Lord Shiva. \u201cYou are indeed correct, and the blessing of your presence and mind has brightened my day after all the terrible news we\u2019ve heard\u201d, he bowed deeply to the blushing woman.<\/p>\n
\u201cSame here\u201d, smiled Lady Kay, now in a significantly better mood, and the others nodded in assent as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, what do we do now?\u201d, Lord Azazel raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe count our blessings, as Lady Hypatia recommended\u201d, Lord Vishnu replied. \u201cWork on strengthening individual transcendental connection. Comfort the suffering souls. Work on the specifics, while Sanat Kumar has initiative in the field of the general trends. Subvert evil with the good. Help the Muslims develop a transcendental version of Islam. Help India as much as possible. Work with the Buddhists as they develop a more transcendental, mystical versions of the teaching. Work with Hindus who explore yoga<\/i>, puja<\/i> and bhakti<\/i>. If we do enough in this sphere, things might emerge that we don\u2019t expect at this point\u201d, he finished.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of things?\u201d, wondered Lady Lakshmi.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. Maybe even coffee with whipped cream in the capitals of Europe\u201d, he joked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat will be the day\u201d, snickered Lord Shiva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cSo, I heard you refer to the Christians in the third person, \u2018they\u2019. Aren\u2019t you technically one of them?\u201d, Kay whispered to the relaxed woman next to her. \u201cWell, technically, if the word \u2018Christian\u2019 means \u2018of Christ\u2019, I\u2019m the most … Continue reading