Daily Meditation: Monday, December 13, 1999
Once people put on the ‘tinted spectacles' of a religion, a …
Once people put on the ‘tinted spectacles' of a religion, a philosophy or a little group, they end up losing sight of everything else. What is the use of religion if it hides the splendour of what God has created and the possibility of returning to Him ? The Church has warped people to such an extent that it is now no longer possible to make them understand the marvels of creation. They can understand what they themselves have created, yes : but God's creation does not interest them much, and they consider it unworthy of their attention. Of course, should you ask them they would not say they feel superior to God, but in practice that is just what they are doing – putting themselves above Him. The clergy should say : ‘My children, respect life, because everything is sacred, all created things are talismans placed everywhere by God. Thank Him for the light of the sun and the stars, for the air, the water, everything nature provides.' But instead, all that matters to them is their own little world – the Host, rosaries, medals – the rest of the universe does not matter. And that is how, in the end, the rites established by the Church end by obscuring true religion.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
