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NOTE: Saturday is Prose Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, For this week’s prose we offer…the first in a series of excerpts from The New Revelations…
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Let me see if I understand. You’re saying that this book is on a par with the Torah, the whole Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita?

I did not say that. But, for the sake of discussion, were not those books written by mortals, guided by Divine revelation?

Well, yes, but surely you’re not equating the words here with the words of Confucius, the teachings of The Buddha, the revelations of Muhammad…

Again I say…these were mere human beings, were they not?

I wouldn’t call them “mere” human beings. They were very special human beings.

Human beings who understood enormous truths. Human beings who were deeply inspired.
You, too, can understand enormous truths. You, too, can be deeply inspired. Do you think these experiences are reserved for the very few?
I tell you, they are meant for the very many.
Divine inspiration is the birthright of every human being.
You are all very special. You simply do not know that. You do not believe it.

Why not?

Because your religions have told you that you are not. They have told you that you are sinners, that you are unworthy, that only a very few among you have achieved a level of worthiness to be inspired directly by God – and that all of those people are dead.
They have convinced you that no one living today could possibly achieve that level of worthiness, and, hence, no book written today could possibly contain sacred truths or the Word of God.

Why have they done so? Why have they told us this?

Because to tell you otherwise would be to leave open the possibility that another master, another prophet, another messenger of God could come along, bringing new revelations and opening you to new understandings—and that is something which already established organized religions could not abide.
And so, while your world’s religions may not be able to agree on which book contains the highest truth and the deepest wisdom and the True Word of God, there is one thing on which they are able to agree.

What’s that?

Whatever book it is, it’s an old one.
Definitely.
It’s an old book.
It could not be a new book. It could not be a book written today.
God’s direct revelations ended long ago, your religions agree. Only old sacred books can contain divine revelation.
Most people can accept that God’s great truths have come to humans through humans. They simply cannot accept that this could be true of humans living today.
This is how you think. This is how you have it constructed.
If it’s old, it’s worthy, if it’s new, it’s unworthy.
If it’s old, it’s true, if it’s new, it’s false.
If it’s old, it’s right, if it’s new, it’s wrong.
If it’s old, it’s good, if it’s new, it’s bad.
This peculiar mindset is what makes progress on your planet so difficult, and evolution so time consuming.
What complicates all this is that, as you have constructed it, this mindset applies only to things—that is, inanimate objects—and to ideas. Ironically, when it comes to people you have it constructed the other way around.
If it’s new, it’s worthy, if it’s old, it’s unworthy.
Thus, your society dismisses out of hand some of the brightest new ideas and some of the wisest older people.
Ask Hermann Kümmell.

Hermann Kümmell?

A medical doctor in Hamburg in the late 1800s who had a terrible time convincing other physicians that it was a good idea to wash their hands before surgery.
The idea of “scrubbing up” was summarily dismissed by “those who knew better,” with Kümmell turned into a laughing stock and practically driven out of his beloved medical profession for even suggesting that such a practice could save lives.
This stubborn tendency of human beings to cling to their past, to refuse innovation or new thinking until they are forced to do so by an ultimately embarrassing weight of evidence, has been slowing your evolutionary process for millennia.