You must understand that peace is an internal matter. It has to be a
self-discipline for an individual or for an entire civilization. It must
come from within. If you set up an outside power to enforce peace, this
outside power will grow stronger and stronger. It has no alternative. The
inevitable outcome will be an explosion, cataclysmic and chaotic. That is
the way of our universe. When you create paired opposites, one will
overwhelm the other unless they are in delicate balance.
--The writings of Diana Bullone
To become a god, a living creature must transcend the physical. The three
steps of this transcendent path are known. First, he must come upon the
awareness of secret aggression. Second, he must come upon the discernment of
purpose within the animal shape. Third, he must experience.
When this is done, the nascent god must find his own rebirth in a unique
ordeal by which he discovers the one who summoned him.
--"The Making of a God," The Amel Handbook
A religion requires numerous dichotomic relationships. It needs believers
and unbelievers. It needs those who know the mysteries and those who only
know fear them. It needs the insider and the outsider. It needs both a god
and a devil. It needs absolutes and relativity. It needs that which is
formless (though in the process of forming) and that which is formed.
--Religious Engineering, Secret writing of Amel
Anyone who has ever felt his skin crawl with the electrifying awareness
of an unseen presence knows the primary sensation of Psi.
--Halmyrach, Abbod of Amel, Psi and Religion, Preface
One of the essential problems in engineering, a religion for any species
is to recognize and refrain from inhibiting those self-regulating systems in
the species upon which the species' survival depends.
--Religious Engineering, field handbook
Every sapient creature needs a religion of some kind.
--Noah Arkwright the basic scripture of Amel
Bow down to Ullua, the star wanderer of the Ayrbs. Let no blasphemy
occur, nor permit a blasphemer to live. May blasphemy shrive the mouth.
Blasphemers are accursed of God and accused of the blessed. Let this curse
strike a blasphemer from the sole of his foot to crown of his head, sleeping
and waking, sitting and standing...
--Invocation for the Day of Bairam
Because the earliest Psi sensations came upon mankind from the unknown,
primitive emotional associations with Psi were those of fear and the maya
projection of false realities, of incubi and witches and warlocks and
sabbats. These associations are bred into us and our kind has a strong
tendency to recapitulate the old mistakes.
--Halmyrach, Abbod of Amel, Psi and Religion
"It is by death that life is known," the Abbod said. "Without the eternal
presence of death there can be no awarenees, no ascendancy of symbols into
the void-without-background".
--Royali's Religion for Everyone, conversations with the Abbod.
As the mythological glossary developed our first primitive understanding
of Psi, a transformation occurred. Out of the grimoire came curiosity and
the translation of fear into experiment. Men dared explore this terrifying
frontier with the analytical tools of the mind. From these largely
unsophisticated gropings arose the first pragmatic handbooks out of which we
developed Religious Psi.
--Halmyrach, Abbod of Amel, Psi and Religion
Part of our problem centers on the effort to introduce external control
for a system-of -systems that should be maintained by internal balancing
forces. We are not attempting to recognize and refrain from inhibiting those
self-regulating systems in our species upon which species survival depends.
We are ignoring our own feedback functions.
--Lewis Orne's Report on Hamal
The human operate out of complex superiority demands, self-affirming
though ritual, insisting upon a rational need to learn, striving for
self-imposed goals, manipulating his environment while he denies his own
adaptive abilities, never fully satisfied.
--Lectures of Halmyrach. private publication files of Amel
In the terms of human systems, feedback involves complicated unconscious
processes, both individual and in a collective or social sense. That
individual can be influenced by such unconscious forces has long been
recognized. The large-scale processes and their influence, however, are less
well known. We tend to see them only latently in a statistical sense--by
population curves, by historical evolution, by changes which stretch across
the centuries. We often ascribe such processes to religious forces and have
a tendency to avoid examining them analytically.
--Lectures of the Abbod (privately circulated)
Music represents an essential part of many Psi experiences which are
labeled religion. Though the ecstatic force of rhythmic sounds, we perceive
a call directed at powers outside of time and lacking the usual breadth and
length compressed into the forms of matter by our corner of the endless
dimensions.
--Noah Arkwright, The Forms of Psi
We have a very ancient saying: The more God, the more devil; the more
flesh, the more worms, the more the property, the more anxiety; the more
control, the more the that needs control.
--The Abbods of Amel, Psi Commentary
Those who seek knowledge for the sake of reward, yea even to the
knowledge of Psi, report the errors of the primitive religions. Knowledge
gained out of fear or hope of reward holds you in a basket of ignorance.
Thus the ancients learned to falsify their lives.
--Sayings of the Abbods, The Approach to Psi
There is a devil in anything we don't understand. The background of the
universe appears black to the lidded eye. Thus, we perceive a Satanic
backdrop from which all insecurity originates. It is from this area of
constant menace that we achieve our vision of hell. To defeat this devil, we
strive for the illusion of all-knowing. In the face of an infinite universe
imminent beyond the Satonic backdrop, the never-ending. All must remain
illusion--only illusion and no more, Accept this and the backdrop falls.
--The Abbod Halmyrach, Religion into Psi
Death has many aspects: Nirvana, the endless wheel of life, the balance
between organism and thinking as a pure activity, tension/relaxation, pain
and pleasure, goal-seeking and abnegation. The list is inexhaustible.
--Noah Arkwright, Aspect of Religion
A universe without war involves critical-mass concepts as applied to
human beings. Any immediate issue which might lead to war is always
escalated to questions of personal value, to the complication of
technological synergism, to questions of an ethico-religious nature, to
which areas are open for counteraction and, inevitably, there remain the
unknowns, omnipresent and likely of insidious complexity. The human
situation as it relates to war can be likened to a multilinear looped
feedback system in which nothing is unimportant.
--"War, the Un-possible," Chapter IV, I-A Manual
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The
fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent
when a question could bring them wisdom.
--Says of the Abbod
We come from All-One and return to the All-One. How can we keep anything
from the Source that was and the End that is?
--Sayings of the Abbods
The day is short and the work is great, and the workers are lazy, but the
reward is large and our Master urges us to make haste.
--Writings of the Abbod Halmyrach
The pattern of massive lethal violence, that phenomenon we call war, is
maintained by a guilt-hate-fear syndrome which is transmitted much in the
manner of a disease is a very human thing, the disease itself is not a
necessary and natural condition of human existence. Among those conditioned
patterns which transmit the war virus you will find the following--the
justification of past mistakes, feeling of self-righteousness and the need
to maintain such feelings...
--Umbo Stetson, Lectures to the Antiwar College
Which is the better: a good friend, a good heart, a good eye, a good
neighbor, a good wife, or understanding of consequences? It is none of
these. A warm and sensitive soul which knows the worth of fellowship and the
price of the individual dignity--this is best.
--Bakrish as a student to his guru
The teacher who does not learn from his student does not teach. The
student who sneers at his teacher's true knowledge is like one who chooses
unripe grapes and scorns the sweet fruit of the vine which has been allowed
to ripen in its own in its own time.
--Sayings of the Abbods
Silence is the guardian of wisdom, but loud jesting and levity lead a man
into his own ignorance. Where there is ignorance there is no understanding
of God.
--Sayings of the Abbods
Order implies law. By this, we indicate the form which helps our
understanding of order, enabling as to predict and otherwise deal with
order. To go on to say, however, that law requires intent, this is another
issue. It does not at all follow the existence of law. In fact, awareness of
eternity opens quite a contrary view. Intent requires beginning: first, the
intent and then law. The essence of eternity is no beginning, no end.
Without beginning, no intent. no eternal motive. Without end, no ultimate
goal, no judgment. From these observations, we postulate that sin and guilt,
products of intent, are not fixed derivatives of eternity. At the very
least, such concepts as sin-guilt-judgment require beginnings, thus occur as
segments of eternity. Such concepts are ways of dealing with finite law and,
only incidentally, with eternal matter. It is thus we understand how limited
and limiting are our projections onto Godhead.
--Abbod Halmyrach, Challenge of Eternity
Envy, desire and ambition limit a man to the Universe of Maya. And what
is that Universe? It is only the projection of his envy, his desire and his
ambition.
--Noah Arkwright, The Wisdom of Amel
Worldly use of power can destroy an angel. This is the lesson of peace.
Loving peace and pursuing peace are not enough. One must also love one's
fellows. Thus one learns the dynamic and loving conflict which we call life.
--Noah Arkwright, The wisdom of Amel
It is not necessarily loving kindness to build a fence around your
master. How then can he observe his servants and see that they minister to
him without thought of reward? No, my son, a fence is often a work of fear
and a container for dust.
--Sayings of the Abbods
As Orne indicated, the prophet who calls forth the dead actually returns
the body's matter to a time when it was alive. The man who walks from planet
to planet sees time as a specific location; without time to stretch across
it, there is not space. Orne has created our universe as an expanding
balloon of irregular dimensions. Thus he accepted my challenge and answered
my prayer. We can continue staring at our universe though the symbol-grids
which we construct. We can continue reading our universe like an old man
with his nose pressed against the page.
--Private report of the Abbod Halmyrach