Spiritual Fasting
Spiritual Fasting
We must recognize that the modern society, in its glorious march, has taken directions that any intelligent being will find worrisome.
The spectra of the modern attitude can be found everywhere, and as usual, the degeneration of the human being has become the contemporary path. If to lie was a sin millennia ago, nowadays to succeed in making a lie acceptable has become the "proof" of intelligence. Since the new system wants to find itself everywhere, it found itself supporting ideas and their opposites. Now, as guarantors of the supposed human values and qualities, the system found itself in full contradiction with every logic that is emitted from it. This system has succeeded in convincing us that we must respect and consider the same doctrines that are preaching monotheism while maintaining the notion of trinities to be intelligent; this, in a sort of acrobatics of individual imagination that is worthy of the best magicians on the podium.
This system of modern thought is asking us to believe the unbelievable and accept the unacceptable. We really do not have a choice if we do not want to suffer the persecution of those who believe they are right and see their God as an entity so weak that it deserves their help; those who believe that it is possible to build a divine world with human animosity.
By a sort of usurpation of ideas and values, this system, with its religions, have succeeded sacrificing the individual (the believer) to the altar of obscurity and fanaticism fed by the collective hysteria that is activated and maintained by professionals of religious propaganda.
It is in this context that the reasons we find for our activities that are declared spiritual by Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions are becoming a serious psychological problem because they do not find an echo in the spiritual essence of the individual.
All of these religions made sure that the notion of a fast can be found in their faith and beliefs, and all of them define the fast as a period of devotion, sacrifice and repent of the believer to his God. This definition surely calls on the emotions of the desperate believer looking for the best ways to serve his God. This brings us to a question that originates from this same logic: why, then, is the fast happening in some specific period?! If a fast is defined in the context of the sacrifice of a believer to his God, he should then fast all year around.
The religions are masters in the art of giving the impression that what they are giving the believer is something spiritual. This situation of speculation around facts and the world that existed long before the religious explanations, is not unknown nowadays. Everything is destined to keep the slave in the depths of the slavery ship by giving him all the reasons to believe that he is better that way. It is up to the individual that wants to free himself and pursue the normal course of his destiny to understand the almost invisible nature of the chains that maintain us in the position of victim and accomplice of the ideological currents that are fighting over the control of this world.
Fasting is born because of the Gods of the second trinity (Wsr-Heru-Aishat). Wsr presented himself to humanity as a God with a human face and fulfilled all the human conditions. As a God, he died, and in the World of the Dead he created an empire: the kingdom of the dead in which we enter when we die. Wsr organized a tribunal that will judge us and decide the course of our next reincarnation according to the actions we performed on Earth. As a God, He is resuscitated for the redemption of the living.
The history of this God that dies to judge the dead and resuscitates for the redemption of the living is, without a doubt, the most popular history of humanity. It is the story of this God of the second trinity and the holy drama of his life that inspired all the Judeo-Christian doctrines,especially the idea that a God could adopt a human appearance, the idea of death and resurrection, the judgment of the dead, and the concept of purgatory and heaven, etc.
According to the cosmogonic presentation of the holy drama, the God Wsr died six weeks ago, the 17 of the month of Ateeri, killed by Seth (the father of what we commonly call "Satan" today): On the date of the 24th of the month of Kairika, the body of the God of the Dead was embalmed and three days later, (the 27th) the ten days of fasting starts. During these days of fasting one will not eat, drink, copulate, or smoke from sunrise to sunset, but in the night one is free of restrictions until dawn
For the individual in search of the true face of existence, these ten days of fasting is our way of accompanying the God in his journey from the world of the living to the world of the dead. The 29 of Kairika is considered the official date of mourning for the God.
This is the story hidden behind the diverse sorts of fasting that are talked about in modern religions. Despite the fact that they find the idea of a spiritual fasting seducing, they still battle with the difference between a monotheistic concept and the world that was there before them.
It is very important for the individual that is interested in the origins of our thoughts as humans of today, to understand that, when the Greeks and Romans wanted to introduce new doctrines to the world, they found a world that was already full and without any empty room for philosophical creation. This didn't leave any other choice to these young people, thirsty for adventure and willing to influence the destiny of the world, but to try to "reinvent the wheel". This means that they tried to re-create the world of their dreams from the same basis and the preexisting elements. This is why it is very important, for them, that the whole world returns to the state of complete ignorance. The reality is that the world does not ever leave room for a new imagination. We are not conditioned to wander in space and time without a history solid enough to keep us inside the dimensions of our species. The future cannot be built; it comes as a normal consequence of what we have been in the past. The rest is just confusion introduced on our path. Amadou Hampate Ba, an African wise man, said "If a man trying to run away from his destiny travels incognito, he will find when he gets there that his destiny has preceded him and found a bed for both of them."
We must recognize that we do more than just the fasting in our pursuit of the destiny of Wsr, the God that dies and resuscitates; we follow him through that experience. We also die every night and resuscitate at dawn. Sleep is the image of death. Our consciousness sleeps so that it can allow our soul to transcend the two worlds and go educate itself close to the God Wsr about the conditions of the existence in the world of the dead. It is the corruption that is introduced by the new doctrine that slows down our awareness of the two worlds, but as it is said by the priests of M'TAM, "the soul only recognizes the path it has taken before."