UNIVERSAL
LOVE
Those simple
words might sum up the essential tendency of Caodaism.
The
practical applications that come from it concern:
1) Human
brotherhood
“For we entrusted
with duties of fraternity toward men who are our brothers in the universal
family, we also have duties of goodness toward animals who also are our
brethren behind us in the way of evolution.We must then take care of those
destined to our service, treat them with gentleness and avoid making them
suffer needlessly.All animal life must be respected as much as possible for in
harming it, we delay the evolution of the victim.So all Caodaists conscious of
their duties will submit to a vegetarian diet to avoid being party to multiple
crimes daily committed to the prejudice of his inferior brethren.
“Between
pity toward beast and kindness of soul”, said Schopenhauer, “there is a close
link: we may say without hesitating, that when an individual is cruel toward
beasts, he will not be a just man.
3) Goodness
toward plants:
“Nobody is
ignorant of the services rendered us by all kinds of trees.Silent benefactors
of man, not blaming either his ungratefulness, or his cruelty, they shelter,
with their shade, all who come and sit at their feet, a tired traveler as well
as a wicked wood-pharmacy cutter.The sandal-wood, it is said, perfumes the axe
that strikes it.
“Plans
constitute a true natural pharmacy from whence is drawn all proper panacea to
heal every disease.How many lessons of goodness and sacrifice can we drawn from
it for our profit!
“The recent
scientific experiments of Sir Bose, a scholar of India, have shown that plants
live much like man, that some particularly sensitive ones, possesses a nervous
system more sensitive than ours to physical impressions.What do we think then
of him who amuses himself by chopping a branch from a tree or uprooting a
plant?If the necessities of material life oblige us to use vegetables, the
goodness we owe these “candidates for animality” recommends us never to
mutilate, nor needlessly destroy them.
4) Service
to one’s neighbor (that completes the duty of the human fraternity).
“What
sweetness, what charm, nature in its solitude, offers him who lives the quiet,
secluded life.Apart from the world whose temptations attract him no more in the
quietness of his seclusion, he purifies his life, calms his passions and raises
his thoughts toward the Supreme Being.Then, in the rapture of contemplation,
where is revealed the feeling of Divinity, he feels at last his heavenly
origin.
“Such is the
inner life led by Superior Men endowed with great faculties when, their
terrestrial mission fulfilled, they aspire to spiritual well-being.Nonetheless,
before reaching that high stage of human pilgrimage, the traveler of the long
road, while seeking to progress, must help those who feel their way behind him.
“So the
caodaist, anxious to act according to his principles of humanity, must, in
every circumstance, devote himself to the service of his neighbor.Impelled by a
desire to help his fellowmen, he holds himself in readiness to bring, either by
his words, or by his acts, a balm to moral and social miseries.Moreover, in his
aspiration toward merciful love, he always holds out the same helpful hand to
those who stand in need.Bearing all affronts, from whatever source, he remains
without hatred among them who hate him, ever faithful to the Great Way,
dignitary or simple believer, he must impose upon himself the difficult task of
working for souls, to instill into them the teachings of Cao-Đài, based on the
love of good and the worship of truth.If by dint of proclaiming truth, he does
not succeed in convincing unbelievers, at least he will shake them a
little.Until doubts subsided in their souls, time will accomplish the rest.
“It is in
setting himself to the help and salvation of others that he works for his own,
for the acts of love and charity, by a just return, constitute his only
viaticum in his wanderings toward supreme happiness.Since the service of one’s
neighbor is one of the indispensable conditions of his own salvation, it is in
his interest to apply himself to it with as much zeal as his religious
earnestness and his moral advancement enable him.Without pretending to place
himself as a preacher, he must, however, particularly incite his coreligionists
to the practise of good and virtue.He can reach it, not by vain speeches, but
by practicing what he preaches and conforming his life to the doctrine, he
professes.If at times he fails in that task by slipping from the way that was
traced for him by the Great Master, it is but just that we blame his weakness
or his backsliding and not the teachings which he is charged to spread which
constitute –may we repeat? – an ideal of peace by fraternal love.
There may
be, in Caodaism as well as in all other existing religions, hypocrites and
believers whose faith is not strong enough to resist the temptations of the
Spirit of Evil.These are the unhealthy elements that dishonor the religion to
which they belong, and of which the body must be purged.
WHAT
CAODAISM BRINGS
Caodaism
comes to unveil truth and confirm the goal of the creation of man.
Caodaism
gives to its followers a consciousness of his power when the spirit is united
with the Spirit.
Cao-Đài
comes toward man hindered in his walk toward the light and shows him that human
reason will triumph over all obstacles, all misunderstandings.
Cao-Đài
delivers from hinderances.
Caodaism is
then in harmony with the free man who freely believes that the human spirit
will one day be conscious of its own power.
However,
Cao-Đài guards the free man from the spirit of pride, for he says that all
inner light comes from the superior light.
Light comes
only from light.
The Light
here below proceeds from the light above.
Human light
proceeds from divine light.
PREDESTINATION
OF CAODAISM
Caodaism is
predestined to become not only in the Far East but also in
all the universe, a synthesis of religions, and a supertheosophy freed from
artificial theosophy.Caodaism does not seek for religious transcendence, but
hopes for and tends toward a harmony of beliefs and philosophies.None of its
principles may be refused by any even somewhat advanced mind.
As in all
epochs, there was a way opened toward the Light from above, just as in every
place is found erected a mystic or material temple to invite the blessing of
the Cause of causes and to try to elevate microcosmic man toward the
macrocosmic all.
Religions
everywhere, in all times, the living religions of today: Hinduism, Buddhism,
Judaism, Christianity, and Islamism are adapted and adapt one another to the
time and place of their formation and development.Aquatic environment gives a
fish its form.It is the attraction of Heaven that makes man walk erect.
Caodaism,
born in Indochina , is destined for the
universe, since the message it brings is found already in all religions.
The
multiplicity of religions is not an obstacle to harmony if a subtile but real
bond forms a point of contact for them, that link, Caodaism brings to him who
will listen without prejudice, with all sincerity, fraternity, to its message:
Life, Love, and Truth.
CAODAISM,
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Caodaism is
a valuable religion that unites its members one with another that unites the
incarnate of this time, in all places, with the disincarnate of the past and
that prepares for future reincarnations.Caodaism makes its own the Comtist
formula:“The dead necessarily and more and more govern the living.”But, for it,
the deads are really and always living.
The caodaist
doctrine is a valuable philosophy that is set forth, demonstrated, discussed
and affirmed with sincerity, with rationalism as well as in
mysticism.Rationalism is not necessarily a systematic atheism.”
THERE IS
ONLY ONE GOD, WHAT IS HIS NAME?
There is
only one God, first Cause, principle of all that exists.There is one God
worshipped, venerated, and prayed to under diverse names at every point of the
globe.There is one God.
Cao-Đài,
such is the name that the one and total God has taken to manifest himself in Vietnam
Cao-Đài,
such is the name of the unique God who is in all the present and past names man
gave to God or under which God manifested himself to man.
Cao-Đài,
such is the name.
CAO DAI
Cao-Đài is
the most high Palace.It is the manifestation of the Ensoph in Kether.
Cao-Đài is a
roofless tower on the platform of which is written “He that man cannot name” by
any human words.Ensoph of the Cabalists, Iod, He, Van, He of the Israelites.
Cao-Đài
serves as the name of God.It is one of numerous names of the One-God whose name
can only be one of the aspects, while the Being is infinite.
By the
triple-sign, the tri-um God is always shown on the summits.God is higher than
any summit, broader than any space, more enduring than all time.
TAM = Let us
worship three times God-One in Cao-Đài.
KỲ = God is
eternal in all time and at all time.The present moment is always His time, the
epoch of God.
Cao-Đài
manifests Himself in the three periods of the past, present and future.
PHỔ =
sacrifice, fast, anticipation, prefiguration of that which is to come, of that
which is come.The fast is an expectation of celestial food, the divine Word.All
holy men and wise feed on the Word.Thus the sage, as the monk, expects through
fasting and abstinence from what is terrestrial to feed on what is celestial.
In the fast
thou shalt find Cao-Đài
ĐỘ = Thus
cometh deliverance as shall come the resurrection.Thus cometh judgment and pardon.So
is manifested Cao-Đài to pardon and to love.
Tam-Kỳ
Phổ-Độ
QUAN-ÂM
BỒ-TÁT
Secret
feminity of a mysterious Godless who gives strength to God.
God is One
and the Godless contains Him.
She is One,
and all God is manifested in Her.
Quan-Âm
Bồ-Tát.
SECRET
DIVINITY, tabernacle of God and God-Thyself in thy feminine expression.
Quan-Âm
Bồ-Tát manifests herself in Cao-Đài as Mary at Golgotha .
FIVE
INTERDICTIONS
1) Not to
kill living beings (because of the spark of life, the center of consciousness
that is in them).
2) Not to
covet (in order to avoid the fall into materialism through the needs of
possession and domination).Such is the case of existing society in which
everything seems bound to stir up pride and the craving for riches.
3) Not to
practice high living:
- Don’t eat
the bodies of beasts (vegetarianism);
- Don't
drink alcohol (because of its noxious effects on the physical body and the
spirit).
Noxious
effects of alcohol on the perispirit:
“ The
perispirit, said we, interpenetrates the physical body and envelopes it in its
fluids.Its vital center is in the brain and its astral center, on the
fontanelle.(It is on the latter center that the Spiritual Protector (Hộ-Pháp)
remains posted to watch over the Ego of an ascete until the day when he reaches
complete initiation).
“Now, the
exciting effect of alcohol, which spreads to the brain, congesting it,
provoking troubles in perispirit, troubles which, to the great prejudice of the
ascetic life, destroy the mystic harmony that is established in the
believer.Moreover, during those perispiritual afflictions, he leaves the door
open (the astral center) to perverse Spirits who, taking possession of his body
and exercising their control over him, impel him to reprehensible acts that may
lead him to perdition.
“Therefore our Great Master has expressly
forbidden us to drink alcohol.”
4) No to be
tempted by luxury(which attracts a cruel karma);
5) Not to
sin by word:
" Revelation
teaches us that God appoints a guardian-angel to the care of each human
life.That spirit, with a rigid impartiality, is, by virtue of his mission,
ceaselessly in relation with the perfect Beings of Superior Hierarchies to
render, before the Counsel of Lords of Karma (Tòa Phán-Xét) an account as full
as possible of all our good or ill deeds.Therefore, the account of all human
acts, constituted in merits and demerits, is unavoidably settled by the Great
Karmic Law. Further, that Spirit appointed to our care also has a mission to
teach us from his inspirations.Men, in their poor and insufficient language,
call him conscience.Now, before we seek to deceive others by our lies, we must
already have deceived our conscience, that is to say our guardian-angel.He
records notonly all our actions, but also our words, though they are not yet
expressed in acts.For, to the eyes of the Lords of Karma, the sins of the
tongue, as sins, are as punishable as those arising from an overt fact.
“So must we observe the greatest circumspection
in our speech as in our acts.”
CREATION OF
THE WORLD
The creation
of the world is always real and this religious truth is propagated from century
to century according to the times, in harmony or against opposition.The
creation of the human spirit is always actual and its elevation is constant.He,
who does not evolve, involutes and falls again into matter.
The spirit
is materialized, incarnate to live among us, but returns to the Spirit,
training and purifying us by him.Many messengers of the Spirit have come:
Krishna, Shakyamuni, and Confucius.Elsewhere:Hermes and Pythagoras, Socrates
and Plato.
All the
messengers have had their disciples: The Essenes, the Gnostics, the Templars,
the Rosecrucians and a great many others in the Occident and in the
Orient.Nowadays, in the Far East : the Caodaists.
FRENCH
SPIRITUALISTIC MESSAGES
Those who
are received most frequently by the Caodaist mediums emanate, it is said, from
Allan Kardec, Léon Denis, Camille Flammarion, Descartes, Joan of Arc,
Chateaubriand, etc ... and especially Victor Hugo and the Hugo family.Several
leaders of Caodaism, the Vietnamese pretend, are but the reincarnation of
several Hugos.Several curious facts seem to make it believable.In certain
temples, is placed the portrait of Victor Hugo.
REINCARNATION
IN CAODAISM
Being
connected with Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and I think I may affirm without
fear of successful contradiction: with Kardecism (Allan Kardec being considered
as a religious genius), Caodaism believes in Karma, and Samara, its
consequence.The caodaists frankly declare to bring nothing new on that point.
All volition
(thought, word, or act) is a cause that bears in it its effect:
"The
cause is rigorously bound to its effects, which is somehow its transformation, its
material interpretation.That interpretation is so exact that the scrutiny of
the present incarnation of an entity should be sufficient to inform us at the
same time of its past and future.The present incarnation of the entity with
that alternation of joys and annoyances was determined by the actions that it
had fulfilled itself in the course of its anterior lives.Likewise, from now on,
its deeds determine the conditions of its future reincarnation.
"The
effect is separated from the cause by a time that may be long or short.If that
interval is short, the effect is immediate and the sinner sees the expiation
accomplished before his eyes.If it is long, it is because the sinner is
benefiting for a time from the happy effect of good deeds accomplished at some
time in the past, and that still lasts.However, as soon as that metapsychic
immunization is ended, the karmic law will have full play.In many cases, the
fall incident to it is sudden, thus explaining the quick decadence of such and
such a family, a dynasty of a race" (Revue Caodaiste, March 1933).
The
free-will of man is limited by the karmic effects of the anterior lives, man
being the real artisan of his own destiny, affirm the Caodaists.The practise of
good enables the entity to get rid progressively of its karma."To know
himself, said Ngô Văn Chiêu, the first Caodaist, lately disincarnated, the
believer must wish himself unhappiness."
Caodaism
also believes in the apparition of a new man, thus uniting either with
Professor Pietro Ubaldi (Zeitschrift fur metapsychische Forschung), April 29th,
1933), who believes that man in the future will be a natural medium, a new type
of sensitive being, or with our friends the theosophists, who already perceive
the new type of man in formation.
"Experience
has shown that at each coming the Messiah, whether He bears the name of
Lao-Tze, Buddha, or Christ, humanity is as it were awakened from its torpor.A
stream of occult forces circulating everywhere helps him to understand
mysteries hereto fore incomprehensible; a sudden and marvellous development of
such faculties as intuition, memory, intelligence, clairvoyance, empowers the
believers to accede to the way that is now open.Touched by the universal fluid,
which comes near the Earth only after thousands of centuries, the faithful
easily understands the divine teachings and, blazing the trail, some day he
will succeed in being absorbed in God.
"Since the appearance of Caodaism, whose
founder is the Supreme Being, phenomena of that kind were noticed somewhat
everywhere in Cochinchina.The most surprising is the integral vegetarianism
practiced without trouble by the members of all sexes and ages.We have seen
many children of four or five, who could not bear a dish of fish or meat.We
have seen many 13 or 14 years, renounce a meat diet to eat vegetables and rice
once a day.We have seen others who ate only fruits.These facts of a new order
astonished the bonzes themselves,
which confessed that even among them very few practice a true vegetarianism.
"Then comes the unexpected expansion of
certain faculties such as memory, intelligence, intuition among persons who
have received no instruction."
Since its
creation, the "Revue Caodaiste" has drawn our attention to some cases
of reincarnation in Vietnam.We should be very happy to see our Caodaist
brethren adopt for their inquiries and control the scientific precision
necessary to the Occident, which wants proof more than witness of a moral
nature should.They would render us an immense service on that point: One case
of minutely controlled reincarnation would subdue at a stroke the objections
current and a hundred times heard against reincarnation.The "Revue
Caodaiste" has already undertaken such and we congratulate them upon it.
Each of us,
says Caodaism, before being reincarnated, takes a little cháo-lú (soup of
forgetting).If he takes much (when he has many sins and he has much to forget),
he does not remember his previous life.If he takes a little (when he reaches
one of his last reincarnations and he needs no longer blush at grievious
faults), he is able by introspection, intuition, and illumination, to remember
incidents of preceding incarnations.Nevertheless, it is the privilege of an
elite of humble and silent meditative men and sages whom the world ignores.
*
* *
Our era of
failure, chaos, hate, thirst for riches, speaks readily of tax reform, treaty
revision, frontier changes, revision of customs duties, etc ...But it forgets a
reform which is little spoken of, but which is the key to reform of all
reforms.
Are we
beginning to reform our conscience?
It is
because Caodaism understood this necessity and attempted that reform of
conscience that so many black forces in Asia are raised against it.Powerful
synthesis of the Asiatic religions; a link with the Christianity of Christ; a
rallying of psychic and spiritualistic fact, basis of modern occidental
spiritualism; a cry of love toward the Unknown, the Infinite, the Universal
Peace and the Fraternity of peoples; greetings to thee, Cao-Đài, greetings to
you, caodaists, distant brethren of Vietnam, which we now receive and bless in
precept and example.Does at last old Europe dare overthrow those values that
necessitate the advent of a new day?We believe so, and therefore we say thanks
to our caodaist brethren of Indochina.
CAODAISM AND
VICTOR HUGO
Religio, the
Rivista di Studi Religiosi under the direction of Ernest Buonainti, in Rome
Victor Hugo
and the Caodaists:- One of my friends who is travelling in the Far East, writes
me from Saigon:"Do you know that Victor Hugo has been deified?It is by a
sect of Cochinchina, called Đại-Đạo Tam-Kỳ Phổ-Độ, that has had the strange
idea to attribute to the great French poet divine honors.What do you think
about it?While in France a referendum was called to find the worthiest manner
of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Victor Hugo, with ceremonies
proceeding at the Pantheon, at the Sorbonne, at Guernesey, all kept in the
strict banality of official honors, here is a religious sect of Cochinchina
which confers on the Poet divine honors and inscribes his name in the Legion of
the Genii.So a man was called to honors of the altar (or almost), that, in his
famous will, denied all value and religious content to constituted churches and
accepted only the prayer of the humble.
Let us give
to the gesture of the Caodaists its true proportion: the glorification of human
genius understood as an expression of the divine light; the glorification of
Poetry, understood as a human expression of the divine harmony.A form of
glorification that is naturally framed in the fundamental conceptions of that
new religious confession which, in less than ten years of life, has been able
to gather nearly a million adherents.
I knew in
Paris, toward the end of 1931, a student
from Phnom-Penh, who attended at the Sorbonne.He was a caodaist.I learned from
him that the Đại-Đạo Tam-Kỳ Phổ-Độ -- which means precisely Caodaism -- was
founded in November 1925 and represents a synthesis of the three great Oriental
religions: Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, which united with Christianity
and the worship of Genii, represent the five great ways that Cao-Đài (the
Supreme Being) opened to humanity for their development and spiritual evolution.As
we see, Islam does not find place among the ways that lead to the
Most-High.Christ on the contrary, is considered by the caodaists as an Envoy of
the Lord to a part of humanity, to guide them along the way to perfection, a
way adequate to their capacity for understanding spiritual values.
The sense of
profound veneration with which the young Indochinese student pronounced the
name of Christ; the respect with which he told me Christian rites of which he
knew the occult signification, were for me, I confess, the highest, the most
efficacious lesson of tolerance, at the same time an example of true fraternity
in a Superior Being, who, in spite of the diversity of names with which men
invoke him, changes not at all His face of shining love.
"What does it matter, really, whether a
spirit he actually is that of Fénelon or not?If he speaks nothing but good, and
talks like Fénelon himself, he is a good Spirit; the name by which he is made
known is of minor importance, and often is only a means of fixing our
ideas."
Allan Kardec
Cited by
René Sudre
"Know
that all have known His law, His end, His way; that stars and distances all
hear Him; that all is conscious in creation; and that the ear can have His
vision; for things and beings have their dialogue."
What the
Shadow's Mouth said
Victor Hugo,
Jersey , 1855
Victor Hugo
was during his lifetime a practicing spiritualist; he communicated by means of
a table and automatic writing.His desire while living was that he might appear
to his friends after death.Therefore, the Hugo messages are easily
"authenticated" than those of a Fénelon (to cite the example of Allan
Kardec) or of any others.
Moreover,
the solemnity of the message that I am going to reproduce here, the eminent
quality of the interpellator, postulate in favor of authenticity.
Here is then
the spiritualistic message attributed to the Spirit of Victor Hugo or Nguyệt-Tâm
Chơn-Nhơn,
in the seance of April 20, 1930 , at 1 o'clock in the morning.
Hộ-Pháp: I wish to be
instructed regarding the origin of our Master and his Power.
It is not easy to know this mystery,
The eternal searching of the question is not clear.
It is possible there are, in my opinion,
Other universes than ours in the infinite.
They would be more or less enormous,
But life and their beings would have the same form.
One of these would be more advanced.
From the point of view of spirits and humanity.
At one stage, they should much resemble ours,
With progress, they could become apostles.
In all the heavens, Beauty reigns.
Its beings possess much of divinity.
Peace and harmony rule these earths,
Their creatures know not the word "War".
Nothing is relative, all is absolute;
Great souls vie with each other in virtue.
All production is science and wisdom.
Soul-power is master of human weakness.
These latter worlds live without law,
Union is made under faith divine.
Death will be vanquished by uplifted conscience.
There is no difference between living and dead.
The love of all beings is published everywhere,
Souls and men are all in holiness.
There is, here, a certain world of ours,
Where this kind of life is fruitful.
You may, one day, appreciate its value,
Then our world has passed to the higher degree.
Hộ-Pháp:When will the earth have these benefits:
In order that you may be conscious of your merit,
I will make use of a spirit expression.
Through purgatories, beginning at the rank of the
blessed,
The land will be long becoming the land of the gods.
If one would know the origin of our Master,
He must be with him to penetrate it.
No spirit has a clear opinion,
Buddha himself only suppositions.
Do not take my instructions as important.
I only repeat what the spirits think.
Let us suppose that the creator, in his beginnings,
In reality lived in one of these universes,
His spirit also had to make a long ascent;
From matter, He became man, then a sage,
He passed through the grades of the spirit class;
And entered at last into the mystery of Creation.
Through his successive lives,He possesses a power,
That has made Him Master of Wisdom and Science;
He surrounds Himself with the spirits;
Which make up His court of servants and friends.
As soon as His heaven had power enough,
He rode with His train through infinity.
Hộ-Pháp:He has, then, a heaven of his own?
Yes, each of us has a domain set apart.
That He makes with his spiritual force.
Souls and spirits that proceed from our karmic state,
Thus form our heaven and make our republic.
Those who people it are scarcely faithful,
Many among us come from our original sin.
To the extent that one neglects the secrets of
purification
He opens the heavens to these terrible demons,
From which comes our Satan, the great devil.
If we search for the truth and not fables,
He surely comes form the cortege divine
Which our Creator was unable to make perfectly holy,
It is the rule that our nearest betray us,
Through jealousy, envy, or pure caprice.
You have, Hộ-Pháp, a cramp in your hand,
Let us put off our talk till tomorrow.
I continue my discussion of Genesis,
Respecting that which will please you.
Once on a time in a shadowy place,
Still, stagnant, peaceful, unmoving,
In a gas neither vapor nor liquid,
Slept sommolent germs and lethargic;
Enveloped at last in a frightful cold,
No creature lived, no matter germinated.
Hộ-Pháp:Is this the nature of the water spoken of in
the Christian Genesis?
Yes, it is this form of gas which is called hydrogen,
More or less dense, which makes the purest part.
Say that the Spirit of God swam above the waters.
It is in a sense that the word must be understood.
With its star made up of light,
It animates by its heat inert matter.
A layer of oxygen is produced, goes into action.
The contact of gases makes an explosion;
Divine fire is born, and holy water is formed,
Under the effect of the two elements, all is
transformed.
From burned matter was formed gas, from burned gas
Were produced fluids, pure fluids are vitality.
Such vitality has a power
Of giving the spirits both death and life.
What marvels are already shown us?
What mysteries are further reserved for us?
All that comes from the hand of our Master,
It is difficult for us to know.
This divinely fed fire, expanded,
Casts its nebuli afar to the infinite.
In the entire universe, this fire is sown.
It is renewed as quickly as decomposed.
These nebuli grow in the form of suns;
Creating worlds in all their details,
Which the consciousness of God and His light animate,
And the weakest of beings have penetrated all.
The spirit divine is everywhere spread.
All that have life proceed from this All.
Of the fluids emanating from the light divine,
The most impure are changed into stone,
Into earth, into vegetables, animals and flesh.
The most dense into air, and the pure to ether.
Intellect is thus given to all creatures.
According to their state, a dose more or less pure.
Soul is thus created, as for the body
" Tis
vitality that determines its lot.
The rest you have understood
I stop here."
Hộ-Pháp:Pardon. If all
comes from our Master, all must be perfect.
" Why
then do we observe imperfection in nature?
What are these imperfections?
May I give you some explanations?"
Hộ-Pháp:The wickedness and
uselessness of beings, as well as men, animals, and vegetables.Their morals
cannot reasonably appreciated.
Nothing is wicked or useless in nature.
To be preserved, there must be nourishment.
The Good Lord ardently loves His children,
In His great love, He finds them the means.
For their progress, He creates for them suffering.
They must also have means of defense.
Have you seen in this world a man truly pious?
Though they be wicked to us, they are useful to them!
How did our great sages become so?
What do the pages of human history contain?
A fierce struggle between the weak and the strong,
The strongest are often the greatest.
The opposition of the two gives the upward march
Of ideas and wise realizations.
Our dear world is purely relative;
Wicked and useless are only qualifications.
On the globe, each of us has a place;
The worlds of other heavens are but classes.
The universe is therefore a school for the spirits.
Who attend it for erudite study.
Those who fail in their efforts,
Must repeat the same classes, and study their lessons
again.
All spirits hope to read the eternal book
That holds the secret that can make them immortal.
The goal is achieving our red career;
Which takes time, conditions, and manners.
From the material world to divinity pure
Is eternity's road to be taken.
The result is learning self-knowing.
Then knowing, through conscience, the man that should
be.
The difference in characters is right;
" Tis
an aid in making comparisons.
Make room for great tolerance in your studies.
Class the spirits according to their aptitude.
Simply separate those who are human
From those already a little divine.
Give to the leaders the best example.
Teach by all methods the unfaithful,
Do not detest them for their infamy
And think only of the salvation of their souls!
Love always in order to give to humanity
These two verities: Love and Eternity.
Hộ-Pháp:The Father and the
Master are different.Why does our Father take also the title of Master.
He is at the same time Father and Master,
For from Him comes all of our being.
He nourishes our bodies with that which is good
And makes up our spirit of what is divine.
In Him all is science and wisdom;
Progress of soul is his unceasing work,
Vile materials are jewels in His eyes
Vile spirits, He makes into Gods.
His law is love, His power is justice.
He knows but the virtue, and none of the vice.
Father:He gives to His children vitality.
Master:He bestows on them His own divinity."
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