Our Liberation achieved through the efforts of Everyone

This raises the main point to be made in this conclusion. While prophets were required to liberate humanity, the preparations which made liberation possible were a group effort, everyone throughout humanity’s history has participated. The following analogy of building a staircase does not reconcile very well with the analogy already used of a mountain of evasion needingPage 197 of
Print Edition dismantling. However, with the mountain analogy it was the extent of our evasions which was being stressed. What is to be stressed here is the point that the physicist, Sir Isaac Newton, once made, that we could only get to see clearly by being hoisted up on the shoulders of others. Our liberation was made possible by the combined efforts of everyone. For two million years humanity has been sending wave after wave of its soldiers against the wall of ignorance and one day, upon the shoulders of all that effort, one of us finally had to scramble over the top of the wall and pull the bolt on the gate in that wall and let us through.

It was as if the whole of humanity worked tirelessly for two million years building a staircase up a gigantic wall (of ignorance) that barred the way. The bricks being used were our evasively presented understandings/insights. The completed staircase could only be ascended by an exceptional innocent who was unafraid of the view from the top of the wall, which was of integrative meaning. But this could not be done until the staircase was complete, until humanity as a whole had found all the mechanisms of existence. Only a first principle explanation could liberate us from our sense of guilt. In the time of Christ humanity had not yet found the insights that made liberation possible. For example, science had still to discover the mechanisms of genetics and the nerve-based learning system. In fact the discipline of science itself had yet to be formulated.

Christ was aware of humanity’s need to find first the knowledge that would make liberation possible. He said: ‘Although I have been speaking figuratively a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about God . . .’ and ‘. . . another Counsellor, the Spirit of truth, will be with you forever — will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you [the human intellect will carry out lots of research and find the everlasting or profound first principles or mechanisms behind the workings of our world. Then when this work is given to an exceptionally clear conscience a first principle defence of humans will be found that can be taught/explained/communicated to and thusPage 198 of
Print Edition shared or understood by everyone. When this happens we will be able to understand plainly what he, Christ, was only able to explain in metaphysical terms; we will see that our first principle explanation says the same things as Christ was saying.]’ (John 16:25 and 14:16,17,26). Christ eventually had realised the limitations imposed on him by the times in which he lived. He realised that the most a compassionate prophet could achieve prior to humanity as a whole finding the mechanisms that would make liberation possible was to provide a place of soundness for less sound humans to retire to and recuperate after they became exhausted from ‘building the staircase’. He learnt that while he could establish or found a religion he could not eliminate evasion, he could not stop us being evasive. The Jews acknowledge this. They do not consider Christ the liberating prophet, the so-called messiah, because they recognise that while he was able to temporarily ‘deliver us from evil’ — to give us ‘salvation from sin’ — he could not eliminate evil (upset) from earth. Humanity had to struggle on and find more knowledge before liberation would be possible. The staircase up the wall of ignorance had still to be completed.

In many ways prophets only got in the way while this work was going on because they depressed us by confronting us with truths we had no option but to evade. If exceptional innocence could have liberated us without knowledge having to first be discovered we could have liberated ourselves two million years ago because we were all exceptionally innocent then. Our exhaustions, which made the occurrence of innocence rare, came about because we had first to find knowledge and to do that we had to defy our conscience which upset/exhausted us. If anyone is tempted to think of exceptional innocents, their world and what they can do as being superior to our embattled world they have only to consider this: if exceptional innocents were left alone on earth, while they wouldn’t have the battle-weary around them to corrupt them, they wouldn’t have the knowledge the battle-weary found in the process of becoming battle-weary and they would eventually become as corrupted/battle-weary when theyPage 199 of
Print Edition set out in search of knowledge, as they would have to do. The presence of ‘corruption’ was the presence of the search for knowledge. The exhausted were those who had already left innocence to do the work that had first to be carried out for humans to become free; they were those who had already gone to battle while the innocent were those who had yet to go. Innocence was in no way the hero of the battle. It had yet to even go to battle!

To use another analogy, that of a football match, to emphasise the point being made. Football teams have specialist players who kick the goal only after the whole team has worked the ball down the field to within kicking distance of the goal posts. Kept away from the main battle which has left the other players bruised, battered and tattered, this specialist player comes on the field in his clean togs with his hair in place (in some codes of football the specialist kicker isn’t kept entirely out of the rest of the match but in others, such as American gridiron, he is) and takes the kick that scores the goal that wins the match. In the same way, while innocence came ‘on the field’ at the last moment to ‘kick the goal’ (liberate humanity) the victory clearly belongs to the players who did all the exhausting work that made ‘the kick’ possible. The reason we became exhausted is that we personally and those who produced us, namely our parents and their parents before them, etc., had been doing all the work — had been defying ignorance and searching for the understanding/knowledge that would make liberation possible. We had to ‘lose ourselves to find ourselves’. The price of freedom was that humans be prepared to expend themselves in the battle, generation after generation, for two million years. Now that we are in the position of having to confront innocence and its world and accept its leadership out of our embattled/exhausted world it is very important that everyone remember this — that the glory of our success belongs to the battle-weary, those who did the work, those who expended themselves in order to achieve humanity’s freedom, those who paid the price. We owe our success to them, they most deserve to be loved, they are our great heroes. This is the essential message of this book.

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Print Edition Finally, to return to the analogy of the wall of ignorance for a moment. When the exceptional innocent got over the wall he had to resist opening the gate until he had laid out the complete banquet — a feast of explanation. There had to be no gaps left in the explanation that might lead to misunderstanding, confusion and further upset. After thirteen years of introspection this has been done. The full unevasive story from atoms to humanity, without any gaps, has been thought through and is presented here. As has been stated so often, it was a case of all the truth or no truth — no hurtful partial truth, anyway. All the repressed truths had to be revealed together in one go to make the full truth. This inability to reveal the truth gradually and thus gently was a product of our necessarily evasive approach to the truth.

The full book that is to follow will not add new insights. Of necessity, they are all revealed here. What it does is expand on what has been sketched out here, elaborating in more detail on the scientific bases for the insights, and following them through to explain the many practical situations that confound us at every turn today. It spells out the ramifications, the full import, of this knowledge, which is not always immediately obvious. However, for the time being, there is ample explanation to adjust to in the condensed version. For example, having evaded the truth for so long just getting used to the idea of God being integrativeness and not some person in the clouds is shock enough. We have to become used to seeing clearly.