- Spiritual Letter 08 - "Only God Is Good" Page 3 of 7 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on the 18th thru the 24th of October, 2001 to Aziza (Bitsy Weiss) Wisdom Point: His Holiness, "There Are No Good People, Only God Is Good" Go To: Outline of This Letter Go To: Text of This Letter Outline of This Letter: 2. Topic 2 3. Topic 3 4. Topic 4 5. Topic 5 6. Topic 6 7. The Rest of Page 3 - but without an outline Text of This Letter: 1. Opening Prayer - back to outline Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. Al-hamdu lillah. In sha 'allah, ma sha 'allah. Tawakkal-Allah. Allahumma labbaik. In the name of God, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate. All praise and praising belong to God and to God alone. If God so wills, whatever God wills. I place my trust in God, and in God alone, and am obedient to His will, and to His will alone. May all responsibility be given to Allah, the One who is limitless grace, and incomparable love, the One who gives us His blessings. 2. Topic 2 - back to outline My dearest loving sister Aziza, in this way, what we see in the world as injustice is merely a reflection of our current "state of consciousness", a consciousness that is separate from God, separate from each of our brothers and sisters who have been born with us in the world of souls, in this world, and will be with us in the next world, and separate from each of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes, that God has personally placed within each of us. His Holiness teaches us that the first step in cutting away our current state of consciousness, our consciousness of "separate from", the first step in removing our separation from God, as well as our separation from others, and from all of the creations of God within us, is to put down the idea of "our presence", as separate from God, as separate from our brothers and sisters, and as separate from any of the creations of God, and at the same time to pick up the idea of "God's presence" within us, and the idea of the "presence of all of our brothers and sisters" within us, and the idea of the "presence of all of the creations of God" within us. And at the same time, to pick up the idea that God within us, all of our brothers and sisters within us, and all of the creations of God within us, are in truth all one within us, are in truth but a reflection of the One within us, like the apple seed, the apple tree within it, and the apple fruit within the apple tree within it, are in truth all one within the apple seed, are in truth but a reflection of the One within the apple seed, each one containing the other within it, each one revealing the other within it. In this way, we must replace "our presence", and the presence of everything that we currently see as existing on the "outside" of us, with the presence of God within us, with the presence of our brothers and sisters within us, and with the presence of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us. And since this idea is true, and the former idea is false, we will start to strengthen this truth within us, while at the same time, we will start to weaken the falsehood of "our presence" and the presence of everything that we see on the "outside" of us. It is for this reason that His Holiness teaches us, that "You cannot really put anything down unless you pick something else up." This is the path of God, my dearest loving sister Aziza, to realize that God has already given us everything He has, which is everything, and in our ignorance we have picked up from what God has given us that part of it which He has personally discarded, we have picked up the life of separation and differences that separates us from God within us, that separates us from all of our brothers and sisters within us, and from all of the creations of God within us. We have picked up the part of what God has given us that God has personally discarded, that if not discarded by us, in partnership with God, which for this age is our partnership with His Holiness, will take us directly to the 7 hells, to an eternal life of separation and differences, but if discarded by us, in partnership with God, by our joining in partnership with His Holiness, will allow us to become one with His Holiness, and in this way, and in this way only, to become one with God. My dearest loving sister Aziza, we must absorb into our hearts, without the slightest doubt, the explanation given to us by His Holiness, on 4/6/85, of what it means to say to God, "You are the cause when we go down in our life, and You are the cause when we progress, when we climb up in our life." In this discourse His Holiness gives us God's explanation, of the meaning of this statement to God, which each of us in the clarity of our wisdom, must personally understand and say to God, for God to accept us and take us back into Himself. ----- beginning of quotation by His Holiness ----- "And God tells man, "I have given you the state in which You and I can be one. Also, I have given you the state where You and I can be separated. I have given you the wisdom to understand that all mankind are the children of one Mother, and to be joined in unity, but also you have the tendency to forget this, and to destroy yourselves as a result." "We have spread out one mat called the dunya, or this world, and all of us are on this same mat, sitting, laying down, eating, praying, to experience everything in our life. The dunya, this plate is like this. And we have given you the wisdom to understand this, that the world is like a prayer mat, where you can pray from any part of the world. And it is also an alter where you sacrifice." "The world is a place where one can embrace the other in peace and unity, but it is also the place where one can murder the other in sacrifice. You have the wisdom to join together, as one family, to eat off the same plate in unity, and you also have the wisdom (the consciousness), when it is warped, to plunder the food of another, and to covet what others have." "So there are 400 trillion, and 10 thousand different kinds of prayers and worship, acts which are just and unjust, the divisions of "you" and "I", the divisions that yours are different from mine and mine is different from yours, causing all these divisions and separations. And because of this, you also have within you, the state in which you will commit so many sins, and evils, and murders." "However, you also have (within you) the wisdom to understand this, and to differentiate between these two states." ----- end of quotation by His Holiness ----- In this way, my dearest loving sister Aziza, our work now, our only work now, is to put down what we have mistakenly picked up through our ignorance, is to put down the life of separation and differences that God has given us, to put down the life that God has discarded, that God has given us as part of Him giving us everything that He has, and through our wisdom to pick up the life of oneness and unity, to pick up the life that God has picked us, as His life, the life of justice and truth, the life of compassion and unity that God has also given us, as part of everything that He has. The choice is ours, because we have both types of lives within us, the life of what God has discarded, the life of darkness, the life of falsehood and injustice, and the life that God has picked up, the life of light, the life of truth and justice, because God has given us both types of lives, as part of what He has given us, and we can pick up either, and put either down. In this way, God has given us everything, which includes all that He Is, all that is within Him, and all that has separated from Him, and He has given all of this to us, to us as His Children for this age, so that we, joined in partnership with Him, can do what He did, can do what only He can do, which is to separate from us what He separated from Himself. Then we are one with Him, and He is one with us. Then, and only then, will our lives be successful, but not as long as we are holding onto anything that God has discarded, no matter what it is, no matter how exalted or important in our ignorance it might appear to be. In this way, my dearest loving sister Aziza, we must remembering at all time the nature of God, because in truth this is our nature, not what we are currently experiencing as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what's happening". And as His Holiness teaches us, in the book "A Mystical Journey", "God is a Power. He has no form or shape. He is alone, and yet He is everywhere, existing as an eternal power, that dwells in all lives and seeing them as one." In this way, we must now join with God, by joining with His Holiness, to do what God did to become God, to do what God did when God was in the same predicament that we currently find ourselves within, when God was separated from Himself in anathi, in the time of darkness or lack of understanding of God, when God was separated from Himself, from an understanding of Himself, by all that separated Him from Himself, which is the darkness that surrounded Him in anathi, which in truth is now His predicament within each of us, which in truth is now what He must do in His predicament within each of us, which is to again become God, but this time within each of us, if we but join Him in His predicament within each of us, which in truth is but Him again in anathi, but this time His anathi is within each of us. My dearest loving sister Aziza, we must realize without the slightest doubt, that this predicament is always His predicament, no ours, not ours in separation from God. It is always His problem, not ours, not ours in separation from God, because only God can do in anything with this predicament, with this problem, with this predicament or problem of "separation from", separation from God, separation from all of our brothers and sisters, and separation from all of the creations of God, only God can resolve this predicament or solve this problem by joining with Himself to reveal Himself within Himself, which is the only resolution of this predicament, the only solution to this problem, not "you" or "I" getting better, or "you" or "I" becoming good, or "you" or "I" starting to act with justice in the world that we see as existing "outside" of us. In this way, this is His problem, not ours. He is the one that this was done to, the one who has this problem, not us. And it is He who must solve it, but He can only solve His problem within each of us, when each of us join with Him, join with Him as one with Him, and as one with His problem, to solve this problem that He has within us, to solve His problem which is "us", which is "us" as separate from Him, as separate from God within us, separate from all of our brothers and sister within us, and separate from all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us. In this way, we are God's problem, we are the problem that God has, that God has taken on, by join with His Holiness to give birth to each of us within Him, within His Holiness, by existing as one with us, within us. We certainly are not the one who has to solve this problem, to solve God's problem, to solve any problem separate from God, to solve even the illusory problems that we currently see as existing "outside" of us. That is why, my dearest loving sister Aziza, "we" can't do it, why "we" can't do it alone, why "we" as separate from God, as separate from His Holiness, can't do it. That is why "we" as separate from God, as separate from His Holiness, as "separate from" anyone or anything, is a useless state of consciousness, which needs to be discarded from within us, because it cuts us off from the one thing, from the only thing, that will move our life forward, that will liberate our soul from the cross of our physical body, which is God, which is God within His Holiness within us, the only thing that will solve the problem, that will remove the predicament that in truth exists within us, that will solve the problem or remove the predicament within us of "separation from". In this way, our understanding, rejecting, and discarding the idea of "ourselves" as separate from anything, and our understanding, embracing, and joining in partnership with God, by joining in partnership with His Holiness within us, will separate from us all that separates us from His Holiness and form God, allowing God in anathi within us to separate from Himself all that keeps Him separate from Himself, allowing the Nur of God and the Qutb of God to emerge out of God in anathi within us, establishing athi within us, revealing God within us as Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim, revealing the Triple Flame of God within us as the Sifat, the Sirr, and Dhat of God, allowing the creation of Adam (A.S.) within us, revealing God within us as the Compassionate Ruler of the 18,000 universes within us, allowing the Nur Muhammad that God placed on the forehead of Adam (A.S.) to come to maturity within us, as the seed of iman, as the seed of True Man, revealing the Tree of Muhammadar Rasulullah within us, with the branches of the 124,000 prophets of God, and the fruits of the 6,666 verses of the Holy Qur'an. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. This, and only this, will cut away from us all that cuts us off from the one thing that will move God's life within us forward, that will move the life of our soul forward, which is Him joining with Him, which is Him within us joining with Him within us. Only this act, only this action, will move our soul forward on the journey of the soul back into the oneness of God, from which it came, to complete God's purpose, which is to reveal God within God, which is to reveal Himself within Himself. My dearest loving sister Aziza, this is our birth right. This is "who we are". This is "where we are". And this is "what is happening". This is not something that we have to earn or become worthy of. This is not something that we have to work for in order to obtain it. This is the truth about "who we are" - we are the oneness of God and True Man happening. This is the truth about "where we are" - we are within our Shaikh who is within God, as an apple fruit is within the apple tree which is within the apple seed. And this is the truth about "what's happening" - The oneness of God and True Man is happening, by man happening within the creations of God within the 18,000 universes within us, by True Man happening with man, and by God happening within True Man. If we think about it, a little, we will realize that an apple seed has within it everything of the apple tree, everything of the apple fruit, and everything of the apple seed within the apple fruit. In this way, the apple seed has everything necessary for the apple tree to be revealed from within the apple seed, for the apple fruit to be revealed from within the apple tree, and for the apple seed to be revealed again from within the apple fruit. Like this, within us, as the seed of God, we have everything of the tree of God, everything of the fruit of God, and everything of the seed of God within the fruit of God. In this way, as the seed of God, we have everything necessary for the tree of God to be revealed from within the seed of God, for the fruit of God to be revealed from within the tree of God, and for the seed of God to be revealed again from within the fruit of God. In this way, we have all of what God has and is, we have it all, we have all what His Holiness has and is, we have it all, because God has given it all to us, and His Holiness has given it all to us. We have everything within us to complete what God is doing within His Holiness, and to complete what His Holiness is doing within us, which is really what His Holiness is doing with God. And what God is doing within His Holiness is to reveal God, and what His Holiness is doing within us, within God within us, is to reveal True Man, and in this way to reveal the oneness of man and God. And if we join in partnership with His Holiness then He will complete within us, within God within us, what He is doing, He will reveal True Man within True Man within us by revealing God within True Man within us. Allowing God to complete what He is doing within His Holiness, which is to reveal God within God within His Holiness by revealing True Man within God within His Holiness. In this way, we have all of everything within us, we have all of the darkness of anathi, all of the light of athi, all of the creations in awwal, dunya, and akhirah, all of everything in the time of creation, in this world of earth, and in the hereafter, and all of the things of God that God placed within Adam (A.S.), within Adam (A.S.) as a handful of purified earth, which includes Muhammad (Sal.) and the Holy Qur'an, as well as all of the treasures of God in awwal, dunya, and akhirah, which is the Triple Flame of Allah - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen, as well as the seven levels of wisdom, that can move it all forward, discarding all of the things that God discards, and in this way revealing all of the things of God, all of the things within God, then revealing God within each of the things of God, and in this way revealing the oneness of man and God. We have within us all of the creations in awwal, which is all of the pure and impure souls that came out of God when the Light of God, when the Nur, came out of the Power of God in anathi, after God meditated upon that Power, after the Power of God dawned within God, after God asked the question, "Who am I?. And all of this occurred in the time of darkness or lack of understanding of God known as anathi, thereby causing the Nur to come to maturity within the Power of God and emerge out of Him as the Nur of God and Qutb of God, as the Light of God and the Power of God, establishing God in athi, or the time of light or the understanding of God, as Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim, as the Creator, the Nourisher, and the Sustainer of all creations, and as the Rabil Alameen, as the Compassionate Ruler of the 18,000 universes within God. And we have within us all of the creations of earth living in this world, in the dunya, which is all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, as well as all of the 124,000 prophets of God, and if we but join with God, by joining with the life and teaching of His Holiness, and harvest this dunya that is within us, we will then have all of the creations of God in akhirah within us, all of the heavenly being and lights of God. And if we but join with God within True Man to reveal God within God, by revealing True Man within God, we will become one with God, we will become the oneness of God and True Man. In this way, we must to put down the idea that "our presence" separate from God is real, that "our presence" as separate from "God's presence" is of value to anyone, is of value to ourselves or to anyone else, and pick up the idea that "God's presence" is real within us, that "God's presence" is of great value to everyone, is of great value to us, and to everyone who has been born with us, and that for this age, that the "presence of His Holiness" within us is the "presence of God" within us. In this way, we must get out of the idea of ourselves, get out of the idea of "our presence", or of "our actions", or of "our understanding". For His Holiness teaches us that this is the "triple dirt" within us, rather than the Triple Flame within us, and that this "triple dirt" within us is what is hiding or covering the Triple Flame within us, that this "triple dirt" within us is what is preventing this Triple Flame within us from coming to maturity within us, revealing God within God within us. His Holiness calls this "triple dirt" within us, arrogance, karma, and illusion. This is what must be destroyed within us through our partnership with God, by joining in partnership with the life and teaching of His Holiness that God has placed within each of us, within each of God's Children for this age, this age of destruction, this Kali Yuga, this age of destruction. This arrogance of "self existence", must be destroy within us, in partnership with His Holiness, destroying the arrogant belief within us that "I exist" as separate from God, and as separate from everything else, as separate from all of my brothers and sisters who have been born with me, and separate from all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within me. Like wise, this karma of "self determination", must also be destroy within us, in partnership with His Holiness, destroying the karmic belief that "I do" separate from God, that I am the doer in my life, that I am the one who makes things happen in my life, that I am responsible for my life, for what happens to me, and for how my life will turn out, either good or bad. This karmic belief must be destroyed within us, this false belief that I am in control, in control of my life, and that I can be in control of the world and people around me. This arrogant belief that I am a responsible person, and that it is through my actions that I progress or I do not progress in my life, that it is my actions that determine what will and will not occur in my life, and that it is my actions that will determine the progress that I will make on the path of God. Finally, this illusion of "personal understanding", must also be destroy within us, in partnership with His Holiness, destroying the illusory belief that "I know" as separate from God, that I know what is happening in the world and why it is happening, that through my understanding of the world I can make intelligent decisions, and through my intellect and experience, I can successfully navigate my life through this world, and using my understanding of religious scriptures, and religious practices, I can personally move closer to God, I can personally move closer to the things that are good and just in the world, while moving away from the things that are evil on unjust in the world But, my dearest loving sister Aziza, none of this is true, none of this will bring us closer or further away from God, or closer to goodness and justice, or further away from evil and injustice, because that is not the way it works, because that is not what is happening, that is not what God is doing, and that is not how what God is doing movers forward. And since what God is doing is the only thing that is really happening, and how God does what He is doing is the only way that what God is doing moves forward, we need to immediately stop what "we are doing" separate from what God is doing, and immediately stop "how we are doing" what we are doing, as separate from God or as separate from the way God does what He is doing. In this way, our continuing to do what we are doing, which is doing anything separate from what God is doing, is of no value, because the only thing that God is doing is bringing everything back into Himself, as one with Himself, from which everything came, and in this way, what God is doing is bringing Himself back into Himself, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. And our continuing to do what we do in the way that we are doing it, which is doing it separate from the way that God does things, is also of no value, because the only way that God does anything is doing it as one with, as one with everyone and with everything, for the benefit of everyone an everything, not as separate from, not as separate from anyone or anything, and certainly not for the benefit of God as separate from anyone or anything, not as we do everything, and continuing to do everything, as separate from it, as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the creations of God within the 18,000 universes within us. We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that nothing is worth doing unless it is what God is going, unless it is about becoming one with God, and nothing of what God does moves forward unless God does it, unless it is done as one with what is being done. We must realize that anything else is not worth doing, and any other way of doing anything is not worth doing it that way, because it will not really move anything forward, will not move forward either what we are doing, or what God is doing, because everything other than what God is doing and the way that God is doing it, is a dream, a dream of doing, a dream of doing it in a certain way, and a dream of moving forward, a dream of progressing on the path of God. In this way, everything other than God's existence is a false existence, everything other than God's doing is a false doing, and everything other than God's knowing and understanding is a false knowing and understanding. In this way, "we don't exist" as separate from God, as separate from anyone or anything, and "we don't do" and "we don't know or understand" as separate from God, or as separate from anyone or anything. In this way, my dearest loving sister Aziza, we must realize without the slightest doubt, that whatever is done to any of us, or is done by any of us, and whatever is known or understood by any of us, is really only done and known and understood, by all of us, by everyone that has been born with us, in the world of souls, in this world, and in the next world, because there is really only one of us, only one life, only one doing, only one knowing and only one understanding, there is only God's life within each of us, there is only God doing within each of us, there is only God knowing within each of us, and there is only God understanding within each of us. Other than this, other than this Divine work, this Divine consciousness, this Divine progress, nothing is really happening or moving forward in any of us, or in anything. This is the truth. For as His Holiness teaches us, only the one is really happening within each of us, everything else is a dream of happening, a dream of "us" happening as "separate from", but it is not really happening. "We" or anyone else is not really happening as separate from, as separate from us or as separate from anything. It is only the one that is really happening within each of us, within any of us, within all of us, which in truth is God happening within us, is God happening within God within each of us, is God happening within God within all of us. Also, God sees all of us within Himself as one, and all of Himself within us as one. God does not see us as separate from Him or Himself as separate from us. Only we, in the dream of "self existence", of "self determination", and of "personal knowing", in the state of arrogance, karma, and illusion, see ourselves as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us. God sees only Himself happening within Himself, God sees only the one happening within Himself, God sees Himself as the one happening within the one, because in truth this is the only thing that is happening, the only thing that can really happen within God, or within God or the one within each of us, only God can happen. In this way, only God is happening within God or within each of us within God, only the oneness of God happens within God, or within each of us within God, within us or within anyone or within anything. Everything else is the dream of happening, and it all happens in the dream of happening as "separate from". It all begins in the dream of happening as the beginning of separation and differences, and it all ends in the dream of happening as the end of the same separation and differences. Such is our life in the dream of happening, such is the beginning and end of our life in the dream of happening. We must think about this a little. While at the same time that the dream is happening within us as "separate from", the reality of God as "one with" is always happening within God within us, is always happening within each of us within God within us. This represent both the falsehood and the truth of our lives, the life of darkness and the life of light within us. Both are always their within us, until we join in partnership with God within us, by joining in partnership with the life and teaching of His Holiness within us, to bring the life of darkness within us to an end, to bring it to judgment within us, by revealing the 7 heavens and the 7 hells within us, by sending the lives of darkness within us to heaven and hell within us, by building the 8th heaven within us, the Kingdom of God within us, by harvesting the life of light within us from the life of darkness within us, revealing the oneness of God and True Man, and of True Man and God within us. This is both the life of ignorance within us, the life of arrogance, karma, and illusion within us, and the life of truth, the life of grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge within us. This is the life of selfishness and the life of selflessness within us. This is the temporary physical life and the eternal light life within us. This is the life of mind and desire and the life of wisdom within us. These are the two different types of lives that God has given us, that God has placed within us. And the choice is our choice, as it was God's choice. But God has already made His choice. That is why God became God in athi, rather than staying in ignorance of Himself in anathi. That is why God became the Primal one in athi, becoming Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim, thereby creating, ruling, and sustaining all of His creations in the 18,000 universes within us. And that is why God is now hidden within our soul as the Triple Flame of God, just waiting for us, joined in partnership with His Holiness, to pull Him out of our soul and establish Him in our purified heart as Allahu, as the 99 wilayats or Powers of God in the Kingdom of God or Akhirah, allowing True Man to be revealed within God, allowing God to be revealing within True Man, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes, within man and within God and within God and within man. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen. Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. End of Page 3 of 7 of Spiritual Letter 08 - outline & summary version - ...................................... Please go to page 4 to continue reading this letter. Due to the size restriction of the Web Page Builder, this letter had to be divided into 7 pages. Please forgive us for this inconvenience. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) |
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