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Making a Fresh StartSummaryThis article deals with the current serious spiritual plight of humanity. Theallusion to mankind’s spiritual degeneration has been made by every religioustradition of the world without exception. The remedy or cure is also enshrined inthese ancient traditions. Unfortunately, this teaching has been misconstruedresulting in the loss of this ancient wisdom. Despite all our scientific andtechnological achievements the only way out for humanity is to rediscover thisancient door which opens out to spiritual liberation. While technology can serveus and take us to new heights, it can never liberate us from our stifling bondage.This article draws attention to this fact and encourages the reader to search forself liberation in a practical meaningful manner without being misled by manmadesystems which seek to substitute themselves in place of the perennial path plottedby the diverse spiritual revelations granted to the different cultural traditionsof the world showing mankind what has to be done to obtain healing andrejuvenation so as to be reintegrated with the true and real.Content DescriptionThe article begins with a reference to mankind’s spiritual depravity and arguesfor the urgent need to address this problem before anything else. The stress islaid on the need to accept this truth however bitter it is. It is also suggestedthat our cosmic isolation is also due to this factor and that a universalquarantine has been effectively in force as a result.The impotence of science and technology to pull us out of this predicament isconsidered and the attention of the reader drawn to the traditional religionswhich confront this problem directly and prescribe what has to be done. We havenot been abandoned by the Creator. All cultures have received the invaluablespiritual prescription for curing this inherent human malady. The need for closecooperation with the Cosmic Forces as expressed through Divine Law and theimportance of practice as opposed to mere intellectual assent or ecclesiasticalcompliance is highlighted. Complete resignation to the divine will is aprerequisite for spiritual progress.All expressions of Ego and aggressive selfmanifestation have to be overcome if one is to attune oneself to the cosmicprocess. We have to reject our old identity and accept the new identity that isoffered to us. The article reveals that this latter is our true identity. Itadverts to the fact that a pure heart is in a much better position to receive therevealed truths than a merely curious and brilliant brain and encourages readersto practice the religious method and discover for themselves the true power ofreligion which would enable them to blossom out to their optimum potential.We have successfully hidden from ourselves our inherent spiritual deformity. Manhas been a fugitive running away from his true self and his creator. Time isrunning out and we must realize that we can’t be running forever.

Mankind Desperately Needs HelpMaking a Fresh Start We start from the premise that man is a spiritually sick being. This is the mostbasic and fundamental truth about ourselves, acknowledged by all religioustraditions, although expressed in different ways, such as sin, ignorance, illusionand the like. All the traditions agree about this downgraded state of man and theneed for spiritual upliftment. In this world of brilliant scientific achievementand technological success, we have to learn first to accept this unpalatablespiritual truth. Because of our degenerate spiritual status, we have becomeuniversal outcasts. We have no communion or communication with any otherintelligent or spiritual life forms in the innumerable worlds of creation, and arevirtually quarantined in a secluded corner of our own little universe. Even theremote frontiers of our own small material universe, let alone the innumerableworlds outside our range of perception, are beyond human access and understanding.Pretending that all is well with us because of our brilliant scientificachievements is only to fool ourselves. If we adopt that attitude, it wouldprevent us from seeking the help that we most urgently need. The human race, despite its alienation from the rest of creation, has not beencompletely abandoned or written off by its Creator or the Cosmic forces thatbrought it into existence. Help is given to mankind through the various religioustraditions. The teachings enshrined in these traditions, reveal to man God’slife- giving Spirit. It is only the Spirit of God that can cure man of hisinherent spiritual sickness, and infuse new life into him. Human science andtechnology, man’s mostpowerful tools hitherto discovered, are incapable of accomplishing his spiritualregeneration.When we are spiritually healed and regenerated, we shall be able to communicatewith the rest of God’s creation. The overwhelming silence which now confronts andsurrounds us, and in which we are so despairingly submerged, will be rent asunder,and our fellow beings in the universe will communicate with us. The human racewill then no longer be isolated, and will be restored to its rightful place as amember of God’s family. What the powerful radio-telescopes of science fail topick up, our purified hearts will receive, as the worlds rush in through newlyunlocked doors, which had been closed behind us, in that ill-fated epoch, when ourancestors plunged the race into its present predicament.“ Fling wide the gates,open the ancient doors,and the great king will comein.Who is this great king?The triumphant Lord – he is thegreat king! ( Psalm 24: 9-10 GoodNews Bible)