Spiritual Letter 14 - Outline & Summary Version About Spiritual Letter 14 Title: "The Why, Where, How, & What of God & True Man" Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on February 5, 2002 to Mike Katz Library Navigation Tree Spiritual Letter 14: Related Material Page 1 of 2 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters. Outline & Summary of Letter 1. Opening Prayer - O God protect us from ourselves, help us overcome and transcend ourselves, and help us seek ourselves and find You 2. The Real "Stargate" - one step backwards, and then one forward, into a completely different reality of life grips with our current condition, and finding peace with it in partnership with God 4. The Liberation of Our Soul - can only happen through the death of "us", the death of the "us" of us that is the life of separation and differences within us 5. At All Times Be Peaceful - by knowing what God knows, knowing that pleasure is the dream, and sadness is the darkness of ignorance 6. God Can Do Anything - and through our wisdom, our direct connection with God, God can destroy us and reveal True Man within us, and God within True Man 7. Winning The Game of Life - by letting our wisdom reason over our fate 8. The Story of True Man Within God, And of God Within True Man - is our story 9. The Point of Chapter 1 In The Story of True Man Within God - is letting it end within us, for as His Holiness teaches us, "Its all crazy, its alright, its all over. What's next?." Opening Prayer O God protect us from ourselves, help us overcome and transcend ourselves, help us seek ourselves and find You, make the qualities of our inner selves victorious over the qualities of our outer selves, and grant us Your grace. Amen. 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. The Real "Stargate" Take one step backwards, and then one forward, into a completely different reality of life. My love you my dearest brother Mike, you are a very, very, good child. What we have shared is the truth, and it is a happy thing, not something to be sad about, or to grieve about, or even to be concerned about, but rather to become peaceful about. Bawa stressed this point over and over again. Enclosed is a letter for your review, consideration, and study. There is much you need to understand about the life and teaching of His Holiness. This is not like anything else you have ever done, because more than anything else it involves a new way of doing things, rather than learning something new. It is like the movie "Stargate", where they found a large circular object in the dessert near the Pyramids, with mysterious writing on it. Only after much investigation did they realized it was an new, or rather, very, very old, communication system, but rather than sending your voice, you sent you all over the universe. It was a great movie up until the time they traveled through the "Stargate", because they did not have any reference to anything new, anything that would be different from what they were currently experiencing as "who they were", as "where they were", and as "what was happening" in there life, so all they found at the end of the "Stargate" was the same thing they had left, that they had left before entering the "Stargate". So nothing had changed, except the address where their drama of separation and differences went on. There in lies our problem, we can talk about God, we can talk about the Prophets of God, and we can talk about a True Human being, and we can recite back what we have read about spiritual matters, and the different teachings and teaches, but we don't really know what we are talking about, because we have no real reference for God, for the Prophets of God, and for a True Human being, except the distorted views that have filtered down through the ages, which are basically all wrong, because they put the emphasis or the focus on the wrong point, and like a song that is sung out of key, the words are correct, but the singing is wrong, it does not comfort the soul, rather it only stirs up the mind. The correct focus is God, not us, it is on God and what God is doing, not on us and what we are doing or what we think we have to do, so none of what they say is of any real value, because it only strengthens our separation from God, from each other, and from the Creation of God. God, Bawa, The Soul, And The Opposite of God, Bawa, And The Soul Coming to grips with our current condition, and finding peace with it in partnership with God, through our partnership with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) That was the amazing part of meeting Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), He was and is not like anything here. Just like a little baby, who can't speak to us, isn't really here, but is still mostly where he came from, and only gradually, at our constant urging, does he leave the realm he is in, and join us here. In a similar way, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), although He was with us physically, He was more like the baby, He was never really here, but unlike the baby, He could speak to us from "There", and He knew to ignore all of our urging for Him to live here with us, as we live here, because He knew better. Like us, He had made that mistake before, living here that is, the way we live here, but now He knew better, He knew to leave here not to live here, as we must now learn. That is why this is such a different experience, because it is not about learning anything, thought learning does occur, it is about becoming connected again to the place we were in before we came here, and after we came here, but before we got seduced by this place, and completely forgot about the place we came from. In this way, the little baby is truly "who we are", and "Bawa" is truly "who we are", and what we are currently experiencing as who we are is in truth the opposite of us, the opposite of who we are, the contrast to us, so the baby within us, which is your soul, which is the purity of God within us, who is a ray from the light of God within us, who is not of the world within us, but doesn't understand who is, can understand who it is, can become Bawa, can become the wisdom of us, can become the True Man that is hidden within the Creation of God within us, can become us having understood who we truly are. That is how it works. Like this, Bawa teaches us, that, "In the world of souls, God tried to teach you about purity, about who you are, but you couldn't get it, because understanding only comes through contrast, and in the world of souls you had no contrast to who you were, you had not contrast to purity, so you couldn't understand purity in the world of souls." "So God created a school in which you could learn, and He has sent you to that school, and that is the school of contrast, and that is where we have come", so we could understand who we already are. That is what has happened to us, my dearest brother Mike. That is what we are now experiencing, not who we are but the contrast to who we are, the contrast to purity, or impurity, so we can understand purity, so we can understand who we already are, and in this way, what we currently experience is not who we are, it is the contrast or opposite to who we are. That is the gift of God to the world, the young baby, to see ourselves before we become the opposite of ourselves, to get a glimpse of another world, that is qualitatively different from this world, a world of Oneness and unity, of justice and truth, of compassion and unity, which is the opposite of the world we are currently living in, as one with, the world of separation and differences. And that is the real gift of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), if we will accept it, and learn to use it correctly, to gradually prove to us that "we do not exist", as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God, and to gradually prove to the little child within us, to the soul or light-life of us, that is hidden within us, and through which all other life within us exists and moves, to prove to this true life of God within us, that "It does exist", and having so convinced us, to give it up, and so convinced the soul life within us to pick it, to liberate the soul from us, before we die, by making the 'us" of separation and differences, the "selfish" us, to sit down, and gradually, so very gradually, to come to an end. In this way, we have to come to grips with the current condition of our life, as a life of hell being lived on an island of hell within us, and find peace with it in partnership with God, through the life and teaching of His Holiness. The Liberation of The Soul The liberation of our soul can only happen through the death of "us", the death of the "us" of us that is the life of separation and differences within us. And in this way, to convince the soul of us, the light-life of us, to stand up, and gradually, so very gradually to leave the world of illusion where it has become a captive of our mind and desire, and return to God, to join with the wisdom within us, which for this age is Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). And having become one with our wisdom, to re-open the world of souls within us, the world of purity within us, which are the 7 heavens created by God within us, and then build and open the Kingdom of God within us, which is the 8 heaven or Firdaus within us, which is built by the true believer within us, by Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him) within us, and as the Rasul of Allah, reflecting the light of God in akhirah or the hereafter, reflecting the light of God that dawns within our purified heart which has become the Kingdom of God within us, into the dunya, into the 18,000 universes within us, for the benefit of all of God's Creations in the 18,000, 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. This is Islam, my dearest loving brother Mike, not anything else. And such is our true life, my dearest loving brother Mike, our light-life, our true life, the life of God within us, not anything else. We must realize this without the slightest doubt. The rest of this letter was written to you over the last couple of weeks, since this child received your last beautiful letter, and provides you with some material to study. At All Times Be Peaceful We can only truly become peaceful through the realization that everything is perfect, by knowing what God knows, knowing that pleasure is the dream, and sadness is the darkness of ignorance. The tone of your last later changed from your previous letters, from arrogance into submission, but submission with concern, concern over the enormity of the task at hand and the inability of you, or this child, or anyone, to measure up. That is good. We do need to get past our arrogance, this is very important, and we do need to submit to a higher power than us, but we need to do it with peacefulness through the realization that we don't have to do it, that we can't do it, but that it can be done, if we but turn to the Power of God within us, that can do it, and to the Wisdom of God within us, that can connect us to that Power of God within us. That is all we have to do. It is like becoming the tip of the arrow, of a very strong arrow, that is in a very, very strong bow, and has been drawn by a very, very, very strong and skilled archer. What have we to worry about. Nothing, and becoming peaceful, settling into stillness, realizing that all of these separate parts acting as One are necessary for the arrow to pierce its target, and that the job of the tip of that arrow is just that, to pierce, to enter, to open, what must be penetrated. And that is our work, as the tip of God in the world of illusion, of mind and desire, to allow the Power that is God to pierce the world of illusion, of mind and desire, that is our life as separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the Creation, destroying it, destroying this life of "separation from", and revealing True Man, revealing the life of "One with", revealing the Oneness of God and His creation, that lives hidden within all that God has Created. This has to become our mantra, our magical words, "I can't do it, but it can be done". Sound familiar. Yes! Yes! Yes! The Kalimah, the dhikr. This is what our life must become, the One life of God within us, that reveals the Truth of God within us, not the life of separation and differences within us, that we have currently become, and a Kalimah that is said by "us", as separate from God, and all that God is one with. In this way, we don't have to overcome our arrogance, or our pride, or anything within us, we just have to join in partnership correctly with the One who can. For if we try to go it alone, without a direct connection to the Power of God through our wisdom, through Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), we will fail, every when we think we are making progress, because "we" can't make progress. The best analogy is a child, who has not yet learn to take care of himself, or to feed himself, and is still completely dependent upon his mother to do everything for him. This is the model that Bawa points us toward for our life, the little child who completely trusts the mother to take care of him, to feed him, to clean him, to protect him, and to answer any questions that he may have. The little child attributes everything that he has and does and knows to his mother and father, not to himself. Well God is your true Father, and Bawa is your true Mother. Done in this way, with this understanding, we will submit through love, not through any feeling of obligation, or duty, or fear, or any of these mind and desire things. We will gradually begin to realize that nothing has changed since we were a little child, except us. God is still there as our original true Father, as the Power within us, who can do anything, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is still there as our original true Mother, as the explaining wisdom within us, as the Umm al-Qur'an within you, as the Mother who raises the True Believer within you, the mu'mim, the Mother of justice and faith, the Mother of man's wisdom, which is the essence of the Qur'an, the eye of the Qur'an (see page 135 in the book, "slam and World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi"). The mother and father who truly raised us up to this point in your life, were and continue to be this Mother and Father, not anything that you may call mother and father in the world. The mother and father that you have or had in the world, when they were being a good mother and father, were but a reflection of our original true Mother and Father, the Mother and Father of our soul. Everything else is just the drama of the world of separation and differences. So, my dearest loving brother Mike, at all times be peaceful through the realization and understanding that God is in charge in your life, not you, and everything that you need to know you already know, you have already experienced it on your journey from the world of soul to this school of contrasts, but have yet to understand it, and that is why you are here, to study in the school of contrast that God has built within you. From this perspective everything is perfect. You just have to realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth about your life, and learn to study in the school of contrasts within you correctly. In truth you are sitting on God's lap and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is telling you a story, the story of True Man within God, and of God within True Man, which is your story, the one story of the Oneness of God and True Man, which in truth is a Love Story, the original and true Love Story. And if you keep letting Bawa tell you this story, by keeping the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) in front of you at all times, then you will become this story, you will become True Man, because the completion of the story of True Man within God is True Man, and you will become One with God, because the completion of the story of God within True Man is God. It is just that simple. This is where our peacefulness comes from, by our joining in partnership with Bawa within us to become Bawa within us, allowing Bawa within us to join in partnership with God within us to become God within us, allowing God and Bawa within us to join together as One, as the Oneness of God and True Man, and consummate their Love with the True Child of their Love, the Seed of the Oneness of God and True Man, the seed of Allahu, which when planted in the heart of a True Disciple by a True Shaikh, allows the story to told again. God Can Do Anything Since God can do anything, if we properly task Him, then God becomes the Slave of the slave within us, and through our wisdom, which is our direct connection with God, through Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), God can destroy "us" and reveal Himself within us, first as True Man within the Creation of God within us, and then as God within True Man within us. At all times we must realize that no matter what needs to be done, God can do it. We don't have to do, we only need to know, believe, accept, and trust in the truth that He can do it, and that He will do it within us, if we but ask Him, if we but intend it correctly, if we correctly know what it is that He has to do within us to be victorious, what it means and takes to win the game of life within us, and then task Him to do that, with every breath, every look, every sound, every smell, every taste, every touch, every thought, and every understanding that we have, and at all times be ready to hand Him everything that we have, every within us, at the appropriate time, that needs to be worked on by Him, that needs to be overcome or harvested by Him within us, to make our life victorious. We need to be like the children at the high school football game, who themselves are not strong athletes, or are to young or to old to play the game themselves, yet they cheer on their representatives on the football team, they cheer on their football team to win the game for the whole school, and in this way, their winning is the winning of everyone in the high school, no just the members of the football team. So is our role, to cheer on our Representatives, our Representatives of God, to cheer them on and show our support for their effort to win the game, the game of life over death within us, the game of God's life over our death, and Their winning is our winning, is the One winning, the winning of the One that is God, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, that is God and True Man within us, and all that God and True Man are one with. This is our team, and we have but to know this, and support them. They are certainly ready to go, they are all ready to win the game of life within us. Winning The Game of Life We can only win the game of our life by letting our wisdom reason over our fate, not through any effort of ours separate from God. In this way, we have to support Their efforts to win the game of life within us, without the slightest doubt, and to show up, to come to every game, and to always, in each thing, at every moment of our life, make our life and heart available to Them to play the game correctly and win it, and to cheer Them on, to cheer our team on. And who is this Team. They are the 124,000 Prophets of God within us, all of the heavenly beings and lights of God, and all that God and True Man are One with, within us, to cheer Them all on, as They win the game of life within us, as. "Our wisdom reasons over our fate". And they will most certainly win the game of life within us, there is no doubt of that, if we but learn to correctly support them. Please know this with your wisdom, with you direct connection to the heart of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, and to the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, because in truth we are all One. The Story of True Man Within God, And of God Within True Man We must come to the clarity through our iman and wisdom that the story of True Man within God, and the story of God within True Man, is our story, is the story of "tawhid", of the affirmation of the unity of Allah, and that this is true Islam, true Iman-Islam. One day His Holiness told us that the current state of our life was like a collection of lost battles, a collection of all the lost battles for the last 200 million years. That over the last 200 million years good and evil have been fighting, and that every one of the battles fought between good and evil over the last 200 million years have been won by evil, at the expense of goodness, and we currently represent in our life, what has come out of all these lost battles, all of the idea and life, and actions, and understanding of us as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God. And in this way, all of us in this age, this age of destruction, this last of the four ages, this kali-yuga, this age of destruction, represent the outcome, the result, the product, of all these lost battles. This is "who" we currently are. This is "where" we currently are. And this is "what" is currently happening in our life. And Bawa tells us that this is Ok. Get that, Ok. My dearest loving brother Mike, this is what currently defines us, all of these lost battles, this is what we have become, we have become the school of contrast that our soul must start to studying in, in order to learn wisdom, in order for our soul life to be liberated from the activities of our mind and desire, the activities of our 5 impure lives, in order for our soul, which is the life of Jesus (may the blessings of God be upon Him) within us, to get off the cross of crucifixion, which is our body of illusion, by pulling our the 5 nails, the 5 desires for this world, the desire of earth, fire, water, air, and ether, and join with wisdom, with the consciousness of "one with", and go in search of and find the Nur, the light of wisdom, and merge back into the Nur, which is the body of the soul, from which the soul originally came in the very beginning, in the time known as awwal, which is the world of souls. This is what has produced us, this collection of lost battles, this is what has turned us into the opposite of the soul, into the contrast to the soul, into the life of impurity that acts as a contrast to the life of purity within us, so the soul can study and understand who it already is, all of these lost battles. This is why we are here in the state that we are in, because of all of these lost battle. And that is Ok. And it will have all been worth while if we now, having come to this clarity, reject the life of separation and differences that has grown within us, as no us, but as the opposite of us, to reject this life of selfishness, and join with the life of the soul within us, the life of selflessness within us, join with Jesus (may the blessings of God be upon us) within us, the life of purity within us, to close down the world of hell within us, to re-open the world of souls within us, and then open the Kingdom of God within us. Then our life will have been successful, then our wisdom will have reasoned over our fate. In this way, as our soul is a reflection of God, as a ray of the Light of God, we are a reflection of darkness, and in this way, we are the opposite of God, the opposite of the soul, the opposite of Truth, the opposite of Wisdom, the opposite of goodness. This is who we currently are, and it is Ok. Because now the soul can study in this school of contrasts, and gain wisdom, re-establishing a direction connection to God through an understanding of God, re-establishing a direction connection to God which it will never again lose. However, there will be those who, hearing this clarity, will say, "How can we accept this? How can we be so bad, so evil, so useless, so far away from God? Why would God do this to us? It doesn't make any sense." Right? And perhaps it will never make any sense to them, even after hearing the truth about us, the truth about our current state. But some will listen, some will understand, some will turn away from their life of darkness and embrace the light of their own life, which is Jesus (may the blessings of God be upon Him), the sixth kind of life within us, the light-life within us, and join with it to end its slavery, its slavery to the energies of the world, join with Jesus within us, not as God but as a harbinger of God, as a prophet of God, as our own life in hiding, that in truth has been crucified so we could sin, so the 5 elemental lives of mind and desire could prosper within us. Right? You may say, so what is the point, my dearest loving brother Louie? Where are you taking us? It sounds like you are taking us to hell? Why would you do that? Because hell is the truth of us, the truth of all that we are currently experiencing as us, of all that has been revealed of us to us, my dearest loving brother Mike, and heaven is the truth of God hidden within us from us, and until we realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of us, that we are hell, and we are in hell, and everything about us is hell, even our prayers, our love, our duty, our families, our understanding, and even our Fellowship, our Bawa, our Prophet, and our God, is hell, there is no going forward in our life. And as long as we don't realize, understand, accept , and join with this truth about who we are, about where we are, and about what it happening in our life, it will never change, nothing will ever change, and when we die, we will get what we have build, we will get the result of having fought and lost all of these battles, thinking in the process that we have won them, thinking that who we now are, and where we now are, and what is now happening in our life, is something of value, something of God, something of wisdom, something of goodness. But its not, it most certainly is not. The Point of Chapter 1 In The Story of True Man Within God The story of True Man within God within us has 3 different Chapters, with 3 different titles, and they are, "Everything", the "Essence of Everything", and the "Power Within The Essence of Everything", and the point of Chapter 1 within us is letting it end within us, so Chapter 2 can begin within us, not trying to write a new ending to Chapter 1, because as His Holiness teaches us about Chapter 1, "Its all crazy. Its alright. Its all over. What's next?." So what is the point of all this? Why does Bawa tell us that we are in hell, but that it is still Ok? How could being in hell, living a life of hell, being hell, and doing all of the things of hell be Ok? The answer is so very, very simple. Because these things of hell have nothing to do with us. They have to do with what God is doing, and how God does it, not with us. They have to do with "what God is doing", not with "what we are doing", and as long as we are focused on "us" rather than on "God", the truth of our condition, that we are hell, and all that hell is, and all that hell does, knows, and understands, and all that hell ever could be, this truth of our condition will never, ever, make any sense to us, or be accepted by you, or me, or by anyone, as separate from God, and separate form the work and duty of God, or separate from the intention of God, which is to reveal God, for the benefit of all of His Creation. That is why God is unknowable, but can be Known. For as long as we are separate from God, and from all that God is one with, we cannot know God, because God is One, God is Oneness and unity, God is justice and truth, God is compassion and unity, God is "one with", while we are "separate from". But if we become "One with", if we become one with God, if we join in partnership with God to finish what God has stated within us, within each one of us, then we can know God, because God can know God. Yes? In this way, our problem is only a problem of perspective, we are looking at everything, and thinking about everything, and doing everything, from the perspective of "us", of "us" as separation and differences, from the perspectives of "mine" and "your", while God is looking at everything from the perspective of "oneness with", everything existing within Him, as everything being His Creation that He is totally responsible for, that He Created, and that He must Nourish and Sustain, as Bismillahir-Rahmanir- Rahim, as the Creator, the Nourisher, and the Sustainer. What do you think God sees when He looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation. Do you think He sees you, or me, or any of His Creation as separate from Himself, as "we" do. Of course not. When God looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation He sees Himself, He sees what is within Him, He sees what His Creation, and within it He sees His Oneness with His Creation which is True Man, and within True Man He sees Himself. In this way, when God looks at His Creation He sees Himself happening, He sees Himself being revealed from within what He has created, and for Him to complete what He has started, within you, and me, and each of His Creation, you, and me, and each of His Creation have but to realize, understand, accept, and join with Him in this truth, in what He is doing, and put down everything else. This is "La ilaha Ill Allahu - I am not, You are". But only the Creation of God known as man, which God endowed with the 6th level or kind of wisdom or consciousness can do this divine work, can join in partnership with God to finish the work of God within God, to complete God's intention for His Creation within Him, which is to reveal God, by first revealing True Man within His Creation so True Man can reveal God within His Creation. And if man does this unique work, this Divine Work, hat only man can do, then all of the Creation of God will benefit. That is our part in it, our part in God's intention for His Creation. Such is the exaltedness of man, if we will only pick it up, by putting down the darkness that we have grown within us, that we have created within us, that we are now nourishing and sustaining within us, having become the god of darkness, because within the one is the other, within the darkness within us is the light within us, and as such they are one, which only separate through wisdom, that only separate into heaven and hell through wisdom, and within heaven, the 8th heaven that we must build as True Man, is God, is the Light within the Light, as our Divine Luminous Wisdom is within Our Divine Analytical wisdom. We must realize this, without the slightest doubt, with our iman, our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and with our wisdom, which is our direct connection to the consciousness of God, to the consciousness of oneness and unity, of justice and truth, of compassion and unity, which is our direct connection to the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and stop acting as the rest of the Creation of God that cannot do this, that cannot do this divine work of joining in partnership with God, to finish the Intention of God for His Creation, which is to reveal God, because God did not creation them in that way. In this way we must learn to move up in our life, rather than down, up to God rather than down to His Creation, we must learn to become Heaven rather than try to go there. Then, and only then, will we find peace and tranquility in our life, by acting in the way that God created us to act, as His Representative to the world, as His light to the world, as His Islam reflected in the heart of Iman, as His Muham or face that reflects His Aham or heart, which is the true Muhammad of God, not by acting like the rest of God's creation, not by moving down to there level of ignorance of God and of what God is doing, and even lower to the level of satan, who is the arrogance of that ignorance, or even further, to a worm in hell with one level of consciousness, and in this way turning away from our birthright, which is this divine work, becoming like the apple seed that fails to germinate and tell the story of the apple tree that it was created by God to tell. May we both think about this a little bit, my dearest loving brother Mike, it is very, very important. 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Spiritual Letter 14 - Outline & Summary Version About Spiritual Letter 14 Title: "The Why, Where, How, & What of God & True Man" Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on February 5, 2002 to Mike Katz Library Navigation Tree Spiritual Letter 14: Related Material Page 1 of 2 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. My love you, my dearest brothers and sisters. Outline & Summary of Letter 1. Opening Prayer - O God protect us from ourselves, help us overcome and transcend ourselves, and help us seek ourselves and find You 2. The Real "Stargate" - one step backwards, and then one forward, into a completely different reality of life grips with our current condition, and finding peace with it in partnership with God 4. The Liberation of Our Soul - can only happen through the death of "us", the death of the "us" of us that is the life of separation and differences within us 5. At All Times Be Peaceful - by knowing what God knows, knowing that pleasure is the dream, and sadness is the darkness of ignorance 6. God Can Do Anything - and through our wisdom, our direct connection with God, God can destroy us and reveal True Man within us, and God within True Man 7. Winning The Game of Life - by letting our wisdom reason over our fate 8. The Story of True Man Within God, And of God Within True Man - is our story 9. The Point of Chapter 1 In The Story of True Man Within God - is letting it end within us, for as His Holiness teaches us, "Its all crazy, its alright, its all over. What's next?." Opening Prayer O God protect us from ourselves, help us overcome and transcend ourselves, help us seek ourselves and find You, make the qualities of our inner selves victorious over the qualities of our outer selves, and grant us Your grace. Amen. 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. The Real "Stargate" Take one step backwards, and then one forward, into a completely different reality of life. My love you my dearest brother Mike, you are a very, very, good child. What we have shared is the truth, and it is a happy thing, not something to be sad about, or to grieve about, or even to be concerned about, but rather to become peaceful about. Bawa stressed this point over and over again. Enclosed is a letter for your review, consideration, and study. There is much you need to understand about the life and teaching of His Holiness. This is not like anything else you have ever done, because more than anything else it involves a new way of doing things, rather than learning something new. It is like the movie "Stargate", where they found a large circular object in the dessert near the Pyramids, with mysterious writing on it. Only after much investigation did they realized it was an new, or rather, very, very old, communication system, but rather than sending your voice, you sent you all over the universe. It was a great movie up until the time they traveled through the "Stargate", because they did not have any reference to anything new, anything that would be different from what they were currently experiencing as "who they were", as "where they were", and as "what was happening" in there life, so all they found at the end of the "Stargate" was the same thing they had left, that they had left before entering the "Stargate". So nothing had changed, except the address where their drama of separation and differences went on. There in lies our problem, we can talk about God, we can talk about the Prophets of God, and we can talk about a True Human being, and we can recite back what we have read about spiritual matters, and the different teachings and teaches, but we don't really know what we are talking about, because we have no real reference for God, for the Prophets of God, and for a True Human being, except the distorted views that have filtered down through the ages, which are basically all wrong, because they put the emphasis or the focus on the wrong point, and like a song that is sung out of key, the words are correct, but the singing is wrong, it does not comfort the soul, rather it only stirs up the mind. The correct focus is God, not us, it is on God and what God is doing, not on us and what we are doing or what we think we have to do, so none of what they say is of any real value, because it only strengthens our separation from God, from each other, and from the Creation of God. God, Bawa, The Soul, And The Opposite of God, Bawa, And The Soul Coming to grips with our current condition, and finding peace with it in partnership with God, through our partnership with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) That was the amazing part of meeting Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), He was and is not like anything here. Just like a little baby, who can't speak to us, isn't really here, but is still mostly where he came from, and only gradually, at our constant urging, does he leave the realm he is in, and join us here. In a similar way, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), although He was with us physically, He was more like the baby, He was never really here, but unlike the baby, He could speak to us from "There", and He knew to ignore all of our urging for Him to live here with us, as we live here, because He knew better. Like us, He had made that mistake before, living here that is, the way we live here, but now He knew better, He knew to leave here not to live here, as we must now learn. That is why this is such a different experience, because it is not about learning anything, thought learning does occur, it is about becoming connected again to the place we were in before we came here, and after we came here, but before we got seduced by this place, and completely forgot about the place we came from. In this way, the little baby is truly "who we are", and "Bawa" is truly "who we are", and what we are currently experiencing as who we are is in truth the opposite of us, the opposite of who we are, the contrast to us, so the baby within us, which is your soul, which is the purity of God within us, who is a ray from the light of God within us, who is not of the world within us, but doesn't understand who is, can understand who it is, can become Bawa, can become the wisdom of us, can become the True Man that is hidden within the Creation of God within us, can become us having understood who we truly are. That is how it works. Like this, Bawa teaches us, that, "In the world of souls, God tried to teach you about purity, about who you are, but you couldn't get it, because understanding only comes through contrast, and in the world of souls you had no contrast to who you were, you had not contrast to purity, so you couldn't understand purity in the world of souls." "So God created a school in which you could learn, and He has sent you to that school, and that is the school of contrast, and that is where we have come", so we could understand who we already are. That is what has happened to us, my dearest brother Mike. That is what we are now experiencing, not who we are but the contrast to who we are, the contrast to purity, or impurity, so we can understand purity, so we can understand who we already are, and in this way, what we currently experience is not who we are, it is the contrast or opposite to who we are. That is the gift of God to the world, the young baby, to see ourselves before we become the opposite of ourselves, to get a glimpse of another world, that is qualitatively different from this world, a world of Oneness and unity, of justice and truth, of compassion and unity, which is the opposite of the world we are currently living in, as one with, the world of separation and differences. And that is the real gift of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), if we will accept it, and learn to use it correctly, to gradually prove to us that "we do not exist", as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God, and to gradually prove to the little child within us, to the soul or light-life of us, that is hidden within us, and through which all other life within us exists and moves, to prove to this true life of God within us, that "It does exist", and having so convinced us, to give it up, and so convinced the soul life within us to pick it, to liberate the soul from us, before we die, by making the 'us" of separation and differences, the "selfish" us, to sit down, and gradually, so very gradually, to come to an end. In this way, we have to come to grips with the current condition of our life, as a life of hell being lived on an island of hell within us, and find peace with it in partnership with God, through the life and teaching of His Holiness. The Liberation of The Soul The liberation of our soul can only happen through the death of "us", the death of the "us" of us that is the life of separation and differences within us. And in this way, to convince the soul of us, the light-life of us, to stand up, and gradually, so very gradually to leave the world of illusion where it has become a captive of our mind and desire, and return to God, to join with the wisdom within us, which for this age is Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). And having become one with our wisdom, to re-open the world of souls within us, the world of purity within us, which are the 7 heavens created by God within us, and then build and open the Kingdom of God within us, which is the 8 heaven or Firdaus within us, which is built by the true believer within us, by Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him) within us, and as the Rasul of Allah, reflecting the light of God in akhirah or the hereafter, reflecting the light of God that dawns within our purified heart which has become the Kingdom of God within us, into the dunya, into the 18,000 universes within us, for the benefit of all of God's Creations in the 18,000, 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. This is Islam, my dearest loving brother Mike, not anything else. And such is our true life, my dearest loving brother Mike, our light-life, our true life, the life of God within us, not anything else. We must realize this without the slightest doubt. The rest of this letter was written to you over the last couple of weeks, since this child received your last beautiful letter, and provides you with some material to study. At All Times Be Peaceful We can only truly become peaceful through the realization that everything is perfect, by knowing what God knows, knowing that pleasure is the dream, and sadness is the darkness of ignorance. The tone of your last later changed from your previous letters, from arrogance into submission, but submission with concern, concern over the enormity of the task at hand and the inability of you, or this child, or anyone, to measure up. That is good. We do need to get past our arrogance, this is very important, and we do need to submit to a higher power than us, but we need to do it with peacefulness through the realization that we don't have to do it, that we can't do it, but that it can be done, if we but turn to the Power of God within us, that can do it, and to the Wisdom of God within us, that can connect us to that Power of God within us. That is all we have to do. It is like becoming the tip of the arrow, of a very strong arrow, that is in a very, very strong bow, and has been drawn by a very, very, very strong and skilled archer. What have we to worry about. Nothing, and becoming peaceful, settling into stillness, realizing that all of these separate parts acting as One are necessary for the arrow to pierce its target, and that the job of the tip of that arrow is just that, to pierce, to enter, to open, what must be penetrated. And that is our work, as the tip of God in the world of illusion, of mind and desire, to allow the Power that is God to pierce the world of illusion, of mind and desire, that is our life as separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the Creation, destroying it, destroying this life of "separation from", and revealing True Man, revealing the life of "One with", revealing the Oneness of God and His creation, that lives hidden within all that God has Created. This has to become our mantra, our magical words, "I can't do it, but it can be done". Sound familiar. Yes! Yes! Yes! The Kalimah, the dhikr. This is what our life must become, the One life of God within us, that reveals the Truth of God within us, not the life of separation and differences within us, that we have currently become, and a Kalimah that is said by "us", as separate from God, and all that God is one with. In this way, we don't have to overcome our arrogance, or our pride, or anything within us, we just have to join in partnership correctly with the One who can. For if we try to go it alone, without a direct connection to the Power of God through our wisdom, through Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), we will fail, every when we think we are making progress, because "we" can't make progress. The best analogy is a child, who has not yet learn to take care of himself, or to feed himself, and is still completely dependent upon his mother to do everything for him. This is the model that Bawa points us toward for our life, the little child who completely trusts the mother to take care of him, to feed him, to clean him, to protect him, and to answer any questions that he may have. The little child attributes everything that he has and does and knows to his mother and father, not to himself. Well God is your true Father, and Bawa is your true Mother. Done in this way, with this understanding, we will submit through love, not through any feeling of obligation, or duty, or fear, or any of these mind and desire things. We will gradually begin to realize that nothing has changed since we were a little child, except us. God is still there as our original true Father, as the Power within us, who can do anything, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is still there as our original true Mother, as the explaining wisdom within us, as the Umm al-Qur'an within you, as the Mother who raises the True Believer within you, the mu'mim, the Mother of justice and faith, the Mother of man's wisdom, which is the essence of the Qur'an, the eye of the Qur'an (see page 135 in the book, "slam and World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi"). The mother and father who truly raised us up to this point in your life, were and continue to be this Mother and Father, not anything that you may call mother and father in the world. The mother and father that you have or had in the world, when they were being a good mother and father, were but a reflection of our original true Mother and Father, the Mother and Father of our soul. Everything else is just the drama of the world of separation and differences. So, my dearest loving brother Mike, at all times be peaceful through the realization and understanding that God is in charge in your life, not you, and everything that you need to know you already know, you have already experienced it on your journey from the world of soul to this school of contrasts, but have yet to understand it, and that is why you are here, to study in the school of contrast that God has built within you. From this perspective everything is perfect. You just have to realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth about your life, and learn to study in the school of contrasts within you correctly. In truth you are sitting on God's lap and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) is telling you a story, the story of True Man within God, and of God within True Man, which is your story, the one story of the Oneness of God and True Man, which in truth is a Love Story, the original and true Love Story. And if you keep letting Bawa tell you this story, by keeping the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) in front of you at all times, then you will become this story, you will become True Man, because the completion of the story of True Man within God is True Man, and you will become One with God, because the completion of the story of God within True Man is God. It is just that simple. This is where our peacefulness comes from, by our joining in partnership with Bawa within us to become Bawa within us, allowing Bawa within us to join in partnership with God within us to become God within us, allowing God and Bawa within us to join together as One, as the Oneness of God and True Man, and consummate their Love with the True Child of their Love, the Seed of the Oneness of God and True Man, the seed of Allahu, which when planted in the heart of a True Disciple by a True Shaikh, allows the story to told again. God Can Do Anything Since God can do anything, if we properly task Him, then God becomes the Slave of the slave within us, and through our wisdom, which is our direct connection with God, through Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), God can destroy "us" and reveal Himself within us, first as True Man within the Creation of God within us, and then as God within True Man within us. At all times we must realize that no matter what needs to be done, God can do it. We don't have to do, we only need to know, believe, accept, and trust in the truth that He can do it, and that He will do it within us, if we but ask Him, if we but intend it correctly, if we correctly know what it is that He has to do within us to be victorious, what it means and takes to win the game of life within us, and then task Him to do that, with every breath, every look, every sound, every smell, every taste, every touch, every thought, and every understanding that we have, and at all times be ready to hand Him everything that we have, every within us, at the appropriate time, that needs to be worked on by Him, that needs to be overcome or harvested by Him within us, to make our life victorious. We need to be like the children at the high school football game, who themselves are not strong athletes, or are to young or to old to play the game themselves, yet they cheer on their representatives on the football team, they cheer on their football team to win the game for the whole school, and in this way, their winning is the winning of everyone in the high school, no just the members of the football team. So is our role, to cheer on our Representatives, our Representatives of God, to cheer them on and show our support for their effort to win the game, the game of life over death within us, the game of God's life over our death, and Their winning is our winning, is the One winning, the winning of the One that is God, and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, that is God and True Man within us, and all that God and True Man are one with. This is our team, and we have but to know this, and support them. They are certainly ready to go, they are all ready to win the game of life within us. Winning The Game of Life We can only win the game of our life by letting our wisdom reason over our fate, not through any effort of ours separate from God. In this way, we have to support Their efforts to win the game of life within us, without the slightest doubt, and to show up, to come to every game, and to always, in each thing, at every moment of our life, make our life and heart available to Them to play the game correctly and win it, and to cheer Them on, to cheer our team on. And who is this Team. They are the 124,000 Prophets of God within us, all of the heavenly beings and lights of God, and all that God and True Man are One with, within us, to cheer Them all on, as They win the game of life within us, as. "Our wisdom reasons over our fate". And they will most certainly win the game of life within us, there is no doubt of that, if we but learn to correctly support them. Please know this with your wisdom, with you direct connection to the heart of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, and to the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, because in truth we are all One. The Story of True Man Within God, And of God Within True Man We must come to the clarity through our iman and wisdom that the story of True Man within God, and the story of God within True Man, is our story, is the story of "tawhid", of the affirmation of the unity of Allah, and that this is true Islam, true Iman-Islam. One day His Holiness told us that the current state of our life was like a collection of lost battles, a collection of all the lost battles for the last 200 million years. That over the last 200 million years good and evil have been fighting, and that every one of the battles fought between good and evil over the last 200 million years have been won by evil, at the expense of goodness, and we currently represent in our life, what has come out of all these lost battles, all of the idea and life, and actions, and understanding of us as separate from God, as separate from each other, and as separate from the Creation of God. And in this way, all of us in this age, this age of destruction, this last of the four ages, this kali-yuga, this age of destruction, represent the outcome, the result, the product, of all these lost battles. This is "who" we currently are. This is "where" we currently are. And this is "what" is currently happening in our life. And Bawa tells us that this is Ok. Get that, Ok. My dearest loving brother Mike, this is what currently defines us, all of these lost battles, this is what we have become, we have become the school of contrast that our soul must start to studying in, in order to learn wisdom, in order for our soul life to be liberated from the activities of our mind and desire, the activities of our 5 impure lives, in order for our soul, which is the life of Jesus (may the blessings of God be upon Him) within us, to get off the cross of crucifixion, which is our body of illusion, by pulling our the 5 nails, the 5 desires for this world, the desire of earth, fire, water, air, and ether, and join with wisdom, with the consciousness of "one with", and go in search of and find the Nur, the light of wisdom, and merge back into the Nur, which is the body of the soul, from which the soul originally came in the very beginning, in the time known as awwal, which is the world of souls. This is what has produced us, this collection of lost battles, this is what has turned us into the opposite of the soul, into the contrast to the soul, into the life of impurity that acts as a contrast to the life of purity within us, so the soul can study and understand who it already is, all of these lost battles. This is why we are here in the state that we are in, because of all of these lost battle. And that is Ok. And it will have all been worth while if we now, having come to this clarity, reject the life of separation and differences that has grown within us, as no us, but as the opposite of us, to reject this life of selfishness, and join with the life of the soul within us, the life of selflessness within us, join with Jesus (may the blessings of God be upon us) within us, the life of purity within us, to close down the world of hell within us, to re-open the world of souls within us, and then open the Kingdom of God within us. Then our life will have been successful, then our wisdom will have reasoned over our fate. In this way, as our soul is a reflection of God, as a ray of the Light of God, we are a reflection of darkness, and in this way, we are the opposite of God, the opposite of the soul, the opposite of Truth, the opposite of Wisdom, the opposite of goodness. This is who we currently are, and it is Ok. Because now the soul can study in this school of contrasts, and gain wisdom, re-establishing a direction connection to God through an understanding of God, re-establishing a direction connection to God which it will never again lose. However, there will be those who, hearing this clarity, will say, "How can we accept this? How can we be so bad, so evil, so useless, so far away from God? Why would God do this to us? It doesn't make any sense." Right? And perhaps it will never make any sense to them, even after hearing the truth about us, the truth about our current state. But some will listen, some will understand, some will turn away from their life of darkness and embrace the light of their own life, which is Jesus (may the blessings of God be upon Him), the sixth kind of life within us, the light-life within us, and join with it to end its slavery, its slavery to the energies of the world, join with Jesus within us, not as God but as a harbinger of God, as a prophet of God, as our own life in hiding, that in truth has been crucified so we could sin, so the 5 elemental lives of mind and desire could prosper within us. Right? You may say, so what is the point, my dearest loving brother Louie? Where are you taking us? It sounds like you are taking us to hell? Why would you do that? Because hell is the truth of us, the truth of all that we are currently experiencing as us, of all that has been revealed of us to us, my dearest loving brother Mike, and heaven is the truth of God hidden within us from us, and until we realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of us, that we are hell, and we are in hell, and everything about us is hell, even our prayers, our love, our duty, our families, our understanding, and even our Fellowship, our Bawa, our Prophet, and our God, is hell, there is no going forward in our life. And as long as we don't realize, understand, accept , and join with this truth about who we are, about where we are, and about what it happening in our life, it will never change, nothing will ever change, and when we die, we will get what we have build, we will get the result of having fought and lost all of these battles, thinking in the process that we have won them, thinking that who we now are, and where we now are, and what is now happening in our life, is something of value, something of God, something of wisdom, something of goodness. But its not, it most certainly is not. The Point of Chapter 1 In The Story of True Man Within God The story of True Man within God within us has 3 different Chapters, with 3 different titles, and they are, "Everything", the "Essence of Everything", and the "Power Within The Essence of Everything", and the point of Chapter 1 within us is letting it end within us, so Chapter 2 can begin within us, not trying to write a new ending to Chapter 1, because as His Holiness teaches us about Chapter 1, "Its all crazy. Its alright. Its all over. What's next?." So what is the point of all this? Why does Bawa tell us that we are in hell, but that it is still Ok? How could being in hell, living a life of hell, being hell, and doing all of the things of hell be Ok? The answer is so very, very simple. Because these things of hell have nothing to do with us. They have to do with what God is doing, and how God does it, not with us. They have to do with "what God is doing", not with "what we are doing", and as long as we are focused on "us" rather than on "God", the truth of our condition, that we are hell, and all that hell is, and all that hell does, knows, and understands, and all that hell ever could be, this truth of our condition will never, ever, make any sense to us, or be accepted by you, or me, or by anyone, as separate from God, and separate form the work and duty of God, or separate from the intention of God, which is to reveal God, for the benefit of all of His Creation. That is why God is unknowable, but can be Known. For as long as we are separate from God, and from all that God is one with, we cannot know God, because God is One, God is Oneness and unity, God is justice and truth, God is compassion and unity, God is "one with", while we are "separate from". But if we become "One with", if we become one with God, if we join in partnership with God to finish what God has stated within us, within each one of us, then we can know God, because God can know God. Yes? In this way, our problem is only a problem of perspective, we are looking at everything, and thinking about everything, and doing everything, from the perspective of "us", of "us" as separation and differences, from the perspectives of "mine" and "your", while God is looking at everything from the perspective of "oneness with", everything existing within Him, as everything being His Creation that He is totally responsible for, that He Created, and that He must Nourish and Sustain, as Bismillahir-Rahmanir- Rahim, as the Creator, the Nourisher, and the Sustainer. What do you think God sees when He looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation. Do you think He sees you, or me, or any of His Creation as separate from Himself, as "we" do. Of course not. When God looks at you, or me, or any of His Creation He sees Himself, He sees what is within Him, He sees what His Creation, and within it He sees His Oneness with His Creation which is True Man, and within True Man He sees Himself. In this way, when God looks at His Creation He sees Himself happening, He sees Himself being revealed from within what He has created, and for Him to complete what He has started, within you, and me, and each of His Creation, you, and me, and each of His Creation have but to realize, understand, accept, and join with Him in this truth, in what He is doing, and put down everything else. This is "La ilaha Ill Allahu - I am not, You are". But only the Creation of God known as man, which God endowed with the 6th level or kind of wisdom or consciousness can do this divine work, can join in partnership with God to finish the work of God within God, to complete God's intention for His Creation within Him, which is to reveal God, by first revealing True Man within His Creation so True Man can reveal God within His Creation. And if man does this unique work, this Divine Work, hat only man can do, then all of the Creation of God will benefit. That is our part in it, our part in God's intention for His Creation. Such is the exaltedness of man, if we will only pick it up, by putting down the darkness that we have grown within us, that we have created within us, that we are now nourishing and sustaining within us, having become the god of darkness, because within the one is the other, within the darkness within us is the light within us, and as such they are one, which only separate through wisdom, that only separate into heaven and hell through wisdom, and within heaven, the 8th heaven that we must build as True Man, is God, is the Light within the Light, as our Divine Luminous Wisdom is within Our Divine Analytical wisdom. We must realize this, without the slightest doubt, with our iman, our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and with our wisdom, which is our direct connection to the consciousness of God, to the consciousness of oneness and unity, of justice and truth, of compassion and unity, which is our direct connection to the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and stop acting as the rest of the Creation of God that cannot do this, that cannot do this divine work of joining in partnership with God, to finish the Intention of God for His Creation, which is to reveal God, because God did not creation them in that way. In this way we must learn to move up in our life, rather than down, up to God rather than down to His Creation, we must learn to become Heaven rather than try to go there. Then, and only then, will we find peace and tranquility in our life, by acting in the way that God created us to act, as His Representative to the world, as His light to the world, as His Islam reflected in the heart of Iman, as His Muham or face that reflects His Aham or heart, which is the true Muhammad of God, not by acting like the rest of God's creation, not by moving down to there level of ignorance of God and of what God is doing, and even lower to the level of satan, who is the arrogance of that ignorance, or even further, to a worm in hell with one level of consciousness, and in this way turning away from our birthright, which is this divine work, becoming like the apple seed that fails to germinate and tell the story of the apple tree that it was created by God to tell. May we both think about this a little bit, my dearest loving brother Mike, it is very, very important. 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