The Message

I don’t know in what state of consciousness I was when I heard the voice that spoke to me.  As a matter of fact, I’m not sure it was a voice at all, but I do remember every word as if it were miraculously imprinted in my memory bank.  These are the words of the One who calls himself,
No Man.

“From the timelessness of the eternal, PEACE BE UNTO YOU”.  I am No Man and I am calling out to you from the center of the unknowable, the heart of the light impenetrable.  Much has passed since I last used a voice to reach the ears of Every Man.  I am moved to do so again because of my love for the human race.   Your world is at a critical point in its development.  Man stands at the crossroad between agreement or death.   War, disease, greed, hunger, religious hypocrisy, human arrogance; these are they that drive mankind to its corporal demise and No Man is concerned. 

Death by discord, failure to agree on what is agreeable, what is pure, what is holy.

No Man seeks understanding!

No Man seeks virtue!

No Man resists vice!

Do you still believe Every Man?  Are you still able to hear talk of Heaven and Hell, good and evil, right and wrong?  Are you so soul sick that you would want to destroy the antidote that will save you?

The race of men has forgotten what was once written on their hearts.  How to resist war, cure disease, expose greed, satiate hunger, unmask religious hypocrisy, confront human arrogance; No Man knows!

     Man’s progress has put the whole of earth at risk.  The destruction of the ecosystem and the increasing temperature swings are but cause and effect and this is evident, yet no one has the ability to stop the destruction.  The powerful few that have the ability to promote the greater good are consumed by their lust for riches and the power that follows the flow of money.  The religious authorities that are charged with the responsibility of ushering in thekingdom of
Heaven have instead divided up the earth into spiritual fiefdoms from which they feed and prosper.  The knowledge available to the custodians of science has far surpassed their ability to conduct themselves prudently.  The Great Danger is imminent!  Wisdom, I call you forth.  Seek out the faithful remnant upon the earth, and stir the Collective to action.  Make them mindful of the damage being done to their environment.  Make them mindful of the power that they can marshal towards the common good.  Mankind!  Do you love your children? 

       No Man has a dream and in that dream come Faith, Hope and Love and these are they that that speak.   My words are Wisdom.  She comes as light, piercing the darkness, and reaching out to Every Man.  Awake Every Man from your stupor!  No Man seeks to speak to you about the state of peace and the place of prosperity; the Common Ground among all.   You no longer believe Common Ground exists but it does!  I see it in my dream.  I see a Jew holding a Muslim’s only son and calling him a good boy from good parents and I see a Muslim woman removing her veil and revealing her smile to a Christian daughter and miracle upon miracle I see a Christian man communing with the Heathen without reaching for a Bible verse. 

As I beheld the formless one called No Man, my spirit was troubled at his words and the spirit of Every Man responded through me, “No Man believes that there is common ground among the Jews and the Muslims, the Christians and all the Others whether they be of Faith or not”.  “The Jew is not a Gentile, the Muslim is not a Christian and the Christian is not a heathen.  Each one is made who they are by their traditions, by the Holy Books, and by their teachers who interpret the sacred writings. “There is no common ground among the religions of man.  And No Man responded, “Awake from your confusion Every Man!   Each religion’s written works contain enough room only for those adherents that are drawn to them.  There will always be those that will seek their guidance from another.  It is the way of man to seek inconsistencies in a system and then to either expose them or improve upon them.  It is because of this that your sacred scriptures will never match.  There is however a way out of this maze of beliefs.  Remember that there is a Holy Book found not on pages that waste away over time but established on the very hearts of every living human being.  The blueprint of Heaven is in each of you!  Each of you can recognize the characteristics of holiness without ever having read or heard any of the Holy Writings.  Tell me, have you not felt the warm hand of Kindness, the liberating touch of Forgiveness, the shielding embrace of Love?  Did your heart know these to be good because you read from the Holy writing or do you acknowledge that goodness is known from within?  It is the faith of the child that understands goodness and embraces it. 

It is the Kingdom ofGod that is within you. 

     There is yet Common Ground among all men!   You who are faith filled shall be my emissaries.  I count among the faithful all of those who produce fruits of righteousness.  You shall show the darkness that the Common Ground of individual faith seeking virtue has been found.   I speak to those of all religions that keep a moral code within themselves and I include those that don’t cling to religion but are none the less drawn to heaven by their actions.  Seeking, all of you shall find that there is the Common Ground of individual morality in action that ushers in your Heaven or ushers in your Hell. 

“You speak on a matter that has faded into irrelevancy” replies the spirit of Every Man in me to the Formless One.  “You are too late for in this day and age we are a race too advanced to bother with our neighbor.  There was once a time when men were moved to action by the draw of heaven or out of fear of hell, but no longer.    Do not talk to me about heaven and hell for this talk proceeds from those who would control me for their own gain. 

      And No Man responds, “It is as you say Every Man.  The vision of heaven has been perverted and as a result has made hell a less abhorrent place, for better to be in hell with those that share your misery than suffer the eternal torment of being among those that gain from it.  I, too, suffer.  I see the true Heaven and it is the place not too far off.  Let me describe what I see. 

     Heaven is located in the eternal state of Harmony.  Wisdom and Power hold court there and rule from the seat of Mercy.  Faith, Hope and Love are the crown’s most trusted advisors and their every thought is towards you my child.  The court of Heaven is made up of all that would equip and adorn you for every good thought and action.  Courage, Justice and Loyalty are your strong men ready for service and sacrifice for their orders proceed from the Power on the throne.  Temperance, Prudence and Abstinence are your keepers for they proceed from Wisdom and their commander charges them with your protection.   Every Man has been assigned a cadre of personal attendants, each a gift to produce in you the heavenly image.  Humility, Kindness, Patience, Self Control, Generosity, and Diligence; these are rivers whose source is the Sea of Life and they are meant to nourish you with Understanding.  Virtue is the term used for these patrons of Heaven.   No Man is troubled at seeing Virtue once so highly prized among men now battered, slandered and made of no account by the very Hell that is in men.  Yes there is a Hell, Every Man!   Hear me and understand that just like there is a state of Heaven there is a state of Hell.  The denizens of Hell are ruled by Hate and Fear and they sit on the throne of Injustice and Cruelty.  The Lords at their bidding are Bitterness, Envy and Slander.  Despair and Cowardice lead the hordes that prey upon men’s souls and their troops are monstrous.  Arrogance, Avarice, Anger, Gluttony, Lust, Envy and Sloth are their names and these are they that usher you in to the state of hell. The drink they offer you is Distrust from the rivers of Confusion and No Man counsels you to not drink the water!  It will never satisfy your thirst for thirst is what it produces in you.

Every Man continues, “You speak of heaven and hell as if they still hold sway with men.”  A great many do not believe in them at all and those that do will not agree on which actions merit which destination.  How can you begin to speak on a subject that has been marginalized for lack of agreement?

Awake Every Man!  It is because you do not seek the Common Ground that you find yourself in this spiritual desert.  You were given the gifts of Virtuosity so that you could recognize Heaven but you have abandoned the gifts and so lost your way.  Every Man, where are the Virtues that No Man has given you? 

     Those of the faiths of men, know the way to Heaven but forbid it to each other by their insistence on walking separate ground.  The Common Ground is Holy ground, for on it you find the Virtues among all religions.  Repent!  Show that you are worthy of the gift of your Faith and meet others on the Common Ground.  Let the Faithful once again call Every Man to faith through Virtue.    

     Men have turned to feeding their vices because they believe that Virtue is nowhere to be found.  With each passing generation the transformation from Heaven bound sojourners to residents of Hell becomes ever stronger as your children learn to feed their own vices at younger ages.   You do not recognize the Daemons you bring forth. What men repudiate as worthless is in fact that which will save your children from themselves!  Come Everyman let us reason together.  Let me show you a war that rages before your eyes hidden.  Let me start by showing you the enemies that keep you from the Common Ground of personal faith through virtuous action.