The_Talmud_of_Jmmanuel_-_The_Human_Being_and_Creation
Contents • 1 Chapter 36 ♦ 1.1 The Human Being and Creation • 2 Further Reading • 3 Source
Chapter 36 The Human Being and Creation 1. It came to pass that Jmmanuel preached of the human being and of Creation as he went eastward with a caravan. 2. He said, "Human beings should look upward to the stars, for majestic peace and grandeur rule there. 3. As though by immutable law and order, the infinite and everlasting changes take place there over days, months, years and beyond for centuries, millennia and millions of years. 4. Human beings, however, should also look downward upon the Earth for there, as well, is Creational activity and endless becoming and passing away of life and existence, toward ever newly developing forms. 5. Greatness, excellence and beauty rule harmoniously where nature is left to itself. 6. But where traces of human order are at work, there pettiness, disgrace and ugliness testify to alarming disharmony. 7. With inflated chest, the human being calls himself the crown of creation, and yet he in not cognizant of Creation and sets persons on a level with it. 8. But this human being, who has tamed fire and rules the Earth, will not go far. 9. Without a doubt, human beings will learn to harness water and air, but in the process they will forget to recognize Creation above them and its laws. 10. Thus they will also forget to seek truth, knowledge, love, respect, life, logic, true freedom and wisdom, 11. And they will forget to live peacefully with each other. 12. Their battle cry will be warfare, for they want to attain power through violence. 13. But when they believe they have power in their hands, they will use it for enslavement and bloodshed, exploitation, brutality, crime and degeneration. 14. They will speak of honour, freedom and knowledge, but in truth these will be only hypocrisy, coercion and erroneous teachings. 15. Thus, in the future, the human being will lose his face and display an evil and false mask. 16. Many will degenerate into beasts and spend their earthly days without knowledge or conscience. 17. Human ambitions and desires will be directed only toward acquisition, power, lust, addiction and greed. 18. With their intellect, human beings will arrange things of this world to make them subservient, regardless of the fact that in so doing they break the laws of nature and destroy nature itself in many ways. 19. They will no longer trust in the eternal truths, which are anchored in the laws of nature. 20. Through self-deception, they will find more meaning in the human sciences than in all the values of the laws of nature and Creation. 21. In their confusion, human beings will believe in this erroneous self-created, pathetic philosophy of life, which will be produced through the cults' erroneous teachings and through arrangements of human laws and vagaries of the principles that govern nations. 22. Human beings will want to control their lives by external means, because they will have forgotten to be aware of their own essence from the Creational point of view. 23. Through deceitful means they will delude, cheat and exploit their fellow human beings and the entire world. Contents
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