Unveiling

                                                                                                                                                                  It is a bright Saturday Morning, 21 st , July 2040. My teenage son, Cody walks to me and asks, “Mummy, will this world end? If yes, what shall be the sign of the end of the world?” Before I opened my mouth to say a word, he chipped in again, “Well, before you talk, I already know that the scriptures are written in correspondences. Every literal word means something spiritually, but my friends and I were discussing Matthew 24, rela...

We like to think of ourselves in ways which are socially acceptable. However, we are betrayed by our actions from time to time. Many often therefore shy from the responsibility of assessing their actions, lest their true colors be exposed. But hiding from your true colors does not make you any less than you are. Nothing happens by chance. Everything is caused, and every cause is driven by a motive. Our actions therefore do not spring from a vacuum. They are products of our core (interior) being. Our interior being is primarily made up of our loves/desires/affections. This is usually referred to as the heart of man. Our desires inform us on what is good. Thus, they inform our choices and therefore constitute our 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹. Our desires manifest as our thoughts, thereby forming our understanding. Our thoughts /understanding inform us on what is true. Thus, the spirit behind man’s actions has two faculties: the 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 (what we consider to be good) and the 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 (what ...

  The four categories of people  There are four Categories of people as far as the spiritual life is concerned: 1.   Those who are oblivious about the internal faculties and are thus opened and ruled only by sensuality. Life is only meaningful to these people externally. The influx of the higher cause is untapped and remains latent within them. These people do not reach their full potential as intended by the Divine Cause (God). 2.   Those who are ignorant yet unwilling to search or yield to any knowledge that points to the consciousness of the Divine. These people have shut themselves from the inflow of the Divine from reaching their inner man, and consequently their externals. Hence, they are ruled only by their sensual animalistic parts. Life is only meaningful to them externally too; they can only relate with what is material and literal.  3.   Those who through knowledge come to the realization of the Divine but decide to reject the truth and the...

Sometimes, we get so tired of striving tirelessly without ever reaching our set goals. Sometimes we wonder if we'll ever get there... Sometimes this good pursuit we've given our lives for seems almost unachievable. We keep climbing and climbing, we feel our knees feeble — our limbs shaky and breaths almost fading. Seeing how far we've climbed up, it's irrational climbing down but there's a dementor that pressingly suggests that that's the only option.  Frustration, this shackle, its voice shouts so strong that we almost feel we've lost control. It saps every joy and tells us it is hopeless having hope. It hypnotizes its prey to think that they've lost the ability to choose, and deceitfully presents one option - giving up. Frustration highlights so much pessimism and pain! It keeps us down in the pits and prevents our eyes from looking up to the light; making us believe that we are on our own and that God is not present. This ol' con keeps replaying o...

I was inspired by a 9 year old boy to draw, I was only 5 years old then. Over the years, I have come to know that there is more to drawing than what we literally see. When I was 5 years old, I saw an older boy drawing. I'm sure he was about 9 years old. He was drawing a man. It was the first time I had seen such a nice drawing, nicer than the ones my nursery teacher drew on the blackboard. I couldn't draw like that, the best I could do was to trace. So, I asked him to teach me. In response he told me to get a book, take a pencil and start drawing. I wasn't discouraged by his response, I was very glad. ”Mennsɔ wonsa o, hwɛ me na draw. Sɛ woti a, na w'apepa, na w’adraw biom” (I will not guide you by holding your hands, observe what I do and learn. When you make a mistake, just erase and draw again) — he told me. I started drawing objects from then. By age 6, I could draw any image in my story books — any image I set my heart to draw. Eventually, drawing turned out to be ...

If only we could read each others' minds... We cannot judge actions by appearances. Neither can we judge based on the people who perform the actions. The motive of an action is the core or drive of the action, and fills the whole action whether of service or damage to mankind. It is possible for a man (generic: both male and female) to vehemently defend himself/herself as altruistic and yet work for his/her personal aggrandizement to the detriment of other lives underneath.  Basically, when confronted about motives, the inclination to feeling accused or judged is high. Motives are delicate to people and mostly concealed. Motive is the spirit by which an action is done. To have a good motive is to act for the benefit of all, while a bad motive acts for the benefit of oneself to the peril of others.  A gentleman can spend all his time and money lavishing delicacies on a lady and will say he is doing that for free - without any expectations. Meanwhile, when the lady marries anoth...

What determines whether something is good or bad? Is there a universal mirror we can use to know the intention behind an action or deed? Everybody considers and does what makes them happy. If a man thinks of something to be bad and yet does it, it is because he loves the feeling or the experience he gets from engaging in that action. For example, there is an inscription on cigarettes "smoking kills" but this inscription doesn't deter smokers from smoking. Intriguingly, even medical practitioners who know the consequences of smoking still smoke. "It is bad, yes we know but we still can't stop". This is the song of an addict. The addiction of a smoker then is as a result of prioritizing the feeling that comes with smoking over killing oneself. Actually, in reality, the smoker doesn't believe the inscription on the cigarette box is true, least to obey. The consequence of his action to another person or his surrounding environment is inapparent to him as wel...