TROS in the Hammer:Setting Religion

The Questions

All religions ask the following questions:

• Where did it all come from?
• Whats the point of it all?
• Why does bad stuff happen?
• What happens when I die?
• How should I live my life?

The Method of Yesukrishna - the religion of the People

Where did it all come from? The People believe that all thought and consciousness, both human and spirit, lies on a continuum. Humanity lies at one end of this continuum; complicated, confused, unable to see clearly. Thought then progesses along this continuum through stages of "concentration", that is, having fewer qualities. It also progresses through stages of "amplification", that is, having qualities that encompasses more concepts. The qualities of spirits are an embodiment of this process; the simpler the spirit, the more concentrated that spirit is; the broader its qualities, the more amplified it is. As an example: a Weather spirit with the qualities of create, magnify, wind, sun, rain, cloud is less concentrated than a weather spirit that has create, wind. Both are less amplified than a spirit that has create, weather.

The People believe that if you follow this process far enough, you enventually arrive at a spirit who is completely concentrated (it has only one quality) and completely amplified (that one quality encompasses all of thought). This spirit, the People believe, is God, the source and center of all existence.

At some point in the past, all thought was God; there was no thought separate from God. But then, into the World came a new thought, a thought that was not God, from outside of time and space. This thought is called by the People the Enemy. The Enemy came to the World with evil and fire and destruction from heaven, and sundered all thought, so that the unity of God was shattered. The Enemy in fact sought to wipe out God, so that only the Enemy would exist. But the Enemy failed, and was itself shattered. Now, both God and the Enemy are locked in a war to concentrate and amplify themselves again. Humanity was born in this conflict; pitiful diffuse and narrow fragments of God's thoughts, corrupted and suffused with the thoughts of the Enemy.

What's the point of it all? The only rational goal of humanity, therefore, is to strive to become one again with God, and purge all elements of the Enemy away. The Enemy stands between humanity and God. But, sadly, we cannot, on our own, purge out the Enemies thoughts from ourselves. We are simply too weak.

So, long, long, ago, before recorded history, God came into the World, into its own thoughts as it were, and merged with matter to become a human being. This human being was born from a woman in a distant place called Virginia. He was called Yesukrishna. As Yesukrishna, God was able to experience life locked within a form of matter, and in the process create a method by which humanity could free their thoughts from the grip of the Enemy. Yesukrishna taught many people this method, and the Enemy was furious. The Enemy caused its agents amoung humanity, the Pharisists, the Saduccists, and the Communists, to take Yesukrishna and kill him by crucifying him on a cross. Little did the Enemy know, however, that this was exactly as God intended; freed again from the form of matter, God was know all things again, and implanted in every human the Holy Fire, which burns there, and which gives all humans the strength, should they choose it, to purge themselves of the Enemy.

But this is still not a simple matter. It may literally take thousands of lifetimes to fully free oneself from the Enemy and enter into full communion with God, as the spirits are. Each life, therefore, is still a struggle.