Mercy of God
From Aryez
Book 22 of the Marfat
22: Mercy of God
1. Behold the mercy of the Lord! He
2. gave us free will and souls, so that
3. we can be intelligent, independent, and eternal beings,
4. above the very animals that gave rise to us;
5. we, intelligent life, are the beloved and chosen ones of God!
6. He gave us souls so that we may live even
7. after our bodies perish and crumble into
8. dust. And it is decreed by the Lord
9. that all of our souls leave the Universe
10. entirely upon their departure from their bodies.
11. They go beyond the Universe and dwell
12. in the Eternal, timeless halls beyond the Universe, with God.
13. There, they shall meet their fate according
14. to their deeds in life- some will enjoy
15. bliss, others hell. But, behold the mercy
16. of God, for on the judgment day, all
17. evil will be cleansed, and all souls
18. will dwell forever with God, free
19. of anguish, pain, sorrow, or evil, only to be
20. happy eternally. Yet, lest you desire to burn
21. till then, do good deeds in life.
22. And do not fear death. Death is God’s
23. gift to us, so that we may escape
24. the Universe and its sorrows and
25. go to God. Death is not an end, it
26. is merely another path, one that leads
27. away from the corruption of the physical world
28. and to God, back to the spiritual totality, its origin. Release yourself from
29. fear of death, for that fear is because
30. of the evil of the Devil who planted it to sow corruption and fear.
Commentary: This book is written figuratively, somewhat as an allegory. It seeks to speculate on the afterlife. Aralan believes that while non-human or non-intelligent forms of life have a part of the force in them, they are physical manifestations of the force, and are thus limited to the physical entity, the Universe. On the other hand, human beings are both physical and spiritual manifestations of the force, so the human being has the capacity to exist beyond the destruction (death) of his body. We call this extra-physical entity the soul or spirit. The soul cannot ever be destroyed. Since the soul is not physical, it is impossible to describe it in physical terms. For a being that is purely a soul (after death), it probably feels as though the mind were still functioning without the body. “Senses” would be experienced in a paranormal way, like the way we “see” in dreams. The afterlife, described here as “heaven” and the “timeless halls” would be outside the Universe, and would be like one giant mixing of consciousnesses with the all-encompassing conscious of God moving throughout. Aralan does not believe in a separate existence of heaven and hell (described further in other books). Aralan however believes that people meet a fate in their afterlife based on their deeds in life. All torment or pleasure is of course mental and emotional, considering the fact that there is no physical matter. Furthermore, all souls have to account for some sin or the other since all souls commit sin. Nobody reaches instant paradise. For any sin or wrong deed, souls must heal, and the more sins, the longer it takes to heal. However, all souls heal eventually, and become good and enjoying a form of bliss (this might take a long time for some because they have to wait until “judgment day” or the end of the Universe; for others, it may take a very short time). This does not give anyone a license to commit wrong deeds just because they will reach paradise eventually; the “healing and suffering” a sinful person must face can be very painful and long indeed. But it is important to remember that in the end, all souls, all things will enjoy eternal bliss. The book closes by urging people not to fear death, declaring that the fear of death was planted by evil forces seeking to sow fear.
