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What are your [[questions]]?

What are your [[questions]]?

===='''''[[Tradition]]''''', '''''[[Islam]]''''', '''''[[Christianity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Tradition]]''''', '''''[[Islam]]''''', '''''[[Christianity]]'''''====

Q: Shortly After sept 11([[911]]), I saw a sign outside a [[church]], will the real God please come forward. Obviously we are all looking at different [[religions]] more now and we are so quick to judge their [[beliefs]]. I have been [[thinking]] that these people stop five times a day and stop to pray. It would seem that they are attempting to [[connect]] with God as much as we are or even more. I have always thought that there is just one God and that people around the world have different [[names]] and [[rituals]]. Is it that simple, when I pray to God and when they pray to God does it go to the same God?

Q: Shortly After sept 11 ([[911]]), I saw a sign outside a [[church]], will the real God please come forward. Obviously we are all looking at different [[religions]] more now and we are so quick to judge their [[beliefs]]. I have been [[thinking]] that these people stop five times a day and stop to pray. It would seem that they are attempting to [[connect]] with God as much as we are or even more. I have always thought that there is just one God and that people around the world have different [[names]] and [[rituals]]. Is it that simple, when I pray to God and when they pray to God does it go to the same God?

Ham: Yes, of course. All [[human beings]] are the children of the same Father. The Master lived his life to proclaim [[liberty]] to the spiritual [[captives]] and he does so today to those captive in [[tradition]] everywhere. The prayers of [[Islam]] are very often by rote. They are prayers that others have told them to pray. The Master sought to break away from all these things. He said many times, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. He said this as an [[appeal]] to the whole person, the [[mind]] as well as the [[spirit]]. The religions that grew up around his teaching have to this day never fully and completely embraced those very teachings. [[Sot|His spirit]] is returning in much force upon the world and is once again proclaiming spiritual liberty and truth so that mental [[integrity]] will be part of that liberation. Many religions are [[guilty]] of shackling the minds of their followers. We foresee a time when Islam will either [[transform]] itself or [[gradually]] die out as a religion in much the same way that [[Judaism]] has. There are fewer and fewer Jews who cling to the old [[traditions]] every decade and so we see a time when there will be many, many Muslims who will break free of the shackles of the tradition that holds them down. They will still be Muslims, but they will [[embrace]] the higher religious [[ideals]] that come from the [[modern]] world rather than looking back to the past for their religious [[guidance]]. Is this helping your [[understanding]]?

Ham: Yes, of course. All [[human beings]] are the children of the same Father. The Master lived his life to proclaim [[liberty]] to the spiritual [[captives]] and he does so today to those captive in [[tradition]] everywhere. The prayers of [[Islam]] are very often by rote. They are prayers that others have told them to pray. The Master sought to break away from all these things. He said many times, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. He said this as an [[appeal]] to the whole person, the [[mind]] as well as the [[spirit]]. The religions that grew up around his teaching have to this day never fully and completely embraced those very teachings. [[Sot|His spirit]] is returning in much force upon the world and is once again proclaiming spiritual liberty and truth so that mental [[integrity]] will be part of that liberation. Many religions are [[guilty]] of shackling the minds of their followers. We foresee a time when Islam will either [[transform]] itself or [[gradually]] die out as a religion in much the same way that [[Judaism]] has. There are fewer and fewer Jews who cling to the old [[traditions]] every decade and so we see a time when there will be many, many Muslims who will break free of the shackles of the tradition that holds them down. They will still be Muslims, but they will [[embrace]] the higher religious [[ideals]] that come from the [[modern]] world rather than looking back to the past for their religious [[guidance]]. Is this helping your [[understanding]]?