A temple and a workshop (machine translation)
Turgenevsky Bazarov said: “Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and a person is a worker in it.” This statement of the fictional character generated more controversy than the statements of many real celebrities. The materialists made it one of their slogans – despite the fact that Nature, in fact, created them, as the Creator creates his creations. Well, many of those who are religiously inclined to view it precisely as a temple built by God himself and should be a place of worship for him.
Our teaching is neither purely materialistic nor religious. Moreover, it is called the “Teaching of the One Temple”. Why? For those who are just starting to get acquainted with the Teaching, often this is the question that becomes the first.
The teaching was given to people many times, at different times and in different places of our world. It could be called in different ways: it did not change its essence. In our days, at the time of the last revelation, it bears the name that Emera himself gave him: The Doctrine of the One Temple. In this case, the word “temple” has nothing to do with religion and does not indicate a place of worship for some higher powers. Followers of the Doctrine do not worship anyone. For us, the “one temple” is Nature. The nature of our planet, in all its life-giving power and beauty, including man as its particle. Wider – the Universe, our living Creator in all its grandeur, with all the universal laws and principles that uplift his life and move forward his development. Even wider is Being, immense, infinite in time and space, that great ocean of life in which our Universe is nothing more than a drop. This is our temple. And it exists not for worship, but for labor for the benefit of people, the world, Nature in all its manifestations. We ourselves are particles of this temple, and we must work in it, work with our own hands, minds and souls, making it more perfect and more beautiful. That is, our temple, at the same time, is also our workshop. And while we work in it, it creates us.
The inveterate materialists, who reject the reverent attitude towards Nature and call to subjugate and remake it to their needs, are wrong. Those who consider it exclusively as something given from above and subject only to the highest supernatural forces are also wrong. Truth lies at the junction of these opposing views. Where the temple and workshop, worship and labor become one inseparable whole.
© Atarkhat, 2016