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BECOME AN ERCIAN!
I WILL “NOT” BE THE ONLY ERCIAN ON EARTH (June 4, 2011)
First Subtitle: “THE GLOVES ARE OFF”
Second Subtitle: “PLACE YOUR BETS”
Do you remember the episodes of the Green Hulk: “You don’t want to make me angry,” and the character would become a green big-muscled angry beast, his clothes ripping away from his body, then he started beating the living daylights out of the bad guys. Well, I have not undergone such a transformation, but a few comments from people I have been having discussions with, have raised my "Spirits" (see "The Ercian Sign & Mystical Names"), especially the god Father Spirit, and I have decided to make a drastic change in my approach to putting my message out.
These have been some of the comments representative of the prevalent feeling, especially among Christians:
“Ercian Philosophy is spiritually bankrupt,”
“…your self-proclaimed logical analysis and conclusions,”
“Your new hope feel good Proligion is yet another of many manmade alternatives to established truths,”
“You call it Ercian Philosophy, when is just another brand of religion because its founder is simply a member of the fallen human race.”
(Right, and Jesus was not a member of that race, right?)
Then there are the usual “The Bible is the Word of God,” “Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” etc. etc. etc.
The change I am making is NOT about PROLIGION. Proligion remains the same. Proligion is the arena, the Court, the venue, the forum where people who agree to search for knowledge and truth through reason come together to debate ideas and beliefs in all fields of human endeavor: religion, politics, science, ethics, the environment, the economy, etc.
The ideas do the fighting, and then each person is free to decide which ideas and beliefs are superior.
Sometimes, when those superior ideas or beliefs are backed by sound (irrefutable) logical arguments or by incontrovertible evidence or proof they become common knowledge.
PROLIGION HAS NO STATED DOCTRINE OR BELIEF SYSTEM. It is just the place or environment where the debate or conversation takes place. Participation in PROLIGION is voluntary, but participants agree to defend their points of view through rational arguments and/or by providing credible evidence.
Although proligious participants may offer statements of faith for information purposes, because faith is based on beliefs which can be true or, more importantly, “false,” statements of faith cannot be used to win or prove an argument or point of view.
The purpose of PROLIGION is to bring about the functional unification of peoples of good minds and wills, so that we may work as a team to make this a better world.
The change I am making is about competing with other religions. Instead of approaching the Proligious Forum or Discussions from the point of view of Ercian Philosophy, as a philosopher, I will approach the Proligious Forum or Discussions from the point of view of ERCIAN RELIGION, as a religious leader.
I will try to convert people to ERCIANITY, and I will issue certain guidelines for those who become Ercians (and warnings for those whose religions have called for undeserved punishment in an afterlife).
An Important Note: People can agree with certain points of “Ercian Philosophy,” without being or becoming “RELIGIOUS ERCIANS.” For example, they may agree with the logical proofs showing that God (or “Ultimate Source”) is “not” a conscious being or conscious creator. Atheists may agree to that but they will probably not want to call that ultimate source “God” or “ERC” as I do.
Another example is people who believe in a personal god or similar type reality, and on an afterlife, may agree with Ercian Philosophy, but like Christians or Muslims, they may not agree with the name I have chosen for that personal god or system (“ELLAEL,”) or with what happens in the afterlife, if there is one.
One more example is the principle of Ercian Philosophy that calls for “freedom of thought” as a requisite for “freedom of expression.” Any learned and educated lay person may agree with that principle of Ercian Philosophy without having to become a religious Ercian.
A final example is a person who may agree that Knowledge, Reason, Wisdom, Freedom, Creativity, Responsibility, Right Emotion, Leadership, Courage, Peace, Love, Honesty and Humility are good values or ideals of Ercian Philosophy and Ercian Religion without having to agree to become a religious Ercian or without agreeing on the proper definition or proper practice of those Ercian values or ideals.
TO BECOME AN ERCIAN (A Full-Fledged Religious Ercian)
All you have to do is:
a) Understand Ercian “Thought,” especially the logical arguments that give you knowledge of the nature of Our Infinite Source and Ultimate God, Our True God, the One and Only Past-Eternal God, the Cause of Causes,
b) Declare yourself “AN ERCIAN” so that the World knows you have arrived at a level of knowledge of God SUPERIOR to that of any other established or informal religion,
c) Become adept at defending Ercian “Thought” by studying and reading valuable sources of information, beginning with the book “Ercian Testament, the Teachings of Proligion and Ercian Philosophy,” so that you get the substance of Ercian “Thought” from the horse’s mouth and not from some charlatan that is trying to use the Ercian Religion for his or her own purposes, usually “money.”
d) Agree NEVER to try to establish an ERCIAN CHURCH or authoritarian type organization. You are forbidden from doing so. ERCIANS must remain FREE individuals of human society, people without a Pope, a priest, a pastor, or a minister that tells them what God’s truth is and/or how to behave.
e) Agree NEVER to join anyone who tries to “corrupt” the essence of ERCIANITY by establishing an ERCIAN CHURCH or some other authoritarian type organization.
f) You may become part of “educational” or “informational” groups for the purpose of “teaching” the general public what ERCIAN “Thought” is all about. You will not knock on people’s doors or bother them at airports or any other places to become “pain-in-the-ass” proselytizers. At appropriate places and times (you figure it out. I am not going to “list” them), you may approach people to ask if they would be interested in learning about ERCIAN RELIGION. If they say “no,” you leave them the hell alone and go on your way.
g) You may become part of “proligious” groups made up of peoples of good minds and wills that come together in search of knowledge and truth and to try to help make Earth a better world for all (who are “good”).
h) Because PROLIGION (to be proligious) is part of ERCIAN RELIGION, “we” all agree to CHANGE our belief systems or what we think is our “knowledge,” IF NEW INFORMATION, LOGICAL ARGUMENTATION, DATA, OR SOME OTHER FORM OF INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE “proves” that we are wrong.
i) Because TRUTH RULES SUPREME FOR AN ERCIAN, you will accept the true teachings of other religions, those statements that can be shown to be true, good, or just. By the same token, you will reject those teachings that can be proven false.
For example, I am a Christian-Ercian when I accept Jesus’ teaching that asks me to love my brothers and sisters, but I reject the Christian concept of “unconditional” love or the belief that Jesus was the only begotten son of God.
For example, I am a Muslim-Ercian when I accept Muhammad’s teaching that “There is no God but God,” but I reject the Muslim teaching that the Ultimate God is a conscious creator as well as the belief that Muhammad is “THE” Prophet or Apostle of God.
For example, I am a Jewish-Ercian when I accept Moses’ idea of creating commandments or “guidelines” to improve people’s spiritual and social makeup, but I know the Ultimate God did not “appear” to him or spoke to him, and I reject the idea that Our Ultimate God is a “jealous” god ready to punish us if we worship somebody else.
j) As an Ercian, YOU ARE FREE to enter churches, mosques, synagogues, temples or other places of worship of other religions so that you can learn more about their traditions and so that we can help bring about Proligious Union. Needless to say, DO NOT ENTER these places UNINVITED or impose yourself impertinently by joining “activities” or “groups” without knowing you are a welcome guest.
k) As an Ercian, YOU ARE FREE to read any books that meet your needs and interests, and FREE to participate in any activities of your liking. There is no Ercian censure and no censuring panel or panels. For that reason, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE for your personal choices and for your behavior in society. If you break any laws or social norms, be ready to accept responsibility for your actions and be ready to pay the price and make restitution when that is possible.
l) As an Ercian, YOU ARE FREE to practice “meditation” or other spiritual techniques used by religious or lay instructors. Again, you are responsible for choosing what you want to do and responsible for the results. I am not “recommending” any practice or technique. All I am saying is that you are free to do so, if you wish.
m) As an Ercian, YOU ARE FREE to design your own “prayers” and “rituals,”ONLY IF YOU WISH TO DO SO! Use common sense. Use regular language, the language you use to communicate with people here on Earth. Who should you pray to? Of course, you cannot pray to ERC, because ERC does not know you exist. You can pray to ELLAEL who is our personal god and Holy Self. This is Our Belief, not Our Knowledge. An Ercian must be humble and honest, so we do not make up “stories” that are untrue.
I have not “spoken” to ELLAEL or know exactly what ELLAEL is. ELLAEL could be our Collective “Conscious-Subconscious,” that is, a collective state of mind made up of the subconscious part of our conscious minds.
Perhaps ELLAEL acts as a centralized “computer-type” entity that hears everything we think and say, that sees everything we do (through our own senses of thought, sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste), and that records everything that happens by keeping a “life tape,” an entry that amounts to the number 444 in the Chart of Six.
Perhaps ELLAEL is a symbolic name for a highly advanced civilization. If so, maybe we should be thinking about THEM creating our world or our race.
Therefore, since we do not know “exactly” who or what ELLAEL is, you can choose to pray to ELLAEL as one conscious system or to THEY who may be IN CHARGE of the progress of our race or just the people “on the other side,” IF we are just here in a sort of “vacation,” because IF we are “eternal souls or spirits” we must certainly have to live and experience many physical environments in our ETERNAL JOURNEY. That is Our Belief.
By the way, people who have heard or read me before know that there are no “spiritual” environments devoid of energy-matter. For anything to “really” exist, it has to have some kind of physical form, perhaps different from ours but still some kind of physical form, so that we can “identify” other beings. If we were just “light” as some people would want to have us believe, how in any world would we be able to know “who is who”? Mother Nature is WISE. That is why we all have different looks and fingerprints here in this world, as we would have some “physical” differences in a so-called “spiritual” type world IF IT “REALLY” EXISTS.
Aside from individual prayers or rituals which should be created out of your own needs and desires, I can give you a “general” type invocation to follow, if you wish to do so: THE ERCIAN INVOCATION.
Here is the Ercian Invocation:
Blessed be ERC, the Infinite Source and Ultimate God!
Blessed be!
Blessed be Ert Infinite Power!
Blessed be!
Blessed be Ert Infinite Motion!
Blessed be!
Blessed be Ert Infinite Beauty!
Blessed be!
Blessed be ELLAEL, our personal God and Holy Self!
Blessed be!
Blessed be Ert Omnipresence!
Blessed be!
Blessed be Ert Omniscience!
Blessed be!
Blessed be Ert Omnipotence!
Blessed be!
Blessed be all Ercians!
Blessed be!
May we assume our highest powers and achieve our highest destiny!
May we!
Blessed be our values, principles, and ideals!
Blessed be!
May they help us break the Chain (of Unconsciousness) and free us to the heavens!
May they!
Blessed be All Good Souls, past and present!
Blessed be!
May they help us in our tasks and protect us from all evil!
May they!
Blessed be the Proligious Spirit!
Blessed be!
And there shall be a new beginning!
And there shall be!
In God with Love, In God with Knowledge, In God with Courage, Forever and Ever, Amen and Xamen
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To explain what “Xamen” means at the end of the Ercian Invocation, while “Amen” means so may it be when it comes to receiving the good things in life, love, health, prosperity, etc., “Xamen” means so may it be when it comes to defending the good things in life, our loved ones, our “good” country, our “good” society, our hard-earned possessions, etc.
In addition to the Ercian Invocation, I pray to two symbolic entities: I pray to our Godfather and to our Godmother. Our Godmother holds THE CUP OF OUR HOUSE, the “Amen” part and power of the Ercian Invocation. Our Godfather holds THE SWORD OF OUR HOUSE, the “Xamen” part and power of the Ercian Invocation.
To the Godmother (number “630” in The Chart of Six), I have given the mystical name “Imay Donnai,” (also number “630” in The Chart of Six).
To the Godfather (number “504” in The Chart of Six), I have given the mystical name “Zadonnai,” (also number “504” in The Chart of Six). The “Z” in Zadonnai, the last letter of the English alphabet, is symbolic of Zadonnai being the last resort in the protection of all the good beings that exist in our world or in other worlds, the last resort in the protection of everything that is true, good, and just.
THE READING THAT FOLLOWS MUST BE DIGESTED INTELLIGENTLY. IT IS A LOT TO THROW AT YOU THE FIRST TIME YOU ARE READING ABOUT THE ERCIAN RELIGION BUT IF I DIE AND CANNOT EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU LATER, YOU WILL REACH THE WRONG CONCLUSION.
Note that the entry “The Demon” is also “504” in The Chart of Six. Zadonnai IS NOT “the Demon” as an evil being like Satan is supposed to be. Such “evil” beings are the eternal enemies of Ercians.
Zadonnai is “the Demon” as a MOTHER BEAR is a “demon” protecting her cubs. Although the entry “bear” equals 156, the same as the entry “god” in the Chart of Six, it is the entry “FATHER BEAR” that equals “504” in the Chart of Six, the same as the entry “Zadonnai.”
Why the name “Zadonnai”? Well, I remember the name “Adonai” with the title of “Lord,” a name for God in the Torah or in the Old Testament, and I figured “Why not?” it sounded good to me, especially when I found that the entries “God, the Devil” and “God of Israel” are “666” in the Chart of Six, and that the entries “The Lord, The Devil” and “The Supreme Being” are both “1002” in the Chart of Six. In the Ercian belief system, the Demon and the Devil are to be associated with the "GOOD AND STRONG" POWER OF THE GODFATHER TO BE USED IN THE DEFENSE OF ALL THE GOOD SOULS OF OUR ERCIAN HOUSES.
Okay, so THAT, (the name ZADONNAI) IS MY CONNECTION TO THE BIBLE, although Ercian Knowledge is what it is, more current and accurate than any existing Bible or so-called "Holy Book": Zadonnai is NOT THE ULTIMATE GOD. ERC is Our Past-Eternal God, the God of the Jewish people, the God of Muslims, the God of Christians, and the True God of all other beings.
Having given you “general” guidelines for prayer and having told you “specifics” about my Ercian religious beliefs, religious names, religious (symbolic or actual) entities, I will tell you that I pray three times a day, shortly after I get up, sometime after 12:00 p.m., and when I go to bed. All my prayer intentions are for the good of the good people of the world, asking for blessings and protection.
As an Ercian, YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED to pray how I pray or at the times I choose to pray. You can do what you wish, if it makes sense to you. IF I AM RIGHT IN THINKING I CAME TO EARTH ON A MISSION, then pray how you want to pray because WE (those who sent me) ARE LISTENING and WE WILL TRY TO MAKE YOUR “GOOD” WISHES COME TRUE.
n) As an Ercian, you pledge to do all that is in your power to be a good citizen and a productive member of human society. If you have not been one, then before becoming an Ercian, you must do your best to make amends and restitution for your past sins or misbehavior. Once you are on that path, then if you are sincere and determined to succeed, you may pledge “…to be a good citizen and a productive member of human society.”
o) As an Ercian, you may love me as I love you, but YOU SHALL NOT PLACE ME OR SEE ME AS A “SACRED” or “DIVINE” BEING ABOVE OTHER SONS OR DAUGHTERS OF ERC. Do not pray to me. Pray to Our Higher Self ELLAEL or as otherwise suggested or as you wish to pray.
p) As an Ercian, YOU WILL HONOR THOSE TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. The fact that, in principle and as our birthright we are “all” sons and daughters of ERC and of ELLAEL if ELLAEL exists as we believe, does not mean that we are all equal “in fact,” that our behavior, and our accomplishments or development as productive, moral, and ethical human beings deserve equal credit.
If the accounts about Jesus’ love for us and about his sacrifice are true, he deserves GREAT HONOR as one of the best men that have walked the Earth. I know he is not God and I do not believe in the stories of “miracles,” but that has nothing to do with GIVING HIM ALL MY LOVE AND ALL THE HONOR HE DESERVES if all that is true is just that he preached love for all mankind and that he gave up his life because he loved us so much. If that is true, he is among the best of my brothers, part of my family, and he will always be welcome at Our House and welcome to break bread at Our Table. Just know that, should you become an Ercian that criticizes Christianity or Christians for other reasons.
q) As an Ercian, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. Because I am the author of “Ercian Testament,” and the founder of Proligion, Ercian Philosophy, and the Ercian Religion, I will assist you trying to answer whatever questions or concerns you may have. You know the website www.ercian.org and you know my e-mail address jmarchante@ercian.org. Beyond that, learn the fact that I am not your Pope, your minister, your priest, your pastor or whatever other status you may want to give me. I guess I cannot avoid being “your leader,” but I am not the kind of leader who is looking for “sheep,” for people to follow blindly and without question. I want to create a race of leaders, people who know when to follow and when to lead.
WHAT IS IT THAT ERCIANS FOLLOW? ERCIANS FOLLOW THE GOOD IDEAS, NOT “MESSIAHS.” Read Chapter 5 in my book titled “Ideas and Messiahs,” if you want additional information on this subject.
The website www.ercian.org is there for people to be informed of new blogs or other information I may want to put out but, as stated before, THERE WILL BE NO ORGANIZED ERCIAN RELIGION. Therefore, I will NOT be accepting members, taking names, forming groups (except for educational purposes), or anything of that sort.
r) Ercians should seek to develop an individual as well as collective sense of humor and playful attitude, so that any burdens that the Proligious Agenda may place on our minds and bodies do not overwhelm our human spirit. Let us not take ourselves too seriously. Be like well-behaved children at play.
That is it for now. If an important "addition" needs to be made, I will let you know on the website.
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ERCIAN WARNINGS
This section is to let people of other religious faiths KNOW what I am in favor of, and what I wish those of MY ERCIAN HOUSE in HEAVEN to do, should I not be around for any reason, in response to the accepted beliefs of “some” religious individuals. In other words, because I believe in “democracy,” THIS IS MY VOTE and how I ask those in power TO JUDGE when these individuals of other religious faiths get to THE PORTAL separating OUR ERCIAN HEAVEN from other places no one would want to visit.
The following are some EXAMPLES OF ERCIAN RECIPROCITY. By no means, I am covering here “all” situations. These are only “examples,” as I mentioned.
1) Example: a Muslim believes the ignorant words of Muhammad when the so-called prophet or “God’s Apostle” says that “infidels” or “unbelievers” will taste the Fire of Hell for an Eternity.
Any “just” and “reasonable” being realizes THE INJUSTICE of sending a soul to Hell to suffer FOR AN ETERNITY for not having faith, or for whatever sins that soul committed in his or her FINITE TIME (very short time “within” eternity) LIFE on Earth. Once such ignorant and “evil-intentioned” cowardly follower and “believer” of Muhammad’s words gets to ERCIAN HEAVEN, I vote that WE prepare a nice “Hot Tub” for him or her, not for an eternity because that would be unjust, but for a long period of time that will seem like an eternity. If you are the type of human being that would not mind seeing your brothers and sisters suffer in Hell for an eternity, just because they did not believe in A FALSE GOD, then you have to pay the price for being such a stupid and evil person.
2) Example: a Christian believes that those who do not believe in Jesus will go to Hell, to the Lake of Fire. My vote: the same as #1 above.
3) Example: a Christian believes that those who do not believe in Jesus will be separated from God’s presence for an eternity. This type of Christian needs to read my book and, specifically, my theory of ERC as “primary energy.” Because our worlds are made of “secondary energy” that came from ERC but will never return to ERC, will never return to be “primary energy,” IF I AM RIGHT, we are all separated from the presence of the Ultimate God FOREVER.
However, we are NOT separated from ELLAEL. On the contrary, the Ercian belief is that “secondary energy” is eternal once created. Therefore, we will all enjoy ELLAEL’S presence AS LONG AS we do our best to be good human beings and as long as we have a conscience that allows us to correct our errors and make amends for our sins.
YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO BE “AN ERCIAN” TO BE IN ELLAEL’S PRESENCE, but you certainly must not follow the bad teachings of other religions (like agreeing that those who do not believe in Jesus should not enjoy the presence of ELLAEL). "Good" atheists and agnostics are also welcome, as long as they did not become pain-in-the-ass anti-religionists on Earth. We should all be free to choose our belief system, even if we are not smart about it.
If there is an afterlife according to our Ercian belief, needless to say, there will be other souls destined to live "outside" the confines of Our Houses. Environments or destinations that include some form of "punishment" are reserved for the Namuh, those beings that have no conscience and that are committed to "evil."
4) Last example: You are an “arrogant” atheist who believes in the God of Nothingness. Instead of being an “agnostic” or an atheist who recognizes the extent of his ignorance (as some old Greek philosopher used to say), you are an atheist who vehemently proclaims to the world that IT IS A CERTAINTY that ERC DID NOT HAVE THE POTENTIAL to create other environments or dimensions where we may enjoy not only this “afterlife” but many other lives like the one we are having here on Earth. Furthermore, YOU ASSERT THAT WE DO NOT POSSESS ETERNAL SOULS OR SPIRITS, and that when our bodies die, that is it, the end for us. You make all these assertions, as if you were an “omniscient” observer in full knowledge of all that exists in and outside our universe and as someone who had traveled through past-eternal time having been a WITNESS to everything. So, when you die, maybe we can arrange it to make your soul experience NONEXISTENCE, to have you sense TOTAL DARKNESS with nothing or no one accompanying you. If this were possible, imagine what your “soul” would be thinking “Gee, maybe I am God and I did not believe in myself, so now I am existing in the middle of nothingness, aware but in complete darkness, and I do not know how to make something come into being.”
Ercians are not “cruel,” except with those who are evil. Beings that are unusually cruel deserve cruel and unusual punishment. It is the proper thing to do. In the case above, I vote that we let you “sweat it out” for a while and then bring you out of that state to show you the extent of your ignorance. Of course, such a scenario would only happen IF ERCIAN RELIGIOUS BELIEF IS CORRECT and atheists are mistaken. If the reverse is true, I guess Ercians will never know, should we die with our bodies. Or will we? Because we are Consciousness, ERCIANS ROOT FOR CONSCIOUSNESS TO SURVIVE. THAT IS OUR BET. WE WILL NEVER BELIEVE IN “the impotent god of nothingness.” As in the poem by Dylan Thomas titled “Rage against the Dying of the Light,” WE WILL SURVIVE, even if we have to ride the Light in the last quantum wave or particle that leaves our body.
PLACE YOUR BETS!
Joseph Marchante
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