IS GOD DEAD?

The entire world seems to have gone mad of late. Even noted prelates
have questioned the nature of God. They feel that all things demand modernization,
even God Himself! As there have been such "advances" in technical affairs, as
our industries have leaped forward to new zeniths in returns, as our technology has
enabled us to hurl mighty rockets about the moon and on to the more distant
planets in this solar system, then we have — yes, we MUST HAVE — outgrown our
swaddling clothes, and are ready for even an advanced and revolutionary notion, an
improved, as it were, view of God. The old one is dead, so now, LONG LIVE THE
NEW GOD!
Is God dead?
Would you say that LIFE is dead? If so, then where are you? Are you still
existent, yet capable of judging LIFE ITSELF? Do you still cling to the notion that
LIFE is merely that which enables "things" to function, move about, do the jobs
they are assigned to do, until time takes over and forces LIFE "out" of the vessel,
the "temple" or canister in which It purportedly has been caged?
Do you look for LIFE, for GOD, in a body? Do you suppose that your
body is the envelope covering LIFE, SPIRIT, SOUL, GOD? Do you still assume
that body is your IDENTITY, BEING? Do you accept the notion that your parents
brought LIFE, SPIRIT, IDENTITY, BEING, into a subjective world, either by divine
command, permission, intention, or because they had nothing better to do at
the particular moment when "conception" purportedly occurred?
If you accept that God is “dead,” then is not the soul within that body
you call "I" equally dead? Is it not considered that the spark of life within the body
is a portion of the Supreme Soul — and that at the right moment, when your
"number comes up," or whatever it is that "sets the date of departure," your
soul, your life, will end, going back from whence it came?
As we repeatedly point out, all consideration of what LIFE, what GOD,
what SELF, what IDENTITY REALLY IS, begins with body, with item, with
thing — with education, with that which was fed into the computer and accepted
as Fact. In all cases the computer is geared to input, hence to output
"information" predicated wholly on a subjective would-be mind and its equally
nonsensical conclusions or experiences. These, purportedly, deal also in and
with the objective — always have an object in mind, always a purpose, cause,
hence effect, which brings about a new and always changing set of further
subjective notions prompting objective ones.
He who would find out if God is dead, let him turn from his computer, his
body, and what it has been tooled to report due to its intake. Let him no
longer deal in and with the information "timed" to the uttermost, both past
and future, but let him, rather. begin, as pointed out in the first chapter of this
volume — yes, let him begin, state, declare WHAT NOW IS, WHAT AMNESS IS,
WHAT BEING IS, WHAT THE PRESENT IS, in all Its NEWNESS, FRESHNESS, ORIGINAL
STATE OF NON-TIMENESS, NON-CHALLENGE, NON-OTHERNESS!
Is NOW dead? Has NOW gone somewhere? Has It been driven off? If so, by
what, when, where, why, how?
Is EXISTENCE dead? Is AMNESS dead? Not unless you are back at the old
nonsense of dealing with senses, with the computer, with time, with history!
Is REALITY dead, gone off somewhere, run out on Itself? If so, what is
left … not only what is left to worry about or strive for, but what is left to do the
worrying or the striving? That which is GENUINE, REAL, ACTUAL, EXISTENT
AS BEING IN OPERATION — COGNITION FUNCTIONING, hence, conscious of
FACTUALITY, is not dead, cut off, missing, absent. If It were, there would not even
be oblivion, for there would be nothing at all, hence nothing to even identify the
vacuity.
Those who would raise the question as to the death of LIFE, of BEING, of
IDENTITY, ACTUALITY, ALIVENESS are merely seeking for new evidence that the
struggle is worthwhile, that there is purpose in being, that there will be a reward of
sonic sort that will be commensurate with time effort put forth. They are striving to find
new definitions that are in keeping with what they consider
evolution, progression, modern evolvement. They wish to be in mode . . .be abreast
of the times, for they assume that this world is not standing still, but is expanding
out and farther out, and soon will be making its reputation among the stars.
Of course this is typical of the young ... and this world is young, in more ways
than one. It is decidedly immature, when stacked up against what assumption
would say is "time-gone-by." They who are young in this sense fail to see what is
important, dwelling entirely on trivia, their desires, on things, gadgets, baubles,
trinkets. Things are of so much more importance than BEING, REALITY,
UNDIMENSIONAL NOWNESS, ISNESS, ENTIRETY AT HAND. Identity
is considered to merely be indicative of a certain frame, covering, physical suit
being worn at the moment by the offspring of a biological act, purportedly
imprisoned within the proper garments which will enable it to survive a
short span of time!
No, things are of no importance, as our work so repeatedly emphasizes.
The would-be mentality caught within the net of a physio-chemical impression, is
not Mind, not Intelligence, not Amness-I in any sense of the word.
This personal equation, this specific computer which is built according to
certain specifications, is not genuine, not One, not Individual, not Undimensional,
not I!
Things, within the scope of the would-be computer, are purported to have
an aura of sanctity, use, identity, history, and an ultimate. That ultimate always
without exception, is the dump heap. Why? Because in accord with its "law-of-
construction" it is of "dust" and "unto dust it must return." Was it not
brought forth for the sole purpose of running the cycle, and going the way of
all flesh? Was it not heir to all that flesh is heir to? Was it not brought forth
in time, by time, and made to go through its chores according to time? Was
there, or is there ever a single moment when "time" is not supervising every
move, every reaction, every impulse of that which it conceives, produces,
includes, and ultimately excludes?
But has any of this anything to do with ACTUALITY, NOW, REALITY, TRUTH,
BEING, IDENTITY, ISNESS? Nothing at all. It never even touches REALITY at any
point, nor is it known by ACTUALITY, so why be concerned with it, over it, because
of it? To do or be so, is to deny your very PRESENT IDENTITY — is to DENY
YOUR SELF, and seem to shut your SELF AWAY FROM ALL THE GOOD THAT YOU
FOREVER NOW BE!
No, GOODNESS is not dead. REALITY is not dead. TRUTH, POWER, LOVE,
SINGLENESS, WISDOM is not dead. Regardless of how crazy the world seems to
be, how chaotic the affairs of politics appear, how disruptive society claims to be,
and the reasons behind it all — these are of no importance at all to REALITY, for
they DO NOT EXIST WITHIN ACTUALITY, TRUTH, FACT, THE PRESENT. THEY ARE
NOT GOING ON, HENCE CANNOT BE STOPPED, NOR DO THEY NEED TO HAVE
COUNTER MEASURES USED IN ORDER TO BRING THEM UNDER CONTROL. THEY ARE
NOT SPEEDING US TO THE COMPLETION OF A CYCLE, BRINGING US TO THE VERGE OF
DISRUPTION, THREATENING EXTINCTION, all in accord with a curse of prophecy,
the wage of sin, the payment from Satan, the loss of soul, nor the death of God!
To discover that God, LIFE, EXISTENCE, OMNIPRESENCE, is not like the
concoction brewed up by the theological master-minds that they might keep
their followers in bondage, fear, and superstition, does not mean that REALITY
HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH. The only discovery being made is that the god of
theology NEVER LIVED IN ACTUALITY, IN TRUTH, IN FACT!
The seekers who have chiseled away some of the fake facade which
theology has so carefully guarded, lo, these past many centuries, find naught there
but the "rock" spoken of in the Record — a cold, hard unyielding non-
sentient accumulation of solidified dust! It was always void of LIFE, WARMTH, LOVE
WISDOM, SINGLENESS, AUTHORITY. No change has occurred at all except that its
deadness is now apparent to those honest enough to judge correctly that which
they are looking at. But, remember, THAT PARTICULAR BRAND OF GOD LIFE WAS
WHOLLY A THEOLOGICAL ONE — never did it breathe forth the POWER
OF

SINGLE PURITY, UNADULTERATED ALIVENESS, INDI-

VIDUAL, UNDIMENSIONAL ALL-INCLUSIVENESS ETERNALLY HERE NOW,
UNCHANGING, UNCHALLENGED INFINITY, THE SOLE AMNESS THAT IS I.
Such ACTUALITY precludes any theological nonsense. REALITY precludes a
rock as a foundation upon which to stand, or upon which to establish anything,
not even Itself! TRUTH precludes another to preach for It, to It, or because of It.
TRUTH has no world to save, for Its only universe is Its thoughts which It is but
now conceiving-perceiving. TRUTH has no history, no fall, no void, no discovery of
otherness, an opposite or absence of Itself, a state of nothingness that needs
filling, or anything else incomplete.
Yes, the god of theology is dead, and always has been. Why? Because it
never had LIFE, ACTUALITY, OMNIPRESENT POWER, PURE UNADULTERATED SINGLE-
NESS, ENTIRENESS, LOVE, ABSOLUTE SELFHOOD.
Yes, whatever purportedly stems from a theological god, is dead. The
entirety of the six days of creation as recorded in Genesis is dead. None of it
ever has taken place. And whatever other type of creation, formation, or
transformation that has purportedly taken place in Genesis, is false throughout.
There has never been the production or creation of duality - biology, a
scheme whereby the physical world could be populated and inhabited. No "night
and day" has come into Being. No lesser light or greater light has
been formed. No history whatever exists. No prophecy or curse has happened. All
of it, including the god that supposedly gave it life, brought it about, instigated
and instituted it, is dead, totally, irrevocably, absolutely dead, in spite of what the
Supreme Court, the ruling heads of government, the prelates who depend upon a
continuity of the old nonsense, may say to the contrary.
Yes, it is natural that those who earn a living of sorts from preaching the
pap of mysticism, will scream for blood, or demand that he who challenges the
nonsense, be tossed to the lions of human opinion, but in no case does this change
the Fact that ONLY LOVE IS REAL, ONLY NOW IS PRESENT, ONLY ISNESS AM, ONLY
FACT IS OPERATIVE, ONLY INTELLIGENCE IS WISDOM, ONLY SINGLENESS IS LOVE!
The god of this world, the lust for personal power and authority, is
dead. The sway that the various forms of government have over their victims,
the dictates of this and that ism, the beliefs in body, in organs, in money, in
things, in people, in prayers, in understanding, in morals, in all manner of diets,
whether mental or physical, spiritual or intellectual —these, one and all, are dead.
They may appear to be slow in settling down, they may appear to leave their spirits
or ghosts free to walk about and haunt those who would still have "things as
they were — the good old days," but that "time" is gone, never to return.
It is on the part of so many who cling with a tenacious effort to what
has been disproved, that the struggle seems so severe and long drawn out. So
many, regardless of how obvious TRUTH IS, refuse to go along with It. They prefer
to carve out a place in "time" where they can go and meditate, think about, fret
over, and stir up a storm concerning what yesterday did, or failed to do for them,
and worry over what tomorrow may bring forth.
How many of our readers are willing to admit that YESTERDAY IS DEAD?
THAT TOMORROW IS DEAD? THAT TIME IS DEAD? THAT CAUSE IS DEAD?
THAT CREATION, MATTER, PHYSICALITY, HATE, DUALITY, LACK, MANHOOD IS
DEAD? Not many, no doubt, in spite of the FACT THAT OMNIPRESENCE ALONE IS
REAL, PRESENT, THE ONLY, and herein "time" cannot be.
How many of our readers are willing to drop all sense
of "time?" How many are willing to start WHOLLY, HONESTLY, ENTIRELY WITH NOW
ALONE? If so, what becomes of all sorts of notions concerning humanity, race, color,
creed, history, Satan, evil, disease, fear, darkness, punishment, blame, sin,
reward, cause, effect, purpose, plan, goal, ambition, resentment and the like?
How many of our readers are willing to turn their ENTIRE ATTENTION TO
AWARENESS, LOVE, PRESENT IN ALL ITS SINGLENESS AND COMPLETENESS,
and waste no more effort over things, body, conditions, effects, states, results,
money, organs, age, desires, trips, relatives, flags, parents, offsprings,
business, and such? If you are HONEST in saying you do so wish, WHAT IS
TO PREVENT YOU FROM DOING SO?
How many of us are so eager for wealth, for health, or whatever the
particular item happens to be, that we cannot keep our thought from it?
Whenever we think concerning TRUTH, we wonder how we can "apply"
Truth so as to bring about the desired result, both in quality and quantity. And
why? Because to us things are not dead, but very much alive.
No disease can hang onto one unless he keeps the disease alive by giving
it room within his experience. He must supply it with the necessary ingredients,
namely, a place to operate, time in which to operate, a state of operation,
recognition, admission. He must give all forms of evil, lack, and limitation, a
place, a cognition, before they can seem to develop, and he places within them the
seed for their own seeming propagation — this all in accord with what has been
fed into his computer-mentality via the master robot, a NEVER-ALIVEtheological
god!
This insistence that a god so ordered it, keeps the sufferer from
questioning too deeply as to whether or not the "claim" is legitimate. Merely to
"have" it is sufficient. generally. Who but a dead god could have thought
up anything so deadly, so vacuous, so utterly void of Existence that the mind which
is NOT can never discover its source or identity?
However, in TRUTH our concern is in no way connected, nor should it even be
interested in, what is NOT. We are not to trouble ourselves over the nature of a
dead god, or a god who knows death, lack, dust. OUR GOD IS LIFE ITSELF
IN OPERATION, WHOLENESS ITSELF IN OPERATION, ACTION ITSELF IN OPERATION,
ETERNITY NOW IN ABSOLUTE UNCHALLENGED OPERATION. Herein is naught beside,
no other at all, hence no doubt, no call for faith, no application required, no
demonstration to be brought about, no fall, no rise, no wait, no penalty, no
curse, no time, no source, no outcome - there is ONLY TOTALITY TOTALLY BEING
COMPLETE ENTIRETY NOW, 'HENCE UTTER GOODNESS, WHOLENESS,
PERFECTION OMNIPOTENTLY FUNCTIONING TO THE FULL OF WISDOM'S ABSOLUTE
SATISFACTION FOREVER. THIS, AND THIS ALONE, IS THE SINGLE IDENTITY-I YOU
BE (I AM), AND THERE IS NONE, AND NAUGHT, BESIDE. He who "starts" with THIS
FACT, will behold the ACCURACY OF THIS STATEMENT, but he who would begin
with intellectualism, will "end up" even as he began, namely, in a whirl.
Only in oblivion can death be found, but where is oblivion? Who has it?
Who knows it? Who can actually define the ABSENCE OF EXISTENCE THE
OPPOSITE OF ACTUALITY, THE REVERSE OF BEING, THE STATUS OF NON-
BEING, THE IDENTITY OF NO-IDENTITY? Who or what can discuss non-Life other
than to behold that LIFE PRECLUDES VACUITY, PRECLUDES NON-
EXISTENCE, NON-IDENTITY, NON-BEING, or any loss, separation,
or tampering with TRUTH.
The only reason we even mention death, and the conditions
purportedly dependent thereon, is to show how impossible such can be
and is, in the light of TRUTH.
"But," someone will ask, "do you not admit that a body can die,
that the soul can depart, that life can go forth from the frame wherein it
has operated, lo, these many years''
The answer is an unequivocal NO, WE DO NOT ADMIT ANY SUCH
NONSENSE. We do, however, admit that he who begins with nonsense will
conclude as he began, namely, with nonsense. He who starts with body
instead of LIFE - starts with a mist-conceived "thing" instead of TRUTH —
begins with a computerized picture instead of FACT. He who argues for
fiction i n lieu of ACTUALITY, to him chaos is natural and PERFECTION is
impossible.
Do not begin with effect, with the senses, with education, with
reaction, with the product of history, if you would know what IS. ISNESS,
NOWNESS, AMNESS cannot be found in "time," or history. All one will find
in history is a hi-story, a tall tale, a supposition, an assumption. As
fiction, history is fine, but ONLY AS FICTION. Far too many assume it to be
Fact, and thus Truth becomes, to them, mere fiction.
HISTORY IS DEAD, FOR IT NEVER HAD LIFE, ACTUALITY, AMNESS,
ISNESS. PROPHECY IS DEAD, FOR IT, LIKE THE OPPOSITE END OF THE
MEASURING STICK (THE PAST), IS DEAD, FOR UTTERLY OUTSIDE OF
AMNESS, BEING, ISNESS, ALIVENESS!
LIFE IS NOT DEAD, not past, not yet to come into being. LIFE IS
TOTALITY ALIVE TO ITS ENTIRET Y, CONSCIOUSLY BEING ALL WISDOM, ALL
ACTION, ALL FUNCTION, ALL PERFECTION, ALL AWARENESS, ALL SUBSTANCE
OR "STUFF" THAT BEING IS. LIFE IS WHOLLY ALIVE TO THE FULL OF ITS
ABSOLUTE POTENTIAL, RIGHT HERE, NOW, EVERYWHERE, AND THERE IS
NO DEGREE, NO DIMENSION, NO MEASURING, EITHER IN QUANTITY OR
QUALITY, THAT WHICH IS INFINITE ENTIRETY FULLY COGNIZANT OF ITS
WHOLENESS, ONENESS, SINGLE PURITY, ABSOLUTE ENTIRETY. THERE ARE NO
OTHERS. THERE ARE, THEREFORE, NO SUGGESTIONS OF TIME,
AGE, EVOLUTION, CHANGE, CHALLENGE, OPPOSITION, DOUBT, FEAR,
SUPERSTITION, SIN, EVIL, SATAN, PAST, FUTURE, WAIT, NEED,
REQUIREMENT, PUNISHMENT, REWARD, DUALISM . . . THERE ARE
NO ATTRIBUTES, NO CHARACTERISTICS, NO QUALITIES, NO DEGREES OF
UTTERNESS, NO COMPARISONS, NO INTENTIONS, NO PLANS, NO
COMPLETION, BUT RATHER, ABSOLUTE COMPLETE PERFECTION PRESENT.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT INFINITY HAS AN END, A BOTTOM, OR
DIMENSION. FAR FROM IT. INFINITE INTELLIGENCE WILL BE "PLUMBING"
THE DEPTHS OF ITS OWN BEING FOREVER NOW, for want of a better way
of putting it, BUT never can PERFECTION "BECOME" MORE PERFECT, OR
WHOLENESS BECOME MORE WHOLE, TOTAL, SINGLE, ONE, ALL!
No, LIFE IS NOT DEAD! THE BEING YOU BE (I AM) IS NOT DEAD,
NOR CAN THIS IDENTITY, THIS LIFE, THIS INDIVIDUAL INFINITE
AWARENESS-CALLED-I-AM, EVER "PASS ON INTO A FUTURE!"
To see this, you MUST begin with LIFE ITSELF, FOR IT IS
LIFE BEING ITSELF THAT IS I, AND THERE IS NONE BESIDE. TO BEHOLD
TRUTH YOU MUST BEGIN WITH THAT TRUTH. ALL ELSE IS BEGINNING WITH
FICTION, HENCE ITS SO-CALLED CONCLUSIONS MUST BE FICTIONAL.
WHAT ELSE? TO BEGIN WITH "BODY" OR WITH "PERSONALITY" OR
"HISTORY" OR "TIME," IS TO BEGIN WITH FICTION, WITH A COMPUTER,
WITH A ROBOT, WITH NONSENSE, AND NOT A SINGLE CON CLUSION
ARRIVED AT BUT WHAT WILL BE SUBJECTIVE. EVERY "CONCLUSION" WILL
SUBJECT YOU, AS THE "SUBJECT," TO MORE OF THE SAME
NONSENSE, UNTIL NOT A GLIMMER OF ISNESS WILL SEEM TO LIGHTEN
YOUR DAY!
He who begins with FACT, LIFE AS IT IS, THE WHOLENESS OF
SINGLENESS, ALLNESS, ONENESS, PURITY HERE NOW, finds he no longer
is subject to the subjective — is not being subjected to the fiction of
disease, disaster, dementia, demonology, decay and death — he is
no longer being the victim of what seems his own
dilemmas, determinations, demands, and demented flounderings — he
is no longer a specimen on the table of matter under the knife of time,
anesthetized by education, and later on pushed into the recovery room of
purgatory!
He who starts with WHAT MIND KNOWS ITSELF TO BE WITH WHAT
LIFE IS HERE AND NOW BEING ... WITH WHAT ISNESS NOW IS ... WITH
THE TOTALITY OF WHAT INFINITY CONSCIOUSLY IS ALIVE TO BEING —
yes, h e wh o begi n s wi th TRUTH AS THE FACT IT IS, cannot continue to
flounder about in the ocean of confusion that passes as present-day
society. He must discover that ONLY ACTUALITY IS PRESENT, AND ALL OF IT
IS GOOD, SINGLE, UNDEFILED, UNCHALLENGED POW ER, AUTHORITY,
ABSOLUTE WISDOM. HE DOES NOT TIMIDLY MAKE HIS STATEMENT OF
FACT, BUT WITH ALL THE CERTAINTY THAT IT IS SO, BACKED BY
THE UNCHALLENGED POWER THAT WISDOM IS!
No one can actually INTELLIGENTLY BEHOLD WHAT IS WRITTEN
HERE, AND HONESTLY ADMIT THAT LIFE IS WHAT IT IS, NAMELY, WHOLLY
PRESENT, ALIVE, CONSCIOUS, INFINITE, COMPLETE, HENCE THE
SOLE SUBSTANCE, THE NON-SUBJECTIVE ONE INCLUSIVE MIND OR
AWARENESS, HENCE THE SOLE IDENTITY, THE INDIVIDUAL INFINITY OF
TOTALITY, and continue to be "concerned" with the world as it "looks to
be."
No, one cannot be HONEST WITH WHAT LIFE IS, and continue to
have It dead in spots, missing in spots, present in a mere degree here and
there, nor can he put It out in "time," assuming one must wait for It.
Equally, he cannot put It i nto a body, an organ, a thing, and then be
afraid It will go out at any moment and leave him dead!
LIFE IS WHOLLY SPIRIT BEING, AND CAN BE FOUND NOWHERE
ELSE, FOR IT IS NOWHERE ELSE, NOWHEN ELSE, NOHOW ELSE, NOWHY
ELSE. LIFE ALONE IS ITSELF, AND IS DECIDEDLY ALIVE NOW IN ITS
TOTALITY, AND KNOWS IT. THIS LEAVES NO OTHER MIND AT ALL, HENCE
NO OTHER THAT "NEEDS" TO KNOW LIFE, NOR THAT CANKNOW LIFE! Are
you still trying to behold LIFE with a personal, a computer or sense -
mind ... a gift you received from, or were started out with by biology? Are
you still determined to "have-been-born?" Are you still clinging to parents,
a date in time when it all "happened?" Are you still clinging to
the nonsense that you were a small bark "launched on the sea
of humanity" away back somewhere? If so, you are a foreigner to LIFE,
YOUR VERY OWN SELF, and it is high time you got to KNOW YOUR SELF
AS THE SOLE SELF YOU (I AM) BE!
Every single thought, experience, item that passed as
your identity in-body-as-a-human, is and was, dead throughout. NONE OF IT
TOOK PLACE. YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN A BODY, AN ITEM, A THING. YOU
HAVE NEVER BEEN ONE OF THE ITEMS OF WHICH INTELLIGENCE
IS AWARE. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY LIFE IN ANY MOVEMENT,
MOTION, REACTION, ASSUMPTION, SUPERSTITION, TIME, OR HISTORY,
REGARDLESS OF WHAT SO-CALLED AUTHORITY HAS TO SAY TO THE
CONTRARY.
Only that which is WHOLLY TRUE OF LIFE PRESENT IN ITS
ENTIRETY, IS SO, AND THIS ALONE IS YOUR SOLE IDENTITY NOW. LET
US STICK WITH THIS.

Alfred Aiken