7: ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM: SAME GOD, DIFFERENT PROPHETS.

"There is only a Human God, though many prophets have perceived him"

The nature of Religions

The 3 religious cultures, that now fight each other, converted to fundamentalist inquisitions , started as a dream of a better world, in an agricultural age, based in a concept today long ago forgotten: the idea of a Civilization as an organic body of History in which each believer is a cell of History. In those social organisms the verbal Prophet, and his ethic verbal laws were the equivalent to the nervous system in our societies, that harmonizes with his ethic mandates the behavior of those social cells into a community. A religious community, in this manner can build a world based in peace and love=maximum communication by sharing goods and feelings between the verbal cells of the Community.

That concept which still permeates Islam, and Israel, the religious part of Judaism, is indeed the bondage concept that explains the existence of civilizations in which the individual submits himself to the will of the community, for which it sacrifices its life.

Let us then understand the zenith of the Jewish and Islamic cultures, when they were cultures based in ethic laws, that overcame the old tradition of war and monetary corruption of the Semite tribal races. It is worth to return to that age, to understand that as America has fought for a human paradise, today seemingly lost, also the Semite people did understand at certain point of history that love not hate, forgiveness not revenge, Social evolution, not the evolution of weapons, was the correct path towards the collective survival of the human being.

The organisms of history. The carbolife Earth.

Regardless of your human or animal condition, as a carbolife being, made of your internal 'quantic units', water, carbohydrates, proteins, fat, you have the same structure and the same need for organic energy... We already described that organism tied by networks of energy [blood, salvia systems] and networks of information [chemical, endocrine, nervous systems]. Who provides them with their organic energy?

The next level of social organization in the living the Universe, the 'Living Earth', 'Gaia'.

Indeed, that organic carbolife energy is provided to plants and animals by the water networks of 'Gaia', the carbolife Earth, which is the ecosystem/network organism in which every animal, plant and human being, during 99% of our existence as a species, have survived.

The I Earth, the Earth of carbolife is indeed an organic ecosystem. Its natural organic networks, are agricultural fields and natural forests, animal ecosystems, and oceans, clean air and fresh water, today under pressure by the new Organic Ecosystem of Economical humans and machines.

- The carbolife Earth is an organism made of herds of animal beings related through networks of energy [river systems and wild life around them], and networks of information [light, atomic smells, etc.] Any group of herds forms an 'animal ecosystem'. Such ecosystems are like 'loose organisms' where around water-energy veins, 'cells' of carbolife live and survive, as the cells of a body do, according to their individual capacity to process water-based energy.

Those herds live in relative harmony to each other for hundreds of millions of years, in which a process of 'informative evolution', took place, as the networks of light-information provoked the evolution of organs of information, eye-based brains, that displaced plants as top predator systems of the earth.

We moved from a plant earth that only perceived light as energy [photosynthesis] to an animal earth that used better the networks of light information, thanks to its eyes, to a human earth, in which that information was further processed through verbal networks.

So from plants, top predator cells of the carbolife ecosystem, we moved into a world of animals with increasingly more sophisticated brains, till reaching human beings. Human beings changed again the dominant informative way of processing light, and invented words.

And words became the 'informative networks' that organized communities of human beings, gathered around 'water veins', into the first social organisms of mankind, the river civilizations. The law is indeed the verbal nervous system of the human society. Legal mandates control the life and death of human cells, motivate or forbid certain actions, and through those actions mobilize the social body and control the human ecosystem.

Without laws we cannot understand historic organisms. Laws rule in an invisible manner the acts of people, forbidding certain acts and encouraging others. In this manner as the nervous orders of the brain guide the cells of the body, and move it at pleasure, the law designs the acts of people and controls society.

In this way we can also talk of certain humans, verbal masters, who create laws, as the neuron-brains that create the nervous orders, do. Who are they? Religious prophets and priests, lawyers, and kings who gave law, courts and parliaments who give law today. They hold the power of societies. They are the brain of social systems. Hence the importance of politics to rule properly a human organism. We can then easily establish the elements of a human social, historic organism, that has controlled mankind for 99% of our existence, in harmony with nature and the organic laws of the Universe: Individual cells: Human beings.

Networks of information: ethic and politic laws.

Networks of energy: Systems of reproduction of basic goods, food, farming, cattle-ranching, hunting, creation of simple tools.

We call each of those systems, a Culture or civilization: A mass of human beings, ruled by networks of legal information [political and religious institution] and networks of reproduction of organic energy [property, economical goods, food].

Politics and economics [understood here in a wider sense, to include systems of reproduction of goods, prior to the industrial age] are in that sense the two basic networks of a human system. Their importance is of course enormous, because those two systems, rule the life and death of human beings....

Cultures and civilizations are the biggest organisms of History. They have grown through an entire scale of historic organisms, from simple genetic organisms [racial tribes in which words were still secondary to genetic information] to religious organisms based totally in word-networks [Christian, Buddhist, Muslim civilizations] where each believer is a cell of an organic system, where the informative network is the church and the books of revelation.

Jump from man to society: the networks of historic civilizations

The key word to understand those civilizations is the 'social network'. They are the essence of life organisms, including the organisms of history. You need a herd of cells belonging to the same species, DNA-cells, stars, atoms, molecules or human beings. If we see them together we call it a body, if we see them loose, we call it a wave, or society, but it is the same thing. Those herds will create networks of information and hunt together as a group, stronger than the individual preys. Those preys then are shared by the herd, which builds a network of energy to give each cell a part of the capture. So the individuals die away, and the social herds survive. Finally the tightest herds, become bodies, creating a new being, that no longer feels as a herd but as a macro-individual. And the process starts again. So quarks gathered into Nucleons, nucleons into atoms, atoms into molecules, molecules into cells, cells into bodies, and bodies into ecosystems, and societies. A nation is one of such organisms. Verbal and visual information shape its brains, and we humans are its cells. If you extend that concept to the entire planet, 'Gaia', as biologists call it, then according to that definition, we are the cells of Gaia.

Each animal, each plant is a cell of the living planet.

Imagine Gaia's cells: herds, roaming on the savanna, forests, banks of fish on the seas of Gaia. Her networks of energy and information are the rivers and seas, the arteries of Gaia, around which her cells live. The atmosphere are her lungs. The mechanical sounds, chemical smells and light-images those cells use to perceive, to inform themselves, are Gaia's networks of information.

If we split Gaia, in different human ecosystems, divided by natural frontiers, we can talk of a series of small social organisms, nations and civilizations. In that sense we can define a Macrocosmic human Organism as a Social Ecosystem composed of human beings, carbolife energy, and verbal and visual networks of information based in the human mind [visual arts, and verbal thought, religions, laws, and literature]: Such ecosystems are like 'loose organisms' where around water-energy veins, 'cells' of human life live and survive, centered in their homes as DNA molecules survive in the home-cells of a body.

To do so they need to create a natural environment, in which human food [carbolife food] can be collected, where every cell has basic human property [homes, home products, clothing]; where the networks of social information based in verbal thought [laws, ethics], can run all cells and solve colliding interests. Where a collective brain [government] solves those social problems, and encourages a healthy social body, promoting Human goods, organizing the 'social movements of the cell', to that aim, and promoting collective goods [health-care, education, verbal learning, arts]. All those conditions create a healthy organism of history as they create a healthy individual organism.

Words are the 'informative networks' that organizes communities of human beings, gathered around 'water veins', into the first social organisms of mankind, the river civilizations. Thus a healthy historic society is a social organism is made of human citizens, ruled by networks of verbal information, laws, ethic systems, etc. Those networks of verbal information, of 'verbal science', is what philosophers called a religion, an anthropomorphic God.

The metaphor of western Gods: The brain and the body of History.

Very few people today understand the metaphor of an ethic God and his laws of behavior, as the verbal brain, of the organism of History, of mankind... Scientists laugh at religion, without even knowing what they are talking about. If we use instead of religious words, a biological perspective, is easier to understand the Humanistic concept behind Western religions, that equal God and Mankind (different from the Scientific concept of Eastern religions that equal God and the Universe).

The canon of ethics. The survival of civilizations.

We conclude that ethic books, prophetic books are the fundamental 'nervous-informative network' of civilizations. They are truly the mind that guides societies and their cellular individuals, through 'verbal ideologies' about what is right or wrong to do. Today their role is played by money which gives through salaries and prices, those orders to 'economic humans'.

In the case of human informative networks, the verbal mandates of societies; were expressed through literature, in its most complex ways, philosophy, laws and religions. Let us now consider the 3 ages of evolution of those social, human religions that make of each human social organism a God of the community, protector of the survival of that community.

The 3 ages of anthropomorphic religions.

Western, anthropomorphic religions evolved verbal networks of Human ethics from a primitive age of small, tribal societies [racial Gods] to an age of Human Gods, to the final, social understanding of God, within the context of the organism of History:

The understanding of social religions is now possible thanks to bio-history that finally associates objective and anthropomorphic religions, establishing a theory of god=History as a social organism, to which all human beings belong.

An organism ruled by biological, social laws, that the human verbal nervous system of history explains bio-logically through the concepts of good=what favors our survival, and Evil=Anti-livE=what extinguishes us. It is now up to man, once the evolution of Religious thought has been completed to establish the kingdom of God=History on Earth, or let history die in the hands of the rival Economic organism. The 3 ages of Anthropomorphic Gods.

Thus we talk of 3 phases of Wor[l]d evolution:

- The age of Tribal History, the age of genetic Gods, belonging to partial tissues of History. The first social groups become self-centers of the Universe, struggling to survive against other human groups. In this manner the first religions appear, mixing ideological concepts of social evolution based in words, with genetic concepts. The oldest anthropomorphic religions of mankind belong to that kind of model. They are still primitive versions of social verbal evolution, that do not distinguish between race and culture, genetics and 'memetics', the social process of learning through verbal thought. Since such religions are primitive version of the Natural Law of Species [love those who are equal to you], most of them became extinguished by wars and holocausts, that confronted tribal Gods against tribal Gods. Finally the evolution of those primitive religions [around 500 BC] brought the understanding of the equality of all men as individuals belonging to the same species and subject to the Universal Law of Social evolution.

- It was the age of Metaphysical History, or age of Oikoumene, Human Gods, supported in the mind of its believers, by the imitation of the same ideas, the same actions, and the same beliefs, to that of the original prophet. By imitation humans became 'clonic minds' of the original prophet, creating a mental network of simultaneous thought similar to the mental networks you experience in a mass, or a concert, as you hear the same voice or song...

Metaphysical Gods

The existence of such networks beyond the 'light-space your perceive', is not the subject of this book. Yet mystique experiences and the existence of dark mater, of a 90% of reality you do not perceive; and the collective effect of social gods in the mind of believers, make us thing that such Gods-verbal networks did have real existence and acted upon its mino-cellular units with the same capacity that your body acts through your cells . In that sense Allah, or Christ-God did exist in as much as millions of men believed in the ideas, in the mind of Mhmd, and Christ, the verbal word, the son of 'God', the cellular unit replicated in books and art, that gave origin to the body of Allah, or the body of Christ, the sum of believers that created the social civilizations. To western religions, Societies and civilizations, the main units of historical analysis become organisms composed of cellular herds [human beings] which communicate through networks of information [words and laws] and networks of energy [agriculture, organic territories, roads, rivers, etc.]. In such translation of philosophical terminology, we conclude that what history has traditionally called a "Human Verbal God" with ethical laws (God became the verb and inhabited among us) can be interpreted as an organic network of verbal information. So as the brain is the God of your cells that obey the brain nervous messages, the Word and the Ethic Laws, become the God of human societies that believers obey. We do not argue in this article the existence of that collective brain of cells, since cells in the body do not see the brain but only the electric message. So we do not see the collective subconscious, the 'real brain of societies', that might or might not exist as an individual personality - after all 90% of reality is dark matter we do not perceive. This is not important to a Historian. What matters is the real existence of that collective subconscious and that ethic, verbal, nervous message that the believers of a religion worship and adapts the form of a verbal book of Revelation - call it the ten commandments, the Gospel, or the Koran. So in Western religions the Word is sacred, and the Books of Words, the Books of God are also sacred, since they regulate the collective social organism, as the brain regulates the collective social body. Hence the passion for words of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and the great battle those religions have constantly against the rival languages of images, idols, Golden calves, icons, and now in Islam, statues... As a nervous system connects and organizes the cells of a body, "God" connects and organizes a mass of human beings, individually known as "believers". Not surprisingly we find that Islam and Christianity [Ibn Khaldun, early mystics, Saint Agustine] have reached similar conclusions. Both believe that the transmitters of such networks of collective information are the books of Revelation common to all believers that harmonize mass-cellular experiences. Since human networks of information are verbal ethic laws; the Word becomes then the god of man, his social guide and network of information. As Saint John expressed so well: "God, the verb, became man and inhabited among us". The Koran is the sacred word of God, his ideas. In Christianity the word becomes God in the mind of his human son Christ, the prophet who has the body of man, and the verb-mind of God. In him The Word reached His fulfillment. In him the word expresses the Human Laws of Social evolution, through love=sensory communication, and sharing of human goods between humans. A prophet is a verbal master, a son of God=the word, the informative organ of the collective species. Mystics say that the community of believers shapes the "body of Christ," and the Gospel is his mind. Muslims say that the "body of Muslims" is "Islam" and Koran His brain. In both cultures the Verbal language has to control the corruption of money, and the harm that weapons and visual languages do to humans. If that goal is achieved, history (in the words of Saint Agustine) could evolve guided by Ethics towards the perfection of such a "body," into a "citadel of saints," where all ethical words will be obeyed, and the 'body' of believers will be in harmony with its informative and energy organs - the carbo-earth paradise. Then history [the passing of time] will come to an end because man will exist for ever, will not be extinguished by the tree of science. History will become immortal without war. Man will be happy. God=The Word will reign supreme, because we all will understand through the Word the nature of ourselves, and the Universe. Now with bio-history the thesis of western religions have become proved scientifically. They were right. They were the prove that Social evolution is the law of the Universe. Go[l]d religions and abstract, digital science were too shallow, image-driven, simplistic. Reason and faith are now one. And yet nobody knows because words are no longer heard... The metaphor of God in western religions: the organic body of history Indeed Western religions, provide the best metaphor for the organic body of History. Both Christian and Muslim religions developed their concept of "God" as a "body" of human believers, united by a "verbal message," the book of ethical revelation, the Gospel or Koran, which is God in itself [the Word became man and inhabited among us]. In that body, the central nervous system is "verbal thought," the cells of the body are human "believers," ruled and organized by verbal laws; and the energy of the body are human goods [Carbolife Goods and Nature - the Genesis-Paradise]. Christian theologians discuss the concept of a biological body of History, with a precision that astonishes a modern "bio-historian." In both the Christian and Muslim religions a "biological vision" of a verbal society appears. Verbal thought is the "spirit" or informative network of that body. Each human is a cell of the body of God=History, each mind is the "temple of the spirit=the word". Those ethical words should rule our informative behavior. As the Gospel said, if humans believed in love and socially responsible behavior; if they controlled weapons and money, then Man could survive forever. "He who believes in me [the Word], will not die for ever." The body of History could indeed be eternal, if machines or war did not kill men and wipe out our civilizations. Yet if man "eats of the tree of science=technology, certainly he will die." The paradise of carbolife, our natural energy, will die, if man continues to work constructing The Metal-earth. Genesis, The Gospel and The Koran, the informative Gods of humankind, all show an organic vision of body of History, and its human cells, similar to that of modern ecologism and bio-history. Such Gods reached its zenith during the metaphysical age [from -500 BC till 1602] shaping the acts and beliefs of millions of men. Today they still survive, though they are in a third age, fighting for survival against the rival networks of metal-minds, and money, which prey on their word, on ethics, on human solidarity, on the networks of social, verbal existence.

Mankind as God:Social religions

- Finally as a consequence of the growth of the rival ecosystem of History, the bio-economic ecosystem, its machines, networks of financial information and Company-mothers, in the third age of History, new Social Gods evolve from the ideals of social solidarity proper of Oikoumene Gods. Those social Gods have to develop theories and strategies of survival against the growth of the bio-economical organism and the destructive effects of machines and money in human social organisms. Marxism is the main of those Gods, a theory of verbal nature that try to defend mankind against the control of human societies by monetary societies. Marxism becomes in this manner a modern religion supported in the mind of its believers, yet without metaphysical form. Socialism, Anarchism, modern versions of Christianism, Social-Democracies, social R=evolutions {French r=evolution, Russian R=evolution, 60s r=evolution], ecologism, and finally bio-history are all versions of this final attempt of mankind to evolve history into a global organism based in love=maximum communication among human beings. In each of the 3 ages of Anthropomorphic Religions of God=Mankind, we find that the Wor[l]d through the mouth of his prophets, have known the laws of social evolution - even when the prophetic perception of those Laws is limited by lack of communication with all human races, in the first age of tribal religions.

Reason and faith.

Science and religion seem to be opposed. Science is based in reason, religion is based in faith. Faith has always been despised by science, which affirms that supremacy of logic reason and sensorial evidence. Science affirms that if something cannot be understood or perceived it can not exist. And since science cannot perceive God, God must not exist. Religion on the other had considers reason, unable to explain the nature of faith and God. Religion considers the logic of science, too simple to understand in depth the Universe of God. Religion considers that the Universe is organized by a more complex logic that the Cartesian Logic of Science. Religion also considers that science does not perceive all reality, and therefore it is possible that God exists in the realm of phenomena that the instruments of science miss. In such vision of reality, the logic of science is too simple, too limited for their need of 'metal-sensorial evidence'. This today is proved by the existence of dark matter. So the bio-logic or Homo-logic method is much more accurate. That method tells us that all what exists evolves into social organisms. Social organisms which might be invisible for the smaller species, as an atom does not perceive a planet, and a cell does not perceive a brain... Yet levels, planes of social existence that occur and affect the different particles of which they are composed. A human god in that sense exists and affects the behavior of the human believers that create it, as a social, higher plane of reality. A p orbital composed of several simple orbitals exist and controls to a certain extent the movement of the smaller units. Those smaller Units give part of his energy to create the p-macro orbital. So happens with a mass of believers. They give up part of their individual freedom to shape a collective social order, a formal social structure that directs them. That social structure made of habits, works of art, and ethic acts, based all of them in neuronal structures of thought, beliefs, that each cell-human being hold as supreme, is a human god. Because Gods only exist in the Wor[l]d of the Prophet, and the social networks of actions enacted by 'truth believers'. The body of that God is the entire civilization, the human bodies, works of art, land and human creations, shaped to the image and resemblance of the ethic and aesthetic mandates of God, the wor[l]d-brain of the civilization.

Definition of Religion

So we can define the concept of a religion, as a series of Ethic truths=Words, that create a human macro-organism, made to the image and resemblance of man, thanks to the actions of individuals that obey ethic Words: A human religion is a set of Word mental structures, of ethic nature, that guide the actions of a mass of believers. Those truths, based in the Universal Laws of Survival of Organisms, are regarded as absolute, and guide all other acts of the Human society. We call that set of moral=collective survival laws that cannot be breached under penalty of social extinction, a 'Religion of the Wor[l]d'. In this manner a religion acts as the social brain of the organism which guides all the actions of societies and creates the artistic goods, actions and penalties that control the society and ensure its harmonic working as a single organism.