Cosmophilosophy
CALENDAR OF FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, ORUS FESTIVAL – 1st to 5th of January
The Sixth Commandment is honored until the third day, then the Third Commandment (Sinver) is celebrated for the following two days. The green Orus leaf, together with the Orange colored Sinver leaf, are the decorations for this holiday.
FESTIVAL OF LOVE AND PAINLESS DEATH, RUESSIT FESTIVAL – 11th to 13th of April
Both the First and Last (7th) Commandments of Cosmophilosophy are celebrated. The yellow heart of the Amat Mayna Flower (representing love) and the blue leaf (representing death) are the only decorations during this celebration.
FESTIVAL OF HEALTH AND INTER-COSMIC UNITY, SUTO FESTIVAL – 1st to 15th of August
The last days of the festival are dedicated to Xasni-celebrations in honor of inter-cosmic peace, friendship and religious unity. The golden leaf of the Amat Mayna flower is at all times shown – in all the homes and public places – as a reminder of the gold rule. (The "Golden Rules" of health and peace.)
FESTIVAL OF TRUTH AND TALENT, ENIT FESTIVAL – 25th of November to 25th of December
The Second Commandment (Sitla) is honored during one entire month, together with the Fifth Commandment (Atas). These are the basic and positive commandments of Cosmophilosophy. (ENIT is not as much a festival or holiday as it is a period of religious encouragement and self-education, specially for the younger people. During the entire month the red Sitla leaf and white Atas leaf are flown within the center of a green flag.)
COSMOPHILOSOPHY AND ITS FESTIVALS
By Ludwig Pallmann
Of all the Seven Commandments of Cosmophilosophy, my sympathies are with the Sixth Commandment and the festival which is celebrated in honor of the Sixth Commandment on a planet far away from Earth. The Sixth Commandment, called Orus, states: "You shall undo the sins against others and yourself without delay, and respect the laws of Cosmophilosophy." In order to honor this Commandment, the Itibi Rayans at the beginning of each year, celebrated the festival of Orus, which is also the festival of Sinver, after the third day. The festival itself, Xiti told me, lasts about five days of our time. As I mentioned, if we study the Seven Commandments, we are surprised at their interwoven logic. What, for instance, would the festival of Orus be without the festival of Sinver? What would the reason be for a Sixth Commandment without the Third Commandment?
What does the Sixth Commandment tell us, besides its broad human touch in ordering us to undo our sins? Or the Orus festival?
It tells us something of the most fundamental emotions of normal man, it tells us of the emotional pattern of nature itself.
Nature, as my friends were able to explain to me at their biological research plantation, is extremely careful about committing sin – in the jungle this means attack. The consequences of sin are not enjoyable. Those who do not understand these laws of nature according to their functions are very often the victims of their own mistakes: not after life, not in another world, but right here.
At the festival of Orus, the Itibi Rayans celebrate the human progress and evolution over the necessary to attack. We have come closer to God and no longer do we need to attack in order to eat. The main festival of vegetarian belief. During this festival the finest foods vegetative origin are offered and people invite their friends and relatives to these banquets. If you come to think about it, our friends have made a wonderful thing out of the fundamental emotions of normal men: A festival to celebrate not only the Sixth and third Commandments ,but also a higher civilization every year celebrates its victory over brutality and former historical predicaments. The Orus festival can therefore be considered a triumph over war and superstition, hatred and contempt. A true festival of human evolution.
In order to make it clear that the Orus festival includes the Sinver Commandment as well, the children and younger people on Itibi Ra take it to their hearts to decorate what they call the Flower of Amat Mayna, the six-leaf symbol of Cosmophilosophy. (Not to be compared with the symbol of creation.)
This symbol of Cosmophilosophy represents the Seven Commandments in the form of a flower, with the First Commandment being the center and heart of the flower, with six different colored leaves, each representing a different commandment.
As the Orus festival includes the Sinver Commandment (which is symbolized by the orange colored leaf) both the green Orus leaf and orange Sinver leaf are specially decorated during this festival.
The heart of the Amat Mayna flower represents the most important of all the Commandments: The First Commandment.
The festival of this Commandment, called the Festival of Ruessit, is celebrated together with the festival the Ruessit-fin Commandment, which says: "You shall not let others die in pain."
During this shortest of all Itibi Rayan festivals, people visit the sick and old people. It is also a memorial for the dead.
The Ruessit festival, which Satu Ra told me about, made me think very deeply indeed. Euthanasia – mercy killing – has always roused emotional storms wherever it has been discussed on Earth. It has never, as far as I was aware, been practiced among civilized communities. Yet here were the Itibi Rayans, the most highly civilized of all peoples I had encountered, writing into their Commandments the doctrine of Ruessit and Ruessit-fin (both words are substitutes for Itibi Rayan words impossible to write phonetically).
This could mean but one thing – besides many others – that because of the fear of death, a religious law exists in the cosmos which prohibits the dying in pain. I asked my friends about this and I was told that this fear of death is a thing of the past on their planet. Because of their deeper knowledge of biology and specially as far as botany and vegetarian life is concerned, they have a great knowledge of pain-killing drugs and medicines. Their span of life, far greater than the oldest of human beings on many sub-developed planets, is due not only to their knowledge of these medicines, but mostly because of the security of feeling and emotion this First Commandment offers to all.
When I suggested that on our planet many people die because of being afraid of death, my friend smiled about this paradox of human behavior and explained that many wars, many sicknesses, and a great deal of our misery is caused because of this fear. That the Itibi Rayans had a much less complicated approach to death I was able to observe for myself.
Talking about euthanasia, Satu Ra mentioned that they rarely have the necessity to keep this law. In hopeless cases of extreme agony and pain, those in need of euthanasia are given the pain-killing tablets to ease their last hours. Analyzing this correctly, it can hardly be called euthanasia as the Itibi Rayans leave it up to their patients to decide on their own destiny. They can take the tablets or leave them. Those who use this method, my friends say, are wishing to die in dignity and we would not call them sinners and have them condemned socially. As a matter of fact, Itibi Rayans would be breaking the law to take the right from a human being to die without dignity. O them it would be hypocritical to condemn a person to a term of misery and pain, even a lifetime of such torment, because of hopeless disease and a disinclination to let him do what is natural.
The third and most happy of all religious festivals on Itibi Ra is the festival of Enit, which is the one month long celebration and holiday season in honor of both the Second and Fifth Commandments. During the Enit festival, the red Sitla leaf of the Amat Mayna flower, together with the white Atas leaf, is specially honored and decorated. Actually, this Enit festival is some kind of an inter-cosmic carnival, combined with the greatest sporting events ever having been recorded in the memory computers of the cosmos. During these days of general happiness, the colors of the Amat Mayna flowers reign over the entire planet. (A red and white flag is also flown at all sporting events.)
On the old planet Itibi Ra, my friends insisted that the festival of Enit was a truly orthodox celebration, dedicated to work, effort and inter-cosmic principles, with people still taking a hard look at themselves and others.
But on Itibi Ra II all this changed. Planet Itibi Ra II being situated in the center of what we call the Milky Way and being about five months cosmic-ray time off from our planet, does have a similar nature as planet Earth. The Enit festival, Mr. Satu Ra pointed out, like our Christmas, falls in the colder season of the Itibi Rayan year, which is one month shorter than our year. But in spite of the colder season, the Enit festival is mostly an outdoor festival, because the colder season on Itibi Ra is also the dry season. During the festival many sporting events take place. It is a wonderful time for the younger people, Xiti said. They all flock to their beautiful health centers, musical "sit-ins" and their huge picnics and excursions.
During these events the great talent selecting games are played, and this is considered a rather serious side of the Enit games. Many youngsters during these meetings discuss their aptitudes, desires, character, mentality, etc ., etc., and are helped by others, and by the computer systems, to make a preliminary selection of a future career. In a way, they are playing out an adult situation, behaving quite naturally, also where love is concerned. During these meetings many youngsters become men and many a girl becomes the first love-mate of her boyfriend.
When Satu Ra told me about this original pattern of free sexuality I wanted to know more about the erotic behavior of his people, and he told me. I had wanted to include these notes within this edition, but the first publisher who had read the "incredible sexual situation on another planet" had seriously advised me not to have this printed.
Actually, all I wanted to do was to describe the very healthy and natural behavior of another civilization. I have no ambition to become a write of sexual thrills, nor have I had in my mind to inflict on my readers great literary style.
When I came back from my last visit to Lima and little Dolores, I thought of the tremendous differences in environment on our planet; also as concerns our festivals. They are never the same. I mean really the same, from one country to the next, even if they should be celebrated because of the same religion. What the Itibi Rayans have done by uniting their entire planet in one and the same religion with the same festivals and celebrations is, in my opinion, one of the main reasons for their social and political progress.
I have always liked to think about our sentimental religious festivals on earth as the self-imposed stop on cruelty and war. I am sure that if all nations had the same celebrations at the same time, because of the same religion, and if they would prolong this time, like the Itibi Rayans did, to one entire month, then we would have peace on earth at least for one entire month.
The Itibi Rayan Enit festival is such a festival of inter-cosmic peace. As Enit includes the celebration of the Second Commandment, which is symbolized by the red Sitla leaf of the Amat Mayna, the "reading" of this Commandment is made a duty on every single day of this festival.
And the reading duty is observed by all, young and old. The Second Cosmophilosophy Commandment is read aloud before every social event on this holiday. As Satu Ra explained: "Our people always come back a little different from these celebrations."
The last and most health-restoring holiday is a fifteen-day celebration in the Itibi Rayan mid-year and called Suto because of the Fourth Commandment of Cosmophilosophy.
The Law of Suto, which states that "you shall abstain from all excesses," some of my friends in London have called just the right commandment to stop you from being thrown into jail, for driving your car through a red light, or for excess of speed. But it would be cynical to bring into ridiculous prominence something GOD-NATURE himself has wanted us to consider with humility and seriousness: Our health. Since I have met these people, who have one of the longest spans of life ever recorded in the Universe, I have often asked myself how seemingly irreconcilable their longevity must appear to most of us. Perhaps their very deliberately wanting to live longer has made it possible for them to discover the means to do so. And naturally, besides all of their vegetarian habits, and their biological achievements, I sincerely believe the main reason for their longevity is the strict obedience of the Fourth Commandment of Cosmophilosophy.
What does it mean "to abstain from all excesses"? Thinking about it, I have made a great mistake in believing that this refers to our common excesses, as I have mentioned, the taking of alcohol or the smoking of cigarettes. But having been able to observe my friends, I came to the conclusion that by "abstaining from excesses" a great many errors can be avoided. But even so, it would take us centuries to follow the Itibi Rayan pattern, as so many of us simply have to live by excess out of habit and in order to make enough money for themselves and their families to live. It is one thing for religion to say: "You must not do this," and it's quite a different story really to be able to do it.
One of the great advantages of the Itibi Rayan Suto festival is this: It orders people to take a break from work. This is an absolute law on Itibi Ra. A fifteen-day break for all, made possible and guaranteed by the law. Further, during these Suto holidays, those from the colder regions of Itibi Ra are taken to the warmer health-restoring spas nearer the equatorial regions. Whether they like it or not, they are made to take part in all kinds of health-restoring activities, which are not only physical but also mental. There are musical festivals, poetry contests, concerts, amateur theaters and comedy shows. The health spas are decorated in the gold leaf color of the Amat Mayna flower, together with the Xasni signs, which are the cosmic unity symbols, showing the oneness of the cosmic ring. (Several other planets often send guests and specially artistic performers to the Suto festival. Why the Suto festival also falls together with the Festival of Inter-Cosmic Unity (Xasni) I was never able to find out.)
At the end of the Suto holiday, the health computers are put to work on all the Itibi Rayans, without exception. I have mentioned that an exact health analysis of each and every Itibi Rayan is computed during sleeping time. These ratings are analyzed by brain-computers and are available for a special reading at the end of the Suto health holiday. Those in need of special treatment are ordered, and I am only reporting what Satu Ra had told me, "ordered" to take the necessary measures available to all Itibi Rayans to get well. All this, again, may seem to be pretty far-fetched, but Mr. Satu Ra assured me that within only one hundred and fifty years' time, if all the capital wasted on defense, war machinery, and the expense of war itself, together with the correct population growth control – all our population on this planet could benefit from a similar international health-restoring social security system.
If you come to think of it, at the present time, most of us driving a car are able to control and know the exact temperature of the water in the radiator. When oil is leaking or the motor fails, the driver knows this failure immediately and is warned about the defective situation by a little red light on the dashboard. But how often in his life is this same man warned about his own body? About his blood pressure, for example! A great many inventions and mechanical gadgets have been built for war, and in spite of our great evolutionary progress, we have forgotten about the most important of all machines. THE HUMAN BEING.
The time will come, when closer to the naturalistic form of thinking, we shall be able to understand many of the thoughts expressed by our friends from another world. We shall do so in our own interest and with the help of Cosmophilosophy.
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