Consider this simple logical fact:
Often, what is promoted—whether knowingly or through innocent deception—are illogical contradictions. If you live in a country that gives you only one hour of electricity per day, you will naturally desire what you lack: more electricity. In such a context, you might even work for a company that pays you not in money, but in electricity hours.
However, imagine instead that you live on a planet that is itself the source of all electricity and all light. In such a place, surrounded continuously by perfect and total light, you would never hunger for electricity. You would not work to gain more of what you already possess in full. Desire for payment in the form of electricity only makes sense in conditions of lack—not in the presence of total abundance.
Likewise, if the Creator is the source of total light, total happiness, and total satisfaction, then it becomes impossible—illogical—for anyone in the full presence of the Creator to desire rewards or stipends of happiness, sweets, entertainments, sports, or other such external gifts. These things only have meaning when something is lacking. On Earth, governments or systems often use such forms of bribery to recruit individuals to steal or kill—offering in return a promise of pleasure, comfort, or access to things they do not have, or desire more of. But such strategies only work on the deprived. Therefore, to claim that being in the presence of the Creator includes the need for external rewards is to imply that the Creator is not the total source—or that His presence offers only partial fulfillment. Such a claim directly contradicts the very nature of the Creator as the All-in-All.
Once this is understood, we realize that desires arise only from absence—when one is not fully united with the Creator, the source of the Totality. For example, if we understand that separation from the Creator occurs here on Earth and in the fire of Hell, then yes—in those two states—those who dwell there would naturally desire happiness, peace, joy, entertainment, food, health, power, light, rest, comfort, and so forth. In contrast, if someone were in the presence of Total Health, it would be irrational to bribe them with vaccines or medications to persuade them to perform certain actions, promising that by doing so, they will attain even more health. The very idea of gaining “more” health in the presence of Total Health is illogical—no matter how many scientists, physicians, or authorities insist otherwise.
Furthermore, even while living on Earth, if one enters into deep communion with the Creator—the source of all abundance—then one no longer lives in lack. Whether in this life or the next, one who abides in the presence of the Totality no longer hungers for more wealth, more peace, more beauty, more life, or more power. That soul is satisfied.
Thus, it is illogical for anyone to promise us rewards in the next life based on the desires of this one. Here on Earth, we desire more of everything—more food, more pleasure, more possessions—and these desires often tempt even the good to accept bribes, commit theft, or worse. But the logic of bribery—“do this so that you may gain what you lack”—cannot be extended into the state of Heaven, into the presence of the Creator, where nothing is lacking.
To claim otherwise is to reduce Heaven to Earth—and to reduce the Creator to a supplier of limited goods—instead of recognizing Him as the infinite and eternal source of the Totality.
This is the central logic presented in the book The Truth of Life:
A vision of the Creator not as a dispenser of temporary rewards, but as the very wellspring of all truth, all light, and all life itself.
Let us contemplate and understand deeply, so that we do not become easy targets for bribes, deceptions, or partial truths that prey on our innocence and risk our eternal place in the presence of the Creator—the Totality, the All-in-All.