If there is something that a human being should learn on the path of ascent and guidance, it is how to serve oneself, and how to train oneself to serve its own self without making its existence dependent upon others serving it. When a human being serves the true God, they are in fact serving themselves in the most complete form, the best way, and the highest station; because God, by virtue of His absolute sufficiency, does not need anyone's service.
From here begins an understanding of the origin of many evils. Corruption begins with the soul's need for someone to serve it, worship it, sanctify it, and glorify it. The ego's arrogance is the origin of evils; for the arrogant self wants to surpass others, to become the center of others, and to deify itself over them through a false deification. Therefore, it remains in constant need of someone to make it feel important and valuable and to remind it of its status.
The problem, then, begins when the self lacks someone to nourish it. If the self is nourished by others, it becomes dependent upon them; but if it is nourished by the true God, it becomes independent of them. Whoever serves themselves does not need anyone to grant them their value.
For this reason, the self that wants others to serve it is a misguided self; because it has rejected serving itself and wanted to place others at its service. Nevertheless, it needs guidance and reminders, because the nature of the self is heedlessness and forgetfulness. Therefore, it gradually passes through stages in which it regains the remembrance that it must follow the true God; because leaving this circle exposes it to being lost, depleted, robbed, and infiltrated.
Following the true God, in this conception, is not because God needs followers, but because it is the means by which the self preserves itself.
The God Who Needs No One
The true God does not need anyone to follow, worship, or serve Him; because, in Himself, He is self-sufficient. He follows Himself, or serves Himself, or worships Himself, meaning that He does not derive His perfection from outside Himself.
If God were not God except through the service of others, then He would be dependent upon them, and if He were dependent upon them, He would not truly be God. The true God, however, is the one who seeks Himself and is sought by Himself.
From here, another important meaning can be understood: God is closed within His own circle.
This circle is complete and protected; it neither becomes lost nor forgets nor becomes heedless, and no defect enters it from outside. When we say that God is closed within Himself, this is not a deficiency in openness, but rather a consequence of His oneness; there is no independent other with whom He needs to be open.
God is not open to an other, because there is no other in His original structure. He is the encompassing One, and His encompassing means the completion and closure of the circle.
For this reason, I believe that if a human being wants to know God, they must also close themselves within themselves, not in the sense of blindly isolating themselves from the world, but in the sense of returning to the self and protecting it from everything that steals and scatters it. Uncontrolled openness may cause the self to lose itself through itself, and what steals the self more than anything else? The concerns of constant change, the desire to become something else, and the pursuit of what others present to it?
Openness as a Bait for Deficiency
From here, the objection to contemporary openness and globalization can be understood. When a person is constantly told that they are incomplete unless they open themselves, that a society is backward unless it imitates others, and that a state will not progress unless it opens its borders, values, and culture to everything that comes to it, openness becomes a tool for making the human being feel deficient.
You are told: If you are not open-minded, you are regressing; if you do not adopt this fashion, you are backward; and if you do not embrace this culture, you have missed out on much.
But have you really missed anything?
Much of what is presented as new is not new except in its form; it is merely a reproduction and embellishment of what already exists. Therefore, the person who seeks guidance and right direction must pay attention to this mechanism: Do I want this thing because it is genuinely beneficial, or because I have been convinced that I am incomplete without it?
Closure is difficult because the self is demanding, insistent, heedless. This applies to the individual, society, and state. In an age of openness, everyone seems depleted, lost, fragmented, penetrated, and unprotected.
Nevertheless, if a person's highest interest is to protect themselves and their sovereignty, they must learn how to close the doors against what corrupts them.
The Mixture That Erases Authenticity
There is a kind of openness that does not produce genuine knowledge, but rather produces a hybrid mixture: a little of this religion, a little of that culture, a collection of contradictory feelings, ideas, and principles, and then all of it is presented as progress, tolerance, and openness.
In the end, you obtain a system that contains everything, and therefore contains nothing authentic.
It is cultures mixed together superficially, religions blended together, artificial emotions, and ideas stripped of their roots. This mixture may appeal to simple-minded people, while those who possess insight understand that authenticity is not built by gathering everything, but by knowing what should be taken and what should be left.
The currents that promote this kind of openness may benefit from it economically, politically, and culturally, but at the same time they destroy their own fortifications. Openness that removes boundaries, principles, and privacy may ultimately turn into dissolution.
It may reach the point of intellectual, cultural, economic, and sovereign suicide. For example, someone who sells their land to a foreigner in exchange for money may think they have acquired wealth, while in reality they may have lost something greater than money: part of their sovereignty.
Artificial Money and Illusory Abundance
From here comes the issue of money in the age of openness.
There is a difference between money that comes as a result of genuine work and money that becomes an end in itself. This issue will have another space for discussing the economic transformations that took place since the economic agreements of the last century, leading to electronic and virtual money.
When money becomes completely virtual, it becomes necessary for a person to pay attention to the meaning of the word “virtual”: it is something intangible, and it may appear secure because the public treats it as secure, but that does not necessarily make it so.
A person who sells their land, sovereignty, or decision in exchange for numbers or pieces of paper may think they have obtained something, while they may actually have entered into a long process of economic depletion.
A system that makes a person constantly chase luxury may offer them a luxurious life on the surface, but in essence it may be a path toward losing the self.
Money That Requires You to Abandon Your Fortress
One of the most widespread ideas is that money follows openness, and that the more a person opens themselves and their boundaries to others, the more abundance comes to them.
But what kind of money comes to you in exchange for removing your boundaries and fortress?
If money is conditional upon surrendering your decision and sovereignty, then it is corrupting money; because it does not give you independence, but makes you dependent upon whoever provides it.
Corrupt money is money that blackmails you into remaining without a shield, without a fortress, and without a decision of your own. As if the message were: We will give you money as long as you allow us access to your energy, decisions, and life, but if you close your boundaries, we will withdraw this abundance from you.
And here we must ask: Is this abundance really abundance?
Five pairs of shoes? Ten pairs of trousers? A new phone? A designer-brand bag? More and more products?
What will you do with all of that?
It may simply be numbers, goods, and products, while the true value you lose is your ability to choose.
The Human Being Who Became a Consumer
When a new product appears and a person rushes to buy it, then a new dress appears and they buy it, then a new phone appears and they buy it, they are not necessarily acting according to their needs, but according to what the market imposes upon them.
What is the real difference between last year's dress and this year's dress if the differences are marginal? And what is the fundamental difference between one phone and another if, in many cases, the differences are limited?
The problem is not buying things, but becoming enslaved to them.
When a person loses their decision-making power, the market decides for them: what to eat, what to wear, what to use, and what they should want.
Even the concept of “trend” can become a tool for manufacturing desire. What is said to be popular is not necessarily beneficial, and what is called luxurious is not necessarily valuable.
You yourself may even become the commodity.
The man is turned into a seller, the woman is turned into a commodity, and then everyone is convinced that this is the natural order of life.
When Appearance Becomes a Substitute for the Self
One example of this is the exaggeration in constructing one's appearance, especially when women are presented with a message that says: pamper yourself, use more cosmetics, change yourself, increase your “worthiness,” and open your “receptive energy.”
The problem is not with any particular cosmetic product, but with the idea that tells a person they must change and falsify themselves in order to obtain what they want.
What Does It Mean to Change Yourself in Order to Receive Something?
And what does it mean for “worthiness” to be based on falsification rather than genuine construction?
True worthiness, if this concept has any meaning, should be based on building value, not on lying to oneself or to others.
But to tell a person: Do not tell the truth, change the words, falsify your image, act as though you possess what you do not possess—this means that the system itself is based on lying.
Marketing as Magic
Even the simplest products can enter this system.
Soap, for example, is essentially a simple product based on a chemical reaction between known substances. Yet in advertising it can be transformed into a miraculous product and loaded with enormous psychological and emotional promises.
The fragrance, some ingredients, or the appearance changes, and then the exaggeration begins: this soap will give you a certain feeling, change your life, and make you into something else.
At this point, commerce is no longer about a sound product, but about the product most capable of visual and psychological deception.
This resembles a kind of “marketing magic”: changing the color, packaging, language, and image until the person becomes attracted.
The result is that the modern human being has come to believe that they are incapable of making even the simplest things themselves, and that everything must come to them from a company, a factory, and from outside.
Even soap, which can be produced through simple means, becomes a complex commodity in the consumer's mind.
Thus, the human being becomes merely a consumer.
The Obsession with Wealth
Another problem is that everyone wants to become a merchant and wealthy. Even competition for wealth has sometimes become meaningless.
Money is not a fault, and money that comes as a result of genuine work is welcome. But when money becomes a goal and an ultimate end, the human being loses the meaning of their existence.
To say, “I am poor, therefore I have no value,” means that you have given others permission to humiliate you. You are thereby saying that your value exists only in money.
Is money the universal measure of a human being?
If it becomes so, the world will be ruled by those who possess the most, and the rest of humanity will be viewed as less valuable.
This view ultimately leads to a world in which there is room only for the wealthy.
But a person who possesses insight understands that money is a result, not the essence.
True Worthiness Is Not Just Words
Much of the contemporary discourse around “worthiness” is based on falsifying worthiness rather than building it.
Instead of asking: How do I build my true value? the person begins to ask: How do I appear as though I deserve it?
Here, lying enters relationships, work, and commerce.
Even some professional profiles are built around grand statements: extraordinary skills, exceptional abilities, endless experience, as though the person were capable of solving the world's problems, while in reality they may possess only one skill: the skill of lying and marketing themselves.
But the problem is that lying may be a temporary solution, yet it does not solve the real problem; rather, it makes it worse.
This is clearly visible in global politics; continuous lying does not create a better world. If the president lies, the government lies, and institutions lie, how can society reach a genuine solution?
Democracy does not solve the problem merely because people elect someone. If the elected person is a liar, the people have not elected the solution; they have elected a liar who gained their trust through ornamentation and deception.
True Worthiness Reveals Itself in the Fire
When a crisis occurs, the difference between genuine worthiness and artificial worthiness becomes apparent.
When a fire breaks out in the forests, words about worthiness, abundance, and energy are of no use. The one who extinguishes the fire is the person capable of enduring the heat, working, and distinguishing between what can be saved and what must be isolated.
If the fire is allowed to grow, it moves from the forest to homes, livestock, and human beings, and may destroy an entire city or state.
In the same way, intellectual and social discord and deviation can be viewed: if there are no individuals or groups capable of closing the doors against the fire, it spreads and burns everything, both green and dry.
Those who flee from the fire do not extinguish it.
True worthiness is not saying that you deserve a luxurious life, but proving your capability when endurance, work, and problem-solving are required.
The Steadfast One Is the Worthy One.
The person who stands with the truth despite knowing that they will lose, and remains steadfast without compensation, is the one who embodies the meaning of merit, steadfastness, and sincerity.
Who Stands with the Truth?
This point leads to a deeper question: How do we know the truth?
Not through appearances, names, or affiliations that a person writes in their biography or account description.
A person may say that they belong to this school or that one, or raise a particular religious slogan, but none of this is sufficient to know where the truth stands.
The true criterion is one's position.
If you find a noble, honest, sincere, steadfast person who preserves modesty and honor, and does not allow their desires to drag them wherever they wish, these qualities say more about the path they follow than names do.
A shameless, inconsistent person, driven by desire and self-interest, who allies themselves with everyone except the truth, can hardly remain steadfast with the truth.
But the person who remains steadfast when steadfastness is costly, who loses for the sake of their position, and knows that they may pay a high price yet does not retreat—that is where the meaning of standing with the truth appears.
And this is the person others need.
If your right is going to be lost, do you need someone who is afraid and runs away, or someone who stands with you because they see the truth as truth?
Yes, such a person exists.
The Life That the Logic of Self-Interest Cannot Understand
Many people cannot understand the logic of someone who sacrifices their interests for the sake of a principle, because they view life from within a different calculation.
For them, capital is everything, and loss in this life is the worst thing that can happen.
But a person who sees that life is temporary, and that everything in it comes to an end, can deal with it according to a different logic.
How long will a person live?
Fifty years, or more or less.
And what will they take with them?
Nothing.
Even satiety ends, money ends, ownership ends, power ends, and the body ends.
Therefore, someone who sacrifices something worldly for what they believe to be the truth may not be as foolish as others think. Rather, they may have a different logic for evaluating things.
Perhaps they saw something others did not see.
Perhaps they possessed knowledge, wisdom, or insight that made them despise the ornamentation over which others compete.
Why Do Some People Not Compete for the Worldly Life?
Here comes the question that may change a person's entire perspective:
If this person is strong, courageous, and intelligent, why do they not compete for power?
Why do they not seek dominion?
Why do they not pursue money?
Why do they not seek fame?
Why are they not afraid of loss?
If they are capable of competing yet choose not to compete, why?
This question is important because its answer may reveal something about life itself.
Perhaps this person was not foolish.
Perhaps they knew something you do not know.
Perhaps they possessed knowledge, wisdom, or a testament that made them see that the life people chase after is not what it appears to be.
Hence the advice: Always look toward the direction they do not want you to look.
Ask the question that shakes the spell.
The Self That Must Overcome Its Instinct
One of the most important things a human being should know is that they are capable of overcoming their instinct, desire, and immediate nature.
The false system does not want a person to know this.
It wants you to believe that you are a slave to your desires, that you can do nothing but follow your impulses, and that life can only be lived according to what your self wants now.
But history, in this conception, conceals examples of human beings who were able to reject their desires, transcend their instincts, and stand upright when they could have bowed.
And this is the question that should be asked:
Why did this person despise the worldly life while being capable of possessing it?
Why did they not compete for power?
Why did they not chase money?
Why were they not seduced by the appearances of life?
Were they foolish? Or did they see something we do not see?
When a person begins asking these questions, many images within them begin to change.
Religion, Appearance, and Essence
Here we arrive at the matter of religion, which is one of the most sensitive issues.
The problem is not religion in principle, but the way distortion and deception can interfere with any system.
When authority, interests, lies, and alliances intervene, it becomes necessary for the researcher to return to the origin and ask: What actually happened?
In religious history, the researcher should neither automatically believe everything nor automatically deny everything. They must read and examine, and trace events, alliances, positions, and outcomes.
The goal here is not to establish a ready-made historical judgment, but to realize that examining events carefully may reveal layers that do not appear on the first surface of the narrative.
Distortion cannot hide every trace.
There is no perfect crime that hides every piece of evidence, and no perfect lie that erases every trace of itself.
Whoever wants to know the truth must trace the evidence.
Are All Schools of Thought Equal?
It may be said that truth does not belong to any school, sect, or group.
But from a rational perspective, a different question can be posed: Is it necessary for all groups to be equally correct?
Religious divisions did not emerge from nothing. There were disputes over legitimacy, differences within different factions, and then the differences branched out until the sects and schools we know today emerged.
Therefore, it does not logically follow that the conclusion must be: “No group is upon the truth.”
Rather, there may be a group, path, or school closer to the truth than another, even if we do not give it a specific name here.
What matters is that differences between groups must not become an excuse that makes a person believe that truth does not exist at all.
In every religion and every group, there can be sincere, righteous, and steadfast people, just as there can be liars and people driven by their desires.
Those who say that no one possesses the truth may, in some cases, be among the people who contribute most to concealing the truth; because they cause a person to stop searching altogether.
Truth Does Not Need Ornamentation
If you want to know the correct path, do not begin with the name.
Begin with the essence.
Do not ask only: What does this person write in their profile? What school do they belong to? What slogan do they raise?
Rather, ask: How do they behave when they stand with the truth and everything is against them?
Do they remain steadfast?
Can they endure loss?
Do they adhere to principle when they receive nothing in return?
Do they preserve honor, honesty, and modesty?
Can they reject their desire when it conflicts with what they believe to be true?
Here the truth begins to reveal itself.
Truth is with the one who stands with it, and with the one who stands by the truth.
The person who remains steadfast with the truth despite loss is closer to the meaning of truth than the person who changes their positions whenever their interests change.
Closure as Fortification
Thus, we return to the starting point: the self.
If a person wants to save themselves from this system, they must withdraw from the swamps that drain them and apply the principle of closure toward the forces and currents that corrupt them.
The intention is not to remain ignorant of the world, nor to reject everything new merely because it is new, but to possess an inner fortress that does not allow everything to enter.
Because as long as you keep your lines of supply and demand open to everything, it will be difficult to preserve yourself.
Fortification is not fear.
And closure is not weakness.
Rather, in some places, closure may be the highest degree of sovereignty.
A house without doors is not an open house; it is a house without protection.
A state without borders is not necessarily an advanced state; it may be a state that has lost the ability to protect its own decisions.
A person without internal boundaries is not necessarily tolerant; they may be a person whose boundaries have been violated.
The Fire of Openness When Left Uncontained
We can use fire as an example.
If a small fire starts in a forest and there is someone capable of closing its path and isolating it, it may be possible to control it.
But if everyone runs away and leaves the fire, it grows.
Then it spreads to the trees, then to homes, then to livestock, then to human beings, and it may become a widespread catastrophe.
In the same way, uncontrolled openness becomes dangerous when it turns into a system that receives everything without boundaries.
Fire does not ask what it is burning.
And a system that lacks the ability to distinguish between what is good and what is harmful, what is sound and what is corrupt, will consume everything.
Therefore, responsibility falls upon those who are capable of enduring and making distinctions.
Not upon those who flee.
Do Not Let Charlatans Define Your Worth for You
In the end, a person should not allow the system to convince them that they are deficient.
You do not need to sell yourself in order to obtain money.
You do not need to lose your boundaries in order to gain acceptance.
You do not need to change your truth in order to appear worthy.
You do not need to become a slave to the market in order to feel alive.
You do not need to buy everything you are told is necessary.
You do not need to make appearance a substitute for essence.
You do not need to make money a measure of your worth.
True value appears when a person is capable of serving themselves, preserving themselves, fortifying themselves, and standing with the truth even when doing so is costly.
True worthiness is not saying: “I deserve.”
True worthiness is proving that you are capable.
True strength is not obtaining everything.
True strength is being able to say “no” when the world tries to take from you what you do not want to give.
True sovereignty is not possessing others.
True sovereignty is having your decision belong to you.
True closure is not closing your mind.
It is closing the doors through which enters what steals your mind, values, and decision.
As for the openness that makes you dependent, drains you, turns you into a consumer, mixes your identity, and makes you constantly dependent upon others to feel your worth, it is not openness in the sense that deserves admiration.
It is penetration.
Therefore, when you want to understand the truth, do not look only toward the direction everyone asks you to look.
Look toward the direction they do not want you to look.
Ask the question that the spell does not want to hear.
For perhaps the right question alone is enough to shake the entire illusion.
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