The Matrix: Fiction vs. Reality

The movie The Matrix from 1999 depicted a post-apocalyptic world in which human beings were harvested for their energy to keep a virtual simulation, in which all humans are immersed from birth, so that this world may be controlled by the entity in charge - “the Architect”. Although a work of science fiction, it managed to inspire a philosophical argument about the nature of this reality and the world in which we live. 

What if we are indeed being fooled? What if this world is a sensory distraction from the real purpose of our existence? What if there is much more to us being here than we had previously thought?

In the movie, the main protagonist “Thomas A. Anderson” - also known as “The One” and “Neo” - plays the role of the foretold saviour whose role is critical to ending the tyranny of machines which had established this simulation system. He is prophesied to conquer the simulation with what is portrayed as a supernatural ability, not be bound by the rules and laws employed within the simulation to keep order and control. 

The interesting thing about this story is that it parallels the story of the real foretold saviour of humanity found in virtually all religious eschatology. The prophecies which describe a world overrun by darkness, ignorance, injustice and oppression. The superpower capabilities of the main protagonist “Neo” was inspired by the eschatology of the end times character who is usually described with extraordinary abilities. In fact, in some narrations and prophecies the real end times saviour has God-like abilities including the ability to command something and it obeys whether it is made of matter or otherwise. The concept of Universal Rulership dates back to Hinduism and it encompasses the idea of a supreme authority over the universe and is detailed in both Purana and Vedanta texts. Purana gives Krishna’s role as a divine ruler and Vedanta makes the case for Brahman’s governance over all facets of creation, the emphasis of the physical and spiritual aspects is intended to show transcendence in terms of divine authority. In Shia Islam the same concept exists except it is described as complete Divine authority, meaning that it is a God-like capability whereby the Imam has the ability to command everything as he likes - the term used to describe this is “al-wilayat al-takwiniyya” - this concept is widely debated amongst Muslims and the Sunnis tend to deny it arguing that it is exclusive to the Almighty God whereas some sects believe that the various Imams have been gifted this capability by God. 

In no particular order, we find the major religions of the world referring to a saviour figure:

Judaism	Mashiach	A future Jewish king from the line of David who will gather Jews and usher in an era of peace.
Christianity	Jesus Christ	Believed to be the Messiah who brings salvation and will return for a second coming.
Islam	Mahdi	A promised one who will appear before the Day of Judgment.
Zoroastrianism	Saoshyant	A saviour figure who will bring about the final renovation of the world, defeating evil.
Buddhism	Maitreya	A future Buddha who will achieve enlightenment and teach the Dharma.
Hinduism	Kalki	The final avatar of Vishnu who is expected to appear in the future to restore righteousness.
Taoism	Li Hong	A messianic figure prophesied to come during the end of the world cycle to bring salvation.

If this specific detail of the story is taken from mainstream theology and used for inspiration then it would stand to reason that the forces gathered against him in the movie must all be present in the real world. This publication, The Divine Just State has repeatedly emphasised the method by which to identify this saviour. We also proclaim that Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq is that very same saviour referred to in all the prophecies and eschatology surrounding this character who rises to end tyranny, oppression and injustice in the end times.

To show the reader proof that Abdullah Hashem is indeed that saviour; we invite you to examine his works including the revolution he is leading in the world today whereby he has declared and is regularly emphasising the fact that only God has the right to appoint a leader. His YouTube channel, The Mahdi Has Appeared, is full of overwhelming proof in the form of knowledge, sermons, guidance and reasoning which can only be coming from a divine source. He cannot be making the claims he is making and be receiving so much enforcement in the face of being continuously attacked by various factions if he was not divinely appointed. The movie The Matrix gives us the impression that only one man comes to end the evil system which has imprisoned mankind, but in the story we learn that he has had several attempts at ending the illusion and control of the machines over the human race. The true story shows us that several individuals throughout history came to “free” mankind from this illusory world in which we find ourselves immersed. They all came with a very specific message which sought to guide us out of the allegorical cave of Plato.

So this brings us back to this material world in which we live, what is the true nature of our reality? Who created it and what was the goal behind creating it? 

This issue has been the subject of theology for thousands of years with different understandings and explanations given in the various cultures and religions. In all mainstream religions we are bombarded with the official narrative that the Almighty God is the Creator of this world and that this belief cannot be denied, questioned or challenged otherwise it is treated as blasphemy and or heresy. In fact, history has shown us that anyone willing to offer an alternative to this notion was ostracised and in some cases even killed for it. 

Prophet Mani who established Manichaeism is a great example of this. Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good spiritual world of light, and an evil material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of the divine. Mani's teachings were intended to integrate, succeed, and surpass the "partial truths" of various prior faiths and belief systems, including Platonism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Marcionism, Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism, Gnosticism, Ancient Greek religion, Babylonian religion, other ancient Mesopotamian religions, and the Greco-Roman mysteries. Mani’s death is considered to be uncertain with some accounts portraying it as a crucifixion after imprisonment; while the more brutal account states that he was flayed, his skin stuffed with straw and suspended over the main gate of the great city of Gundeshapur - it was this last ruthless and savage act which directly gave rise to the name mannequin being used to refer to the dummies widely used in fashion. 

Socrates was formally accused of corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, and for asebeia (impiety), i.e. worshipping false gods and failing to worship the gods of Athens. Socrates believed in a higher power, often referring to "the God" in his dialogues, which suggests a form of monotheism. He emphasized that true wisdom comes from understanding the divine rather than merely following traditional religious practices. He challenged the official narrative of the time with his understanding of dualism centered around the mind versus the body, where mind is seen as a rational, thinking entity, while the body is a physical, material object. He argued that true knowledge comes from the mind, not the senses, which can be deceptive.  At the trial, Socrates was found guilty by a majority vote cast by a jury of hundreds of male Athenian citizens and ordered the death penalty. The jurors favoured the death penalty by making him drink a cup of hemlock (a poisonous liquid).

Ja’far Al-Sadiq, the Sixth Imam from the Twelve Imams named in the Will of Mohammed, came to the people when the political environment of his time made him a target due to his significant religious authority and the potential challenge he posed to the ruling powers; he was known for his significant contributions to Islamic jurisprudence and theology. He lived during a tumultuous period marked by political instability under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates. Ja'far al-Sadiq faced harassment from the Abbasid rulers, who viewed his teachings and influence as a threat, he was ultimately by the Abbasid caliph of the time.

On the question of predestination and free will, which was under much discussion at the time, Imam Al-Sadiq followed his father Mohammed Al-Baqir, portraying human responsibility but preserving God's autocracy, asserting that God decreed some things absolutely but left others to human agency. This compromise, widely adopted afterward, is highlighted when Ja’far Al-Sadiq was asked if God forces His servants to do evil or whether He had delegated power to them: he answered negatively to both questions and instead said, "The blessings of your Lord are between these two." Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq taught that " God the Most High decreed some things for us and He has likewise decreed some things through our agency: what He has decreed for us or on our behalf He has concealed from us, but what He has decreed through our agency He has revealed to us. We are not concerned, therefore, so much with what He has decreed for us as we are with what He has decreed through our agency." Imam Al-Sadiq is also credited with the statement that God does not "order created beings to do something without providing for them a means of not doing it, though they do not do it or not do it without God's permission." Ja’far Al-Sadiq declared, "Whoever claims that God has ordered evil, has lied about God. Whoever claims that both good and evil are attributed to him, has lied about God.” In his prayers, he often said, "There is no work of merit on my own behalf or on behalf of another, and in evil there is no excuse for me or for another."

The Abrahamic faiths dominate the planet today and present the idea that the Almighty God created this world without much of an explanation of the mechanism by which it was created, He just willed it and everything in it into being. All Abrahamic faiths proclaim that this world is a prison and this concept is shared with Eastern faiths like Hinduism and Buddhism, but this concept never really made much sense if this world was indeed created by the Almighty God. Why would He create a world which is a prison for His creation without any explanation for why they have been imprisoned? Surely there is no point to it if a prison is used for punishment and is supposed to lead to reformation or rehabilitation. Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq, the Riser of the Family of Mohammed, revived a lost truth lost to the people. The idea that, actually, God delegated the creation of this world to another being, and permitted it to create with His consent. He presented this idea in his Gospel, ‘The Goal of The Wise’ and he has discussed this fact in various productions on his YouTube channel - The Mahdi Has Appeared. A whole episode of The School of Divine Mysteries with the title Satan Is The Creator Of This World spells out the evidence to prove that this imperfect material world is not directly created by God. 

This explanation alone changes matters and alters the course of our existence.

It also leads me to bring your attention to the recent episodes from the lecture series The Hall of Mysteries. Starting with the episode titled The Creation of the Universe According To Hermes, here the story is expanded because by referring to the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus (also known as Enoch, Idrees, Thoth, Osiris and Mercury), the oldest known example of deep Divine Gnosis available to mankind; there is a very different understanding of this universe and how it came to be created. As the Hermetic Writings are broken down in this groundbreaking series we reach a point where in the episode titled The Mistake That Gave Birth to Evil, an incredible part of the story is brought to light and explained with detail that puts the entirety of the past understanding into a new perspective. Taking from a Gnostic Christian text known as The Secret Book of John or The Apocryphon of John, this episode shows a narrative on the birth of Satan completely unavailable in any of the mainstream religions, but it connects directly to the teachings of Hermes. The follow up episode, Did Jesus Command Adam to Eat the Fruit?, further explains the beginning of the story of this reality and how that story was difficult to accept across the ages and therefore rejected or toned down to what is widely accepted by the masses through mainstream religion. We learn here that the Almighty God actually incorporated the evil plans of Yaldabaoth, the creator of this world, into His own benevolent plan.

This brings us to the crux of our matter today; namely the reality of this world and how it relates to The Matrix story from the movie. The movie expresses this notion that the real world is far detached from the virtual world in which Neo had been immersed and conformed to. He escapes that conformity by understanding ‘the truth’ about that world, rising as he does with that understanding, to become what he was destined to be - the saviour of the human race from the evil machine. In that context, we see a very powerful message emerging from Aba Al-Sadiq about the hidden nature of this reality in an episode of The Hall of Mysteries titled You Really are Living in the Matrix; here we gain the first real explanation of how the Divine plan plays out; how this prison is operating and to what end.

In a further explanation of how this world operates, Aba Al-Sadiq gave a wonderful explanation of the relationship between God and the inhabitants of this illusory world, the Matrix created by the fallen angel has to be permeated by God, so how does this happen? The episode, How God Manifests Inside The Matrix, follows up with another crucial explanation and that is how to escape this prison; he broke down Can You Escape the Matrix in Just One Life?. This question is answered in a manner which has never been so clearly explained and with so much detail. As The Hall of Mysteries continues it will widen the scope of understanding and clarity surrounding the nature of this reality and the true nature of this world. 

So in all of time, this Matrix was always permeated by a God figure, a manifestation which carries within a direct enforcement from the Almighty God and those manifestations were the Prophets and Messengers. They were enforced with the Holy Spirit which we see mentioned in the scriptures of the Abrahamic faiths, unfortunately the understanding of this Holy Spirit and the general description given within the mainstream narratives of these faiths is erroneous; this is corrected by Aba Al-Sadiq in the episode from The School of Divine Mysteries The Ahlul-Bayt Supported The Prophets & Messengers. In addition to this, during an episode of The Hall of Mysteries we find that the final part of the episode is focused on how it is that the Almighty God speaks to mankind. At 23:40 of the episode which has the title The Holy Spirit and the Voice of God: A Q&A Session, Aba Al-Sadiq connects the human race to the Light of God in this Matrix through the Holy Spirit and explains that this Holy Spirit was always there and has always been there to guide and free mankind from this prison.

In summary, this prison in which we are currently trapped, has a way out. This way out has always been alluded to in the various religions but unfortunately that very concept was abandoned when the religions were corrupted. The wonderful news that overrides the fact that this reality is indeed a prison is that it was actually commandeered by the Almighty God to keep the lowest of beings imprisoned and trapped away from the heavens and higher worlds where the righteous souls rise upon completing the test of purification incorporated in this world. The temptations and worldly desires which all the Prophets and Messengers warned us about that keep us trapped here are all intended by the designer of this world to keep us here under his realm of control. Hence the consistent advice seen in all religions to deny thyself and worldly desires. The final part of the puzzle was emphasised by Mohammed and his Family when they connected the means by which to avoid a death of ignorance to finding and obeying the Imam of the time. With Aba Al-Sadiq proving himself and providing the means by which all of mankind can be free from this material prison, it has never been more clear in all of history. Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq is the awaited saviour foretold by all the religious eschatology to free us from the darkness of this world, the darkness of ignorance, arrogance and ego. Our destiny is now entirely in our hands.