This sermon concerns the timelessness of Aue, and is available as a YouTube video.
Dear audience,
Today, I want to talk about a certain aspect of our religion—its timelessness.
I find this to be a valuable consideration, helping connect us to those of the past, and the future, reassuring us of Aue’s worth.
There is advantage in the quality over quantity that Aue employs.
We are left, to the disappointment of those accustomed to religious tomes, to "connect the dots", to "fill in the blanks" with our adherence.
We are advised only, in verse a, to think sensibly for Aue.
We are asked in verse c to cite it for joy, despite there only being fifteen verses to cite.
And yet I find this to be wise, choosing to isolate and focus on the essence of life, and making adherence fit personal journey and circumstance.
Aue could speak of capitalism, or homelessness, or poverty.
It could explicitly steer us through technological upheaval, or climate change, or pandemic.
But it doesn’t. These are not permanent features of life.
They, largely, did not exist in the past, and I implore you to join me in trusting that they can be solved, even within this millennium.
So much of organised religion today draws upon texts concerned with problems made irrelevant by unforeseen advancement.
Unfortunately, so deep are these concerns that they often deny the very existence of human solutions, or change, or progress.
Some teachings can become so stale as to cause harm to others, and the adherent themselves.
Even geographical location is fought over, without regard to shifting tectonic plates, or our eventual future among the stars.
Conversely, no part of Aue shall ever become redundant.
Each verse could find itself ten thousand years in the past, or in the future, and their relevance, importance, and synergy would not diminish.
Of course, religion such as Aue did not exist in the past.
In our collective prehistory, our ancestors did not have science, or literacy, or conception of the material nature of our existence.
However, permanent is the innate understanding of humanity that we are deeply, inexorably rooted in nature and the people around us.
As in verse j, nature and society is our habitat, something we should never forget, and never reject, or deny.
And as in verse d, nature, so body, so mind, are of now, we are reminded of our emergence, our transience, our composition, in and of the natural world.
It is not something we will ever escape, nor should we need to—it is a fact of life.
No matter how augmented we might make ourselves with technology, compassion will still be fundamental, death will still be final, and life will remain diverse.
The assertion of verse f, evolution gave joy and woe, sentience, means we will forever be a product of this process.
This makes certain that any conscious being, whether completely alien to us or just our distant descendants, will be subject to joy, and to woe.
Any person that can read Aue, in its original English, or translated, and internalise it, could benefit from adherence.
Timelessness, then, is a great virtue of Aue, and one that I hope you will reflect upon.
Thank you for your time.