Quote Motion #1

        Cleaniliness is next to godliness. - Old Adage

This oft-repeated adage reiterates the truth that the cultivation of the virtue of cleanliness is the ultimate step to the status of godliness. Cleanliness being the condition of being ‘clean’, not only in outward appearance or the tending of the environment, but of being clean on the inside.

The virtue of cleanliness is a coin with two sides: the inward and the outward. The outward part of cleanliness is what most of the people hold on to as the conception, defining cleanliness as the condition of personal and environmental aesthetic, that is, of maintaining constant cleanliness in body by taking regular ablutions, putting on clean clothes, and living and working in clean environments. It is very understandable why people use the outwards form as the definition, because it is the outward which is most visible. And furthermore we live on a planet with so much beauty that dazzles the eyes. If men cultivate the environment so as to maintain this beauty the virtue of cleanliness is noted to be at play, even if such act were merely to disguise an inherent irreverence for cleanliness.

If cleanliness is not cultivated inside of man, this noble virtue cannot be demonstrated on the outside. Cleanliness is an internal quality; it belongs to noble humans. It propels those who uphold it to keep clean their space and everything they do. Cultivating cleanliness is a lifestyle next to that of godliness – it is next to holiness. Cleanliness is next to holiness. Cleanliness is next to the sacred. Uncleanliness, to use this word, is the condition of the profane. Uncleanliness is the building ground for all manner of obscenities. Uncleanliness is the matrix in which unclean spirits, which afflict men, breed. Unclean beings thrive in unclean environment. The unclean and the godly are two worlds apart.

Every human must strive for the status of the godly. Every human, who is very conscious of his or her origin in a Creator Who is Beauty, must as a fact of life strive to be clean and to always live clean. He or she must keep thoughts, words and deed, clean, putting away all lies, deceit and obscene talk. He or she must cultivate friendships that uphold this virtue. He or she must read materials which do not lodge impurities in the mind. He or she must keep his is her space clean – at home, school, workplace, or anywhere. All things must be done with a sense of beauty. You must not lose sight of the fact that all men are created virtuous, and must as a matter of fact live godly in manners, and this living in the light of godliness do not presuppose fanatic religiosity, rather a spirituality which transcends the natural for the highest ideal.

The position of godliness is the level where men contact the heavenlies and draw power and inspiration to keep themselves and the world in progress! Unclean men are bereft of true imagination and inspiration. Their minds are not tended enough to receive and lodge ‘the pure though-gifts of the Highest’ – too dark to accommodate the light of creativity.

The ultimate purpose of men is to achieve a high status of godliness. Cultivating habitual modes of cleanliness in thought, word, deed, and life is the first step!

Cleanliness is next to godliness, the adage reiterates!