A Note for Future Generations by Mario Cordina

Taken from Il- Kelma 
Mario Cordina

A note for Future Generations.

This work is not intended to be taken as a holy piece of work. It could easily be the work of fantasy and fiction. Indeed it definitely is the work of man and what a wonderful piece of work it is. It is a testament to man’s creativity and perseverance in the face of all odds that are a fact of life. What if the Bible, the Koran, The Holy Books of all religions were created by man? A metaphor, a fable? Does it take away their merit? Does it make a fool of those who follow the ways of the characters in the book? Does it make religions irrelevant?

My opinion is that I would rather like to believe that it actually enriches their followers. I would suggest that such writings enhance our fears, our dreams, our hopes and our beliefs and that these seem to have been relevant for past generations in the same way as they are for the present and will be for future populations. My personal concept of religion is that all beliefs are complimentary to each other, they evolve out of each other and learn and mature through the acceptance and understanding of the other. We all want to go to heaven if we could get there. We would all want to be immortal if we could and we all want to know what lies in wait for our lot. We all love peace and we all love sharing, need love, acceptance, friendship, sympathy, dignity and respect. We are all the same, with a skeleton that is crouching inside shivering about the unknown on this fragile spaceship called earth floating in a hostile environment.

This book encapsules and has gathered the fear of mankind, and this small ant colony can only scatter away from the foot that is poised to stamp out its existance at a moment’s notice, at an unexpected place and time. It is our courage and our bravery to seek and our creative brain that asks questions, always looking for solutions and alternatives, just like a great calculator continually counting, adding and analysing. This calculator is not the ideal machine. Like our computers it tends to break down, get hacked or just stops working unexplainably from time to time. Yet like all new technology these shortcomings and defects are progressively corrected and evolution follows similar lines, learning from past setbacks and mistakes. This is what makes the tranmission of tradition vital. We are not born into a tabula rasa world, but into one which is full of data, data which needs to be relearnt, corrected, respected and expanded.

This book is full of such data and it has been expanded upon by people from different lands and times and should lay the foundations for the future progress of a unified race. We are a unified race, although we construct and shift our geographical and racial borders as we please. However, although the roads are many and our differences are unreconcileable, our goal is one and the same.

Perfection? Truth? Is there such a thing or is it a man made concept, or is it the child of a terrified brain begot of nothing but vain fantasty?

My final warning comes as follows: if generations lose touch with the fantasies of the previous one, then they would be setting the clock back instead of forward. So I urge you to seek knowledge in all corners. What is, what was and what can be.

Read. Watch. Listen. Then Speak. Qibima.   

Il-Kelma was written as an ending sequel to the Mario By Mario trilogy by Mario Cordina.