By Moshood Raji

Introduction:

The Sacred Hijacking

Imagine a temple built to honor The Most High and then filled with merchants selling access to what is already yours.

That is the tragedy of organized religion. What was once a bridge to the Divine has been turned into a toll booth. The direct current between soul and Source has been hijacked by institutions more interested in obedience than awakening.

This article is not a rejection of the sacred; it is a call to reclaim it.

How They Hijack your Divinity

1. Distraction from the Divine Within

Religion, in its institutional form, often externalizes God. Worship becomes projection. Instead of entering the holy chamber of the heart, we are taught to bow to altars built by men. This is not communion. It is separation.

Yeshua said, "The Kingdom of God is within you."

Yet this inner kingdom is rarely emphasized by religion leaders. Instead, salvation is marketed as something granted to you by clergy, rather than awakened within you by truth.

The soul's direct line to Source becomes filtered through dogma, ritual, and guilt.

Here is the truth:

You are the Divine, You are the "I Am that I Am", You are the God in human form representing the Most High on earth. Call upon your Higher-Self for guide/directions.

How to call on your Higher self:

Do this every morning before stepping out or before going to bed at night.

Put your hand on your forehead(between your eyebrows) and say

" I now call call on my higher-self, the part of me that is always connected to the truth, wisdom and light. Reveal yourself to me, speak to me, guide me"

Then as ask for guide or question like:

" What do I need to see?"

"Who needs my light today?"

"What is my next right move?"

Your higher self will reveal everything to you either in your dream or vision.

Always have a journal/diary/paper and pen close to you. Write them down so you don't forget or get distorted. If you can interprete do so and if you can't reach out to a neighbor who can, or reach out to a lightworker, or reach out to me via my email, rajimoshood200482@gmail.com for free dream interpretation.

The Divine lives within.

You do not need a pulpit to touch God. You are the pulpit. You are the temple. You are the holy text, unwritten but eternal.

“You are the temple. You are the scripture. Stop outsourcing your divinity.”

2. Religion as an Economic and Ideological Matrix

Karl Marx wrote: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." But not because the sacred is a lie but because its sacredness was commodified.

Religion became a tool of empire, a divine endorsement of slavery, patriarchy, and colonialism.

Niccolò Machiavelli, in The Prince, argued that religion was useful for rulers to keep people obedient and passive under the illusion of moral authority. It became the soul of the soulless by replacing inner freedom with outer control.

Tithes, indulgences, holy wars; these are not the fruits of Spirit. These are contracts with power, dressed in holy robes.

3. Suppression of Divine Self-Realization

Religious structures have historically discouraged personal power especially in women and marginalized communities.

Menstruating women were (and still are) seen as unclean in many religious traditions despite ancient mystical cultures viewing menstruation as sacred and spiritually potent.

Shulamith Firestone, in The Dialectic of Sex, discusses how patriarchal institutions, including religion, suppressed female spiritual authority and autonomy.

The message is clear: Divine power belongs to the few. Sacredness must be sanctioned.

This is spiritual colonization.

4. The Sovereign Soul: You Are Your Own Messiah

The age of blind obedience is crumbling.

We are remembering: the Divine lives within.

You do not need a pulpit to touch God. You are the pulpit. You are the temple. You are the holy text, unwritten but eternal.

Every great mystic from Rumi to Ramana Maharshi spoke of direct union with the Infinite.

Rumi wrote: "Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?"

We have been trained to kneel. It is time to rise.

“They feared your awakening. That’s why they built churches around your fire.”

5. Practices to Reclaim Inner Divinity

1. Meditation: Sit in silence. Focus on the breath.

Ask:

“What is the truth of who I am?” Do not seek answers from outside.

2. Nature Communion: The Divine speaks through trees, rivers, and wind. Go outside. Remove your shoes. Listen.

3. Dreamwork and Mantra: Record your dreams. Speak a mantra before sleep: “I return to my Source.” Watch your inner world awaken.

4. Sacred Rage and Journaling: Write what angers you about religious lies. Let the fire clear space for truth.

"Religion sold what the soul already owned: the right to commune with God.”

Conclusion: The Call to Sovereignty

This is not a call to atheism. This is a call to authentic spirituality.

There is a sacred fire inside you, no priest, no book, no dogma can contain it.

You are not fallen. You are not unworthy. You are not a sinner in need of saving.

You are a flame. A fragment of the Infinite. A sovereign soul.

Return to your Source.

Reclaim your voice.

The Divine is waiting within.

Citations and References

Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532): discusses religion as a political tool

Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (1970): critiques patriarchy and institutionalized religion

The Gospel of Luke 17:21, "The Kingdom of God is within you."

Rumi, various poems on direct communion with the Divine