Why do you suppose then Christians, Jews, and Muslims all consider God to be a "he", even though it is revealed in both the bible and koran that God is more of a "we", or "us"?
Ah ... you've made a fundamental grammatical error here ... the use of the plural is the same as the use of the plural used in the UK when the monarch speaks, he or she says 'we'.
God cannot be plural, or a collective, as beyond is beyond number, and metaphysically that would render the Absolute, relative.
The day the Adam was split all hell broke loose. Is that not ironically prophetic?
No, it's tragically causative.
If you're checking into Hebrew re the plural thing, you might want to check out the meanings attached to the Hebrew adamah, ish, isha:
"Then the man said, "This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called woman (
isha) for from man (
ish) she was taken". (Bereshit 2:23).
So, God does reveal a bit of Their nature to us.
That's what I said.What is revealed is what is, in a certain sense, 'common' to both creature and Creator.
We know that God is Spirit of some sort of "light energy",
Do we? I think that's a relatively modern and erroneous assumption. God is neither 'light' nor 'energy' as we commonly understand either.
and that God is also androgynous in nature, being both male and female, and that the creation in Genesis 1 is a Spiritual creation of a singular yet dual nature, "after God's own image"...
You should read St Gregory of Nyssa on this ... he's quite informative.
I do not agree, however, we can say "what" to a degree, and, the experience called Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening, or Kundalini, is actually more of a "God-realization".
Not really. Kundalini is a human potentiality ... it's not divine.
Whether that is a who or a what is up to you. I prefer who myself. The "what" is far beyond my feeble mind's comprehension.
If you don't know what, then you risk being fooled by the glamour of appearances ... all sacred scriptures speak of such, and here's the real and inestimable value of tradition.
Demons can mask themselves as good ... and if you don't know the what, you won't know the difference. Corrupt intelligences and corrupt forms can deceive, and do lie.
If indeed it is beyond your comprehension to know the difference, then withdraw, then watch your thoughts, your dreams, your health and the state of your friendships ... you could be at greater risk than you know or are aware of.
The answer to your question is who knows.
No, that's your answer. I've already shown you that the initial premise is false, you didn't notice however.
If a day is as 1000 years, and vice versa, then how long is an "eternity" in celestial time?
It has no duration, that's the point, the eternal is outside of time and space.
'Eternity' can be as long as you like ... when I'm desperate and waiting for my daughter to get out of the loo, then I experience eternity ...
We as humans are not privy to that or any other "supernatural" information, despite all those who claim to have special abilities to either talk to dead folks, or even talk to God Theirself.
Well you might assume so ... but if you do, then you've just refuted every claim to enlightenment you've made prior to this.
Communication with the Holy Spirit comes in the form of "thought", not voices.
Actually it comes in many forms — either through the senses or beyond them. I have experienced it as a knowing beyond thought, and as a visible manifestation. Don't assume what happens to you sets the benchmark for everyone.
Have you Thomas ever had a thought that you know was you, but, also that it did not seem to come from your conscious brain, usually in the form of a warning of sorts not to do something you were about to do? My guess is yes, as everybody has.
Yes, they're purely natural ... your body clocks much, much more than you consciously realise it does.
You probably ignored it, did the thing anyway, and bad stuff happened as a result. That is the norm. And, that is the Spirit of God that exists within you, aka the Holy Spirit of the Divine Feminine.
No, I doubt it. That's purely natural ... there's a huge evidence of neuroscience to support that.
Man you are deep! You must be a really smart guy. I would agree that it is a matter of seeing beyond the veils, because that is where Truth lies.
I leant that from my tradition, it's not my own ... I rarely if ever post personal stuff here.
Actually, all creation is an "illusion", if you pay heed to God's Word written in all of Their works.
And yet it exists ... so as long as you treat that "illusion" as contained within quotes, then you're on relatively safe ground ... remember that you are also part of that "illusion". You have to have a context.
I had a good friend who became suicidal through reading Zen books ... or rather the kind of Zen commentaries you find in the 'New Age' section of bookshops. For him, everything was an illusion ... he had all the cool phrases, but no context.
As Christ said to St Catherine of Sienna: "I am He Who Is. You are she who is not."
What is meant is that God is the only self-subsistent thing ... all creation exists, and continues to exist from moment to moment, through the Logos.
So, why does everything seem to be going backwards?
Miscomprehension?
I stand corrected. So, how did we go from "very good" to "hell in a handbasket"?
Pride and envy.
God bless,
Thomas
