Clarification:
God, in the singular, with a capital letter ... cannot be described or openly discussed, unless we agree about some basics. Otherwise, you're just pulling your descriptions or understanding out of context, or applying a context that may not suit everyone else. For example, since I am a hylozoist, I would explain God as the
Cosmic Entity, "in Whom WE live and move and have OUR Being." In short, you
CANNOT remove God from the equation.
One way that this has been described is that the entire Cosmos is the meditation of God. If, even for a microsecond, God were to cease or become distracted in this Great Meditation ... every single atom of Cosmos would suddenly disappear - returning to the
root matter of which everything is composed. Clearly, anthropomorphic projections onto this conception of God are not necessary for
God's benefit, or for those of us who believe that God is formless (Transcendent). This is the
Nirguna Brahman of Hinduism. If you find it easier to
picture God then surely the projection does no great harm ... unless you confuse the picture in your mind with the reality.
This means that God is not Jesus, not Buddha, not Mohammed, not Sri Krishna;
not even the Flying Spaghetti Monster. As the Tao of Pooh puts it, God just
IS. That's all that can be said, although some folks LOVE to shove things in God's mouth,
all day long, all life long, never realizing what God is really and already SPEAKING. God, the
Verbum, the VERSE OF ONE [Uni-Verse] is all around you, within you, without you ... and equally present across the Galaxy as within Christ Jesus, or me, or your neighbor, etc. And failure to recognize this means that your
tower of Babylon will never actually reach Heaven; long before, it will topple and return to the sand, as this is a poor foundation ... and a house of cards the
improper dwelling-place for the man who truly wishes to enshrine the Divine, enthroning God within the Heart.
How can we do the latter? By recognizing that a
good description of our relationship to the Hylozoistic Cosmos is that we are
ALL gods, in terms of our Divine Potential. This does not mean we are waiting for God, or some kind of priest, or even a Holy and Enlightened man (Christ, the Buddha, Krishna, etc.) to
come and confer something upon us. We do not need any of these for the recognition that God
already dwells within us. The man who cannot see this, cannot see himself, let alone God. He has much left to learn about the world we live in, for his insight cannot even cross the gulf of lower mind ... he is stuck where "the mind is the great SLAYER of the Real," and any time he tries to fathom that we are
all already gods there will be a mental block - not just UNCARVED, but altogether insurmountable & impassable.
Until he understands the
Masonic symbolism, he cannot & will not recognize his own ABILITY and Responsibility [a Sacred Duty:
Dharma, an obligation] to
carve this uncarved block. As the metaphor goes, ALL PEOPLE are future Master Masons, for ALL people have
God within, whether you want to spell it with a
little `g' [suggesting our Potential], a big `G' [recognizing the Potential
on its own level, Transcendent,
anthropomorphized or otherwise] or pluralized.
The reason it makes perfect sense to say we are ALL GODS, leaving case aside altogether, is that any person who has
even for a moment come into contact with his or her own
Father in Heaven KNOWS the Unity of God ... and if you have not bungled up the experience with LOWER MIND (
little ego, the personality) you also realize that God does not
want you to continue to divide, to isolate others or to emphasize our differences. God seeks just the opposite, precisely the reverse. God is not offended when you say, "The Sons of men are ONE, and I am One with them."
In fact, these words begin a Unification Mantram that is sounded to call ALL PEOPLE together and to affirm our Co-Participation in God's undying Creation. There are no
member's only jackets required to get into this
club ... for it is no
club at all, even though religions love to become exclusive (separative) and pretend to have a
line on God. Theirs is not God, for they have become sidetracked with Hero worship, and they know not their Savior. While this seems to apply almost universally in this day & age, there are millions of men & women around the world who already know that what I have said is true, and who work ceaselessly to help our planet through the current unreset & confusion.
Such people may be discouraged by the ignorance and violence that is perpetrated
in the name of religion, but the shame here is that the *Good* within is not properly acknowledged, encouraged and drawn out. While we each must become responsible for our spiritual growth as we approach the later stages of Self-Becoming (on this planet), it is equally true that for a long time (many thousands of lives) we are as
little Christs, or very much embryonic in terms of the Divinity within becoming outwardly active.
The student of the Wisdom Tradition knows that this is true, and understands why. Babies are not born taking care of themselves; only gradually do we mature, becoming capable of looking after ourselves, yet even then we still need supervision and guidance ... until we are ADULTS. I doubt quite seriously that many people reading this will have EVER met a
mature spiritual being, even though
plenty will be able to quote from Scripture, or REPEAT the religious stories that you have grown up with.
Perhaps some DO KNOW, because you can sense, experience or otherwise
bear Witness to the Christ - or God - that is within. You KNOW you have Buddha Nature, and
not because some stupid book composed by a bunch of crusty old, power-hungry white guys, TELLS YOU SO. That is
not how or why "Jesus loves you." Those who know about Buddha Nature, REALLY don't need to be patronized and jabbered to by an empty-headed theologian, or by anyone else standing around preaching stuff they neither practice nor e'en
begin to understand.
On that note, *I'm* shutting up. I am
listener, learner and Aspirant to the Mysteries, sometimes practioner of the Higher Way, other times a poor example indeed ... but one thing I am NOT is mistaken about what I share. I do like to ramble on, jabbering in my own way, often uncertain about where my posts will end up. This does not change, however, the fact that I know what I'm talking about. I would respect differences, yet I will point out again: If you know
square one about God, you know that it is Cooperation and Unity we should be thinking about, not their opposite. We should be seeking to
perfect the Paramitas, studying the Perfection of Wisdom, not pretending that we have a clue about things
well beyond our own, direct experiences.
And if you cannot recognize or demonstrate these qualities?
Ah, then you need to
go back to Square ... ONE.
{I assure you, that's where
I'm standing!}
Namaskar
