God, Divinity, the Universe, and Humankind

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ----------------------------------------------------------- Chapter I In Before The Beginning Chapter II Attributes of the SPIRIT Chapter III Knowledge through the Spiritual Chapter IV The Cosmos Chapter V The Spirits Chapter VI We are all Brothers and Sisters Chapter VII Humankind’s Destiny Chapter VIII Prophets and Faith Chapter IX Female / Male Chapter X Our Being’s Ethereal Entities Chapter XI Parallel Existence Chapter XII The ‘Godness’ of Jesus and the Divinity of Humankind P R E F A C E Many, many years ago, an idea seeded into my mind. Was it: Inspiration? Fantasy? Or Delusion? Or, was it an innovative idea of an effusive imagination? Or, has anybody else, before me, ventured through the same uncertain and fluid path? Or, was it the fruit of a Christian background and influence although probably unorthodox or too radical in its expression? Over time, year after year, it deepened its roots, and as my life went by, it permeated every aspect of my existence. It was my guiding light, although silent and private, but still a driving force. It did not bring sanctity or social status to my destiny, but it helped me fulfill a certain mission within myself. Neophyte and laity, I pondered, many a time, about the validity of my thoughts and my internal deliberations and questioned myself whether they were a fictional product of an unrestrained imagination. For long I hesitated to express my thoughts for fear of ridicule or alienation. On the downward slope of the curve of my terrestrial existence, I came to infer that, although many aspects of my ideas had already been expressed very eloquently, much more than I am able to, and that, prevalent themes, dogmas or concepts of God and Divinity contain some basic and fundamental relative truth, they differ only in their complicated expression and definition of that truth. ………. The purpose of my deliberations is to attempt to arrive at a simple understanding of Divinity at the human level. It has always been difficult to try, with our human logic, to comprehend and interpret to the letter the sacred words of those of high spirituality and the parables and teachings of Christ, among them: “The Kingdom of God is within you”, “The works that I do shall you do also” etc… ………. We have to ask ourselves: What was it really Christ wanted to tell us? He possibly wanted us to understand him with our faith, not with our logic which is so dependent on changing temporal parameters. Real faith is unique for all humankind and all religious affiliations. It is unchangeable, unalterable, immutable and may somewhat help us, in layman terns, understand Divinity. Can we boast ourselves claiming that we know the truth in the world and in our surroundings? We live in a world of relativity and imponderables. Truth for us is what we want it to be, changing it at will and at our convenience. Truth is absolute, immutable in its essence; but to our material world, it is relative in its application and understanding. Our ideas, concepts and philosophies change with the influence of different eras and scientific realizations. So is our understanding of what is true. Through my perceptions of and reflections about God and his creations, I felt closer to Him, my fellow humans and all other creations. ……….. We try to comprehend and explain things through our logic and concepts. God’s logic is not our logic. Our logic is aimed at the accomplishment of our intellectual material needs. God’s logic is established at the spiritual, and often times, seems to be in contradiction with ours. The basic premise of our reflections and perceptions is construed as per the following postulates: God created physical existence and all its creatures as an expression and manifestation of His Own Ethereal Essence. - We all are of the ‘Spirit God’. - Our ‘Spirit’ is of Him. At first, they may seem out of line with common conceptual ideas and possibly easily rejected as fictional. Many will qualify my thoughts as pure insane fantasy, crossing the bounds of reality. Will they be right or wrong? My concept of God and Divinity will not necessarily add any additional light, but new ideas to reflect upon, and to try to understand our origin, our existence and our finality. Adherence to the concept will not certainly lead one ahead in the current stream of modern day society. It will probably help us: reach a different perception of our existence; appreciate the oneness of everything that exists; and try to attain that ultimate and ideal goal, dictate given by our Lord: “Love your neighbor as yourself”, because we are all one and the same. This brief reflective booklet, bordering on the controversial, often outright speculative, claims no glory; nor does it pretend to educate or to indoctrinate. It does not laud itself of bringing new knowledge, but observations and interpretations of knowledge already acquired. It is not about religious doctrines and beliefs but about faith, faith in our intrinsic spiritual attributes, union and Oneness in GOD, For we all are the same from HIM and all shall return in HIM. ……….. Chapter I IN BEFORE THE BEGINNING In Before The Beginning, in the “boundless” immensity of “inexistence”, The SPIRIT, GOD, in His ethereal nature is All and the Whole. No space, no darkness, not even nothingness. Incomprehensible “inexistence”, absence of nothingness, but only the “ever-present” ‘SPIRIT GOD’. It is very difficult or impossible to think or imagine what it was like before the universe came into being, because thinking is an attribute, a faculty that we have in the context of the dimensions in which we live, e.g.: space, time, quantity, matter, etc… We can try to understand it, and even then, each of us will have a different notion of it, intrinsic to our experiences and our philosophies. Also, very difficult it is to come even close to describing a state of “inexistence” for which we were not given the parameters in our faculty of thought. We think within the limitations of our material dimensions in which we presently exist. With our mind we may try to understand, to formulate, to represent or to abstract some state of inexistence intangible to our intelligence. But only with faith can we come close to a threshold of assimilating what “in-existed” before the creation of matter. Where did matter come from? What did God create it from? God created physical existence and all its creatures as an expression and manifestation of His Own Ethereal Essence.