God attempts to create a perfect universe. This perfect universe is purely spiritual in nature, it has no physical aspect, and it is identical to God itself. God, in creating the universe, is actually creating itself. The physical dimension of the universe is a result of resistance. Resistance splits the essence of God, life and existence into pluralities and dualities. The origin of everything is oneness, unity. The core of everything the same.
It follows that the spiritual dimension in which our souls, our consciousness and will, lives, is in fact part of God. Our souls are part of God. However, it must be noted that the mind is not analogous to the soul. The soul is our basic life force, our will to act and to exist. Our thoughts and emotions are physical manifestations of our souls, as are our bodies.
Certain psychological experiments have come up with evidence hinting that the movement of our limbs occurs before activity in the areas of the brain controlling these movements can be seen. This seems to suggest that we are not in control of our bodies, and that there is no free will. It could just as well be evidence that will is something that occurs before thought, and that thoughts are physical manifestations of the self on the exact same level as the body.
One might say that the body, thoughts and emotions included, is an anchor for the soul, holding it together and in place. The soul lives in the entire body, not just in the mind. The impression that our mind contains our consciousness is an illusion caused by the fact that this is where our senses and the interpretive organ, the brain, are. The soul receives its information about the physical world through these objects, and so gets the impression that this is where it is. In reality, it is just as much present in our limbs, causing them to move, as it is in our brains, causing them to think.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Evil
Immanuel!
In christian theology the existence of evil is usually explained as a consequence of free will. In other words, man creates evil, not God. God´s omnipotence and moral perfection are seemingly preserved. But could not God have created free will as a choice between several kinds of good? What I mean is that, even if man is responsible for evil in its manifest form, God is still responsible for evil as a possibility.
So, in my opinion, something must be sacrificed, either God´s purity or his omnipotence. The only thing that makes sense, is sacrificing omnipotence (I might argue for this later). God attempts to create the perfect universe, but there exists some inherent resistance in the basis for the universe. Everything in existence is created by God, in battle with this resistance, which is not an active agent or a force. It simply IS. It has no agenda or will, it does not seek the end of existence, rather it hinders it´s creation, passively.
It is this resistance that is responsible for all kinds of evil in the world. Every evil action, every emotion that triggers this action, is a consequence of a resistance to God´s energy within oneself. The struggle inside each individual to flow free with the positive energies of God is analogous to God´s own struggle to overcome resistance and create the perfect universe.
Everything in the universe is a manifestation of God´s power, but the inner world of the mind is a more direct manifestation of it than the physical. Our minds, our consciousness, floats in an ether which is a part of God´s own consciousness. If knowledge of the physical world can be gained by observing it, then knowledge of God can be gained by observing consciousness.
In christian theology the existence of evil is usually explained as a consequence of free will. In other words, man creates evil, not God. God´s omnipotence and moral perfection are seemingly preserved. But could not God have created free will as a choice between several kinds of good? What I mean is that, even if man is responsible for evil in its manifest form, God is still responsible for evil as a possibility.
So, in my opinion, something must be sacrificed, either God´s purity or his omnipotence. The only thing that makes sense, is sacrificing omnipotence (I might argue for this later). God attempts to create the perfect universe, but there exists some inherent resistance in the basis for the universe. Everything in existence is created by God, in battle with this resistance, which is not an active agent or a force. It simply IS. It has no agenda or will, it does not seek the end of existence, rather it hinders it´s creation, passively.
It is this resistance that is responsible for all kinds of evil in the world. Every evil action, every emotion that triggers this action, is a consequence of a resistance to God´s energy within oneself. The struggle inside each individual to flow free with the positive energies of God is analogous to God´s own struggle to overcome resistance and create the perfect universe.
Everything in the universe is a manifestation of God´s power, but the inner world of the mind is a more direct manifestation of it than the physical. Our minds, our consciousness, floats in an ether which is a part of God´s own consciousness. If knowledge of the physical world can be gained by observing it, then knowledge of God can be gained by observing consciousness.
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