We could agree with the Kabbalah if it did, in fact, take away the dualism between God and Nature of the Persians and Indians and make God an absolute unity of cause and substance. The God of the Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) is also a unity of cause and substance, a Supreme Object in the Kosmos.
But matter still remains an evil principle in the Kabbalah, as with the Persians and Indians. The Kabbalah allows for more interaction with God but the world is still dualistic, divided between the matter of the gross world and the Spirit of God. We cannot affirm this view.
Among many other things the Kabbalah received from the Zend Avesta during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, was the mystic geography of the world divided into sevens, seven rivers, seven parts of the earth, seven races, etc. But the Kabbalah then gives a racial and national character to the pantheistic Persians and Indians when it suggests that the sacred laws were given to only one people. On the contrary, ECC sees this mystical geography more as seven federations, seven races, and we cannot affirm making an exclusive racial or national right to the laws of God. Godhood is possible in evolution for all races and all nations.
In the Kabbalah, in a manner of speaking, God is an abstract idea with “flesh” put on that idea, but God is not of this world even though God creates this world. God is both cause and substance and not merely cause, as God is with the Persians and Indians. This is not exactly the way God is defined in ECC.
In ECC, the idea of God exists within the Mind of God. The Mind or the Word is not alone defined as God with flesh put on the Mind or Word, as it seems to be in the Kabbalah. In ECC, God is an existing Supreme Object with a Mind and a Holy Spirit. The only “Abstract Absolute” is within God's Mind defining or denotating Itself, and this is how the “Father” is defined in ECC. The Father, or God's Mind defining God, does not exist on Its Own as an Idea, or as a Supreme God, as it does in the Kabbalah, the Abstract Absolute definition of God exists in God's Mind, and God's Mind exists within the Supreme Body of God, as the human mind exists within the human body.
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Trinity in ECC, defines the Father as being Within the Mind of God, and the Son as the Body of God, and the Holy Spirit as the Spirit or Seed of God. It is this Spirit, this Seed of God, which is given to the Kosmos at the birth of the Kosmos, and this Seed is also the Will-To-Godhood in the Kosmos, activating life to evolve to Godhood. This is the Trinity in ECC.
“Dualism” in ECC relates to “Devolution” and “Evolution”. Satan is defined as the entropic Kosmic Center, and God is defined as The Great White Mountain at the Kosmic Summit. Satan, in ECC, might be compared with Ahriman and God with Ormuzd in Zoroastrianism, however, unlike the Persians, we do not define a Zervane Akerene, an Eternal timeless principle beyond God or beyond Ahriman and Ormuzd. Our God is that Eternal Timeless Object at the Kosmic Summit still existing in the world through the Spirit. Unlike the Kabbalah, and unlike the Persians and Indians, our God does not relate to matter as evil. Our God is the Zenith of Material Evolution.
But matter still remains an evil principle in the Kabbalah, as with the Persians and Indians. The Kabbalah allows for more interaction with God but the world is still dualistic, divided between the matter of the gross world and the Spirit of God. We cannot affirm this view.
Among many other things the Kabbalah received from the Zend Avesta during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, was the mystic geography of the world divided into sevens, seven rivers, seven parts of the earth, seven races, etc. But the Kabbalah then gives a racial and national character to the pantheistic Persians and Indians when it suggests that the sacred laws were given to only one people. On the contrary, ECC sees this mystical geography more as seven federations, seven races, and we cannot affirm making an exclusive racial or national right to the laws of God. Godhood is possible in evolution for all races and all nations.
In the Kabbalah, in a manner of speaking, God is an abstract idea with “flesh” put on that idea, but God is not of this world even though God creates this world. God is both cause and substance and not merely cause, as God is with the Persians and Indians. This is not exactly the way God is defined in ECC.
In ECC, the idea of God exists within the Mind of God. The Mind or the Word is not alone defined as God with flesh put on the Mind or Word, as it seems to be in the Kabbalah. In ECC, God is an existing Supreme Object with a Mind and a Holy Spirit. The only “Abstract Absolute” is within God's Mind defining or denotating Itself, and this is how the “Father” is defined in ECC. The Father, or God's Mind defining God, does not exist on Its Own as an Idea, or as a Supreme God, as it does in the Kabbalah, the Abstract Absolute definition of God exists in God's Mind, and God's Mind exists within the Supreme Body of God, as the human mind exists within the human body.
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Trinity in ECC, defines the Father as being Within the Mind of God, and the Son as the Body of God, and the Holy Spirit as the Spirit or Seed of God. It is this Spirit, this Seed of God, which is given to the Kosmos at the birth of the Kosmos, and this Seed is also the Will-To-Godhood in the Kosmos, activating life to evolve to Godhood. This is the Trinity in ECC.
“Dualism” in ECC relates to “Devolution” and “Evolution”. Satan is defined as the entropic Kosmic Center, and God is defined as The Great White Mountain at the Kosmic Summit. Satan, in ECC, might be compared with Ahriman and God with Ormuzd in Zoroastrianism, however, unlike the Persians, we do not define a Zervane Akerene, an Eternal timeless principle beyond God or beyond Ahriman and Ormuzd. Our God is that Eternal Timeless Object at the Kosmic Summit still existing in the world through the Spirit. Unlike the Kabbalah, and unlike the Persians and Indians, our God does not relate to matter as evil. Our God is the Zenith of Material Evolution.
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