Defining God with human language has been difficult, so language
has often transcended the object it cannot fully explain.
This has helped create a duality between religion and science, and
between the material and the spiritual, which should not be there.
Mystics tend to see the image that they expect to see from their
training. The claim of being ineffable, unexplainable, can be an
alibi for inaccuracy, which of course is understandable given the difficulty. But I like
the
attitude taken by a
few rabbis in the Talmud who have their God saying, “My children
have won against me,” although the God they define is not the
Godhood defined here.
Great religion and science
define the previously undefinable. When the mystical experience
transcends material or supermaterial objects then it goes too far toward unreality.
The Inward God or Father seen by the mystics is only a mirror, a
symbol, a mystical experience of the real supermaterial object Godhood which is
reached through material and supermaterial evolution.
This creates a
more prophetic and inspirational religion than a mystical religion.
Here is a quote from William Law: "There is nothing that is supernatural, however mysterious, in the whole
system of our redemption; every part of it has its ground in the
workings and powers of nature and all our redemption is only nature set
right, or made to be that which it ought to be."
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