Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Godhood does not transcend the supermaterial object


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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