a goda divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idola
man or woman of such superior qualities
that he/she appears like a deity to
other humans;
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"He gave himself up without enquiry to men like himself, whom his prejudices induced him to contemplate as beings of a superior order, as gods upon Earth, they profited by his ignorance, took advantage of his prejudices, corrupted him, rendered him vicious, enslaved him, and made him miserable." - Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach |
applied figuratively to one who wields great or despotic power
"We blame anything that goes wrong not on the gods of the sky but on the gods in Washington."- Max Bootgodlike
a material object that is worshipped as a god
one that is worshiped, idealized
an individual or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard
Eventually as humans realized that all of nature was interconnected these beliefs were transformed into a belief of God taking the form of a pregnant woman, a Mother Goddess, who embodied the Creation of Life, who brought prosperity as life to a culture and who was analagous with the Earth. The theory of God as the Mother of life and every thing else is a natural concept as any individual near nature is aware the female is the bearer of life.
Later, as humans filled and overburdened the ecological niche they had originally settled in, these theories of the nature of God were transformed into one in which the template for the conceptual image of God was based on the alpha male, the head of the tribe. This conceptual image of God is clearly intended for a warlike people who will be blessed by their God when they are driven by the reining patriarch to gain control of an adjacent ecological niche which will allow the further expansion of the tribe.
As the nature of God is not easily described it is easy to understand that a conceptual image of God by necessity would take the form of familiar objects that already exerted an influence over the course of human existence. Throughout the evolution of the human conceptual image of God humans projected onto God an archetypical image of power or force already existent in their natural conceptual image of reality.
The Old Testament story of the Creation clearly states that man was created in the image of God but the God of the Old Testament is clearly modeled on the patriarch of a tribe. God has the same emotions as a mortal man in the Old Testament and is judgemental as the patriarch of a tribe would be by necessity.
Perhaps that Old Testament story should be rewritten to say "In the beginning, man not understanding the nature of God or the nature of God's natural reality on the Earth created the concept of God in man's image."
The Hebrew word jehovah, the only other word generally employed to denote the supreme being,
is uniformly printed in small capitals. The existence of God is taken for granted in the Bible.
| "God, by
God's very nature,
is always 'in the picture.' In every
picture. If we don't see God in the
picture, it's only our
perception and recognition
of God that have dimmed.
Jesus said "The Kingdom of God is among
you."(Luke 17:20-21)." - Barbara Robinson "I believe God lives in reality and cannot be captured in church on Sunday. It is necessary, at some point, to head out without the road map church provides in order to gain firsthand experience of God, and to test the strength of what you trust." - Barbara Brown Taylor |
attributes of God
If a things exists it is known to exist
in nature.
No
thing is known by mankind to exist ‘outside of
nature'.
If no thing
exists 'outside of nature' then if God
exists then God
must exist
within nature.
If
God is omnipotent and
omnipresent then
God must be everywhere at once.
If
God exists
everywhere at once then God must permeate
nature.
If God permeates nature
then the essence of God is within all
things - every single
thing that
exists.
If God 'acts' within nature, then God must
physically have an extension of
His self in
nature.
If God is all powerful, then God is the Supreme Power
of the universe.
God
existing
within nature,
God
being omnipotent and omnipresent,
God permeating nature,
God
acting within
nature,
God
being all powerful;
then
God, by definition,
must be the
motivating force that
created existence,
must be the
emanating force that continually
renews existence,
must have set the
rules of existence
and grants the
reality of an actual
existence
to each
seperate individual
being
by the exertion of
will, the
will of
God.
BY GOD'S WILL ALL LIFE IS CREATED!!!
He or she who
understands all
life to be sacred,
celebrates the
living of life
and
lives
within the
Natural Law of God is
one blessed with
true happiness and contentment.
He who
disbelieves this truth is spoken of as one devoid of
understanding - Psalms 14:1
GOD ACTS SOLELY BY
THE LAWS OF NATURE.
GOD PERMEATES ALL OF
NATURE, BEING BOTH 'WITHIN' AND 'WITHOUT'.
THE TAKING OF
LIFE IS BLESSED BY GOD
ONLY WHEN THAT LIFE MUST BE TAKEN FOR
SUSTENANCE.
THE TAKING OF
LIFE, BOTH DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY, (through
inaction by allowing and accepting hegemonic acts of a
tyrannical nature or destruction of an
ecosystem), IS THE GREATEST SIN THAT CAN BE
COMMITTED.
GOD'S ATTRIBUTES ARE ABSOLUTE.
the
God of Truth
It-Who-Is is ineffable. No
principle knew It, no
authority, no subjection, nor any creature from the
foundation of the world, except
It alone. For It is
immortal and
eternal, having no birth; for
everyone who has birth will perish. It is
unbegotten, having no beginning; for everyone
who has a beginning has an end. No one
rules over It.
It has no name; for
whoever has a name is the
creation of another. It
is unnameable. It has no
human form; for whoever has
human form is the
creation of another. It
has its own semblance - not like the semblance we have received and seen, but a strange semblance
that surpasses all things and is better
than the totalities. It looks to every side and
sees itself from itself. It is
infinite; It is
incomprehensible.
It is ever imperishable and has no likeness to
anything. It is unchanging good. It is faultless.
It is everlasting. It
is blessed. It is unknowable, while It
nonetheless knows itself. It is
immeasurable. It is untraceable.
It is perfect,
having no defect. It is imperishably blessed.
It is called 'Creator of the Universe'.
Now, if anyone wants to
believe the words
set down here, let him go from what is hidden to the end of what is
visible, and this thought will instruct him how
faith in those
things that are not
visible was found in what is
visible.
This is the
principle of knowledge.
Its female aspect is 'First-begotten
Sophia, Mother of the
Universe,'
whom some call 'Compassion'. Some call her 'Pistis' (faith).
Its masculine aspect is 'Savior, Begetter of all
Things'.
From the consenting of
those I have just mentioned, thoughts
appeared. From thoughts, reflectings; from
reflectings, considerings; from considerings, rationalities, from rationalities, wills, from wills,
words.
All I have just said to you, I said
in the way that you might accept, until the
one who need not be taught appears among you, and he will speak all these
things to you joyously and in
pure knowledge. - Eugnostos the Blessed
gnosticism and Rome
"It used to be thought absolutely necessary that all the inhabitants of a country should have the same religion, but we now know that there is no such necessity." - Bertrand Russell
The near collapse of the Roman Empire between 235 and 284 was caused by three simultaneous crises: external invasion, internal civil war, and economic collapse. The changes in the institutions, social culture, economic life and religion were so profound and fundamental, that the "Crisis of the Third Century" is increasingly seen as the watershed marking the difference between the classical world and the early medieval world.Diocletian took control of the Roman Empire in 284. Diocletian, after watching numerous internal struggles for power which culminated in civil wars, understood that most of shifts in the balance of power were facilitated by soldiers personal allegiance to charismatic commanders which stemmed from the brotherhood experienced by soldiers belonging to the secret fellowship of the mysteries of Mithras. The worship of Mithras, the emissary of light who symbolized the dissemination of life-giving forces in the face of the powers of darkness and disorder fit neatly within the soldiers calling. The Mithras mysteries emissary of light was a life-death-rebirth deity also known as a "dying-and-rising" or "resurrection" deity, a son of the God of Creation.
Diocletian recognized that control had to be based on something more than simply military force, so he sought imperial legitimacy in a new state religion, with himself as divine monarch much as Akhenaten had done 1650 years earlier in Eygpt. To the Romans, the observance of religious rites was a public duty even though Roman state religious beliefs were founded on a chaotic unconnected inconsistent pagan mythological tradition, adopted from Greek models and cross-pollinated with influences from all the religions of the regions the imperial Rome Empire had conquered.
Secret societies and mystery brotherhoods were a threat to Diocletian's power so he aligned himself with the mysteries of Mithras outlawing all others. Diocletian declared himself Lord and Master (Dominus Noster) and later equated himself to the paternal father god of Rome, Rome's Great Father and Savior (Juppiter Optimus Maximus Soter); the patron deity of the Roman state. By outlawing the Eleusinian mysteries, and the Gnostic Christian mysteries and declaring himself a divine intercessor - a god brought to life on Earth - Diocletian hoped to gain social control through religious unification. By dividing the Roman Empire into West and East and taking personal control of the East in 292 Diocletian hoped to retain control of the eastern imperial Roman territories.
Diocletian in 303 issued a series of four increasingly harsh decrees designed to compel Christians to take part in the imperial religion. Diocletian ordered all Christian churches to be destroyed, all Christian books to be burned and Christians themselves were denied the protection offered other citizens by Roman law. Christians were arrested, tortured, mutilated, burned, starved, and forced into gladiatorial contests in purges until 311.
In 306, Constantine started a civil war in the West, which he won in 312. When Constantine won a decisive battle he needed a great and powerful father god, a god unrelated to the father god of Diocletian. Constantine chose an imperial Christian god, a god different from the God of the Gnostics, as his benefactor.
Constantine took the eastern half of the Roman Empire from Licinius by 324 and ruled the entire Roman Empire until his death in 337. Constantine summoned the Council of Nicaea in 325 which defined "Nicene Christianity," basically Pauline Christianity, as the Nicene Creed. Constantine, the first imperial Christian Emperor, only allowed himself to be baptized on his death bed in the hope that he would avoid eternal damnation by being unable to sin after being baptized.
Power was fractured again under Constantine's sons. Although the throne was intermitently unified under Julian and Valentinian I, among others.
The last pagan emperor, Julian saw the destruction of Mediterranean civilization in the nihilistic forces of imperial Christianity and attempted to reverse the direction Roman social culture was headed by repealing the edicts that only Christianity may be practiced.
Imperial Christian Emperor Valentinian I found it hard to govern the entire Roman Empire so he gave his brother, Valens, control of the East. Imperial Christian Emperor Valens ordered the governor of Minor Asia to exterminate all the Hellenes and all documents of their wisdom. In Antioch, among many other Hellenes, the ex-governor Fidustius and the priests Hilarius and Patricius were executed. Tons of books are burnt in the squares of the cities of the Eastern Empire. All the associates of last pagan emperor Julian were persecuted (Orebasius, Sallustius, Pegasius etc.), the philosopher Simonides was burned alive and the philosopher Maximus was decapitated.
The last man to attempt unification and succeed was imperial Christian Emperor Theodosius I. Upon Emperor Theodosius I death in 395 the division between the East and West became permanent.
In another attempt to unify the social culture of the Roman Empire through religious conformity imperial Roman Catholic Emperor Theodosius I commissioned Pope Damasus I and the Council of Rome, which took place in 382, to name the Hebrew books and the books about Jesus that were to be included in the Latin Vulgate. Saint Jerome translated the Greek into Latin. Imperial Roman Catholic intolerance of other belief systems was crucial to its own success and necessary in the eyes of Emperor Theodosius I and Pope Damasus I who continued to systematically eradicate practioners of any other religion than the state religion as their recent imperial Christian predecessors had done. All other religions, except Judaism, are condemned and practioners are executed.
Imperial Christian priests lead a mob against the Temple of Goddess Demeter in Eleusis and attempted to execute the hierophants Nestorius and Priskus. The 95 years old hierophant Nestorius ends the Eleusinian mysteries and announces the predominance of spiritual darkness over the human race.
In Constantinople, the Temple of Goddess Aphrodite is turned into a brothel and the Temples of Sun and Artemis into stables.
The mysteries of Samothrace are ended and the priests slaughtered.
Maternus Cynegius scours the East sacking and destroying hundreds of Hellenic Temples, shrines and altars. Among others they destroy the Temple of Edessa, the Cabeireion of Imbros, the Temple of Zeus in Apamea, temple of the Semitic Moon-god Sin at the citadel of Carrhae on the Persian border, the Temple of Apollo in Dydima and all the Temples of Palmyra.
All pagan temples, including all Mithraeum, are destroyed.
The philosopher Olympius leads a revolt in Alexandria. In response imperial Roman Catholics demolish the Temple of God Serapis (The Serapeion) which is believed to have housed many books of the Library of Alexandria.
Any other nonconforming sacred scrolls and books are burned.
Private ownership of pagan sculpture is outlawed.
Hypatia of Alexandria is stripped naked and dragged through the streets by an Imperial Christian mob, flayed with ostrakois and set ablaze while still alive. A Neoplatonist philosopher, she followed the school characterized by the 3rd century Plotinus discouraging mysticism while encouraging logical and mathematical studies. Hailed as a "valiant defender of science in the face of the religious postulates," some suggest that her murder marked the end of the Hellenistic Age of Reason.
The Gnostic Christian sanctuary on the Euphrates is burned.
Gnostic Christian belief systems are condemned and outlawed.
Gnostic Christian mysteries, Mithras mysteries, Eleusinian mysteries and all other mystery cults are banned forever.
Gnostic Christians believe that God - the true, ultimate and transcendent God; It who is beyond all created universes - “emanated” or brought forth from within Itself all substance, visible and invisible. It's emantions permeate reality. All things share It in common.
This was anathema to the imperial Roman Catholic dogma of Emperor Theodosius I because the imperial Roman Catholic dogma taught that man had been seperated from God in the Garden of Eden. Seperation from God always renews power of state religious institutions as the common man must now go through an intercessor - an intercessor serving in an official government religious position.
Gnostic Christians believed that each and every human could experience God personally which of course leads to no need for intercessors. And without intercessors there is really no need for an institutionalized Imperial Roman Catholic religion.
Like most religions gnosticism is commonly misunderstood and misdefined by modern imperial Christians theologians (imperial Christians put out false information - they always have and always will. The imperial Roman Catholic's coined the word propaganda.)
All religions theologians look at all other religions through the prism of their own religion.
When this occurs ancient religions are seen as a spectrum of separate colors because modern theologians do not have the ability to ‘see' the religion as the religions adherents at the time saw it, as a pure white light, not through a prism.
Gnosticism is reserved for groups that might have used it to describe themselves, but often the term is used more widely to identify groups emphasizing the self-redemptive benefit of individual wisdom.
Gnostics Christians believed that God was found through knowledge - knowledge gained through the observation of the experiences of living.
If you want no questions asked, if you demand blind obedience and blind faith, then knowledge is not something that you want your flock to have.
Knowledge breeds critical thinking and critical thinking reveals the falsities that have been presented as truth.
And that is why any scholar that attempted to translate the Bible and bring it to the common man was condemned, excommunicated and occasionally burned at the stake by the imperial Christian Inquistion.
Martin Luther was excommunicated by Leo X on January 3, 1521. Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament was published in German in September 1522.
In 1526 a full edition of the New Testament was translated into English by William Tyndale. William Tyndale was tried on a charge of heresy in 1536 and condemned to be burned at the stake. William Tyndale was strangled and his dead body burnt on October 6, 1536.
The Roman Catholic heirarchy has understood, since imperial Christian Emperor Theodosius I set an example, that the only way to retain control of the social culture is to outlaw any concept or idea that does not fit within the express dogma as defined by Pope Damasus I and the Council of Rome in 382.
This mindset led in fact to the Dark Ages in Europe which basically occurred because the imperial Christian Emperors in search of power and control ordered most of the knowledge accumulated by all the ancient cultures surrounding the Mediterranean destroyed in the quest to create a uniform conforming social culture. One detail that helps show the severity of the amount of scientific and technological information that was lost in the purge of knowledge by the Roman Catholics: The secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until rediscovered in 1756 by John Smeaton.
The term gnosis is a Greek word expressing a type of understanding, intuitive consciousness, gained through personal experience. It is a type of transcendent experience that followers of gnostic belief systems use to seek escape from ignorance.
proof of God
The arguments generally adduced by theologians in proof of the being of God are:The a priori argument, which is the testimony afforded by reason.
The a posteriori argument, by which we proceed logically
from the facts of experience to causes.
These arguments are:
The cosmological, by which it is proved that there must be a First Cause of all objects, for every effect must have a cause.
The teleological, or the argument from design. We see everywhere the operations of an Intelligent Cause in nature.
The moral argument, called also the anthropological argument, based on the moral consciousness and the history of mankind, which exhibits a moral order and purpose which can be explained on the supposition of the existence of God.
Conscience and human history testify that "verily there is a God that judgeth on the Earth."
the question of God is simply one of a definition of terms.
When people use the term ‘God' they use metaphorical examples, a necessity, in the attempt to convey the abstract concept of ‘God', the transcendent eternal infinite omniscient omnipresent conscious spark that permeates all of nature.The terms God and nature are interchangeable in the abstract conceptualized thinking of an individuals subconscious thoughts.
People that conceptualize nature as evil, worship a ‘God' that resides ‘outside of nature'.
People that conceptualize nature as evil do so because they have been taught to fear nature.
This is the main method to distinguish between a false teacher and a teacher of truth. If a religious figure claims an act of nature as God's retribution then those individuals are in truth worshiping not the God of compassion, of light and of creation but the god of delusion, deception and despair who damns your corrupt soul to hell on Earth here and now.
People who are distant from their subconscious will fight intuitive understanding contrary to their belief system and will further wall themselves off from reality.
Nature has a structural patterned order which makes it possible for humans to accurately predict future conditions.
Nature has provided mankind in this age a very wide understanding of the inner workings of natural processes.Natural processes, from the formation of suns down to the transfer of electrons through a copper wire are natural processes that have a life independent of, yet intimately interconnected, with all other processes.
These natural processes are not static.
These natural processes are always in flux, in motion.
These natural processes have a life of their own.
Seen independently each of these natural processes is understandable and each follows certain conditions, called the laws of nature. Seen together these natural processes of nature create a exceedingly complex interplay of natural processes that propels further natural processes.Mankind has attempted to quantify and qualify, in the normal categorization processes of the human mind, all aspects of nature.
Pattern recognition in nature from the earliest days of mankind allowed men to predict future occurrence based on current observation.
All civilizations had some method of calculating the advent of seasonal changes from observation of celestial phenomenon.
Natural patterns recognized in nature would be seen as having a force behind them that ‘created' the natural pattern.
This gave rise to local deities that controlled the local forces of nature.
Major religion has been caught in the trap of literalist explanations, explanations that were meant for children not for adults.
Effective religious myths have
several levels of understanding associated with
them.
The base level is for young
minds and is designed as a moral
compass.
The highest level is for
adults and is related to timeless
wisdom.
THE NATURAL LAW
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GOD'S
LAWS
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