Bruce I have read a lot of books and different theories of god.With all of your journeys could you tell me what you have found out about god/gods?Any information would be appreciated.

God has turned up missing.  Too bad so few people noticed.  Maybe he wandered off somewhere and can't find his way back.  It could have been prevented if people had been more vigilant.  Gods tend to dissappear like that.  I mean try and find a greek god/goddess thses days.  Olympus is vacant.

Mr Satan

By Zeus Mr. Satan !

What heresy is this  :o

;D

Hi Seeker-
I'm inclined to agree with Mr Satan, that "God", descriobed in Richard Burton's Kassidha as the "bigger, stronger, crueler man" seems to be losing ground.

By the way, MrS, who said it was a man? My wife always mentions God as 'Her".

However, if you REALLY seek a look at the nature of God, look in a mirror. The problem is not so much to have the sight of God as it is a matter of understanding what you are seeing. For example, if the universe has been brought forth from a timeless void, everything you see is actually a manifestation first of the timeless void, and second, a manifestation of God. With your eyes closed and your senses turned inward, the "outside world" ceases to exist. You're IT. We have interpersonal contact only when we adopt an identity, meaning a viewpoint that is contingent uon a set of circumstances and definitions of an external reality that everyone can share. Since we can't make tht up all by ourselves, yet since we seem to share the same definitions, they must have come out of the initial instant of Creation. Thus, the world in general manifests us, you, me and Mr Satan,  as an extension of the initial instant, contaioned within the unitary projection of the initial God-Force. (The philosopher Henri Bergson called it "elan vital". Nothing new here.) So, since our definition is contained in and contingent upon projection from this initial unity, it follows that you are a direct and explicit Manifestation of God. So is Mr S, so is Raphael, even me too. The difference is rather like different moods. Today you feel thus, tomorrow you feel otherwise, voila!, two different people within one person. Seems like God has many moods, each of which seeks to return to its Source in its own specific manner.  (Just as some thoughts work out to a logical conclusion, and some don't, it looks like a few of these moods self-destruct.)

Look in the mirror and you will see the Face of God reflected. Blessed be.

d

Hmmmmm...
Is Piety pious because God loves Piety,
or does God love Piety because Piety is
pious???

Raphael

I'm sure that i have been burnt in a previous life.

S