Saturday, August 8, 2009
stop fudging on divinity
If everything is divine (all is God), then nothing is divine -- the concept loses all meaning. If some things are (or one thing is) divine, we are back in the dualistic world of separation, a world that we know has built-in restrictions, condemning us to eternal separation. Perhaps it's time to drop divine from our vocabulary, except in its smaller meaning as a descriptor of people or of food or of wine.
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There is the Divine and the Manifest. People believe that they are separate, but the Manifest is a subset of the Divine, issued from the Divine, and would not exist without the Divine. So, to state that "All is Divine" is making a subtle point that Nothing exists without the Divine. Energy comes in two forms - potential and kinetic, but these are just distinctions made for the sake of convenience. The same is ture of the Divine and the Manifest.
ReplyDeleteYou are stating that people are cheapening the word Divine, but they have also cheapened the Divine itself because they don't know the Divine except in brief instances or moments when their minds let their guard down. A word is just a pointer to the larger experience or reality. The problem is mistaking the word or label for the thing itself, especially if the thing is not matter like energy or Consciousness. How then would you point people to the truth or larger reality without any signs or labels to direct them to the truth? The word fire is not the thing it points to, yet everyone knows what fire is because they have experienced it. Is this true when people talk of the Divine?
John, I think you and I could get a tent and some folding chairs and some backup singers and do pretty well together. I think you have hit the nail on the head here.
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