According to the Gita it was God (Krishna) who said that.
But my Goddess leaves it to me to work out right and wrong. She doesn't concern herself with the petty dualisms we divide Her universe with. If your God is the one I think He is, She'd agree with Him in Isaiah 45:7.
My God is the father of all spirits, and his only begotten son Jesus Christ. He lived and embodied the law of all the commandments, and gave his life to show us that the Love of God is stronger than death and goes well beyond the grave. But when you refer to "my Goddess" I have no other reference than your first line, although esoteric knowledge is that darkness that Isaiah 45:7 speaks of, and indeed he does all these and more than we could ever know. But in him is light, and there is no darkness in him. 1st John 1:5. Ergo, let your light (the love of God) shine, like that candle on the candlestick. If I were to offer one meditation for this day it would be this: "
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1st John 4:18
God is Truth, and St. Thomas Equinas Apologizes using Natural Law not only His existence - the unMoved mover, the First Cause, and His existence and some traits found in Nature, and the more perfect you are, the Clearer your Intelect the more Perfect the Reflection of world and infinite God, within you.
For a person to Sin they must Lie to Self that it is Good and so damage Intellect and other faculties, and the more damages then the Darker the Intelect. And such was the case for women in the 1960's with birth control and disposing men, and seeing self both as Objects, soulless, and filled with disOrdered desires, and so was able to murder our children.
After generations of [no-fault divorce disposable Fatherlessness] we all raised to accept the insane and Satanic as normal from crib, a Darkened intellect so crippled that sexual-mutilating children and allowing open Genocide.
Don't expect to find Truth, God, Love, Joy with that tar-black putrid Intelect and crippled faculties.
Has it occurred to you that darkness is relative? What's dark to you and I can be well illuminated to a cat.
Perhaps the Truth of God/Goddess is of that esoteric knowledge that remains largely in the darkness beyond any possibility of human conception, much less anything that can be represented with an archaic English translation of a 4th century Roman compilation of Scriptures.
So, as with the Jain fable of the blind men trying to know the nature of an elephant, perhaps God/Goddess manifests differently according to the beholder. To some He/She is "the father of all spirits", to others He's Jahweh, Allah, Krishna, Great Spirit, Baayami ... even Mahakali.
God is without limits or boundaries. Our understanding and ability to communicate are limited by experience, culture, language and the human condition. What we say about our God may be true, but what we can say about God can never be True. Neti neti.
Speaking from experience, having crossed that veil between this dimension and the next, from a corporeal world of limited understanding into that realm where time does not exist, and all plurality becomes a singularity. There is one limitation of God, in that he cannot lie. Perhaps you have heard that" In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word (Greek preferred Logos) was God, the Same was in the beginning with God." Although you poem presents an amusing word salad, The Alpha and Omega cannot be simply cast off with negations of doubt. As Jesus testified in John Chapter 4, "God is a spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth". Our corporeal minds and bodies are limited to an incomplete picture of what is to come, but make no mistake that we should never quit seeking out that which is good, right, and true regardless of what others may think of us, we need not be confined to the darkness of our own imaginations, where there are words to enlighten us to our plight. In the Gospel's, men are called everywhere to "repent" and believe the Gospel" but understanding the limitations of our vanity, we cannot chose for others, every individual must resolve within themselves if they really want to make peace with their maker, or to continue to make war with those eternal, immutable truths. In a culture that rejects mercy, truth and due consideration for the human condition, what else should we expect from fallen man?
My understanding is that followers of Abrahamic religions are 'fallen' because of forbears who ate of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.
Perhaps by not seeking to divide Creation and the Divine into dualisms such as truth/lies and good/evil you can become unfallen and accept *everything* Creation blesses you with without having to impose your ego-based judgements upon it. Maybe you can realise your unity with the One and no longer be cast from the Garden.
If you have truly experienced a realm(?) in which "plurality becomes a singularity" (I suspect 'singularity' doesn't mean what you think it does) such concepts will be familiar to you even if my attempts to express them fall short.
According to the Gita it was God (Krishna) who said that.
But my Goddess leaves it to me to work out right and wrong. She doesn't concern herself with the petty dualisms we divide Her universe with. If your God is the one I think He is, She'd agree with Him in Isaiah 45:7.
My God is the father of all spirits, and his only begotten son Jesus Christ. He lived and embodied the law of all the commandments, and gave his life to show us that the Love of God is stronger than death and goes well beyond the grave. But when you refer to "my Goddess" I have no other reference than your first line, although esoteric knowledge is that darkness that Isaiah 45:7 speaks of, and indeed he does all these and more than we could ever know. But in him is light, and there is no darkness in him. 1st John 1:5. Ergo, let your light (the love of God) shine, like that candle on the candlestick. If I were to offer one meditation for this day it would be this: "
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1st John 4:18
God is Truth, and St. Thomas Equinas Apologizes using Natural Law not only His existence - the unMoved mover, the First Cause, and His existence and some traits found in Nature, and the more perfect you are, the Clearer your Intelect the more Perfect the Reflection of world and infinite God, within you.
For a person to Sin they must Lie to Self that it is Good and so damage Intellect and other faculties, and the more damages then the Darker the Intelect. And such was the case for women in the 1960's with birth control and disposing men, and seeing self both as Objects, soulless, and filled with disOrdered desires, and so was able to murder our children.
After generations of [no-fault divorce disposable Fatherlessness] we all raised to accept the insane and Satanic as normal from crib, a Darkened intellect so crippled that sexual-mutilating children and allowing open Genocide.
Don't expect to find Truth, God, Love, Joy with that tar-black putrid Intelect and crippled faculties.
God Bless., Steve
Has it occurred to you that darkness is relative? What's dark to you and I can be well illuminated to a cat.
Perhaps the Truth of God/Goddess is of that esoteric knowledge that remains largely in the darkness beyond any possibility of human conception, much less anything that can be represented with an archaic English translation of a 4th century Roman compilation of Scriptures.
So, as with the Jain fable of the blind men trying to know the nature of an elephant, perhaps God/Goddess manifests differently according to the beholder. To some He/She is "the father of all spirits", to others He's Jahweh, Allah, Krishna, Great Spirit, Baayami ... even Mahakali.
God is without limits or boundaries. Our understanding and ability to communicate are limited by experience, culture, language and the human condition. What we say about our God may be true, but what we can say about God can never be True. Neti neti.
I once wrote a poem to that effect.
https://neurodrooling.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/god-spoke-not/
Speaking from experience, having crossed that veil between this dimension and the next, from a corporeal world of limited understanding into that realm where time does not exist, and all plurality becomes a singularity. There is one limitation of God, in that he cannot lie. Perhaps you have heard that" In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word (Greek preferred Logos) was God, the Same was in the beginning with God." Although you poem presents an amusing word salad, The Alpha and Omega cannot be simply cast off with negations of doubt. As Jesus testified in John Chapter 4, "God is a spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth". Our corporeal minds and bodies are limited to an incomplete picture of what is to come, but make no mistake that we should never quit seeking out that which is good, right, and true regardless of what others may think of us, we need not be confined to the darkness of our own imaginations, where there are words to enlighten us to our plight. In the Gospel's, men are called everywhere to "repent" and believe the Gospel" but understanding the limitations of our vanity, we cannot chose for others, every individual must resolve within themselves if they really want to make peace with their maker, or to continue to make war with those eternal, immutable truths. In a culture that rejects mercy, truth and due consideration for the human condition, what else should we expect from fallen man?
My understanding is that followers of Abrahamic religions are 'fallen' because of forbears who ate of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.
Perhaps by not seeking to divide Creation and the Divine into dualisms such as truth/lies and good/evil you can become unfallen and accept *everything* Creation blesses you with without having to impose your ego-based judgements upon it. Maybe you can realise your unity with the One and no longer be cast from the Garden.
If you have truly experienced a realm(?) in which "plurality becomes a singularity" (I suspect 'singularity' doesn't mean what you think it does) such concepts will be familiar to you even if my attempts to express them fall short.