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Word Gems
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No cosmic war exists between Evil and Good.
Satan is not dualistic counterpart to God.
There is but one Reality, Universal Goodness.
God is all and in all. There is nothing else.
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We have elsewhere discussed how the opposite of death is not life but birth. Life is of God, and all attributes of God have no opposite: love has no opposite, joy has no opposite.
a Singular Pervasive Reality
The things of God are all-pervasive, fill the universe, never abate, cannot be overthrown - and seeming threats to such are merely apparent, not real; just the mad delusions of the Small Ego.
"Satan," a mythic abstraction, cannot be the opposite of God. Universal Goodness has no opposite because everything that exists expresses a sweet singular cosmic essence of having been conceived in love.
All things represent the Goodness of God; even that which, in distorted myopic views, we deem to be Evil. But this is misperception, like a child calling the dentist a bad man. All things fit into a pattern of leading us into a mature consciousness, without which we could not enjoy our coming eternal life in Summerland.
Believe how they live and act, not what they chant
There are those who sing the praises, say all the right words, concerning Divinity. They claim that he is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-this and all-that - but yet, they cower before a fearful mental-image of Satan who, in their faulty perception, strikes a more formidable pose than the God of the universe.
This is all illusion. God has no competition. All exists at his/her behest, and nothing that is finds reality without his/her knowledge or approval.
As we've seen, some are so fascinated with Evil, so impressed by its immediate benefits, that the fabled mental construct of a "Satan" becomes a fetish invested with a lifetime of fears. The belief in a Devil with superpowers, an uber-warlord, is a primitive icon - earthy, sensual, appealing to childish anxieties. It has no part of the spiritual mind.
The Eternal our God is One! - that is, God is Singular Pervasive Reality!
Dr. Gerald Schroeder, MIT physicist and Hebrew scholar, is one of the great teachers. The following is an excerpt from one of his excellent books, "The Hidden Face of God." Therein, he explains that "the Shema" - an epicentral prayer of Judaism, to which Jesus himself drew special attention - speaks to the fact that God exists as Singular Pervasive Reality!
"Hear O Israel, the Eternal our God, the Eternal is One!" is no banal pronouncement that there is but one deity. This is not the point of the Hebrew text. Dr. Schroeder enlightens us:
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... a unity pervades and underlies all existence. This is the meaning of "the Eternal is One" (Deut. 6:4)…
But don't think that this is the kind of one after which might come the quantities two, three, and four. Nothing as superficial as a number is being revealed in these statements.
Rather, the infinite metaphysical as perceived by the physical is an all-encompassing, universal unity…
“You shall know this day and place it in your heart that the Eternal is God in heaven above and on earth below” (Deut. 4:39). ain od -- a Hebrew expression in this verse meaning there is nothing else.
That is to say, there is nothing else. Nothing other than this singular totality.
Everything, everything with no exception, is a manifestation of an eternal unity, a transcending ubiquitous consciousness, which many label as God...
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Those who preach a Satan-figure in opposition to the will of God do not understand how such gross, errant notion violates a most central precept of their own purported Infallible Book, one quoted by Jesus in the New Testament: "The Eternal is One!" that is... There is nothing else! - nothing other than this Singular Divine Totality!
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'the Eternal is One, there is nothing else': the parable of the two whirlpools
Elenchus. Our statements concerning “the Eternal is One, there is nothing else” are not easy to understand.
Kairissi. Which is why quantum mechanics’ assertions are also non-intuitive; that, consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being in the universe, and that everything derives from Universal Consciousness.
E. It’s not intuitive because pretty much everyone is a materialist at heart. It’s really hard not to be; I mean, trees and tables, people and pineapples, all seem very solid to us. And not just solid, but they definitely seem to be “out there,” separate from ourselves.
K. It’s a hard sell to suggest, as the quantum experiments indicate, that everything is connected.
E. Moreover, mind does not live in a little house called the brain, but instead, the brain, the whole body, all people and the entire universe, exist within mind, within Universal Mind.
K. We’d like to report to our readers that we’ve encountered what is probably the best analogy to explain “the Eternal is One, there is nothing else”…
E. … and also that everything comes from, is made of, consciousness, Universal Consciousness. Let’s introduce Dr. Kastrup:
Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, PhD philosophy, PhD computer science, for many years worked at CERN, the large hadron collider in Geneva.
E. Given Dr. Kastrup’s credentials, he’s probably the leading spokesman in the world today in terms of explaining the fraudulent doctrine of the primacy of matter.
K. He’s very hard to argue against. His erudition and sharp angle on logic reminds me of this:
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), On The Art Of Reading: "A very well-informed person is an object of terror."
E. This quote makes me smile, and readers will want to get Kastrup’s books for the full account, but for our purposes here let’s focus on his brilliant analogy of the two whirlpools:
K. Each human being corresponds to a different whirlpool; each person with his or her particular points of view and field of personal consciousness.
E. But here's where the fun begins. The whirlpools are not exactly stand-alone entities. These "bodies" are not substantive at all but only apparently so. And they might seem to exist "separately" in a vast ocean but, in reality, are connected, as each merely expresses, in a unique way, the underlying medium which is the ocean.
K. Each whirlpool is made of the same water, comes from the same source; so it is with apparently individual human minds.
E. Kastrup points out that these whirlpools-as-people are neither truly separate nor substantive but are "just undulations - disturbances - of the medium," be it the ocean or Universal Mind.
K. His thought-provoking definition of reality is a collection of "excitations" of Universal Consciousness.
E. This "parable of the two whirlpools" helps us visualize the meaning of "brains exist within consciousness" rather than "consciousness existing within brains."
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Editor's last word:
During our time of being led by the Small Ego - distorted perceptions of lack, shortage, neediness, fear - none of the above talk concerning "singular pervasive reality" will make any sense to us. These words will not resonate as truth until we learn how to access the inner life, the "word of God within," linked to the true self.
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