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8: Religion After the Great War
Part Two
The true Human race exists out there among the stars. It is there that you too, will one day go. You are a small part of the race known as humanity. And you will not be fully human until the teachings of these great men, and those who sent them by God's will, is found in each and everyone of your hearts. For thousands of years you have fought one another, even killed one another, in the name of religion and in the foolishness of pride. To kill another man, for not obeying your God's commandment not to kill, is this what God's word has taught you? To sit in judgment over your fellow man.. are you truly that wise? To think that the power and word of God was limited to the ears of a chosen few.. is this the unlimited power of God? Would God see only forwards, ignoring the sides and back? Or are all these things I have just spoken of, the result of man's own limiting hand and short-sightedness? People, the time has come to stop killing one another in any God's name. This is what she who sent me wishes you to know.
It is time to re-examine who you really are. It is time for you to take the gift of the teachings of these great men, and use them as they were intended. Use them together, to lift up and bring into the light all of God's children on this world. See in their parts, the power of the whole. They have and always will be, the means to bring you together, not drive you apart. They are the wisdom of God, as your brothers and sisters have known it, as they have been commanded to share with you. The time has come for you to be as you were intended to be - ONE. It is time for you to join the Human race. Your mother, and all your brothers and sisters send there love, and wish you peace, in all your faiths, in every land, in every place that the light of God still exists.
A closing thought from the Author:
I hope that the Way messages have been helpful to you so far. If some have felt uneasy or afraid by the message they contain, I am sorry. I cannot change the words I am commanded to write. She who sent me cannot be disobeyed, nor would I wish to. The next Way messages will deal with the individual teachers that were sent to you and the messages that they tried to teach. My intentions are simple. They are to show you that the words of these teachers truly speak of the word of God. That they are all of the same source. That they must be looked at in a new Way. That they must be combined into ONE WAY, for all humankind to benefit from them. Out of many there shall come One. This is the Way.
'God'
'To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.' -- Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French novelist, critic. "Bataille, Feydeau and God," interview with Marguerite Duras in France-Observateur (1957; repr. in Duras, Outside: Selected Writings, 1984).
'What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.' -- Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 5 (1961).
'If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.' -- Mary Daly (b. 1928), U.S. educator, writer, theologian. Beyond God the Father, ch. 1 (1973).
'Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all?' -- Mary Daly (b. 1928), U.S. educator, writer, theologian. Beyond God the Father, ch. 2 (1973).
'God is subtle, but he is not malicious.' -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. theoretical physicist.
What is god? Sounds like such a simple little question doesn't it? The above quotations capture the varied sentiment regarding the nature of God. Some love God; some hate God; none understand God. There are only two concepts the human mind is incapable of perceiving.
1) Absolutely everything.
2) Absolutely nothing. In between these two concepts is the thing we call life. Encompassing both these concepts is God. Alpha and Omega. Beginning and END. Absolutely everything and absolutely nothing.
Muhammad was a prophet of God. He said there was only One God. Jesus was a prophet of God. He said there was only One God. There is an Egyptian amulet in a museum in Cairo. On the front is ISIS. Seated on her lap is the divine child. Underneath is the inscription "The fruit I have brought forth is the Sun." On the back there is no picture - just the simple words, "One God in Heaven." ISIS was a prophet of God.
But, what is God really? Is God a painting on the ceiling of a building somewhere? Is he white? Is she black? What is God? Really....
Here are some of my perceptions of what God really is, and is not. Like all perceptions of God, they are a personal reflection on that which I cannot really perceive, but only wonder upon, in quieter moments. God is everything that can be, what was, what is, what will be. God is both sides of the mirror. God cannot be limited. God is not male, nor female. God is both. God cannot be contained within the boundaries of a name. God has no use for names. God knows it is God that you wish to speak with.
Somewhere, an old man lies dying - his last breath slowly escaping.
This is the Sigh of God.
Somewhere, there is a woman and man who gaze upon the face of their child
for the first time.
This is the Purpose of God.
Somewhere, there is a person smiling like a snake at having gained from the suffering inflicted on another.
This is the Anger of God.
Somewhere, a person turns back around and extends a helping hand after all.
This is the Hope of God.
Somewhere, a person a thinks they judge another.
This is God's Irony.
Somewhere, there is a child who, having just been comforted, falls safely to sleep. The parent looks down at the softly sleeping form and feels the purest form of love in the universe.
This is the Love of God.
Somewhere, a small child cries quietly, quivering in fear, watching the door.
This is the Anguish of God.
Somewhere, there is a person on the other side of a door.
This is the Rage of God.
Somewhere, a star is born and a star explodes. A galaxy forms, and two galaxies collide. A grain of sand turns over.
This is the Poetry of God.
Somewhere, a baby is born healthy.
This is the Grace of God.
Somewhere, One perceives all these things.
This is the Mind of God.
God is not, nor ever was, a single man or woman. All women and all men are the parts. God is the whole, greater than the sum of the parts. God is the source and the destination of all flow.
There is nothing that God perceives as unforgivable. Failure does not exist in God's vocabulary. God hears every cry, every laugh, every word, every prayer; and God knows when it is important to listen. Whenever an act of kindness, compassion, or love takes place, God becomes visible. God believes in those who don't, no less than in those who do. God makes no demands, sets no limits, and has never asked repayment. God exists because you exist. God is creation. When you create, God increases. If there was but one thing left in the entire universe, a single kind act, God would exist. God is all that is good, in all of us.
These are my perceptions of God, limited though they are. Each of you is a part of God. If God represents the light of creation, then each and every one of you is a candle. Evil is a cold dark wind. Evil is the darkness. The wind blows strong sometimes, causing you to flutter, causing your light to diminish. God is a shield against the howling wind. Remember, darkness in itself is only the absence of light. There may be different colors of light, but all accomplish the same thing. They all remove the darkness. Let your light be a beacon to others. Shine brightly in this world of shadows.
This is the purpose of the One. This is the Light and the Way. God does not care which religion you belong to, and neither do I. What IS important is that you now act as one. God is the purest of all light. The purity of white. Your faith is a single color of light. The purity of white can only be achieved by the merging of all colors into One.
THE WAY
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