Post by SAMURAI36 on Jun 3, 2005 9:56:24 GMT -5
My issue with the whole MONo vs POLY conundrum, has always been that these 2 concepts operate on opposite ends of this human mind-concieved spectrum.
Why would the brilliant exsistence of GOD be confined to an either/or scenario?
Why would GOD exsist on only one end of this spectrum?? I thought GOD WAS the spectrum!!
In the meantime, we--the creators of spirituality--continuously seek to look at this through the white man's eyes.
"MONO and POLY" are terms that they created, in an academic attempt to scrutinize that which they did not understand.
The best thing we can possibly do for ourselves, is do away with those terms (and any/everything else that they concoct) for the purpose of looking at it from a more introspective view.
I myself (as have others) explained the Plural Singularity that I know and understand (notice that I did not say "BELIEVE) GOD to be.
We are told in numerous spiritual systems, that we are created in GOD's likeness.
This does not just mean how we look, or some other surface-value criteria.
The human body is a macro---no, MEGACOSM of systems, structures, all of which are built upon systems and structures.....All working for the benefit of the ONE BODY.
As with any other system/structure, it all works under the auspices of the SUPREME HEAD/MIND/CONSCIOUSNESS.......When a single cell suffers, the rest of the body--including the SUPREME--feels it. When one cell grows, rest of the body--including the SUPREME--grows as well.
Each and every cell, though alive and sentient, does not allow its own individual sentience to supercede that of the rest, and thus the whole. It submits itself to the will of the SUPREME.
Any attempts to rebel from this Universal Harmony, causes a CANCER of some sort within this MEGACOSM.
Thus, to maintain this harmony, each cell identifies itself as a specific (plural) component within the Universal Whole (Singularity).
That's why we do not say, "my feet, hands, toes, fingers, stomach, liver, heart, lungs, and skeleton are going to the store."
We simply say "I AM going to the store".
This is the very same "I AM" that GOD identifies Him/Her/Itself as.
The Kemetians have a colloquialism: "AS ABOVE, SO BELOW".
JESUS prayed: "ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN".
EINSTEIN declared the LAW OF RELATIVITY (IMHOTEP did it eons before him though ;D )
All of these acknowledgements point us to the same reality; that Divine presence that we call GOD is a comlexly simple megacosm of symbiotic, interdependent phenomena--JUST LIKE US.
The sad irony of this whole "MONO vs POLY" conundrum, is that those that the white man (and the blind, ignorant religious people that follow behind him) callously, arrogantly, and ignorantly call "POLYTHEISTIC" are the very ones who had/have an intimate understanding of this megacosm........Especially since there is not a so-called POLYTHEISTIC religion on this earth, past nor present, that does not wholly acknowledge the Pluralistic Unity of God, despite acutely identifying His/Her/Its parts and aspects.
Just as the human body--or even a computer, for that matter--is infinitely more than just the sum of its parts, so too is the case for GOD.
And thus, we are faced with the fact that the "MONO vs POLY" conundrum is based on the failings and/or strengths of human perception, and nothing more.
HOTEPU
Why would the brilliant exsistence of GOD be confined to an either/or scenario?
Why would GOD exsist on only one end of this spectrum?? I thought GOD WAS the spectrum!!
In the meantime, we--the creators of spirituality--continuously seek to look at this through the white man's eyes.
"MONO and POLY" are terms that they created, in an academic attempt to scrutinize that which they did not understand.
The best thing we can possibly do for ourselves, is do away with those terms (and any/everything else that they concoct) for the purpose of looking at it from a more introspective view.
I myself (as have others) explained the Plural Singularity that I know and understand (notice that I did not say "BELIEVE) GOD to be.
We are told in numerous spiritual systems, that we are created in GOD's likeness.
This does not just mean how we look, or some other surface-value criteria.
The human body is a macro---no, MEGACOSM of systems, structures, all of which are built upon systems and structures.....All working for the benefit of the ONE BODY.
As with any other system/structure, it all works under the auspices of the SUPREME HEAD/MIND/CONSCIOUSNESS.......When a single cell suffers, the rest of the body--including the SUPREME--feels it. When one cell grows, rest of the body--including the SUPREME--grows as well.
Each and every cell, though alive and sentient, does not allow its own individual sentience to supercede that of the rest, and thus the whole. It submits itself to the will of the SUPREME.
Any attempts to rebel from this Universal Harmony, causes a CANCER of some sort within this MEGACOSM.
Thus, to maintain this harmony, each cell identifies itself as a specific (plural) component within the Universal Whole (Singularity).
That's why we do not say, "my feet, hands, toes, fingers, stomach, liver, heart, lungs, and skeleton are going to the store."
We simply say "I AM going to the store".
This is the very same "I AM" that GOD identifies Him/Her/Itself as.
The Kemetians have a colloquialism: "AS ABOVE, SO BELOW".
JESUS prayed: "ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN".
EINSTEIN declared the LAW OF RELATIVITY (IMHOTEP did it eons before him though ;D )
All of these acknowledgements point us to the same reality; that Divine presence that we call GOD is a comlexly simple megacosm of symbiotic, interdependent phenomena--JUST LIKE US.
The sad irony of this whole "MONO vs POLY" conundrum, is that those that the white man (and the blind, ignorant religious people that follow behind him) callously, arrogantly, and ignorantly call "POLYTHEISTIC" are the very ones who had/have an intimate understanding of this megacosm........Especially since there is not a so-called POLYTHEISTIC religion on this earth, past nor present, that does not wholly acknowledge the Pluralistic Unity of God, despite acutely identifying His/Her/Its parts and aspects.
Just as the human body--or even a computer, for that matter--is infinitely more than just the sum of its parts, so too is the case for GOD.
And thus, we are faced with the fact that the "MONO vs POLY" conundrum is based on the failings and/or strengths of human perception, and nothing more.
HOTEPU
