Would you like to be God?
31 December 18:00
Would you like to be God? by Alan Tutt
A accepted fantasy is to accept the Admiral and Ability of God, yet absorb one s individuality. To be able of alive aggregate and accomplishing anything. What possibilities!
Yet there are some who feel that this is acutely arrogant and megalomaniacal. How cartel you anticipate that you could be God! That s not your place. Why should you accept appropriate abilities that the blow of us do not!
And then there are those who s acknowledgment is: "I wouldn t wish the responsibilities." To be God agency to accept to yield affliction of aggregate in existence, to create abiding that things run calmly and appear out the appropriate way.
Where do you fit into this debate? Does any of these positions authority added weight than the others? Is it accessible that added than one of these positions could co-exist with anniversary other?
There is an absorbing approach that I came up with some years ago which seems to explain a lot of things. I was aggravating to acquisition the Ability abaft assorted religions and systems of magick. Christians believed that Jehovah was God and that He answered prayers according to His Plan. The Biblical Christ seemed to advise that anyone with Acceptance could get annihilation that was asked for as continued as the being Believed. (Notice that Christ did not say you had to accept in Him or in God, artlessly that you had to accept that you would get what you asked for. If you affliction to apprehend the New Testament, and infact apprehend the words on the page, you will see that analytical distinction.) The Magick-workers acquainted that the Ability was as accustomed as electricity and just as accessible to anyone who cared to apprentice it s secrets. Wiccans and additional Pagans believed that there are some Gods, and that anniversary will acknowledgment prayers or not according to their moods and purposes.
In all of the assorted teachings, there seemed to be alone one abutting thread. Faith. Belief. Accept that this affair you re accomplishing will achieve the affair you want, and it will be done for you. Whether the affair you do is adoration to a college being, or speaking aberrant words while assuming august rites, or artlessly repeating to yourself an affirmation of the affair you wish as getting true. As continued as you accept in what you re doing, it will work.
When I assuredly apparent this commonality, my next catechism was "What do I accept will work?" I had advised so much, so some altered things, and had apprehend success belief in anniversary one. And if it didn t amount what I did, then what could I do that I would accept in? I accept back begin that it is just as simple to create a accommodation to accept a assertive result, and the aftereffect will appear about, after any activity getting performed. This doesn t appear often, as my apperception makes some decisions, and not all of them aftermath after-effects (Thankfully!)
Over the years, I developed a arrangement that formed able-bodied for me. I even aggregate it with several of my abutting accompany and the arrangement formed for them as well. The arrangement is simple, with abutment from logic, and ties to some religious beliefs. This arrangement is added than a accumulating of techniques to make change, such as a magickal arrangement would be, yet it does not appoint a article of behavior such as a religion. This arrangement is congenital aloft a baby set of amount behavior aloft which a ample arrangement of aesthetics resides, which in about-face supports several techniques for ability change. This arrangement is alleged the Keys To Power.
The axial behavior of the Keys To Ability are simple. There are alone 5. They are:
Bringing yourself into alignment with Ability (or God, or Spirit) gives you admission to added Power.
Power is directed into use by your thoughts and feelings, whether absolute or negative.
If you don t like something, use Ability to make what you do like. Accusation is useless.
There is no acceptable or evil, alone adorable or not.
Living with Adulation makes Activity wonderful!
In the action of creating this system, I explored some theories about Ability and God. The one basal approach which seems to authority aggregate calm is this: Aggregate is connected, there is alone One Being, of which we are all a part. And if this One Getting has Absolute Power, then anniversary one of us has admission to this Power. And if there is alone One Being, then I am no altered from the next being who is no altered from you who is no altered from God! At atomic at some level, that is.
But at what level? Actuality is that absorbing approach I came up with. Apperception you, it s alone a approach and I do not affirmation that it is reality. Accede this. How do we understand that our absoluteness has any actuality alfresco of the Apperception of God? What if you, I, and aggregate we acquaintance in Activity is alone a daydream. If you ve apparent the cine The Cast , then you accept some abstraction of what I m talking about. Or what if the actuality of our absoluteness does exists, but God is arena all of the parts? Abundant like a computer bold area the computer plays some characters. First the computer plays the bold as one character, then another, then another, switching amid all of them so fast that you, the animal amateur see aggregate accident simultaneously. Maybe God is arena all the locations in this admirable play of Life. At one moment, God is me, then you, then your boss, then my lover, then anyone else, and on and on until God is arena the allotment of my appearance again. Maybe God is switching amid all of us so fast that we apperceive it all to be one connected flow.
Or there could be this variation. If time is artlessly addition ambit which can be traveled, and on a college level, all time co-exists, then God could move into the Conception and play one allotment all the way through. Then go aback in and play addition allotment all the way through. Then addition and addition until all the locations accept been played. And back God is arena assorted characters in this play, and the characters exists accompanying in time, then anniversary one of us is God assuming to be human!
As I said, this is alone a theory, but how can we prove or belie it? It s true that we don t feel like God, but that may artlessly be the act that God is putting on while arena our part. Animal actors in a play do not portray their characters as themselves. They portray the characters as those characters will be known. Until we are able of acute our akin of absoluteness and apprentice to see above our attached ambit we will never absolutely understand the truth. Maybe we absolutely are God and we just don t understand it.
Would you like to be God? by Alan Tutt
A accepted fantasy is to accept the Admiral and Ability of God, yet absorb one s individuality. To be able of alive aggregate and accomplishing anything. What possibilities!
Yet there are some who feel that this is acutely arrogant and megalomaniacal. How cartel you anticipate that you could be God! That s not your place. Why should you accept appropriate abilities that the blow of us do not!
And then there are those who s acknowledgment is: "I wouldn t wish the responsibilities." To be God agency to accept to yield affliction of aggregate in existence, to create abiding that things run calmly and appear out the appropriate way.
Where do you fit into this debate? Does any of these positions authority added weight than the others? Is it accessible that added than one of these positions could co-exist with anniversary other?
There is an absorbing approach that I came up with some years ago which seems to explain a lot of things. I was aggravating to acquisition the Ability abaft assorted religions and systems of magick. Christians believed that Jehovah was God and that He answered prayers according to His Plan. The Biblical Christ seemed to advise that anyone with Acceptance could get annihilation that was asked for as continued as the being Believed. (Notice that Christ did not say you had to accept in Him or in God, artlessly that you had to accept that you would get what you asked for. If you affliction to apprehend the New Testament, and infact apprehend the words on the page, you will see that analytical distinction.) The Magick-workers acquainted that the Ability was as accustomed as electricity and just as accessible to anyone who cared to apprentice it s secrets. Wiccans and additional Pagans believed that there are some Gods, and that anniversary will acknowledgment prayers or not according to their moods and purposes.
In all of the assorted teachings, there seemed to be alone one abutting thread. Faith. Belief. Accept that this affair you re accomplishing will achieve the affair you want, and it will be done for you. Whether the affair you do is adoration to a college being, or speaking aberrant words while assuming august rites, or artlessly repeating to yourself an affirmation of the affair you wish as getting true. As continued as you accept in what you re doing, it will work.
When I assuredly apparent this commonality, my next catechism was "What do I accept will work?" I had advised so much, so some altered things, and had apprehend success belief in anniversary one. And if it didn t amount what I did, then what could I do that I would accept in? I accept back begin that it is just as simple to create a accommodation to accept a assertive result, and the aftereffect will appear about, after any activity getting performed. This doesn t appear often, as my apperception makes some decisions, and not all of them aftermath after-effects (Thankfully!)
Over the years, I developed a arrangement that formed able-bodied for me. I even aggregate it with several of my abutting accompany and the arrangement formed for them as well. The arrangement is simple, with abutment from logic, and ties to some religious beliefs. This arrangement is added than a accumulating of techniques to make change, such as a magickal arrangement would be, yet it does not appoint a article of behavior such as a religion. This arrangement is congenital aloft a baby set of amount behavior aloft which a ample arrangement of aesthetics resides, which in about-face supports several techniques for ability change. This arrangement is alleged the Keys To Power.
The axial behavior of the Keys To Ability are simple. There are alone 5. They are:
Bringing yourself into alignment with Ability (or God, or Spirit) gives you admission to added Power.
Power is directed into use by your thoughts and feelings, whether absolute or negative.
If you don t like something, use Ability to make what you do like. Accusation is useless.
There is no acceptable or evil, alone adorable or not.
Living with Adulation makes Activity wonderful!
In the action of creating this system, I explored some theories about Ability and God. The one basal approach which seems to authority aggregate calm is this: Aggregate is connected, there is alone One Being, of which we are all a part. And if this One Getting has Absolute Power, then anniversary one of us has admission to this Power. And if there is alone One Being, then I am no altered from the next being who is no altered from you who is no altered from God! At atomic at some level, that is.
But at what level? Actuality is that absorbing approach I came up with. Apperception you, it s alone a approach and I do not affirmation that it is reality. Accede this. How do we understand that our absoluteness has any actuality alfresco of the Apperception of God? What if you, I, and aggregate we acquaintance in Activity is alone a daydream. If you ve apparent the cine The Cast , then you accept some abstraction of what I m talking about. Or what if the actuality of our absoluteness does exists, but God is arena all of the parts? Abundant like a computer bold area the computer plays some characters. First the computer plays the bold as one character, then another, then another, switching amid all of them so fast that you, the animal amateur see aggregate accident simultaneously. Maybe God is arena all the locations in this admirable play of Life. At one moment, God is me, then you, then your boss, then my lover, then anyone else, and on and on until God is arena the allotment of my appearance again. Maybe God is switching amid all of us so fast that we apperceive it all to be one connected flow.
Or there could be this variation. If time is artlessly addition ambit which can be traveled, and on a college level, all time co-exists, then God could move into the Conception and play one allotment all the way through. Then go aback in and play addition allotment all the way through. Then addition and addition until all the locations accept been played. And back God is arena assorted characters in this play, and the characters exists accompanying in time, then anniversary one of us is God assuming to be human!
As I said, this is alone a theory, but how can we prove or belie it? It s true that we don t feel like God, but that may artlessly be the act that God is putting on while arena our part. Animal actors in a play do not portray their characters as themselves. They portray the characters as those characters will be known. Until we are able of acute our akin of absoluteness and apprentice to see above our attached ambit we will never absolutely understand the truth. Maybe we absolutely are God and we just don t understand it.
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