Children tell stories, but in their tales are enfolded many a mystery and moral lesson. Though they may relate many ridiculous things, keep looking in those ruined places for a treasure. Our moral guidebooks were written to help people be less afraid of the world around them while providing some physical reference points for rules of interaction with their fellows. Perhaps they served their purpose at the time, however, we cannot use them today and expect that they apply in all cases or expect that what they say makes sense completely; we just need to use sane judgment in accepting or rejecting their validity. Understand that it is very difficult for a person to truly understand the Universalism Concept which simply states “God is the Universe and the Universe is God.” Certainly this concept didn’t really originate in the times when “The Bible”, for instance, was written. In those days, the concept of a Universe was not considered. For most people, who enjoy and have enjoyed the “ridiculous stories of Childhood”, God is a Human- Like figure with distinctly human qualities such as jealousy and rage and Love. God, to the mind and imagination of primitives is capable of hatred, disapproval, loathing and disgust and lust. God had a son, even, because God is very like the Gods of earlier times and requires a son in order to understand that which is human and to therefore acquire the ability to forgive humans their trespasses. But, I must interrupt this reverie for a moment. If God is perfect as the holy books claim, how is it that he was unable to sympathize with his creations until he created a son who could tell him what it was like to suffer as a human? The perfection which was God should have already understood that suffering and known that it wasn’t fun although it may have been instructive. Early people had no Universal concept at all. They knew nothing of cosmology (or cosmetology for that matter) or of other places in our Galaxy or of other Galaxies. They also would not have suspected the existence of other Earth – like planets. Their concept of God was based on the earth and the heavens which they assumed were placed in the sky for the amusement of mankind. Everything which was not Earth (our level plane of existence) was either Heaven (our highest mountaintop of aspirations, home of the GURU, or Hell (Down the rabbit hole). All of their conceptions of God were based upon these simplistic assumptions and it seems that it was on these simplistic assumptions that the Holy Books were based.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:02:31 +0000