[Opinion] How you think about "god"?

[Suayakoat]

In my view God is simply a consciousness (one of many) that has the ability to bend nothingness to its will. Nothing more, nothing less. Without it there won't be this form of existence, this Universe that we inhabit, but it isn't the only thing that can bring existence "to life" either. I believe there are many Gods in existence and each of them can bring forth a Universe(s) according to their intent which other consciousness can inhabit. And than these consciousnesses can bring forth Universes on their own when ready and mature enough and so on ad infinitum. Therefore God IS a source of life, but it is not the only one in existence. The true source of all existence is the nothingness but since it doesn't exist there is no source at all.

 

[Perlesvaus]

God is that which can't be defined. Infinite consciousness / awareness perhaps ?

 

[Robert Ramsay]

God is that which can't be defined. Infinite consciousness / awareness perhaps ?

"The Tao that can be described is not the true Tao"

 

[Karenin]

Ich bin eine Gottgläubig.

 

[Zelator2148]

Except that postulating God doesn't actually explain anything. As explanations go, it's the equivalent of "a big boy did it and ran away". Maybe "First Cause" is what you meant.

This is my understanding of the Deist view: God created the world and than just left, never to return.

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My thinking in this area falls into two divisions: One is elucidated in The Kybalion (which many people love to hate) with it's pseudo (or maybe "semi" is fairer) Hermeticism that postulates the All (or if you prefer, the One) and aligns with my experience of the Hermetic Qabalah; the other agrees with the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza that assumes an immanent (or indwelling) universal consciousness that permeates all things (unfortunately he couldn't shake the anthropomorphic paradigm). It is viewed as the root of modern pantheism and animism (not that I subscribe to either, or to any established religion). Other than being a "Spinozan sympathizer," I would say I'm a member of the almost 40% of the US population that considers itself "spiritual but non-religious." When I think real hard about it, I suspect that the concept of God (or for that matter "life as we know it") may just be a phantasm of human consciousness. As self-aware beings we abhor the idea of being alone in the Universe so we concoct the allegory of a sympathetic higher order of consciousness that will guide our steps.

 

[CatDealer]

I feel sorry for those who don't believe

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I feel sorry for those who don't believe

Don't waste your time feeling sorry

 

[akenu]

I feel sorry for those who don't believe

I feel sorry for those who do; they believe in the creation and plan for the universe; there's none, all is chaos.

 

[hollowglasd]

or all is order.
my guess is a happy mix of both.

 

[akenu]

or all is order.
my guess is a happy mix of both.

Well, chaos is just order we cannot recognize

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Well, chaos is just order we cannot recognize

I like that - the order in chaos is too complex for our minds to come to terms with

 

[HoldAll]

I call it "chaos with small random pockets of order". The idea that the entire universe should comply with the rules accidentally prevailing in those small isolated pockets is just wishful thinking.

 

[Suayakoat]

I will say again what I said before hoping someone will notice the nuggets of truth. All existence comes from non-existence. It's the ultimate reason for any existence. Out of it forms of existence capable of creating (or rather bending non-existence to their "will") arise. Than these forms of existence spawn each other throughout all possible ways existence (of their "higher" nature) can exists, or, as I say it-the different Gods exhaust all the plans which could exist. Every form of existence capable of building a mirror image of existence inside their mind is capable of becoming a Creator in itself. That ability to build mirrors of existence inside oneself is what we call consciousness. Therefore, any consciousness is a potential Creator of (an) Universe(s). There are infinity of Universes as there are Creators for them. Our own one is nothing but a speck of dust in an infinite desert. As you all are, so, don't overpride yourself for having the potential to become a God.

That's reality for beginners. Of course, there are many more levels to that than the ones I have already mentioned and the process of non-existence becoming the intelligent (and intelligable) consciousness we come to know as God is far more complex than given credit for above but the Big Picture is as I have drawn it out. So, be patient, and, know thyself so you may come to know God in the process, too. That is the best advice I can give you.

 

[shadow69]

God is nothing, god is all, it exist nd it does not exist, my belive is more close to the tao. However, for me that is the true source of everything, and there is an entity that may have created this universe, this entetity is different to the true god, and this entity exist in a different universe.

 

[Denise13]

I personally believe gods are created by their worshippers. Sort of advanced thought-form entities. Those with a lot of history, like the Ancient Egyptian gods, develop power like an energy bank.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I personally believe gods are created by their worshippers. Sort of advanced thought-form entities. Those with a lot of history, like the Ancient Egyptian gods, develop power like an energy bank.

there was a thread about this

What if we are all alone and every god, religion and magical system was an egregore?

Just having an existential moment here. I came to magick and the occult to get a cosmology more closer to the "truth" (i come from a christian background, so something more realistic than the Creation story in genesis). But going through deconstruction of christianity made me think... what if...

wizardforums.com

 

[Pneuma_Purifier]

When I reached (by a conscious OBE) the divine place for 10 seconds, God appeared as a radiant Sun, an immense sphere of living light emitting in all directions. The light was not just brightness, it carried intelligence, joy, and a sense of absolute perfection.

Behind God was a vast sea of luminous energy, a field that felt alive, conscious, and infinite. Approaching to God elevate your vibration to infinity, it felt like entering the source of all creation, where individuality remains but is elevated into a higher, purer form of consciousness.

 

[YevheniiaM]

I'd thought 'god' is something who let people believe,pray and give oblation,every thing can be god.

But my dad was dead in 2025,a weird dream told my mom will close eyes in 2,16,2037 by natural end.
maybe this just a dream, a sorrow can't be say is more sorrow.

now i think human have soul and semsena,magic and angel is real.the only god is world's willing.no one leave to death
, complex society create the fate,everything have own "Tao". I think god is that truth we can be escape.

things can't be nice release always。

Since I am a Gnostic and a Kabbalist, God for me is the Architect of this world, the Creator who unfolded Himself into this world, and everything that exists here is God. His basic quality is magnetism, so I can say that in some sense God is love. But unfortunately, not everything in matter looks as beautiful as in the arsitypical design, and there are reasons for this.

 

[akenu]

Since I am a Gnostic and a Kabbalist, God for me is the Architect of this world, the Creator who unfolded Himself into this world, and everything that exists here is God. His basic quality is magnetism, so I can say that in some sense God is love. But unfortunately, not everything in matter looks as beautiful as in the arsitypical design, and there are reasons for this.

So, since you are both Gnostic and Kabbalist, what do you consider the role of the demiurge?