There! is no God
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@Heg said
"93s everyone!!
I'm quoting a passage in the Cry of the 5th Aethry from the Vision and the Voice:"The Angel prompts me to whisper: “There is no god.” So they let me pass, and though there was
indeed nothing visible therein, yet there was a very strange atmosphere, which I could not understand.
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But they have a different sense. I had taken them to be a denial of the existence of God, but the man who says
them to me evidently means nothing of the sort: What he does mean I cannot tell at all. He slightly emphasized the word “there.”"
"OK.
""There" is no God. What does he mean by that? Is there a place in the universe where the omnipresent does not show his presence? Or am I missing some hidden meaning here? "
OBVIOUSLY, if something is "omnipresent" then that would contain all places, including "There" where it is Not. Hmm. It is one of the trails to Adepthood to be able to comprehend the Unity in such a statement. Where does the otherwise disparagement occur?
"Thanks in advance.
I love you all!!!"
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@seekinghga said
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OBVIOUSLY, if something is "omnipresent" then that would contain all places, including "There" where it is Not. Hmm. It is one of the trails to Adepthood to be able to comprehend the Unity in such a statement. Where does the otherwise disparagement occur?
"If I am on the right track so far:
Since God is everything and all there ever was, is and will be, excluding someplace as "there" is a blasphemy in itself. As stated in the Poem "AHA!":
"All thoughts are evil. Thought is two:
The seer and the seen. Eschew
That supreme blasphemy, my son,
Remembering that God is One."Do I understand this concept correctly?
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@Heg said
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@seekinghga said
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OBVIOUSLY, if something is "omnipresent" then that would contain all places, including "There" where it is Not. Hmm. It is one of the trails to Adepthood to be able to comprehend the Unity in such a statement. Where does the otherwise disparagement occur?
"If I am on the right track so far:
Since God is everything and all there ever was, is and will be, excluding someplace as "there" is a blasphemy in itself. As stated in the Poem "AHA!":
"All thoughts are evil. Thought is two:
The seer and the seen. Eschew
That supreme blasphemy, my son,
Remembering that God is One."Do I understand this concept correctly?"
Answer this: What is "God"?
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@seekinghga said
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Answer this: What is "God"?"I was just thinking about this question myself actually. I don't have an idea but I want to know him. But my human brain will not be able to apprehend being of beings even though I see, touch, hear him. Right now all the answers that I can provide for this question will be resultant of my poorly designed faculties. All the things I can associate him will be based on my experiences gained through my senses. But Qoran says:
"He is exalted above what you associate him with"
So I will not be able to define, describe him without joining him in his unity. Only the concept of God for me is:
The ultimate being with infinite knowledge, infinite energy, infinite matter, the combination of everything in the universe or universes. He is all there is.
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@Heg said
" But my human brain will not be able to apprehend being of beings even though I see, touch, hear him."
Exactly!
Still your mind."Right now all the answers that I can provide for this question will be resultant of my poorly designed faculties. All the things I can associate him will be based on my experiences gained through my senses. But Qoran says:
"He is exalted above what you associate him with"
So I will not be able to define, describe him without joining him in his unity. Only the concept of God for me is:
The ultimate being with infinite knowledge, infinite energy, infinite matter, the combination of everything in the universe or universes. He is all there is."
Not bad, but it is lacking on one point...
"I was just thinking about this question myself actually. I don't have an idea but I want to know him."
If you seriously want to know "Him" (gender is not applicable) then you need to still your mind by concentration. All of your wondering is the very thing which keeps you from God. God is the omnipresence which touches everything and which touches nothing. Where does this all occur? WHERE do all of the attributes of "God" come into play and make themselves KNOWN to us? It is in the mind. This is why the mind must be taught and trained to keep still.
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@seekinghga said
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Not bad, but it is lacking on one point...If you seriously want to know "Him" (gender is not applicable) then you need to still your mind by concentration. All of your wondering is the very thing which keeps you from God. God is the omnipresence which touches everything and which touches nothing. Where does this all occur? WHERE do all of the attributes of "God" come into play and make themselves KNOWN to us? It is in the mind. This is why the mind must be taught and trained to keep still.
"Please tell me what it is lacking.
And as always it is a joy to hear your thoughts seekinghga!
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@Heg said
"Please tell me what it is lacking."
It is not a "lack", per se.
"And as always it is a joy to hear your thoughts seekinghga!"
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@seekinghga said
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Let me try this. When you are falling asleep, are you able to recognize the state of mind when there are thoughts running but there is not yourself present to be thinking them? Otherwise, you need to just train the mind to keep to an object. I dunno, beyond that. I've given much instruction. Now, mind you AL: 1:44. Don't forget that. Just focus your mind. Come back at me."
I don't need to fall asleep, thoughts are always there without my permission.
I neglected meditation for sooo long. But for the last 4 months I've been using anti- depressants and anti-psychotics. That calmed my mind really good.
And I assume AL: 1:44 is Liber Legis 1:44 right?Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk
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@Heg said
"I don't need to fall asleep, thoughts are always there without my permission. "
They, your thoughts, are there because there is not discipline of them. Whether you are capable of keeping them still, I can not judge...
"I neglected meditation for sooo long. But for the last 4 months I've been using anti- depressants and anti-psychotics. That calmed my mind really good."
@Heg said
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"All thoughts are evil. Thought is two:
The seer and the seen. Eschew
That supreme blasphemy, my son,
Remembering that God is One."
""And I assume AL: 1:44 is Liber Legis 1:44 right?"
Yeah.
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Well, when I read this passage, two verses came up in my mind:
"I am alone: there is no God where I am."
- Liber AL, II:23 (and note who says that, "where" he is, etc.)
"I invoke Thee, the Terrible and Invisible god: Who dwellest in the Void Place of the Spirit:"
- Liber Samekh
So I agree that THERE is no God.
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@seekinghga said
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@FiatYod said
""I invoke Thee, the Terrible and Invisible god: Who dwellest in the Void Place of the Spirit:"
- Liber Samekh"
Well, when you reach that "Void Place" you will see that such voidance is Full.
"And that is fine. I was only saying that it isn't THERE.
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Hego, to follow up on my responses to you I wish to say that the Hindu technique called "Neti, neti" is very powerful in obtaining quiescence of mind. It's not immediate, but it IS powerful. Supplement it with the practices in Liber 3 and it might help.
Now, I do feel the need to remark on the method of Liber 3. Liber 3 DOES NOT achieve its end result due to the sole influence of physical negative reinforcement. It is all about cultivating subconscious vigilance against performing a particular activity or harboring a particular thought. The first time I tried it was with a knife and it worked. Then I tried it with a rubber band and that also worked. Then I tried it with a simple sheet of paper kept in my pocket, which I marked with a pen every time that I made a break, and that worked too. I highly suggest the paper and pen incarnation of the practice, as it is equally effective and leaves punishment of the body to asana practice.