What God is not
28/03/2009 Filed in: God
God is not a dove. God is not a fire, nor is God light, life or the word. God is not these things because divinity is beyond anything we can touch, see, smell, hear, imagine or think. God is not even the negation of these things. God, indeed, does not exist.
When we think of God we separate ourselves from the divinity by virtue of how we think. How we think derives from how we develop in a world of senses: darkness as the absence of light; smoothness as the absence of roughness; good as the absence of evil - all along a series of continua sliding between extreme polarities. Yet, divinity is beyond these base categories. Therefore, we cannot think of God without being wrong about divinity. Every thought we do have of God is an image, an idol that must be destroyed.
Yet, we have to make do with what we have: the material world, our senses, our amputated intelligence. Such are the shackles of fallen beings: we are our own prison. And we must not only free ourselves, but also every fallen being for the apokatastasis.
When we think of God we separate ourselves from the divinity by virtue of how we think. How we think derives from how we develop in a world of senses: darkness as the absence of light; smoothness as the absence of roughness; good as the absence of evil - all along a series of continua sliding between extreme polarities. Yet, divinity is beyond these base categories. Therefore, we cannot think of God without being wrong about divinity. Every thought we do have of God is an image, an idol that must be destroyed.
Yet, we have to make do with what we have: the material world, our senses, our amputated intelligence. Such are the shackles of fallen beings: we are our own prison. And we must not only free ourselves, but also every fallen being for the apokatastasis.