The Image of the Divine
I've never honestly considered the divine with a face, nor do I see the
divine in the god/goddess sense. It is beyond all images and all forms.
Its expression can be felt in all experiences at all times when you know
how to pay attention to reality.
We associate parental roles to the divine, as our first role-models for
it were our parents. As all things, I'm sure this is intentional on many
levels. Whether this is meant to imply a dual-natured divinity is open
to speculation.
I have a rather strange conglomerate view of the divine.
In one sense, I perceive the father-holy spirit-son triad, in the gnostic
sense that we link up to the divine through the energy of love that
pervades reality, and we become children of god... divine links...
beacons... to help others along the path up the mount of joy. I grok that
this relates to the thelemic view of reality in the sense that Hadit,
being the divine spark (The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs,
meaning the divine is in the immortal soul, not the immortal soul in the
divine), unites with Nuit (the external world, everything and nothing, the
holy spirit, in a sense), and the outward personality is perfected, not as
osiris/jesus any longer, for that was but one necessary stage of
consciousness evolution, but as Horus, the crowned and conquoring child...
one who is aware of one's True Will (divine path, course as a star in the
body of Nuit), and knows that no boundaries can stand in their way.
The problem, with all religious views, is that most people don't "get it"
and take the words rather than the experiences. Words are so easy to
misinterperet, because we all have different associations with different
words, and they are all created by humanity. I see all of these words and
images as tools to reach the divine, and the only feeble means to
express it to those who can't feel the experience of it, but its not the
divine itself. The map is not the territory.
- Written 11/13/1999