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Old 02-14-2007, 12:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
AndyMartin
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This is a good question, and one I've been thinking about for quite some time. Here's where my thoughts have been traveling of late. Life is divine in nature and consciousness is divine in nature. Tradition has taught us that there are many aspects of the divine or that there is one true divine, so it's easy to go too broad or too narrow. True, we cannot comprehend all of divinity in one face; I've been thinking we're just slicing it up the wrong way. Meaning, in a way that is neither helpful nor useful. I'm playing around with this model:

There is the Divine Self; the interior divinity taught by Buddhism and Hinduism. It is the vast, infinite I that occupies your incarnate being.

There is the Divine Thou; the personal divinity that Semitic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) have taught us to apprehend, love and submit to.

There is the Divine All; the exterior divinity: the universe, it's being, it's expansion, it's expression. This is the aspect of god that natural traditions -- Wicca and Shamanism and the like -- approach in a limited (ie earth-nature) context.

I also think each of these has an immanent and a transcendent nature: that which is arising and the great mystery.

Put another way: Exactly Right in Exactly the Wrong Way | Manifest Revolution

I think the nature of the universe is to unfold into greater expressions of consciousness, and that the purpose of consciousness is to experience ever-expanding joy. In that frame, the Law of Attraction becomes the most direct expression of the immanent face of the exterior divinity, and possibly the most approachable aspect of the divine, contrary to traditions which place "miracles" at the end of the road.

Now that's an interesting thought, if you ask me.
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