jerlands wrote: ↑February 27th, 2018, 3:36 am
Namelesss wrote: ↑February 27th, 2018, 2:54 am
This is the mystical experience/Knowledge, throughout history.
Logically, if God is Omni-, then not anything can exist that is not God.
Thus it is fair dinkum to see God in all and everything, and that includes you and I (whatever 'we' are)!
This logic exists but we may not have incorporated all information.
Of no importance. 'We' do not need 'all information', we have access to all we might ever need, and all 'information/experience' is 'uploaded' into the same One Universal Consciousness, cumulatively, synchronously! All inclusive!
Any tiny unique Perspective (Soul) provides it's own momentary unique glimpse of Reality/God!
The fact is we're making assumptions about "God."
So, one could say that God is making assumptions about God.
You have a problem with that? *__-
The first assumption is we think we know the reason for creation.
Woah, cowboy, lest we forget, it is me all over the place asserting (mostly unchallenged) how 'creation/causality', as commonly understood, is impossible, scientifically, philosophically. Ring any bells?
I really don't think that it is me to whom you refer when you offered; "
we think
we know the reason for creation"!
Another assumption is that all is part of "God" but is that real? Is it possible there is something that has removed itself from "God" through free-will (which you dismiss) and now opposes his will or possibly that "God" brought the other into existence simply so that it could be seen?
Of course it is possible, in the fevered dreams of those who have identified with the childish behave or else tales! Our Beloved brothers and sisters who haven't the intellectual facility, due to belief infections (often the case), to understand the nature of metaphor.
I might talk of the little fellow in red spandex on your shoulder, with pitchfork and a tail and little horns, whispering sweet nothings into your ear, and it might be ten or twenty lifetimes before you might understand that the little fellow is 'thought/ego', and can stop glancing in every mirror for the literal culprit.
No, not anything can 'detach' from the Omni-. That is absurd.
Satan stories for naive children to behave themselves, and have someone convenient to blame when they don't!
I cannot accept that I am speaking to a fully functional (intellectually) adult who admits to a belief infection of a manipulative, crossroads dwelling, devil... literally. Who is a separate entity from God (thus completely diminishing God's Omni- nature, demoting Him/Us to some 'other' Godling...
Seems like blasphemy to believe like that.
I think we all have been witness to evil.
If you think that everything is 'evil', than whatever anyone witnesses, a kitty cat, for instance, you can claim that he witnessed 'evil'.
I have already explained all 'good' and all 'evil' exist in the (vain, sinful) judgmental thoughts/ego of the beholder.
Who see evil, it is Self/God that is being seen!
If you are saying that we all judge things/people as 'good/evil', then you are mistaken.
I have never thought in such terms.
People have been asssholes, dickwads, thieves, etc... but I was never so blinded by churchianity as to see/judge others as 'evil'.
And then I learned that it was all a mirror of bits of Self yet to be integrated, Loved!
Then the 'dickwads' tend to vanish.
All judgment is Self judgment; insanity, but, God is insane! *__-
Namelesss wrote: ↑February 27th, 2018, 2:54 am
"God cannot know himself without me." - Meister Eckhart (Christian mystic)
What does this saying imply?
Already explained.
Does "God" act through his creation?
No 'acting', no 'creation'.
Namelesss wrote: ↑February 27th, 2018, 2:54 am
"The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same." - Meister Eckhart
Seems here we're able to inhibit "God's" vision somewhat.
You stil have a problem with the "all inclusive" aspect of Omni-.
As I have already explained, We are God's moment of epiphany, where the Universe becomes Self Aware (through duality).
Namelesss wrote: ↑February 27th, 2018, 2:54 am
"What a man loves, he is. If he loves a stone he is that stone, if he loves a person he is that person, if he loves God - nay, I durst not say more; were I to say, he is God, he might stone me. I do but teach you the scriptures." - Meister Eckhart
And the all important issue of losing identity. I think we can reach "God" but I believe that requires balance.
"I think that we can reach water, said the fish, swimming faster, round and round, but I believe that requires balance!" *__-
Namelesss wrote: ↑February 27th, 2018, 2:54 am
There is no 'distinction/difference' between the Omni-God and anything perceived!
This is your interpretation. I would love to live in peace but "God" apparently is not at rest.
There's that mirror, again.
How can God be the same, always, unchanging, and not be 'at rest'?
Perhaps the turmoil IS God's turmoil, in you.
There is turmoil and ignorance and spite and confusion and insanity and autism and, and, and,... all features of an Omni- ALL inclusive, unchanging... God/Self!