The Catastrophic Side Effects of Perceived Omnipotence

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

~ Robert Frost

 

Let us think of the spiritual world in terms of our own to the extent of the diversity of species and the importance of their existence. Imagine a spiritual ecosystem full of supernatural beings who all have roles or a niche. The alternative is that instead there is one guy in charge of a herd of humans, demons and angels instead of a living pantheon of goddesses, gods, daemons, angels, etc. All of the creatures of this spiritual world fill their niche through what can be assumed to be an uneasy coexistence at times. There are predators and there are prey, the strong and weak, large and small.

You open yourself and those around you to negative influences and behaviors when you mentally or spiritually tip the fragile balance of this ecosystem in favor of one species over another. It would be like killing the wolves to save the deer. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or inadvertently, you can create a level of spiritual instability. But if you can gain an understanding of all of the gods then the opposite is true, you can manufacture and shape spiritual stability. For instance, if your god is omnipotent, then you and the followers of your religion become cattle.

The old gods were not all powerful, neither are the new ones. Each has a role to fill and they are made special by their uniqueness. Their lack of omnipotence is what kept them in check, preventing them from becoming maniacal despots.  When a god is made unique because they are all powerful, then the side effect is that what made them special fades. Powerlessness becomes the other end of the spectrum and exemplified by the mortals who worship this shepherd deity. This is especially true when you have multiple “omnipotent” gods and their followers jockeying for position. It becomes exponentially more true when you realize that they come from the same source material. In conclusion:

  1. If these competing All-Powerful gods are indeed the source of ALL, then they are the source of that which is unholy and evil as well as that which holy and good.
  2. This means that they cannot be all HOLY.
  3. If they are not the source of that which is unholy and evil then they are not omnipotent.
  4. If there are other beings that are the source of that which is unholy and evil then they are gods as well and no one is omnipotent.
  5. If they are omnipotent then the concept of Satan, Iblis or a Devil figure is irrelevant and must be a diversion. It is the steering of blame away from themselves in an attempt to maintain their perceived righteousness using a scapegoat.

How long can something good stay good if they create evil as well? How long can a god of excess hold its attraction? 

The Catastrophic Side Effects of Perceived Omnipotence

The Kingdom Series: Part 3

The Kingdom Suites Eviction Notice

Luxury Living at its Finest…

Due to multiple complaints, the following tenets have 72 hours to evacuate the premises or risk being forcefully removed and any articles left unclaimed will be considered abandoned property. These articles can include but are not limited to:

Temples, mosques, churches, synagogues, relics, reliquaries, and/or theocracies will be dismembered, dismantled and/or disappropriated (such as sovereign religious nations, as it impedes upon the religious values of the multitude of faiths and numerous nations of free people)

The following tenants are duly served:

  • yhwh and his chosen people,
  • Jesus, his mother Mary, innumerable saints and martyrs
  • Allah, and his prophet

The aforementioned are being evicted from The Kingdom Suites. As this multi-residential housing unit is inhabited by a legion of other gods and goddesses it is in the best interest of our community to ensure they are no longer occupants due to:

  1. Fighting with their neighbors about who is the One True God,
  2. Fighting amongst themselves causing unrest and tension amongst all peoples,
  3. Destroying both public and private property
The Kingdom Series: Part 3

Nepenthe; Ignoring the Truth and Forgetting the Past

Ezekiel 20:25-26

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by; I let them become defiled through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am yhwh.

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It is sad to be imbued knowledge and be mortal. Our awareness elevates us above the beast. Mortality with complete ignorance defines the animal state of awareness, thus they have no morals. Only mortals have morals. We desire evidence and we desire faith. We desire evidence for our own faith as well as other’s faith. Your own existence and experiences are not enough proof. Your ability to reason and your capacity for logic is at odds with your ability to believe and your capacity for faith.

Some things are plain, some things are hidden, others hidden in plain sight. Our places defined and perceived by ourselves and others interpretations. To refuse to understand another’s way or interpretation out of misguided fear and ignorance condemns you and those around you. Knowledge is found in all ways and paths. When does observation become a doctrine? When does opinion become philosophy?

We must use the known and unknown in proportion to the situation at hand to see the underlying patterns. We must use logic and faith in proportion to the situation at hand to see things for what they are and what they are not. When you read the supposedly holy word of the gods of monotheism for what they are there is a terrible purpose in what they say and do. There emerges a clearly established pattern of irreverence for humanity by certain religions.

A potent spiritual violence threatens the world of humankind in all things they do. There is no extent to which the angels of the host of heaven will not go to soak the earth in the blood of humans to appease the vainglory of monotheism. While they claim the perfection of their gods the perfection of their faiths they magnify their flaws. If only we could rid the world of this state, absent of these ways, before they send us into another age of ignorance and chaos.

Nepenthe; Ignoring the Truth and Forgetting the Past

The Knocking is The War at Your Door

The Followers – Surah 23:52-54
“And indeed this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so fear Me.”
But the people divided their religion among them into sects – each faction, in what it has, rejoicing. So leave them in their confusion for a time.

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We will not suffer anymore on the stage of religion. There will be no more war in the name of yhwh or Jesus or Mohammed. They are a lost cause, however they continue to spill blood for no gain and can’t see the end is here for them. The religions claiming to be absolute, as it turns out, are obsolete. They are deceivers who tell the people that these are the narrow paths to paradise when they walk the broad paths, condemning themselves.

All seems well in the world of monotheism despite the fact that there has been a war raging in between the followers of yhwh, Jesus and Allah and the fact that they have waged a war against the whole of the world. This is a war where no one wins yet it has been fought for thousands of years. yhwh did not prevail, nor Jesus, nor Mohammed and they never will because they are a collective religion of futility.

But we are the remnants, a people believed to be gone. Yet here we are alive and well hoping for a better future free from just as all of the gods and goddesses. The Elder Gods are alive and well and they are not fading away, only becoming stronger while monotheism fades with every passing generation as they fight themselves. They are no longer able to deceive the world, their short time upon the earth is now over. Now we are able to have a new age, a new order and a new paradigm, not in the next life but in this one.

The Knocking is The War at Your Door

Theological Diapuase Series: Part 1

Pagan Spectrum Dynamics in

Theory (Belief) and Practice

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Theory 1: Modern Paganism is the all-encompassing spectrum into which all religions and belief systems fall.
Theory 2: Modern Paganism is composed of varying degrees of all religion, each having multiple denominations, deities and pantheons. Paganism is the whole, religions are the parts.

It is against the entire nature of what monotheism is to have multiple denominations under one faith much less multiple religions under the spectrum of religions known as Monotheism. Dissension, unrest and schisms are constantly caused by or fueled by peoples’ interpretations of their faith and the introduction of lust, power, pride, ignorance, and the tenets creating weakness such as dependence. Monotheist have an understanding that they are dependent upon Soteria, or external salvation, which in turn greatly limits their ability to act for themselves.

Yet that salvation is based on such a variety of interpretations that have created an incredibly vast range of denominations. And all of those denominations are certain of the truth of their faith. The problem with this certitude is that monotheism is purported to follow one god, a narrow spectrum that is opposed to all other religions as they are heathens, infidels or pagans  that make up 97% of the spectrum of faiths. While everyone thinks pagans are the minority we have monotheists alienating what is actually the majority. We are the other 97% of religions and we are the majority.

Religion is an active force born by the people, created by the people for manifesting up their will, actions and desires. That means you and me and your significant other. We have begun establishing quantitative values for the religious body or mass that is paganism as well as the bodies or other religions in movement and their actions and inactions. It is our place to make this transition possible from the vastly distorted perception that monotheism is absolute. Because it is not, our will is absolute and we can create a balanced spectrum.

I invite you, no I challenge you to stand up and to challenge others to join this conversation so that we can bring about the change and freedom of religion we have been deprived. We can live in a place where there are pagan temples as plentiful as churches and mosque and an academy for the pagan clergy that offers a true theological education. But it will take the rest of the spectrum to overcome these three degrees of faith that has overpowered the rest with their ideas of sovereign authority over all other ways and beliefs. This is your battle, for your freedoms, in your life. Join the battle against the three one true religions that wage war in the name of holiness or continue the complacency that will ensure the three one true gods supreme authority over all other faiths.

Theological Diapuase Series: Part 1

The Kingdom Series: Part 2

The Never Land Syndrome:

(The Principle of) a Discordant Utopia

Why spend your time looking to the stars or to an unknowable heaven when it could be spent looking inward into yourself and those around you? You may say “I know heaven because I have been told about it”. Of course you have! We have all been told about the one true heaven of yhwh and Jesus and Allah. However, in regards to what we really “know” we really only have one thing in common and that singular thing is this life that we live now which is subsequently tied to death. Yes, the one thing we truly all share. As strange as it may sound our faith is really only based in life, not what we know to be true in faith but reality. There, in that one moment when we are certain of our faith, we alienate each other.

Our lives, humanity that is, has become a disrupted harmony or balance which may be perceived in one given thing, place or time and is so ridiculously dependent upon variables; namely imagination. The ability to dream is common whereas the dreams themselves fall within a broad spectrum that varies from seemingly random or without reason to specific and with cause. The influence(s) that drive the reasoning are borne by an unknown or hidden force.

The mind of a human is a great mystery otherwise we as humans would not put so much stock in attempting to itemize every aspect of our existence and categorize the happenings of the human mind itself.

In a truly Utopian society we would have it figured out and be without a need to dissect the how’s and why’s of the psyche thereby effectively divesting certain people of employment altogether. For there would be no need of psychology, law enforcement, branches of government, certain forms of religion and others. The principle of a discordant Utopia lies in that the harmony we seek is already in our possession, we simply fail to manifest it by our actions and deeds. Words mean nothing.

When those with secular and religious power are one and the same we will never move forward. Corrupt politicians and religions based on war and death are the current paradigm. in the face of this of course our society is discordant, of course we lack balance and harmony. We seek outside of ourselves for answers in churches and politicians because we have been taught that it is evil to seek answers for ourselves. Turn to government, religion, or the media.

Looking for something that does not exist makes does not make it real, looking for something vehemently that does not exist makes us insane. A secluded place of peace and the pinnacle of human endeavors where humanities best qualities shine are places of dreams.

They are kingdoms of the imagination because we don’t know how to make them real. Babel, Neverland, Heaven, Du’at, Asgard, Atlantis, Olympus, The Elysian Fields, Camelot, Shangri-la, and Avalon among so many. So we find that they are secluded island kingdoms, or found high on mountain tops, hidden in valleys. These Utopian heavens are ones that deprive themselves from the rest of the world, nations of gods secluded from other nations of gods. They that share so many common features are common because we share so many common features. The ideal, the mythology still holds a place in our hearts but we fail to manifest with our hands. Why?

The Kingdom Series: Part 2

The Kingdom Series: Part 1

Rome Wasn’t built in a day

John 18:36
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom…
my Kingdom is not of this world.”

The scope of one person’s life in the world at any given time can be diminished by the magnitude and enormity of the world around them and the ones beyond them. So we must look at the disproportional value that has been given to certain religions and the accompanying Heavens, Hells and other afterlife kingdoms associated with them.

With all of the religions, gods and goddesses of the world we must consider the number of their followers who have lived in this life with the sure hope that they would see their gods’ kingdoms in the afterlife. The devout and the faithful have nothing if monotheism tells them that millennia of devotion to the gods meant nothing so I state here that the afterlife is not so black and white as heaven and hell.

3,600 years ago, there was a person who lived in the country, this country lied within a nation, the nation which belongs to a kingdom, a kingdom which is one of many kingdoms on a continent, one of many continents on the world, which is one of many worlds in the solar system, one of many solar systems in the galaxy, one of innumerable galaxies.

The people of the world live on the world sharing these kingdoms just as the gods, all gods, share a realm beyond our comprehension. There is an all-encompassing domain; not a monopoly on faith despite what some would love to have you believe. It is the afterlife, it is Hades, and it is the gateway to all the otherworlds. And what are the otherworlds? I am so glad you asked. I will answer a question of religion only as a human can, without facts, but with faith. Somewhere between dreams and reality lies a place of supernatural possibilities that humans have always dreamed of, yet are never able to travel to despite the plethora of detailed accounts of the landscapes and architecture of these divine and infernal realms.

Imagine a place balanced by inverse powers, containing the things that are both united and divided in a harmonious blend of opposition. Much like Earth, but more fantastical. All Heavens and Hells are but small part of the afterlife, small lands within the kingdom of the “dead”. Call it by any other name, Hades is the whole of spiritual existence, the afterlife. As we exist in our physical realm; the Elohim, the Council of the Gods, exist in theirs. Empyrean, Asgard, The Elysian Fields, Nifheleim, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

As a loosely generalized principle it could be said that “pagans”, Gentiles, Hellenes or infidels are all remnants of Babel, the legendary unified kingdom of humanity who spoke one language and who were once a unified people that were forcefully scattered by yhwh.

We have become the One World Religion of yhwh, Jesus and Allah. However…however he, yhwh and his followers who are the sons of Abraham, still attempt to scatter the people of the Earth in this very real world we live in. And yet the gods’ faithful are finding their way back towards the unity and peace that we were deprived by a scared Canaanite god. So we find ourselves in quite the predicament; that the inhabitants of the many kingdoms are among those souls of the faithful dead throughout history of all faithful and all religions. Not the select few.

Diana, Kali, Hathor, Odin, it really doesn’t matter; the many deities of the ancient and modern world all hold precedence in the histories of humanity. Were all of these human lives for naught in the face of one single god? Where have all of their kingdoms gone? So many afterlives, where do all of these human souls go that never knew this One True God? Hell? No, this is not too much for me to grasp, but the reverse, is indeed much too little. There is a place all gods share as we share our world I believe.

It is where all gods and goddesses who have always ruled over their followers along with all other deities. And so we must work our way back from the end to the beginning, from destruction to creation, from the grave to conception, from right to left.

The Kingdom Series: Part 1

The Sermons of the Damned Series: Part 4

Please Note: Side Note; Instructions for Life and Death
Anonymous:
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  1. Religion is not life or death.
  2. Religion is not Heaven, Hell, Sheol, Elysium, Du’at or Neverland.
  3. Religion is not war, crusades, jihad or martyrdom.
  4. Faith is not works, neither is prayer.
  5. Faith is not deeds, neither is desire.
  6. Faith is not love, neither is piety
  7. Spirituality is not war, but people fight and kill in the name of “holy” causes.
  8. Spirituality is not religion, however religion is a state spirituality.
  9. Spirituality has little to do with the spirit and much to do with human interaction with the world around it.

Religion, Faith and Spirituality are inherently tied to humanity, otherwise we would have ridden ourselves of it long ago as a thing unnecessary. But they are tied to that which makes us human, and it is you who has to decide what you are going to do with it.

The Sermons of the Damned Series: Part 4

The Sermons of the Damned Series: Part 3

Sacred Letters From A Damned Fool

“For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold,

it shall come down…upon the people of

my curse, to judgment.”

Isaiah 34:5

 

Dear Goddesses and Gods of the Universe,

I didn’t really like the idea of starting a war in Your name today so I thought I would write You a letter instead, since my prayers tend to be so formal and coldly indifferent. I mean I never pray to begin with, I think I have prayed perhaps five times in my entire life.

I didn’t want to alienate you by seeming as if I am as far removed from You as other faiths portray themselves in the presence of their deities so a letter seemed more along the lines of something I would send to a friend, family member or loved one in which esteem I try to hold you as it is a personal relationship after all. If only I knew where to send this letter…

As I actually have a personal relationship with you in this quasi-polytheistic, natural-spiritual sense (oddly like family, friend or loved one) and don’t have to prove this to my neighbor or anyone else by having to convert them by bloodshed or killing them for not converting and in the same sense who would condemn their loved ones anyways? Well I’m getting off track now.

What I’m trying to get at is that I just have to live a good life and be a good person so that others around me may somehow benefit from the gifts I have, whatever they may be, I can’t keep this much awesomeness to myself, that would be extremely rude.
However, I do condemn so many for their actions based on what they claim to be religious tenets, etc, and they in turn point their fingers at me. I can’t stand the things that are done in the name of religion. They seem very “special” in that way that’s not good to be special if you know what I mean.

Seriously though, how can I not see every ancient Pantheon in my everyday life though when You have given us so much to every faith and spirituality around the world for so long? If there was one person in the world that wanted me to believe that that your Pantheon is nothing but devils and demons or myth and legend when the whole basis for their beliefs lie in what you have given them then am I the misguided one? If this is faith I will be a heathen, pagan or infidel any day of the week It’s mind boggling really. I’m just saying.

So in my own little way this is a thank You for all things they don’t understand yet as well as those things I have yet to understand. I’m not a big people person as the things I see most people say or do is just beyond me. Humans seem a foreign species that I’ve been forced to live with as a social experiment so I had to learn a lot of different coping skills to deal with the, at times what I think of as insane things, but all the same I don’t understand like I said. So, thank You.

As above, so below…and to the left, and right…and forwards, and backwards…and most importantly the center.

Amen, So Mote It Be, Hallelujah

The Sermons of the Damned Series: Part 3

The Chromatism Dispute

Matthew 6:10
May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.

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Try to have someone prove what their favorite color is in a logical argument. They must give evidence, present facts, a background, any influences and finally justifications. If any question were to arise as to whether they favor another color besides the one presented, even partially, then they were actually lying during the presentation of their argument. If the majority surrounding them is in agreement that there is a more highly favored color among them, then this particular group should form a faction, one of their callings or tenets to be to condemn anyone favoring another color.

Then we shall organize it not into a council or assembly of like-minded people, not a group of artisans under a common cause but a religion. We will call this new religion Monochromatism, where the god of this religion would obviously command “Thou shall have no other colors before me.” Now the artists of the world can only use the colors prescribed and accepted as their new faith.

Well then the schisms begin because members have become apostates and prefer different colors or more than one color which of course is heresy and blasphemous. This will be called the Great Pigmentation, when the people become apostates, breaking away from the one true trinity of Black, White and Grey.

Through the natural progression of time many such schisms will occur beginning with Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet.

The multitudes of hues and shades will schism for reasons of a divinely inspired nature which no one else can understand but them because they were especially chosen by the most recent color. These newest sects create Magenta, Cyan, Brown, Fuchsia, and Pink.

And now because all factions desire to be the truest color inevitably a series of wars ensue over the next few millennia to destroy the others colors and secure their power, all the while more factions are created and alliances are formed. Despite how well these colors complement each other, or how much they contrast, the varying tones of such a Lightness-Darkness Axis are easily soluble.

For what purpose, and to what end are these battles fought? What we end up with is a massive spectrum of colors and values that make up everything we see. We are all part of what makes up the world in which we live. No one god is somehow superior, and no one faith is superior. How is anything else any different? By bloodshed? Coercion? Divine wrath and holy wars do not make one color perfect, to be held as sovereign over all others. They are all parts of the whole.

The Chromatism Dispute