Fast Eddy gives us a lick of his fantasy: "Suppose the universe consists of an omniscient mind containing total and absolute knowledge. But it is asleep. Slowly it stirs, stretches and starts to awaken. It begins to ask questions. What am I? - but no answer comes. Then it thinks, I shall consult my fantasy, I shall do active imagination. With that, galaxies and solar systems spring into being. Then the fantasy focuses on earth. It becomes autonomous, and life appears. Now the Divine mind wants dialogue and man emerges to answer that need. The deity is straining for Self-Knowledge, and the noblest representatives of mankind have the burden of that divine urgency imposed on them. Many are broken by the weight. A few survive and incorporate the fruits of their divine encounter in mighty works of religion and art and human knowledge. These then generate new ages and civilizations in the history of mankind. Slowly, as this process unfolds, God begins to learn who He is."
But, remember, all of this drama takes place within the mind of man. So God can only learn who He is, when We learn who We are. The Instinct in the unconscious to build a Vessel for god so that by taking a Topos, a shape and a place, we might "grasp" god - this instinct is the Mirror Image of god. As Edinger puts it: "Yahweh = the Unconscious." To the degree that the unconscious rules man, god rules man. Job and Yahweh are negotiating a new Social Contract. Jesus - the ink on the page - waits fluttering in the TPO Junction. |
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