The Becoming God

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

What Ecclesiastes means? That God was bored?


Oh, Qohlat,

A day without night, no end in sight -- what a weariness it must be! Ah, to sleep, perchance to dream. What would you do if you could neither sleep nor slumber, if awareness never departed?

Not just one day after another, but constant day with no nights to break it up –- never a fresh morning or "that was yesterday, tomorrow is another day" -- from eternity past through eternities future.

Well, how about a little diversion -- something to do, something to occupy your mind? Give yourself some distraction, and before the day drags on and your diversion becomes monotonous, find something else to do. Maybe lots of things. 

"Hey, wait a minute," he said to no one in particular. "What if I didn't know this? What if I forgot this and thought that I slept and dreamed? What if I imagined that day gives way to night, that I had a beginning and an end, and that there was difference and purpose in things? What if I could be born new and die before long tedium, or at least thought I could."

I heard Neville say that the world is to appease a hunger, and I wondered, what hunger? The hunger the Eternal has for diversion, for distraction and entertainment. Hunger for escape. Eternal day is constantly the same to the Infinite: no night ever takes away its sight.

The world's being, and all distractions in it, will eventually pass. The earth will be no more. The Eternal faces eternal consciousness. "I have got to get out of this place!" Death for us is a blessing.

Vanity means "doesn't mean squat; accomplishes nothing." Everything here doesn't mean anything at all -- it is all going to pass away. Day will still be on the other side of our living and dying though we live and die a thousand times a thousand. Light being and crystal cities to attain? Oh boy! More terrestrial spheres, and all the universe to make God -- until all is back at the start. Oh well, there is nothing better to do.

Well, maybe there is something better for us than we are doing now. We can toy away this life "Godding" -- doing good, loving and healing people, hearing good news about them, lifting them up. They also are God in distraction, blind as bats to the deity within them wasting in their dissipation. No loss, but maybe we can bring future goodness into their experience and help make this a happier, more pleasant distraction for all of us.

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