"Overcome The World" --The World Being The Idea That We Are Separate From God And Not Of The Milta

What was the lie Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden? "You will become like God." Satan's lie (i.e., our ignorance's lie, from our limited experience of the world) was that Eve was separate from God, that she was not already Him, but could become like Him, herself a god. This is the lie of lies, the heresy of heresies--that we are separate from God, yet it is the modern-day Western church's basic Christian doctrine! I personally believe in creatio ex nihilo--creation out of nothing--except the "nothing" everything is created out of is the Ineffable No-thing, the Most High (...?) Itself. That No-thing has consciousness, which we call God, and God imagines, assumes, creating the heavens and the earth.

There isn't a separate, second nothing divided from God from which God created the world. Everything comes from the conscience the Divine Existence, the eternal No-thing, has of Itself. The Divine Intelligence imagines, and Its intelligence has the power for what It imagines Itself to be--i.e., to literally become physically existent. It is the agency: what It assumes It is, It becomes. I.e., the intelligence of the ineffable No-thing Itself literally TRANSITIONS from imagination into physical existence by assuming that It actually is what It imagines. This imagining, assumption, is God's "speech." Thus by Its speaking the Ineffable's intelligence--i.e., Its power and Its wisdom--has become all creation. It imagines, "I am light," and It becomes light. We think light is particulate, and it becomes particulate. By Its assumption all this world--including ourselves--is Him, the Milta.

It isn't that I do not believe in the Wholly Other, it's just that I believe that the Wholly Other has become all of this, the Milta. The No-thing has a conscience which by assumption becomes material. The Divine Conscience is the first manifestation of Wholly Other, and we are manifestations of that Manifestation. There is constant connection maintained throughout the transitions: the manifestations are still Him, the Ineffable, but they--we--do not know it and have to discover it. The Bible is addressed to the imagination in us to help us do just that. We become as babes.

We are born into this world not knowing our connection to God, not having the foggiest clue that we are in any way, shape, or form the manifestation of the Divine Being Itself, and most Christians do not believe it. They actively and urgently reject the notion, calling God a liar: "We have only ourselves and what is right in front of us, and that's it; we have no connection with God whatsoever."

The most excited reaction I ever get, unfortunately negative, is when I suggest to a Christian that we are in fact the manifestation of God, and thus are God Himself, even in this ignorant state. Their heads snap back and their minds race to the scene in Genesis where Satan lies to Eve, "You shall be as God." "Why," they charge, "that's the lie Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden!" To them, creatio ex nihilo means that God created the universe, including us, out of a separate nothing that was not a part of Himself, a nothing somehow "over there," in which He operates by some sort of remote control, maintaining always a division between Himself and that which He creates, never actually touching it. He speaks and wills things into existence "over here" without any direct involvement. This, they say, is the Biblical doctrine.

Yeah, well, no. I have never taken enough drugs to believe anything like that. Satan's lie was that we shall become as God. What if our ignorance could have said, "You already ARE God. The Divine is present in you continuously. You are just freshly in this state and are ignorant of what you are in it, because you do not see or perceive what God is doing in it. There isn't anything separate from God, because He Who is "there" has become everything that is "here." Our being Him is nothing to be puffed up or arrogant about, but to be humble and honored and thankful for. God has made us to exist, to Live!! It is right for us to Live for Him."

Ignorance, of course, cannot speak that way. It is the idea of Creation being separate from God, the idea that our experience in the world gives us, that is to be overcome. The Holy Spirit is constantly testifying to our being one with God--"HEAR, O ISRAEL, . . . " (Deuteronomy 6:4). We are to BELIEVE it. "Repent, and believe the Gospel." "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." "You in Me, and I in them."