Aristotle on the Immateriality of Intellect and Will

My knowledge of nature religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism is not the result of Bible tracts but intense research and thorough study.

Hinduism and Buddhism are "nature religions"?!

You know nothing.

But so what - if you're a Catholic, you think Protestants are going to hell, and if you're a Protestant, you think Catholics are going to hell.

Actually, you know what? The only person who is going to heaven is you. That's right - you. Because you're the only one who understands properly. The reason for Creation is so that after a few short years of worldly life, you can sit in heaven, alone with the Trinity, and the entire mass of humanity writhing in agony in hell forever at your feet. And you alone will know the exact category of each person's failure, and Jesus will high-five you, and God will praise you and the Holy Spirit will keep refilling your beer glass - forever.

Nature religions. /spit/

On the miraculous creation of the first man Church Father John Chrysostom wrote: “And God formed man of dust (matter) from the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul….the inbreathing communicated to the one created out of earth the power of life, and thus the nature of the soul was formed. What does a living soul mean? An active soul, which has the members of the body as the implements of its activities, submissive to its will.” (Genesis, Creation, and Early Man, Seraphim Rose, p.215)

Gregory of Nyssa added: “The body and the soul were formed at the same time—not one before and the other afterwards…” (ibid, p. 218) Early Church Fathers make the point that the whole of creation---angels, time, matter, fire, wind, water, herbs, trees, all life and conscious life---was brought into existence from non-existence (ex nihilo) in six instantaneous creative acts and not from anything already in existence or from the Essence or Nature of God. Therefore creation does not have the same essence as the living, personal God Who spoke creation into existence and is not a part of God as most ancient and modern pagans believe.

Brahman: the Void (also Teilhards' Omega)

In the “Quantum Society,” physics writers Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall advocate a new "occult" science of pantheism, psychology and sociology grounded in a breathtaking range of practical implications in the,

“…fundamental physics that underlies all else that is in the universe” lending itself to a holistic understanding that “the nature of the mind, the nature of society, and the nature of nature are all one and the same thing…linked by a common physics.” (The Making of the New Spirituality: the Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition, James Herrick p. 170-171)

The ultimate discovery of the new "occult" Physics is "scientific" proof of the basic correctness of Benedict Spinoza’s pantheistic theology---nature is god.

According to Zohar and Marshall, the fundamental physics underlying all else in the universe consist of two sorts of particles, bosons and fermions. Fermions “are particles that make up things” including “protons, neutrons, and electrons, the basic constituents of the atom.” In other words, “all of the matter of the universe is made of fermions.” (ibid)

Thus there are only two kinds of matter in the universe, and all of one kind is what we call physical matter. The other kind of matter is spiritual and mental boson particles. Bosons are the fundamental spiritual/mental forces that “bind the universe together---the electromagnetic, the gravitational, the strong and weak nuclear…” Since bosons appear to “like clustering together,” consciousness and social qualities are most likely boson phenomena. (ibid)

Both physicists contend that the boson is implicated in basic evolutionary processes, thus there is a “whole new ‘metaphysic” of the human in the history of the boson:

“If the tendency of two bosons to bunch together at the most basic level of early physical processes can be traced in unbroken sequence to the principles underlying the physical basis for conscious mind,” then “we have traced the origins of the human mind back to primordial physical reality.” (ibid)

This means that in the so-called "social tendencies" of "thinking" bosons physicists have discovered the evolutionary origins of the human soul (self) since the boson is the critical link between the previously immaterial soul (prior to emanating into a material body) and the evolutionary emanation or emergence of both biological life on earth and of the universe itself.

Zohar and Marshal conclude that there is no longer any basis in the quantum worldview for any “ontological distinction between the human and the natural," meaning between human and divine nature, hence "god" is within man. Their conclusion represents “a radical shift away from the whole earlier Western worldview,” thus is applauded and greatly appreciated by New World Order occult pantheist globalists, Luciferian Theosophists, Satanists, Wiccans, and other nature worshippers.

Zohar and Marshal also find that when physicists probe the deep recesses of the universe they are confronted by a void, an indefinite and seemingly infinite field of energy that they call the ‘quantum vacuum,” a background without features that seems empty yet is where all physical objects originate:

“All the waves and particles that we can see and measure, literally, as in the Greek, ex-ist or ‘stand out from’ an underlying sea of potential that physicists have named the vacuum….just as waves undulate on the sea.” This ‘sea’ of proto-physicality is an “all pervasive, underlying field of potential…the vacuum.” (ibid, p. 172)

The ‘quantum vacuum’ is strikingly similar to some Hindu and Buddhist accounts of the origins of physical objects as emanations from the impersonal, non-living One and/or the Void. Nor do Zohar and Marshall deny the similarity:

“The vacuum spoken of by quantum physicists, like the Buddhist concept of Sunyata, or the Void, to which it is so similar, is replete with potentiality.” (ibid)

From the time of ancient Babylon the Void is the "ultimate ground of being" and true mystical religious experience. As the beginning and ending of all reality, the Void or vacuum is “the vast sea of all else that is.” Moreover, humans are not individual persons but excited modes of the Void:

“…the vacuum has the same physical structure as human consciousness.” As this is the case, then the (non)soul of the Void and soul of the human are one and the same substance. “There is…quite possibly a common physics linking human consciousness to the ground state of ‘everything that ever existed or can exist’ in the universe (and we) are part of it. Each one of us as an individual is an excitation of the vacuum, an individual being on the sea of Being” and this is a straightforward conclusion of “orthodox physics. It is…proven.” (pp. 172-173)

The Doctrine of Emanation

According to the doctrine of emanation, the entire universe, all spirit, life, and even all of the gods, human beings, and everything else, came about by a process of emanation (or unfolding, emergence or evolution) from the non-living energy field or Ultimate Ground of Being (Void, Abyss). Just as waves form across the surface of the ocean, so the Void forms upon itself successive waves (emanations) of entities that in turn emanate further entities and so on, with all of these entities interacting within an extraordinary network or great chain of being consisting of downward-sloping self-contained planes of existence, a top-down hierarchy of astral plane realities arranged vertically.

Each higher plane of existence emanates the one below it through a process of emanation, thus each plane stands in the position of ground of being (god) to the one below it. Therefore creation is not creation ex nihilo, as the Genesis account teaches, but emanation out of the Void, the ultimate ground of being.

Each plane of existence has its own specific characteristics, thus there can be a plane where spirit or thought forms exist; where the Gnostic demiurge, the evil Jehovah, God of material creation exists; the realm of the deities, demons, heavens, hells, angels, and so on, realm upon realm, all looking downwards to the physical realm and also looking upwards to the Void or quantum vacuum.

Nature Worship

Brahman by any other name is merely the evolving universe of energy and matter. It has within it no ultimate source for life and soul/spirit. Thus Nirvana is a nowhere land for nonbeings.

Ex-guru Rabi Maharaj and Vishal Mangalwadi left Hinduism behind because they know it is a dead-end. Moreover they have expressed in writing their shock that Westerners, having received the greatest gift of all--the Truth, the Way, and the Life, have rejected His offer of salvation and eternal life in favor of the nothingness of the Void. Do as they have done. Reject the Void and turn back to Jesus Christ Talisker.

Early Church Fathers make the point that the whole of creation ... does not have the same essence as the living, personal God Who spoke creation into existence and is not a part of God as most ancient and modern pagans believe.

Then, IMHO, the "Early Church Fathers" were wrong.

Reject the Void and turn back to Jesus Christ Talisker.

I'm perfectly happy with my relationship with Jesus Christ, and I know of no void to reject. I suggest you mind your own damned business and examine conclusions you've adopted that you believe justify cramming your bloated ego between another person and their relationship with God.

Narcissism can be cured. Get help.