2. yes. I personally invoke many gods from different pantheons and have had quite a few memorable experiences.
3.Most religions taught reincarnation secretly(like Christianity) or publicly. To get there you complete the great work.
does that make sense (grin). understandable it sounds foreign to most people. But, if you begin by looking at all of the similarities of the religions, The mythologies and and the rites etc one begins to find a lot that is shared. When you then find out that the ancients hid there secrets and did not give them out where they could be misused. You had to earn the right to receive by illumination (mysticism). Then and only then can you understand the real nature of religion(at least from my perspective. Pagan Christs by Carpenter and 12 crucified saviors by Kersey Graves are beginnings but by no means the end of a path that can be very revealing to the right mind. They did "not give holy things to the dogs. They will rend them (in argument) and turn on you. It is like throwing Pearls to the Swine."
1) How many gods are there?
2) Can one know God (or the gods) personally?
3) Is there a heaven, and if so, how does one get there?
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1. There is super conscious, Conscious and Sub conscious. Gods exist in the subconscious because they are created thee in a partnership between the Superconsncoius and the Conscious. They are created by the religions based on a shared symbolic language,concentration and will of the worshipers as they are created by the imagination and have a definite reality if you open yourself psychically.
2. yes. I personally invoke many gods from different pantheons and have had quite a few memorable experiences.
3.Most religions taught reincarnation secretly(like Christianity) or publicly. To get there you complete the great work.
does that make sense (grin). understandable it sounds foreign to most people. But, if you begin by looking at all of the similarities of the religions, The mythologies and and the rites etc one begins to find a lot that is shared. When you then find out that the ancients hid there secrets and did not give them out where they could be misused. You had to earn the right to receive by illumination (mysticism). Then and only then can you understand the real nature of religion(at least from my perspective. Pagan Christs by Carpenter and 12 crucified saviors by Kersey Graves are beginnings but by no means the end of a path that can be very revealing to the right mind. They did "not give holy things to the dogs. They will rend them (in argument) and turn on you. It is like throwing Pearls to the Swine."
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We’ll have to agree to disagree on such matters, but thanks nonetheless for a thought provoking response. I’m no expert on world religions, but here’s what I know:
1) Hindus recognize the existence of many gods. Christians, Jews and Muslims recognize one. Buddhists none. Atheists none.
2) Evangelical Christians believe in an always accessible God, deeply involved in people’s lives. To Muslims, Allah is neither knowable nor accessible.
3) The Muslim view of heaven has something to do with 72 virgins or raisins or whatever. Buddhists believe that after one reaches Nirvana, a state of “perfect peace” or “highest happiness,” one “fully passes away” upon death. The mainline Christian depiction of heaven is not paralleled in other faiths; Heaven is depicted as a place, not of this world, that believers will inhabit forever.
I guess I see more distinctions than similarities between the major religions. IMHO, one cannot believe all of them simultaneously.