I wrote: “Why you would bring him into this is bizarre in the extreme. You really ARE confused.”
You replied: “I can imagine Gagdad Bob’s book saying in the end We are God. No Thanks.”
You really ARE confused. AND you have a GREAT “imagination”.
On the other hand, here are just a few sampliings of the facts:
Gagdad Bob: “We are not God”:
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Truth and Me: A Love Story
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8580258&postID=5860653609687740421
Schuon goes into the four essential limitations or “infirmities” of the soul, one of which touches on the issue I raised above about the universal and the particular.
We begin with the Big One. Yes, we are not God. We are “creature, not Creator, manifestation and not Principle or Being.” I am certainly aware of this. In fact, only the godless can be unaware of the fact that they are not God, which is one of the great sources of their mischief.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Business of Isness: What Is Is and Isn’t
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8580258&postID=4988032674953176521
Therefore, it is just another way of acknowledging that we are not God. But we knew that already. It’s the atheists who don’t know.
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Lumin Beings & Loony Moonbats
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2008/04/lumin-beings-loony-moonbats.html
The moon is not the sun, and we are not God. But we can become receptacles or “luminaries,” that is, lumin beings who ride the wild soph on waves of divine light.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Image is Everything: Man and Other Mirrorcles of the Absolute
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8580258&postID=1184307754276496718
While God must have an absolute truth known only to himself, down here we partake of relative existence. In short, we are not God.