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The God Concept (Level 2)
ALL-THAT-IS (the creator) and the Multidimensional aspect of God
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We refer to God as "it," because, quite clearly, the force of God is neither male nor female. That which creates all things is all things and can not be referenced in any other way, if we want to be as accurate as possible. Your language presents certain limitations. An object, person, or thing can be a male, a female, or an it. Clearly the pronoun "it" imposes the least limitations on the God entity, yet it too is inaccurate. So bare with us when we use the pronoun "it" instead of the pronoun "he," as is the literary acceptable way for handling something that is gender neutral. We are trying to break you out of your worn out notions of God and not depersonalize God in any way.
The first, which we will discuss now, refers to God as "ALL-THAT-IS." We refer to the God entity as ALL-THAT-IS because that term too is more accurate -- as you will soon see and as we delve deeper into the Multidimensional self and God. However, for literary accuracy, we may, from time to time, use the Term "God" instead of the term "ALL-THAT-IS" or vice-versa. So, make a mental note that if we say "God" we really prefer the term ALL-THAT-IS, however, in a literary sense, the one term or the other is more linguistically proper in that particular place.
July 12, 1994
Now as we stated in the first part of our series, involving ALL-THAT-IS (See
Hermes' Reality Cooker, Book 2 Chapter 1 and the Course Glossary thereof), The
term God is given to the ONE, who begins, ends, and continues and is responsible
for the creation and life force of all that exists physically, nonphysically,
and that which is neither. We refer to God as ALL-THAT-IS because God is EVERYTHING!
The body of ALL-THAT-IS is the totality of all three kinds of existences that
you can presently comprehend: physical, nonphysical, and that which is neither.
To understand why ALL-THAT-IS is both separate and a part of everything we must examine the multidimensional self some more. The self that you know and are aware of is much more than you think. Your very being and consciousness are a small part of larger more complex selves. These selves have been referred to throughout your history and culture as the Soul (capital S), your higher self, your spirit, and even gods to some extent. This multidimensional quality can be likened to a single cell within your physical body. For instance, I'm sure you would agree that a heart cell can and does experience a reality quite separate from your own. Yet, it still is a part of you. Also, all of these heart cells group together to form the heart itself. The heart, itself, is an organ that experiences its own reality, separate from the heart-cell and separate from you, and it, too, is still a part of you. The entire physical body makes up yet another consciousness, of which you are unaware of, but it too is both part and separate from your consciousness.
It is through this interrelatedness that harmony and cooperation stem. Without such connections, the Universe -- and your body -- would be nothing more than a jumble of running- down processes going about their separate ways and not amounting to much. The Consciousness that you know of as you would not exist if other smaller consciousness did not ride underneath your own. Atoms group together to form larger more complex structures, like metals and wood. Yet those metals and woods would not exist without the tiny atom at the building block level, building that structure bit by bit and piece by piece.
So, your own self is multidimensional, reaching upward as well as downward in the spectrum. Your spirit is you but with all of your previous lives added together. When you are free of the body, these other lives join with the you that you are aware of and a new self becomes formed. This new self has all of your previous existences as building blocks for the new self. These previous selves do not cease to exist, just because they fuse. Simultaneous Time demands it to be so (See Hermes' Reality Cooker, Book 2 Chapter 4). Your higher self is an extension to the Holy Guardian Angel principle. Your higher self is the self that has evolved past being human and has learned all that is learnable in the human system. Your higher self -- like your Guardian Angel -- knows what is best for you because it has evolved past what you are now. Your higher-self and Guardian Angel love and care for you so intently, because, on another level of existence, they were you and are you. The Soul is a further extension of this multidimensional quality, with the Soul reaching what you would refer to as the threshold of divinity (more on divinity in a minute).
ALL-THAT-IS too constructs itself in this multidimensional manner. But it constructs itself from a downward direction -- as you understand the direction -- starting from the perfect self and moving downward to less perfect and less evolved forms of consciousness. Eventually, the force of ALL-THAT-IS reaches what is known in your biblical terms as the God-Forces: El, Eh-heh-Yeh, Sha-dai El Chai, ect. Do not take this paragraph up wrong! We hear your alarms going off already! We are not saying that these God-Forces of ALL-THAT-IS are less perfect. They are perfect and complete as you understand the term to be. However, from ALL-THAT-IS's perspective they are not the complete entity, of which it is. Also do NOT take what we are saying up wrongly again. There is only one ALL-THAT-IS, these other God-Forces possess connections to the ONE that go beyond anything humanly conceivable. For all purposes, these God-Forces are one and the same.
To be Divine -- as you understand divinity -- an entity must be at one with ALL-THAT-IS so that they are indistinguishable with ALL-THAT-IS. This indistinguishability precludes any kind of freewill separate and apart from ALL-THAT-IS because to be at one with it is to act in accordance with its divine purpose. Your consciousness is learning to be at one with ALL-THAT- IS and Divinity and when you too reach that point in your evolution, you will give up any freewill that you may have and unite with ALL-THAT-IS.
As we will explore next, there are many advantages to the multidimensional aspect of ALL-THAT-IS. For one, all parts of the whole experience a reality separate yet a part of the entire consciousness. All parts of this whole have a common thread that binds and bounds each one together for the common good of the whole. Each separate part can, at any time, be in instant contact with that whole. There is no need to go to some external place to touch a larger power -- namely God. ALL-THAT-IS resides within you, not without. You do not need to look any farther or closer than yourself for God. It is a part of you as the cells in your body are a part of you.
Many of your kind embark on the ultimate search for God. They go through various religions, cults, and doctrines and find themselves no closer -- or further -- then they were before. ALL-THAT-IS is certainly a part of all of these religions, cults, and doctrines but there is no need to go anywhere to find it (ALL-THAT-IS). ALL-THAT-IS is inside each one of you as much as it is within a cell, or a planet, or the Universe.
To touch that power all you need do is to look inward and touch the part of you that is ALL-THAT-IS. It hides in no secret place, neither does it cloak itself from you. Touching God is one of the most simple and sacred things that you can do for yourself. You have just forgotten how. Once you feel God within yourself, then you will know and feel ALL-THAT-IS in everything else.
Meditation and prayer are excellent ways to learn how to touch God within you. In Hermes' Reality Cooker -- our previous work -- we gave you the "God Meditation." Refer back to that book and chapter if you would like a powerful, step by step way to reconnect to ALL-THAT- IS. You can, also, sit quietly and listen to music that you find exceptionally pleasant, to touch that part of you that is God. You will know the feeling once you feel it, and that feeling is not foreign or alien to you. You have felt it before many times in your life. You have just forgotten what it is. Try to induce that feeling as much as you can. For, the more that you become accustomed to that feeling, the easier it will be to raise it. The feeling of ALL-THAT-IS within you can be a powerful ally in your evolution and your reality creating. And, as they say, in some of your infomercials "You can take it with you whereever you go!"
Before we end this dissertation, let's leave you with a puzzle of sorts, a puzzle where you may not of understood its deeper meaning, when it was given to you.
July 19, 1994
This appendium is in response to the question concerning our analogy of a cell
to being a part of a larger whole.
The cell-body analogy was mainly meant as an aid in helping you to understand the relationship of ALL-THAT-IS to you. Although the cell is its own conscious entity, like you, the relationship between ALL-THAT-IS and you is much more than the relationship between you and a cell in your body. For one thing, unlike you and your consciousness, ALL-THAT-IS is intimately aware and conscious of each of you. Your species, at its present state of evolution, is relatively unaware of the consciousness of each cell within the body -- though it is possible for you to tune into a cell if you so desire and experience the reality of a cell, much like the way ALL-THAT-IS tunes into you and experiences your reality.
ALL-THAT-IS is awarized consciousness. When we say awarized we are referring to a life-force that knows and is intimately conscious of each part of itself, no matter how large or how small. You See! One of the criteria of reaching a divine state is some kind of conscious awareness of the individual parts that make it up. This is no easy task, as you will see, if you try the exercise that we will give you shortly. This exercise will give you some idea of the expertise and focus that is necessary for such a state of development. After you complete the exercise, try to imagine what it would be like to be able to tune into each and every cell in your body -- simultaneously -- and to be able to know what each and every cell was doing -- simultaneously. After such an experience, you can begin to grasp the wonder, awe, love, and power behind ALL-THAT-IS.
Sit quietly in a comfortable place. A meditation position will work well here though it is not necessary. It is more important for you to be comfortable. Now, close your eyes and direct your consciousness inward -- as if you were in deep prayer or meditation, but use no words. Next, imagine yourself becoming smaller, but it is only your mind that is shrinking and not your body. When your mind feels like its the size of a dot, try to see the environment within. In other words. You are now the size of a dot sitting within your brain. Leave your brain and travel downward in the body. See yourself as you go down. Now, find your heart. The heart is a good organ to use because its rhythmic beat can help you to more easily tune into its awareness. Next, see yourself entering into your heart. Remember you are still a dot. Once you enter your heart, try to feel the beating of it from within you. As you are doing this, expand your consciousness from a dot to encompass the size and shape of your heart. Now you can begin to perceive the world that your heart does. Remember! The reality you have entered is not human -- colors, shapes, feelings, sounds are all very important here and have other meanings. Don't try to understand what you are perceiving, just try to become familiar with the feeling.
Now, do this exercise for no more than five minutes. After you are done, you may not be aware that anything happened. That non-awareness is okay because there is a second part of this exercise. Several hours later or the next day. Do the exercise again. Except this time pick another organ within your body. When you return to normal consciousness, you should feel distinctly different than say when you returned from your heart visit. This difference is the reality of each organ. No two organs will have the same feel, colors, shapes, and revisiting an organ will invoke similar feelings. In other words, the reality of your heart will always feel the same each time you visit it. After exploring several organs in this manner, you will begin to understand how each part of your body experiences a different reality from other parts. This exercise should give you some idea of what ALL-THAT-IS feels when it visits you, so to speak.
We hope that this appendium clears things up a bit. Until next time...
