• Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
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    2 days ago

    The following are my personal views regarding the divine. In order to better address my views, I’m going to use verbs such as “to be” (is/isn’t, are/aren’t) and “to have” (has/hasn’t, have/haven’t). However, it doesn’t mean factual statements, so it shouldn’t be taken as absolute truth. It’s just what I believe, so I may be wrong.

    For context, my belief is the result of a syncretic approach that encompasses several religions and belief systems, with some borrowing from scientific concepts. I tend towards Luciferianism, but I’m neither restricted to a specific belief system nor I’m religious nor initiated.

    Also, it’s very complex and multifaceted. It’s very complex and multifaceted to put into simpler words. Throughout this comment, I needed to try and simplify a lot of concepts, should it be much longer in order to fully grasp the complexity of the cosmic and divine principles.

    I see the divine as two complementing poles, akin to Yin and Yang: there is a Goddess and a God. Many ancient religions used to believe and worship a dual divine, from Ancient Egypt (e.g. Isis and Osiris), Hebrews (Asherah and Yahweh), indigenous people such as Tupi-Guarani (Jaci and Tupã), among others.

    They’re both opposite and complementary aspects within the divine. Complemented in balance, they make the Divine, similar to Baphomet: the androgynous, hermaphrodite, fully perfect Divine, the convergence of Lucifer and Lilith, whom are archetypes of the Divine.

    Opposing, they get into a kind of a cosmic tug-war yet they seek balance, not exactly a “fight”/“war”, as It’s complicated to put into words, but it’s just the nature of opposites: they attract each other, but they are still opposites trying to be the frame of reference to the other (it’s like they’re eternally arguing: “Light came from my Darkness!”, “no, Darkness came from my Light!”; it’s just a matter of each one’s perspective, both are right).

    This is mirrored within the creation of the cosmos (as per Hermetic Principle of Correspondence “As above, so below”): matter and energy, antimatter and ordinary matter, black-holes and stars/planets/asteroids/nebulae), etc. Fundamentally, it’s darkness and light, absence and presence, non-existence and existence. By darkness, it doesn’t imply “evil” or “bad”: what we see as “good” and “evil” are oversimplifications of a much complex cosmic tapestry. Neither She is necessarily evil nor He is necessarily good. They are both capable of both good and evil (just like there’s Yang within the Yin, and there’s Yin within the Yang).

    However, what we see as “human emotions” are different kinds of energetic signatures. Scientifically, we could point out how neurotransmitters are composed by different chemicals, which are composed by different atoms, which are composed by a different sum of charges (different count of electrons and nuclei). This “energetic signature” could be seen as resonating with equivalent energetic signatures (so a happy song resonates better with a person currently in a happy mood, for example; a grayed sky, devoid of chromatic diversity, resonates better with a person currently in a sad mood, which is experiencing a “lower energy state”).

    The distinct poles within the Divine resonate with different energetic signatures (with Goddess, imbued with what we’d call as feminine energy, resonating with a much larger spectrum of emotions than God, imbued with what we’d call as masculine energy), which in turn resonate with different “emotions”. We, humans, interpret this as “Divine with emotions”, but it’s just a cosmic principle. As we experiment “emotions”, we’re experimenting the same cosmic principle, so we are just the micro mirroring the macro, “as above, so below”.

    Again, it’s just my current belief, it’s just my way of seeing the Divine. I may be wrong, I don’t know.