The God Principle

 

 

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“Honey, what if that process itself is a reflection of how the Godhead externalized and expressed itself? Something tells me there is more to that process than your matter-of-fact description of it.”

 

“You go ponder about it!” laughed Theo. “I have to read through all this and more for the parenting classes. Well, you could try working these diapers on the dolly while you’re at it. Gee, I can see this is going to be fun!”

 

Aliyah grimaced and lay back on the couch. A baby was a very exciting turn of events for her. From the loner and self-oriented person she used to be, she had come to share her life with Theo and now a baby was coming in, further expanding her love circle. She loved the baby even before it was born. The feeling of motherhood, its greatness, holiness and love, had already begun washing its sweeping tides over her. It was unlike anything she had ever felt before.

 

Her thoughts now turned to Theo, who somehow had a different frame of mind about the whole thing. She had met with little success in changing his opinions and his general outlook on life. Sometimes this drove her into despair, for the ideal world she pictured with Theo consistently failed to materialize. Worst of all was his rejection of the principles and truths that she held as sacred. But she suspected that deep down they had made a considerable impact, something that he refused to acknowledge or even consider. His materialistic viewpoint on life had often conflicted with hers, and she sometimes wondered how Theo had come into her life at all!

 

She remembered another time when she had described the body as holy and an image of God. There was the stomach, which represented earthly life, where digestion and assimilation took place, analogous to experiencing and learning. Above it were the protected higher worlds represented by the rib cage, where the heart and lungs were located. This she described as the higher worlds of love and life, for the heart was symbolically considered the seat of love, and the lungs provided the breath of life, and this area of the body circulated energies that helped sustain the whole body. Below the earthly domain represented by the stomach was to be found the intestines which represented lower worlds, purgatories or hells as they were called. Here too, amid the filth and stench, redemptive digestive assimilation occurred in the body, and the worst of the worst, the undesirables, were finally purged and discarded.

 

At the highest level, rising above the seven vertebrae of the neck, was to be found the brain, which represented the Great Intelligence that controlled all of creation. This brain, with its two hemispheres and the hindbrain, had a multi-fold nature. Principal among its functions were the intuitive and artistic intelligence represented by the right hemisphere, the intellectual and analytical represented by the left hemisphere and the autonomous and automatic coordination and control represented by the hindbrain. This by analogy represented to her the Supreme Intelligence functioning in the roles of the feminine or Mother, and that of the masculine or Father, and also in the impersonal and automatic laws and functioning of creation that were studied by the scientific community. This Great Intelligence acted on all the levels of Creation, from the highest to the very lowest, as represented by the extension through the spinal cord and the nerves that proceeded from it, merging into the rest of the body. To her this analogy of the physical body represented a real truth about the Body of God itself, that man’s physical body was made in the image of God.

 

By now she had come to consider all her analogies as resulting from manifestations of cosmic principles, which like golden threads were woven seamlessly into the tapestry of all physical and spiritual phenomena. These principles resulted in phenomena at multiple levels mirroring one another in various degrees. The organizing principle behind an ovum and embryogenesis, she suspected to be a reflection of that which resulted in the Godhead unfolding itself. Those behind the organization of the human body, she considered to be a reflection of the ones which were behind the expression and functioning of the Godhead. Those that were behind the anatomical organization of a spider seemed reflected in the organization of the mafia super-organism and also in the spirit forces of evil. All such organizing principles she viewed as having emerged from a single, unifying principle that she called the God Principle, a term she had used often with Emma. It was this Principle that ultimately resulted in the mirroring of various phenomena at multiple levels and in subtle ways, and formed the basis for all the analogies that held her attention captive. The result was a great reflection of the physical and spiritual realms on to each other, and even within their own realms.

 

Theo however had found her descriptions somewhat incredulous, and a product of weird imagination. Such apparent insensitivity on his part and some ridicule of her cherished notions many times resulted in her moving into depression, resulting in emotional tantrums that flared up every now and then. These incidents caused Theo to move even further away from her ideals, as her tantrums were distasteful to him in the extreme. Despite such ideological differences, love kept them together. Indeed they were learning from each other in subtle ways, too subtle to be noticed over short periods of time.

 

For Aliyah was now entering a troublesome period in her life, one that was calculated to make her realize that spirituality had nothing to do with philosophies, theologies or even experiences of so-called spiritual states, that true spirituality had to do with how she lived, what she learned and how she responded within to everyday life.

 

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