god = existence = the whole enchilada

What Christians seem to have overlooked for 2000 years is that god is existence. God calls himself I AM, translating Hebrew yesh, meaning existence [life, everything, the whole enchilada, nothing excepted]. In the early centuries, Christians were massacring each other in the 1000s over whether jesus was like god or same as god. Homo-ousian or homoi-ousian. Ousis is god is existence. Ousis, yesh, esse, and is, are all cognate.

As soon as there is one atom outside god, god isn't existence. As soon as there is one thing that is not god, god is not infinite.

Existence is infinite, because the existence of nonexistence is selfcontradictory, ie, it is eternally impossible. We can imagine nonexistence; we do it by sticking existence and non together. And then we frighten ourselves with nonexistence, as children frighten themselves with monsters in the wardrobe. Nonexistence is impossible, so it is all existence, ie, existence is infinite. [Empty space has at least the property of distance. If empty space didn't exist, all the suns would be touching.]

The [eating of the fruit of the] knowledge of good and evil is the FALL. Religion has been fallen since it made god good. Isaiah 45.7: I make peace and I make trouble [evil, calamity, in different translations]. As soon as god is good, god is not existence, he is not allpowerful, he is not allknowing, he is not infinite, he is not the greatest, he is not the creator of everything, and he is not the one god.

The idealisation of god is idolatry. Idolatry is worshipping something less than the infinite, the all, the mystery of life, of existence.

All our ideas of god are wrong. Whatever we can fit in this little head is finite, limited, partial.

The knowledge of good and evil is judging, is misjudging, because we cannot fit existence into our little head, nor have proper standards to judge. To experience god, we must abandon our little heads, and use our infinite mind, our self, our atman, which can fit god into itself, because it is god.

Be still and know I am god. That is, abandon [for a time] finite mind, and thus enter infinite mind, which is god, and which can experience god, that is, experience the totality all at once. The totality has no form because it is all forms, no colour, nor white nor black, because it all colours and white and black. The widest definition of god is neither-this-nor-that. God is also both-this-and-that. God is the grey you get when you stir up all colours together.

Existence is one simple thing, and yet it is energy [both energy and matter, energy, which cannot be created or destroyed] consciousness existence experience excitement bliss success joy love etc etc.

When you experience the world or juggle ideas, it is like reading a book in the bath, and thus not noticing the bath. When you forget the book for a moment, you experience the bath. So to experience existence, you stop the finite mind.

God is good in a 'higher' way, a sublime, great, divine way, which includes good and evil. This is best expressed in the taoist symbol: the dynamic of opposites is perfection, the revolving of finities is the dance of heaven.

Only those who see the big picture are awake, Heraclitus. Only those who leave off experiencing part of the picture realise existence. Judging in terms of good and bad distracts us from, blinds us to, the whole. This is part of the divine plan. Things are experienced through their opposites. But what opposite can infinity have? Nonexistence doesn't exist. So the only way god can experience himself is by creating part-consciousness, the finite mind. Then there is contrast, when people [god] travel between part and whole consciousness, and then there is experience. Just stop prefering, Buddha. Give up judging, which is always misjudging. Take in, James Joyce. I laugh at those who seek god as I would laugh at a fish [in the ocean] seeking water, Augustine.

This perfect eternal synergy between part consciousness [duality, judging, finite mind, division, separation, distinction, manyness] and whole consciousness is what is portrayed in the taoist symbol, in the Y as the Pythagorean mystery symbol, in Diana Trivia [three-ways], in the tree of life, in many other ways. It is expressed in: I was a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known so I created the world, in: God locks himself out [as man] and himself comes [as teachers] to open the door to himself, in: The one in the many, the many in the one, when this is realised, no more worry about not being perfect, in: God delivers everyone to disobedience [disharmony with, ignorance of, the whole] so that he can have mercy on all [Romans 11.32], in the story of the prodigal son, in Eliot's: we leave home in order to return and see it for the first time. It can be seen dancing in supreme joy on the Chi-Rho page of the Book of Kells. It is performed when we put together a jigsaw puzzle, when mother and child play peekaboo. It is expressed in the myths of Uranus, Osiris, Arkas, Humpty Dumpty, etc chopped up and put together again, in the story of the blind men experiencing the elephant in limited ways. It is good to let lie before you and thus take to heart what is, the beingness of beings, Parmenides. Know thyself, ie, experience your infinite mind, self. The desire and pursuit of the whole is love, Plato. This eternal rescuing of himself from the illusion of good and bad is the eternal performance of love. Who goes beyond knowledge [whole knowledge] and ignorance [part knowledge] realises this existence is a mansion of mirth, Ramakrishna. All is dance, and dance is all.