Mirror of God

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Probably, I will not be very mistaken if I say that, practically, at all times, mankind, literally, tormented itself with all sorts of questions and problems, from "the meaning of life" to "who is to blame?" and "what to do?" It never ignored the theme of God. What is God? Who is God? Does he exist at all? Why do we need it? Why do we need him? Etc.

“In the beginning was the Word,” the phrase that begins the “Gospel of John,” is one of the most popular biblical quotes. The entire first verse of his Gospel reads like this: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

In the original text of the New Testament in place of the Russian - "Word" is the ancient Greek ὁ Λόγος (logos), which can be translated not only as "word", but also as "mind", "basis", "statement", "understanding", "Value", "proof", "proportion", etc. In total, he has no less than a hundred meanings. The translators of the Gospel took the very first meaning from the dictionary - "word". But they could just as well translate logos as both "thought" and "mind." And this would not be a mistake, although, probably, then the translation would have lost in poetry and expressiveness, and the meaning of this text is still obscure. But as soon as we substitute the word “thought” instead of the word “word” (I apologize for the involuntary tautology), this phrase immediately acquires completeness. So: "In the beginning was Thought, Thought was God and Thought was about God." By the way: here we clearly see the assertion of the primacy of consciousness over matter. And yet, what was that thought? In principle, only two more or less meaningful options are possible here. The first is "I was born!", Or "I Am", and the second is "Who am I?" Let's try to consider both. As it is easy to see, the first option is a simple statement of fact that does not require any evidence or justification. Whole and complete, already in itself, a thought that does not require any continuation. But the second option … WHO AM I? A question of questions! Looking ahead, we can confidently assert that the universe owes its appearance to SIMPLE DIVINE LOVE!

Who am I? How to understand who I am? Or what am I? It is much easier for us than for God. We can ask someone, go to the mirror, and finally just feel ourselves with our hands. And what about Him? Try to imagine yourself in His place. You have nothing in the bodily sense. And there is nothing around, in the sense of the material. How to know yourself by the power of thought alone? So someone is needed to tell me - about me. You can, of course, create someone who would look at you from the outside. But then a problem arises - to create WHOM? How can you create someone if you don't even know who. It is much easier to separate a "piece" from yourself, endow it with an independent will, consciousness, soul, finally, in the image and likeness, and let him study you, and then tell you. And this "piece" (it is also created in the image and likeness) also has the same question "Who am I?"

All these "pieces", although created in the image and likeness, are still only pieces and their information capacity will always be obviously less than that of the one who created them. And a smaller information capacity implies a smaller amount of controlled space, and a smaller amount of information that they can bring to their creator, they were created for this. And the younger ones have only one way out - to unite. If someone else does not understand what I mean, then I explain - this is about our souls, people. The desire of souls to unite, in our mortal world, is called LOVE. So it turns out that our entire immense universe is just a MIRROR of GOD, created by God, created from God, created for God, Our souls are His particles. And we are His children (hmm … His, His, His …, is not Jehovah from here). They do not lie, apparently, the sacred books. Thus, we have a steady cycle of divine particles (souls), the elders strive to separate the younger ones (children) from themselves - the younger ones strive to unite (become elders). What is not the deep meaning of the instinct of reproduction and procreation. And aren't our children helping us to better understand ourselves? Who are we? What we? Why do we? And by the way, our souls are also far from being a static object. They can develop, independently increasing their information volume, thus increasing the amount of information brought. Well, now we can probably reflect on the meaning of our sinful life …