Why God Has a Hidden Problem and How You Can Help Solve It
God is often described as omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. Despite the olden terminology, it gets at the core idea of God, even if it lacks specifics. However, this omni-everything isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Far from fully expressing the perfect and complete nature of God, the one most of us imagine, this infinite, eternal, all-encompassing-ness is actually a huge problem.
A problem, really?
Yeah, really.
Before time was created
Way back in the eternal past, before time was created, all levels and facets of reality were indistinguishable from each other. This was even before the appearance of God (more on that later).
Personality (mind, volition), non-personality (energy, material, spirit, eternity, time, space, infinity) and so on were combined, mixed together and utterly diffused into a homogenous whole.
I write more about that here, and call it Total Deity.
Nothing was separate from anything else. There was absolute unity. Furthermore there was absolute uniformity and simplicity. Mixing everything into a whole is as simple as things could get.
And therein lies the problem. A piece of reality that we know and love was missing: authentic relationship.
No single component could actually relate to any other component because they were all the same thing.
You know, like an Oreo milkshake. The Oreo’s couldn’t dip themselves in milk. Because they were the milk. There was no crispy cookie to pull away from the creamy center because they were completely blended together.
With Total Deity being Everything-All-In-One, it was a lonely place: in all of this diffused reality, only one personality existed.
There was a kind of relationship, but it was self-relationship. The melody that the whole sang was beautiful, but it wasn’t the infinite expression of all potential.
For that, you need harmony.
Difference is the solution
At this point, Total Deity starts dividing itself.
The will (personality) present in the whole separated from the the non-will (energy, material, spirit, and so on).
Will possesses the ability to act, and begins to function as a stabilizing force on the non-will components, which are limited to re-acting.
The will divides again, this time into individual personalities and non-individuated personalities. Individual personalities become an infinite spectrum of created beings like angels, other celestial personalities, and yes, even us.
The non-individuated personality becomes God. In this way, as the source and center of all personality, God becomes a divine person, a universal personality.
As the repository of all things personality, God becomes the universal creator of all subsequent persons, no matter if their person is housed in spirit or matter.
From melody to harmony
Total Deity began its journey as a unified whole (if you can use a time-space term to describe something eternal and infinite). But a unified whole, alone and by itself, doesn’t express infinite potential of all things. And it certainly doesn’t express the potential of an infinite number of absolutely unique personalities.
Total Deity began as a melody of unity, an exquisite singing self, but it was alone in the wilds of the cosmos, and could only sing the song of singularity.
Since that eternally distant past moment, that moment when absolute unity began to divide itself into absolute complexity, Total Deity has been progressing toward harmony.
At some point in the eternally distant future, we’ll see a reuniting of all the separate but absolutely distinct components of reality.
The part only you can play
The master conductor has created an infinite symphony that sounds all around us.
While God is indeed a personality, and a divine one at that, the material cosmos we live in, the one we see through both the Hubble telescope and electron microscopes, is no less divine, no less a part of the infinite music of reality.
And as a perfectly unique member of that symphony, you have an irreplaceable part to play.
There is a piece of harmony in you.
Find it and play it for us. Help us resonate with that divinity so we can find and play our own part as well.
As Walt Whitman wrote in O Me! O Life!
The question, O me! so sad, recurring — What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here — that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.