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Catholic mystic Evelyn Underhill [5] wrote: . It is clear that under ordinary conditions, and save for sudden gusts of "Transcendental Feeling" induced by some saving madness such as Religion, Art, or Love, the superficial self knows nothing of the attitude of this silent watcher—this "Dweller in the Innermost"—towards the incoming messages of the external world: nor of the activities ...
For the God who created and upholds the universe was not created – he is eternal. He was not 'made' and therefore subject to the laws that science discovered; it was he who made the universe with its laws. Indeed, that fact constitutes the fundamental distinction between God and the universe. The universe came to be, God did not.
When this consciousness is present, "people are not alienated from God by their instincts". [8] The relation between the lower and the higher consciousness is akin to "Paul's struggle of the spirit to overcome the flesh", [8] or the distinction between the natural and the spiritual side of human beings. [9]
It is Purusha, in the Hindu concept of existence, that breathes life into matter, is the source of all consciousness, [1] one that creates oneness in all life forms, in all of humanity, and the essence of Self. According to Hinduism, it is Purusha why the universe operates, is dynamic and evolves, as against being static. [8]
If God is indeed the creator, then this is an impossible predication as the same cause will be responsible for two contradictory effects of cetana (life) and acetana (matter). [11] This logically precludes an immaterial God (a conscious entity) from creating this universe, which is made up of material substances.
One interpretation of this dialectic is that neither a bondsman nor a lord can be considered as fully self-conscious. A person who has already achieved self-consciousness could be enslaved, so self-consciousness must be considered not as an individual achievement, or an achievement of natural and genetic evolution, but as a social phenomenon. [12]
According to these teachings, in the beginning of a Day of Manifestation a certain collective Great Being, God, limits himself to a certain portion of space, in which he elects to create the Solar System for the evolution of added self-consciousness. In God there are contained hosts of glorious hierarchies and lesser beings of every grade of ...
And since only the challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason that we... are God's debris. [ 20 ] Adams' God exists now as a combination of the smallest units of energy of which the universe is made (many levels smaller than quarks ), which Adams called "God Dust", and the law of probability , or "God's ...