Blog – 3: The Premise

What I realized today: I need a premise to focus on.
The premise or topic or question to explore is: Does God Need to be Taught.
We could say unequivocally NO, God knows everything.
Then on the other hand, God is everything, therefore God is also ignorance, however it manifests.
Then the quote: Know ye not, that ye are gods. If we really are gods wouldn’t we know it, or if we are gods why do we need to be told. We must have forgotten we are gods. If that’s so we could be taught that we are gods or manifestations of the great universal, omnipresent, omniscient, all knowing God. Therefore God in the mind of a deluded, unaware soul can be taught. Their true self knowledge can be awakened.
Therefore we could say yes, the deluded manifestation of God can be taught what it needs to know.
There’s a story of two men, one asks the other what were you doing. the other man says I was communing with God, the first asks what did God say, the second: God didn’t say anything, God was listening. the first man then asks, what did you say to God. The second man replies, I didn’t say anything, I was also listening.
So listening to God’s silence is a lesson in itself. What does that mean? You’re listening to the absence of thoughts, to a non-thinking state of mind.

On a different tangent: There’s a difference between the lesson, and the test. It has been said that we often get the test before the lesson. The test becomes the lesson, or the test metamorphosed into the lesson. Or from the test we realize that there’s a lesson to be learned, or when we are tested, we can ask what can I learn from this. So whenever, we are learning, we are receiving the lesson.
Questions arise. What is the value of the writing? Isn’t it obvious, is it so important to put these ideas into words? What good is it doing? Maybe there is some value that isn’t immediately apparent. It’s building something big. A stone mason apprentice may not think that chipping away at a stone, making it square and smooth, does not seem to be amounting to much, but prolonged chipping and smoothing of a number of stones, and fitting them together, we would or could eventually see a pyramid.
Not that I believe that the pyramids were all built with manual labor, nor do I disbelieve it. Anything is possible. Just as machines have replaced human labor in so many ways, there were at one time, people slaving away on various projects, and then when the time came and machines were developed to take the burden of repetitious labor out of the hands of the laborer, then those who in the future only saw machines doing the work, wouldn’t they find it difficult to believe that human beings sometime in the past stifled their natural creativity and spirit and spent a large part of their lives engaged in mindless repetitive work. Ideally though, we would like to believe that they weren’t always mindless, but subjugating some other natural proclivity or talent to satisfy the need for income. If people are never taught or realize how to dig deep within them selves and define their purpose in life, or develop their innate talent, or unique creative ability, then they are apparently liable to become pawns of the powerful. Ideally we will all find a way to happiness, even if the way is unclear, and arduous.
It’s never too late to redefine who we are, although apparently it’s more difficult to establish a better habit as we get older. But on the other hand, some people find that they are able to apply themselves to activities that fulfill themselves in myriad ways.