Post by david on Apr 19, 2019 17:23:40 GMT
The Zen masters tell us that we mistake a word for a thing, so that we believe the word "rose" is the reality of the rose, and not the actual rose itself. What people do not grasp is that the word "rose" is actually the reality of the rose. God created the rose by speaking the word "rose".
This may seem startling, but that is because we cannot grasp that a thing can be real unless it is material. We cannot grasp that true reality can be in the airy-fairy abstractions of ideas, which we are told is the cause of all violence. The truth is that God exists purely on the level of Idea. and all things are Ideas in perfect harmony in Her mind.
The name of any deity contains the essence of that deity, and, when you speak the name, you invoke energy in the form of that name, so that the diety manifests in that form. When the myths about a deity do not correspond to the meaning of the name, you know the myths have been changed.
It is important to be aware that, while the word is an activity of God, it is not God. This is a distinction too subtle for some people.
May She be with you,
David.