POLYTHEISTS AND THE MASKS OF GOD
by Jim Cleveland
(from ON TOP OF IT: Rising Above the Human Mind)
Those of us who believe there is one God — one First Source and Center — may tend to think that others will fall short of the heavens in our Ascension plan.
In truth, the adoration of a pantheon of Gods can hardly be condemned when the person seeks righteousness and lives a kind and caring life. There will be polytheists in the mansion worlds, those who saw many faces of God in their mortal lives.
In prehistory, man had only what he could see around up and over him. The Sun became a powerful, light-giving benefactor and when it went away and storms blew over the land, it was taken that the Sun God was somehow displeased. But the rains, of course, were considered a blessing as well.
As mankind developed concepts of Godly power, they developed human-life personalities around their deities and began to grow the roots of all religion, all spirituality on the planet.
In whatever age, man is born, there is the choice to do good or evil, to choose caring over contempt, altruism over acrimony, goodness over gain, sharing over stealing, and work toward community progress with others. They can hardly be blamed if they came along before the one God concept, the First Source and Center reality, came to be.
Good people of all kinds and in all places have the spark of God inside them. If they make good choices and cultivate goodness, the Universal Father will give them their place in the ascension plan for mortals.
There is still a strong tendency for humans to put their God above all others. But there aren’t any others. And there aren’t any religionists on the planet authorized to make judgements upon human souls or the paths they take.
Even the Christian bible makes it clear that God claims ultimate judgement of all things and we need not bother with all the responsibility we seem to take to judge other people all the time. Let them be. Share your love and insights with them, and let them be.
God the Father takes the responsibility for all his children. Humans need to learn to focus more surely on their spiritual growth from inside out and allow God’s plans to work as they are willed to do — with the Father ’s will and our own wills working cooperatively.
In this life quest, our best advice, of course, comes from within our own walls, within our own personal spiritual hierarchy that leads us better than any humans or their institutions have done. The universe has a vast education system since education is the primary activity. As we can tap into it, we can supersede the evolving but still judgmental human-built institutions that want to help with our righteousness. We can be righteous without them, and that’s something the evolving religions have often failed to be.
Our Indwelling Spirit of God, our indwelling Spirit of Truth from the Jesus incarnation, and our empowering, inspiring Spirits in the Universe Evolution are all accessible and reliably preferable to preachings of institutions that represent themselves and not the highest concepts of a Universal God.
Spiritual Wisdom comes directly from within, without the incessant middlemen who all make their human smudges upon it. It can come to you from many places, even the next person you meet, but the Mother Lode of this gold is within you since all else you see is material. Your Spirit and your personality are both eternal if you wish to make it so.
Namaste.
May we see and respond to the Spiritual Joy that can be unleashed within our brothers and sisters of the planet.