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Reflections on the Hidden God
Part II
If we go by the creation story common usage, which in our case means the
to most major spiritual traditions, it’s projected perception of physical reality.
about a kind of smoke and mirror game
to allow conscious or spiritual energy to Souls Along the Frontier
experience the perception of materiality. Spirits and souls are not exactly the same.
It’s what the Hindus called Maya, Spirits are the individual consciousnesses
modern science calls simulated reality, that have elected to use their free will
and pop culture calls the Matrix. to stay within the harmonic sphere of
the Source consciousness. In Christian
In the beginning… terminology, we might say they were the
To answer the mystery of where and angels who stayed before the throne of
why God might be hiding, we need to God. Souls are those spirits who diverged
dig back deep into the creation beyond into other dimensions of conscious
all the distortions and confusion posed vibration seeking individual experience.
by traditional religion. Western or They were the pioneers or journeyers
Abrahamic religions all tell us that who strayed by exerting their individual
human beings were separate creations will over that of the collective.
from God the way Pinocchio was
a separate creation from Geppetto. This falling away from the Source
The ancient spiritual traditions from Consciousness was symbolically echoed
Hinduism to the early Judeo-Christian in the story of the fall of Adam and Eve
mystics responded to this notion with an from Paradise. It was more incisively
emphatic, “NO!” explained in the suppressed Gnostic
mystical Christian gospels as the fall of
We are not separate creations and consciousness--actually a series of falls--to
God created nothing. We are, rather, lower states of awareness culminating in
emanations or projections of the very consciousness embodying in physical form.
Mind-Consciousness of God Itself, albeit
in diluted states of conscious limitation. Spiritual Evolution
If God is the Source of the cosmic This fall was not sudden; it was gradual
power grid, we are like the relay stations and evolutionary in both material and
stepping down the energy for everyday non-material dimensions. Numerous,
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