Post #47 "Many Actors-Many Stages"

Essentially, if Reality exists, non-reality exists.

The pattern of duality governs creation by replaying the Reality/non-reality scenario but with a different cast of characters on a different stage on the levels of history.

With each replay, with each level of Time, the Reality/non-reality duality moves farther

away from Truth thus becoming fainter and more distorted.

Here, from another angle, the angle of duality,

begins the chaos described in the ancient mythologies of the biblical heavenly battle and

the biblical Genesis accounts.

 

In these accounts, all does not go as desired for the main characters.

Surely the characters, as all of humanity,

realized and realize that their desired transference with God did not take place,

however the roles were played.

Loss resulted,

the loss of heaven in the first story

and the loss of the garden in the second. 

Also, as we may see it more now than at any other time in history

------the loss of innocence.

 

More precisely, the loss could be seen as the loss of God.

Or is it the loss of Reality?

None of the characters in the stories became anything resembling God because Reality was lost,

only the distorted image of Reality resulted.

The question of God and Reality finally presents itself.

 Or, is the question between God and the God of Creation?

Let's consider one of science's profound theological questions.

Carl Sagan, one of the greatest scientists of our times, pondered what he saw as two

conflicting or alternative hypothesis.

"One is that the universe was always here,

and the other is that God was always here.

Why is it immediately obvious that one of these is more likely than the other?

Or put another way, if we say that God made the universe,

it is reasonable to then ask-and

who made God?"

(The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan).

Surviving Gnostic writings that have been labeled as such by religion

and then, consequently,

excluded from the official bible of the church refer to two Gods,

one of which is the God of Creation.

Valentinus, the Gnostic to whom the Gospel of Truth  recently discovered at Nag Hammadi

is attributed,

says that in a secret doctrine received by him from Theudas, a disciple of Paul,

it is revealed that, "the one whom most Christians naively worship as creator,

is in reality, only the image of the true God."

(The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels).

 

Irenaeus, bishop at the time of Valentinus feared repercussions on clerical authority as Gnosis

gave a theological justification to reject the authority of the church.

Politically speaking, it is obvious why these books would have to be eliminated

at a time when a unified hierarchy of church office was being established.

The unfolding of Reality/non-reality continues.