Post #401 Religion in the Duality of Existence"

Existence is the Duality of Existence and Non-existence.

Therefore Consciousness is also Duality.

In Duality,
Consciousness is Aware of the  Reality of Existence
OR
Consciousness is Aware of the Non-reality of Non-existence.
Consciousness Chooses Existence or Non-existence.

Consciousness Exists in the Singularity of Self and the Singularity of Other,
 OR,
Consciousness Non-exists only in the Self.

The Self of Consciousness Exists in the Reality of the Existence of the Singular Self AND
the Singular Other.

OR

Self of Consciousness Non-exists in the Created, pseudo, Existence of the 

Dreaming Self.

 Existence 'IS', means and IS, IMMORTALITY.
Existence IMAGED is MORTALITY.

Reality IS Immortality because Reality IS.

The Created, pseudo Reality of Creation, is Image.
Image IS NOT.
Image is Mortality.

This Created Existence Begins as it Ends and Ends as it Begins,
 as Created Time,
as is Creation itself,
Nebulous.

In Duality,
the Self of Consciousness Exists in Immortality in the Reality of Existence.
OR

The Self of Consciousness Exists in Mortality, in its own Death in the Non-reality of Non-existence.

Humanity Fears Existence in Pseudo-reality because Humanity Non-exists in its own Created

Mortality.
Humanity Fears what the Self, It-Self, has Created.
Yet Humanity, as does all Creation, Creates its own Death.

The Non-existence of Creation, Exists through the Dream of Consciousness.

Consciousness Chooses, in Duality with it-Self,
  to Exist in Reality or to Non-exist in Dreaming a Pseudo Existence 

we know and experience, as Creation.

Consciousness, in Awareness of the Mortality that occurs through its Choice to Create

a Pseudo-existence, seeks to escape.

Our Story, the Story of Humanity, is about escaping from what we, in our Consciousness,
have Created.

Our first and foremost attempt has created and written our history.

Religion is all about our attempt to escape from what we have Created.  

Religion is the Dream.
Religion is the escape clause.

Religion says we can claim Reality, thus claim Immortality,

thru belief, ritual, and celebration, not in the Reality of Singular Self and Singular Other,

but in the Non-reality of belief and celebration of the Self within the Created Self.
It is the Self that Dreams and Esteems the Created Self into the Image of Reality.
But Image is Pseudo-reality.
Imaged reality is REAL only to it-Self.
Self can totally Exist in a Created Non-reality.
Humans do live in their own Created Non-realities that are the only Existence they know.
Most Humans live totally Created lives and consider this 'reality'.
No matter how intense the Dream or the Desire, Pseudo-reality can never
Become Reality!

The Created Self Dreams Immortality by Creating it-Self--God.
The Created Self/God thus gains Immortality through its Creation of God.
The Created Self/God then enters its own Dreamed Existence. 

This Self is the Self of Creation that is worshiped and glorified 

into a Self-contained reality that is only Dream, that is only the Image, of Reality.

However Self Perceives Self, without Other, is Self of Self.

Self of Self cannot Observe Self as Self in Selfness.

Only Other-in-Otherness can Observe Self as Self  

thereby Witnessing to Self's Selfness,

that Self can then Validate itself as Observed by Other-than-it-Self.

If Self is not Observed or witnessed as Self,

Self cannot be Validated as Self by Self, and therefore ceases to Exist,

caught in its own Dream of Becoming what does not Exist,

therefore Mortal,
Mortal---Dreaming it-Self Immortal as Immortal God within It-Self
as the Creating, Immortal, All Powerful, All Knowing,
GOD of Creation.
--NOT God of Reality,
but God of Creation.
'God', obviously cannot Exist in Reality.

Self-in-Self seeks to Exist.
Self-in-Self seeks therefore to Survive its Created Mortality
and so Magnifies the Self by Imaging the Reality of the Singular, Validated Self 

as it-Self.

The Created Self thus seeks 'To Become'.

The Created Self seeks To Become what it IS NOT.

What it Is Not is the Singular Self that Exists in the Observation of the Singular Other.

Self-in-Self, in the Process of Division that marks Creation, breaks down into many Selves,
Self Divided by Self = many Selves---all Selves from the One Self,
All Seeking Survival from Mortality.
Self thus seeks Survival through it-Self as there is no 'Other' than Self.
 But, due to this Self's Choice to eliminate the Singular Other of Reality,
this Self of Consciousness,
this Self of Dreams,
this Self of Image,
this Self of Creation,
can only seek Survival within the Self,
 thereby causing the Self to Divide, to fragment,
to Perceive the Self as Creator, as Savior, as Immortal.
Dividing Self into Victim and into Savior.
From Victim and Savior, we move into Male and Female,
then into Black and White,
into Good and into Evil.

To Create the Self as GOD, the Self must Create it-Self as Non-God.
For Non-God is necessary for GOD to Exist.
Again the Duality in ever expanding increments,
pieces Dividing over and over again.
In the process of Non-God Creating through Belief, through Ritual and through Worship,
the Created GOD of Religion.
To maintain God then, the Self:
Must Believe,
Must Ritualize,
Must Worship,
thus bringing the Self into Dreamed, Pseudo Immortality.
through the Creation of an Pseudo, an Imaged, immortal GOD.

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