A new poster
I made today. You can purchase it by clicking here. It will take you to Art From Another Dimension at Zazzle.com.
I began with triangle shapes and when a theme appeared to me I added
different images I've photographed or
created from photographs. Jack and Qkjea
are filling in as Elohim. I may add more
Elohim later on.
My plan was
to explore the theme of the Elohim participating together in the creation of
the human race and the rest of creation which arose from the imagination of the
Creator. I have only included two representations of the Elohim. Clearly, in the bible, there are more than two Elohim.
The Elohim
talked together about the impending creation of mankind. "And God (Elohim) said,
Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion". Creation is said to have begun when God
separated light from darkness.
If that is
correct creation and existence are the result of the appearance and recognition
of opposites. Light and Darkness could not be more opposite. Before there was light in which forms manifest,
there was nothing but 'darkness' empty of form, void, but enclosing,
incorporating the origin of all forms. The darkness may be understood as the
inscrutable thought and purpose of God.
Lao Tzu wrote of this in this
way; J Legge translator: I do
think Lao Tzu was on to something five hundred years BC, give or take a
few. In verse 21 he wrote:
The grandest
forms of active force
From Tao
come, their only source.
Who can of Tao the nature tell?
Our sight it flies, our touch as well.
Eluding sight, eluding touch,
The forms of things all in it crouch;
Eluding touch, eluding sight,
There are their semblances, all right.
Profound it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
Those essences the truth enfold
Of what, when seen, shall then be told.
Now it is so; 'twas so of old.
Its name--what passes not away;
So, in their beautiful array,
Things form and never know decay.
How know I that it is so with all the beauties
of existing things?
By this (nature of the Tao).
The Way of
the Tao' of Lao Tzu is what translators of the New Testament into Chinese use
to communicate the divine attributes of Jesus to a Chinese audience. This is significant because in the New
Testament Jesus is described as the active agent in creating human
reality. In this correlation is clearly
seen the many
sided (manifold) wisdom of God.
We
see imperfectly. All, myself included,
hold ideas that will collapse like a house of cards. . When the house of 'beliefs' falls, what
remains as the object of faith when the dust settles is the Source of our
being. It is this Source to which faith
is rightly directed. It does not
collapse because the Source transcends, infuses and undergirds all. I don't
care what you call it. Elohim, Logos, Vishnu, Tao, Way, God; it makes no
difference. A name does not change the essence of the Source. It is your faith in the Source of your being
that makes the difference. The Source of
being exists as the basis of all you are. Faith is the only key to the door of
the Source of being. Belief
and doctrine will let you down, faith will get you through.
In
the gospels the faith of people praised most highly by Jesus were pagans. The previous sentence holds a link to one
such instance. This means religious formulas go out the window. It is faith that counts in the spiritual
world, because faith is where your heart is.
Being doctrinally correct was what Jesus condemned the religionists of
his time for. They knew how to work the 'law of God' to their advantage. They ended up having Jesus killed to
protect their religious beliefs. You
can figure it out if you have a mind to do so.
Well anyhow I made the poster this
morning. I hope you like it.
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