Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Hermetic Writings
The Hermetic Writings have an omnipotent approach to the subject of God. I liked it because of the light but stern tone. This segment is proof of the tone: "If you don't make yourself equal to God, you can't perceive God; for like is known by like." This passage also introduces the moral of what the rest of the writing is about. After reading the rest of the writing, you will understand that it is impossible to be God. This is because it is not humanly possible to be old, young, unborn, in the sky, in the sea, on the land, etc. all at the same time. Therefore because you cannot experience all these things at once, you cannot be God or even completely perceive God. However, just because you can't fully perceive God doesn't mean you cannot get to know him. This is where I feel the Hermetic Writings gets profound. I believe it to be profound because of the emphasis this passage puts on spirituality instead of living by what is factual and learning to trust and believe in something you cannot behold. What we take from this passage is that God is beautiful from all aspects, including all of his creations--essentially the world we know, not just biological entities.
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yea i wrote on this reading too. I liked it and i agree with you. I mean, obviously we cant be everywhere at the same time, and do anything, and we are not immortal, but these are physical things... i was thinking that maybe it was saying to be this way in our minds...? like, our souls are this way...? but yea i agree with what you said too. I was thinking the same, i just said it a different way lol.
ReplyDeleteI liked your take on this passage. I wrote about how it is possible to perceive him if we can step back and look at everything from God's perspective. Yet, once I read your analysis, I think that you're spot on, and I missed part of the point. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteYou have some good insight. Although the passage tells us that it isn't possible to be God, but we can perceive Him through everything all around us, I think that it also tells us that by doing so, we become one with God, and we are like a God ourselves. Yes, our perspective will change, and it doesn't seem humanly posisble. But I think that each of us is already a God to ourselves whether we acknowledge it or not. Everything that we do, whether intentionally or unintentionally is centered around ourselves. Therefore our surroundings are a reflection of us and our perspective of our surroundings mirrors this. So whether we are God, or God is us, or we are one... it's kind of all the same I think.
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