As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Participating in the continuing Incarnation of God

I am interested in the Kaballah, lately. that quote reminds me of their view of God.

It stands in contrast to some views of God expressed in Gnosticism, with the evil demiurge vs. Sophia, the feminine God of Wisdom.

Jung’s “Answer to Job” I guess talks about the theme of God’s darker aspects.

I haven’t read that book yet but I read an essay that quotes heavily from it.

First God is like, all nice and shit, and then he turns on people and blows up their cities and kills their puppies and stuff. And like nobody seems to agree about anything, where it came from or how to interpret it…

…When people say the Bible is stupid and inconsistent, what they are in essence saying is: “I can’t accept reality for what it is. I need everything to be perfectly explainable and consistent in all ways at all times, or else I will have an emotional reaction against it.” Get over it! Life doesn’t work like that

Some passages from The Awakened State of Being…

God is All There Is, plus one. Most people cannot, or will not, accept this idea in its literalness…

…Most people, religious or not, are still worshiping a very limited, very lopsided idea of God that is based, usually, on the exclusion of masculinity, and a denial of the dark side, not only within the self, but to a large extent within God…

…just as children tend to prefer the mother, who indulges and comforts them, over the father, who disciplines and challenges them, people who want to over-indulge their desires and not balance this with challenge and growth prefer a ‘feminine’ God who will love them unconditionally, who will treat all equally, regardless of what they do (or don’t do)…

…It is childish and naïve to believe in a God that loves and gives endlessly and unconditionally while wanting nothing in return from his creations. God desires as well as loves, just as we all do. God takes as well as gives.