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Pantheism posits that the universe is God, or that God is the universe. There is no distinction between creator and created; everything is the divine whole.
Pantheists feel a strong connection to nature and view it as sacred. Pantheism highlights the interconnectedness of all things. #pantheism

You’re not too weird. You’re just early.

The POEE (Pittsburgh Temple) Discord is where divine goblins, sacred ADHD spirits, and queer cosmic pirates exchange memes and holy secrets.

There’s a throne. It’s inflatable. (No, you can't borrow the throne. Get your own from the $5 store like I did.)

🛸 https://discord.com/invite/3nKaZ8ZdN4

#Erisian #Discordian #Discord #DiscordInvite #JoinMyCult #AntiCult #AntiChrist #AntiPlatoGang #23skidoo #Anarchy #Pennsylvania #Pittsburgh #Breezewood #Harrisburg #Redding #Bradford #Bedford #PA #Pantheism #Philosophy #SpinozasGod

I go onto my balcony after dark and sit with my cats. It is our quiet (Church) time. Try Pantheism, not only will you find peace, but you will find yourself too. #Pantheism #Peace

Can time not be wanted to pass more slowly, because if it did, a slower time would exist, in which an otherwise (i.e. at comparatively faster times) wanted and achieved goal would not be achieved, which is not what one wants? #RelativityTheory #MuonExperiment #Pantheism

@VisualInspiration

- Not bad, Zoroaster, blow again!

- Phh…ewww – seems, I need to take a breath first. It’s kind of crowded in here.

- Never mind. By the way, do you think the cake will be enough for us all?

- Hard to tell. Hope so.

- Excuse me, may I?

- What? Jesus F***ing Christ – you multiplied the cake!

- Oh, that was nothing. I've done that before. A piece of cake, as it were.

- Make it three thousand! This should be enough.

- I’m not sure. Kali is coming with ten plates in her hands.

- Holy shit!

- Zorro, the Spaghetti Monster just called. He might be a bit late.

- Thanks. Ask him if he can bring some Chianti for supper. – If you don’t mind, Jesus.

- No problem. I’ll have one, too.

- Does anybody know if Bob Dylan’s coming?

- Don’t think so. Tomorrow’s his own birthday. I’m sure he’s figuring out the guest list right now.

- Any of us invited?

- Nope. Jesus was, some thirty years ago.

- Oh yeah, that one was boring!

- So anyone up for some party crashing tomorrow?

#microfiction
#pantheism
#happybirthday
#bobdylan

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Constantly think of the Universe as one living creature, embracing one being and one soul; how all is absorbed into the one consciousness of this living creature; how it compasses all things with a single purpose, and how all things work together to cause all that comes to pass, and their wonderful web and texture.

[Ὡς ἓν ζῷον τὸν κόσμον, μίαν οὐσίαν καὶ ψυχὴν μίαν ἐπέχον, συνεχῶς ἐπινοεῖν καὶ πῶς εἰς αἴσθησιν μίαν τὴν τούτου πάντα ἀναδίδοται καὶ πῶς ὁρμῇ μιᾷ πάντα πράσσει καὶ πῶς πάντα πάντων τῶν γινομένων συναίτια καὶ οἵα τις ἡ σύννησις καὶ συμμήρυσις.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 40 (4.40) (AD 161-180) [tr. Farquharson (1944)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2677…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #animism #circleoflife #gaea #cosmos #life #pantheism #unity #universe

All gods are aspects of the same God -- and that One True God is a Goddess named Eris.
(to Allah belong the best names)

#religion #discordianism #pantheism

Η πεποίθηση ότι ένα θεϊκό ον ξεκινά το σύμπαν και στη συνέχεια «κάθεται» και παρακολουθεί τα συμβάντα να ξεδιπλώνονται, χωρίς να συμμετέχει άμεσα στις υποθέσεις, είναι γνωστή ως #ντεϊσμός. Εδώ ο #Θεός θεωρείται ένας κοσμικός μηχανικός. Αντίθετα, ο #θεϊσμός είναι η πίστη σε έναν Θεό που είναι δημιουργός του σύμπαντος και ο οποίος επίσης παραμένει άμεσα εμπλεκόμενος στην καθημερινή λειτουργία του κόσμου, ειδικά στις υποθέσεις των ανθρώπων. Ο Θεός διατηρεί έναν προσωπικό και καθοδηγητικό ρόλο. Τόσο στον ντεϊσμό όσο και στον θεϊσμό, ο Θεός θεωρείται εξ ολοκλήρου εκτός, και πέρα από το φυσικό σύμπαν. Στον #πανθεϊσμό, δεν γίνεται τέτοιος διαχωρισμός μεταξύ του Θεού και του φυσικού σύμπαντος. Ο Θεός ταυτίζεται με την ίδια τη φύση: όλα είναι μέρος του Θεού και ο Θεός είναι σε όλα.

Belief that a divine being starts the Universe then `sits back' and
watchs events unfold, taking no direct part in affairs, is known as
#deism. Here #God is considered a cosmic engineer. In contrast, #theism is
the belief in a God who is creator of the Universe and who also remains
directly involved in the day-to-day running of the world, especially the
affairs of human beings. God maintains a personal and guiding role. In
both deism and theism, God is regarded as wholly other than, and beyond,
the physical Universe. In #pantheism, no such separation is made between
God and the physical Universe. God is identified with Nature itself:
everything is a part of God and God is in everything.

(https://web.archive.org/web/20210507000939/http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec14.html)

Via Negativa

https://write.as/theriverpoet/via-negativa

I used to be a hardcore atheist, and while I still appreciate some of their arguments against revealed religion. I can no longer consider myself an atheist.

#atheism #pantheism #agnosticism #freethought #buddhism #meditation #spinoza #occult

Assumption: Space with its consciousness is only finitely large. Can it then decide for itself (with its own will) whether nothing exists around it or the substance in the form of nothing with the consequence of its infinitely large size, since in the latter case nothing would have to be added? #Space #Pantheism

#RobinLePoidevin - Alternative Concepts of #God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6edahUXYuxc

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfReligion #Metaphysics #Theology #Theism #PerfectBeing #Omniscience #Omniscient #Omnipotent #Omnipotence #Ethics #Morality #Impassibility #Timelessness #Pantheism #Transcendebce #Religion #Religious #Causality #SuiGeneris #GodHypothesis #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#pantheism

Does the recognizable universe not have to be all its parts - e.g. not if a part of superpositions outside the recognizable universe becomes part of it and the universe does not become this part to the new time unit - but still have to have a consciousness like its parts? #Pantheism

The pantheist poetry of The Kalevala.

FELLING AND SOWING

The sky's bird struck fire made a flame flare up.
The north wind burnt the clearing the north-east quite consumed it: it burnt all the trees to ash reduced them to dust. At that old Väinämöinen took up the six grains the seven seeds took
out of the one marten-skin
from the summer squirrel's shank out of the summer stoat's paw. He went to sow them in earth to broadcast the seed
and he put this into words: 'I get down to sow between the Lord's fingers, by way of the Almighty's hand on this earth that is growing this glade that is coming up. Old woman of underground soil-dame, earth-mistress
now set the sward pushing up the strong earth heaving!
The earth will not want for strength ever in this world
while there's love from the givers and leave from nature's daughters. Rise, earth, from your bed the Lord's turf from sleep! Set the stems teeming
the stalks sticking up!
Raise shoots in thousands
scatter branches in hundreds from my ploughing, my sowing all the pains I have taken!
O Old Man, chief god-
that is, heavenly father.

#poetry #epic #mythology #pantheism #Finland

The Kalevala (IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.

Matts then continues with a quote from Dov Baer:

If the material world were constantly attached to the Creator without any forgetting, the creatures' existence would be nullified, [since] they would be attached to the root, to ayin. Thus they would do nothing, considering themselves to be ayin. So there had to be a breaking [of the vessels], which brought about forgetting the root. Everyone could then lift his hand and act. Afterwards, through Torah and prayer, they attach themselves to the root, to ayin... and thereby raise the sparks of the material world,... bringing pleasure to God.

Especially this last quote addresses two major issues that both sound like the same question, "why are we here?"

'Why are we here?' as in, if God is One, how can "we" perceive ourselves as separate. and
'Why are we here?' as in why would the infinite manifest itself in a physical world, why even do a creation?

#jewish #monism #pantheism #panentheism
#mazeldon #kabbalah #philosohy

Occasionally I'll mention jewish monism, pantheism, or panentheism... and reading Essential Papers on Kabbalah with my rabbi has thoroughly confirmed that all my reads on this are pretty on target.

there's a ton of examples, but one that rung clear for me was in this chapter on Ayin/Nothingness by Daniel C. Matts:

Underneath it all, God is the only "thing", the only existent. "Apart from Him, all are considered nothing and chaos." The world, though, is allowed to enjoy the illusion of separate existence, so that it not lie utterly passive in the pool of ayin.

#jewish #monism #pantheism #panentheism
#mazeldon #kabbalah #philosohy

Es ist übrigens viel geiler, sich seine eigene Religion aus allen anderen synkretistisch und eklektisch zusammenzubasteln und sich autotheistisch als seine eigene Gottheit in deren Mittelpunkt zu stellen, als sich einem dieser patriarchalen, unterdrückenden, starren Mumienkulte anzudienen.

#panpsychism #pantheism #chaosusi