Nothing Superstitious Here, It's All Perfectly Normal

TODAY’S READING
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You are perfectly normal.

Which means God is perfectly normal.

If you grew up in western civilization as I did you may have knowledge of many of the superstitious stories of God, the all-knowing, all-seeing, judgmental father figure who acted capriciously against man. God was a being of moods who acted rashly. So we had to prepare and protect ourselves from the wrath of a being that would require a singular man he deemed as good and worthy to gather up his family and all the animals of the world two by two onto a boat (which God didn’t even help build) so that the rest of the world could be washed away. Why did God require a do-over? It’s a bit of a stretch, don’t you think.

Now, yes, there is metaphor in the story and I am a proponent of learning from myth as metaphor; but that is for another time. Today is about getting to the core of understanding that God is not only “out there.” God is also “within.” God is not a being. God is the being-ness of all that exists, seen and unseen.

There is nothing superstitious about God.

God is.

I am.

You are.

These statements are all synonymous.

So, what about all this discussion of the differences between Spirit and Law in today’s reading? It’s a bit of a challenge, I think, to read this and not assume that there is separation. Is Holmes saying that God is Spirit, but not Law? I don’t think so, but it’s not clear. A part of me feels like Holmes was still grappling with the concepts himself a bit.

Again, this text is the 1938 edition of a book that was conceived in 1926… so more than ninety years ago and still very early in Holmes work. There was a progression and evolution of thought that he moved through in his life that brought him to more clearly articulate the understanding that there is only the power and energy of creation, and all that exists is that power and energy in manifest form. So it is ALL God.

Have you ever had to dissect elements of your own thoughts to separate them and look at them to gain deeper understanding? To step aside and look objectively at the elements of our thought is smart—and I think it is what has brought me to a deeper understanding of myself. Holmes is dissecting God to better understand God. When it is thoroughly understood, we come to discover that the dissection is mental only; God cannot be dissected and so Spirit and Law are aspects of the same thing.

So let’s begin to step away from the superstition and begin to accept that the Infinite, the Power of Creation, the Alpha and the Omega, and the myriad creations and iterations of it living as form and experience have no lines between them. It is all one.

God is.

We are.

Life is magnificent.

Embodying gratitude,

I trust in it’s unfoldment.

And so it is.