Why is god He and not She? Surely an
androgynous god would be more creative? I know that people like to have an
anthropomorphic god, but why must it be a Man? Or is it a HE/SHE/IT Combined? The
last being the Holy Spirit. Yet another mystery?
I don’t like mysteries.
Sometime
ago I’d written an essay on the subject of Trinity. You can read it in Beyond
Religion III. I discovered that it
probably all originated with the sacred syllable AUM, the Medic Trimurti. The
secret sound conceals the unrevealed Deity, the Swayambhouva, That which is
That. That which has Its Being in and of Itself. Emanating from this ineffable
Deity, the initial Source, the germ of the universe, are the three-in-one trinities
forming a Supreme Whole. From AUM thus emanate the Nara, Nari and Viradyi, the
initial triad. The Agni, Vaya and Sourya, the manifested triad that follows is
still secret, intangible, esoteric.
The next Trimurti gave birth to
religions.
Modern Hindûism offers us their
Trinity as represented by the Brahma, the Vishnu and Siva (or Shiva), the creative triad. The Veda (the Brahmanas
and the Bhagavad-Gita) proffers an elaborate commentary on the Trinity.
Brahma, a distant, inaccessible
deity, is often equated with the universe He has created. Brahma in no way
differs from God the Father of the Old Testament. In the first book of the Old
Testament, the Genesis, He ‘single-handedly’ created the universe. As, the
Vedas have now been proved by scholars to antedate the Jewish Bible by many
ages, one can but wonder where the Hebrews got their idea. Where the New
Testament differs from the Old and the Hindû versions is that in the later
rendering, Brahma/Father needs a means, an instrument, through which the act of
creation takes place.
Vishnu is the Preserver and
Siva (or Shiva), the destroyer. Though Siva is referred to as the destroyer, I
would suggest that, as in Buddhism, the only destruction that takes place is of
one’s ego. Indeed, the final, or complete, return to the heavenly state of
consciousness is impossible while we retain any vestiges of ego. After all,
heaven is a ‘virtual’ state of consciousness, and there is nothing virtual
about ego. More about this in my essay.
And now we have modern Trinities.
In the UK, we have a She, a they
and a Them, i.e. the queen, the parliament and the House of Lords. In the US we
prefer a president, the Congress and the Judiciary. In Canada the Governor
General, the parliament, and the Senate. Always a Triad. It seems there is
power the in the Power of Three. We all struggle with reality. Always…
Alex Baldwin, the hero of one of my Trilogies, also wrestled
with the conflicting realities. The Freudian id, ego and superego. Always a triad. The novel might help to
illustrate the problems we all face. (You might benefit from reading Alec
first. Alec just picked up some 5
star reviews.) I wonder what you think.
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