…could obey it. Saint Augustine countered and said: yes, but the commandment was not given in order for it to be obeyed. God never expected that it would be obeyed because we were incapable of loving anyone but ourselves. The commandment was therefore given…

…don't. And then you can say: well I'm obviously not growing any hair for hair otherwise I wouldn't grow any hair but the Hindu God you see, he's represented as having ten arms, shiva or kama, with one thousand arms. And if they were asked: how do you…

…to your father for existence and maintenance as a baby, and in somewhat the same way as a subject is beholden to a King. God is called the King of kings and the lord of lords because the thinking about god is based on the political systems of the…

…This was made of spirit and there were created the orders of angels in the beginning, the function of angels is very curious. God, as you can see would be omnipotent and omniscient and could do everything at all and doesn't need any help. But he created…

…the son, who I shall have to explain a little bit about the trinity in a moment who is the divine idea of the cosmos. God the son himself in person was going to become one of these hairy bodied things, and the devil felt, as we know lucifer, that…

…omnipotent? The answer that is given is that it was cooked up entirely out of the malice of one of the created beings. God was not responsible for this, although he knew that in creating creatures with free will there was the risk that this would…

…and the flowers, nature study. Scholastic philosophy distinguished between natura naturans and natura naturata, nature naturing and nature natured. God was natura naturans. The creature was natura. There was a divine nature, there was a human nature. See this…

…mechanistic conception of nature. Because the analogy used in the western world for the creation of the world was the analogy of manufacture. God made a clay statue. He was a potter and he made a clay figurine and then, by breathing on it made it alive…

…And therefore this is the so called apophatic theology of saint Dionysius, as distinct from cataphatic in which we say what god is like. God is like a father in that god loves his children like a father loves his children, but god is not a cosmic male…

…other aspect of logos. So fundamentally then you make the discovery that life is not serious. It may be sincere, but not serious. God is not serious. Wouldn't it be awful if god were serious. I always love to quote g k Chesterton saying that the angels…

…There's no reason whatsoever for god to take himself seriously. You know, stood up blah, blah, blah, blah, blah this attitude. God doesn't preach, god woos, god speaks in the language of the song of songs. That's the language that convinces. It's not…

…probably some of you here who have studied st Thomas Aquinas and have a very, very profound, deep conception of the Christian God. Or you may have studied kabbalah or hasidic Judaism and have a very deep realization that goes beyond big daddy. But big…

…the material world is an illusion and that the spiritual world is the only world that's real. Even in, say, Judaism and Christianity, God is spirit, whatever that is, and god created the material world. So the material world is real but a lower kind of…

…into a rabbit and just show me that you're god? But of course in oriental cultures they don't think of god as an autocrat. God is the fundamental energy of the world, which performs all this world without having to think about it just in the same way…

…says: oh but there's a serpent character here who gave me the fruit. And then the serpent in turn takes it back to god. God you're responsible, you started all this, oh thou who didst with beset the world, the path I was to wander in you know that…

…don't. And then you could say: well I'm obviously I'm not growing any hair more hair because I wanted to stop. So the Hindu God you see he is represented as having ten arms, say shiva or Kanon, with one thousand arms. And if they were asked how do…

…eyes at once and think all your thoughts at once, it'd be confusing. Think of the time god must have. You know that poem. God heard the embattled nations shout. God strafa England and god saved the King God this god that and god the other thing. Good…

…your thoughts at once, it'd be confusing. Think of the time god must have. You know that poem. God heard the embattled nations shout. God strafa England and god saved the King God this god that and god the other thing. Good said god I've got my work…

…of the time god must have. You know that poem. God heard the embattled nations shout. God strafa England and god saved the King God this god that and god the other thing. Good said god I've got my work cut out. No the universe manages itself not like…

…revelation of the code aspect of things in Christianity as well as the cult, is not so much a law as a person. God is said in Christianity to be supremely revealed in the historic jesus of nazareth, and so the code here becomes really the following…

…Hence kyrie eleison, lord have mercy upon us, is a kind of image drawn from things earthly and applied to things heavenly. God as the monarch. And therefore, between the monarch and the subject there is a certain essential difference of kind, what we…

…questions: if you are god how did you create the universe in six days? All sorts of questions like that. But you see the Hindu's God does not need to know in words how he does what he does in exactly the same way that you don't know how you grow…

…the fundamental principle of Buddhism? And he went to hold up the finger and it wasn't there and he was enlightened. There is a Chinese God whose name is pingding, and this is the god of fire. And there was a monk who was traveling and he came to a…

…repentant hermit stared at the other in pale stupefaction. And the house of ill fame in which we spent the night said he. God preserve us said the other the evening and night we spent in the guest house of the patriarch holy martyrs god has already…

…people to dangerous thoughts like pantheism, the idea that the everything is god and what would happen then if everything is? God and everything is right, then sin is good and all the moral standards of Christianity are shattered. But oh and another…

…amazing confusion of tongues. You remember the little rhyme: god heard the embattled nation shout: god strafa England and god save the King. God this god that and god the other thing good god said: god I've got my work cut out. And the ungod. The human…

…other aspect of logos. So, fundamentally then you make the discovery that life is not serious. It may be sincere, but not serious. God is not serious. Wouldn't it be awful if god was serious. I often love to quote g k Chesterton saying that the angels…

…be not anxious for the morrow do not worry about what you shall eat what you shall drink and what you shall wear. God will take care of you doesn't he take care of the birds? Don't the flowers grow? They're wonderful they're crazy they're great. What…

…if you go into it very, very deeply that you have it now you may change your mind about it, but you do have what you want. God if this place caught on fire, I would find myself so scared that I wonder if I would also feel that I was god and if I…

…play would seem real. And so that's what happens when the house catches on fire. Yes, lady in red. Yes you're looking behind yourself. God what is sleep for you? What is sleep? The seventh day? When is the seventh day what? When is the seventh day when…

…fact become material, become human, and by this process initiated a transformation of the cosmos. In the words of saint Athanasius, God became man that man might become god, and you don't hear that from the pulpit very often. The Christian Church therefore…

…Christian Church therefore emphasized pistis, or faith, as against gnosis or knowledge. Because they said, you can never know god. God could never become an object of knowledge. And in this funny roundabout way the Christian Theologians were saying exactly…

…very probably some of you here who've studied st Thomas Aquinas and have a very, very profound, deep conception of the Christian God. Or you may have studied kabbalah or hasidic Judaism and have a very deep realization that goes beyond big daddy. But big…

…god entirely lacks the feminine element. This is one of the most important things I think that Jung has pointed out the Christian God is god the father, male god the son, male god the holy spirit, neuter a bird a dove, what fire? Something abstract. Now…

…equated with bondage to an evil principle. Now these two things fuse you see in Christianity: the monarchical conception of the Hebrew God and the evil nature of materiality which is found in the Greek Mystery religions and also in the Persian Duality of…

…grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. Foreign things are exotic things they fascinate the old gods wear out. God the father almighty. Has god almighty entered into your thoughts? Have you been down on your knees and read your Bible? You…

…sins against you but notice that that is required of a saint. A saint is always forgiving, but it's not required of god. God will not forgive you unless you apologize and you have to grovel on the ground. If you've committed what the Catholic Church…

…skillful things but how did you arrive with a hand like that? And you say, well, I don't know I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. God gave me these fingers and I have accepted them from god as talents, as gifts and I'm supposed to do the best with it…

…Tradition we have made the individual matter too much in the wrong way. That is to say, you as an ego are infinitely precious. God has made each one of you separately and each one of you as a separate ego will last forever and therefore you are all…

…of which is stuff and the other of which is form. This is a myth based on a model of the world which is fundamentally ceramic. God formed Adam Out of the dust of the ground, and so there is a stuff and so there are forms engraved in it or imposed…

…for me. When I asked these cats what the purpose was they never knew. They didn't know what it was. They had a hymn. God is working his purpose out as year succeeds to year, god is working his purpose out and the time is drawing near, the time…

…germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about an insignificant star on the outer edges of one of the smaller galaxies. God what a put down that was. But on the other hand if you think about that for a few minutes, I am absolutely…

…hand any better than I do. See I know how to do it but I can't put it into words. In the same way, the Hindu God knows how he creates this whole universe because he does it, but he wouldn't explain it that would be stupid. He might as well try to…

…Theory of the universe, this is the way god is operating. Do you realize that according to the theology of st Thomas Aquinas, God is personally aware with his full total consciousness of every atom of existence? That is to say, a mosquito's wing does not…

…which adopted its picture of god which is incidentally idolatrous from the pharaohs of Egypt to the messiahs of Persia, a Biblical God is a near instant monarch of ancient days. King of kings and lord of lords is the title of the Persian emperor.…

…and ever. Only it has holidays, which are called deaths. You know in the story of the creation of the world in the Bible, God works for seven days and rests the seventh. It's necessary to have a holiday. Holiday is holy day and the sabbath for the…

…comprehensible. Even god if you will imagine yourself in the situation of god would be bored in knowing everything. So what does god do? God therefore plays hide and seek. Now you see it now you don't. And that game is of the essence of being. It is…

…revelation of the code aspect of things in Christianity as well as the cult, is not so much a law as a person. God is said in Christianity to be supremely revealed in the historic jesus of nazareth, and so the code here becomes really the following…

…were neurotic and made them neurotic and so it goes back to Adam and eve and you remember what happened in the Garden of Eden. God set a trap by saying there is that specific tree and you mustn't eat the fruit of it. If he had really not wanted them…

…is the same. But the trouble is that when we were children, our elders and betters told us that it was our duty to love them. God said: thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and thy neighbor…

…Buddhists call it the void, which is space, which is consciousness, which is that in which we live and move and have our being. God, the great void. And fortunately there's no way of knowing what it is, because if we could know what it is we would be…

…And you realize, question after question say no that's not really the thing I want to get at, it's not that like do you exist? God would say well of course, yes here I am. Am I having a hallucination? No, well I'm. How can I be sure that this isn't…

…everybody understands it and finds out alas what it meant. After all, Sunday is supposed to be the day to swing, is it? God worked for six days and seventh day rested. There's time out, time out from being rational and methodical and efficient. It's like…

…black and the white are emphasized with respect to their difference. Good and bad, life and death. Oh how different light and darkness. God is light and in him is no darkness at all. That's the exoteric point of view. But always behind that there's a…

…a vitality which is like biological things: they are born and they die, and the mythology of the judeo Christian Tradition is dead. God is dead in the sense of god conceived as the personal father of the universe who cares about you and upon whom you…

…language. One kind is called cataphatic, from kata Femi. Femi is to speak. So kata, the particle means to speak according to metaphor. God may be spoken of according to he was like a father, but he's not a father. God is not a cosmic male parent…

…particle means to speak according to metaphor. God may be spoken of according to he was like a father, but he's not a father. God is not a cosmic male parent but we say god the father because there is a certain analogy between god's relationship to the…

…single secret thought that you had was an open book and was watching it all the time. Because according to saint Thomas Aquinas, God the father creates the universe by knowing it. In other words you see a flag flapping out there which you would say is…

…om sweet om the whole universe is om, and so this is a very good word because you can use it instead of god. God has all sorts of nasty associations attached to it: the political boss of the world, the preacher, the prig, the nosy parker in charge…

…object of knowledge, then you put god down among things. To relate to god as it were to another person, is to UN God god and make the absolute one thing among others. On the other hand, when you leave the transcendent transcendent, you can't think about…

…they had missed the central point of Christianity, which is the doctrine of the incarnation, that in the person of jesus Christ God had become man and the spirit had adopted the flesh and therefore a reasonable fleshly existence was quite proper. And that…

…in which we are all here on sufferance as subjects of god in which we are made artifacts who do not exist in our own right. God alone, in the first myth, exists in his own right and you exist as a favor and you ought to be grateful. It's like your…

…and your training as to how you're going to interpret it. If you've got the idea of god that comes from popular Christianity God as the governor, the political head of the world and you think you're god, then you say to everybody: well you should bow…

…simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. So say in Hindu Mythology, they say that the world is the drama of god. God is not something in Hindu Mythology with the white beard that sits on the throne and that has royal prerogatives. God in…

…god. God is not something in Hindu Mythology with the white beard that sits on the throne and that has royal prerogatives. God in Indian Mythology is the self, sat, chit, Ananda, which means sat. That which is chit, that which is consciousness, that which…

…who knows all the answers to everything, but you are the lord god in the Hindu sense, who is different because the Hindu God doesn't know how he does everything in the sense that he doesn't translate it into words he can't explain it because there's no…

…expected of a saint in most religions, in most theistic religions, it's infinitely Superior conduct to that which is expected of god. God is allowed to judge and damn people in all directions if they displease his divine will, and the saint is always…

…In the words of the ancient hymn in the Catholic Breviary: god is creation's secret force, thy self unmoved all motion's source. God then would be the one who would act without motive, who would act spontaneously from himself without having to be pushed…

…new kind of religious approach in which heaven says to earth: I really do love you with no ifs and buts, they say in Christianity, God so loved the world, but there's always a but after it. But the world has fallen away from god and he loves it in…

…people, cultured people and vulgar people. Even the Christian Hymn says: the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate. God made them high and lowly and ordered their estate. We don't sing that now because we've got too much social conscience. I…

…questions: if you are god how did you create the universe in six days? All sorts of questions like that. But you see the Hindu's God does not need to know in words how he does what he does in exactly the same way that you don't know how you grow…

…you're talking about god in terms of things which god might be said to resemble. You're using a parabolic, analogic, metaphorical language. God the father therefore does not say that god is literally a cosmic male parent but is in certain respects like a…

…be not anxious for the morrow, do not worry about what you shall eat what you shall drink and what you shall wear. God will take care of you doesn't he take care of the birds? Don't the flowers grow? They're wonderful they're crazy they're great. What…

…the fundamental principle of Buddhism? And he went to hold up the finger and it wasn't there and he was enlightened. There is a Chinese God whose name is pingding, and this is the god of fire. And there was a monk who was traveling and he came to a…

…could obey it. St Augustine countered and said: yes, but the commandment was not given in order for it to be obeyed. God never expected that it would be obeyed because we were incapable of loving anyone but ourselves. The commandment was therefore given…

…so as I suppose to keep the mission effort going or to pay off the mortgage. Yes these other religions are very good. God has no doubt revealed himself through buddha and Lao Tzu. But now, obviously, it is a matter of temperament. You can be loyal…

…god's creation in the sense of being an artifact. They look at it as god's drama because they see the world as acted, not created. God is that which is pretending to be all this and everybody is really god is a mask of god who is playing that he's…

…or a god with a definite character and a clear moral will and precise standards who will not be pushed around the Biblical God, wowee. What do you do? Do you put your mind into two watertight compartments, one of which you're abreast of science and the…

…understands everything in detail and could tell you. All about it. But the Hindus Don't think of god that way. If you ask the Hindu God, how did you create the human body? He would say: look, I know how I did it. But it can't be explained in words…

…purpose for me. When I asked these cats what the purpose was they never knew. They didn't know what it was they had a hymn. God is working his purpose out as year succeeds to year, god is working his purpose out and the time is drawing near, the time…

…Namely the jump to the conclusion that that intelligence, that marvelous designing power which produces all this, is the Biblical God. Be careful, because that god, contrary to his own commandments, is fashioned in the graven image of a paternal,…