The God Question

I used to think this was not all that important a question. One God, many Gods, no God… as long as people had good ethics, it didn’t really matter. But guess what? Truth matters. And we can actually know the truth. That’s what I’ve been delving into a lot lately. Gnosis. Not simply personal gnosis, but verifiable, provable, information that is all around us in nature.

Permaculture teaches us to see patterns. It’s the foundation for permaculture design. And it turns out we can also see patterns in religions all across the world. The word “pattern” comes from the Latin root “patr”, which means “father”.

The Latin root patr means “father.” This Latin root is the word origin of a fair number of English vocabulary words, including paternity, pattern, and patron. The root patr is easily recalled via the word patriotic, as someone who is acting in a patriotic fashion is supporting the “father”land.

And this is exactly who’s behind all the patterns in the heavens and the earth – the “All Father” as he is called in Norse tradition. People throughout time everywhere have discovered the same truths and have interpreted them through their own cultural lenses.

In an earlier post I mentioned that the modern Pagan belief in polytheism is a misunderstanding of the ancient mythologies. I now understand that what we find in studying the various traditions is that they are all pointing to the same universal truths illustrated through different gods and stories. And these gods are all symbolizing various aspects of the one God, which we also have within ourselves.

One may be a rose, and one may be a lily, and one may be a tulip, but when it comes down to it, they are all the same thing – a flower. And what they are teaching is one and the same. – Marty Leeds

Why does this particular truth matter? Because the less we understand this, the harder it is for us to know what we are supposed to be doing here in this realm. We forget that we are each on our own hero’s journey, in which we are meant to transmute the difficulties in our life into good. It is a journey which is meant to show us the way back home to our own still center – that divinity within us which is linked to the still center of the heavens above… the North Star and God.

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”

― Hermes Trismegistus

Everything leads back to a beginning – a creation of the heavens and the earth. And we are each a piece of that Great Spirit who spoke everything into existence. When you begin to look into the creation stories of every culture, you will find they all have the same elements teaching these concepts.

To dig into this further, here are a couple of videos that begin to delve into this topic. Learning the mysteries is only for those who are ready. It is for those with humble hearts who seek the Truth.

The Ojibwe Story of Creation and the Grand Lodge of the Midiwin Society

The Kabbalah of Norse Mythology

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Jean