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God of the Bible advocates Slavery

Leviticus, Chapter 25, verses 44 to 46:

44. Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.45. Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.46. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.

Gnosis Defined

The Gnosis, hidden under the veils of illusion

This world is an illusion, both physically and spiritually. An illusion is

defined as a misconception, a false appearance, an error in perception; a

condition of being deceived by a false perception. Indeed, physically this

world is an illusion, because our perception of reality is not determined by

the underlying reality itself but rather by the interpretations that our sensory

organs relay to us of this phenomenal world. We are actually not capable

of perceiving the ultimate physical reality with our five senses, because we

are limited by the interpretive readings of our senses. Our scientists teach us

that some animals, insects, and fishes do not see the world as we see it

because in some cases their sensory organs are made differently or

calibrated at different frequencies than our own. So what is the true

appearance of the world, when it is obvious that if nature or god had

altered or recalibrated our sensory capabilities to different levels and/or

perceptions, the world would appear different without really being

different? Is the world we perceive a true representation of what is really

there, or is it an illusion, an interface that transmits signals and

impressions to us in accordance with the calibration and tuning of our

senses - without ever revealing its true self?

Well, that is an interesting physics, and philosophical question, but our interest,
at this time, lies with the spiritual; with spiritual misconceptions, false perceptions,
and illusions. As noted, we live also in a world of spiritual illusions – but more directly

our cultural world is an illusion, inclusive of its religious conceptions,

evolved by humanity over countless millennia, which (culture), in fact, is

an illusion, a man made illusion. The word illusion also means fantasy, as

well as an erroneous and mistaken perception of reality – and this

definition of fantasy fits 100% to the mistaken conceptions of the

monotheists and others in regards to their cultures, gods, and human

destinies. Our goal is to clarify the confusion and misconceptions

embodied in our cultural illusions concerning god, history, and human

purpose by lifting the veils of mythological symbolism that heretofore

have stifled our efforts toward clarity and right knowledge concerning

Religion.

The highways of history, tracking from the distant past to our present era

are laden with myths that have been touted as actual truth – these myths

carry great symbolism. The Ancients, worldwide, incorporated systems of

mythological tales, poems, graphics, orations, dances, festivals, and the

like as means of preserving their accumulated knowledge over passing

generations. They weaved their histories and scientific knowledge into

their various cultural traditions in encrypted form i.e. mythological form,

as a means of preserving and restricting vital administrative and instructive

data. But unfortunately these mythologies have come down to us as

actual histories rather than as the scientific allegories that they truly

are - pregnant with illuminating symbolism. Also, the means to interpret

these encrypted myths have been lost for the most part, so that the ability

to interpret these mythological messages is retained by only a select few –

and those, seers of the hidden wisdom are said to be possessors of the true

Gnosis.

Our societies, as they stand today, are the culminations of all our known

histories embodied in cohesive forms of languages, traditions, behavior

patterns, and belief systems. We use the term culture to describe this

package or accumulation of precepts by which we chart our lives. Our

cultures mark the progress or I could say lack of progress in human social

evolution to this point in time. Our culture combines or fuses all the

evolved traditions, customs, mores, accepted behavior patterns, and belief

systems into one constitution (whether formally written or not) by which we

govern our group (tribe, city, nation, etc). Our culture is what forms us,

molds us into what we are, or think we should be. The body of

traditions, beliefs, and social customs that make up our culture is the

mother of our conscious souls. I repeat: our culture is the mother i.e. the

womb in which our conscious souls gestate and form, so as to become

humane or whatever they become.

We humans have all come into this world as blank slates (Tabula Rasa) on

which no words were written – the portion of each of our brains that

contains our conscious soul was blank, awaiting the impressions of

environment, education, and experience to inform it (the conscious soul)

of its identity, mission, and direction. We are born without known

language, social concepts, religious preferences or political ambitions. We

are birthed from the physical wombs of our biological mothers into

the societal womb of our culture, there to begin and continue a period

of social gestation within the confines of our culture or subculture that

will mold us, and inform us. Our culture, our created culture, crafted by

our own hands (minds) over thousands of years of social evolution, is the

womb of our personal human evolution, that makes us what we are or

think we are. Its (our culture’s) purpose is to create (configure) us socially

(as social beings) in the image of itself. And, unfortunately, all of the

errors that exist in the mother culture are subject to be duplicated by type

in the hearts and minds of its children, and the errors within our cultures

are legion – this we will discover as our essay progresses.

We are the products of our cultures, and the flaws (misconceptions) of

our cultures have been duplicated in kind in our human psyche, and in

some cases highly intensified, depending on our dedication and devotion

to the precepts of the culture in whose womb we reside. Our cultures

have indoctrinated (programmed) us. In most cases, our birth culture is

the only cultural mother that we have ever known or trusted, hence our

faith and love in our birth culture is usually absolute and unquestioning.

We tend to believe and accept whatever our culture (cultural mother)

teaches us, and we do not critically examine or evaluate the dictates of our

native cultures as a rule. Our cultures are the cumulative results of

thousands of years of social evolution, and our cultures are the embryonic

sacs in which our conscious souls (self-awareness) gestate and form. Our

cultures are analogous to our biological mother’s womb - just as we grew

to human physical form (maturity) within the wombs of our mothers, we

must also grow to human spiritual and intellectual form (maturity) within

the womb of our culture (cultural mother). Our cultures nurture and mold

our human psyches, and give birth (awareness and identity) to the

conscious soul. As I indicated above, we are born physically without a

conscious soul i.e. without known language, moral codes, political or

religious preferences, or social traditions except as later inherited from the

culture that confines us. Our cultures write (impress) patterns of thoughts

upon our brains, and we subsequently, over time, become images of the

culture into which we were born.

All gods are born from cultural concepts or I should say they are

cultural concepts, and these graven idols (images and god concepts)

inevitably reflect, at the points of their creations, the stages of intellect,

character, ambitions, traditions, hopes, fears, and values of the societies

(cultures) that created them - these effete mascots (idols, imagined deities),

alleged by their human creators to be divine. All cultures, of course, have

religious systems inclusive of god concepts; so consequently, our

perceptions of god are normally determined by the societies to which we

belong, through systems of cultural programming or indoctrination, by

way of our inherited traditions. The intellectual quality of a culture is gauged

by the accuracy of its rational perceptions while the inspirational quality of

the culture is gauged by its motivating powers, but the doctrine of a

culture need not be genuine (based on truth) in order to inspire, far from

it. Inspiration is not rooted in fact but rather in belief, so if the adherents

believe their mythological doctrine, it can be a much greater catalyst for

their group success than a truth that is not so flattering or appealing.

So our culture is the womb of our temporal conscious soul (psyche),

seated upon our enshrouded, innate, immortal soul. Our culture is the

fabricator of our outward personalities and opinions, and/or the model by

which we design and pattern our social interactions. We judge the quality

of other societies by the paradigms accepted as worthy within our own,

and most of us assume that our way is the correct way – often to our

spiritual detriment, in my opinion. But in truth, our culture is much more

than that which I have expressed above – our culture is our controller, our

guide, indeed our culture is the mother of our god; and if not for our

culture, our gods, as we know (perceive) them, would not exist. Our gods

are concepts, not realities, but the effects of these false idols are as real

as life itself, because of our faith and belief that they (imaginary gods) are

real. We attribute our successes or failures to these idols as blessings or

punishments from them. Of course the idols neither see, nor speak, nor

hear - but we, by way of our expansive imaginations, give them sight,

voice, and fantasize that they hear our prayers. We are forever thanking

god for blessings that, in truth, we bestowed upon ourselves; or praying

for relief from perceived punishments that are actually the consequences

of our own stumbles or random adversities.

We are the creators of our culture – it has evolved through us over

thousands of years of social evolution. When any culture reaches

maturity, as ours has, it develops a life of its own; in fact it (the culture)

develops a mind of its own – and we are ruled by that mind. Our culture

represents our collective mind, that is to say the aggregate minds of all of us

in this generation and, perhaps more significantly, the minds of all those

that came before us, down through the centuries, that contributed their

minds (thoughts and ideas) to the establishment of our culture. Our god

concept has been born out of this collective mind, influenced by our

environment and experiences over the centuries. The edicts of our gods,

their theologies are written in our cultures, so that actually god and culture

cannot be separated – hence we sometimes describe our cultures as

Judaic, Christian, Moslem, or with some other pertinent religious

connotation. Our gods represent our cultures, including the flaws within

our ideologies, just as the pagan gods of old represented their various

cultures. When the Ancients worshipped the Golden Calf, Dagon, Baal,

or some graven image of whatever type – that image was representative of

a theology, a culture, a belief system that was thereby personified in a

given physical, idolatrous form. The same holds true for our modern

idols: Yahweh, Jesus, and Allah - they are personifications of their

separate cultures, in the same or similar way that a sport team mascot is

the image (personification) of the team. I don’t mean to be disrespectful

of religious people by referring to their gods as mascots, but I want to

force home a point that is highly important to explaining the correct

relationship between god and culture. Just as the team mascots would not

exist save for the team, our imitative (false) gods would not exist save for

the cultures that spawned them. The effect of this reasoning which I wish

to convey, which is so important to the elucidations of certain matters

that we shall shortly cover, is that the collective mind embodied in our

created culture is the actual spirit (intangible) god that we serve and

obey, a type of incarnation of our religious theories that have developed

over the centuries. The popular images of our faiths that we revere so

highly, do not exist literally, and are all myths, but as esoteric symbols they

are very real illustrations of potent underlying truths - and the creator of

all is the collective mind of mankind. The collective mind is the only spirit

(intangible) god, for good or bad, that can be intellectually verified, by tracing

its cultural genesis and evolution; and this mind of god (gods) is embodied

in the various cultures that profess such beliefs, and is personified in

assorted graven idols, images, and/or concepts. This is not to say that a

true god1 does not exist - the existence of an incomprehensible god is

definitely implied, implied by nature itself – it (nature) screams of

intelligent design, but we are not capable of comprehending the nature of

the creator god that preceded time and matter, according to the Ancients.