 119. Parental Deity |
Parents do not want their children to feel unprotected—but, really, the source of children’s protection is their parents, and the community, and human society altogether. Apart from whatever protection people can generate for children (as their parents and as the community that surrounds them), children really are not very well protected. And neither is anyone else! Beyond what you can do for one another as human beings cooperating with each other, there is very little protection in this “world” for anyone. So you do want your children to feel protected, but you are protecting them. There is no reason to invent a “Santa Claus Parent- God” to make them feel protected. You should let your children know that you are protecting them, that you are providing them with circumstances in which they will be able to live and not be threatened, and in which they are loved quite naturally by others.
Really, children should understand that becoming a positive social personality is not supposed to be a way of getting the goods from “God” or getting love from “the Parent”. In that syndrome, love is different from your own social activity, and your social activity is a way of getting love. What you should be teaching your children is that to become a relational personality means that you become love. You must become love. Human beings must become loving. Thus, social activities are not supposed to be something you do in order to get love. Your interpersonal activities should be love. The whole notion of “sin” as a result of violating the “Ultimate Parent” is not something you should communicate to your children.
There Is the Great Being, the Great Divine Reality. There Is That Truth. And there is the Way of entering into the Realization of That One. Such Realization requires great maturity—not childishness, not adolescence, not egoity—and It involves the transcending of everything conventionally “religious” that is associated with your childish and adolescent personality. You enter into That Realization not by appealing to the Power of the “Other”, the presumed “objective” Parental Deity “outside” you, as proposed by conventional “religion”. The God Who Truly and Really Exists is not the white-bearded Character of popular “religious” mythology. The God Who Truly and Really Exists is not even some kind of all-pervading Parent like Essence. The God Who Truly and Really Exists is not present as a separate (or exclusively “Other”) Personality anywhere in cosmic Nature. Nor is That One to be identified with any subtle “object” in cosmic Nature, or with any of the lights observable via mystical consciousness. That One Is Real (Acausal) God.
You Realize—and, thereby (ultimately), prove the Existence of—That One only by entering most profoundly into the Intrinsically egoless Self-Domain (or Self-Position), the Domain of Prior Existence (or Is-ness), the Tacit Self-Apprehension of Being (Itself).
The “God” of cosmic Nature, the “Creator-God”, cannot be proven—because that One does not exist as proposed. Real (Acausal) God Is the Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Intrinsically egoless, and Self- Evidently Divine Person—Self-Existing and Self-Radiant. Real (Acausal) God Exists at the level of Eternal Existence and not at the level of the “objects” related to your conditional egoic existence (or your conditionally manifested independence). Real (Acausal) God Is the One in Whom all others, all “objects”, and all states of cosmic Nature Inhere.
