Stories of the Beginning and the Multidimensional God (2)

Seth Speaks, Session 560

Stories of the Beginning and the Multidimensional God (2)

There are many probable systems of reality, therefore, in which physical data predominates, but such physical probabilities represent but one small portion.  Each of you also exist in nonphysical systems, and I have explained earlier that your slightest thought or emotion is manifested in many other ways than in your own field of existence.

Only a portion of your entire identity is “presently” familiar to you, as you know.  Therefore, when you consider the question of a supreme being, you imagine a male personality with those abilities that you yourselves possess, with great emphasis upon qualities you admire.  This imagined god has therefore changed throughout your centuries, mirroring man’s shifting ideas of himself.

God was seen as cruel and powerful when man believed that these were desirable characteristics, needed particularly in his battle for physical survival.  He projected these upon his idea of a god because he envied them and feared them.  You have cast your idea of god, therefore, in your own image.

In a reality that is inconceivably multidimensional, the old concepts of God are relatively meaningless.  Even the term, a supreme being, is in itself distortive, for you naturally project the qualities of human nature upon it.  If I told you that God was an idea, you would not understand what I meant, for you do not understand the dimensions in which an idea has its reality, or the energy that it can originate and propel.  You do not believe in ideas in the same way that you believe in physical objects, so if I tell you that God is an idea, you will misinterpret this to mean that God is less than real – nebulous, without reality, without purpose, and without motive action.

Now your own physical image is the materialization of your idea of yourself within the properties of matter.  Without the idea of yourself, your physical image would not be; yet often it is all you are aware of.  The initial power and energy of that idea of yourself keeps your image alive.  Ideas, then, are far more important than you realize.  If you will try to accept the idea that your own existence is multidimensional, that you dwell within the medium of infinite probabilities, then you may catch a slight glimpse of the reality that is behind the word “god”, and you may understand why it is almost impossible to capture a true understanding of that concept in words.

God, therefore, is first of all a creator, not of one physical universe but of an infinite variety of probable existences, far more vast than those aspects of the physical universe with which your scientists are familiar.  He did not simply then send a son to live and die on one small planet.  He is a part of all probabilities.

There have been parables told, and stories of beginnings.  All of these have been attempts to transmit knowledge in as simple terms as possible.  Often answers were given to questions that literally have no meaning outside of your own system of reality.

For example:  There was no beginning, and there will be no end, yet parables have been given telling you of beginnings and endings simply because with your distorted ideas of time, beginnings and endings seem to be inseparable, valid events.  As you learn to turn the focus of your attention away from physical reality and therefore experience some slight evidence of other realities, your consciousness will cling to old ideas that make true explanations impossible for you to understand.  Multidimensional awareness is available to you in your dreams, however, in some trance states, and often even beneath ordinary consciousness as you go about your day.

This awareness gives personal experience with the multidimensional richness that exists not apart from but intermingled with, within, through, and all about your physical world of sense.  To say that physical life is not real is to deny that reality pervades all appearance, and is a part of all appearance.  In the same manner, God does not exist apart from or separate from physical reality, but exists within it and as part of it, as he exists within and as a part of all other systems of existence.

Your Christ figure represents, symbolically, your idea of God and his relationships.  There were three separate individuals whose history blended, and they became known collectively as Christ – hence many discrepancies in your records.  These were all males because at that time of your development, you would not have accepted a female counterpart.

These individuals were a part of one entity.  You could not but imagine God as a father.  It would never have occurred to you to imagine a god in any other than human terms.  Earth components.  These three figures worked out a drama, highly symbolic, propelled by concentrated energy of great force.

The events as they are recorded, however, did not occur in history.  The crucifixion of Christ was a psychic, but not a physical event.  Ideas of almost unimaginable magnitude were played out.

Judas, for example, was not a man in your terms.  He was – like all the other disciples – a blessed, created “fragment personality”, formed by the Christ personality.  He represented the self-betrayer.  He dramatized a portion of each individual’s personality that focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self out of greed.

Each of the twelve represented qualities of personality that belong to one individual, and Christ as you know him represented the inner self.  The twelve, therefore, plus Christ as you know him (the one figure composed of three) represented an individual earthly personality – the inner self – and twelve main characteristics connected with the egotistical self.  As Christ was surrounded by the disciples, so the inner self is surrounded by these physically oriented characteristics, each drawn outward toward daily reality on the one hand, and yet orbiting the inner self.

The disciples, therefore, were given physical reality by the inner self, as all of your earthly characteristics come out of your inner nature.  This was a living parable, made flesh among you – a cosmic play worked out for your behalf, couched in terms that you could understand.

The lessons were made plain, as all the ideas behind them were personified.  If you will forgive the term, this was a local morality play, put on in your corner of the universe.  This does not mean it was less real than you previously supposed.  In fact, the implications of what is said here should clearly hint at the more powerful aspects of godhood.

The three Christ personalities were born upon your planet, and indeed became flesh among you.  None of these was crucified.  The twelve disciples were materializations from the energies of these three personalities – their combined energies.  They were then fully endowed with individuality, however, but their main task was to clearly manifest within themselves certain abilities inherent within all men.

The same kinds of dramas in different ways have been given, and while the drama is always different, it is always the same.  This does not mean that a Christ has appeared within each system of reality.  It means that the idea of God has manifested within each system in a way that is comprehensible to the inhabitants.

This drama continues to exist.  It does not belong, for example, to your past.  Only you have placed it there.  This does not mean that it always reoccurs.  The drama, then, was far from meaningless, and the spirit of Christ, in your terms, is legitimate.  It is the probable God-drama that you choose to perceive.  There were others that were perceived, but not by you, and there are other such dramas existing now.

Now:  Whether or not the Crucifixion occurred physically, it was a psychic event, and exists as do all the other events connected with the drama.

Many were physical but some were not.  The psychic event affected your world quite as much as the physical one, as is obvious.  The whole drama occurred as a result of mankind’s need.  It was created as a result of that need, grew out of it, but it did not originate within your system of reality.

Other religions were based upon different dramas, in which ideas were acted out in a way that was comprehensible to various cultures.  Unfortunately, the differences between the dramas often led to misunderstandings, and these were used as excuses for wars.  These dramas are also privately worked out in the dream state.  The God-personified figures first were introduced to man in the dream state, and the way then prepared.

In visions and inspirations, men knew that the Christ drama would be enacted and hence recognized it for what it was when it occurred physically.  It power and strength then returned to the dream universe.  It had increased its vigor and intensity through the physical materialization.  In private dreams, men then related to the main figures in the drama, and in the dram state they recognized its true import.

Now:  God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of reality he has created, and yet he is within each one of these, without exception.  He is therefore within each man and woman.  He is also within each spider, shadow, and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit.

God can only be experienced, and you experience him whether or not you realize it, through your own existence.  He is not male or female, however, and I use the terms only for convenience’s sake.  In the most inescapable truth, he is not human in your terms at all, nor in your terms is he a personality.  Your ideas of personality are too limited to contain the multitudinous facets of his multidimensional existence.

On the other hand, he is human, in that he is a portion of each individual; and within the vastness of his experience he holds an “idea-shape” of himself as human, to which you can relate.  He literally was made flesh to dwell among you, for he forms your flesh in that he is responsible for the energy that gives vitality and validity to your private multidimensional self, which in turn forms your image in accordance with your own ideas.

The private multidimensional self, or the soul, has then an eternal validity.  It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.

It cannot be destroyed then, this inner self of yours, nor can it be diminished.  It shares in those abilities that are inherent within All That Is.  It must, therefore, create as it is created, for this is the great giving that is behind all dimensions of existence, the spilling-over from the fountain of All That Is.