Theos-Talk Archives (July 1998 Message tt00236)

Sutratman wrote:
>
>The reduction of God to an "energy" is one of those oddities circulating under
>the umbrella word "New Age",

It appears to me that EVERYTHING is an "energy."  I fail to see how viewing
God as such is some kind of reduction.

>This would mean, so it appears to me, that the
>First Cause of the manifested universe is devoid of Intelligence and Will,
>which
>violates the Hermetic axiom as above so below.

Again, why would perceiving God as an energy automatically make God "devoid
of Intelligence and Will?"

>God is infinite love in that God is the
>ground and source of all love.

Once again, is not love an "energy?"

>We can (as beings) have a commitment to God,
>the Supreme Being, but not to a mental abstraction such as an impersonal
>force.

Well, this kind of goes back to what I was saying about human psychology -
we have a "need" to put God into some kind of "form" in order to help
comprehend what God "is."  But this does not make our conception of God
being in some kind of "form" a Truth.


Kym