Divine Source

Ask any Christian what the name of their supreme deity is and they will tell you God, Jesus Christ, or both.  Ask any Muslim the name of theirs and they will say Allah.  Ask anyone of the Jewish faith and you will hear Tetrgrammaton YHWH or Yahweh.  Ask a person who follows a nature-based path, and they will rattle off a long list of Gods and Goddesses, depending on the pantheon they follow.  I could go on and list a plethora of other religions and the names used, but you get the point.

What you will not hear, when asking this question is this, the God of Christianity is the same God of Islam.  The God of Islam is the same as the Jewish God.  The Jewish God is the same as all the pagan Gods/Goddesses.  All are different names for the God/Goddess of Divine Source.

Oops, I see some of your brains spinning, some of your faces turning red at my description of Divine Source as being both God and Goddess.  But, ask yourself this, if we are created in the image of the Divine, they wouldn’t that mean the Divine must both be male and female energy?  Whether you want to believe it or not, Universal Energy or Divine Source, no matter what name you recognize, is both masculine and feminine energy.  And, we come from this Divine Source, carry a piece of it within us, which means we also carry masculine and feminine energy, no matter what gender we are born with.

For too many years, humans have fought over which religion contains the “One True God” when the truth of the matter is all religions are based on Divine Source, but are called different names.  The problem is, religion, all of them, don’t want to recognize that, because then they would no longer have a way to control the masses.  Yes, another thing humans don’t want to hear, especially those in charge, religion is a means of control.

You see, The Way has always been predicated on living a life of goodness, service to others, compassion, and kindness.  When the first humans took shape and form, they lived in communities, shared what they had among their tribes, communities.  No one went hungry, they helped each other when one was sick, they clothed each other.  They weren’t in competition, for they knew if one did well, they all did well.

Then time passed and humans got away from living The Way, and the Divine Source sent many different messengers to remind humans how they were supposed to live.  But instead of listening to these messengers and taking to heart their teachings, they elevated the messengers to a position of deity and built religions around them.  Then, as they amassed more and more control, they lost site of The Way.  What resulted is greater intolerance of others, greed and ambition, over community and unconditional goodness.

All we have ever been expected to do is to honor the Divine Source and live The Way.  To take the message into our hearts and manifest it in our lives.  We have been asked to love each other as the Divine loves us.  Yet, what do we do?  We hate, we look down on those we deem inferior, we judge and find others wanting because they don’t match our supposed ideals of what a human should be.  Seriously, who are we to judge?  And the veracity in which we judge others, are we so too judged.

We have been asked to clothe and feed the poor, to aid the sick.  Yet, once again we judge those in need and find them unworthy.  We say they don’t work hard enough.  That if they did, they wouldn’t be in such a position.  We say they deserve everything they are experiencing because it’s some kind of karma.  Judge, judge, judge, judge, judge.  What did Jesus teach?  Judge not, lest ye be judge.

We fight wars over differences in religion, over who’s God is the one true God, over greed, resources, anything one person or country wants that another has, seeking control. It’s all about control, when we should all be sharing what we’ve been blessed with, forming a community, helping each other, lifting each other up, and raising ourselves, our fellow humans, and world to a higher vibrational level that helps all of us, not just a few.  That is The Way.  That is what Jesus spoke of, what he lived.  And he didn’t need a church building to do it.

But don’t believe me.  I know full well, many will question my words.  Find them lacking, because they don’t line up with religious teachings.  It matters not to me, what you think of me.  I was asked to deliver this message and I have done so.  Now, it is up to all of you who read this to determine how it applies to you.  Some may even question how they will know if it does.  Many more will have already stopped reading, believing it doesn’t apply to them.

But for those who do want to figure it all out, see how it may apply to their lives, it is simple really.  You see, we all have the ability to seek out the truth of who the Divine is.  We can’t find it by looking outward.  We find it by sitting quietly, contemplating the Divine, and listening to the small, quiet voice within us.  That voice, our spirit, the piece of the Divine we carry within us, that voice knows.  It knows the Divine is both male and female, God and Goddess.  It knows that all the names religions and humans cling to for God are just that, names, that they all speak of the Universal Energy that binds us together, created us and our worlds, the very Universe itself.  We are all children of the Divine and what we do to each other, we do to ourselves and to the Divine.

The Divine asks, “Will you return to The Way?  Will you walk the path that puts others before yourself?  Will you care for others as I care for you?  Will you let love, compassion, and kindness guide your actions, or will you continue to cling to your greed and selfishness?  Trust in me.  Trust in your inner Knowing.  Let love be your guide.”