Hermetic Commentary on
God - By Steve Doyle
God as the Ultimate Macrocosm:
"But in this Universe there is nothing which
is not of the God"
"For he is the Universe"
I think it is uncontestable that God be any less
than His maximum self and as by definition a true
Ultimate Macrocosm contains all other macrocosms
as its microcosms, I see it no other way than
that God is the Ultimate Macrocosm of being. I
believe Hermes will agree with me.
God as Ultimate Virtue and Idea:
In another piece of mine, I stated that Virtue
gives all and receives nothing, which is exactly
the quality ascribed to God by Hermes
Trismegistus in the Divine Pymander as follows:
"One thing is the beginning of all things;
for that providing everything is Good. When I say
also in all respects, it is ever Good. But this
belongs to no one else but the God only. For
neither is He wanting of anything, so that
coveting to possess it he should become
evil"
It is also said by Yeshua: "As a man
thinketh in his heart so is he". And
Hermetic quote states: "The All is Mind. The
Universe is Mental". Indeed it is difficult
to dismiss anything being anything other than an
idea of some form. The Universe is a collective
set of ideas forming One Grand Idea, the One God.
As we are microcosms of the Universe and are born
of its same essence it must be admitted that as
humans we are collections of ideas. But the same
quality must be ascribed to the macrocosm, the
Grand Idea, which is the collection of all Its
microcosms. Virtue is an idea as much as anything
else is. If God being an Idea is also that which
gives all and receives none then He must also be
admitted to be the Ultimate Virtue. The
excellences which comes from virtue, come from He
as well as he is the Virtue itself.
God as Ultimate Justice:
Ultimate Justice is the state of optimum
functionality and who other than God, the Virtue
and the Idea of Ideas, be qualified to be at such
a state? For it was also stated in another work
of mine that Justice and Virtue are one with one
another and God being Ultimate Virtue ought
rightly be Ultimate Justice as well. For also He
and everything he sets is rightly so and in
accordance with Ultimate Law.
God as Sincerity:
Genuineness and reality lie in the sincere and if
the sincere did not lie with God/Ultimate Being
what basis for reality would It have? It must be
admitted that sincerity is a quality that lies
with the Ultimate.God as visible to the Mind's
eye:
"For nothing is invisible, not even of the
incorporeal. Mind is seen in the understanding,
The God in the making."
All is capable of revelation through intuitive
comprehension which is capable by use of the
Mind's eye. The Mind, the Soul of God, is able to
perceive itself through its own intuitive
capabilities. This is reasoning and capability
that comes from within, not without. It exists
inherently in being and allows being the quality
that it owns.
God as a Vibratory state:
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything
vibrates"
We see that all things in the Universe are in
motion, which is observable within the interior
of any particle/wave form. Change is everywhere.
Solid objects are in motion. Truly indeed nothing
is at rest. If the Universe indeed be the body of
God then the qualities of the universe, namely
the vibration, must also be ascribed to God.
God as Omnipresent
"As above, so below"
According to this quote if God be in one plane of
existence he must also exist in the next higher
and lower plane and this would go on infinitely
leading to the idea of omnipresence. Plus as God
is the Macrocosm then God is the All and as there
is nothing that is not of He then he must be in
all places.
God as (the) One
According to the polarity principles of hermetics
all extremes are degrees of the same thing, this
being the One. All microcosms lie within the
macrocosm. All lie within the One as All lie
within the body of God as these mean the same,
that principally God is the One and the One is
God. Any number of names can also be ascribed.
God as Progression
"Mind may be transmuted; from state to
state; degree to degree; condition to condition;
pole to pole; vibration to vibration. True
Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art."
Transmutation serves for maintenance as well as
progression for in all progressions lie
maintenance to maintain the progress itself.
Mind, as well as Virtue, is sustained by itself
as it causes its own progression. If all is in
vibration, then all is changing quality, and it
would be foolish to assume that God would be the
quality change for the worse for this is not good
and God is Good. It must then be assumed that He
be progression from worse to better, accomplished
out of his own Will."For the Energy of Him
is the Will, and His Essence the Willing all
things to be"
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