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Imaging the Great Spirit.

Posted on Mar 1st, 2009 by Ian Gardner : Mystic Ian Gardner

The fact that, in a spiritual context, one is made in the image of the Great Spirit does not mean that one is correct in imagining the Great Spirit as something like one’s Earthly self. To do this accurately one has firstly to be able to imagine one’s own spiritual image.

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MONEY MAKER 3000 said

i have no idea what that means

Ian Gardner : Mystic
1 day later
Ian Gardner said

Hi Matthew! Welcome to Gaia.
I will try to explain:
1. In Christianity it is said that “we are made in the image of God”. [I use the term Great Spirit]. What this means is that the spiritual being, not the physical being, is “made” in the image of ‘God’. Obviously, if our physical image were the same as ‘God’ ‘God’ would not know what to look like - woman? man? boy? girl? colour? size? etc. etc. Do you agree?
So, we are talking about ‘God’ and the Spirit Self being look-alikes and be-alikes!
2. Generally, people imagine ‘God” looking like human beings do and attribute to ‘God’ human non-physical characteristics such as emotions etc. This, of course, is incorrect. Right?
3. So, to imagine ‘God’ for what ‘God’ is as compared to our selves we have to get an idea of what we, the spiritual ‘we’, look like.
4. Now here is the rub! It is impossible for anyone to get any idea of what the spiritual ‘we’ or ‘God’ look like so, the thrust of what I have said is to pint out the above to people so as to help them not do what so many do; which is see ‘God’ as resembling our physical selves in appearance and personality. This error attributes to ‘God’ so much which is not ‘God’.

Does that help, Matthew? If you have more questions do ask but I suggest you read the book The Milk Is White referred to on my profile page. The book is short and will answer many of your questions as well as create more - that it the way it should be, until you have no more questions!
So will see, on the book’s web site that you can read the book on Blogger and Scribd if you prefer that to downloading it.

Zoe : Student
1 day later
Zoe said

“The fact that, in a spiritual context, one is made in the image of the Great Spirit does not mean that one is correct in imagining the Great Spirit as something like one’s Earthly self. To do this accurately one has firstly to be able to imagine one’s own spiritual image”
 
My take–one cannot imagine the image of God.  One of the closest ways we may come would be, in my guess is, in “firstly being able to imagine one’s own spiritual (devine) image?”
 
Still, that doesn’t quite do it…to understate.  We do not know, nor can we know.  We can know the divinity within ourselves to the best we allow ourselves to and chose to access it.  That, in itself, is exceedingly beautiful and fulfilling and everything else…peaceful, perfect enough… 
 
Peace Ian.  Thought-provoking post!
 
Elisheva

Ian Gardner : Mystic
2 days later
Ian Gardner said

‘Thought-provoking post!’ Indeed! That is the idea!
The last line ‘To do this accurately one has firstly to be able to imagine one’s own spiritual image.’  puts it almost out of reach doesn’t it? It leaves it wide open at any rate.

Masuro : Oneness Warrior
5 days later
Masuro said
That we are made in the image of the Great Spirit / God, is a very powerful and profound idea, and I think a key to understanding who and what we are. I think you hit the nail on the head with with the idea that we have to imagion our own spiritual image, our higher selves that project and create our physical selves. I believe that this higher spiritual self is made in the “image” of the Great Spirit. It is a fractal of the Infinite One or Great Spirit or whatever you want to call the source consciousness. To better understand this source which we are a fractal of I find it useful to look and see what the Infinite One <This Source> has created in it’s self expression / creativy, which is an expression of its self. I think it is probable that “we” emerge as part of the creation of the greate spirit, then become a fractals of the greate spirit, once on a profound deep level we really realize our selves as fractals of God.    
Ian Gardner : Mystic
7 days later
Ian Gardner said

Hello Masuro,
What do you mean by ” “we” emerge as part of the creation of the
greate spirit, then become a fractals of the greate spirit, once on a
profound deep level we really realize our selves as fractals of God.”?
Ian.


Masuro : Oneness Warrior
8 days later
Masuro said
I am not sure if you are familiar with Holograms, but in a hologram, a three dimentional image is created with lazers, however all of the parts of the image no matter how small, when isolated, form the exact same image created by the total. So I am suggesting that first we are part of the innitial image, part of the expression of the Great Spirit, but as we realize that we are one with the Great Spirit, and in essace we are the Great Spirit ourselves, instead of being a limited form that is an aspect of the Total Hologram, we realize that we are a fractal of that Hologram, and fractal of the Great Spirit. We realize the foundation of our form which has been our un masked essence all along – which is the hologram within ourselves that is part of the total hologram of Source. Once we realize this on a profoundly deep level we become a fractal of the Greate Spirit / God. We find ourselves as a hologram within a hologram.   
Ian Gardner : Mystic
9 days later
Ian Gardner said
I like the analogy, Masuro, many will find the reality easier to comprehend. Actually, come to think of it, a similar phenomenon would occur when a drop of water is shattered into hundreds of droplets, would it not?
Masuro : Oneness Warrior
13 days later
Masuro said

I like that
analogy as well. It reminds me of a prism that separates out the frequencies of
light creating a spectrum  of colors and
frequencies. Relating this to the hologram, it is as if first we are part of
the spectrum created by the initial prism, then once we realize we are the
prism, and contain the potential for all frequencies, we can become a prism
within a prism, the source from which our limited form of expression within the
universe has been projected.   

Ian Gardner : Mystic
14 days later
Ian Gardner said
Keep that imaginative/cognitive mind working, it fosters spiritual growth.

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