God & Anti-God

Man made God and the Anti-God, The Devil, in man's image. The Devil is God's alter ego, and you cannot have one without the other. God is the projection of our highest good ideals and The Devil is the projection of our highest evil "ideals", which is the opposite. They represent the grandeur of the human spirit and the human imagination writ large but detached. God and Anti-God, or The Devil, are man's delusions of grandeur: The real good & evil in man as projected larger than life onto the real world of human earthly affairs.

The evolution of God in human spiritual culture parallels the evolution of the struggle between ignorance and knowledge. As positive knowledge evolves it displaces ignorance, slowly displacing the delusions of a god born out of human ignorance of the world around him.

If you flip the first verse in the gospel according to Saint John in the bible it reads like this:


"In the beginning was THE HUMAN IMAGINATION,
and THE HUMAN IMAGINATION was with THE MAN,
and THE HUMAN IMAGINATION was THE MAN".

Then flip it back:

"In the beginning was THE WORD,
and THE WORD was with GOD,
and THE WORD was GOD".


The human spirit and the human imagination (THE WORD), if left untethered from its grounding in reality, can detach itself and grow so expansive that it takes on a life of its own.

God and The Devil begun as the misunderstood forces of nature. In humanity's formative years its technology was sticks and stones. Puny, defenseless and ignorant little man could barely shield himself against the larger than life gods and demons around him. At least that is how he was imagining the misunderstood and unseen blind forces of nature arrayed for and against him. These invisible forces of nature, even if unseen, are still real so they must have a cause.

We know today that the cause of a solar eclipse is due to the moon's shadow being cast unto the earth when the moon gets between the earth and the sun. Imagine hunter-gatherer man looking up in the noon sky and witnessing the awesome and frightening spectacle of the sun turning black and darkness descending upon him and all around him. Due to his ignorance regarding astronomy, he probably would have said something like:

"OH, MY LORD MY ONLY GOD, PLEASE PUT BACK THE LIGHT IN THE SUN. PLEASE FORGIVE ME, DEAR LORD, IF I HAVE GRAVELY OFFENDED THEE. I PROMISE I WILL WORSHIP YOU AND ONLY YOU FROM NOW ON. I FORSWEAR THOSE OTHER FALSE GODS OF MY ENEMIES. I PROMISE I WILL WORSHIP YOU, AND ONLY YOU, AND NO OTHER GODS OR DEMONS!"

This overbearing and capricious god takes an abiding and deep personal interest in the affairs of men. There is a love-hate relationship between this god and men, his children. He will fly off in a jealous rage if the man even entertains an inkling of another god. If you break his rules the punishment may be severe. Woe unto the man if he ignores or breaks this god's commandments. Every transgression of these commandments, no matter how slight, is marked down in his little black book. The man is asking for serious trouble if he ignores this god or tries to hide and think he can get away with doing impermissible deeds behind his back. The man sometimes forget how severe the punishment can get: risking his God's wrath. Worst yet, risk having his soul burn in hell's fire for all eternity.

Needing to find the cause of things happening the way they do, the man asks himself: "Why are things the way they are?” Here is one answer he came up with:


I know the cause. Yes. It was that accursed
disobeying woman. She is not the only one to
blame though. I am at fault too. God has been so
good to me. Giving me this beautiful and
bountiful Garden of Eden. I wanted for nothing.
I cursed the day you made HER from one of my ribs!
Forgive me, Lord, I didn't mean to curse!

Look at us now. Working hard all live long day under
the searing heat of this hot daylight sun. Sweating.
I hate to sweat!

I warned her so many times about that guy. I warned
her not to listen to that snake in the grass. But she
always had that "Devil may care" attitude about her.


I knew we would come to ruin sooner or later if we
messed with that apple tree of knowledge. This
tree is dangerous because each of its fruit contains
both good and evil knowledge. You can't enjoy the apple's
goodness without also becoming a little poisoned by its
vile evilness.

She was such an irresistible temptress; beguiling me
with her feminine wiles into taking a bite out of
that fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.



Looks familiar? Most should recognize the above narrative as the gist of the biblical Adam & Eve story. It says that the cause of our current predicament is as a result of the fall from God's grace of the "First Couple". A case of the sins of the mother and the father being visited upon their children, us.

Man literally dreamt up God and Anti-God, heaven and anti-heaven, which parallels the actual heaven and hell the world can be at times.