Man
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Man is part of God |
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Theosophy
(from the Greek term theosophia
which means ‘divine wisdom’) teaches: “In divine essence, latent power and
potential spirituality, man is an image of God, because he is part of Him. ….
If the idea of the immanence of God is sound, then man is a literal fragment
of the consciousness of the Supreme Being, is an embryo-god, being destined
to ultimately evolve his latent powers into perfect expression. The oneness
of life was explicitly asserted by Jesus …. It is an unqualified assertion
that humanity is a part of God as leaves are part of the tree, not something
a tree has created, in the sense that a man creates a machine, but something
that is an emanation of the tree and is a living part of it. Thus only has
God made man. Humanity is a growth, a development, an emanation, an
evolutionary expression of the Supreme Being …. It is simplicity itself when
we think of the solar system as simply an emanation of the Supreme Being, as
something generated from a central life, an expression of that life which
gives rise to the poles within it that we know as consciousness and matter.
The human soul is an individualized fragment of that divine life …. Is
literally a spark of the divine fire, and latent within it are the
characteristics of that central light from which it originated. The
theosophical conception of the soul is that it is literally an emanation from
God, and since it is therefore of its own essence, it becomes clear why
Theosophists assert that man is a god in the making’ (L. W. Rogers, Elementary Theosophy, Wheaton, ILL:,
The Theosophical Press, 1956, pages 22-25: 19-20). This teaching about man is
accepted by the New Age Movement. Ruth Montgomery, in 'A World Beyond', a
book she claims was written by automatic writing and transmitted from medium
Arthur Ford, who was waiting in the spirit world to enter another body,
writes on page 7: ‘Now let us start with the premise that each person is a
continuing entity through all eternity. No beginning and no ending, despite
what some moralists say about our life beginning with physical birth as a
baby and ending with Judgment Day. Bosh! There has never been a time when we
were not, and we always will be, even though in constantly changing forms and
stages, for we are as much God as God is a part of us.’ |
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Confutation |
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The
Scripture says: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them”
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Remember
the following things, lest you be deceived by the devil, who is the father of
the doctrine according to which man is part of God: God is the Creator of all
things, while you are one of God’s creatures; God can do everything for he is
omnipotent, while you cannot make one hair white or black; God knows
everything for He is omniscient, while you know in part; God is everywhere
for He is omnipresent, while you can be in one place at a time; God is
eternal for He exists from all eternity, while you had a beginning and you
are a mortal being; God is invisible, while you are visible; God is perfect
and does not make any mistakes, while you are full of imperfections and make
many mistakes; God is holy, while you need to cleanse yourself from all
filthiness of the flesh and spirit; God is spirit, while you are made of
flesh and bones. |
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God
resists all those who believe that they are God or part of God for they are
haughty people; here is what God said to the prince of Tyrus who had said, ‘I
am a god’: “Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God,
I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and
not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: …. Because thou hast
set thine heart as the heart of God; Behold, therefore I will bring strangers
upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They
shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that
are slain in the midst of the seas. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth
thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God,
in the hand of him that slayeth thee. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD” (Ezekiel
28:2,6-10). |
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To
confirm that God resist those who think that they are God I cite the
following incident told by a former guru – now a Christian - called
Rabindranath R. Maharaj in his book Death
of a Guru: ‘At the end of my third year in high school, Ma and Aunt
Revati invited a large group of neighbors and relatives to join us in a
special puja in our home. Those
arriving approached to make their respectful bows and to reminisce a bit upon
my father’s greatness. Their comments, overheard here and there as the room
filled, bore out the admiration I read in their appraising eyes. I was a Yogi
who would bring fame to our town, a guru who would one day have many, many
followers. My inner conflicts were forgotten in the sheer pleasure of being
worshiped. Although I was not quite 15, I knew that already I had attained a
status among Hindus that was the envy of some pundits. It gave me a good,
honest feeling to know that I was not among the hypocrites my Uncle Deonarine
despised. Our Baba, Pundit Jankhi Prasad Sharma Maharaj, my spiritual adviser
and greatest inspiration, the acknowledged Hindu leader for all of |