Saturday, December 20, 2008

Unity: the Divine is One

Unity: the Divine is One.

It's the simplest way of thinking of spirituality. No complications, no anthropomorphic images, no sons, no fathers, no mothers, no daughters.

*The closest I've found to this idea is Unitarian Universalism

*However, Judaism has a strong sense of One God, such as allowing no division of god into parts, and by directing all prayer to God and to no other intermediary.

*The Christian concept of the Trinity? Can't see how it works with the concept of divine unity. It's an unnecessary complication. It can work for people, but it's one step removed from Divine Unity.

*Buddhism has a concept of a unified divinity, but I don't like its rejection of the material world.

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