The sex of God
January 22nd 2012. (But always up to date!)
From time to time people comment on the fact that Saul always refers
to God as Him or He and suggest that to refer to “Him” and “He” always
is to be offensive, wrong, insensitive, and disrespectful of women.
God, Love, Spirituality, who we truly are, is NOT about sex or sexual
differences, which are part of the limitations that we imposed on
ourselves when we chose to experience life in the illusion as humans;
and nor is this blog. It is about the fact that we are all One, lost in
the illusion, and that we are engaged in the process of finding our way
Home to God, to Completion, to returning to our original state of
infinite Love, of infinite Wisdom, of infinite Knowledge; of
rediscovering ourselves, regardless of our sex, as the essential parts
of All That Is that we truly are. In God there is NO separation.
We, everyone of us humans here in the illusion, males, females, gays,
and lesbians, are all ONE, and we are also One with God Who is All That
Is. Even though, here in our illusory environment, we appear to be
separate individuals with our own individual agendas, needs, desires,
and problems, struggling to survive in a hostile environment where it
seems that to trust is to invite disaster.
To focus on the aspect of our self that is either male, or female, or
gay, or lesbian is to focus on incompleteness, because in truth each
one of us, while embodied in the illusion and having a genitally defined
physical human form, has both male and female characteristics to enable
us to empathize with and understand each other, and to be complete in
ourselves (although it appears that the majority of us seek completion
in a relationship with another). Needless to say some of us are better
at this than others, which is another aspect of the severe limitations
that the illusion places on us, but by our own choice. We are each
responsible for how we choose to experience our life as a human. We can
choose to focus on the pain and suffering, or we can choose to focus on
finding our way Home.
To focus on the inadequacies and problems of the illusion, and there
are indeed vast quantities of those, is to distract ourselves from our
life’s work of finding our true Self which is as an inseparable part of
God. The messages that Saul offers so lovingly, are offered to all who
wish to hear, and are purely to help us with the only task that matters:
awakening into Reality. To do that, he tells us, we must focus on the
Light that is within us, placed there by God at the moment of our
apparent separation from Him, to ensure that we would never really be
lost. When we engage with life in ways that are loving and
compassionate, and accept the fact that we are divinely loved in every
moment, we are then able to find that Light within us which will lead us
home. And then our fixation on the sexual identity of God becomes
totally immaterial, because He is infinitely beyond identity. He just Is
. . .
It seems to me that the issue of human sexuality, let alone the
sexuality of God, has become an enormous diversionary distraction over
which even wars can be fought. God IS Love. Love IS our nature, and that
is where we should be focusing our attention.
With love, John.
