Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00361)

At 09:07 PM 5/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>In message <2.2.32.19960505071345.0069ba50@mail.slip.net>, alexis

>That would be my meaning of "spirit" as applied to an individual
>intelligence.  "Spiritual" would therefore refer to something partaking
>of the nature or effect of spirit, or tending towards the nature or
>effect or realization of spirit in awareness.  Thus "spiritual"
>development is a development towards realization of one's own identity
>as non-carnate "spirit."

That's a superb statement of my views exactly! It is also a perfectly true
statement!
>
>One teacher described the situation thus:
>
>"God" is breath, and we are breaths."

I would put it this way: "The Universe is intelligent energy, and we are
intelligent nexii within that energy".
>
>Alan
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The "G" word makes me very uncomfortable, in fact it terrifies me because of
the horrors committed under that name.

fondly

alexis d.