Satan is not a red man with a pointed tail and horns standing in a burning underground world like many believe, and on the opposite side, God is not a magical being in the clouds that is full of power and righteousness, even though these are virtues of god and the devil
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These are superficial ideas to me and I feel like expressing my own thoughts on what the devil and God actually are.
I see God as the pure all powerful transient untouched everything that is and ever will be.
The devil is the ego. The virtues of the ego are hate, greed, fear, pride, jealousy, lust, anger, etc. The qualities of god are love, compassion, forgiveness, bliss, etc.
Our mind is the determining factor of the state of our consciousness. We can choose to live out of our lower states of consciousness of the ego, or the higher states of consciousness of what I like to call Christ consciousness.
When our mind is constantly in the state of chasing thoughts of desire, lust, jealousy, fear, etc we are not in the pure state of mind of god. Only when we can shut off the devils manifestations of these tributes can we make contact with god.
Our true self without any egotistical thoughts or desires is the divine true self. If we can focus on one thing like our breath or a part of body with enough concentration, and can keep all of these thoughts out, we are just "being". When we are just "being", we are making contact with god. This is how we talk with god.
While we sit in stillness and realize all of the thoughts that bombard us, and as we fight recognize them and fight them off, we are learning about our "self". As we learn and study on our "self" and who we truly are, we gain control over our mind and evolve spiritually.
When we evolve spiritually we are casting out the darkness (the ego), and when you cast away darkness, light automatically pours in.
Just felt the urge to express what I have been learning, Thanks for taking the time to read.
Peace
Last Edited by Citra on 10/12/2014 08:55 PMTruth is light, light is truth
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