"I want to know God's thoughts," said Albert Einstein, "the rest are details," he added, and thus he set us on a journey in search of infinity. Some other great men also had given us a gentle push forward.
“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe...” mused Richard Feynman, the macro and the micro blending together. Was he equating God with totality?
Baruch Spinoza was more precise: “The sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly
not an individual entity or creator”. "... Therefore, God is just the sum
of all the substances of the universe. God is the only substance in the
universe, and everything is a part of God," he added.
Well... of manifested God, I'd hasten to add.
Spinoza still recognized the Phenomenal Universe as real. I'd suggest that God made it real by manifesting through a temporal matrix of atoms and complex energies that abound all around us. We can think of God as the Energy of Creative Consciousness that made, and continues to make the Phenomenal Universe real to our perceptions.
Yet it is even more complex than that. And again, Einstein put his finger on it. "It's all an illusion," he asserted.
Let us think about this illusion. According to the Journal of Biological Chemistry we, or our human bodies, are up to 60% water. Yet the chair is not wet when we rise from it. Our brain is composed of 73% water and yet it doesn't leak through our ears. Our lungs are about 83% of water, and yet we do not drown in our bodies.
Surely, reality which we and our scientists perceive is not real. And yet the images of our own bodies, let alone of the Universe, are very persistent.
So... what of the Thoughts of God?
It seems that only that is real which we perceive as real. Our consciousness is the only measuring stick of reality. Hence, as all appears to be real, only Omnipresent Consciousness can give it reality. And observing the incredible yet eminently real diversity of the universe which we perceive, the Omnipresent Consciousness must be Infinite in Its Creative Potential.
The rest, as Einstein would say, are details.
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