Death God
Posted on June 13, 2007
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No one likes to think of death. Whether or not we believe in God, we spend our life in a theology of critical belief, fleeing thought or evidence of that final moment - but such obsessive thoughts of death can cause us to miss an awareness of creation and life. These considerations of death have a history carved in a path so deep that even Jesus in his physical form could not escape it. Thus even religion - the very face to which we give God - flees the idea of death!
In ancient times - and Greek Mythology - with the birth of reason - and in the absence of God - came the slow ascension of scientific study, with its deathly focus upon the myriad forms of a perceived sterile life. Perhaps we want to feel safe in the arms of god, but isn’t that an emotion inspired by fear? Doesn’t such fear blind us to living - to life itself? In looking away from death we see it manifest in everything we touch. We can find evidence for that all around us, it is embedded into our very cultural lifestyles.
Beautifying products, the ever present trend to fight age, physical enhancements, ego aggrandisement, the pursuit of intellect above all else, it goes on and on. We attempt to make ourselves a god, as the ego will attempt to deny anything that it fears may make it weaker…anything that takes it closer to that perceived precipice of oblivion. There is no afterlife for the ego; it well knows that.
The meaning of life is in its very existence - in the simple fact that it is present. The meaning of an individual life on the other hand carries an entirely different weight. Life exists between Birth and Death. A circle that moves from point to point - entry and exit, arriving in from the same place you leave to. Life is the in-between state…a point rarely realised.
A tree carries a circle - a ring - for every year of its life. A circle of life. A ring of marriage, a vow for life.
The fingerprint of the Tree of Life is ever present. Immortality is a breaking of the ring, a sundering of the vow. To live forever is to deny the exit point. Life is the string connecting the beginning and end - it is tethered to both life and death…without death that string has no cause, no purpose - the circle begins but cannot complete. At such a point life is no longer the in-between stage but flows on its own inexorable endless course.
It’s strange - because that is the view most people have of life - not immortality. Life is seen as a straight line rather than a circle.
The light of our minds cast shadows upon our perception of life. And it is those shadows that cannot persist into the black dark void we believe as death. That too is an illusion of the ego - for the ego itself lives in shadows.
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But that was one of the main message’s Jesus had which has been destroyed by fundmental institutionalised Christinaty or maybe just christianity. That Jesus escaped death and was risen but instead of focusing on this something has made us focus on his crucifction.
[ Quote ]Indeed, as you point out there is an obsession with is crusifixition / death, more so than his re-birth. Perhaps part of the point is that once we learn to get past our fear of death, we gain the ability to see the life that exists beyond.
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