God is feminine (Rilke, 1)

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing (Rainer Maria Rilke)

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Rilke is only partially right.

God is the Father-Mother.
God the Father creates and produces and changes and realizes and radiates.
God the Mother  receives and gives birth and loves and supports and cherishes and softens and mitigates pain and sorrow, and heals wounds.
God the Father and God the Mother are not competing for precedence.

Yet Rilke has a point.

Because in today's world, with the men in power, except for some Western countries, the feminine is needed more than ever.
Therefore, the most essential task of God in this era is the task of God the Mother, of the feminine.
Rilke is a poet and an artist, so was having a good intuition.
Rilke may be blessed

My blessings to you all

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God's mills are grinding slowly, but the mills of mankind are grinding even more slowly

This came up some time ago. Was it Your’s?

Certainly it was Mine’s.

The Dutch say this.
But the mills of mankind are grinding even slower.
You all are God's hands on earth.
And if you do not want or do not can or do not see anything, God can only wait.
Or if your eyes only can be opened through difficulty and crisis and problems, God can only wait.
Therefore the mills of God are grinding slowly.
Because those of mankind are setting the pace.

But actually this phrase is referring to something else, namely there is a time for everything.

And God is realizing this better than mankind.
Therefore man is forcing things.
And therefore God is never forcing things.
It is a matter of discretion.
And that's good, for God has more insight than man. That keeps us all busy.

My blessings to you all

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Are you worshipping a small or a big God?

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown

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God is big.

God is in everything.
God is in man.
And the more space man is giving God, the more God can Be in this person.
Thus God in Christ or Buddha or Mohammed is bigger than in a common person.
Not because the Spark of God can not be bigger, in Itself, for the Spark of God and God are ONE, so the size of a Spark of God is theoretically infinite.

But the common man, oh!

To what is his attention inclining?
To what his worries or is he inclining to his hope?
To what his needs or is he inclining to the needs of his fellow man?
To what his fears or is he inclining to his ideals?
To what his desires or is he inclining to the desires of others?

Again and again is the space becoming smaller and bigger the spark of God can take up.

For the free will is holy to Us.
The spark of God is only taking the space that is deliberately offered by man.
God is omnipotent, but in man Its power is relinquished, therefor necessarily modest.
To what is the attention of man inclining?

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God

Every day, again and again, man may choose, man is choosing. And the Spark of God is waiting.

And you, you can tell from your fellow man and from yourself,  how largely the spark of God is working in man. It is visible and clear, open and demonstrable.
But not many of you look at men in this way.
It would be a great revelation for mankind if this was becoming your perspective, if you were going to look at man with the following sharp observation: the larger the list of worrying by man, the smaller will be his God.
The smaller the list, the bigger his God.
And having a small or a big list of difficulties in life is subject for other blogs.

My blessings to you all

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God answers first the prayers we should have prayed (Robert Brault)

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God has an overview and insight, and vision and perspective and is monitoring everything you are experiencing. And when you pray you do not always ask the right or appropriate or the best. Yet, God listens to all your prayers.

But while you pray it can be the case God has already done what you need for your understanding, your support, your help, your energy or for wise lessons. Therefore, the probability is 100%, that when you pray, God already has started to provide you for what you actually had to ask.

For God is love.

And God is always with you.
And God is always helping you.
And God knows every event, every change, every problem, every situation, every experience.
God acts immediately with providing what you need most.

So from the perspective of God the most beautiful form of prayer is when you thank God because God has heard the prayers you should have prayed.

Because this is the way it is.
Robert Brault is blessed.
 
My blessings to you all

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God tabernacles a plain woman (W.H. Auden)

I read a poem by W.H. Auden, "In Schrafft '' and especially this part struck me:

Having finished the Blue-plate Special

And reached the coffee stage,
…A somewhat shapeless figure
of indeterminate age
… our globular furore,
…Which of the seven heavens
Was responsible her smile
Wouldn’t be sure but attested
…That, whoever it was, a god
Worth kneeling-to for a while
Had tabernacled and rested.

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What can I say?

Didn’t Auden say it all inspired by his "My God" ?
But because you want so, I will indeed comment on it.

Having finished the Blue-plate Special

And reached the coffee stage
A somewhat shapeless figure
of indeterminate age

Do not underestimate the sight of a man.

Do not underestimate the ordinariness.
Do not underestimate the inconspicuous behaviour.
Without exception every person  is cherished, seen, tabernacled,  forseen and beloved. by God

our globular furore

The agitation, the stream of refugees, the killing by Muslim fanatics, the intense environmental pollution are raging on this furious planet, but this has nothing to do with God visiting man

…Which of the seven heavens

Was responsible her smile
Wouldn’t be sure but attested
…That, whoever it was, a god

The spiritual world is pointed here as the cause of her smile.

The hidden God can be seen and suspected in man, if you look carefully and if you feel quite accurately.
Auden is making God great by letting a god, whatever god, make Itself known

Worth kneeling-to for a while

Auden let man really do something to bring god within.

He doesn’t underestimate at all what is needed here.
God waits for man if man makes an effort, knocks, works for it.
This is an interaction, a long process.
That man can experience happiness and satisfaction over here.
But also only by kneeling, by surrendering, by the willingness, by the Thy will will be done, by asking, by waiting, by letting go.

Had tabernacled and rested

This will really need a separate blog, My son.

God who comes to rest in man.
And then to be visited by God. After an invitation to God experiencing “God is coming within”.
The "My God" or the My Allah or the Atman or the "My Yahweh", the spark of God, "whatever god".
Who is waiting for so many years, and labouring, and trying, and giving, and hoping, and beckoning, and searching for man, a god vulnerably waiting.
And then resting in temple of man.
Almost better than any religion Auden is bringing man very close to God, very close, very close.

W. H. Auden is blessed

My blessings to you all

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Not all revelations are leading to a religion

I was musing once on the following questions: why are some religions becoming very big and other religions not at all? Why are sometimes very pure and beautiful revelations of one person not very familiar at all to a large audience?
I asked You and You said:

Not all revelations necessarily lead to religions and tendencies.

But all revelations are always seeds for the growing consciousness of mankind.

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None of you knows how many small and great revelations, there have been on earth over time.
Only God.

And with small revelations I do not have in view unimportant revelations, but how familiar they become. Among these revelations are wonderful, very valuable and important revelations and they are sometimes only known to one person. But they are seeds for the growing consciousness of mankind. They are pearls hidden in an oyster and in due time such a revelation will be discovered , or rediscovered, and in the end it will seep into the consciousness of mankind.

Visionaries will be around all the time, crying in the wilderness, being far ahead in their days.

But God has the overview and sees through the ages where this little hidden revelation once in the same form or another form will spill over mankind.

On the other hand there are very impure revelations becoming a religion and reaching millions of people. Because it has only mass, such a revelation, when a large number of people on earth are inspired by it. And so be it, although the revelation is impure. But that is only  possible because these millions of people are impure, and therefore cann’t comprehend more. And that's good. Then it is as it is. This is then the maximum achievable, a massive impure revelation.

God knows all revelations.

God knows the purity of all revelations.
God knows the consequences and scope of all revelations.

And man!

How soon does a group of people think "their" revelation is the only correct revelation?
How soon does a group of people think their fellowmen should follow this revelation?
And how quickly this is leading to religious wars? But that's actually another story, the story of races and powers and the rich and oppressors and refugees and wars.

 This story is about revelations, hidden revelations not leading to religions. But all these revelations are and remain and become seeds for the growing consciousness of mankind.

 And that increasing awareness is just tending into one direction, in fluctuations and through trial and error, but still into one direction.

From beast to spirit.

From ape to God.
From small to big.
From restricted matter to unlimited spirit.
From the earthly womb for an evolutionary ape to the eternal bosom of God.

My blessings to you all

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I have heard God (Barbara Veenman)

I have read an interview with an Remonstrant theologian and writer * . She told she was in a difficult period in her life, staying in a monastery for a while: "I felt so lonely, so caught up in my gloom, I suddenly uncontrollably started crying. Then I asked God quite humbly to send people on my path; people who could help me further on. At that moment I heard God say literally: "Then you have to set out first for yourself!".
"............... .I Have heard God. And since then, many wonderful things have passed my way! "

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Barbara Veenman has heard God. And so it is. Her Spark of God promised and admonished  her. She wanted people on her path, so she had to set out first for herself, rather than sit and wait at home.

People in need are waiting and ending up in a victimised  position. What did the world  to them? Why they? And in fact they just want to be found, they want others  to solve everything, preferably God and preferably quickly.
But God has already let said on earth:

 "Ask and thou shall receive. Knock and thou shall be opened "

But that's not enough actually.

Furthermore people must set out, seek, open up, change direction, leave their old world of misery. And then God hands out everything. Because it is infinitely easier for God to send the right people, the right books, the right experiences on one’s path, if one for oneself has set out.
So the advice is: set out, take a step in the right direction.
And with every step of man God takes ten steps to man.
For man is especially carried with love in his dark moments.
Barbara Veenman is blessed for her openness and humility.

My blessings to you all

 
• Barbara M. Veenman, Remonstrant theologian, interview in Trouw, May 30st, 2015

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