{"id":373,"date":"1987-06-30T07:17:46","date_gmt":"1987-06-30T14:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:02:55","slug":"god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/06\/30\/god\/","title":{"rendered":"God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>External experience may teach us all,<br \/>\nBut cannot give us knowledge.<br \/>\nKnowledge of all, external, internal,<br \/>\nSupernal, can only come from within.<\/p>\n<p>Within, only, can one find knowledge &#8211;<br \/>\nFind redemption &#8211;<br \/>\nFind all that one is a part of.<\/p>\n<p>Within, only, can one find<br \/>\nThe god that is outside. <\/p>\n<p>The god outside, inside,<br \/>\nEverywhere, is a product of<br \/>\nMind,<br \/>\nThough mind is a product of this god.<\/p>\n<p>God can only be consciousness;<br \/>\nConsciousness can only be as a god would seem.<\/p>\n<p>Our conception and misdirection of god<br \/>\nIs that god is a separate and isolable<br \/>\nEntity,<br \/>\nBut god is not separate or isolable<br \/>\nFrom any matter, energy, or consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>For god is matter, energy and consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>For god is all.<\/p>\n<p>A God, as created by man in his own image,<br \/>\nIs a psychic and separable entity:<br \/>\nA creation of man&#8217;s thoughts and needs;<br \/>\nA fulfiller of man&#8217;s selfish greed.<\/p>\n<p>Those who worship such a God<br \/>\nFill that entity with their own thoughts,<br \/>\nPropagating and perpetuating<br \/>\nThat entity&#8217;s existence on its own plane.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are aware of the godness within,<br \/>\nWho control and direct the godness within,<br \/>\nWho are the godness within,<br \/>\nAre god within.<\/p>\n<p>But the god that is all<br \/>\nIs god without,<br \/>\nAnd the god that is all<br \/>\nIs all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External experience may teach us all,<br \/> But cannot give us knowledge.<br \/> Knowledge of all, external, internal,<br \/> Supernal, can only come from within.<\/p>\n<p>Within, only, can one find knowledge &#8211;<br \/> Find redemption &#8211;<br \/> Find all that one is a part of.<\/p>\n<p>Within, only, can one find<br \/> The god that is outside. <\/p>\n<p>The god outside, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}