The God Game (Part Two)
By: Seeker
So why do we learn? The following is how I see things…
Imagine a vast Beingness, coming to awareness from nothing, or from a state we can’t imagine. Surely the first awareness would be ‘I Am!’?
But awareness is not knowledge. We all have awareness even as a child. It is one of the first things to come to us, a Self. And the first thing we do, the thing that is hardwired into us, is to learn. We learn so we can survive, we observe those around us, we imitate and experiment and we try to copy what we see.
As we become more confident, more individual and knowledgeable, we begin to try things. We experiment with our environment and sometimes this is dangerous. That’s why species with caring parents tend to survive better than those who don’t have such care.
One of the precepts that come down to us from the earliest times, one that pervaded the Egyptian and other civilizations so completely it is obvious it was seen as extremely important, is the statement, ‘as above, so below’ – along with ‘ask and you shall receive’ and ‘Treat others as you would be treated’ it is probably the most common thread across all the societies, philosophies and religions that have existed.
So if ‘as above, so below’ is a truth, then as we are, so is God. So if God began as Awareness on an unimaginable scale, there is no reason to suppose S/He began with Knowledge as well. Knowledge takes experience and an Awareness just starting out would not have experience.
So what would God do?
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