ATTEMPTING
TO DEFINE GOD
People speak too much about God and not enough
about metaphysics, the religious context or element par excellence. Such a
context, which is rather more airy than fiery, watery, or earthy (vegetative),
is the element of soul par excellence, and therefore although ego figures as the
other aspect of self which has to be addressed, it is less important and
significant of metaphysics than soul, which corresponds not to God but to
Heaven. God’s raison d’être is to attain to Heaven, ego into soul, via
bound will and bound spirit, for in metaphysics, a male context, self is free
and determines the binding of not-self, as soma to psyche.
But the ratio of ego to soul in free self, as
of God to Heaven, changes from metaphysical context to context, beginning, I shall
contend, with most ego and least soul in cosmic metaphysics, progressing to
more (relative to most) ego and less (relative to least) soul in natural
metaphysics, progressing from less (relative to least) ego and more (relative
to most) soul in human metaphysics, and culminating, to anticipate the future,
in least ego and most soul in cyborg metaphysics, the
definitive because truly universal, or global, stage of metaphysics.
Therefore the religious context par excellence of
metaphysics – excluding the all-too-prevalent metachemical,
chemical, and physical ‘bovaryizations’ of religion
typifying most so-called religious traditions – is ultimately less about God
than about Heaven, and the attainment of Heaven is, to repeat, God’s raison d’être.
Unfortunately, when people speak about God or
theorize about God it is usually within one or other of the ‘bovaryized’ contexts of religion that owe less to
metaphysics than to metachemistry, chemistry, or
physics, viz. fire, water, or earth (vegetation), as the case may be, and thus
to the diabolic, the feminine, or the masculine rather than to the divine as
such which, exceptions to the general rule notwithstanding, has tended to be
marginalized if not excluded from Western and indeed most Eastern traditions.
However that may be, God exists in relation to
metaphysical ego, whether vis-à-vis the Cosmos, nature, man, or cyborg universality, and will be more or less prevalent
depending on the stage or type of metaphysics and its relation to Heaven. In
the definitive metaphysics there will be most Heaven and least God, most soul
and least ego, as noted above, and therefore religion will have come clean,
detached itself not only from lesser stages of metaphysics, but from everything
which is either contrary to or beneath metaphysics, including the starting
point of most religion in Devil the Mother hyped as God the Father which is
less metaphysical than metachemical and therefore
more about Beauty (and Love … in Hell the Clear Spirit) than Truth (and Joy in
Heaven the Holy Soul), less, in other words, about free psyche than about its
gender opposite, free soma, which is ever fiery and fundamentally to do with
free will rather than the true being of free soul.