Images Of God
God is this and
such,
as man imagines
him;
he gets to know,
he comprehends.
This in turn
depends on who he himself is:
- What he does;
how he lives.
If he has
everything that is necessary for life:
he cares for nothing;
he cares for
nothing;
despises others;
he is surprised
that he is still alive,
and, like
Aristotle, becomes:
"an end
unto himself",
it is such
'wonder' that becomes the beginning
of thinking of
thinking;
"a thirst
for the knowledge that God possesses",
so that he can
teach others
and rule others
- according to the principle:
"it should
not be so,
that the wise
man be commanded,
but that he
should command;
so that he is
listened to;
so that he does
not have to acknowledge the view of another,
but that the one
who is less wise
must trust
him".
The purpose of
thinking is to prove,
that one has
divine knowledge of God[1].
If, however, man
in his life,
takes care of
others,
according to
what he feels with his heart
and seeks
knowledge to help them,
then "he
finds the link between being and non-being",
as in the hymn
"Rygveda"- the first bards:
Prajapati,
Gilgamesh, Homer, Hesiod,
Słowacki in
"Genesis from the Spirit" and other poets.
They recognised
God in the Universe,
- or gods
and his particle
in all of nature
- in every
living being;
the voice in the
heartbeat;
the image - the
likeness - in the body
and joy of life.
Krakow 19.11.2022
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[1] the text
refers to Aristotle's "Metaphysics".
God According To Aristotle
Aristotle,
having all this to live by,
what he needed -
apart from wisdom,
which God
possessed,
immersed in his
thoughts,
from the concepts of God he created -
in his own image
and likeness.
To do this, he
multiplied a multitude of words,
which, as concepts,
he arranged in a dictionary,
establishing
principles for the inquiry into essence,
that which is
"substance" - the ultimate being,
unrelated to
anything, but self-evident;
unassembled,
immutable, unique and eternal;
perfect, happy
but also necessary;
the first cause
existing from itself;
form, reason -
pure energy;
the first
spiritual being that moves the world,
being the
purpose of the world;
knowing
everything that surrounds him,
so he knows
nothing more,
in order not to
become like that which is known;
thinking,
thinking is its only work,
because with
thought he rules over the world.
Beyond it is
only eternal matter,
as a chain of
causally related things,
At the centre of
which is the immovable Earth,
around which,
like birds in flight,
- whirls the
stars in orbit.
Is it any wonder
that God and the world were described in this way
- so he created
in the image of himself and that with which he was associated,
since, offended
at the king, he felt abandoned;
He lost contact
with those close to him - he became an end
- in himself and
for himself, preoccupied only with the thoughts
busy only with
his thoughts, swirling in his grey head.
It was through
these that he moved his limbs,
including the
hand with which he put words on paper.
He was therefore
pure energy in himself
And from himself
he drew the form for what he created,
including the
shape of letters, words and the meaning of concepts,
In which his
thoughts, as in a tomb, he laid.
Having despised
all that he had learned and read
- with the
thoughts of Plato and the Pythagoreans
he did not wish
to learn anything more,
so as not to
become like his predecessors.
Socrates openly
hated, criticised everything
everything he
said; he mocked behaviour.
For he formed
concepts not from experience
but from
thought, considering that a dream's definition
- should be
created - learnt by heart,
before one lies
down in bed.
No wonder, then,
that only thought was eternally alive
and the world
that surrounded him was dead,
for the walls of
his house were motionless
and he himself
sat almost motionless.
Flat was the
sheet of paper on which he wrote the text.
Flat was the
table top on which he supported himself.
The flat path in
the garden where he strolled.
Hence flat and still
was the whole Earth.
Listening to his
thoughts, he no longer heard his heartbeat,
nor the voice of
the Daimonion that judges actions,
for there was
silence all around
and the bliss of
thought that keeps him alive.
Krakow 20.11.2022
©Copyright by Marian Dziwisz
God's Seat
God is hidden in
the darkness
and the visible
world is His reflection,
for as the
"Book" proclaims: Lucifer
- bears the
light of God, but through Him
was thrown into
space
and in this
space he creates his own entities.
Dark and heavy
matter is therefore the
- the abode of
God, in which he eternally lives.
It is the centre
of the galaxy that surrounds it
and by the force
of gravity keeps order in it,
when once it
tilts downwards or upwards.
It gives birth
to supernovae,
but also everything
that loses its energy
- it attracts
and devours to digest in itself
And give rise to
a new existence.
Everything that
is created from Him
returns to Him,
but the Universe
expands its boundaries,
as if bodies
with enough energy in them
wanted to break
free from the bondage of the strongman.
Krakow 20.11.2022
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The Nature Of God
God is the
causal energy,
in everything
that exists.
He in the
electron is light and force.
He the mass or
body creates.
He is the
tri-unity of the photon, the gluon, the boson
but the latter
doubles itself,
because it has
positive and negative charge.
It is like
hydrogen, when it radiates
- into deuterium
and triton, it changes.
In the skies the
sound [OM; a+ u + m _]
makes itself
known, the sound of which
measures the
rhythm of life - the flow of sap in plants;
in man, the
voice of the heart, or its beating.
In the voices of
YHWH as in the neutron,
H is the boson
that doubles.
He unifies
everything, attracts it, repels it.
He is like the
NON-WHITE [ אִשָׁה] who gives birth to a child.
He changes
colours when the time counts down
- red to blue or
green,
which signify a
trinity in coloured robes.
Being one, he is
Father, Son and Spirit.
When it gains
strength, it brings destruction.
When it weakens
it takes away strength.
When it is in
balance, it brings peace.
- it spreads a
rainbow in the sky.
When it
overflows living beings
- they feel the
joy of life.
Then a happy
bird sings among the leaves
And man raises
songs of praise.
But when man loses
his strength,
he falls into
sadness, often into depression.
He feels lonely
and the best food
he does not like
it; his eyes mist over.
Then he prays to
heaven in supplication,
He begs to be
rescued and faith in Him
- keeps him
alive,
although he
still counts on the care and love
of every human
being.
Krakow 21.11.022
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Against The Accusations Of God
It is not this,
that or the other God
expects man
the sacrifice of
his body and his life,
for the carnal
man,
like every living
being,
returns to the
earth that gave it birth,
thus, that which
was taken from God,
if it was light
energy,
at the moment of
death, returns to Him.
Only those who,
in the name of God,
act on earth,
for the sake of
their power
and for
possession, expect the sacrifice
- of life before
death comes,
because in this
they wish to overtake
- man and God.
And God has not
been silent, if "Scripture" you read,
for after the
Flood, He spread the rainbow on the clouds,
forbade the
shedding of animal blood
and to judge
anyone who killed a human being.
It was not God
who sentenced Socrates to death.
It was not God
who ordered Jesus to be nailed to the cross.
Krakow 24.08.202
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Piety
Piety does not
mean, blind obedience to the law,
which is enacted
by rulers and priests in the name of God,
so that they can
protect themselves from the wrath of the people;
to charge them
with sins; to make sacrifices;
judge, punish
and take away life
and to promise
heaven to the submissive after death.
Piety thus
understood for hybris [1] veils;
- lack of
thought and will to do good;
and to respect
peace.
An ignorance
from which most often evil flows,
For as Socrates
said:
"justice
only means as much ,
which is to be
just" and not to persist in stubbornness,
that "he
who obeys God or the gods,
he cannot
err".
So, too, piety
knowledge of the gods means,
about what is
pleasing and what is displeasing to them
and what makes
peace between them.
Piety is not
prayers and sacrifices,
not the
recitation of learned formulas and precepts,
but
understanding them,
confirmed by
one's own behaviour.
It is concern
for all that lives,
righteous acts;
respect and love
protecting the
dignity of every human being,
just as God
commanded a moment after the Flood,
when the
rainbow, multicoloured, spread out on the clouds.
Krakow 21.11.2022
©Copyright by Marian Dziwisz
[1] hybris -
ancestral and personal pride;
dominance of
emotion in behaviour,
over thinking.
MARIAN DZIWISZ
MARIAN DZIWISZ born on 01.01.1943 in the village of Michałowice near Krakow. Graduated from Primary School in Wola Zachariaszowska; Lower Seminary of the XX Missionaries in Cracow (1961). He obtained a master's degree in Polish philology at the Higher School of Pedagogy in Kraków (1966, now the Pedagogical University) and a doctorate in philosophy (1980). He was editor and secretary of the following editorial teams: socio-cultural monthlies: "ZDANIE"; "PISMO LITERACKO - ARTYSTYCZNE" and "FORMUM MYŚLI WOLNEJ" in Krakow; adjunct professor at the Institute of Teacher Education, ODN in Krakow; teacher of Polish language in high schools and technical high schools; lecturer of philo-zophy at Krakow universities, including postgraduate studies in philosophy/ethics for teachers at the Krakow Institute of Education Development. Between 1987 and 1989 he became interested in religious studies and became co-editor of an anthology of texts: "Buddhism" (1987); "Taoism" (1988) and editor of the anthology "Judaism" (1989) published as part of the library of "Pisma Literacko - Artystyczny". He is the author of the philosophy and religious studies entries to the "Popular Encyclopedia Powszechna" published in 1995-1998 by the FOGRA Publishing Office in Krakow. He made his debut as a poet in 1978. Later, his poems were published in, among others: "Zdania", "Okolic", "Pisma Literacko-Artystyczny" until 1990. His poetry volumes include "Ergo sum" 2007, "Madonna" 2011, "Categorical imperative" 2014, "Tak sobie" 2020, "Paradise apple tree" 2021, "NASZA POWINNOŚĆ - OUR DUTY" - Polish-English volume 2021; "Michałówka moja mała ojczyzna" 2022; "Tajemnice rajskiego ogrodu" 2022. In 2015 - 2017 three volumes of short stories "Semper in altum - Always Rising" in LSW. Since 1987 he has published a number of scientific and popular science articles in journals. He is a member of: Creative Arts and Letters Association; SAPS. Association of Artists and Writers of the World; International Union of Humanists - WORLD UNION OF HUMANISTS. He lives in Krakow - Poland.
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