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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:37 am
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:34 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:34 am
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Khalida Nyoka Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:36 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:17 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:04 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:54 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:43 pm
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My understanding of the God can be somewhat summarised by the following passage from a book I read:
The Wake Reflected in [the angel's tear], they saw mercy, and miracles, and the knowledge that every thing that is, has a purpose, and that the purpose, somehow, included every one of them... On a deep and personal level." Although there is a single Creator who forges the chain of command, the chain itself is free to take on whatever form it wishes. Each link in the chain has the capacity to associate or disassociate itself with any other link for any reason, forming the chain into patterns, trends, directions, and so forth at the sole discretion of the interactions of each link. The role of the Creator is not to direct the actions of the links, but to forge additional links.
God, as I understand Him, is possibility made manifest. The realm of infinity and of things that are not yet. There is potential in each life and each entity that we don't commonly recognise as being "alive" to discover and to achieve fulfilment. The actual discoveries and achievements involved are determined by the interplay of potentials.
The celestial bureaucracy, then, can be thought of as a double-rooted hierarchy in which the highest being exists simultaneously on the top and bottom. The highest being ensures that all potentials remain available for as long as conceivably possible until such a time that it must be eliminated to accommodate the realisation of a particular potential (to avoid paradox). Since the highest power is timeless, it is very good at doing so. The highest power also ensures that potentials with the potential to consume or otherwise put an end to all other potentials are excluded from the realm of possibility. Since the highest power is timeless, it's also good at doing that.
We exist at those points throughout the hierarchy where potentials conflict, unite, separate, or otherwise interact, either to open new potentials, to close existing potentials, or to serve as a new home for potentials that would otherwise have been forced to close.
In other words, the celestial bureaucracy is staffed by our thoughts, motivations, beliefs, dreams, fears, frustrations, and all that gives us a reason to be alive. The highest power provides our thought-entities with an office to work in.
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:16 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:28 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:41 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:33 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:57 am
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