Anthropomorphisms
In my teaching I use anthropomorphic terms. This means that I describe God by use of human attributes, and especially so with dreaming. This practice of imputing human characteristics to any version of God is an ancient and honorable one. It occurs, for instance, in the Bible when Isaiah 40:12 says of God,:
"Who else has held the oceans in his hands or measured off the heavens with his ruler? " (The Living Bible)
The language here is not meant to literally suggest that God has actual hands in which all of the waters of earth could fit, nor that he has a giant tape measure capable of measuring four-dimensional spacetime. Rather, this passage uses anthropomorphic language to describe the enormity of God in being able to measure the vastness of the heavens. Oddly, however, Bible literalists assert that the anthropomorphic language ends when it comes to describing God as a male. Such bibidolaters are adamant that God is an eternal male and will always only be a male. Western monotheism also asserts that God does not have a wife. He is seen as a single male judge whose imperial nature precludes marriage or femininity. This causes certain problems as when YHWH, the God of the Bible, needed a human-God hybrid body in order to manifest the Son, or third person of the Trinity. In this case, YHWH is said to have supernaturally impregnated the Virgin Mary without resort to intercourse. Mary, who was probably no older than fourteen, was then told by YHWH that this unconscious act of in vitro fertilization was a blessing.
Western monotheism with its male God, YHWH, has not been Good News for women. While I counter the male deity of Western monotheism with a feminine LELA, I nevertheless qualify my usage at the outset by stating that LELA, as Infinity, includes and transcends gender. Male and female are functions of time and biology, dual and polar expressions of the One when manifesting in the sub-Infinite realms. The implications of gender within DX thinking attempts to distinguish that which is constructed from that which is innate, but that is not a subject for this book. Women are viewed within DX teaching in a way that Western religious monotheism refuses to do so, namely, they are viewed as being equal to, rather than the inferiors of, men. Absent from DX teaching is the Adam and Eve myth, it being replaced by the simple recognition that at conception we become either XX or XY. While the roll of the dice at conception chromosomally assigns us our gender, the default morphology of the human zygote at conception is female. Later hormone washes in utero differentiate us into male or female. Nature itself teaches us that the initial biological platform of the human body is female, and that a male zygote is later masculinized via hormones that cause the ovaries and clitoris to drop and differentiate into the testes and penis. That the fetal human chassis is hormonally programmable in this way reflects the beautiful economy of nature and the core feminine design of human body.
The Names of LELA
How can LELA dream and still remain conscious as the One in whom the unity of Infinity inheres? To account for these simultaneous and contradictory states of God, I invoke the ancient religious practice of using different names to describe the various aspects of Deity. The God we read of in the Old Testament, for example, is called by various names, his three main names being:
YHWH, or Jehovah
Elohim
Adonai
The Jews believe that each name represents a different aspect of YHWH's nature. Adonai , for instance, is a compound name with "Adon" meaning lord or" master , and ai meaning my" Hence, Adonai means, "My Lord and Master. " YHWH is a mysterious name and is itself a tetragrammaton, or a four-part name, which name is sacred and not pronounceable. The Qabalah also teaches that the sacred name YHWH has numerical significance in its letters, thus imbuing the name with a duality of letters and numbers.
Elohim is a singular name that conveys a sense of a plurality as when, in Genesis 1:26a, Elohim said, "Let us go down and make man in our image; after our likeness...." Who is the "us" in this verse? Christians argue that it proves the doctrine of the Trinity in which God is understood to be three different people -- the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost -- and yet paradoxically one God. While the word "Trinity" never appears in the Bible, Christians deduce it based upon the name Elohim and other parts of the New Testament. Thus, in Genesis 1:26a, Elohim is God the Father presumably speaking to Jesus and the Holy Ghost. Other variations of Elohim include:
Elohay Kedem - God of the Beginning
Elohay Mishpat - God of Justice
Elohay Selichot - God of Forgiveness
Elohay Marom - God of the Heights.
Because the Jews are monotheists, i.e. they believe only in one God, the ancient writers of their Bible assigned a different name to express each of God's attributes. Conversely, polytheistic cultures had a God or Goddess for each attribute. So while Elohim was responsible for everything within Judaism, certain other religions believe that particular Gods and Goddesses were each responsible for some aspect of the Universe:
Krishna is the Supreme Lord
Poseidon is the God of the Oceans
Hades is the God of the Underworld
Bramha is the Highest Divine Principle
Kali is Death and the Destroyer
Hera is the Mother of the Earth
In any conception of the celestial hierarchy, the Gods and Goddesses are ranked by their powers and abilities, much in the same way we ourselves rank individual humans by their powers and abilities in their fields of endeavor. Within a celestial hierarchy, it is implicitly understood that there are leaders -- the Gods and Goddesses -- and that the leaders have administrators. The angels are one example of celestial administrators. Poseidon is another example of an administrator, for he is in charge of the Oceans. After we pass through the Disunification, we will discuss the subjects of monotheism, polytheism, and pantheism in some detail. For now, I only wish to make the point that LELA has two main names.
The first name is LELA Da Un Om Dyl Odeon which means LELA the One Who is Awake Beyond the Dream. The short form of this name is TAO, which means "The Awakened One."
The second name is LELA dA Maya which means LELA the Dreamer. The short form of this name is LTD, which means "LELA the Dreamer."
At one level, LELA abides as the One Unified and Supreme Consciousness of Infinity, for TAO holds together the immensity of Infinity in absolute Unity. On another level, LTD abides in another state of consciousness that is not awakened to, or continuous with, Infinity. The analogy is that your body and psyche remain intact, living, and unified when you dream. However, your waking, ordinary psyche -- the one who you call "I" -- undergoes a transition in which its normal, waking identity is radically transformed so that it can participate in dreams. Likewise, some aspect of LELA's "normal identity" is radically transformed so as to allow it to enter into a special dream that will be transformed into a universe.
Dreams can and do penetrate into your deepest secrets and they also allow you to reach the highest heights which you would not otherwise be able to do. Dreams allow God to bypass the paradox of Infinity and reach into the depths of disunified universes and experience the fullness of each and every form, process, and being in these universes, including you. Dreams are therefore the bridges between the Infinite Unity, the sub-Infinite universes, living beings, their subconscious depths, and the underworld. Dreams are the links in the entire chain of existence from God all the way to the smallest subatomic quark, for nothing is off limits to dreams. The secret of the Third Option is understanding the way in which God dreams and how the pattern, or template, of God's dreams is embedded in our Universe.