Enlightenment
ARE WE GOD?
By William Hodgetts
Apr 25, 2008

There is a New Age teaching that states that ‘We are GOD’. This is a statement that like many others, lead to misunderstanding because although the statement is true, the context in which it is made is left unclear.

In the beginning there was only the source, GOD. There was nothing else, and GOD filled infinity, therefore all things in existence must be a part of GOD.

Just as an ice-burg cannot say ‘I am the ocean’ so it is that we cannot say that we are GOD. The true and full statement must therefore be “I am a part of GOD, but in a separate and different form.”

One raindrop said to the other “Look, we are all raindrops that have come from the same ocean, therefore we are all one; we are all water”.

The second raindrop said, “Yes, but when we left the ocean we were changed and separated from each other, we are no longer salty as the ocean is”.

The first raindrop said “That is true, we are less now than we were when part of the ocean, so how can we return to the ocean without changing it?”

The second raindrop said, “Then we must ask the ocean to return the salt that we left behind”.

The ocean is the source of all things, we know it as GOD complete. All things that are separated from the source are the source incomplete.

The salt is the nature of GOD, its knowledge and preferences. When all knowledge is known, only that which is good and right can reign supreme because all else leads to conflict. The salt of the ocean is all that is good and right, we know it as LOVE.

We are of GOD, separated only by our nature, from each other and from the source, GOD. We are all GOD’S children, but we can never be GOD, we are individual, separate and unique, with free will. All power comes from the source, and it can be yours.

But that is for my next article.