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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
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June 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I’d like to know if this is taken out of context. After all he was a follower of Vedanta and took LSD as a means to improving his ability to perceive God.
His religious pursuits seem better characterized by synchritism than nihilism. Just wondrin’
June 29th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I think the important thing in that quote is the lower case g. My readings of Huxley seem to signify the g of tiny gods…
June 29th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
One of the funny things I’ve been noticing when reading ancient Greek Christians (often called “Patristic Fathers” in Orthodoxy) is that they were adamant that little ‘g’ gods were not God at all. They loathed anthropomorphisms.
In their search to find adequate “otherness” in their language to talk about God they came up with something called apophatic theology. It is where one states a truth like “God is love” and then negates it “But God is not love”. The contemplation of the paradox was revealing of what could not be said and could not be known.
The speak of God in terms of his essence, which is unknowable and will never be revealed to us because it is uncreated (unlike us). It is forever beyond our reach. However God’s energies (love, wisdom, justice, etc) penetrate the universe condescending to the created order enabling us to participate in the life of God (that is, we love and therefore share in God’s loving).
Its all rather fabulous stuff and lost largely in the west, though some of it can be found in western contemplative traditions. (The Dark Cloud of Unknowing, Thomas Merton and Trappists, etc)