I have used the word evil, and I feel I must clarify what evil is so as not to confuse my message.
In short, evil is the gripping constriction of life energy and the division, breaking, or pulling apart from unity. This is what I mean when I say Yahweh is inherently evil. Even among believers, he constricts and divides.
When you cut off the flow of life energy - that animating force of everything, which I refer to as Devi - you create a blockage. The blockage can lead to rupture and division. And when we are ruptured and spiritually divided, there is a lot of conflict.
So, let's rewind. At the beginning of his existence, Yahweh, like other gods who were his contemporaries, was a focal point of worship. Humans have a fundamental need for worship and devotion as it keeps the heart open and allows us to quiet the ego. Our ego's purpose is to keep us separate so we each have a unique sense of "I," and we can collect experiences from a unique perspective. But when the ego is too large and too important, it creates great suffering. So worship and devotion allow us to maintain and remember our consciousness of the collective vital energy (Devi).
The gods are such effective focal points of devotion, reminding us of something more than ourselves. Around each of these focal points were created rules to live by. These rules were supposed to make our lives more fulfilled and easier. They were literally life advice given by those who were most devoted to the deities and tapped into our overall unity.
This is the basis of all religion: the focal point of worship and the rules around that focal point to help us live well. It's really that simple. But things got complicated with Yahweh.
Gods are thought forms. They are collectively created and kept alive through worship, rituals,doctrines, and prayer. Thought forms are real and material forces that have very real and material effects on the world we live in. To say they are not real would be absolutely delusional.Anything that has wide-ranging effects on our lives is most definitely real. A god forgotten has died and can only be resurrected through worship.
So what happened with Yahweh? How did his followers empower him to take over so much of the collective psyche rather than remaining just one of many hundreds of gods? Several thousand years ago, he became associated with the idea of heaven.Heaven is one of those constrictions of life energy. Normally, when we die, the energy that made up our individual consciousness returns to unity. Our energy, in other words, disperses and becomes any number of other things. And that which is our sense of "I," or ego, no longer exists. That very specific and particular energy is released in all directions. Energy never dies,but is only recycled. We are released, free to become again, not as ourselves, but as any number of potentials.
But this is scary. The ego is terrified of being dispersed and horrified that it will no longer exist.So this idea that our individual consciousness, or "soul," could stay intact and just go somewhere else was very appealing to those who are fearful. And thus this contraption called heaven was created. It can stop the ego at the moment of death and hold it indefinitely. And in service to Yahweh, it will praise him eternally so that he never fades. This means Yahweh becomes indestructible.
Of course, the appeal of heaven was not really clear to many, so the idea of hell being the only other alternative just seals the deal. Heaven, being in eternal prayer to the god you worship, is so much better than eternal torment. Except they are both a kind of torment. And they are not the only options. You can return home to the Mother from whence you came. Your ego can simply cease to exist, and you can then become unified without separation.
With this, the cult of Yahweh spread with the fear of oblivion, and then later the fear of hell, as the supposed only other option. And wanting and needing to keep the worship of Yahweh alive and well his worshipers became zealots. After all, this was their only "salvation," and the only way to keep their sense of "I" from ever being obliterated. They feared the free fall of death. And so Yahweh became the great divider. His laws became more constrictive, cutting off the flow of life energy and trying to blot out the worship of the divine feminine as much as possible. His way became to squeeze too tightly, to create a container so suffocating for his followers that the list of rules for a good life became more and more arbitrary. And then his followers were pitted against one another, trying to interpret those laws.
I mentioned that the job of containment is masculine in nature. This container of Yahweh's laws was a tight fist and a stranglehold on humanity, resisting knowledge and new growth and trying hard to bury all other forms of worship so that Yahweh would become the sole provider of this very human need to express devotion for those brought up in the culture that served him. And so those who could not be contained and constrained by his laws were branded witches and heretics. Any other gods that served as focal points for worship were branded demons and dangerous.
Yahweh's worship suffocates mankind like a weed strangling the garden. And Yahweh must sow fear of death and make people live for this "afterlife" where the ego is trapped indefinitely in prayer to him. Fear is the motivator. And this thought form is carried in the minds of billions, kept alive in that fear. So, of course, he is evil. His perpetuation requires the constriction of knowledge and the strangling of life energy. It requires rupture and division, even among those who worship him, and a fight against any other options aside from what he offers. He needs to keep his children ignorant of the nature of life and death, of good and evil. Because once the ignorance is broken, it becomes clear that he is evil. He is the thing blocking a connection to our unity.The worshipers of Yahweh live in a prison that feels, to them, like freedom from death. But death is our birthright.
Luckily, not all of us are ignorant of the context in which Yaheweh exists. Not all of us need him to fulfill our need for worship, devotion, and access to Devi. There was a time when one word came to me as a ringing truth inside me. That word was "remember." And we must only remember the Mother to be free of the gripping constraints that hold so many.
So evil is that which squeezes too hard cutting off the flow, that divides by insisting others climb inside tiny boxes to be made safe from ego obliteration. Is it any wonder why we are where we are today and why we must now spread knowledge and wisdom as an antidote?
