Divine Beings & Planes: RH'L5-L7

Personal Note: This is a speculative topic. In developing formulations, I have drawn upon social observations, general reading in comparative religion, and an imaginative sense of what is likely within THEE. I have been concerned to ensure clarity and coherence because that provides the best basis for others to criticize and suggest improvements.

Divinity : Holiness : Sanctity

The Beings and Planes in the Divine Realm are something utterly apart from humanity. «Sacred» and «holy» are terms used to describe divinity, but they signify little except that there is something «above» the «profane» everyday human world. In order to grasp the seemingly ungraspable, there is a tendency to anthropomorphize these Planes: so that a Creator-God and a Destructor-God/Devil are Supreme Beings enabling Divine Creation-L5, while Gods and Goddesses are the Cosmic Forces that express Divine Will-L6. However, the Universal Spirit existing in Divine Oneness-L7 often escapes this fate.

Religious Philosophies

It is not possible nor taxonomically necessary to explore the enormous diversity of spiritual/religious philosophies. Different religions handle conceptions of the divine differently, and various sects within a single religion often have their own view. In one version of Hinduism, for example, Shiva is Creator, Preserver, Destroyer, Concealer & Revealer; while in another version Shiva is the Divine Destroyer, Brahma is the Divine Creator, and Vishnu is the Divine Preserver.

• For our everyday life, it is essential to recognize that these Divine Planes exert an influence on humanity. They exist to sustain our humanity over and above our material-biological condition.
• The Divine Planes can be grasped again by focusing on the two dimensions used to characterize lower Planes—ethics and creativity.
• A brief introduction to each Divine Plane is provided below. More details will be provided in the Review section, and when examining Divine-Human Interactions.

Supreme Being & Divine Creation: RH'L5

The Creation Quest provides for unambiguous divinity. People feel the need to recognize a Supreme Being that can personify the Divine. The Supreme Being is held responsible for the physical universe. So this the source of ideas of «creationism» and «intelligent design». Here also is the inevitability of destruction, competition, ferocity and much that is naturally viewed as evil from a human perspective.

The Supreme Being exists on the Plane of Divine Creation, and its focus is to be found in Communication-RHL5 just like the Creation Quest. So it is natural to imagine a Creator-God producing the physical universe by speaking.

Ethics
naturally includes:►

• freedom and power to destroy as well as to create,
• freedom and power to determine what counts as «right» or «good».

Creativity
naturally includes:►

• the origin, evolution and sustenance of all reality, physical and psychosocial
• generating spiritual energies, which are called goodness
• endowing human beings with the freedom to choose between good and evil.
  

Human Representation: Being creative &/or destructive is viewed as natural for human beings. Until recently, creative powers were usually only acknowledged in those who are exceptional. Creative expression for such unusual people occurs as a transcendental force that uses a person's self as a vehicle. Many on the Creation Quest recognize this experience, which may be mediated via transient states of cosmic consciousness.

Cosmic Forces & Divine Will: RH'L6

The Obedience Quest provides for attributes of divinity like love, understanding, hate, mercy, anger, truth, patience, jealousy. When God-RH'L5 is described using ultimate values-PH6L7 like these, the speaker is either anthropomorphizing or moving up to this higher Plane, where the attributes are Model Beings.

These descriptive attributes are Cosmic Forces operating on a Plane of Divine Will and impelling specific forms of creation and destruction. In mythologies, they are envisaged as gods, goddesses, spirits, devas, daemons, devils, angels and similar imaginary beings.

The Cosmic Forces (or their embodiments) must obey their nature. Each is defined by a unitary purpose/value/mission/duty. Note that these are found in Root Level-6 where the Obedience Quest-RH'L6 has its focus.

Ethics
naturally includes:►

• direct production of energies that are intrinsic to the nature of the Force.

Creativity
naturally includes:►

• generating human motivations that appear as pure good or pure evil
• infusing a specific quality into energies of the Will.

Human Representation: Cosmic Forces are evidently the passions to which people submit (or with which they struggle) as part of being possessed, impelled, compelled, or inspired. While we human beings do have choice, these Cosmic Forces cannot be other than they are imagined to be. It is easy to experience them as compelling human responses and directing social endeavours. After all, that is just what our deepest purposes and values do to us.

Universal Spirit & Divine Oneness: RH'L7

The Spirituality Quest -RH'L7 emphasizes oneness. So, a Model Being is derived from it to integrate all divine entities, into one Being or State, and this is named here: Universal Spirit. Like Spirituality, this Being depends on Willingness-RL7 for its effects.

The corresponding Plane of Divine Oneness provides for an absolute and permeating divinity in which there are no distinctions of any sort, especially: spirit v matter, and good v evil.

Ethics
naturally includes:►

• fusion of good and evil
• permeation of all existence by spirit
  

Creativity
naturally includes:► 

• production of abundance: the flow of plenty
• spirit within the creator, the creative process, and the created entity
• transcendental experiences that provide divine guidance via inspiration.

Human Representation: Divine Oneness is the paradox that resolves all paradoxes, the first cause or Big Bang, the explanation that explains itself, the ever-present irremovable mystery of existence.

Perspectives

• From the Plane of Cosmic Consciousness-L4, the experience of all Divine Realms is direct and unarguable. From the Plane of Awareness-L3, Divine Creation can also be experienced and accessed.
• From the lower two Planes of Everyday Existence (L1 & L2), evidence is apparent, though probably without confidence unless supported by experiences in the Planes of Advanced Existence.

• Those with exceptional creative powers experience a transcendental force that takes them over and would seem to come from Divine Creation-L5.
• The notion of being possessed, impelled or compelled aligns with the existence of Divine Will-L6.
• Finally, the sense that there is a spirit within the universe including human endeavour that gives it energy and provides order seems like evidence for Divine Oneness-L7.

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• It is now time for a Review. This will also allow comparisons of the power exerted by each Model Being, how good and evil are handled, and more.

Originally posted: 14-Sep-2012