GOD the forbidden word

Nowadays the word “God” became a real taboo, more than sex and death. We can consider it seems to stand for the forbidden word. Of course, there are many different synonyms or parallel concepts which could create a consensus presenting all points of view and sensitivities, education…
The great Sufi Rumi said “the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. The mirror fell and broke apart. Everyone took a piece of it, looked at it and thought it was the truth.”

Thus by extension instead of the term “God” we can use Universal Soul, Mother Earth, the Divine Nature, The Source, The Consciousness, the Cosmic Spirit, the YOUnity, the point of Singularity, the Unified Field, The Nothingness/Emptiness (which brings FULLness and refers to the vacuum of the scientist realm or the dark energy entangling everything)…

I do agree that it is a personal concept, but let’s dig a little in which extent.
In tradition, God can be also considered as the forbidden word.
In Judaism God is called “Yahweh” or even YHWH (voluntarily “unpronounceable”): He is the one (or what) we cannot name.
This concept is really similar to Taoism (Daoism, the Chinese ancient wisdom), when we talk about Tao (Dao) we are out of the Tao it is by definition impossible to seize it. Seizing the concept of God is a bit like touching a soap bubble to show to your friend, immediately it disappears. Why because we cannot understand or experience the idea of God by the ego. In this aspect, we could consider that E.G.O would mean: Edge God Out. We cannot say: “I understand it” but eventually “High innerstand it”.
In Christianity by metaphor, the name of God is “The Living” (being) which is incredibly deep. It implies that it is in all kind of form of Life.
The most important word or sound pronounced each second on the planet is OM/AUM and the sentence is “La ilaha illallah”. For the mystic Sufi, it means that “there IS ONLY Allah”, and demonstrates that the quickest way to “know” the Unity is to “deny” all else even the individuality. We have to dilute ourselves into the immensity of the whole/ALL.

God according to Sufism is everything, everywhere, through everybody and everything. Al-lah! In Arabic means “The One” or “The Conscious Oneness”, The Unity, The Divine, The Beyond-Comprehension, The Self-Aware, Who Comprehends All…
In English in the language of birds (the mystical green language), we can hear almost the same ALLah: ALL + a: the whole and the unit (the Alpha and the Omega) = the unity.
This is what the French writer Victor Hugo said a bit differently but closely: “Consciousness is God present in man”.

The second aspect of the deep dimension of ALLah: ALL + a: the whole & the unit = the unity it refers subtly to the inner divine part of each of us what I baptized: YOUnity. Indeed we seem to be small gods in progress, apparently, God experiences Himself through us individually, and we try to find back our divine part within ourselves.
When we say “On behalf of God” maybe you have never paid attention that subtly it might mean: on (the way) to be half of God (on the way to be half of God), who knows?

Einstein said this incredible sentence “A human being is a part of a whole that we call: Universe. A limited part of time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and emotions as something that is separated from the rest, a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This illusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and the affection of a few people near us. Our task must be to liberate ourselves from this prison by extending our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

According to most of the esoteric currents, we are coming from the Whole, the unity, then we incarnate down to earth to admire the Masterpiece of Life otherwise when you are all the Masterpiece you cannot obverse yourself, you need to extract from the big picture. The more we seize the different pieces of the masterpiece the more we master peace (inner and outer peace).

Pascal said: “It is a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” without précising what was this “it”? God, The Consciousness, the universe…? Maybe all of them

We could do a parallel with the quantic physics: everything is according to the observer a wave of potential (the sphere) or a particle (the center) once the quantum leaf is done as a defined scenario among an infinity. Here is the common thread with this sense of the hidden name of God.

In the Light of Søren Kierkegaard, he said wisely regarding God “To give me a name is to annihilate me, by giving me a name, by giving me a label, you annihilate all the other things that I could be” / “Once you label me you negate me”.
That’s why it is a bit delicate to consider as a human being the concept of God through our egos. Spinoza evokes the following idea “a finite being cannot conceive the infinite”.

In Islam God owns 99 different names and the 100th is hidden. Nobody knows this missing one! Finally, it is really similar to Judaism and Taoism.
Maybe the hidden word is because it is up to each of us, each part of His/Her/Its/Our creation? Who knows! Personally, mine would be an acronym G.O.D: Glint Overall Dimensions. And in my native language, it would be even more evocative D.I.E.U: Dimensions Intérieures et Extérieures Universelles (Universal Inner & Outer Dimensions).

Then we have also to admit that some people do not believe at all in God, whatever the name, as they have been created like this. It is a bit like tastes, maybe they do not like, or they do not need. As long as they are happy.
By the way, certain believers are a bit intolerant towards these people who do not believe. However, it is a bit built-in if we consider we have been created at His/Her/Its/Our image…

That’s why Shams ed Tabrizi (one of the greatest Sufi the esoteric part of Islam) said so wisely “It’s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. What is far more difficult is to love fellow human being with all their imperfections and defects. Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love. Unless we learn to love God’s creation, we can neither truly love nor truly know God.”
It is nonsense to blame those who do not believe. However, it is true that the more we study the harder it is not to believe  Indeed if we observe and study nature, the cosmos (etymologically “cosmos” in Greek means “order”) the amazing order balancing all forces, it is such a miraculous orchestration. Thinking that majestic structure is the fruit of coincidence or chance is comparable to put on the floor over 1km all the millions of components of a Boeing 747 and after a tornado, it would create by assembling all pieces an amazing plane. The coincidence is a bit funny. And for the skeptical, only science-oriented as Max Planck the father of the quantum physics said:
“All matter comes from a force and exists only by it. We must assume the existence, under this force, of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter.”

I will quote again Shams ed Tabrizi who said “You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for him: in the heart of a true lover.”

In most of the esoteric currents, we can see or perceive God everywhere through everything and everyone from the smallest particle to the entire universe and even beyond that. That’s why in mysticism one says often “as above, so below, as below so above”.

In the Genesis it is written “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was at the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.”
The word “Genesis” means literally “the beginning”, in the beginning, I wanted to evoke the forbidden word God, at the end we can realize according to the holy text that at the beginning the word was in God and God was in the word. What does it mean concretely? The word “word” should be associated to “vibration” because the concept of God can be also perceived as a frequency, that’s why Nicola Tesla (the great scientist) said, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Maybe the hidden word of God is close to these 3 ones… “We never know.”

Anyway if God became a forbidden word maybe it is to respect certain privacy and personal approach. Some people will see it as blaspheme to try to talk about Him/Her/It/Us, some other will think it is doing proselytism intending to convince the unbelievers to believe…
As we mentioned according to the believers God creates people at His/her/Its/Our image but conversely we represent Him/Her/It/Us maybe according to our own psychology

Shams ed Tabrizi said “How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.”
By extension, it might be the reason one of the Greek philosophy as a mysterious pillar said: “know yourself and you will know God”.
We can turn around the name of God endless but maybe one of the outcomes is through what Rumi said wisely “Silence is the language of God, all else is a poor translation.”

In Shambali you will experience through many ways this concept and potential experience of this mysterious and also very personal approach to be able to feel it (if you need it) in your daily life.

Issa ~ AM