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So, since my birthday is coming up this week, and that’s where my mind kind of is, I thought I’d see what my association of thoughts would come up with accordingly for this week’s entry. Almost immediately I was reminded of a saying I’ve heard many times spoken by Dr. Betty Jandl of the Idyllwild Church of Religious Science, which goes something along the lines of, “When you were born, you were the only thing on God’s mind.” And that seems to me like kind of a heavy notion, so, the natural thing seems to meditate on that notion for my entry this week.

I am instantly reminded of two teachings about God when I reflect but for a moment on this saying of Betty’s. The first is the teaching of Gurdjieff:

“. . . of everything known to most of them concerning cosmic truths, this expression of theirs is the only true one of them all.

“And indeed, each of them is the image of God, not of that ‘God’ which they have in their bobtailed picturings, but of the real God, by which word we sometimes still call our common Megalocosmos.

“Each of them to the smallest detail is exactly similar, but of course in miniature, to the whole of our Megalocosmos, and in each of them there are all of those separate functionings, which in our common Megalocosmos actualize the cosmic harmonious Iraniranumange or ‘exchange of substances,’ maintaining the existence of everything existing in the Megalocosmos as one whole.” (B.T.T.H.G. Chapter 39)

And the other saying I am reminded of comes from the Hebrew Bible: And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. Genesis 1:3

And I am reminded of these because, and I grant I don’t claim to have a concrete memory, but it seems to me that the first thing a person must perceive, before having a perceptual basis by which to compare it to, is the presence of some form of light. And these two quotes, in my mind, work well together because if a new person is a self-actualizing micro-cosmos of divinity, and all God is thinking of the moment you come into existence is you, to begin existence, it is as though divinity as yourself, or divinity as that which creates us says in the moment of that beginning, “Let there be light.” Let there be light meaning not just that light touches the newly created eyes for the first time, but that what has been created is also a reflector of light, a being of light, more light brought into the world. “Let there be light” is not merely that which we see by, it is that which is seen. And so, to me, these two phrases coalesce perfectly together within the context of one being born being the only thing on God’s mind in that moment of that person being born. When one is first born, their mind is that of the divine undifferentiated, aside from that newly perceived light, by which divinity can define itself existent.

So, to all out there, whatever day it may be, Happy Birthday to you, you pinch of God-stuff you!

TTFN