Strange Horizons interview (2008)
Context: I say the entities that are named as gods by Earthians are imagined into being by Earthians as personal helper-buddies, justifiers, threateners (my god can beat up your god). They don't "run on" anything any more than a mirror image "runs on" anything. They merely reflect what people want them to be. "I want to have more children than my brother does, thus proving I'm a better man than he is, so my god tells me I should have a big family." "I want to screw women, so my god is going to give me seventy virgins I can screw for all eternity." The "gods" in The Margarets who could really do anything were actually an old, highly evolved race of real people. The others were only reflections. The real God, who may really exist, is outside all that, perhaps watching closely, perhaps merely asleep for a few trillion years while the experiment runs out.
We — thee and me as individuals — will never know that God, though after a few trillion years, the universe as a whole may come to understand that God.
“God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.”
Quoted here http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/092108acj.html
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
1950 entry, quoted in Gayle Wurst, Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1999), p. 158
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Head Like a Hole, from Pretty Hate Machine (1990).
Song lyrics
Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012), p. 88.
“What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.”
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
[2003, Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism, World Wisdom, 117, 978-0-94153227-3]
Spiritual path, Esoterism
