Re: Qabbalistic Cross - I want to try it but am afraid.
As far as Yahweh (who, as I've read, was kind of a bastard, really), you need to read the Old Testament with a "third voice". In other words, "Moses says that God said to do such and such" or "Jeremiah said that God told him to tell you that...."
The thing is, the Hebrews saw their God the way they saw their God, and it says more about the Hebrews than it does about their God, in my opinion.
I don't care much for Yahweh, either, for what it's worth, but now that I understand more about the third voice and about how the expectations of the people, themselves, influence their interpretation of their God, I'm not afraid any more. Yahweh was an ancient God of an ancient theocracy of people who felt themselves outnumbered and set apart... and it shows.
Spirit will fill any god-shaped belief that humans generate.
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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