And so God Created Man in His Own Image -- or did he? The Origins of God
by Ra-Harakhte



By the time of Cro-Magnon man in our historical past, mankind had already been several thousand years into the fold of the ego, and had long since forgotten his connection to the planet and the universe.

As centuries moved on, the woman-worshipping tribes of Cro-Magnon evolved even further, eventually outliving the Neaderthals. The race was no longer in danger of dying out from the ice age. Now, instead of having to focus on women, the mind was able to wander in other directions. Where would it go?

The natural progression would go like this:

Up to this point man has had to work all day just to meet his needs: To find food and shelter and warmth. Now he can do that without worry. Basically, before he was at odds with himself and environment, for those two in his psyche were much larger and more complex than he could handle, but since those now have been subdued, the logical progression of mind would be to tink: What else? What else must I be at odds with? Since I can meet my needs, they are no longer beyond me, what else is there? There must be something else still beyond me.


Enter God



Man had become so used to trying to overcomes something he thought was larger than himself, that when he finally won the battle of how to be self-sustaining, the mind still neeeded something to grapple with -- that was it's naturally tendency by this time in our evolution. Hence the concept of God and god-like figures. And it was easy to use those figures to explain things away that couldn't be explained at the time.


It has always been man's desire to understand things, even if they are beyond his comprehension.




A study of remote tribes and ancient history shows that deities are formed from those things that the human race cannot understand or perceives is beyond It (at the time). For instance, the sun, the moon, in ancient Egypt it was also animals that became forces to be worshipped and feared. These images could have simply started by the "awe" of them, the simple ignorance of them, and thus led to putting them on a pedestal because


"They are beyond me because I do not understand them. They must be greater than I. If greater, then I must worship."



See the progression of thought? It may all be very simple, but all it takes is one single idea or action, that through the ongoing of generations changes bit by bit, becomes greater and greater and more complex as man's mind get's more complex and habitually reflects upon the traditional ideas and beliefs (forgetting how it got started in the first place). The creation of God and god-like figures is no different, as history has demonstrated.

So it's quite easy to see that religion and God was also a product of evolution -- from the simple worshipping of women to maintain the life of the tribe, to growing into ways of explaining the unknown. Prior to the ice age Cro-Magnon, God and images of worship were non-existant.

The only other possible evidence of worship could be the paintings of animals in ancient caves. But those paintings still don't lay credence to a belief in a God or god-like figures, for they were animals the stone-age man co-existed with. They could merely be expressions of art and pleasure for the animals that were virtually His neighbors. If they were considered gods, then again man's ignorance has played a role in the evolution of the almighty, because the animals really were not gods, just beyond his understanding.

One must understand that mankind, so long ago, without any aids or luxiures for Itself, without technology, with a veritable puddle of knowledge compared to what we know today (which would be akin to an ocean by comparison), couldn't think of Itself being more than what It was at the time. Had early man known that one day He could walk on the moon . . . One day He could fly with the birds (that he worshipped) in machines of His own design and construct . . .

So, historically and evolutionary, the further mankind evolved "away" from His communion with nature, and focus not on the "big picture" but only Himself, did His mind also turn away, and thus the true "downfall" occurred. Nature became something to be reckoned with, thus the laws of nature and existence were forgotten, thus our non-attachment to the forces of creation both within the conscious mind and psyche, and consequently, our detachment from All That Is, also known as God.

Evolution . . . The road of life.



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