This is a little beyond my level of understanding. Yet, mystics will define God as the cause and source of everything that permeates the entire universe. It cannot be understood by reason. It can only be known by direct experience (Don’t ask me I won’t go into this here 
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Hindu Mystics will say that there are and have been more than one universe. But the number of God (as in “The” God who is the source of everything) is singular in most religious traditions. The “Other Gods” are like his characteristics or his features. In later mythology systems this “One God” became the all-father (Norse) or the Zeus in Greek mythology. So he became anthropomorphized. (I don’t know if you are following) .
“At least in Christianity, we believe that God remedies the fallen condition by participating in it.”
I believe that as well.
The term “Religion” comes from Latin and means “religare” that is “to reestablish the connection of man to his true inner nature” (or to God, if you prefer it that way). / This is also the way many mystics will chose to express it. God is not an external supra-cosmic phenomenon but something that can be called our true self that comes from our very creation.
And the Serpent and the description of this world is also correct. Again, I won’t go deep into it. But there is an issue of forgetting our true nature. In Christianity it is described as a “loss of innocence” and “being banned from the garden of eden”. So the allegory is present in this teaching also.
In conclusion: There are ways of “remembering” and there are ways of correcting our mistakes and to be more in tune with what I call “our true nature”.
- But these are all mystical terms. (not technical prescriptions )
). Hindu Mystics will say that there are and have been more than one universe. But the number of God (as in “The” God who is the source of everything) is singular in most religious traditions. The “Other Gods” are like his characteristics or his features. In later mythology systems this “One God” became the all-father (Norse) or the Zeus in Greek mythology. So he became anthropomorphized. (I don’t know if you are following)
.“At least in Christianity, we believe that God remedies the fallen condition by participating in it.”
I believe that as well.
The term “Religion” comes from Latin and means “religare” that is “to reestablish the connection of man to his true inner nature” (or to God, if you prefer it that way). / This is also the way many mystics will chose to express it. God is not an external supra-cosmic phenomenon but something that can be called our true self that comes from our very creation.
And the Serpent and the description of this world is also correct. Again, I won’t go deep into it. But there is an issue of forgetting our true nature. In Christianity it is described as a “loss of innocence” and “being banned from the garden of eden”. So the allegory is present in this teaching also.
In conclusion: There are ways of “remembering” and there are ways of correcting our mistakes and to be more in tune with what I call “our true nature”.
- But these are all mystical terms. (not technical prescriptions
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