The Divine Spark Within

 

By D. I. Muhammad

Before there was any God that you are familiar with, there was The Most High. Some know it as Source. The Creator of All. 

This Creator is not jealous of anything that you do. This Creator is not male or female in the physical sense.  Its energy carries both, a feminine and masculine current. This Creator does not ask for your worship or that you pay tithes.   This Creator created your gods,  that you pray to, and worship. 

These lower level gods have looked for ways to dupe humanity into worshipping them.  These are the gods that need your energy, your acknowledgement in order to survive.  Without it, they die.  They die because they are no longer remembered.   It's the remembrance that keeps them being venerated.

Years ago, I and friend of mine had an encounter with some people we had a talk with. At the end the person said to us, "I'll pray for you."  My friend then said, "Don't pray for me. I don't know who you pray to."

Some may see that responds as rude, but it stopped me, because I saw that comment as valid and true. 

There are many gods, and it's been that way since the beginning, starting with  Sumeria.

With each new culture the pantheon of gods have changed. Even across archetypes there have been gods who are the same, but within a different lineage.  For example,  Inanna and Oshun are both aligned with beauty and fertility.  Thor and Shango are both aligned with Thunder. 

There have been ancient rulers who have declared themselves as divine or were declared divine.

Throughout history, there have been many who crowned themselves god, or allowed others to crown them, and demanded worship as proof of their power.

It started with kings. Naram-Sin of Akkad called himself a god while he still lived, and had himself carved wearing the horned helmet that was meant only for the divine. The pharaohs of Egypt held that same claim for three thousand years. Each one was Horus while he breathed, and became Osiris the moment he died, and the people paid tribute to keep that belief alive. Akhenaten went even further. He declared himself and the sun itself the only gods worth worship, and tried to erase every god that came before him.

Alexander the Great stood before the Oracle of Siwa and came back calling himself the son of Zeus. It secured him an empire. Antiochus, a Greek king who ruled over Judea, took the title "God Manifest," and placed a statue of himself inside the Jewish Temple, demanding the people bow to it.

Rome made a system out of it. Caesar was declared a god after his death. Augustus allowed his spirit to be worshipped while he still lived. Caligula and Domitian wanted more. They demanded worship while breathing, built temples to themselves, and punished anyone who refused to kneel. Even Rome, who created this, called them excessive.

The Emperor Constantine needed a single, unified religion to hold the fracturing Roman Empire together.

By taking Jesus, who taught that everyone has the kingdom of god within them, and turning him into the exclusive, monolithic God that required absolute obedience, the Roman state successfully weaponized his image. They turned a teacher of the "inner spark" into another lower-level deity that demanded worship for the empire's survival. This was the moment the official doctrine about Jesus's nature was locked in under imperial pressure. (The First Council of Nicea, https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Council-of-Nicaea-325)

Lower-level gods not only appeared in the Mediterranean. Japan's emperors were said to descend from the sun goddess Amaterasu, a divine claim the state upheld until 1946, when Hirohito finally renounced it. The Inca believed their Sapa Inca descended from the sun god Inti himself, and worshipped him as a living god while he walked among them.

And it hasn't stopped. In the last century, Father Divine told his followers plainly that he was God in the flesh. Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshall Applewhite, and Sun Myung Moon each stood in that same seat, convincing people that salvation ran through them and no one else. Some of those stories ended in isolation. Some ended in death.

This is not an ancient habit humanity outgrew. It is a pattern that has repeated in nearly every era, right up until now. Someone declares themselves god, or lets others declare it for them, and calls the obedience that follows devotion.

What is so different from these ancient ones calling themselves Divine.  Aren't we all considered Divine in some way.  Don't we carry a piece of The Most High within us?   All souls carry the spark of The Most High.

Isa (Jesus) carried that divine spark, and showed the people what they were capable of doing.  He showed the people they were capable of healing,  manifesting water into wine, and feeding the masses on fish and bread.   He never asked for the worship of the people. In fact it was during the Council of Nicea that they lined Jesus's divinity with being worshipped.

Jesus was revered while alive, and upon his crucifixion was he then worshipped as a God  by the Jews.  (Jesus Worship, https://www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/jesus-worship/)

Jesus's immediate followers (who were Jewish) did begin to revere and worship him, but this caused a massive, violent rift with mainstream Judaism.  Because mainstream Jews rejected Jesus as the Messiah or God, these followers eventually broke away entirely to form a new, separate religion: Christianity.

It is said Source fractalized itself, so that it could experience emotions,  and situations among its creation. Something it could not do as a pure consciousness.   It's said that humans hold their Autonomy. It's the spark that moves through the soul, that gives life, and experiences.

Here's the thing about the "gods" who chose to have humanity worship them. It was based off of ego,  power.  

When Source fragments into humans and lower-level deities, those fragments develop an ego to experience individuality. But the ego's greatest fear is insignificance and death.

The  lower-level deities successfully duped humanity into feeding them energy, it did something catastrophic to the human psyche: it fractured humanity against itself.

Because these lower gods are limited, insecure fragments, they operate from a mindset of scarcity. They convinced their respective cultures that divine favor is a limited resource. This birthed the tribal religious ego, the toxic claim of "My God is the one true God, and your god is not."

Instead of recognizing that every culture was just interacting with different  facets of the same cosmic puzzle, humanity began slaughtering one another to prove whose deity was superior. The wars fought in the names of these gods were never about The Most High; they were proxy wars fought by human proxies to feed the starved egos of competing, lower-level entities.

The ultimate irony of history is that every king who wore a horned helmet, every emperor who claimed the sun, every competitive deity, and every cult leader who demanded blind obedience was already divine. They carried the spark of The Most High within them from the very beginning. But blinded by the ego of the fragment, they forgot that they were already connected to the ocean. They chose instead to become starving gods, demanding that humanity feed them the very energy they forgot they already possessed.