Eggregore, Servitor and Gods Options

Hey everyone,

Not to long ago I had a discussion about "The meaning of Life". Suddenly it went into a totally different direction concerning entities. We started talking about Eggregores, Servitors and Gods. I've gotten an interesting idea, but I feel on a shallow level that this is a flawed idea. Still I can't let go of it so I shall explain it and see what others think of it.

First my definitions.
An Eggregore gains conciounce and "life" through a group of people. This group will focus their ideas and energies onto one concept. They will give it personality traits, behaviour, morals but not a physical appearance to relate to it.

A Servitor is created by one individual or group. The servitor is a being with a set amount of traits and morals granted by the creator(s). It also has a defined shape and appearance to which everyone can relate to it.


When starting about gods I made the difference between the Christian God/Satan as well as ancient mythological Gods/Godesses. As I see it there is the Source (the All) and from this all came to be, including us. We however created the Gods that we worship, both the positive as the negative ones. Most mythological gods were created in order to express our lack of knowledge towards nature and life itself.

In another thread on these boards I also read the question "what if i use a selfmade being as a powersource, would it work just as well as worshipping a god?".

I see it that most religious icons are eggregores. Many people over the world having the same idea of what God, Satan or the prophet Mohammed stand for and their personality traits are so the speak. But no one has an idea what they look like. People focussing on the ideals on these beings, for so many generations, would generate quite a large pool of energy and thus the Eggregore (Gods) grow over time in power. This is why a self made entity would be weaker in power and aid because it has a lot less time and energy put into it.

People, for so many centuries and with so many at once, could cause great changes in the world. What if we stopped worshipping gods and such and would focus together on the world problems instead?

Just some non-worked out ramblings...

Kinjo explains what an eggregore is right here. When you think about that definition you can apply it to to gods as well. Gods are nothing more then eggregores and not the "rulers" as most people make them out to be. That is how I see it though.

The Source, which is everything and nothing. Everything around us, including us, is made from it and is connected with it...made in energetical imagery/likeness of it. Therefore we are God as much as the next person, the trees, air, bees etc etc. That which man calls Gods or Satan/Lucifer are nothing but creations that we made ourselves.

Rather difficult to put into words. But with so many people following certain beings they strengethened the imagery of it. They gave it more and more energy which also can be tapped into to use for "miracles".

As for the purpose of this thread:
1. to put my ideas down and see then "evolve"
2. getting some feed-back/in-put from other people
3. perhaps start a discussion about this viewpoint

This post has been edited by Sabazel: Mar 2 2006, 06:32 AM