Praying To God Options

yeah so i was thinking in the shower
not about magic
yet for some reason i had some sort of idea.

Is praying to god magic?
is it magic under the paradigm that if you ask this enigmatic being for a favor that he will reply and help with good faith?

and then i thought more?

isnt ordinary magic the exact same thing, except instead of asking a being
we tell the universe...
and in some cases we do ask a being
like in a summoning of a demon?

And if that's true, then if you replace God with universe in the bible, it is more like things were guided into place by fate, and not by a bearded sociopath?
and it becomes something entirely different?

idk really
i just dont think much about Christianity because i am not a christian at all so

whatever.

what do you think?

uhh
"fear is icky"
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I dunno. my patron is every bit as much a 'dark angel' as she is a light one. Depending on what facet of her you focused on, she could seem utterly terrifying. But she's also sort of an ultimate radiant light too. Early on, she showed me somewhat more of her dark side. She did it in such a way that it kinda drew my lifelong repressed dark side to the surface as well. And most of the earliest visions & dreams with her were kinda focused on a jungian exploration of my shade. She's a 'balanced' being, I think any 'infinite' being must be. But my own 'balance' was off in such a way that I actually needed to add some 'evil' (and a little salt). Not that I actually believe in 'evil', just saying that I needed to come to embrace the antithesis of my superego, buried within myself, as a first step towards growing into a more 'whole' being. I don't think a motion towards balance would be exactly the same thing for any two people though.

I think that if I found myself in the presence of a dark scary angel and a hellish energy setting... I'd just shift towards the part of myself which closely matches that resonance, and enjoy the company. The same could be said for the more saintly warm light feeling you described. I personally find both of those extremes to be within the range of resonances which make up 'me'. I wonder if this might be true for yourself as well. I mean, if a thing contacts you and interacts with you at a particular resonance, is it possible that it is simply resonating with a facet of yourself which lies below the conscious awareness? Is it really perhaps just a case of 'like attracts like'? I dunno?

but experiencing fear is, in my opinion, always counterproductive. Imagine the worst possible thing that can happen to you, lock that image in your mind, and then say to it "so what?". Flip your fear the bird, laugh in the grim reaper's face, and get on with business of embodying your true will (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by Kath: Nov 2 2009, 02:46 PM