Open Veils · Answer
Who is God?
The question 'Who is God?' opens into radically divergent traditions that institutional religion and academic philosophy have systematically flattened. Across Gnostic, Hermetic, Vedic, and consciousness-research frameworks, 'God' fractures into at least three distinct categories: the Demiurge (a lesser, blind craftsman), the Monad (the true ineffable source), and Consciousness itself as the ground of all being. These are not compatible descriptions of the same entity.
Evidence
- Mauro Biglino's textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible argues that 'Elohim' is grammatically plural and refers to a council of physical beings — the Anunnaki of Zecharia Sitchin's framework — not an infinite supreme creator.
- Bernardo Kastrup, drawing on analytic idealism, argues that what we call God is best understood as universal Mind — a single unbounded consciousness of which individual minds are 'alters,' dissociated pockets.
- Dean Radin at the Institute of Noetic Sciences points to psi research — remote viewing, presentiment studies — as empirical evidence that consciousness is non-local and primary, which implies the 'God' question is really a question about the nature of Mind at cosmic scale.
- Rudolf Steiner and Manly P. Hall both distinguished between the Logos — an evolving, participatory divine intelligence woven into cosmic history — and the abstract monotheist God of ecclesiastical dogma.
- Biglino contends the 'God' of Genesis is a local, interventionist manager, not the cosmological absolute.