Seems I’ve been “summoned”
Cause they haven’t had a direct experience of God and don’t know any better or have an agenda.
No Enlightened being I know refers to “God” as a “he”
Sammy pretty much summed it up… Well the Tao Te Ching did, but same reliable source either way
Void = Potentiality for all existence
Manifest = All existence
And Void is NOT nothingness or “no-thing”-ness.
Concept of “Void” is a huge stumbling block in some ancient teachings that many an Enlightened being had to eventually “transcend” ie. make the duality, non-dual.
(See the problem here… “concept” means it’s still stuck in the limited dualistic mind)
I gave my recommended reading list already.
I suggest you read those books first if one is serious about “seeking” the “truth”.
(Let’s call them very useful preparation and fertilizer for a direct experience)
What I haven’t mentioned on this forum, is something I recommended on XM a decade ago. Still hasn’t changed. (If I find something more effective, than I’ll let everyone know.)
If one wants a DIRECT experience of “God/Oneness/Void/whatever label”, so one can stop intellectualizing/mentalizing about it and instead KNOW it, by experience…
then I recommend finding a qualified teacher of Zivorad Slavinsky’s “Spiritual Technology” technique.
Nearly all of those techniques, especially now, will allow you to have a direct experience of “God/Oneness/Void/Tao/etc” in a little as 20-30 mins…max maybe a couple sessions of an hour long if there’s strong resistance.
Then one can come back here to the forums and stumble over limiting words about what “God is” and see the utter futility of it beyond metaphor and pointing “to the thing”
Can I leave now? ;)