What do you people think about deities? What are they to you? Imaginary? Expressions of the collective consciousness or do you believe in them being real entities?
I have been an occultist for a couple of years now and have worked with them a lot in and outside of that frame.
I am curious to hear what experiences all of you had with deities
Kinda all of the above.
Some deities are simply another word for planets. For example, Isis (Egyptian), Artemis or Hecate (Greek) or Diana (Roman-Etruscan), Tsukuyomi (Japanese) are all portrayals of the planet Moon hidden within mythologies.
So these gods/ goddesses don’t actually exist. However, because they all represent Moon and its planetary energy & characteristics, summoning any of those goddesses invoke the moon energy just the same.
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There is the deity that is a deity but has many forms of the same deity:
Shiva:
One may not believe that Shiva or any one of the forms are real. But the vibrations and effects are real.
What I think is Shiva, or these kinds of deities, are embodiment of true reality as principles. Meaning, it’s not a human face but more of an abstract intelligence.
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Then there are the “false gods / goddesses” people worship from time to time.
Like Moloch to bring harvest or sacrificing humans to a deity.
These are most likely astral creations made by humans, which you may know as eggregores.
And eggregores are like ethereal AI’s, autonomous morphic fields…kept alive by the worshippers.
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Lastly, there are real entities from higher and lower realms, and parallel realms. Not necessarily deities.
I’m sure this part needs no explaining.
Some who interacted with them may be given new information they would never have on their own —- such as George Van Tassel who made the unfinished Integraton.