[image: Inline image 1] The Heavenly Pantheon is a complete family affair!
Daniel Lazare notes in a recent report in Harper's that the discovery of monotheism "was no small feat of imagination, and its consequences were enormous. Monotheism's attempt at a unified field theory--a single explanation for everything from the creation of the universe to the origin of law--failed. But in failing it ensured that people would try doubly hard to come up with some new "theory of everything" to take its place." The theological term "monotheism" sometimes becomes blurred when people are actually practicing their religion. Christians, Hebrews, Muslims, and Hindus all believe in spirits, angels and/or demons and ever lesser deities, of various and sundry classes. All the religions of the Middle East, the Near East, Egypt, Greece and India were effectively "henotheism", that is, they were devoted to the High God with lesser helpers, or devoted to One High God, but admitting the potency of others; or they were "polytheistic" and worshiped Gods of many forms. The ancient Canaanite religion encouraged the worship of El and his Asheroth, and their son, Baal; Hebrews worship Yahweh and the lessor angels; Christians worship a trinity of Gods: Abba, the Father of Adam, Jesus, the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit or the Logos; in some sects, Christians worship Mary - Sophia, the Mother of God, or even the girlfriend of Jesus Himself. In Idia they worship Goddess Saraswati, the "Wisdom born of Knowledge" - Sri Vidya. Excerpt from The Confessions: "As I began to transcend deeper and deeper into my own mind I was to experience a profound sense of clam; then suddenly in a flash I saw and experienced the entire cosmos as a divine bi-unity - all inter-related, just like the net of Lord Indra. I realized that we are all connected: I became enlightened on the spot through no volition of my own! There, standing right in front of me, appeared the intelligent agent: The Creator Almighty, Lord of Volcanoes - and His wife, the beautiful Sophia, their son Baal, and their daughter Ashley. I fully realized at that moment that existence is, in Reality, a great big family affair - we are all related!" Work cited: 'False testament: archaeology refutes the Bible's claim to history' by Daniel Lazare Harper's, 2002 p. 39
