Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00003)

Sutratman writes in #340:

>The reduction of God to an "energy" is one of those
>oddities circulating under
>the umbrella word "New Age", derived no doubt from
>Blavatskian theosophy
>in its notion of the Absolute.  This would mean, so it
>appears to me, that the
>First Cause of the manifested universe is devoid of
>Intelligence and Will,
>which
>violates the Hermetic axiom as above so below...

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    It seems the Hermetic axiom "As above so below"
would apply to relative existence and manifestation and
not the SOURCE,  which is neither "Above" nor "Below."