or History and Myth as God's Inner Monologue

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• Myth is the expression of God's reasoning process.
• We reason in symbols and dialectic, and so perceive God's reason through symbols (deities) and dialectic.
• God's symbolic reasoning is perceived as the interaction of deities.
• This interaction of deities is expressed by spiritual-seers, or clairvoyants, in myth.
• In myth, deities are complex ideas.
• These ideas are somehow more "real" than physical reality. This truth was expressed by Plato in his allegory of the cave.
• Therefore, in myth, each character reflects a deity, or a complex, multi-faceted idea.
• An idea can also be conceived as a "way of being" or inner approach to life.
• For example, Zeus represents a different way of being than Apollo, which is expressed in descriptions of their life and personalities.
• One character 'defeating' another represents God 'deciding' that one way of being is superior to another in a certain context.
• Hierarchies in pantheons mirror an organization of parts in the IFS sense.

• History is an expression of God's super-sensible reasoning process in the material world.
• For example: the triumph of democratic ideals is downstream of some "democracy-idea" or "freedom-idea" winning in the spiritual world, and manifesting materially through the actions of human beings.

• Just because someone 'wins' a debate, does not mean they were closer to the truth.
• (High school debate tournaments provides innumerable examples of this.)
• It can mean the one who loses was not prepared to defend themselves agains the full force of the opposing idea + the opponents battle strategy.
• History is cyclical, because old ideas which 'lost' have a renaissance.
• (The one who loses the debate comes back stronger, more refined, more persuasive, and later wins.)

Examples:

• The success of Gandhi or MLK reflects the power of peace over conflict.
• The "success" of the Spanish conquistadors and American colonizers reflects a (temporary) of material progress over lived spiritual wisdom.
• The "success" of Genghis Khan reflects the power of raw power and vitality against massive, complex, organized systems in the material world. As does the "success" of pop music.