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pY1nr� • .,.,iinn of man's projection of our own desires and aspirations. Gods
are ideal of what man wants to be but is not. Peter J.
Carroll in his Liber Null proposes a humanity has
through four main stages/aeons. In the first, the so-caned Shamanism and
Magic aeon, mankind was fully aware of its own forces that were
to survive in a hostile world full of menaces. The vital force of all
living beings was to be the
as "the Horned God," and had no moral - it was neither "good" nor
"evil" - but rather a mixture of elements: good and light and
beauty and danger. Its main qualities were creative dynamism and vitality.
This view later certain currents of and sorcery, and was
preserved in aboriginal cultures. Deities appeared in the second era - the
aeon - when mankind more modes of thinking.
it had another significant result: man moved away from
primordial nature and lost awareness of his own It was
also the time when man gods, and other in
order to fill the void caused by the loss of inborn knowledge and the lack
belief in the power the human mind. Many those deities were
anthropomorphic and and natural to identify with. They
possessed human qualities but their essence was the enormous power:
existed beyond human laws and limitations. The
Monotheistic aeon, brought the development of religions such as
Christianity, or Islam. Man began to worship a idealized
form of themselves, which embodied the complete collection of
that humans desired for themselves. The fourth era was the Atheistic aeon.
This was characterized a belief that man can understand and
manipulate the universe simply by observation of material
Existence of entities was denied, and the emotional
was the only value. The fifth, aeon, is a
return to some aspects of the first aeon's consciousness, but on a higher
level. should not be as entities in their own only.
On the one hand, they are the that have existed from the bel?;innlrlj?;
of the history, but on the other, they have also been "created" by mankind
during our search for contact with our own nature. In this sense, gods seem
more than personified of human consciousness. As Carroll
observed, "It is man who creates not vice versa."]
I Peter J. Carroll: Libel' Null & Psychonaut