God and Science

God and Science

One of the Sanskrit words for « victorious » is abhijit. That’s what Vega was called in ancient India: Abhijit. It was under the influence of Vega that the Hindu divinities and heroes conquered the asuras, the gods of evil. Now, it’s a curious thing. In Persia there are asuras also, but in Persia asuras were the gods of good.

Eventually religions sprang up in which the chief god, the god of light, the Sun god, was called Ahura-Mazda. The Zoroastrians, for example, and the Mithraists. Ahura, Asura, it’s the same name. There are Zoroastrians today, and the Mithraists gave the early Christians a good fright, But in this same story, those Hindu divinities – they were mainly female, by the way – were called Devis. In India, the Devis are gods of good. In Persia, the Devis become gods of evil. Some scholars thing this is where the English word “devil” ultimately comes from. The symmetry is complete. All this is probably some vaguely remembered account of the Aryan invasion that pushed the Dravidians to the south. So, depending on which side of the Kirthar Rande one lives on, the star Vega supports either God or the Devil.

Egyptian Gods. Photo by Megan Jorgensen (Elena)

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness (George Santayana, scepticism and Animal Faith, IX).

The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, no a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals (William James, the Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902).

The real God be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, no a retail business. Image: Goddess by © Megan Jorgensen (Elena)