Empower

*EMPOWER

God's will is not that we remain passive and helpless. God sets this spiritual weaning process in motion not to punish us, but to empower us. The condition for such wholly satisfying spiritual nourishment has to be dissatisfaction on the level of sense. "Know thyself" is the chief benefit of the night. This implies knowledge of one's own misery; that is to say, of one's inability to make it through this experience without the help of a Higher Power. Being stripped of the illusion of self-sufficiency by means of material or spiritual agony can become the avenue by which one is able to find beauty and to love more abundantly. (Dark Night, p123-4)

I simply empower you to conjure more and more. If you don't like what you have just created, choose again. My job, as God, is to always give you that opportunity. For anything I conceive is perfect; a perfect reflection of perfection itself, made in the image and likeness of Me. The alleged state of imperfection, what religions call "original sin," is a misconception. In order to justify the idea of a punitive God, your religions needed to create something for Me to be angry about. Thus do religions perpetuate themselves by power remaining concentrated in the hands of a few, rather than experienced though the hands of the many. (Conversations, p118-120)