This is channeled from Inari:
Welcome, reader. You have been given an opportunity to understand how gods work!
First, you should understand that I am not a fox. My priests know this, but I don't mind fox imagery with me. Foxes are very important predators for the safety of the rice harvest! I am first and foremost a prosperity god. Horse and rice are my symbols, though horse has been long forgotten by most.
Second, the way gods work is simple: the Universe decides that you should have control over its primary functions. That is, that you should be able to bend time and space in the way that enables the abilities we have come to know of major spirits and deific beings: miraculous healing, a change in the motions of objects and materials, even occasional resurrections of the dead. Some know how to transform materials. These are difficult things at best, requiring inputs of energy which are on occasion nearly impossible to generate for anything less than a stellar body.
Third, I should explain that previous paragraph. You see, I have been studying under dragons and Blueprint Masters for some centuries as to my own nature, and the nature of those who rank with me in the Celestial Hierarchy. We have been empowered to do some very interesting things and I have been curious as to what enables this activity.
I have determined that there are structures in the mammalian brain which allow psychic interaction between flesh and spirit, but this is not actually what allows for telekinesis, telepathy, or even psychic empathy. Instead there is a junction between which is part of the chakra structure of the spirit body, which allows signals to pass through to the greater Soul. This junction enables the psychic activity of living persons. It also happens to be a common means by which greater spirits manipulate their environment; typically this only happens after at least two incarnations, sometimes three. This is because a spirit must understand the importance of the material realm to their own well-being, and be able to understand interactions with it in order to work with the substances and beings therein.
Now as to the question at hand: what makes gods: I have but one answer. This is difficult to channel through, despite Zeeth's quite capacious ability, but.
There is a structure which is a six-dimensional connection to a seven-dimensional space. The soul resides outside this Universe; it is my theory that each soul is its own Universe, actually. So a god-soul appears to manifest a seven-dimensional structure which directly interfaces with the "skin" or "brane" (short for "membrane") of the Universe's space. This allows the entity to bend spacetime and direct energy across a very wide region and with a very narrow focus. All the rest is about making "commands" like one would to a computer's operating system. These commands form spell-like structures which are made of Universe-substance, and are therefore unbreakable to us -- even to gods. In order to cancel a command, one must undo the structure, rather than tearing space.
To explain why I say "space" rather than "spacetime" would involve a long rant on the current state of human science. It is sufficient to say that time is a function of the motion of space, rather than a combined part of space. It is not like electromagnetism, which is as Zeeth says a right-angle pair of energy functions. Time does not exist if space does not move, but space exists even with time frozen.
In any case, even greater spirits do not have this god-type connection. This is the definition of godhood.
And it is removable. To gain this, the Universe must allow a soul to connect in this way. To remove it, the Universe will simply let go.
What I wish to tell you next, reader, will not shock you if you have been following closely. In the large majority of Realms (domains of operation for specific regions in spirit), it takes a super-majority of gods in a given Realm to enable godhood. To disable it requires unanimous consent. The will of the Universe is not always perfectly clear, especially when it itself is ambivalent about something. In these cases, the will of many gods is taken as an acceptable substitute if we are together quite clear about what it is that should be done.
The standard is a minimum of eleven gods to raise up or cast down. Every Realm which has incarnate beings in it has at least that many -- it is standard to offer this to the planet-soul as well as any major stellar bodies visible from the ground or lower atmosphere. There are always species gods. And there are phylum gods: one for animals, one for plants, and so on. Then there are lesser divisions, or culture gods if a sapient species has formed, and so on. There are almost always at least two Blueprint designers to advise; often a Blueprint Master is among them.
The reason for the Blueprint organization is simple: we need a group that does only one thing: track the Patterns of the Universe; map them out; and determine the best way to give the Universe what it needs to continue existing, being careful to follow the will of the Universe if there is any question of what pattern to use.
So having covered the central question and a few diversions, why ask Zeeth to make this post for me? I should explain that many souls are transitioning into a new spiritual reality at this time, and we, the gods of Earth Realm, have had to disempower one of our own to enable it.
I hope this explanation satisfies.
Welcome, reader. You have been given an opportunity to understand how gods work!
First, you should understand that I am not a fox. My priests know this, but I don't mind fox imagery with me. Foxes are very important predators for the safety of the rice harvest! I am first and foremost a prosperity god. Horse and rice are my symbols, though horse has been long forgotten by most.
Second, the way gods work is simple: the Universe decides that you should have control over its primary functions. That is, that you should be able to bend time and space in the way that enables the abilities we have come to know of major spirits and deific beings: miraculous healing, a change in the motions of objects and materials, even occasional resurrections of the dead. Some know how to transform materials. These are difficult things at best, requiring inputs of energy which are on occasion nearly impossible to generate for anything less than a stellar body.
Third, I should explain that previous paragraph. You see, I have been studying under dragons and Blueprint Masters for some centuries as to my own nature, and the nature of those who rank with me in the Celestial Hierarchy. We have been empowered to do some very interesting things and I have been curious as to what enables this activity.
I have determined that there are structures in the mammalian brain which allow psychic interaction between flesh and spirit, but this is not actually what allows for telekinesis, telepathy, or even psychic empathy. Instead there is a junction between which is part of the chakra structure of the spirit body, which allows signals to pass through to the greater Soul. This junction enables the psychic activity of living persons. It also happens to be a common means by which greater spirits manipulate their environment; typically this only happens after at least two incarnations, sometimes three. This is because a spirit must understand the importance of the material realm to their own well-being, and be able to understand interactions with it in order to work with the substances and beings therein.
Now as to the question at hand: what makes gods: I have but one answer. This is difficult to channel through, despite Zeeth's quite capacious ability, but.
There is a structure which is a six-dimensional connection to a seven-dimensional space. The soul resides outside this Universe; it is my theory that each soul is its own Universe, actually. So a god-soul appears to manifest a seven-dimensional structure which directly interfaces with the "skin" or "brane" (short for "membrane") of the Universe's space. This allows the entity to bend spacetime and direct energy across a very wide region and with a very narrow focus. All the rest is about making "commands" like one would to a computer's operating system. These commands form spell-like structures which are made of Universe-substance, and are therefore unbreakable to us -- even to gods. In order to cancel a command, one must undo the structure, rather than tearing space.
To explain why I say "space" rather than "spacetime" would involve a long rant on the current state of human science. It is sufficient to say that time is a function of the motion of space, rather than a combined part of space. It is not like electromagnetism, which is as Zeeth says a right-angle pair of energy functions. Time does not exist if space does not move, but space exists even with time frozen.
In any case, even greater spirits do not have this god-type connection. This is the definition of godhood.
And it is removable. To gain this, the Universe must allow a soul to connect in this way. To remove it, the Universe will simply let go.
What I wish to tell you next, reader, will not shock you if you have been following closely. In the large majority of Realms (domains of operation for specific regions in spirit), it takes a super-majority of gods in a given Realm to enable godhood. To disable it requires unanimous consent. The will of the Universe is not always perfectly clear, especially when it itself is ambivalent about something. In these cases, the will of many gods is taken as an acceptable substitute if we are together quite clear about what it is that should be done.
The standard is a minimum of eleven gods to raise up or cast down. Every Realm which has incarnate beings in it has at least that many -- it is standard to offer this to the planet-soul as well as any major stellar bodies visible from the ground or lower atmosphere. There are always species gods. And there are phylum gods: one for animals, one for plants, and so on. Then there are lesser divisions, or culture gods if a sapient species has formed, and so on. There are almost always at least two Blueprint designers to advise; often a Blueprint Master is among them.
The reason for the Blueprint organization is simple: we need a group that does only one thing: track the Patterns of the Universe; map them out; and determine the best way to give the Universe what it needs to continue existing, being careful to follow the will of the Universe if there is any question of what pattern to use.
So having covered the central question and a few diversions, why ask Zeeth to make this post for me? I should explain that many souls are transitioning into a new spiritual reality at this time, and we, the gods of Earth Realm, have had to disempower one of our own to enable it.
I hope this explanation satisfies.