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The God above God



Gods throughout human history can be understood as creations of human imagination, arising from our attempts to explain the world, address fears, and meet social or psychological needs. Storm gods, fertility deities, or war gods often personify natural forces or cultural phenomena, and myths and rituals develop around them, reinforcing their significance even if they do not correspond to an ultimate metaphysical reality. Philosophers such as Xenophanes criticized anthropomorphic depictions of gods, noting that humans tend to project their own qualities onto the divine, and mystical traditions like Neoplatonism and Gnosticism often distinguish between these cultural or symbolic gods and the ineffable, transcendent source of all being. In this view, the many gods encountered in religious practice may function as intermediaries, emanations, or symbolic reflections of the ultimate truth, but they are not the ultimate reality itself. 

Christ is a God made man. A God who has decided to slum it out and mix with the plebs in the Kenoma, the realm created by the Demiurge, Yaldabaoth, the false god. 



If  such a thing as a real God or ultimate truth exists, by definition it is uncreated, eternal, and beyond all human concepts, surpassing the limitations and projections inherent in human-made deities. Thus, while gods may exist as powerful symbols and serve authentic spiritual or social functions, they are ultimately separate from the infinite, unbounded reality that they, in some sense, point toward. This perspective highlights the distinction between the human-constructed divine figures—the maps—and the ultimate divine reality—the territory—that remains beyond full human comprehension. This is at the core of Gnosticism. 

The fact that gods are an expression and creation of human beings doesn't mean that there isn't an ultimate truth.The question is always the same though: is there an ultimate truth? And the response, in all honesty and as far as I am concerned is that there is an ultimate truth. But this ultimate truth might be the understanding that there is no ultimate truth.



A way to understand the Gnostics is to interpret their notion of a God above god as the idea that whatever God is, he/she/it doesn't correspond to human representations of the gods since these are human created. 


But these human created gods are powerful egregores. Thought forms infused with millions of prayers and rituals; signifiers that point to a signified. Acts of will through which civilizations and paradigms have been generated and destroyed. These gods are equally powerful even if only as different unresolved aspects of our pysche. And sure, these are imperfect gods created by imperfect human beings seeking perfection.

The God above god is a God of many names.

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