The globe of the standard thoughts is a globe infested with cost-free living atmospheric spirits searching for bodies to possess, and of bodies in search of animating spirits to be possessed of. The noise of the conventional thoughts's planet is the marketplace haggling of spirits and bodies for "heterosexual" connection contracts.
The "bodies" whose maiden beauty charm the most blue-blooded bachelor spirits obtain the greatest degree of genetic-blood affinity to the gods, when, in turn, the most eligible bachelor spirits attract the most attractive spinster "bodies." The assortment of bodies and spirits is not random.
"Let us style man according the pattern of our morphological ("image") and dynamic-functional ("likeness") traits," the Hebrew deity says in the Genesis creation story. But to the standard thoughts, the morphological and dynamic functional properties of the excellent conceptions of thoughts we get in touch with the gods are not restricted to a pick handful of in creation. The attributes of divinity are manifest in all factors: the distinction getting only of degrees.
Man's anthropocentrism convinces him that he reflects the "image" and "likeness" of the gods above all factors in nature. The ethnocentrism of the ancient southern Egyptian convinced him that he was the reflection of the attributes of divinity above all other races. He styled himself rot-na-rome: man-par-excellence. In his mural art, he depicted the hierarchy of races with himself (man-par-excellence), standing subsequent to the ancestral deity Horus in an erect self-consciously dignified pose a great deal like the god's. The other races, "Namu," "Tamhu" and "Nehesi" come behind in many degrees of comportment in the likeness of beasts. Whilst the Ancient Egyptian priest went into the presence of the gods, in the temple, he rubbed his earthy reddish brown skin in red ocher to additional boost his genetic-blood affinity with the ancestral deity who, according to the Hebrew scriptures, was fashioned from the hematite-tinged major soil of the Great Earth Mother; for the tawny reddish-brown colour was the colour of bodies infused with divine essence as represent in the Afro-Asiatic root '-d-m.
To the ancient Afro-Asiatic mystical thinker, it would not look a coincidence that the vitalizing-virilizing principle (the haem group) which, in mixture with the "breath of life" (ne-sama-ah chayy-iym), imparts red colour to blood (Hebrew; dam), is connected to the element in hematite which imparts a reddish tinge to the topsoil. Hemoglobin (blood), Hematite (soil), Ham (Noah's son), (k)ham (the name by which the ancient Egyptians referred themselves) look to be cognate terms.
In Hebrew thought your "angel" or "doppelganger" is your double in a globe of a grosser sort significantly less your complete spiritual attributes. As a result, human beings are the "angels" of the ancestral god Adam. According to the holy grails of Nazism the "untermenschen" are the "angels" of the Aryan "herrenmenschen."
We may perhaps recall the incident in the the Book of Acts, while Peter returned to his Christian fellows in the home of Mary mother of Mark following escaping from prison. The servant girl Rhoda, who initial saw him, ran to inform the other people that Peter was at the door. They answered in disbelief: "It should be his angel." We might also recall the repeated references to the "angel of the lord's presence" which guided the Israelites, in the form of a pillar of light and cloud, in their evening-time escape from slavery in Egypt.
The "angel" of a god or a individual is occasionally a ghost apparition and often a zombie simulacrum or mannequin model of the man or god. Oduyoye notes the association of the Afro-Asiatic root "s-l-m-," of the Hebrew word "selem," in the Chadic group of languages, with the concept of double, twin or doppelganger. The gods have their selem-doppelganger in the "herrenmenshen" of humanity; and the "herrenmenshen," in turn, have selem-doppelganger in the "untermenschen." The "untermenschen" presumably will seem to monkeys as their selem-doppelganger, for such is the interminable hierarchy of the superior and the inferior; the genuine and its imitation in the order of creation.
The connection in between a divine personage and his selem is a master-servant ("kyrios-doulous") partnership. The selem lives in service to its divine alter ego. It is the doppelganger of its divine alter ego at a reduce level level of existence, even as the initial man, Adam, was the doppelganger of the Hebrew God, becoming produced in the "image" and "likeness" of his creator. The entirety of the existence of a god's doppelganger is devoted to fulfilling its allotment as fixed, by the god, at a greater level of existence.
From the viewpoint of contemporary human scientific-technological thought deeply fascinated by the possibility of human beings making android robot artificial intelligence versions of themselves, we may conceptualize the genesis account of man, produced by God in his "image" and "likeness," as the story of a divine nerd designing a "droid" Artificial Intelligence version of himself in man.
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