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From: "Chris Degnen" <tilting@windmills.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Nirvana
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In my contemplations on nothing I found an interesting webpage about
God existing "in two realms."
http://reluctant-messenger.com/citsym/understanding-God.htm

Includes this chart, and the caveat: "in conjunction with mystical
terms, the reader is asked to accept that the Uncreated God is beyond
comprehension."

                 -= UNCREATED GOD (Nirvana) =-
      /         AIN = The Ineffable Void            \
  TAO       AIN SOF = The Ineffable Infinite          BRAHMAN
      \ AIN SOF OHR = The Ineffable Effulgent Light /
-------------------------------------------------------------
                -= CREATOR GOD (Supreme Lord) =-
         /  Omnipotent - Omniscience - Omnipresent \
 KRISHNA      Yahweh - Jehovah - Lord - Ishvara      CHRIST
         \   Illusion - Nature - Law - Existence   /


Most of this mystical phenomenology revolves around phenomena coming
into and out of existence...
From the Buddhist point of view, the realms are Nirvana and Maya.
In the Christian paradigm perhaps the Holy Spirit is the grace
by which they arise and disappear.