The definition of apotheosis is exaltation to divine status or stature; deification. The purpose of today’s little rant is to make known man’s ubiquitous guilt in this arena of self worship. Most all of civilized man is guilty of such a bizarre claim. T o begin with, the West’s worship of Jesus is a disguised attempt of self-worship. If Jesus was the son of God, was in fact God in the flesh, and was as well a man, then man too must be as such. The worship of a man makes for the easy next step to consider all of man divine.
Primitive men used to worship nature as a conglomeration spiritual entities which in their totality comprised the Great Spirit. But as man advanced his understanding of the natural world, he came to find himself at the helms of great powers, powers to control, and to create. These great powers, previously relegated to the divine form of nature, came to define the incredible mind that man had, a mind that overcame the need to worship the unknown as found in nature, and instead came to worship the unknown that has become the phenomena of the great self-aware creature that is the human being.
The concept of self-awareness is the one concept that has yet to find repose in science. We all know that we exist, but to define what that consciousness confounds scientific thought to this day. What exactly is the mind, and why is it that man is the one creature that is overwhelmingly self-aware? In this sense, man has not lost his capacity to worship the unknown, but has transferred his worship from that of natural phenomena to that of which he cannot objectively define, the self. Of course , this is but another back-roads that leads to the worship of the self, the worship of the unknown, the worship of man: apotheosis.
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