God of Hosts

First, one has to define the terms used, specially when using the loaded words that mean different things to different people. God, aka the God of Hosts, a title according to the Catholic cannon, and i agree, is the physical body (elemental earth), while the good Lord is the conscious mind (elemental water), with the Great Spirit, or the Holy Ghost, representing the space (Latin: Spiritus, means to breathe [in/micro and out/macro] (elemental air)), and the Soul is the emotional feeling/perception of changes in time (elemental fire), enabling the free choice to either aid the needs of God, the host body, one's own and that of the others around, the family, friends, community, the species, the entire planet, and eventually, as the consciousness grows to encompass the whole universe, or cause harm to the body, intentionally or not, hence the consequences are ripped later for the sawed deeds, otherwise, without the free choice there would be no freedom, hence no responsibilities, no consequences, only the boring predetermined fates, something that God obviously does not want for the human kind, niether the mindless melee.

Live! Prosper! Be Well!

the universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere. now + here = nowhere. you are the entire universe, micro and macro, at its centre -- your soul -- and as such you are enormously significant. take good care of yourself and your environment.

"the universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere," is a famous proverb which William Blake has so eloquently paraphrased in his book Songs of Innocence and of Experience. I did some research on its origins:

*1 - "The Universe has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere", William Blake wrote in 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'.

*2 - Pascal wrote in 'Pensees' #199, Penguin tr., "Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere". Nicolas of Cusa wrote similar things. Reference by Dan Lusthaus.

*3 - St. Bonaventure wrote in 'Itinerarium Mentis in Deum' "Chapter 5. The Consideration of the Divine Unity Through Its Primary Name Which Is BEING." ... "8. ... As eternal and most present, it encompasses and enters all duration. existing, as it were, at one and the same time as their center and their circumference. Likewise, because it is the most simple and the greatest, it is wholly within all things and wholly outside them; hence it is "an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere". ...". Latin: "Cap V. De speculatione divinae unitatis per eius nomen primarium, quod est esse". ... "8. ... Quia aeternum et praesentissimum, ideo omnes durationes ambit et intrat, quasi simul existens earum centrum et circumferntia. - Quia simplicissimum et maximum, ideo totum intra omnia et totum extra, ac per hoc "est sphaera intelligibilis, cuius centrum est ubique et circumferentia nusquam".[14] ...". [14]Alan. aab Insulis, Theolog. Regul., 7. http://web.sbu.edu/theology/apczynski/courses/CLAR 101 Intellectual Journey/Itinerarium/lat5.html#para8

*4 - "God is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere", appears in Bartholomaeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum, as referenced in Bartholomaeus Anglicus and His Encyclopedia by M.C. Seymour et al. edition of the Trevisa translation. The source is popularly attributed to the XXIV Philosophers, see notes at the tail end of Book XIX. The Hermetic 'Liber XXIV philosophrum' (ed. C. Baumker in 'Beitrage' XXV. 208), found in the 'Summa' of Alexander of Hales (I. 19a and 60a); on which see M.-T. d'Alverny in P.O. Kristeller, 'Catalogus translationum et commentatiorum' (Washington DC, 1960), pp. 151-4. In DPR I. 16 (p. 53) BA cites Trismegistus as the author of the definition here ascribed to Secundus. Vincent, 'Speculum naturale' I. 4 (Venice 1591, IV. 4 va) attributes the first definition to Empedocles and gives the second as 'mens immortalis'. Within the metaphor of the rational soul as a circle of perfection BA joins these two Hermetic statements with an orthodox restatement of the philosophical concept of the Trinity, cf. DPR I. 2 and III. 13 (pp. 44-5, 103), which depends on Innocent III, 'Liber extra' published with his other decretals at the Fourth Lateran Cuncil of 1215. See further, A. Garci'a y Garci'a, 'Constitutiones concilii quarti lateranensis' (Vatican, 1981), pp. 41-6, and notes to 44/15 and 53/1. Reference by Juris G. Lidaka. www.georgetown.edu

*5 - "God is a circle whose center is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere", popularly credited to St. Augustine writing in the 'Confessions' (I am still trying to verify this. I haven't found it yet in the 'Confessions').

*6 - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations places it under "anonymous" and attributes the source to the "lost work of Empedocles". The dictionary also notes that the quotation is found in the 'Roman de la Rose' in the form "The nature of God is....". Reference by Norman Hinton.

*7 - it's also in Alan of Lille's Sermon on the intelligible sphere. See M-T d'Alverny's (wonderful) 'Alain de Lille: Textes inedits', p.297: "Deus est spera intelligibilis cuius centrum ubique, circumferentia nusquam." She cites also the Regulae theologiae, 7 (PL 210, 627). Reference by Jeffrey Fisher.

*8 - "God is a circle..." is also attributed to Plotinus in 'Enneads' VI, 5.4. Reference by Mark Murphy.

*9 - "An infinite sphere, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere." God being defined by St. Augustine according to Henry Miller in 'Black Spring' p.103.

*10 - God is my centre when I close him in; My circumference when I melt in him. -- Silesius 'Cherubinischer Wandersmann' (1657 A.D.) 3.148: Gott ist mein Mittelpunkt, wenn ich ihn in mich schliess: Mein Umkreis dann, wenn ich aus Lieb in ihn zerfliesse. (Source: Joseph Campbell 'The Mythic Image' Bollingen Series C, p. I.64 (1974 A.D.) Princeton University Press, assisted by M. J. Abadie.)