The Alien God

In the same way that a goldfish can't fully grasp (assuming it can even imagine) the world outside its fishbowl, even the creator God of the Bible doesn't really understand the Alien God:

"… it is not difficult to know the Creator of all creatures, but it is impossible to comprehend the likeness of this One. For it is difficult not only for men to comprehend the All, but it is also difficult for every divine being, both the angels and the archangels." [1]

The Alien God is the ultimate source of everything, even the other gods; the gnostic slogan "the All is One" expresses this idea well. Everything we can see or feel - and many things we can't - are all just a part or projection of this one, unseen, and unknowable god, and aside from it, nothing else exists:

"One should not think of it as a god, or like a god. For it is greater than a god, because it has nothing over it and no lord above it. It does not exist within anything that is inferior to it, since everything exists only within it.

It is unobservable, since nothing has observed it.
It is eternal, and exists eternally.
It is unutterable, since nothing could comprehend …
It is unnameable… there is nothing before it to give it a name.

It is impossible to say, 'How much is it?' or 'What kind is it?' for no one can understand it. It is not one among many things that are in existence: it is much greater. Not that it is actually greater. Rather, as it is in itself, it is not a part of the worlds or of time…" [2]

Existing inside of god, we can never hope to fully understand god; in this realization, the gnostics anticipated the findings of today's postmodern theorists and quantum physicists by several thousand years.

FOOTNOTES

1. The Teachings of Silvanus, from James Robinson's The Nag Hammadi Library, p. 387, pub. A.D. 1988

2. The Secret Book of John, from Marvin Meyer's  The Secret Teachings Of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels, pp. 57-58, pub. A.D. 1986

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