Image Of God - Part 1
What is the secret hidden meaning behind the words, In The Image Of God?
What I am putting here is very basic stuff, and it is not designed to make anyone conversant with anything esoteric.
It is however, designed to get intelligent people to ask more questions and delve deeper into the mysteries of what they believe.
Since most people are familiar with the Hebrew system, I will be using that for my reference points.
 | Most people who say that they want to know the truth - only do so as long as it does not interfere with their life. |  |
Let's Begin Shall We ↟↟
Please note that what I am writing here about this 1 subject is a fraction of what may be written.
I am writing this so that you can see that not only are many translations incorrect, but that there are "usually" multiple layers hidden from those who do not study original texts and their deeper meanings.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall .... etc"
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ וְיִרְדּוּ֩ בִדְגַ֨ת הַיָּ֜ם וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל-הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבְכָל-הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל-הָאָֽרֶץ
So the next question should be why does it say "In our image and after our likeness"? This does not seem to be very "concise" - or is it.
Consider the Creator is "Light" and light is energy and we are energy... see where this is going?
The first thing you need to know is that your body is comprised of a combination of energy centers (attributes).
These are both hidden and revealed. (Click image on right)
For example, the attribute of love is something you feel but it is not "something" you can put your finger on or touch - yet it can touch and affect you.
This "emotional state" is a revealed attribute - even though it is invisible - whereas the hidden attributes are more associated with the 10 sephirot energy centers aligned on the body.
The next question.
Why does it say "...in our image and after our likeness..."?
This is actually quite simple to explain once you understand that "The Creator" created multiple layers or if you like, filters between The Creator and us.
In each of these "filters" (layers), the Light from The Creator is reduced or constricted in order for us to exist as separate entities from The Creator.
This is "one" of the hidden meanings of the 7 days of Creation, the night and the day is "code" for each level separating us from The Creator.
Why is this done you ask?
It is simple, so that we can exist. Because if we were any closer to The Creator, our souls would leave our bodies and return back to The Creator and then all of creation would be for naught. (naught is an old English word for Zero).
Our souls cannot learn lessons without the physical bodies which teach them love, pain, fear, kindness, charity, and all of the other good and bad virtues.
It is written in the Sefer Zohar that when The Creator came down onto Mt Sinai at Matan Torah, that all the souls of the people left their bodies and they had to be ordered to return.
Think of it like this.
Example only.
How many rich privilaged kids (and young adults) do you know of?
These kids were never taight the better virtues of society and they are basically bastards to anyone they consider below them.
When it says that "and God created the Light and God saw that the Light was good" - so my question to you is "How does Light learn a lesson?"
It needs the physical body to experience good and bad.
And only the good ascend.
According to the Mayans, the Vedic scriptures and the Kabbalah, the really bad people have to face the eternity of this complete cycle in static form like trees and rocks etc. (this is not my teaching, it is as stated)
So the Creator is "Light" and Light has no image per se. But this is not light like you see from the sun or a light bulb, this is infinately "rarer" in quailty.
In fact, the word "filter" is a misnomer because the Light from The Creator is much "coarser" at our level that it is at the beginning. So you may say that it is kind of filtered in reverse.
Think about that to see if you can understand what I just said.
Celestial Family - continued ↟↟
The reference "in our image and after our likeness" is referring to our souls and the question was proclaimed "to" the Celestial Family.
The "Sefer Zohar"
talks about "God" convoking "His" Celestial Family before passing final judgement on this planet.
So what exactly does this mean - "Celestial Family"?
The answer to this "Celestial Family" is simple and quite logical which I explain on the "Celestial Family Conundrum"
page.
Chakras ↟↟
"Chakras"
are another example of hidden energy centers.
"BioPhotons"
(Aura) are another example of hidden energy - however, this hidden energy may be revealed if you learn how to see "Auras"
.
Back to the mis-translation.
The best way to avoid these errors is to learn the original text and then seek deeper knowledge so that you can elevate your soul.
Further interesting viewing
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Genesis 1:27 And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים אֶת-הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם
Consider this if you will.
"God" is not physical.
"God" is not physical so this gives credence to the "Holographic Universe"
theory.
So IF The Creator can make one Universe which is a hologram, why can't the same Creator make an almost infinite number of universes and assign different "rules" and types of constructions?
For example, the "Unified Multiverse Theory". 
Another example: is there an anti-matter universe?
Unify Creation ↟↟
IF Yes, then can we Unify all of these with our carbon based universes? Using something like the "10 Leaf Method". 
Other God questions.
- "God's Name"

- "Meeting God"

- "Names Of God"

- "Holographic Universe"

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Firstly you need to look at the word associations from a Kabbalistic and a "Gematria"
perspective.
Each letter in the Hebrew "AlefBet"
has a number value - so Alef 1 and Bet = 2 etc.
NOTE: Daled is also commonly pronounced as Dalet.
Plus letters have associations, for example, Daled = 4 and it also == poor.
Mem = 40 and it also == Mankind.
Nun (noon) = 50 and it also == The Feminine aspect of God (AKA The Shekinah).
Vav = 6 and it also has multiple associations depending on where it is placed beside certain other letters BUT it also means the English word "AND".
The letter Vav is also associated with the Yod Hey Vav Hey aspect (name) of God. So part of learning mystical Hebrew is understanding the letter or word and its single or multiple level associations.
So one example of how this works is the name David in Hebrew. Daled Vav Daled or Poor and Poor.
So why is poor mentioned twice?
When King David would pray, he would prefix his prayers with "I am Poor". (אני עני)
Why would the King of Israel prefix his prayers thus?
Because David knew that he was Poor spiritually. This was magnified by the Bat Sheva incident.
First I will draw your attention to the 10 Commandments עשרת הדיברות (Aseret Hadibrot
). #7 and #10 (sometimes called Aseret haDavarim - (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים))
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Note that adulatory starts in the mind long before it becomes a physical act.
This is because the person does not keep their mind in holy places and instead, they dwell in their animal soul.
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David committed 4 sins in regards to Bat Sheva.
- David watched a married woman bathing
- He lusted after her
- He is directly implicated in sending a righteous man (Uriah**) to his death
- And his worst sin was not having Faith (Emunah) in his God to fulfill the promise that Bat Sheva was promised to David from the beginning of Creation.
** It is written regarding Uriah, that he never slept on his bed because the "Ark" was not in its rightful resting place (the Temple - בית המקדש) and so he never conjugated his marriage to Bat Sheva.
Naughty, naughty David.
King David would prefix his prayers with "I am Poor". אני עני.
King David's name is sometimes spelt with a Yod and sometimes without. (דויד and דוד) because the Yod has a numerical value of 10 which is the value of the 10 Sephirot and so when David (דויד) was not connected to "God", then David's (דוד) connection (via the letter Yod י) to God was broken and he was truly poor.
The Yod is also commonly used as a substitute for writing the name of God as well. Usually this is 2 Yods (יי) but in specific cases, letters can be folder into each other. (long story)
Simply put and with no fluff, it also implies that the "Poor" have a greater chance of getting "into heaven (lower case)" than the rich.
This is the meaning of "The pennies of the poor are worth more than all the gold of the rich".
This is why many "Yogi's" in India renounce all material possessions and live an ascetic lifestyle (the honest ones). Because they are truly poor and they seek to end this reincarnation cycle on this planet and ascend.
The given reason for this is that IF you own "anything", that physical attachment will stop you ascending because it ties you to the physical. This is the secret to the trick question "Leviticus 25:23" 
 | The given reason these Yogi's own nothing is because IF you own "anything" - even a thread of cotton - then that physical attachment will stop you ascending because it ties you to the physical. |  |
Back To "In Our Image"
Beh-tzel-Meh-Nu בְּ-ְּצַלְ-מֵ֖-נוּ
- Beh means IN but it also includes Wisdom for those who choose to use that aspect.
- Tzel means IMAGE.
- Meh may mean FROM or it may be associated with the aspect of mankind directly or indirectly or it may simply be included with the spelling of the word itself.
- Nu would normally be classified as meaning "us" (you and me) but a deeper meaning is the association with the Male and Female attributes of the Creator - The Nun and The Vav.
Question?
Why does The Creator need Male and Female attributes you ask?
That answer is too simple.
The Creator doesn't need them.
But for us to exist, have free will and overcome temptation, we need to be male or female.
Why have Male and Female? ↟↟
My wife will tell you the reason is so that men know what to do and when to do it - and how to dress properly
- but the real reason is that by having 2 genders, you allow for genetic diversity.
You may ask why we need genetic diversity?
There are multiple reasons. Genetic diversity allows for people to look different (which is the basis for short sighted racism), it allow for people to overcome potentially destructive diseases so that even if most people die, at least some will survive and it allows for greater and lesser mentally capable people (again as a test) etc
This does not mean or imply that Genetic diversity is the perfect solution for all mutation issues, but it does solve a lot of genetic failute problems (within reason).
Let us use the actual real banana example of failed genetics.
Did you know that there are over "1,000"
different varieties of bananas, most have seeds and so the commercialization of bananas came down to several varieties that were not full of seeds and tasted great - and then - back in the 1870's, there was a disease called the "Panama Disease" which was decimating the most popular variety at the time - the "Gros Michel" banana.
(BTW: The "Panama Disease"
affects other varieties of bananas as well.)
Because the Gros Michel plant did not have genetic diversity and procreated by (sucker) shoots off the root system, it was decimated and we switched to the Cavendish banana - which is now also under attack.
By having male and female, you have greater genetic gene pool diversity and this helps offset diseases and reduce mortality.
And this is why you need "Male and Female" at our level of existence.
Soul Test
It should also ne noted that "Male and Female" increases temptation and thus it is a greater test "tool" for the evolution of souls.
God Frequency
So at some stage in the levels of existence, there must be a separation in the "God Frequency"
.
It is because IF there was no separation from the Source, then there could not be male and female animals or people or anything else.
So in order for us to exist as boys and girls, there had to be a separation of the Divine energy (at some point) and this brings us to the aspects of ELOHIM. (which is a lesson for another day)
This is almost the same reason that there are "Filters" between the original Light of the Creator and where we exist or else we could not exist in our unclean filthy lifestyle, both currently and how we lived before modern times.
The body allows for either the perversion of the soul, or a vehicle to elevate the soul. It is your choice.
Fasting and Meditation are 2 of the best methods which allow you to elevate your soul IF you know how.
How Do I Know This is True? ↟↟
וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים אֶת-הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם:
Because it says "B'rae OtToh ZacHar veh Neka'vah B'RAE OTAM"
B'rae OtToh == This must be read in conjunction with the "ZacHar and Neka'vah B'RAE OTAM" because while it may be read that HE CREATED THEM, it may also be more correctly read the The Creator said "[?]Created THEM (OhToh is given in the masculine gender) Male and Female ]?] created Them".
[?] denotes that the "Creator" is implied and thus there is no actual name given. This is vitally important and it often appears throughout the Hebrew Bible and translators have frequently inserted "He or Him or God etc" into these missing spaces.
Why "Imply" [?] the name you ask?
Consider how arrogant so many people are.
I have often heard people tell me that they "KNOW" the name of "God" is Jehovah when in 1 simple stroke, this name can be discredited because there is NO letter "J" in Hebrew.
Now consider the chaos that would ensue if people used "THE Real" name of God incorrectly?
Consider how many times daily that most people use the name they think is God's name in vain?
ZacHar and Neka'vah == "Male and Female" ...B'rae OTAM
OTAM is spelt using Alef + Taf + Mem so you can see this as A-Z in English or א-ת in Hebrew and then the (Mem) value of Mankind is added to the end.
This requires a lot more explanation, but not today.
א-ת Implies everything from A to Z in English. This A-Z expression is still used today.
Interestingly
The letters Alef+Tav א-ת are not ever translated even though they are mentioned many times in the Hebrew "Bible".