GOD IS A VERB

January 9, 2012, 6:02 am

It was at the end of my first month at the School of Woo when the new students were summoned to the Great Court, which was the largest indoor gathering place in the school. I was seated near the front on my bamboo mat which, together with my robe, chopsticks, wooden bowl and writing and drawing instruments, were to be all of my material possessions for the projected eleven years I would be attending the School of Woo.

As I looked at the other students gathered there, I noted there were eighteen of us who were the new admissions for that year. We were nine boys and nine girls. I later learned that Dr. Woo insisted there always be an equal balance in the energies of the genders whenever possible and practical because he maintained that this offered the best opportunity for learning. The School of Woo was one of the first places where human development for girls and boys proceeded in harmony. He would not have it that male energy was in any way superior to female energy. He explained to us in that first week that masculine and feminine energies are the left and right hands of the human team and how one is inseparable from the other. He also told us that one of the earliest of his teachers, the sage called Qi who was a great pioneer in understanding the energies and powers that work in all people, had first taught him about the yin and yang energies and had drawn a symbol later known to all as the yin/yang symbol, which showed how in all life there are two great powers locked in a sacred dance of mutual enhancement, development and resistance.
On this day Dr. Woo’s assistant, Master Chen, called us to quietness and Dr. Woo stepped forward onto the raised wooden platform that served as a stage. He scanned us in the early evening light with eyes that seemed to look into forever. We new students sat in the front of the gathering place and were surrounded by the older students. A message had gone throughout the school that Dr. Woo was meeting the novices, but others were welcome to attend if they wished and many of them did. I later learned that when an opportunity to meet with Dr. Woo happened, usually as many as possible who could, would attend. Indeed, as the years went on and Dr. Woo’s responsibilities grew, these meetings became rarer and their value grew. On that day Dr. Woo greeted us with a slight bow, twinkling eyes and a somewhat mischievous smile.

“Greetings young spirits,” he called in a high, lilting voice. “Welcome to the time of evening, in which the more turbulent processes of the day become evened out in the journey into twilight and the time of night. Tonight there is a twofold mission. First, I will introduce you to my life companion of many years, Madam Woo, without whom this School of Woo would not exist.”

From the room behind the platform a powerful new energy emanated which we could feel palpably in the air. A woman of dignified bearing appeared, companioned by two female assistants. She stepped forward and joined Dr. Woo. He took her hand in a rare moment of public intimacy and spoke again. “Please to meet Madam Woo, my partner and life companion.” We rose as one from our mats and bowed deeply to Madam Woo, “Thank you,” said Madam Woo. “Please sit down.” Her voice seemed to hang in the air in the conductivity of that place.

We sat back onto our mats in whatever posture allowed us to listen most attentively. Dr. Woo spoke. “I am here,” he began, “to talk to you about the real nature of God and to counter the misconception that God is a masculine principle. This is a fiction that male priests and male politicians have propagated to buttress their power. The power they have actually comes to them first from the feminine power of this place, Mother Earth and her representatives. God is not a large gentleman carried on a palanquin waiting to meet us after we die. That is a tale for the ignorant and deluded. God is not masculine. God is masculine, God is feminine, God is neutral. God is one in three and three in one. Mother, father and child; father, mother and purpose; father, holy spirit and mother. God is present here in each of us right now, was before us, will be after us and is present in all the moments of all the days of our lives. God is present in all things, from the smallest grain of sand to the stars we see twinkling in the sky at night. God is not something to be worshipped at a distance and is not fixed. God is alive, moving, changing and developing. Each new thought and each new moment of consciousness adds to God’s growing being. This is one of the core purposes of the School of Woo. By becoming more conscious ourselves, we help God become more conscious through what we experience and the growth of our consciousness.

“I want to share with you a crucial revelation and understanding about the nature of consciousness, the Universe and God. It is this. In our culture today, in our very language, we use ungodly language to describe God. People talk of God as something fixed in the beginning, something or someone that is omnipotent, permanent, immutable, unchanging. This is wrong. God is not a noun, a fixed property, a thing. God is a process, an active principle, the prime verb that is present in all things. Of all that I may say to you this night or at any time in the future, remember this. God is a verb. God is not a noun.” Dr. Woo paused and let his words reach deep into the three levels of our consciousness. “God is a verb and this verb is masculine, feminine and neutral in its process and is present in all things, in all people, in all matter and all energy, now and forever.

“God’s true name is not God.” Again, Dr. Woo paused to allow the vital essence of what he said to reach us. “The letter ‘D,’ as you know, is the letter that is placed at the end of verbs to demonstrate that a particular action is over. Think of the difference between the sentences ‘I love you’ and ‘I loved you,’ ‘I honor you’ and ‘I honored you.’” We immediately felt the finality of the difference between the active power of one and the terminal closure of the other.

“By the power of ‘D’ ‘I live’ becomes ‘I lived,’ ‘I care’ becomes ‘I cared.’ Do you see how any action is closed off when it has a ‘D’ placed upon it? Well,” he looked at us with a depth of defiance we could feel deep within, “God is an action that is never finished. God is a process that is not completed and so the name God is a fiction, put about by those who would declare God is dead. You only come closer to the true nature of the Cause by removing the ‘D’ from its name and it tells us this. It tells us that the active causing principle of the Great Creation called out a command and the Universe began and has been growing ever since, and this command is...” there was a pause and Madam Woo stepped forward alongside him. They both took on a posture of transmission, in which their arms extended forward. “Go,” they called out. “Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go, Go.” Nine times they called it out and the rhythm pushed out into the atmosphere and we felt it grow within us. It was born within us then and there in the School of Woo that God is not a noun, God is a verb, God is an action, God is a command and the command is ‘Go!’”

Dr. Woo spoke again. “Those who tell us God is a completed masculine principle tell a double lie. God is masculine, feminine and neutral and God is not finished. God said, ‘Go’ in the beginning and that command continues. Thus the greatest gift of all to us is the ability to go on growing in consciousness and evolution. The great, inner purpose of the School of Woo is to bring ourselves and those we come into contact with closer to the living presence of Go through the aggregate of what we do, think, say and radiate. The way of The Way is to move closer to the power, presence and essence of the Living Go through personal and self development and through understanding the energy worlds of the Universe and the laws that govern them. This is part of the great purpose you are invited to join, those that are newly arrived to the School of Woo. You are invited to join us in our commitment to the processes and principles of the Living Go, which are evolving further every day.

“Go now, students of the School of Woo, those that are newly arrived and those that have been here for many years, and consider these matters in your heart and mind. I shall take your continuance here as a further confirmation of your agreement to this contract between us on the way of The Way.”

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