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Theodore CottinghamAuthor: Theodore Cottingham
When you're ready to go beyond religion, beyond all the holy books, beyond what we've been taught, you're ready to let God teach you directly. If this describes you, I invite you to The School of God, Inc. Theodore Cottingham The School of God, Inc. Box 34, Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 USA www.SchoolofGod.com Language: en Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Creation process is messy
Thursday, 28 August, 2025
Comprehensive SummaryThis lecture emphasizes that creation is not instant perfection but a messy, iterative process. Theodore challenges the classical view of a distant God who spoke the universe into flawless being. Instead, creation is dynamic, experimental, and alive within us. We are not mere creatures but creators—“God in flesh”—responsible for birthing new realities.The lecture recounts Theodore’s journey beginning in 2003, when he began writing the first-person words of God without precedent or teacher. This act initiated the unfolding of the Meonics Manual, a database of more than 4 million words—three times the size of the Bible—meant not as scripture to worship but as a living manual to empower individuals to create themselves anew.The “School of God, Inc.” is envisioned as a classroom of consciousness rather than a traditional institution. It is a place where responsibility rests with the student alone, where no external authority dictates worthiness, and where each becomes faculty, student, and creator simultaneously. This school abolishes religious hierarchies, replacing them with communities of equals who empower one another.The lecture insists that God as an external entity is only a symbol. Worship of symbols leads to separation, suffering, and ignorance. Instead, we must embody unconditional love as our own living Word. Resurrection is not a future event but a present transformation, as we become Christ—the race of creators.Finally, Theodore urges the listener to treat this as schoolwork: to ponder deeply, write down questions, and participate in the creative process of constructing the temple of light within. The creation process is messy but glorious, requiring surrender, patience, and commitment to being the living Word.Creation is iterative, not instantaneous; messiness is not failure but the nature of becoming.God is not separate—we are God in flesh, responsible for our own creation.Symbols, words, and religious icons often enslave rather than liberate.The School of God, Inc. is a classroom of consciousness, not hierarchy or external authority.Resurrection is a daily process of self-creation, not a distant event.The Meonics Manual is a living database of channeled words for new creation.Every person is faculty, student, and creator of their own school.What images of God or religious symbols still hold power over you?How do you see the “messiness” of your life—not as failure but as part of your creation process?What would it mean for you to accept responsibility for being God in flesh?Are you willing to write your own living Word, in first person, as Theodore did?How might your school of consciousness look if you truly became both faculty and student?What practices could help you surrender more deeply to the iterative process of creation?
