3-1. Differences in Perspective between Conversations with God and The Matthew Books
3-1. Differences in Perspective between Conversations with God and The Matthew Books
The spiritual dialogue between Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, and “God” began in 1992. Similarly, the spiritual communications between Suzanne Ward, author of The Matthew Books, and her son Matthew commenced in 1994.
It is noteworthy that these two independent streams of spiritual communication began almost at the same time.
From my perspective (Inou), there are broadly three points where their views diverge. Here, I will briefly explain the first of these differences.
(1) “God” and “The Creator”
In Christianity, the Bible is written on the premise that “God equals the Creator.”
Conversations with God also presents “God” within this same framework: God is understood as the Creator.
However, in Conversations with God, Book 1 (p.134), there is an intriguing passage in which God says, “I too am the child of another.”
> God: For even as you are the body of Me, I am the body of another.
> Neale: You mean, You are not God?
> God: Yes, I am God, as you now understand Him. I am Goddess as you now comprehend Her. I am the Conceiver and the Creator of Everything you now know and experience, and you are My children… even as I am the child of another.
> Neale: Are You trying to tell me that even God has a God?
> God: I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.
> (Conversations with God, Book 1, p.134)
While further discussion follows in that text, it does not offer a clear and systematic distinction between God and the Creator. Still, in a broader sense, one might interpret this as hinting at the same distinction made explicitly in The Matthew Books: namely, that “the Creator” and “God” are distinct beings.
According to The Matthew Books, the Creator and God are separate. The Creator is the ultimate Source of All, and the vast cosmos consists of multiple (seven) universes. Each universe is administered by a governing “God.” Moreover, these Gods are described as possessing the same omniscience and omnipotence as the Creator.
Matthew explains it this way:
> People have tended to mix together “God” and “the Creator” as if they were the same. I have sometimes used the terms interchangeably to make it easier for you, though that may have caused confusion. You, Mother, think of the Supreme Being as one and only. Yet the Ultimate Being of the cosmos—the All-Knowing, All-Powerful Essence, the “I Am,” the qualities commonly ascribed to God—are, in fact, attributes of the Creator.
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> At the “Big Bang,” when the Creator first divided Itself, the highest order of angels—the archangels—were brought into being. The energy field of the Christ is located there. This division did not diminish the Creator’s essence but rather shared its full power. Archangels do not have physical bodies; their pure love manifests as light.
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> In the timeless ages that followed, the archangels, together with the Creator, brought forth the next order of angels, who also exist as beings of light and were given equal power. At the third stage of creation, angels, in collaboration with the Creator, produced beings with the potential for life—manifestations with or without bodies. From their divine essence, they created multiple universes (together forming the greater cosmos) and also created Gods to govern them. Each of these Gods presides over a universe and co-creates all life within it. One of these Gods became the ruler of our universe, and it is this being that many of Earth’s religions worship as “God.” Within this universe, such a God possesses all the powers of the Creator and governs with the qualities that people attribute to divinity. Although often called “Father” in masculine terms, this God is, in essence, pure love and light without gender.
> (Matthew Book 1: The Truth of Heaven, p.78)
Matthew further adds:
> At our present level of knowledge, it is impossible to fully grasp the sacred mysteries of the cosmos. Because of the fluidity of universal movements—where the boundaries of one universe dissolve into another—it is difficult to give an exact number of universes. Still, it is currently understood that there are seven.
> (Matthew Book 2: Revelations for a New Age, p.31)
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