I cannot seem to find a ‘Me’. But there clearly has to be a ‘Subject’, No? So If I am convinced that I cannot be what I thought I was, I have to be something else. I have to be..er,, ‘God’.
Deux Factus Sum. ‘I am become Divinity’; you can’t get any higher than that.
In today’s India the phrase ‘I am Brahman’ [‘Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi‘] said with enough gravity and vigor will get you a supplicant crowd by lunchtime and by sunset you will be settled in the Wisdom-Business. Though unlike in Jerusalem or Baghdad, nobody got killed for saying it.
[The original meaning of Brahman was never as ‘God’ but that’s its present regressed meaning. See Post.]
‘Ana’l-Ḥaqq‘: ‘I am God Itself!’. These famous words deeply entrenched in the psyche of every pious Sufi Muslim were uttered in Baghdad by Mansur al-Halláj [922 CE] a Persian Mystic. He was was summarily arrested following his public declaration and later executed. [Impaled they say, meriting the full wrath of God.]
Al-Halláj himself pointed to a celebrated Rabbi for his inspiration. One crucified a millennia earlier for saying something very similar:
‘Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life‘ [John 14:6
‘No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known‘ [John 1:18].
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