In Âu Lạc (Vietnam), with or without any monks or nuns or priests or pope, or even living Buddhas, the Aulacese (Vietnamese) people call God “Trời,” or “Thượng Đế,” or “Đấng Tối Cao,” “Đấng Toàn Năng.” Or even in some tribe, they call God “Giàng.” I think it’s spelled G-I-À-N-G with the cross on top of the A letter: “Giàng.” And they truly believe that Trời exists, Thượng Đế exists, Đấng Tối Cao, Đấng Toàn Năng exist. Even in one country, one language, they put different titles on God. “Giàng” is maybe just one of those Aulacese (Vietnamese) aboriginal. In some different areas of Âu Lạc (Vietnam), we have like over 50 different ethnicities and they have lived together in peace since before.
Except during the war, where different political ideologies interfered with the peace of Âu Lạc (Vietnam), and then it caused a lot of bloodshed, a lot of trouble, and also due to the invasion by other countries of Âu Lạc (Vietnam), and invasion of their own belief system, of their mentality, of their societal kind of established way of life, and robbing them of their freedom, their dignity, and even threw their King out. Before that, we were alright with our King. And then after the King was gone, it was even worse. Everything became worse. It went downhill. And the King had to be exiled with His family, and His title was gone, His country was gone. And what did they do after the King was gone? This is incredible. It’s too much suffering, too many barbarous things. We won’t talk about that anymore. It just makes me sad, sad and very, very sad.
Now, in different religions, they call God different names. Like in Zoroastrianism, they call God “Ahura Mazda,” and also known as Horomazes. Even in one religion, they sometimes give God different titles, and why not? Also, God’s Power is everywhere, and there are also levels of God’s Power. So sometimes the Masters or whoever is the Founder of that religion, met different levels of God’s Authority. God Hirmself, yes, but in probably little different levels of consciousness; depends on the person who receives it. If He’s highest possible, then He receives direct Teaching from God and talks directly to God. But that is rare. The Son of God can do that. Jesus Christ can, for example.
And in Judaism, they call God “Elohim,” “Yahweh,” or “Jehovah,” or “Adonai,” and “Hashem.” They call Hirm also “Hashem.” Many Jewish people call God “Hashem.” So now, in Christianity, we just have one word: God. Some people also revere Hirm as “Yahweh” or “Jehovah” in the Old Testament, that’s the Old Testament. Now in other countries, other religions, sometimes it’s a branch of Christianity, like Mormonism, they also call themselves Christians. And they also call God “Elohim” and “Jehovah.” And Jehovah’s Witnesses, they call God “Jehovah.” And in Islam, or Muslims, they call God “Allah” or “Khuda.” Actually, in India, Khuda is also a Name of God. One of the titles of God. And in Sufism, they call God “Hu” or “Huwa,” “Parvardigar.” In the Bahá’í Faith, they call God “Almighty,” “All-Possessing,” “All-Powerful,” “All-Wise.” They title the quality of God and the character of Godhead. I will tell my people to search for it, and then they can print it all out for you, list it out for you.
Names of God in Different Religions
Baháʼí Almighty All-Possessing All-Powerful All-Wise Incomparable Gracious Helper All-Glorious Omniscient
Buddhism Buddha Nature Adi-Buddha Dharmakaya
Caodaism Đức Cao Đài Đức Chí Tôn Ngọc Hoàng Thượng Đế Đấng Tạo Hoá
Confucianism Tian (天) Shangdi (上帝)
Christianity YHWH The Lord Elohim Ho Theos and Ho Kurios Adonai El-Shaddai Father/Abba
Hinduism Bhagavan Paramatma Isvara Deva/Devata
Hòa Hảo Buddhism Đức Phật Trời Ơn Trên Đấng Tạo Hóa Trời Phật Đức Thượng Đế
I-Kuan Tao Ming Ming Shangdi (明明上帝) Lao Mu (老母) Tao (道)
Islam Allah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim Khuda
Jainism Tīrthankaras and Arihantas
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah
Judaism Elohim YHWH Adonai HaShem
Mormonism Elohim Jehovah The Holy Ghost The Godhead God the Father The Holy Spirit Heavenly Father or Father in Heaven
Sikhism Akal Purakh Ik Onkar Nirankar Satnam Waheguru Dātā or Dātār Kartā or Kartār Diāl Kirpāl
Sufism Hu Huwa Parvardigar
Taoism Tao (道) Shangdi (上帝)
Yazidism Xwedê
Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda Horomazes
Etc…
And these are not the only religions. There are plenty more. You can never finish it. But I’ll read some of the bigger ones. Like in Hinduism, they call Them “Bhagavad” or “Bhagavan.” Or Hindus, they also call “Brahman” or “Paramatma.” That is how they describe God in Hinduism. But for example, as from my inner knowledge, Brahma is not the highest God. He is the God of the Third Heavens. But it’s a big one.
It’s not just that you have a Third Heaven and that’s all you have. No, it’s great, it’s incredible. But these, in the physical domain, to be reachable, to be approachable, reachable for normal humans, with some not very high enlightened Masters, they would reach Brahman, that was in the old times. So people called Brahman “God Almighty.” That’s what they thought. So they worshiped Brahma, and they became Brahmins, meaning they are the believers of Brahma, just like they called themselves “Buddhists” because they believed in Buddha. But Buddha never proclaimed that He has reached God or anything, He has reached Nirvana, where it’s a state of consciousness that you have no more desire or anything, and you have tremendous power to help other beings who believe in you. For example like that.
Many religions came from India, and people believe in their Masters, and they call the Master “God” anyway. So it depends on where the Master reached. And that’s how they called God that name, like Brahma, for example. But reachable to human standards is the Fifth Level above the Earth. We have the Earth where we’re living, and then we have the Astral Level, invisible, very near us, like our neighbors. Sometimes people could even go, leave their body and go to the Astral Levels for a while. So we call that “Astral projection” or “Astral travel.”
And some Astral beings can also visit humans here too for a short time. They can look like humans or not, as they like, because they have more magical power than most Earthlings. I talked about that before in more details. The Astral beings and higher beings, they can change their appearance and appear as whatever they choose to make themselves look like. Even Quan Yin Bodhisattva, when She came down to the Earth for a while to take up the Elder monk Kuan Jing, She also appeared as another monk, not as the Quan Yin Bodhisattva that we are used to or imagine Her to be or Him to be.
There is vast knowledge there to gain and to learn and magic, power, and all kinds of things. The Astral Level is awesome already. And there’s a second level after Astral, we call it the Second Level or Causal Level. And at each Level there is a god who controls it, not controls, but who rules and helps beings in their domain. After Astral, we have this Causal Level, meaning “cause and effect.” And there are the Akashic records in there, so you can check out everybody’s lives from birth to death, and even the future – whenever it’d happen, they record it there.
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