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---------------THE THEOLOGY OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM-----------------
Because Orthodox Jews want to avoid committing idolatry with the mind--that is, by objectifying divine mind in anyway--when Jewish theologians write about what Christian monototheists call 'God', they write it 'G-d'.

I think they have a point, and I respect it.

However, I have no such fear. Like pantheists, using my subjective mind, I am not afraid to objectify that part of divine mind which I experience, and know, with my senses. In this sense, I do not just believe there is divine mind, I know there is.

I know this in the same way that I know that I live on a global earth, made of minerals, water, air, whatever, even though I have only visited a small part of it.

However, like the poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), I believe there is a

-----------------THE HIGHER PANTHEISM--------------------

The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains,-

Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns?

Is not the Vision He, tho' He be not that which He seems?

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb,

Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him?

Dark is the world to thee; thyself art the reason why,

For is He not all but thou, that hast power to feel "I am I"?

Glory about thee, without thee; and thou fulfillest thy doom,

Making Him broken gleams and a stifled splendour and gloom.

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet-

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

God is law, say the wise; O soul, and let us rejoice,

For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice.

Law is God, say some; no God at all, says the fool,

For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool;

And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see;

But if we could see and hear, this Vision-were it not He?

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The symbol I like to use to name divine mind is, G?D.