Even in the corrupted gospels of the church, from which true gnosis has been largely expurgated, the text still stands: "I said: ye are gods (john 10:34)" and millions of the simple gape at the page and have not the wit not courage to understand. For the most diabolical of all the gods is the one who invented guilt. Human beings then learned to judge and despise themselves, an uncomfortable state, from which they chronically sought to escape by judging and despising one another.

Of all creations, this is the hardest to uncreate as it leaves the deepest wounds; it left, in fact, that festering suppuration that is normal consciousness in our species today. For once evil and bad conscience were invented, "the one became two" - the mind was split against itself, the cosmos was split into fictitious and antagonistic oppositions; everything was turned upside-down and backward and the world became populated with the hallucinations of mania. This raving lunacy, this hatred of self and others, is the "sleep" and "dream" and "illusion" against which the sages warn us; it is the "drunkenness" against which jesus rails in the Gnostic gospels; it is coded into the parable of the fall in Genesis. And all this suited the first priest-swindler very well as it has suited all other priest-swindlers ever since; it made them rich; it gave them that which, for small souls, is sweeter than than wealth- the power to control others; and they have been most industrious, ever since, in inventing new "sins" so that more gloom and horror and despair will be spread over life.

For the sake of clarity: the god-power, the creative faculty, is not used with anything less than total literalness. When beauty was created by a godly mind, beauty existed. When mercy was created, mercy existed. When guilt was created, guilt existed. Out of a meaningless and pointless existence, we have made meaning and purpose; but since this creative act happens only when we relax after great strain, we feel it as "pouring into us" from elsewhere. Thus we do not know our own godhood and we are then perpetually swindled by those who assure us that it is indeed elsewhere, but "they" can give us access to it, for a reasonable fee (and our loyalty). And when weas a species were ignorant enough to be duped in that way, the swindlers went one step further, inventing "original sin" and other horrors of that sort (like the MYTH of an eternal hell), making us even more "dependent" upon them.

The results have been an armed madhouse; one might go further and call it an abattoir in which the cattle have been persuaded to slaughter one another.
"I have come to put an end to revenge," said Jesus, but revenge is the obsession, the compulsion, of all those who, having been told they are guilty, have become guilty. The criminal is not the exceptional type, but the normal type in a world in which evil has been invented; as cynics like Shakespeare and Swift and Cervantes have all remarked, the criminals on the bench sentence the criminals who come before the bench. The criminal mind is precisely the average mind in this world, after the priests invented sin.
"He who cries, 'fool, fool!' is already a murderer."
"Judge not."
The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it.
To curse the fig tree, as in the most misunderstood parable of Jesus, is to curse the soil in which it grew, the seed, the rains, the sun; the whole world, eventually - because no part is truly separate from the whole.
The fallacy that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."
Of all lies, this is the hardest to undo: of all creations, the hardest to uncreate. But, it can be done.
We can do it. You can do it. I can do it.
Because we are all gods, we can create our own good and evil, our own beauty and meaning, etc.
All may say, "This is my way, my good, my evil" ;
None may say, "This is the way, this is the good and the evil."
The judge speaks the truth without knowing it, and acknowledges his own divinity without realizing it, when he says, "I find you guilty"; he lies the oldest and most terrible of all lies when he says, "You are guilty."

The god creates meaning and value; the devil is a god asleep who imagines meaning and value exist in themselves elsewhere.
Men and women are the gods they imagine to be elsewhere, the creators of meaning and value.

This is not to say that I don't believe in God, or G-d, I do, but I see that people always strive to humanize things, even God, so that such a being will become more comprehensible to them, but people will not understand God looking through such limiting paradigms as people are wont to do. God is too far beyond our understanding, but in our arrogance as people we assume our second hand knowledge is understanding.