A LEGION OF ENTITIES
...Insidious Beings Lurk Beyond Awareness...
Collective entities are linked to your awareness and will (your ability to perform willful acts) and share your ability to reason (if any). Using the collective awareness, will, and reason of its constituents, a collective entity has a mind of its own. You are not aware of its existence because it influences its constituents by the power of suggestion in a way that seems to be your own thoughts. An example is mob violence. The mob is a collective entity whose constituents have a particular intent in common. Individuals caught up in mob activity perform acts that they would normally not do.
Collective entities have characteristics which reflect the characteristics of the constituents. Individuals who act as tyrants are members of a tyrannical entity. As the number of tyrannical individuals increases, the entity becomes more powerful and the tyranny trait becomes more pronounced in each constituent. We may refer to such an entity as a devil. The individual members do not realize how deeply enmeshed they are within the entity. Similarly, individuals who share a benevolence trait will form a very benevolent collective entity which may be referred to as an angel. The "powers" and "principalities" of Eph. 6.12 are also examples of collective entities.
The gods were not created by the Trinity but exist simply as collectives of people. People are created through reproduction and evolution in accordance to a divine plan but non- carnal collective entities exist only as consequences of the shared characteristics of individuals. The entities have awareness, will, and reason only through their constituents. They can act only through their constituents or through energy given them by their constituents. Without individual constituents, they simply would not exist.
Do you think you don't worship any gods? Governments are collective entities whose tithes are in the form of taxation. Do you pay taxes? Utility companies are collective entities who provide services in exchange for tithes. Do you pay your utility bills? These are only a few of the collective entities that we serve.
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