Did Human Beings Invent God?

The Creation of Adam (1512 A.D.) by Michelangelo (Wikipedia):

So far, I've believed that the gods and goddesses of our religions are the planets, the moon, and the sun. They were also represented by different animals, and plants. I thought that was the answer, and for a little while it was. However, a thought occurred to me months ago: Humans must've anthropomorphized these things in order to represent their deities. I was reading Casanova (2020), and he said that humans have "represented the gods in the likeness of human beings." Since "human beings move, talk, work, etc.," myths are "highly anthropomorphic and, therefore, demands the production of a narrative." Human imagination also plays a part in how we depict gods as well. One such example is Thor played by actor Chris Hemsworth in the Marvel live-action superhero films. Another example is painting. In Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam (1510 A.D.), the Christian god is depicted "as an old man" (pp. 57-58). These two pages from his book put another idea in my head: Did human beings invent the gods? Now, Casanova is a Christian (check the Synopsis) so I don't think he would agree with my statement entirely. However, I'm starting to think that the deities of our religions were created, and anthropomorphized, by human beings. This includes the Abrahamic god.

To be honest, this was staring me in the face all along and I didn't even realize it! The gods looked like us, and acted like us. Even Jesus Christ came to Earth and became a human in the gospels. Every single god and goddess was depicted as a human, at least at some point in time. Now, our religious texts state that the gods created man. However, archeology says the opposite. There doesn't seem to be any reconciliation between these two facts. That is... unless human beings are gods? Think about it... If human beings created the gods in our image instead, wouldn't that make US the real creators? We invented the gods. We wrote the holy books and created the religions, not the gods. We sacrificed to them, and performed rituals for their amusement. We depicted them in statues and other artwork, giving them life. We even wage wars in their names. We pray to them day and night. Do the gods ever show up? No! We have to go to a prophet, a shaman, a rabbi, a priest, pr a preacher in order to know what the gods want from us. Sure, you'll have somebody that says, "I prayed to Jesus, and he healed me when I called on His name!" My response is, "Why doesn't Jesus come back already, and save us all from our ailments? What's keeping him from coming back today? People are dying, and he only saves one person!? Why not everybody?" I'm sure someone will have a response to that and I bet that I can even guess a few, but the main point is that Jesus Christ, his daddy Ieue/Ea, and all of the other gods have gone dark on us. Heck, the afterlife isn't even called Heaven. In the New Testament, Heaven is a god named Uranus. Uranus is another version of Zeus, and Heaven/Uranus is Earth's sky and not another dimension! I've talked about this already in my "The Demonic Deity Unveiled" post. Everything that we've been told about God and the afterlife in our holy books is wrong, from what I can tell. 

I guess you're wondering how I'm not an Atheist yet? Well, it's because I want to check every nook and cranny before I completely give up. Not to mention, there are some things about the supernatural that I believe in and want to explore. Right now, I am willing to believe that human beings are the true creators, or Creator. You can say god and goddess if you want. Does that mean that we can do anything that the gods of our religion can do? No, because religion is based on mythology and anthropomorphism. However, we do have the power to do amazing things. Our imagination and intellect create religion, and we have to power to help each other and our planet. I guess you can say that, when we do bad things to each other and other creatures, we can act like Satan/Devil or a demon. That's an idea I will like to explore later on though. 

As to how we created the gods, we already know that we used anthropomorphism for animals, and planets. In fact, let's talk about the sun real quick. The sun has been constantly equated to multiple gods. This is mainly due to the zodiac, and the cycle of the sun during the day. It has even been stated by Pythagoras that the planets were physical bodies for spirits and souls of other beings, or that human beings inhabited the planets and became divine as explained by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner also quoted an Egyptian sage saying that human beings become gods through deification. I believe this is how Jesus Christ was created. A real man called the Teacher of Righteousness was deified into Jesus Christ after his death.  Check out my "The Demonic Deity Unveiled" and "Was Jesus Christ Real?" posts for more information. The sun was also seen as the soul, and it was worshipped basically worldwide. Jesus Christ was also the sun (n.a., 1841, pp. 64, 95, 165, and 241-242). On the other hand, Blavatsky (1878) said that sun worshippers, and all of the ancients, viewed the sun "as an emblem of their metaphysical invisible central sun-god." For example, the Hindus worshipped the sun "allegorically" as the soul of everything. All souls come from it, and will return to it. However, this sun was "the central, invisible sun, GOD," (Vol. 1 p. 270). In other words, the sun was a symbol for the soul that inhabited everything. Our ancestors didn't literally worship the sun. I partially believe that, but my previous research goes against that. Still, all of this demonstrates that human beings created the gods using objects and other things from their immediate surroundings. 

Now, it's time to talk about something that I find very interesting. This topic is on thought forms. From what I can tell, according to Manly P. Hall, a thought form is a "strange geometric outpourings" made of "many-colored waves and rays." Simply put, they are created by thinking of a thought. Hall also calls a thought a "geometric outpouring of the mental body," (Hall, 1924, p. 33). However, we need to dive deeper. I found a lecture video on YouTube from the Theosophical Society in Portland by Peggy Huebel that talks about thought forms. In the lecture, she talks about a specific thought form called egregores. An egregores is a thought form created from the consciousness of like-minded people. This includes deities, and religions (YouTube, Theosophical Society in Portland, 2025, 21:50 and 35:50). I also found a book on egregores that was mentioned everywhere online. According to Stavish (2018), the word "egregore" is Greek for "'wakeful' of 'watcher.'" Interestingly, it is an "angelic being" in the Book of Enoch. According to Mouni Sadhou, an egregore is an “‘collective entity’” that is made up of a group of people. This includes religions. An older definition is a “conduit for a specific psychic intelligence of a nonhuman nature connecting the invisible dimensions with the material world in which we live.” This is more for cults and religions. Egregores have physical (made up of us/people who worship it), astral, and mental bodies. It seems that the egregore is the “sum total of all these elements.” The scholar Jocelyn Goodwin traced the origins of egregores in the West to Greece, and Rome. This was part of their “semi-animistic beliefs.” Egregores helped with religion, and politics. The “priestly class” focused on maintaining this relationship between the physical and nonphysical worlds, and doing what the gods ordered. Goodwin also stated that egregores are “‘augmented by human belief, ritual, and especially by sacrifice.’” Their job is watch over “‘some earthly affair or collectivity.’” They later become “‘an immortal god or goddess, and angel, or a daimon,’” (pp. 20-22). Honestly, there's a lot to talk about here but you get the gist of it. 

I think the egregore concept helps to explain something that crossed my mind lately. Have you ever. noticed that the gods and goddesses of our religions look like the people who started the religion? The Middle-Eastern gods look and dress like Middle-Eastern people. Same thing goes for the gods of every other continent. We also depict the gods of other human races to look like our own race. This can be seen in Michelangelo's depiction of Ea/Ieue in his The Creation of Adam painting. I have also seen the African American Jesus Christ. Now, Ea/Ieue was a Middle Eastern god and not a European god. The real Ieushuo/Joshua/Jesus was a mortal Middle-Eastern man, not African American. Why do we do this? Relatability. We connect to the gods when they're depicted like us. If Jesus is depicted as a Black man, this helps Blacks to connect with him because he "understands" the pain that Black people are going through. Jesus is on the "Black person's side" when he's Black. It's also a good way to... I don't want to get political, but it helps with racial superiority. For example, I grew up with the European Jesus Christ despite being African American myself. I also saw God was a White man for most of my life, and it's still hard sometimes to remember that the real Ieushuo wasn't European. The White Jesus was a tool for the White slave owners in the United States during the Antebellum slave trade. Go to anybody in the general public today and ask them what race was Jesus. You will still get some people to say that he was White/European. This is because the image of the White Jesus has been inserted into the public's consciousness for centuries. For more information on this, check out Blum and Harvey (2012) (pp. 9-10, 15, 17, 21, etc.).

His Voyage: The Life of Jesus (n. d.) by Vincent Barzoni:

I think this is the best explanation that I have for the origin of the deities of our religions: As human beings evolved, we used our imaginations to create our gods and religions. The best expression of this is the concept of thought forms and egregores. We also took objects, plants, and animals from our environment and turned them into symbols of the divine. Humans created and sustain the gods, and our bodies are templates for their own. This basically means that human beings are gods. That is a topic for another post though. The gods were created for protection and benefits, and the priests helped to satisfy the deity in order to maintain the benefits that said deity bestowed upon the people. For now, we have a satisfactory answer as to how and why religions were started that matches the data.

Links:
Michelangelo. The Creation of Adam (1512 A.D.) (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam
-Pic:
https://images.app.goo.gl/wGnFfRveBC4yuuZr5
Casanova (2020) (PP. 57-58):
https://books.google.com/books?id=F9vQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57&dq=Ea+Enki+standing+on+a+bull%C2%A0&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy0LLbm6eNAxVvEGIAHfdFCXMQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=Ea%20Enki%20standing%20on%20a%20bull%C2%A0&f=false
The Demonic Deity Unveiled:
https://demythifyinggod.blogspot.com/2022/10/was-yhwh-yahwehjehovah-angel.html
Was Jesus Christ Real?
https://demythifyinggod.blogspot.com/2019/07/jesus-christ-wasis-real.html
n.a. (1841):
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_existence_of_Christ_disproved_by_irr.html?id=zfsCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_entity&hl=en&gl=US#v=onepage&q&f=false
Blavatsky (1878) (Vol. 1 p. 270):
https://books.google.com/books?id=xMBb2hyRCUAC&pg=PA270&dq=The+sun+is+the+soul&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7l-jjs7KNAxVZLFkFHXLsNbI4ChDoAXoECAkQAw#v=onepage&q=The%20sun%20is%20the%20soul&f=false
Hall (1924) (P. 33):
https://books.google.com/books?id=5uArAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA33&dq=manly+p+hall+unseen+forces+thought+forms&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq5_Wt0sCOAxXfD1kFHQWvMW8Q6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=manly%20p%20hall%20unseen%20forces%20thought%20forms&f=false
YouTube. Theosophical Society in Portland. Thought Forms, Egregores, and Magic. April 30, 2025:
https://youtu.be/6SU6rBAsyGI?si=0FXqWh-voJGZinFf
Stavish (2018):
https://ia801206.us.archive.org/24/items/one-world-order-new-world-order/Egregores_%20The%20Occult%20Entities%20That%20Watch%20Over%20Human%20Destiny%20%28%20PDFDrive.com%20%29.pdf
-V2:
https://books.google.com/books?id=zIhADwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Blum and Harvey (2012) (pp. 9-10, 15, 17, 21, etc.):
https://books.google.com/books?id=TPSB1QZkFU0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=white+jesus+slavery&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW8eHq292OAxVwGVkFHdkKKYIQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=white%20jesus%20slavery&f=false
The Black Art Depot. Vincent Barzoni. His Voyage: The Life of Jesus. (n. d.):
https://www.blackartdepot.com/products/his-voyage-life-of-black-jesus-vincent-barzoni?srsltid=AfmBOoo_uynIyRenYg1fRop9zfNaEMStaTQ8JY532Rzw2-Oy83X_tx5Q
-Pic:
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZKPkNG3wq1HvEqPv9