High magick has, as one of its objectives, a communion with the divine. This union is achieved by using spiritual abilities and powers in rites and ceremonies. By the divine, the magician recognises an eternal spiritually dynamic principle and its refracted manifestation in beings whose consciousness, individually and together, are of so lofty and sublime a degree of spirituality as actually to merit the term Gods.
The viewpoint employed in magick is that there is one Omnipresent Life pervading the whole cosmos. It permeates every corner and portion of space, sustaining the individual life of every being existing in any of the infinite worlds. Unknown in itself, since being omnipresent and boundless in every direction it can never be comprehended by the human mind. From it comes forth all the gods, all human souls and every conceivable thing that is.
When the word God is used, it comes as a pre-packaged concept. Quite often the Western European sees it as a personal being of great age, that has a physical existence sitting on a throne somewhere up there! But to make God a human being is to limit it. It is not possible for a finite human form to have the attributes of God, eternal, all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere.
If the magician is to conceive of such a being it is formless, existing not within manifestation, but beyond it also. For it is the formless creator of all things. That is it is the absolute, from which all is made manifest. It creates not out of nothing, but of itself. Although this could be argued to be the same thing, as it is no thing in itself. It is not a being, but absolute being. In the process of creation it enters into manifestation, but is not conscious of this process. It does not actively and thoughtfully create, rather it brings forth manifestation as a tree brings forth leaves, it is a spontaneous expression of its very nature.
Theosophy defines deity as:
IT is the mysterious power of evolution and involution, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and even omniscient creative potentiality.
Deity is the eternal, incessantly evolving, not creating, builder of the universe, that universe itself unfolding out of its own essence, not being made.
