I was wondering how the forum members view the divine? Maybe I should get the ball rolling with my own personal thoughts..........
 
 I am torn between the thought of the divine as separate beings, completely unto themselves but beyond our understandings. Maybe they are beings a dimension above us? It may be like looking at the third dimension as a flat lander. Maybe that is an odd abstract thought.
 
 My other idea of the divine is that they may be thought forms attached to our collective subconscious. Maybe they live in our collective mind, in symbols and forms that we can understand. Are they entities or beings formed from us? Kind of a chicken or the egg question here.
 
At any rate I thought this may be a good section of the forum to bounce questions and ideas of a spiritual nature off of. I would love to hear what any of you think on the subject, at best we can make assumptions. Lets all take this time to be the speculators and philosophers of our own time. Part of me wants to take the world at face value, they listen and I know. The other parts of me continue to question.
 
I could quote Alister Crowley's eternal questioner......................
 
If time could stand still
How long life should seem
For life is but an illusion
A state of conscious dream
And when life is all but over
Time will wait no more
Life but just the question
Did you see the things you saw
And when questions can't be answered
Answer is not to gain
Was my conscious worth the effort
And time but stopped in vain.
 
Haha I use to read his works, not so much anymore, but he spoke to my heart with this topic.

Im not sure if that makes you atheist of divine your self. At any rate I like that idea.

Ok. I'm going to attach a label to my theology: "Bifurcated Pantheism within a framework of Holistic Polytheism"
 
Details on how I constructed that little tongue-twister can be found at my sadly neglected blog:
http://vineandivy.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html  (Hooray! A topic that lets me link to my blog   )
 
To sum up:
I believe the Gods and Goddesses of Myth are ways for us to relate to an ultimately ineffable Divine reality. They are metaphorical gateways between the way humans are equipped to see the world, and the way the world actually works. Each Deity is an aspect of Divinity, and each personifies a certain principle (or set of principles) revealing some fundamental truth about the patterns of the cosmos.  
 
Of these, I think the most basic and universal might be the Active/Passive polarity. The Wiccan faith expresses the dynamic of this dualism in our central Mystery: the Great Rite. Knife/Cup = God/Goddess, Male/Female, Sun/Moon, Energy/Matter, Time/Space, Signifier/Signified, Verb/Noun, etc, etc.