The Veiled God

Ein­stein said there are three options con­cern­ing God: 1. That God is the Uni­verse itself. 2. That God does not exist. 3. That God exists but is veiled. Recently, an eighty-plus year old physi­cist believes that he has dis­cov­ered the third option for God. He believes that God is there but is veiled. This would account for our frus­tra­tions in find­ing the Magic Ele­ment in the big show (cre­ation) that we know is there, but can­not quite put our fin­ger on.

This par­tic­u­lar physi­cist has spent a life­time in his field of study. He believes he has found evi­dence that points to a veiled God. I find that fas­ci­nat­ing. It cer­tainly fits with the Bib­li­cal account of the mys­te­ri­ous unseen God, that occa­sion­ally appears in var­i­ous his­tor­i­cal forms. Once you think about it, you will find this option attrac­tive — even rea­son­able. God has class. God is not going to be too obvi­ous. God is more like the quiet fig­ure of a back­stage per­son­al­ity. You think this per­son is just another “extra” in the drama, then you find out that he or she wrote the entire play.

God is sub­tle. Deity is not a clown or some sort of nar­cis­sist demand­ing atten­tion. Quite the con­trary. The Divine is seen out of the cor­ner of faith’s eye. The glimpse is as brief as the shadow that leaves the room in unex­pected style. The cre­ativ­ity left behind is breath-taking. It beck­ons for pur­suit.

Per­son­ally, I pre­fer mys­tery. It keeps me on my toes. It is the car­rot on the stick of imag­i­na­tion that takes me through libraries of pos­si­bil­i­ties. What else do I have to do in this short life? I might as well spend it look­ing for the great­est pos­si­bil­ity. Time here even­tu­ally runs out. I can frit­ter it away or I can make it an hon­est pur­suit of the Infi­nite. I would be com­fort­able with Einstein’s first option. The sec­ond I find empty. The third is the most intrigu­ing: The Veiled God.