So, 14 billion years ago, the divine moment came. " Let there be LIFE " ….. said God.
He self-immolated in the greatest explosion of all time, the creation of the universe of matter from the universe of mind in one single apocalyptic event. From physical nothingness - the pure mind of God - came all the " stuff " of the physical universe. The moment of God's death was the moment of Creation. It was the " Alpha Point."
The physical universe is teleological, it has a purpose, a desired end, an " Omega Point." That end-point is the regenerated God. The physical universe that was born of God seeks to become God anew ….. not the old God of pure Mind ….. but a new God of Mind and Matter.
God knew that the creation of matter would not mean the elimination of mind. Rather, just as matter is a form of energy ( as demonstrated by Einstein ) it is also a form of mind because it originated from mind. It is mind with physical dimensions rather than pure, dimensionless mind.
The universe is alive. It is an organism. It thinks. It seeks. It strives. It has a soul. The universe is forever trying to find its way back to its divine origin. It is traveling dialectically from Alpha to Omega.
We human beings contain the divine spark. We are all fragments of God. We will be complete only when we have reassembled as God.
That is the fulfillment of our divine human mission.
The True God is the Deus Absconditus …… the Hidden God. One day he will be the Deus Manifestus …... the Revealed God. We are all part of the revelation. We are hidden gods in a universe that as yet does not know it is God but is evolving towards being God.
Just as humanity was born of a primordial chemical soup on a " lifeless " rock in space, so God will be born of stardust in a seemingly lifeless universe. We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all - God. This is humanity's destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity ? We are not mere humans ... we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself, God Reincarnated, God Resurrected, God Reborn.
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Dialectics
“ Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient ………….. and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel was a proponent of the " dialectic ". The dialectical process works like this. Step 1) We discover a " thing " in need of explanation and we make some
statement about it. e.g. " Something exists." We call this the thesis. Step 2) Further discovery and consideration reveals a contradiction, something that opposes the thesis. We call this the antithesis. The antithesis of " Something exists " is " Nothing exists ".
Step 3) The third step is called the synthesis, and it attempts to reconcile the thesis and antithesis. Hegel uses the word " aufheben " to describe this melding of thesis and antithesis. It is a difficult word to translate into English since it simultaneously contains meanings of " preserving " .…" canceling " and …. " lifting up ".
So, the synthesis retains what is most true in the thesis and antithesis, removes what is most false, and raises up what is left into a higher truth.
Step 4) The process does not end with this synthesis, which simply becomes a new thesis, and with which we start the process all over again. With each iteration of this dialectical cycle, we move forward, reduce contradiction, refine our concepts and get closer to what might be called absolute truth.
i.e. the truth that contains no self-contradiction and cannot be challenged. To an extent, the dialectic resembles the scientific method upon which so much of the world's most solid knowledge now stands. The scientific method creates provisional truths, which are rendered stronger and stronger by continual testing and refinement. Eventually, scientific hypotheses become scientific theories ….. which are effectively the laws of science.
A clear connection also exists between the dialectic and the medieval art of
Alchemy - the secret art first introduced by the illuminati. Alchemy is about turning
lead into gold. Not in a physical sense ( though some alchemists certainly thought it was possible ), but in a metaphorical sense. To reach gold ( the perfect purity in symbolic terms ) from the starting point of lead ( base, impure, corruptible material symbolically ) requires constant distillation, refining and removal of the impurities. This is the same as the dialectic - a continual refining to remove errors. As we reach higher and higher levels of synthesis, we ascend the scale of truth - we move from dirty, muddied, confused and confusing partial truths to incorruptible golden truths by which we can lead our lives. Truth, too, must be distilled and refined.
Hegel analyzed Being and Nothing in the following way …. 1) Being - the existence of things - is the thesis.
2) Non-being - the existence of nothing - is the antithesis.
Using the ancient wisdom of the Illuminati, Hegel supplied the only concept that can stand as a valid synthesis of Being and Nothing …….. " Becoming." Something and nothing are just aspects of a higher truth.
They do not have mutually independent reality. They are perpetual twins, locked in a dance of eternal becoming. The universe is never-ending becoming. As will be shown " Becoming " answers every enigma, everything that is nonsensical about the old religions of " Being ".
The philosopher Nietzsche used a different but related word for " aufheben."
His word - " sublimieren " - comes from the Latin word sublimare …. " to sublimate ". In German, sublimieren and aufheben are synonymous.
Sublimation is the English word for sublimieren.
Sublimation, in human terms, involves taking a primitive urge such as violence and turning it into something nobler. The " good " aspects of violence are retained ( for example, will to win, forcefulness, pride, ambition, competitiveness ),
while the bad aspects are removed ( e.g. destruction, cruelty, injury, callousness ). What emerges is something in which everyone can take pride.
Sport, for example, is often regarded as the sublimation of war. Can't we sublimate all of the ills of our society ?
The dialectic is all about sublimation, refining everything to take it to a higher, nobler level - to turn lead into gold all over the universe. Can we start from a universe of unpromising lead and make it into one of sublime gold ?
Dialectical logic is usually contrasted with Aristotelian logic ….. which is analytical rather than synthetic and is based on highlighting and emphasizing contradictions. Aristotelian logic is centered on two key concepts :
the Principle of Non-Contradiction and the Principle of Excluded Middle. Bertrand Russell asserted that there are three " Laws of Thought "
1. Law of Identity : ' Whatever is …. is.'
2. Law of Non-Contradiction : ' Nothing can both be and not be.' ( For example ….. it cannot both be raining and not raining. ) 3. Law of Excluded Middle : ' Everything must either be or not be.' ( For example …… it is either raining or it is not. )
Simple-minded people are fixated on such Laws, but these laws are in fact the " Laws of Being " and are themselves contradicted by the " Laws of Becoming." Aristotelian logic, the bedrock of Western thinking, lends itself to reductive and analytical thinking, in breaking everything down and separating it from everything
else. But this is merely an illusion. The universe, as Eastern thinking has always emphasized, is an interconnected whole. The type of logic that best deals with " becoming " rather than " being " is dialectical logic.
Dialectical thinking is about synthesis, about unifying opposites and the key idea of dialectics is that everything contains a fundamental inner, implicit contradiction that will lead to the contradiction eventually being explicitly expressed.
Therefore, when it is raining, the implicit contradiction that it will stop raining is already starting to manifest itself and in due course …. indeed the rain will stop. There will be a time during the transition period between raining and not raining when the distinction between the two states cannot be clearly drawn. Aristotelian logic emphasizes the separate phases of the whole process, while dialectical logic emphasizes the interconnectedness of the apparent contradictions … they are part of an ongoing process of " becoming " rather than separate types of " being."
People who can't see beyond Aristotelian logic will never understand the true nature of the universe. In the world of dialectics - of " becoming " - none of Bertrand Russell's three laws of thought truly apply. They are black and white limits whereas " becoming " is concerned with shades of grey.
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Existence
Existence cannot come from non-existence and nor can non-existence come from existence. Non-existence does not exist, by definition. The 'stuff' of which everyone is made has always existed, and always will exist. We were not non-existent before we were born, rather the 'stuff' which became us had not yet been brought together. After we die, the stuff of which we are made does not become non-existent, rather it disperses and finds its way into new entities. The future does not yet exist, but all of the seeds for it are already present.
The future does not spring into existence from the non-existent but rather it evolves from what already exists ….... it is an evolution …… an extrapolation of the present. New existence arises from what already exists, the thoughts you will have ten seconds from now do not yet exist ….. but they will not come of non-existence. They will arise from what is already there.
From " old " existence comes " new " existence in a never-ending flow.
Existence is perpetual becoming. New existence is always a modified form …… an evolution …... a transformation …… of what already exists.
Existence is Becoming ... not Being. Its intrinsic nature is to contain movement, and also an ordering principle. Movement and order are the basis of dialectics because new, higher states of order can be built from earlier, less ordered states.
The universe is dialectical. The universe is eternal becoming. It cannot logically be any other way. It has always existed and it will always exist. The underlying logic of the universe is eternally the same. But the way in which the universe physically evolves from the core logic is not fixed.
Anything that can happen ( that is not logically impossible ) will definitely happen in an eternal logical universe. Anything that is not forbidden by the core logic is compulsory. This is the starting point for discussion on the nature of the universe. The question is does the core logic of the eternal logical universe imply a logical apex ………. a maximum expression of the underlying logic ? Can logic become self-aware ? Can a logic based on a few simple rules lead to something as astonishingly complex as God ?
The optimal universe is the one that can create the most diverse phenomena from the smallest set of core principles and properties. It is also the one that can create the highest summit of actualization. Existence begets God. It has no choice. God is compulsory, the maximum expression of the latent
potential of the universe ………….. the ultimate becoming.
" The universe was brought into being in a less than fully formed state …….. but was gifted to transform itself from unformed matter into a truly marvelous array of structure and life forms." ….. St Augustine.
Here is the truth. God does not create the universe ….. Precisely the reverse is true. The universe creates God.
This is perhaps the profoundest statement of all. God is not the First Cause or the Prime Mover. He might instead be regarded as the Last Effect .. that for which the whole universe moved. God is part of evolution, he is what evolution is striving to achieve, its logical endpoint.
But once the God of Evolution has come into existence then he controls evolution, just as human beings now regularly alter the course of evolution on earth. Billions of humans are alive today who would certainly be dead had not humanity become intelligent enough to understand and then to exploit agriculture, science, medicine, civilization etc etc. Humans are increasingly the masters of evolution, and have certainly ceased to be its helpless servants and victims ( as ordinary animals are ). God is the end of the chain of evolution, and the start of a new chain of existence thats his to define. God, the culmination of evolution, thereby transcends evolution. He is transcendence itself.
God, once he stands outside of evolution, is the master of creation. The universe created him, but now he can reverse the process and create the universe anew. This is the essence of 'God's Suicide'. God creates the new universe from himself. God can be in the paradoxical position of being both the creation of the universe and its creator ( just as humans, who are the creations of evolution, can create future evolution via genetic engineering ) and so we have a mechanism for the universe to cycle on forever. In one phase, it is in the process of creating God. Having succeeded, in the second phase, it is ruled by God until he chooses to start creation all over again, using himself as the raw material. And thus we return to the first phase, and again the universe strives to reach its maximum actualization, God. And the beat goes on …… for eternity.
The Plenitude Principle states that everything that can happen will happen. No possibilities that remain eternally possible will go unrealized. Nature will become as complete and perfect as it possibly can. That is not just desirable, it is inevitable in an infinite system. If there is one state of existence …. an Omega Point …… that is superior to all other states then it will eventually and inevitably be attained. From the 'beginning', all things that can happen are already implicit in the universe. If God is possible then he was always possible and simply waiting for his potential to be turned into actuality. Is evolution ever maximized or does it keep going round in futile circles, never actually getting any better ?
If human beings are vastly superior to dinosaurs ( previous masters of our world ) and if all forms are more highly evolved than their preceding forms, isn't it clear that evolution, on the whole, is advancing rather than regressing ….. is getting " better ". Can it ever reach " best " ?
Imagine the human race as a single person i.e. all of the talents and intelligence of humanity combined in a single personality. Wouldn't that be vastly superior to any individual human being ? Would any problem resist the collective intelligence of all humanity ? If a few geniuses have made breathtaking leaps in our understanding of the universe, imagine the intelligence of all the geniuses merged into one single, sublime intelligence. Would that not be an entity which might have some of the characteristics of what we call God ?
That scenario would be achieved simply by allowing the consciousnesses of individual human beings to evolve into a collective consciousness of humanity. But is it likely that humans are the summit of universal evolution? Can't we imagine vastly more intelligent beings than ourselves ? Then imagine combining all of their intelligences. Imagine combining all of the intelligences that exist in the universe. The r = 0 domain is where all " mind " in the universe exists. it all exists in a single " place ". If all the minds linked to the r = 0 domain combined then they would form Absolute Mind ….. and that would be none other than God.
tune into Absolute Mind ..…… the Mind of God. We ourselves, if we can harness Absolute Mind, can become God. It is no empty claim. It is the logical opportunity afforded by the r = 0 domain. But, to harness Absolute Mind, we need to infinitely expand our limited human minds …..… and this we call the process of Evolution.
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Divinity
How was the universe created ? ……... It was created by a non-physical energy ( the mind and spirit of God ) which was transformed into physical energy ( matter ) but still fundamentally imbued with the mind and spirit of God.
How did life come into existence ? The universe was created from life ( God's ) and is everywhere infused with God's life, it was there from the very beginning. Why are we conscious beings ?
Because we reflect the implicit consciousness of God that pervades the universe. Why do we have a sense of a soul and immortality, of a future paradise, and why has humanity always spoken of gods and God ?
Because we are evolving towards God. It gives a precise meaning to our lives.
Conversely, if this was not the case then why would evolution create in us this inclination towards illusion and self-deception, of God, the afterlife, a paradise ? It would be an extraordinary situation for a scientific, godless universe devoid of paranormal phenomena to create a delusion in human minds that there is a God and that there are paranormal phenomena.
How could such a delusion ever actually arise ? What would its basis be ?
It would be on a par with saying that lifeless atoms can gather together in order to create the delusion that life exists, but that very " delusion " would itself be proof of life because only a living entity could be subject to mental delusions.
Why would " godless " atoms create the impression that there is a God ?
Why would " scientific " atoms create the impression that there are phenomena beyond scientific comprehension ? At the every least, we would have to conclude that these godless, scientific and lifeless atoms have the most remarkable qualities that of their very own account, have to be considered quasi-religious, hinting at the greatest of mysteries.
These remarks are attributed to theoretical physicist David Bohm ….
" ( The growth of a living plant ) starts from a seed, but the seed contributes little or nothing to the actual material substance of the plant or to the energy needed to
make it grow. This latter comes almost entirely from the soil, the water, the air and the sunlight. According to modern theories the seed contains information, in the form of DNA, and this information somehow " directs " the environment to form a corresponding plant. "
The even more remarkable way in which an egg and a sperm cell from a human mother and father combine to make a blueprint for creating a potential Leonardo da Vinci from the food and drink consumed by the mother during her pregnancy. If that is not a supreme miracle that transcends scientific knowledge then what is ? If that does not point to a realm of divine wonders ….. then what does ?