Aphelion
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Musings I
The world is without sin.
All the gods and religions of our world must simply coalesce into a single entity. There are no things within our world that are not wholly separate. A god, or path, or creator who would engender our universe would not make himself, herself, themselves or itself especially obvious in the eyes of man. Rather, the creator would be subtle, showing machinations in brief glimpses: the religion, government, science, must all derive from the same mutable Word. The Word, when it passed into being, when it was given life, form, design, purpose… our universe began. A universe created for the soul purpose of being created. The purpose of our universe is to realize that there is no purpose. Anything else would imply an absolute end. But there can be no end, there can be no beginning, there is only the great cosmic dance of life and death. The great ebb and flow, the cyclical dynamic of our world. Now our greatest minds tell us that the world we live in is truly static: that all the infinite possibilities that have existed in our past and our future have occurred or will occur. This correlates with the true nature of the true god. Everything exists for eternity or must not exist. There is no partiality in the universe, only the dynamic change between two forces. There is nothing else.
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space…”
In our world, a world with infinite possibilities, we are the world’s greatest sinners and the world’s noblest saints. We are Hitler, Gandhi, Stalin, Lincoln. We are the most ignorant masses and the greatest thinkers. We are everything and nothing. We are Jesus. We are Muhammad. We are the Tao. We are God. We are nothing.
To understand this, to fully accept the encompassment of all opposites and all realities, is to transcend into the state of bliss. Schopenhauer asserted that with an animal’s increased intelligence comes an increase in pain. And when intelligence reaches its supreme point, so does the agony of revelation. I assert that at the supreme point, we are free of all earthly bonds. At such a point, the journey through pain yields a state of pleasure. This would be the point of transcendence. When one approaches this point, the nadir, all is lost until the point is reached. And when someone reaches this point the world turns upon itself, and the entity may hold the sky in its hand. And look down upon the earth, the universe and all universes. The entity stands not on the nadir, but the zenith. Its gaze pierces all times and all spaces. And all is revealed.
But they will teach us that Eternity is the Standing still of Present Time, A Nunc-stans; which neither they, nor any else understand, no more than they would a Hic-stans for an Infinite greatness of Place.
Leviathan, IV:46
All the gods and religions of our world must simply coalesce into a single entity. There are no things within our world that are not wholly separate. A god, or path, or creator who would engender our universe would not make himself, herself, themselves or itself especially obvious in the eyes of man. Rather, the creator would be subtle, showing machinations in brief glimpses: the religion, government, science, must all derive from the same mutable Word. The Word, when it passed into being, when it was given life, form, design, purpose… our universe began. A universe created for the soul purpose of being created. The purpose of our universe is to realize that there is no purpose. Anything else would imply an absolute end. But there can be no end, there can be no beginning, there is only the great cosmic dance of life and death. The great ebb and flow, the cyclical dynamic of our world. Now our greatest minds tell us that the world we live in is truly static: that all the infinite possibilities that have existed in our past and our future have occurred or will occur. This correlates with the true nature of the true god. Everything exists for eternity or must not exist. There is no partiality in the universe, only the dynamic change between two forces. There is nothing else.
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space…”
In our world, a world with infinite possibilities, we are the world’s greatest sinners and the world’s noblest saints. We are Hitler, Gandhi, Stalin, Lincoln. We are the most ignorant masses and the greatest thinkers. We are everything and nothing. We are Jesus. We are Muhammad. We are the Tao. We are God. We are nothing.
To understand this, to fully accept the encompassment of all opposites and all realities, is to transcend into the state of bliss. Schopenhauer asserted that with an animal’s increased intelligence comes an increase in pain. And when intelligence reaches its supreme point, so does the agony of revelation. I assert that at the supreme point, we are free of all earthly bonds. At such a point, the journey through pain yields a state of pleasure. This would be the point of transcendence. When one approaches this point, the nadir, all is lost until the point is reached. And when someone reaches this point the world turns upon itself, and the entity may hold the sky in its hand. And look down upon the earth, the universe and all universes. The entity stands not on the nadir, but the zenith. Its gaze pierces all times and all spaces. And all is revealed.
But they will teach us that Eternity is the Standing still of Present Time, A Nunc-stans; which neither they, nor any else understand, no more than they would a Hic-stans for an Infinite greatness of Place.
Leviathan, IV:46
:: posted by Greg D, 8:45 PM
