01-11-2009, 02:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-26-2009, 11:54 PM by Steppingfeet.)
Though I don't believe Ra ever used such terminology, the concepts of transcendence and immanence have been very helpful to my understanding of the Law of One books.
In all the plenitude of my human ignorance, I tend to perceive Intelligent Infinity, the macrocosmic mystery, (aka: the mother of them all!), as nothingness. Now, I know Ra said that there is no "nothingness".
Let me explain.
The best "definition" I've encountered for that which cannot be defined - i.e., the Creator - is "that which is beyond". The Creator is something so *beyond* the human experience. Beyond all knowledge. Beyond all constructs of space and time. Beyond polarity. Beyond duality. Beyond the imagination. Beyond the *possibility* of conception itself. Beyond all categories of thought and being. The Creator transcends, or moves beyond the boundaries of everything that can be conceived by the human mind.
Therefore, the Creator, in its transcendent aspect, would appear to the human faculties of perception as a nothingness. It is a no-thing. It is categorically, emphatically *not* anything even remotely within our realm of knowledge or experience. All we have to work with are symbols and metaphors which represent and funnel (in limited fashion) a reality much too powerful for our matrix-wired minds to fully take in without Britney Spears-level break downs.
Yet, at the same time, Ra said that: "...in the simplest iota of this complex exists in its entirety the One Infinite Creator." Meaning that in the tiniest speck of sand, in the most infinitesimal sub-sub atomic particle exists, in holographic nature, the One in its entirety.
This is the Creator's immanent aspect. The Creator is immanent, completely and entirely, in everything. There is nothing that is not entirely the Creator.
Thus, from the 3d perspective, the great paradox. The Creator is simultaneously nothing and everything. The best definition for this: intelligent infinity.
Those two words, as far as I'm aware, are the most technically accurate for pointing to the ultimate, the supreme, the nameless, that which is not born and will not die, that which is untouched by time and space, etc. Intelligent Infinity is the Creator. Entirely beyond conception but entirely available completely and eternally and infinitely.
I love 3d sunsets analogy! Though such thing as intelligent infinity is beyond the mind entirely, I find myself nevertheless attempting to grasp it.. or at least to taste it... to touch into it... to feel intelligent infinity. Such analogies can be helpful, i feel, as long as the symbol remains transparent to that which it, in its super limited way, seeks to represent.
Intelligent energy is, like anything else, a study unto itself. Ra mentioned that it manifests as our galaxy's "natural laws" (that which physics studies). I see it as the manifest universe. (Manifest covering both physical and non-physical reality.) My memory is fuzzy as to its other meanings and implications.
I'm totally down with 3D Sunsets comparing intelligent energy with a stream. I see intelligent energy as the deepest underlying current moving evolution inexorably "upwards". I equate it with the upward spiralling line of light mentioned by Ra. I see it as the evolutionary way or current to which was given the name, "The Tao", by Eastern seekers.
Eastern seekers like you and me... : )
Love to you all, fellow wanderers and seekers,
GLB
In all the plenitude of my human ignorance, I tend to perceive Intelligent Infinity, the macrocosmic mystery, (aka: the mother of them all!), as nothingness. Now, I know Ra said that there is no "nothingness".
Let me explain.
The best "definition" I've encountered for that which cannot be defined - i.e., the Creator - is "that which is beyond". The Creator is something so *beyond* the human experience. Beyond all knowledge. Beyond all constructs of space and time. Beyond polarity. Beyond duality. Beyond the imagination. Beyond the *possibility* of conception itself. Beyond all categories of thought and being. The Creator transcends, or moves beyond the boundaries of everything that can be conceived by the human mind.
Therefore, the Creator, in its transcendent aspect, would appear to the human faculties of perception as a nothingness. It is a no-thing. It is categorically, emphatically *not* anything even remotely within our realm of knowledge or experience. All we have to work with are symbols and metaphors which represent and funnel (in limited fashion) a reality much too powerful for our matrix-wired minds to fully take in without Britney Spears-level break downs.
Yet, at the same time, Ra said that: "...in the simplest iota of this complex exists in its entirety the One Infinite Creator." Meaning that in the tiniest speck of sand, in the most infinitesimal sub-sub atomic particle exists, in holographic nature, the One in its entirety.
This is the Creator's immanent aspect. The Creator is immanent, completely and entirely, in everything. There is nothing that is not entirely the Creator.
Thus, from the 3d perspective, the great paradox. The Creator is simultaneously nothing and everything. The best definition for this: intelligent infinity.
Those two words, as far as I'm aware, are the most technically accurate for pointing to the ultimate, the supreme, the nameless, that which is not born and will not die, that which is untouched by time and space, etc. Intelligent Infinity is the Creator. Entirely beyond conception but entirely available completely and eternally and infinitely.
I love 3d sunsets analogy! Though such thing as intelligent infinity is beyond the mind entirely, I find myself nevertheless attempting to grasp it.. or at least to taste it... to touch into it... to feel intelligent infinity. Such analogies can be helpful, i feel, as long as the symbol remains transparent to that which it, in its super limited way, seeks to represent.
Intelligent energy is, like anything else, a study unto itself. Ra mentioned that it manifests as our galaxy's "natural laws" (that which physics studies). I see it as the manifest universe. (Manifest covering both physical and non-physical reality.) My memory is fuzzy as to its other meanings and implications.
I'm totally down with 3D Sunsets comparing intelligent energy with a stream. I see intelligent energy as the deepest underlying current moving evolution inexorably "upwards". I equate it with the upward spiralling line of light mentioned by Ra. I see it as the evolutionary way or current to which was given the name, "The Tao", by Eastern seekers.
Eastern seekers like you and me... : )
Love to you all, fellow wanderers and seekers,
GLB
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi