02-19-2021, 10:15 PM
(02-17-2021, 02:53 AM)zedro Wrote: I find infinity is easier to comprehend when you consider it as a division (or magnification) of a single unified thing, rather than an expansive outward concept, and that the observation dynamically alters what is being observed.
So you start with say an apple (the creation as a whole) and then start to cut it into pieces. There is no limit to how many times you can divide it. Then you magnify it, and observe that there is a micro structure, and that can be divided. As you keep dividing and magnifying, you keep discovering what the apple actually is. This is the essence of the creation exploring itself, it's a continuous fractal pairing down and division process, except that the fractals are dynamic and can interact and change itself in an interative feedback process, further expanding the infinite observing of itself. Or something like that
Now take that process and reverse it and for a true infinity it should also work in the opposite direction. In other words there is no apple.
I personally think the greatest issue to understanding is that infinity is actually not a very good word. The only two languages I know of which have better words for it is Chinese and Hebrew.
In Chinese the Wuji is the state before Taiji. Taiji is best known by the Yin Yang Diagram and is the state of polarity. Wuji is a state of undifferentiation which preceeded Taiji. The famous saying in China from the Taoist texts which is most pertinent is "One leads to two, two leads to three, three leads to the 10,000 things." One being Wuji, two being Taiji, and 10,000 things is a saying which is used to mean a lot, or an unknown number, or uncountable number.
In Hebrew the word is Ain. Which is usually translated as infinite but it doesn't really match the feel of the word. I find this one more difficult to explain. There is Ain, Ain Soph, and Ain Soph Aur. Which are usually translated as infinity, infinite limitless, and infinite limitless light. These precisely match the progression Ra explains of Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Energy, and Light.
The reason infinite is such a poor word is because it is a mathematical term for a sequence which has no beginning or end. Which since we are primarily native english speakers the concept of infinity is tied to the infinite series, or an infinite line, etc. The concepts which are behind Wuji and Ain are even more expansive for lack of a better word.