06-29-2017, 10:45 PM
(06-23-2017, 03:37 PM)anagogy Wrote: This is how I see spirit and its relationship to mind and body. These are just my realizations based on my limited contact with infinite intelligence, my concepts are always evolving but it is fun to try to occasionally attempt to put them into some form of crystallized prose:
The One
The eye, is BEINGNESS, or SPIRIT. Raw *existence*. I also like to call it "clear light".
To me, that is the most absolutely basic substratum of reality upon which all else is predicated. Pure unpotentiated infinite intelligence. This is the ontological primitive. The irreducible. The re-barb of the cosmos.
As Ra said, it cannot be specified by any sort of physics at this level, because this energy is beyond "rules" or "limitations". This is the place where limitations are both forged and destroyed. The Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the end. The unblinking and silent ALL. This is pure creative energy. This is pure unpotentiated WILL.
We might also describe it as "seeingness". This is the core of Self. The EYE/I, in its natural state, cannot see itself. Because it is absolutely and totally without form, yet containing all forms within it. The infinite cosmic and eternal plenum containing all that is, was, and ever shall be. This is the infinite and eternal field which "illuminates" all objects of the Real. All conceivable variety is contained here. It is the Source of all creativity and inspiration. I've attempted to define it, but by its very nature, it is in reality undefinable (but again, this is just for fun).
There is an awareness of infinite possibility here. But there is no specific, defined, concept of self here, just blissful awareness of infinite potential. There is awareness that all is one and one is all. There is also a budding and primal NEED to CREATE. A need for creative expression. This necessitates the forging of limitations or parameters.
This is the single ripple in infinity that inevitably potentiates free will into activation, taking us seemingly out of the absolutely still and undistorted and perfected Nirvana and into the realm of illusion.
When this intelligent infinity says "what am I?", and thus chooses to "know itself" this immediately throws it, perceptually, into a lower, or more distorted, energy shell of infinity: the realm of MIND -- the realm of thought, of concept -- intangible and mental forms. A concept of self forms out of this infinite potential. The Logos then moves upon the face of the deep. It now can see itself as a concept, in time/space reference. It now how has a sort of cosmic ego of sorts. A symbolic lower level reflection of the Beingness it was before.
Essentially, mind acts as a mirror for spirit. It allows Beingness to be self referential. The only problem is though that, as all mirrors, it INVERTS the image being seen. So the reflection that appears is an opposite of the "true reality". Thus when spirit looks in the mirror of mind, it sees matter, which is the exact opposite of spirit. From spirits vantage point, there is no such thing as distorted matter, for all is one. But from the minds vantage point, spirit and matter are opposites. One radiates, and one absorbs. There are a ton of archetypal subtleties and implications to this, but I don't have time to go into them here.
When spirit looked into the mirror of mind (the Logos manifestation), the third distortion Light came into being. This was primal matter or the first subtle bodily manifestation. This was the cosmic Light BODY of the Logos, which is also the entirety of our cosmos. The first manifestation of this Light, or primal matter, in violet ray was not very distorted. But with each sequential ray the Light became more and more solidified until you get down to red ray matter, which is the most tangible and distorted manifestation of Light there is.
Thus you have the material illusion.
Great post anagogy! I've been offline for a bit. I don't have a bunch of time at the moment to respond, but I attached a file that summarizes my personal understanding of the initial emanative process of the Absolute. It's a similar approach to Meher Baba's philosophy.
Hope you are well my friend!