Profound level of Gnostic thinking

by fb Johnny Telestes

March 14, 2014

      "There is actually a much more profound level of Gnostic thinking, for which the "evils" of the material world are just an easy way of describing something enormously more sophisticated.

The real source of evil according to Philosophical Gnosticism is something called "individuation", which we might define as the process of making the One into the Many, of turning a single Unity into many individual things. If we follow Eastern religions and say that the ultimate reality is a transcendent Oneness, how did it come about that we do not experience this Oneness in our everyday lives? How did the veil of Maya - of illusion - get thrown over us and turn us into many separate creatures?

As always, the cosmic equation "r > = 0" provides the explanation. This equation indicates that there are two linked realms of "r = 0" (the mental universe, outside space and time) and "r > 0" (the physical universe, inside space time) which exist as separate but interacting domains within the continuum of r > = 0. "r" refers to the distance between two points (which can both be within an entity or each point can belong to a separate entity) and r > = 0 indicates that this distance can be reduced all the way down to zero. In relation to Cartesian philosophy, r > 0 implies a domain of extension i.e. matter, a physical world of individuated things in space and time, separated by real distances, while r = 0 implies a domain of non-extension i.e mind, a mental world of interconnectivity, outside physical space and time, where entities are not separated by any distance and nothing has any physical size. A black hole singularity and the Big Bang singularity are examples of situations in which the distances between all entities contained within them are reduced to zero. Nothing in these singularities has any extension and therefore, according to Descartes' definition, they have entered the realm of mind. Scientific materialism denies the existence of the r = 0 domain, and is trying to find a way to make sense of black holes and the big bang that avoids dimensionless singularities. (The cosmic equation is explained in much more detail in others books in this series).

So, the domain of r = 0 is the transcendent unity where all things are linked. This is NON-DIMENSIONAL reality, outside space and time, dimensionality itself, that breaks the One into Many, that creates individual things and locates them in precise places in space and time. Individuation is the consequence of individual things and locates them in precise places in space and time. Individuation is the consequence of dimensionality, and dimensionality is what takes place when the Oneness (God) alienates itself in Nature. It does so, as Hegel showed so brilliantly in his philosophy of dialectical evolution, in order to attain Absolute Knowledge and to return to itself on a much higher dialectical level, indeed at the ultimate level - the Omega Point. It alienates itself in order to undergo the process of completing itself.

Oneness - pure, pure eternal Oneness - is a sterile environment. In order for evolution to reach a summit, in order for teleology to be fully satisfied, alienation is a necessity. Dimensionality - "Maya" - must be imposed on the dimensionless. The One must experience the Many. But the Many must ultimately return to the One and the One will then be vastly superior to what it was before because of all that it has learned through being many, through having experienced reality through the dimensional prism. That is the true tale of the cosmos, encapsulated by r >= 0. r = 0 "expands" into r > 0 and, finally, r > 0 returns to r = 0 to complete the cosmic cycle. Using scientific jargon, we might say that the hypothetical "Big Crunch" reverses the "Big Bang". The Big Bang came from "nothing" (r = 0), and creates the physical universe (r > 0). The big Crunch is the opposite process, returning r > 0 to "nothing" (r = 0). And it thus brings to and end one Age of the universe. But, of course, a new one always begins. The universe does not end in stasis. It never stops. There are infinite Ages because existence can never come to an end. The central, defining property of existence is, of course, that it exists and cannot not exist. It is best described by the First Law of Thermodynamics that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

But energy is the arche, the fundamental substance of existence, hence existence itself cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Existence (energy) cannot ever cease to be. New existence (energy) cannot ever be created (thus disproving the existence of a Creator God who contradicts the First Law by making things out of nothing). Existence cannot choose to not exist. Existence is forever. We exist and so we are forever. We die, but do not thereby cease to exist. Death is just a dimensional means of transforming energy into new expressions of energy. Nothing is destroyed by death other than a particular energy configuration, which is immediately and seamlessly replaced by a new configuration. "

~ Michael Faust, 'Abraxas: Beyond Good and Evil'

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has clothed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."

~ William Blake

Artwork: 'Representation of Climax' by Cameron Gray

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