W6 D4 After The Fall
What is this thing called Conscience? Why should we feel pangs of guilt or of having fallen short of the standard? Is it ingrained in our being?
In order to understand it we need to understand where we come from. Our material body is made up heavy elements scattered about by stars in their dying throes. Each of us is recycled out of matter in Cosmos: not a single molecule was created new for the purpose but drawn from every element, that was around since the Big Bang. At that point when matter was condensed to a point we all have had our place. There was no space or time outside that point.
Consider a square drawn on a balloon before it is filled with air. It represents you. Do you not see the square drawn on the balloon stretching out as it is blown to its maximum? The shape has changed but still your place is there. Similarly in an expanding cosmos you may consider yourself as a terrestrial being but your position is represented as it was before the balloon was filled with air. That position is Absolute position.
We are ‘star children’ (as I had stated in my post of W1day 4) and we happen to have made earth our home. As such each of us has a position in terms of cosmos which is called Absolute position. Consequently we have a viewpoint, which is as unique as of everybody else.
If we think we are terrestrial creatures well we are only right in a general sense.
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In a musical composition in E-flat for example the tone E- flat is the one towards all other tones seem to be attracted.
In relation to Truth Absolute every life form holds a position. Terrestrial beings that we are and struggling each day for a place in the sun our actions keep referring to it. All our values have time and place but they refer to Oneness which express Absolute Value. What we occupy is a relative position.
Tailpiece: In Christian theology the Fall (of Adam) must be this fall from Absolute position.
benny
3 Comments:
"In relation to Truth Absolute every life form holds a position."
so (trying to understand) our life must be in relation to a fixed point and Truth is that point. ?
It's hard to comprehend a time when There was no space or time outside that point. no wonder I feel out of place :)
I enjoyed reading this. Thank you!
so Truth Absolute exploded, Big Bang! is everything guilty including all life forms?
We all hold a position so would 'lower forms' of life. Since we humans have made abstract thinking an ideal, Truth has become much more vital to us. It holds more urgency on account of it. A dog will make sense of his world by smell. Even so it behaves in a characteristic fashion. So one observing it will not confuse for a cat or another. We sense our way to Truth. That doesn't mean any one has got it 100% right. Hence think of life as a learning process.Only was to do it is in the thick of humanity in relation to others.
As for absence of time refer to my post Week 3 where I defined Time as experience. Reality for candle and for King Arthur being different. ( King Arthur and Merlin story.
Guilt is theological. Let us say we are all displaced persons.Is it not then appropriate to be more understanding and willing to be corrected where necessary?
I am glad that my posts please you.
Best wishes,
benny.
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