W13 D2- Correspondence of the Likes

Problem of comparison is of particular consequence to us since man has laid emphasis on abstract thinking as an ideal. Other species have their own emphases. Now I shall stick to our own kind. Our ideals only tell us one thing: we have ideas. If such an idea is the distaff on which Christianity is spun how can we compare our beliefs with another whose religious practices run contrary to our own?
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Cosmos is all-enveloping in which many universes come into being and die their violent deaths. All those elements they throw out are not lost but give rise to many forms of which we are one among many beneficiaries. In that infinite space we see the stars, moon and the sun. Now if we were to look into an atom we see another kind of Cosmos, a micro-cosmos where matter in the form of fundamental particles have their own orbital path. Planets in orbiting around the Sun obey certain laws; we find protons and electrons in micro-cosmos also similarly observe laws.
Correspondence
A molecule is kind of a universe in itself in that so many atoms are tucked within. If one were to peek within an atom one could see that it corresponds to our universe: correspondence of the likes. Cosmos and the micro-cosmos set in comparison by our oneness. That being the case how we access to absolute values or Idea is by means of our material make up. If we have found God is because we have discovered our own bodies. Correspondence of the likes. If an animist worships a tree he has found the all-enveloping nourishing force that connects him to it. If we reckon our bodies why not trees that sustains them? What elements we cannot digest directly from soil do they not do for us? (Let us not be blind or ostrich-like to think our material body is all- sufficient.) The otherworldly quality of matter provides us the framework within which to test our ideas. There is no other tutor we can rely on.
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