As promised last week, I am now going to take a look at who or what is the ABSOLUTE. You have heard me use this term repeatedly and as the word implies, it somehow represents the very pinnacle of being. Religions talk about the god of this or that. Some talk of a single god that is the only game in town. Well, somehow, the Absolute is over all these concepts and I am going to set out to explain why.
In the last presentation, I talked about the Anti-Verse being a state of existence that is beyond space and time. It contains limitless numbers of primordial atoms, monads if you will, but these monads are unconscious. In the Hebrew Bible, you read terms like “in the beginning, there was the Word”. What is the Word? Whatever it is, it was there at the beginning. The interesting thing about this Word is that it has the habit of “hovering over the waters”. This expanse of water can also be called the ‘Deep”. In my earlier presentations, I proposed that the ‘Deep’ represented undifferentiated primordial matter. Somehow there is a relationship between this matter and the state of infinite potential it represents and the Absolute itself. Clearly, the two are separate. The Absolute, called in the Bible as the Word, ‘was with God and was God’. OK, now we know that this ‘Word’ is somehow a god. We also know it exists in the Anti-Verse because it is hovering over the ‘Deep’. What happens next? This god decides to have a brainwave and pronounces, “let there be light”. Great, at least we can see what is going on now. How would you describe light? We all know that there is always matter present in any phenomenon. So, light has to be matter. But we already had matter, it was primordial matter, existing in the ‘Deep’, being infinitely dense and infinitely elastic. How does the ‘light’ being described by God, relate to all the other matter that makes up the Anti-Verse?
This is where things get interesting and complicated. When the Absolute says, “let there be light”, what is in fact happening is that the Absolute is having a thought. You can not say “let there be light” without thinking about it first, so the thought precedes the action of light coming into being. Let us imagine this thought as a bubble forming in the midst of the infinite mass of the Anti-Verse. We know this can happen because the Anti-Verse is infinitely elastic. It can accommodate any sized thought you can imagine. Into this thought bubble goes the light. Where did this light come from? It came from the undifferentiated mass of primordial matter. Now comes the challenging part. Let’s take one primordial atom and transfer it from the Anti-Verse into this thought bubble. Let us now call this thought bubble the ‘Universe’. What has changed? The first thing is the name of this primordial atom. It is now referred to as a primary atom. Why? Because it no longer resides in the Anti-Verse. It is in a defined space now, that has dimension and has only existed for a certain period of time. Two new concepts have suddenly turned up, space and time. They were not there before but they are now. Clearly, a lot has changed.
I want to start by looking at what this primary atom actually is. You may say to me, we know what it is. It is a monad and you have told us that it is a primary atom. But how does this primary atom relate to a primordial atom? What has exactly changed? I am going to start by asking you to get your head around something that is not the easiest thing to assimilate. I may regret saying this but the monad, this primary atom is nothing more than an empty space within the Anti-Verse. There, I have said it. I am basically saying the monad is ‘nothing’. Before you lose the will to live, hear me out. The Universe exists within the Anti-Verse, they are collectively known as the Meta-Verse. Somehow, these two states of being are the mirror image of each other, with some additional features like consciousness and motion thrown into the mix. Although the primary atom seems very real in our Universe, after all, it is the smallest unit of matter, compared to the Anti-Verse, it is just empty space. The way I have represented it is, obviously, two-dimensional. But in reality, this monad just appears out of the Anti-Verse and into the Universe, in a space that is actually a thought bubble created by the Absolute. The implications of this are huge. It means we are living in the subjective reality of this all-encompassing being, we call God. If we are part of this God’s thought processes, are we just a figment of its imagination? No, we are very real, but where are we real? Are we real in the Universe or are we real in the Anti-Verse? I warned you this was going to get complicated.
I am going to present this as best I understand it. The Absolute presides over a universe that it dreams up. This universe is populated by primordial atoms that transfer into it and in the process develop three inseparable characteristics. They have a matter component, which I have just told you is actually an empty space. They have rotational spin, which we will call motion. This is somehow related to energy and they have the potential now to become conscious, as they have space between themselves and this space is maintained by a magnetic field. I intend to go into this trinity of attributes in greater detail in a future presentation.
Where is the real world for our Absolute? It is clearly not our universe. This is just a thought construct. Reality for the Absolute is the Anti-Verse. We are a figment of its imagination. Now we are in a position to return to the question, who or what is the Absolute? The Absolute is a monad, yes you heard me correctly, it is just a monad like you or I, but this particular monad is fully conscious and is not surrounded by any form of envelopes like you and me are. This monad has in past aeons and universes, been activated by other monads, who themselves lived within the thought bubbles of previous monads that had dreamed up their own universe. Now our particular Absolute is in a position to create a universe of its own and we happen to be in it.
If the monad is just having a thought, it is not actually in our universe at all. It stands at the boundary of what it has dreamed up and the reality that is the Anti-Verse. It does not enter our universe, just as you do not enter your thoughts. You have them and can imagine all sorts of things, but your thoughts always remain a subjective reality. This puts paid to the whole notion of the All-Mighty God that creates the Universe, somehow being directly involved with all that is going on in our life. The Absolute is not tallying up all our sins and demanding retribution for them. If there is any governance going on in our universe, it is not being done by the Absolute. The Absolute just creates the space within which a whole host of monads go through the process of waking up.
So, is there only one God? The answer is, no. There is one absolute that creates our Universe, but this Absolute was itself nurtured within the thought projection of one or multiple other absolutes. It went through its own evolutionary cycles until it was able to instigate a process by which new universes are brought into existence. This universe clearly has further to run and I intend to carry on with my narration in the next presentation.