Random Writings Under a Tree

I have been, I suppose, a man ever in search of an education (I think that defines me, my life, up until now -- neither food nor water nor shelter but an education have I searched for).

Education is about more than building mental structures; it is about more than attachment to or fascination with ideas.

I am convinced that a proper education starts with a proper understanding of the nature and essence of Deity or God -- the source of all things; and equally am I convinced that the fundamental problem of human existence at an individual and social level is a lack of proper understanding of God's nature. The man truly in search of an education, therefore, is the man truly in search of God.

God is not the Creator -- that is a lesser god than the one of which I speak. I do not, therefore, speak of Jehovah, Jupiter, Shiva, Osiris, Allah, or any of the other appellations for what the Greeks referred to as the Demiurgus. The Creator god is a "jealous" god, and steals from the source god in order create his forms. The source god is a higher god, an unmanifest, uncreate god that stands "beneath" creation as the dark earth stands beneath the organic life on our planet -- the formless source of all form. (I do not mean "beneath" in a spatial sense; in fact, manifestation happens in a concentric manner, therefore, the source god, though still the "dark earth", stands far outside His creation.)

Idea is the only substance. Forms are images and reflections of substance, and, therefore, they are completely insubstantial.

For the "inertially-trained" mind (conditioned by "physical existence" -- the latter being almost an oxymoron for the idealist), "substance" might be equated to, or related more closely to, form rather than to idea. But, for the one acquainted with reality, idea is the only substance. God is the ideal, and, therefore, the substantial.

Pure substance, and also pure motion (non-inertial motion), we become acquainted with in dream states, under the influence of exogenous DMT-like substances, at death, or upon spiritual illumination, i.e. liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

[Things get a bit hazy here but I thought I would leave it in -- I have to stop writing now: ]

The Ancients spoke of Man as an upside down plant -- referring principally to the central nervous system (the evidence of mind) with its roots in the cranium (the "heavens," supported by Atlas, the highest of the vertebrae of the spinal column) and its main trunk being the spinal cord, with all its branches exiting the vertebral foramen. The upside down analogy can be carried farther. For, as implied, we do not experience motion, but only its reflection, while living in the physical sphere -- likewise we do not experience substance, but only its refection. This brings us to the great forces of "being" -- involution (manifestation) and evolution (demanifestation or return to source).

In the upside down world that which is up must eventually come down (the world we inhabit). But, in the spirit world that which involves itself in creation ("goes down") must eventually evolve itself out of creation ("go back up").

That which is whole is that which is number.

I thought this on abike, not under a tree: Knowledge is not knowledge unless it is holistic -- or rather wholistic -- i.e. knowledge of the whole. At least part of me is convinced that partial knowledge, therefore, has another name, ignorance.