Ripples of Will

“You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a
wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again
merge in Him.” Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)

If all the oceans of the world were to suddenly become still, so still that one
could not discern the great ocean body from that of solid land; it would
require but a single disturbance from below or above that would result in
ripples, ripples which would apodictically reveal the true vicissitudinary
nature of the water itself. I find it quite telling that the most defining
characteristic of water is its dynamic state of form, wherein one moment it is
solid and the next sublimated into that ethereal evanescence which time and
time again has proven itself quite adroit in ratifying the illusory mirage and
obfuscating what can be called truth. Water has no true form of its own, any
form taken is done so as according to the environmental conditions relative
to it. Water has no inherent direction, speed, or state, it derives all of its
characteristics from the environmental conditions which conjured its
presence in the first place. Human Will as with all transcendental
metaphysical elements has no form of it's own, as it is the precipitated
manifestation of supernal principles which culminate into the undulating
ocean known as The Soul.

It was Blaise Pascal who said "We are only falsehood, duplicity,
contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves". Such
a sentiment bears witness to the inherent duplicity so evident within the
core nature of humankind; it is this antipodal principle pertaining to self-
hood which no doubt lead to mere velleities, and premised in no small part
by akrasia and it's myriad of contributory forces, exemplifies the multivalent
nature within humankind. "Enosh hu Shinnujim vekahmmah tebhaoth haj" is
the Chaldean saying for 'man is a living creature of varied, multiform and
ever changing nature."

Choice serves as the potential for a willful act, volition serves as the faculty
by which will is enacted, however there remains absent an identifiable
absolute determinate impetus by which any decision is reached. Causa latet
vis est notissima is a Latin phrase meaning "The cause is hidden but the
result is well known", a fitting descriptive for volition when considered from
a linear perspective. How does the shadow predict the movement which has
yet to come, let alone comprehend the motive which drives the individual to
movement initially? Humanity is the shadow which serves as simulacrum for
principles so sacrosanct they premise both the cause and the result. The
elucidation of etiological principles as they may pertain to will and its
seemingly recondite paradigm is in my view the sine qua non in identifying
the very self-hood of humankind, and thus setting the standard for the
identification of culpability or probity in any regard.

The heart does not produce blood, the marrow within the bones do so. It is
the heart that distributes the blood throughout the body. However is not
biological principle responsible for the relationship, function, purpose and
intricate design of each of the organs and of the blood itself? Scripture states
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood...for it is the blood that makes
atonement for the soul";(Lev 17:11) yet scripture leaves to question how
ones source of spiritual marrow is contrived.

The fatuous assertion that an act committed thereby establishes the very
principles, and potentials that made the act possible in the first place is to
say that the apple that falls from the tree is responsible for the
establishment of gravity itself. The result is always the subject of a cause
and is thus limited to the parameters dictated by the core principles of the
cause. Adam and Eve and their story of transgression is a demonstration of
result from cause, however it is cause and its root principles that are most
deserving of our utmost attention, for the principles of cause as it relates to
will is where we must begin if there is to be any fruitful discernment
regarding choices made.

If we consider the inherent nature of Adam and Eve to be the sole impetus
for their decision then upon what premise are they culpable? Certainly they
made the decision however the decision made would really be an eventual
inevitability as dictated by a flawed nature. There are many who would posit
that no such inherent moral flaw existed within Adam & Eve's nature
whatsoever; and that the only flaw was the choice made. However if they
were pure and had no inherent inequalities within their nature then the fact
that such a choice was made, and even more so desired at all, remains
inconsistent with a pure and flawless nature and thereby introduces some
type of inequality. A choice made evidences values, which in turn are
indicative of roots which have stemmed forth from seeds latent with all
types of volitional potentials. What manner of soil is it that provides
nutriment for such seeds to mature within the soul; and even more, what is
responsible for the origin and potential for the seeds of volition which lay
dormant within humankind?

There is no majority in all and there is no minority in none, there simply is

that which is. However partiality could just as easily serve as the true name
for the God of Abraham, who has so often times been made frustrated,
angry, or saddened by the obdurate creatures upon which life was
bestowed. The God of Abraham serves as a paragon of perfection and as
such relegates all else which is apart from 'God' or not 'God' to be
imperfection; even if it were merely an infinitesimal difference, there still
remains ever present an absolute difference. Creation is thereby cursed
inherently as that which is created is never truly perfect unless the creation
be itself the creator. Upon what premise does that which is perfect expect
that which is not perfect to adhere to a standard of perfection?

Upon what fortitude is the will of humankind premised that it should warrant
any expectation of complicity with that of a perfect law imposed? The
express directive from a perfect being to that of a less than perfect being
should result in an imperfect condition as there is a fault introduced into the
equation. I find it questionable that the God of Abraham would be at all
dismayed that Adam and Eve would manifest their imperfections, namely in
moral aptitude and volition, since such an event was anticipated before the
formation of the earth itself by the Creator.

Scripture is clear in the fact that the God of Abraham had provided a
preeminent plan of adoption into oneness with The Christ; thus exposing a
foreknowledge of humankind's venality and ultimate inability to uphold a
perfect standard, a condition which would inexorably lead the whole of
humankind into eternal torment and suffering unless an alternative condition
be rendered.

"For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and
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blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to son-ship
through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will" Ephesians
1:3-5

"He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away". Antione de Saint Exupery

Perfection is an ideal conditional state which can be applied to a plethora of

things in so much that even the abominable can be fully complete and
faultless (i.e. perfect) in its particular expression. The cycle of the human
soul as it would appear from a linear perspective does for some length of
time find itself in a state of sublime quiescence, blissful and calm just as that
body of water which sits in perfect stillness, and then without warning the
ripples emerge. Ripples which in turn become waves, waves which evolve
into tsunamis which thrash about in obeisance to the raging unrest of the
whole. Even without knowledge for the cause of the ripple the fact that a
ripple can be caused at all reveals the true nature of the beast.
"And like the ocean, day by day receiving Floods from all lands, which never
overflows Its boundary-line not leaping, and not leaving, Fed by the rivers,
but un-swelled by those; So is the perfect one! To his soul's ocean The world
of sense pours streams of witchery; They leave him as they find, without
commotion, Taking their tribute, but remaining sea." - Bhagavad-Gita

What is to be said of the Creator who in turn regrets the tumultuous sway of
the will, and looks to punish the waves for the movement of the oceanic
body itself? Is the very intrinsic nature of the deep to blame, or perhaps the
cause? Perhaps lurking in the remote corners of actuality we will find
principle, and we can place blame there. Either way the waves simply serve
as the manifestation of what was caused and in turn propagates to every
extent of itself what in turn initially caused it. The calming of the waters in
no part obviates the eventual ripple or potential for the ripple to occur it only
besets a condition of preference. Distinction between the placid and the
torrential are merely states of condition but in no way changes the medium
nor obviates its inherent nature. Preference is partiality however there is no
preference in All only that which is.

Scripture states 1 Corinthians 15:26 "The last enemy that shall be

destroyed is death"; but what of contradictory will and the desire to stand in
opposition? Such conditions are never destroyed by the God of Abraham or
done away with regardless of the fact that willful opposition to God is the
guilty culprit that led to this abysmal nadir we have come to know as life, or
so the meme is taught.
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"Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface
of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters"- Gen 1:2
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And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the
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light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called
the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening,
and there was morning—the first day. -Gen 1:3-5

Dare we take note that darkness preceded the Light in so much that the
conditional state of things as it pertains to the great universal event known
as 'The Creation', began first in a state of darkness and it was God who first
initiated antithesis and championed the first division?

Light from darkness, right from wrong, good from bad; these are
disjunctives which stem from the root of partiality resulting in division which
in turn leads to conflict. War is a condition that finds its existence in the
ability to oppose another. Alas the first and only sin, individuality.

"Yea! whoso, shaking off the yoke of flesh Lives lord, not servant, of his
lusts;
set free From pride, from passion, from the sin of 'Self'"...Bhagavad-Gita

...."Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The

better fight" Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 29)

Ubiquitous are the many oceans of luminous beings that compose the
heavens and radiate their effulgent display of resistance to the universal
force which twists and shapes the very fabric of our physical paradigm. The
fight to resist succumbing to the magnitude of the self and being completely
consumed by the abyss of individuality is an insurmountable burden. As the
stars resist their inevitable collapse in upon themselves their stories of
heroic resistance to the very force which called them into existence initially,
ripples throughout the universe in the form of light.

"And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to
the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness
we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it."- Adam
Weishaupt

As with all manifestation within this dimensional construct of experience, will

is the aggregate result of the undulations of greater fundamental forces.
Skandhas providing vindication for the illusory experience known as
individuality, which from the perspective of conscious mind could in fact be
no other than sentience in its truest form. Just as gravity and light are two
very distinct manifestations of predicating principles so too is the will of
humanity.

Pratityasamutpada posits that nothing in conventional reality is ever brought

about by any single cause, but by concomitance of a number of conditioning
factors arising in discernibly repeated patterns. Cause in the metaphysical
context is not indication of prior motion but interrelated principles which
serve as noumenal predicates. Thus there is no first cause or root cause so
to speak, for cause and effect are not divisible but a dualistic axiom wherein
demarcation between the two occur only as experiential phenomena.

Dukkha that transcendent disquietude of the soul serves as a catalyst for

intent wherein satiation is an otiose endeavor. To sate the intent is to
embark on yet another pursuit, for just as a circle has no end the intention
has no satisfaction just a continual cycle of pursuit.
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And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of
congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; - Isaiah 14:13

Sedition is but a single ripple in the infinitude of will, a single color within the
endless spectrum of intentions light which would have no form or distinction
whatsoever if not for its antipodal constituents. Intent is but the prismatic
expression of the formless form known as the will, ever changing in purpose,
shape, expression, and yet always remaining steadfast in its syncretistical
nature wherein Love and Selfishness find themselves the offspring of a
common root. Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus... (love is rich with
both honey and venom)

"Whether we take as an example the holy LOVE of a mother for her child or
that of a husband for his wife even in these feelings, when analyzed to the
very bottom and thoroughly sifted, there is still selfishness in the first, and
an egoisme a deux in the second instance. What mother would not sacrifice
without moment's hesitation hundreds and thousands of lives for that of the
child of her heart?"
-Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life - John 3:16"

How beneficent that the God of Abraham would provide humankind with a
perfect choice; and how fitting it is that such an offering does very little to
alter the ignominious fate of the vast majority as such a choice in no way
obviates the akratic nature of the will but instead only exposes its inherent
multivalent expression.

Satan opposes the intent of The Almighty, but not will itself for will serves as
the premise of opposition. The God of Abraham is an individual and as such
possesses intent thereby making a clear distinction between an
immeasurable being and the noumenal principles which manifest as will. If
the salvation of human kind is in fact the most exigent desire held by the
God of Abraham then it would seem fitting that the sway of the will and even
more so its antipodal paradigm would be re-constructed so as to ensure
probity for the vast majority.

However God vs. Satan, good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, sin vs. righteousness,
are but the recognition of the varying polarities of intent wherein the will in
its infinite degrees are made manifest. Will is relegated to the condition of
being, it is an existential component without which there would be no soul.
Thus without opposing extremes there is no distinction, no individuality, no
right and no wrong and therefore no establishment of any other being apart
from self as there would be no self to be distinguished apart from. Malum in
se or "Evil in itself" is the product of intention, the antithetical principal
birthed from the bifurcous axiom of duality.

Love itself is capable of serving as a transcendental ameliorant,however

Love in no way changes the nature of the dualistic paradigm from which it is
rooted, but instead inexorably propagates its nature. Love always hopes,
always perseveres, always strives for what is correct and pure. Love is the
light within the darkness of the universal soul shining forth to all ends of
eternity without cease. Love is perfection. Yet just as the stars who resist
the inevitable collapse from the weight of their own mass so too does Love
resist the inevitable antithesis of its own individuality.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths

surpassing reason.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

The fundamental philosophical principle of Buddhism is that all our suffering

comes about as a result of an undisciplined mind, and this untamed mind
itself comes about because of ignorance and negative emotions.-'Dzogchen:
The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection' - Dalai Lama
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but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away
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and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin,
when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. James 1:13-15
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When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and
pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some
and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he
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ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they
were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves. Genesis 3:6

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in
the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to
life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like
the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from
you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
Buddha

Liberation from pain, suffering, and the subsequent inequities that occur as
the result of the inchoate individual self is for some a congenital
predilection. Transcendence is the experience of existence beyond the
material world, beyond the boundaries of the categorical individual self and
into emergence of the eternal soul wherein no distinction between another
exists but instead only a complete recognition of the union that is. Sublime
quiescence and awareness of the blissful state of inerrancy is according to
the majority of philosophies and various esoteric wisdom one of the most
grand blessings bestowed upon humankind and as such gives premise to the
unique properties of volition.

"Oh unsurpassed generosity of God the Father, Oh wondrous and

unsurpassable felicity of man,
to whom it is granted to have what he chooses, to be what he wills to be!
The brutes, from the
moment of their birth, bring with them, as Lucilius says, ``from their
mother's womb'' all that
they will ever possess. The highest spiritual beings were, from the very
moment of creation, or
soon thereafter, fixed in the mode of being which would be theirs through
measureless eternities.
But upon man, at the moment of his creation, God bestowed seeds pregnant
with all possibilities,
the germs of every form of life. Whichever of these a man shall cultivate, the
same will mature
and bear fruit in him...

If vegetative, he will become a plant; if sensual, he will become brutish; if

rational, he will reveal himself a heavenly being; if intellectual, he will be an
angel and the son of
God. And if, dissatisfied with the lot of all creatures, he should recollect
himself into the center of
his own unity, he will there become one spirit with God, in the solitary
darkness of the Father,
Who is set above all things, himself transcend all creatures" - Giovanni Pico
Della Mirandola

If volitional acts serve as the prime determinate and measure of ones self-
hood, and such a self-hood is malleable to the extent that by utilization of
will it can be redefined and transformed into what we call divine; then is not
the identification and understanding of the will in all of its facets not of the
utmost importance?

The human will is a concomitance of transcendental principles which in turn

serves as the foundation of human experience, and even more so sentience;
however in regards to the impetus of volition, such a thing still remains
hidden. 'A posse ad esse' "From possibility to actuality", What does it mean
for an individual to go from a potential act of volition to acting on the
potential? What is the initial act that takes place that triggers the movement
of the will? By what source determinate was the volitional decision chosen in
the first place? If will is an equipoise of potentiality what serves to tip it in
any particular direction?

This is really a phenomenological question similar to Zenos paradoxical issue

regarding finishing an infinite number of tasks: how can one ever get from A
to B, if an infinite number of events can be identified that need to precede
the arrival at B, and one cannot reach even the beginning of a "last event"?

Phenomena is an express manifestation of time and as such is unrelated to

the etiological; therefore all possibilities and potentials pertaining to
volitional acts simply are. That is to say that there is no absolute cause or
source impetus for a decision made; for as stated previously, 'cause in the
metaphysical context is not indication of prior motion but instead
interrelated principles which serve as noumenal predicates. Thus there is no
first cause or root cause so to speak, for cause and effect are not divisible
but a dualistic axiom wherein demarcation between the two occur only as
experiential phenomena.'

Thus all humankind is liberated and all humankind simultaneously damned;

this is the proverbial yin and yang of the Universal Spirit. All potentials exist
simultaneously, so that the one who is rescued from drowning in the waves,
is the same one that perished within them, and all conditional potentials in
regards to circumstances involved down to the most minute detail are
written and played out eternally. What has plagued me so deeply was how
any volitional being was set on any course; for whatever serves as the
source impetus for ones volitional movement is then the true definition of
self-hood so I had previously concluded. It confused me how some were to
wander unaware in the abyss of Samsara while others are to transcend into
the glory of selflessness and completeness. How is it that some achieve the
awards of Heaven while others suffer the torment of Hell?

The answer became more evident when considering the issue sub specie
aeternitatis where possibility and actuality are one in the same and where
movement, cessation, and absolute non-movement are also one in the
same. The 13 transcendental categorical states or conditions are...

1. That which is
2. That which is not
3. That which has been
4. That which has not been
5. That which will be
 6. That which will never be
7. That which is and is not simultaneously
8. That which has been, and has not been simultaneously
9. That which will be and will never be simultaneously
10. That which is all of the previously stated
11. That which is none of the previously stated
12. That which is all and none of the previously stated simultaneously
13. That which is ineffable, in-cognizable, wholly other and unbound
(being/non-being)

All of these categorical conditions represent a panoptic view of the

transcendental undulation of the soul. The will does not move anymore so
than does direction as a concept. Direction as a concept simply refers to the
relative experience and conditions of that which in fact does move, could
move, or has a direct or indirect relationship to movement; however
direction as a concept in and of itself has no inherent direction as the
concept itself supersedes the experience that it categorically defines. The
undulation of "the will" is in essence potentiality as experienced from the
perspective of the finite, or the mutability of the soul as witnessed from a
linear perspective. There is no majority in the concept of All, and there is no
minority in None; such delineations emerge from the perspective of the finite
where majority and minority gain existence as distinct relative points within
infinitude, and concepts such as All and None serve as simulacrum for that
dualistic axiom known as awareness.

Thus there are some to whom it would seem are hopelessly bound to fate
and others that are seemingly wholly unbound by the fetters of individuality
to the degree that others are made more complete due to their
magnanimous and selfless acts. There are those that are seemingly blessed
or favored by "God" or inversely cursed seemingly without provocation.
Karma has no beginning or first cause nor does Moksha or Samsara have a
beginning or an end or any absolute difference as both spring from the same
source of perception. There is no first cause or final end, no absolute state of
"during" or a transcendental "now" so to speak. There are simply the infinite
prismatic expression of intention as founded by will which can only be known
as experience, and known only through experience.

"Silly Pig"

Human: I pity you.

Pig: Ok.
Human: You will never know what I know. You will never be capable of
what I am capable of. I am your superior.

Pig: How wonderful!

Human: Silly pig, you mistake my superiority over you as something

wonderful, You are so ignorant, and therefore ultimately subject to my will.

Pig: Yes it is true that I do not recognize superiority. It is true I am

ignorant. It is true you can do with me according to your will and I could do
very little to oppose it.

Human: What is so wonderful about that?

Pig: Well as a pig I think that it’s wonderful that you care about pity,
superiority, and power because that means I have more time to focus on
eating. To have to spend time feeling bad about the fact that the blue jay
will never be like me could interfere with my eating schedule. So I find it
wonderful that you are superior enough to do that instead.

Human: You just will never get it.

Pig: Well I’m hungry I get that.

Human: Don’t you see that if you had a higher intellect and awareness of
life you could obtain more food than you could ever consume and be even
happier?

Pig: No. I don’t wish for better circumstances any more-so than the
chipmunk wishes to swim among the dolphins. We are both busy being what
we are and not concerned about anything more.

Human: Well when you are out of food and ready to be made into bacon
you will not find your situation to be so wonderful.

Pig: When I am out of food and starving I will continue to look for food
because that has always been and will remain important to me. When I go
through the process of being slaughtered I will experience pain. However I
will not pity myself nor regret the circumstance. I am what I am and
therefore will be what I be.

Human: Silly pig.

 “The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts
the best wine; after-wards the constant weight of it brings
forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the
vat.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
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because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and
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complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask
God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to
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him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who
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doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man
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should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-
minded man, unstable in all he does. James 1:2-7

“May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make
you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make
you happy.” - Author Unknown

“That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our
hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to
advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence
with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the
darkness, to reach the light.”- Albert Pike

The countless proverbs espoused by those who have been made more
complete by the trials in their lives make clear just how felicitous and
necessary trials really are for the advancement of the human soul. Yet stare
into the eyes of a parent who has lost their child to some tragic occurrence,
or the one to whom hope has completely abandoned or overlooked
altogether and you will witness only an echo of what that person once had
been.

What of those who are inextricably bound to the nightmare of Hell? Are
these just simply another slice within the infinite conditional state of
existence? Is it the 'Silly Pig' who should be pitied or perhaps the human
being who is inherently bereft of such equanimity and peace when regarding
life's many exigencies?
The truth so far as it has revealed itself to me makes clear that damnation in
contrast to liberation is in fact no more inappropriate or out of place than
that of a triangle when compared to the circle; both are expressions which
spring forth from the common root of perception. The conditional state of
any soul is but one instance of its infinite potential.

Some are committed to the escape of individuality or what is known as 'the

self', inexorably moved toward transcendence into greater awareness, while
others share more in common with the "Silly Pig" in that they have no
appetite for anything more than fulfillment of the most basic carnal desires.
Desires which serve to subsist the carnal craving for yet another round of
otiose endeavors which only serve to swell the flames of its own rapacity.

The scale that's true serves as measure only and ensures equanimity
between the antipodal extremes. Left from Right is differentiation of
direction from a relative perspective, as is good in comparison to bad a
differentiation of perceived value from that of another; thus there is no
absolute directive which would serve as a premise for what should be, in
regards to volitional acts, but instead the axiomatic principle of pure being or
that which establishes absolute being/non-being fundamentally, serves to
establish the metaphysical field of infinite potentiality, and as such
possesses no partiality, nor any preference for a specific act over that of
another.

"...Yet potent and unerring, the Overruling Law of Justice, meting out
to every individual his own quota of merit and demerit. It is impartial; it
bestows no favors; it inflicts no unearned punishments; It knows not wrath
nor
pardon; utter-true It measures mete, its faultless balance weighs"...
- James Allen - "All Things Added"

When two individuals face off in a game of chess what transpires is the
expression of insight into an already predetermined sequence of
eventualities. The players of the game focus their gaze so as to discover that
which is plainly visible to any with a discerning understanding; the truth
hidden in plain sight. The game of chess at its core is a scale whereby the
sagacity of one is measured against another in such a manner so as to
unequivocally expose inequalities of the lesser opponent, which at its root, is
ignorance to some degree when taking into account the full potentialities,
ramifications and eventualities of a given act or acts pertaining to the game.

There are no actions whatsoever made by the players of the chess game
which in any way change or effect the nature of the game itself. All potential
actions and results are due to the existence of the game itself which in turn
dictates and gives premise to the seemingly innumerable potentials, and
conditions experienced by the players of the game.

In the event that two players should possess an infallible knowledge of the
game of chess whereby all potential eventualities are known, then stale
mate is the final absolute state that can and will occur if in fact the game
itself be void of any inherent inequality on its part. The players need not
even move the pieces on the chess board if in fact they both are perfect
players because the purpose of the game, which is to expose inequality,
would therefore be nullified by the fact that no such inequality exists
between the two. Ergo the state of sublime quiescence wherein absolute
balance is recognized and inherent dualities synthesized into the reality of
unity, and absolute oneness is exemplified.

Experience metaphysically speaking, exists as a bi-product of inequality or

lacking to some extent, and is proportional to the degree of ignorance which
comprises an individuals perspective. "The Game" represents a seemingly
innumerable amount of circumstances and degrees all of which depict a
specific condition between being and non-being. These representations are
in fact the lives, actions, and experiences of all people, in all circumstances,
which are, are to be, have always been, will never be and so on as
represented within the 13 transcendental categorical states. The game of
reality so to speak never wins, loses, or comes to balance but establishes
the potentials for such conditions, and represents all such conditions
simultaneously all the while exceeding the experiential conditions which it
categorically defines.

The determination as to whether a move is good or bad depends upon the

categorical circumstances and individual intent during game play. However
the game of chess itself neither wins nor loses nor has preference for any
particular player, move or circumstance, but instead delineates types of
players as winners, losers, or balanced. The infallible masters of the game of
chess neither win nor lose when matched against one another for they are
both one in the same in the sense that both are perfect players and
therefore are neither greater than any other master but are instead of one
mind in being able to fully realize and ideate the depth of the game to its
fullest extent.

The varying manifestations of the will as represented within humankind are

in essence the categorical conditions that result as the manifest expression
of ones measure of applied ignorance or wisdom. There are highs and there
are lows, there is good, there is bad and these conditions are but apart of
the overall balance of that which exists. It is that which defies any
categorical assignment of existence wherein the game "resides" so to speak.
Those who play the game of chess are always playing in the past in so much
that the concepts, conditions and eventualities have existed prior to the
players who so assiduously apply their powers of sagacity, and it is the
players who through discovery come to awareness of that which has always
been and will continue to be.

Sorrow and Joy are one in the same in so much that both are varying
degrees within experience, however it is experience as a principle wherein
the potential for both extremes find their roots. Just as the earth spins
allotting a portion of time whereby light shines upon one section of the globe
and leaves the other in darkness so too is the Universal Soul bifurcated so
that it has experience of both light and darkness within varying degrees
whereby the intensity and duration of experience is in direct proportion to
the revolution or cyclic movement of the Soul at its particular point or stage
of development within infinitude.

The revolution serves as reminder of the endless cycle of death and rebirth
wherein the soul fades from day into night and is reborn the following day.
Yet if the revolution were to cease and our great globe were to rest perfectly
still, the earth would be drawn into the All pervasive "Son" and be fully
consumed back into the source from where it has its ultimate origin.
Samsara is not a process of growth in terms of becoming, but is instead an
unbecoming. Salvation is deliverance from the power or penalty of sin,
penalty in this sense does not connote punishment for failing to measure up
to The Standard of an Absolute Morality, but is deliverance from the
condition of individuality; wherein measurement as a law is initially founded.

Causa latet, vis est notissima

{The cause is hidden but the result is well known}

"People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see.
But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular
moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I
come, and to it I always return.”- Neale Donald Walsch

Purusha as known within the Samkhya Hindu School of philosophy is the

Transcendental Self or Pure Consciousness. It is absolute, independent, free,
imperceptible, unknowable, above any experience and beyond any words or
explanation. It remains pure, “non attributive consciousness ” It is thought
to be our true identity, to be contrasted with Prakrti, or the material world,
which contains all of our organs, senses, and intellectual faculties .
The Buddha is recorded as saying that "Just as the word 'chariot' exists on
the basis of the aggregation of parts, even so the concept of 'being' exists
when the five aggregates are available." Just as the concept of a "chariot" is
in actuality a reification, so too is the concept of "being."

Thought serves as the impetus of causation, this universe and all that is
termed "reality" is but a single thought or process therein of which form is
an inherent manifestation. In the prodigiously illuminating and masterful
words of Thomas Troward in his work 'The Creative Process in the
Individual' ...

"Now the only mode of action not of a material nature is Thought, and
therefore to Thought
we must look for the origin of Substance. This places us at a point
antecedent to the
existence even of primary substance, and consequently the initial action
must be that
of the Originating Mind upon itself, in other words, Self-contemplation.

At this primordial stage neither Time nor Space can be recognized, for both
imply measurement
of successive intervals, and in the primary movement of Mind upon itself the
only
consciousness must be that of Present Absolute Being, because no external
points exist from
which to measure extension either in time or space. Hence we must
eliminate the Ideas of time and
space from our conception of Spirit's initial Self-contemplation."

It is in this awakening of Universal Self-Awareness that the equanimity of

the supernal principle is simultaneously established and enacted, the first
and only eternal principle, the first ripple; Being. This awakening of Spirit or
act of First Thought so to speak, supersedes the condition of time as it
serves as the fundamental premise for the existence and experience of time
itself. Awakening then is not a point of occurrence or action but instead the
acknowledgment of Eternal Self contemplation of the Universal Spirit, which
in turn is infinite potential, infinite creativity, infinite actuality and absolute
unity as there is a singularity of all thought, action, potential and expression.

This Universal Movement of Spirit serves as the predicating premise of all

preceding thoughts, potentials, and actions eternally. Therefore what is
premised is premise itself and thus supernal principles emerge and with
them noumenal constituents which serve as the building blocks of creation.
Creation in its truest sense is not process as this would be indicative of time
but is instead absolute potentiality and absolute actualization
simultaneously.

This Holy union of The Eternal Father Absolute Thought with The Eternal
Mother Absolute Potential bears forth the Son of Actuality. The son is the
concomitant result of the union between the Mother and Father and the
Mother is the Absolute Eve whose womb remains dark until inseminated with
the germ of intent. The Mother Eve is the Universe or the maternal nature
which is fully dedicated to birthing forth all seeds of potentiality. This Mother
Eve, The Universal Mother whose womb we gestate within for a time before
being birthed into a more pure abstraction is herself formed from the rib of
the Absolute Adam the Eternal Father Absolute Thought. Not as a secondary
or subordinate but as a corollary to the Eternal Father.

The Rib of Fertility as I would term it, derives from that thoracic cage of arcs
which encircle the very breath of The Father, comprised of the 24 Elders who
surround the most Holy of Holy at the inner throne room of the Father. They
Rise and Fall in rhythmic eternal obeisance to the inhale and exhale of the
Eternal Spirit. It was from this rib cage that the First Eve was formed,
wherein the very marrow of being is established, and latent within this new
birth is the very spiritual DNA of All future offspring.

What of the Eternal Father Absolute Thought? Where does The Father, or the
Universal Spirit derive from? Thought or Spirit is the Ripple of Will. In
regards to The Supernal Principle The Eternal Cause is Cause itself. Will is
the Founding Principle of The Cause. Will in this context is that Principle
which leads beyond into that which there is no description for and which we
shall never acknowledge nor speak of, primarily due to the fact that such
exceeds cognition, experience, or abstraction.

Apophatic articulation in its finest form can at best give us awareness of the
depth to which our womb of sentience separates us from that which lies
beyond Mind altogether. Yet the one thread that points the way to the wall
so to speak is Will. Will must precede thought in that Will does not
contemplate nor consider Self, for it is Will that serves as the foundation for
Awareness and Self-hood. Will when considered from the noumenal
perspective is The Potential, and Actualization of All Being.

"But of reason one cannot say that before the state in which it determines
the power of choice, another state precedes in which this state itself is
determined. For since reason itself is not an appearance and is not subject
at all to any conditions of sensibility, no temporal sequence takes place in it
even as to its causality, and thus the dynamical law of nature, which
determines the temporal sequence according to rules, cannot be applied to
it." - Immanuel Kant (The Critique of Pure Reason)

Will is The Hidden Absolute Cause of All-Being ALL-Thought All-Potential All-

Principle All-Manifestation All-All.
Will in this context is the sine qua non of Absolute Self-Hood. The
Transcendental Absolute Will does not possess
anything such as, motive, intent, ambition, nor any type of specific attribute
that would commonly be imputed as will; but instead establishes all such
attributes infinitely, absolutely, and unconditionally. Just as Thought defines
time and space The Will defines Being and Thought.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” Aristotle

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” - Aristotle

Such a power to do or not do lies not in Being, but in Will, for Being creates
but Will delineates Absolute Being from Non-Being by predicating the
principle of Absoluteness wherein Being self acknowledges thus culminating
into that first drop into the sea of potential, resulting in ripples, ripples which
apodictically reveal the true vicissitudinary nature of the reality itself.

Thus the true will of the individual defies identification or classification by

means of comparison to any absolute, as it supersedes the categorical
condition which it defines. The result of a persons decision is well known, as
are the influential properties and conditions whereby character and person-
hood are revealed. Yet the mystery as to what moves the will so that the
individual is transformed from one type of person to another is well hidden
as such transformations are independent of time, experience, condition or
circumstance. These things are in fact determined by The Will and are
subject to the principles of the the Being birthed forth from the Will itself.
Thus the cause is hidden but the result is well known.

Ab Origine
{From the source}

"In the first place, this theology celebrates the immense principle of things
as something superior even to being itself ; as exempt from the whole of
things, of which it is nevertheless ineffably the source ; and (ix) does not,
therefore, think fit to enumerate it with any triad* or order of beings. Indeed
 it even apologizes for giving the appellation of the most simple of our
conceptions to that which is beyond all knowledge and all conception. It
denominates this principle however, the one and the good; by the former of
these names indicating its transcendent simplicity, and by the latter (x) its
subsistence as the object of desire to all beings. For all things desire good.
At the same time, however, it asserts that these appellations are in reality
nothing more than the parturitions of the soul, which, standing as it were in
the vestibules of the adytum of deity, announce nothing pertaining to the
ineffable, but only indicate her spontaneous tendencies towards it, and
belong rather to the immediate offspring of the first God than to the first
itself. Hence, as the result of this most venerable conception of the supreme,
when it ventures not only to denominate it, though ineffable, but also to
assert something of its relation to other things, it considers this as
preeminently its peculiarity, that it is the principle of principles; it being
necessary that the characteristic property of principle, after the same
manner as other things, should not begin from multitude, but should be
collected into one monad as a summit, and which is the principle of all
principles."

- Iamblicus 'The Mysteries OF THE EGYPTIANS, CHALDEANS, AND

ASSYRIANS.'

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited
in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as
something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task
must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty. -"Albert Einstein

Unity is a law pertaining to wholeness, principle is the premise wherein unity

as a law is established. Every absolute defines its antithetical counterpart as
a concomitant attribute of its very existence. Where there is Being there is
Non-Being, and where antithesis exists so is found contradistinction. Thus
the absolute, its antithetical counterpart and the resulting contradistinction
are all one in the same.

The Soul is a Trilateral Axiom as it is the contradistinction of Absolute-Being

and Absolute-Non-Being.
Contradistinction is a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast, and as such
serves as a dualistic property,
which from a noumenal perspective gives premise to the undulating
vicissitudes of The Soul.

Will or Root Principle serves as The Progenitor so to speak of Absolute Being

of which The Soul is a one-third constituent. Enervated by Will, the Soul
serves as the covalent bond between Being, and Non-Being. The Absolute is
Being, its antithesis is Non-Being, and contradistinction is the Soul. Just as
-1 is neither absolutely, absolute; as it finds its subsistence in serving as an
inverse to the absolute, namely 1; nor is it the antithesis of an absolute as it
is in actuality a categorical absolute, unlike Zero (0) which is wholly
antithetical to the absolute; The Soul is in essence the paradoxical
contradistinction between Being and Non-Being simultaneously, and yet,
neither of them all at once.

Yet when considered even more thoroughly each constituent is never

complete without the others nor could exist without the others, and as such
gives premise to and contains the fundamental attributes of every part.

The Soul although of one body is unique in that it serves as the domain
wherein infinitude is premised, laying down the foundation for varying
degrees within the two antipodal extremes and thereby introducing measure
and degree.

Arjuna! if a man sees everywhere

Taught by his own similitude
one Life, One Essence in the Evil and the Good
Hold him a Yogi, yea! well-perfected! - Bhagavad Gita

The elements, the conscious life, the mind,

The unseen vital force, the nine strange gates
Of the body, and the five domains of sense;
Desire, dislike, pleasure and pain, and thought
Deep-woven, and persistency of being;
These all are wrought on Matter by the Soul! - Bhagavad Gita

All-Being recognizes Self and thus infinitude is established, Non-Being makes

no declaration whatsoever and so is established Non-Sequentiality from an
absolute sense; although partiality gives place to majority and minority.
There is no majority in All and there is no minority in None, but both exist
within partiality.
The Soul is an Ocean of infinite potential and simultaneous actualization
wherein all conditions, and actualities are rooted. This Ocean although
vicissitudinary in nature is also capable of an equanimity wherein Absolute
Unity is recognized. It is from this Body of Soul that we find our illusory
individuality, like the dancing waves upon the ocean, which never hold their
place as they have no place of permanence in and of themselves, for they
are simply the manifest expression of the whole; therein lies the origin of
The Soul.

Silentium
(Silence)

If freeing ourselves from active care, we devote our time to contemplation,

meditating upon the Creator in His work, and the work in its Creator, we
shall be
resplendent with the light of the Cherubim. If we burn with love for the
Creator only, his consuming fire will quickly transform us into the flaming
likeness
of the Seraphim. - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandolla

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which

reaches
from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Every saint
has climbed it; every sinner must sooner or later come to it, and every
weary pilgrim that turns his back upon self and the world, and sets his face
resolutely toward the Father's Home, must plant his feet upon its golden
rounds. Without its aid you cannot grow into the divine state, the divine
likeness, and the divine peace, and the fadeless glories and unpolluting joys
of Truth will remain hidden from you. - James Allen

Thus hath been opened thee

This Truth of Truths, the Mystery more hid
Than any secret mystery. Meditate!
And--as thou wilt--then act! - Bhagavad Gita
 Predicted in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves are
disturbances in the curvature of spacetime caused by the motions of matter.
Propagating at (or near) the speed of light, gravitational waves do not travel
"through" spacetime as such -- the fabric of spacetime itself is oscillating.
Though gravitational waves pass straight through matter, their strength
weakens proportionally to the distance traveled from the source.

In mathematics and science, a wave is a disturbance that travels through

space and time, usually accompanied by the transfer of energy.Other
properties, however, although they are usually described in an origin-specific
manner, may be generalized to all waves. For such reasons, wave theory
represents a particular branch of physics that is concerned with the
properties of wave processes independently from their physical origin. For
example, based on the mechanical origin of acoustic waves there can be a
moving disturbance in space–time if and only if the medium involved is
neither infinitely stiff nor infinitely pliable. If all the parts making up a
medium were rigidly bound, then they would all vibrate as one, with no
delay in the transmission of the vibration and therefore no wave motion. On
the other hand, if all the parts were independent, then there would not be
any transmission of the vibration and again, no wave motion. Although the
above statements are meaningless in the case of waves that do not require a
medium, they reveal a characteristic that is relevant to all waves regardless
of origin: within a wave, the phase of a vibration (that is, its position within
the vibration cycle) is different for adjacent points in space because the
vibration reaches these points at different times.

"What is Soul?-an answer which applies to it in its full extent.

It is substance in the sense which corresponds to the definitive formula
of a things essence. That means that it is 'the essential whatness' of a body
of the character just assigned.Suppose that what is literally an organ, like an
axe,
were a natural body, its 'essential whatness', would have been its essence,
and so its soul; if this disappeared from it, it would have ceased to be an axe
except in name....

...Suppose that the eye were an animal- sight would have been its soul, for
sight
is the substance or essence of the eye which corresponds to the formula, the
eye being
merely the matter of seeing; when seeing is removed the eye is no longer
an eye, except
in name-it is no more a real eye than the eye of a statue or of a painted
figure."
 Aristotle...De Anima (On The Soul)

What is Will as it pertains to humanity? It is the premise whereby Being is

constituted and Soul given birth.
The Universal Soul is Love, which is the essence of Total Unity, Limitless
Potential, Pure Creativity, and Eternal Actuality. The individual soul is partial
in all of these attributes and as such represents The "Be-coming" of a part
into a whole. The will of the individual is evanescent by nature, just as the
solidity of all things in nature are at its root mere illusion, as the shape or
more aptly stated, constituon of any object as it relates to universal objects
categorically, is so ephemeral that it would be almost fitting to state that
such a thing never existed at all; Individuality is that ephemeral object
which whilst seeming "real" is merely form in motion, moving from one
being to another, as all things are in perpetual motion and nothing is ever
truly at rest.

Individual will is the very power and source principle whereby a person
becomes a "new creation", will is how and why the soul of people change or
so it would appear from the linear perspective; when in actually it is the
"process" that culminates into the revealing of true self. The soul of the
individual is in constant flux, moving from emergence to greater emergence,
culminating in The All, which in essence is abstraction in its most complete
sense.
The Will is wholly unbound thus enabling us to become whatever we will to
be. The ripples cease at the point whereby oneness is achieved, and such an
achievement is made through the process of stillness, the meditative process
is one whereby the individual ceases to be and All is All.

Life is the meditative journey so to speak, whereby All beings come to

awareness through their inexorable plight to attain absolute freedom. The
Ripples in our great Ocean are the co-mingling of souls, their thoughts, and
intentions, as they are brought into greater abstraction and come to
recognize the oneness in the creator and the created. Once the Ocean now
the Principle wherein the very material that fills the Ocean comes to be,
there are then no more Ripples just Will.

By: Placide Saul Severe