My mysterious (unknowable and unknown) Totality that I call, God.
PROPOSITION: My God, the Totality of truth is not transcendent but immanent. I am part of that Totality now, in my nature, and when I act I reveal that imbedded Totality only in acts of love and Justice, all other acts are merely substandard.
How do I know? What are the limits set on my knowing in my time and space? In a nut shell it is the evolution of language.
I am an historical being. This is extremely important. It states that all things are interconnected.
How do I experience mystery? I have references FROM THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE history of truth through three mediums of knowledge (A Trinitarian Resource), Art, Science, and Faith. All three experiences are in HISTORICAL evolution, all three are connected and none is absolute, as a standalone.
What creates my limits? It is my evolution within time and space. My own time and space is caught up in a time capsule of evolution THAT IS IN THREE STAGES past, present and future. Hence, truth is always becoming. I can only glimpse a part of truth, never its Totality. Therefore, I must accept the EXISTENCE OF THE Totality of truth as the ?Holy Grail,? as A FUTUREISTIC mystery, always becoming. Therefore, the totality of truth is greater than the parts evolving toward it as history evolves in time and space.
Artist, Scientist and Faith Sages are all mystics. Only mystics search for the Totality of truth. Each is striving in their OWN medium to present the Totality of truth through their separate search.
Therefore, in my time and space today, I have to grasp their results by being open to each and fuse the three sources together with my own humble logic and imagination; in order to arrive at a partial truth to live by (social ethics) and die by (a gambled probability). I become conscious of the history of truth of the past, work with it in the present and imagine new truths for my future.
Wrapping up!
If we are tuned into the signs of the times (past, present and future) as put forth by the sages of Art, Science and Faith there is a futuristic revolution of enormous proportion going on, now! Each medium is telling us that "God up there, out there, 'outside? of us" has taken a leave of absence from our human troubled natural world. These sages are glimpsing that WE in our limited time and space must take the place of that once believed outside Totality, called God. Therefore, every human being is part human and part Totality. This is known as the Incarnation. What is our Incarnational job description? It is to restore to health, nurse back to health, heal, mend, repair, and make well the human psychic in order to cure the violence, the rage that is advanced by ideologies of ?truthinness? in creeds and dogmas.
We are now caught in a fatal quandary in our time and space. We have to become actively responsible for our planet, the only source of life, and responsible to minimize human, masculine violence stemming from ?truthinness? in creeds and dogmas. This action to minimize masculine violence actually started 900 BCE, the Axial Age. But that is another story.
My faith sages tell me I shall live forever. That is to say, I will arrive at and experience Totality when I am released from the time capsule <past, present and future>. If I accept that wisdom, than I am part of the whole now, which I call God. Therefore, this is my paradox: In some sense the Totality up there, out there, died. A part of the Totality is me and in me, now. I am God but only in Justice and Loving. I can create my Kingdom of God (Justice and Love) here and now.
New truth!
Therefore, to apply Incarnation to one human being (in the past and present) to Jesus is a false ?truthinness? dogma; we now have to apply a new truth that all human beings are Incarnations: part human and part Totality. Therefore, I am human and Totality. This is the reimagined, future faith today, living justice and love.
Summary:
1. I am a part of history: Past, Present and future. 2. My history tells me no truth is fixed but in the state of evolution. 3. Because of the evolving history of truth in Art, Science and Faith, I now understand the universality of the Incarnation rather than its singularity in Jesus. 5. Conclusion: I have two natures, one in time and space and one permanent (outside of time and space).
Hence, I must separate justice and injustice. I must separate love and hate. Only when I unmixed the mix do I get in touch with my permanent nature, my Totality becomes love and justice which I apply to my metaphor, God. Therefore, my God?s nature and my nature are justice not revenge, and love not hatred.
The Character of my God, my Totality that I imagine is imagined in Psalm 82. God is justice and love.
David, Jesus, Paul, The Didache Community, all de-emphasized the separation between self and others. They emphasized ?I am in the Father and Father in me.? John 14:11. They blurred the distinction between self and others. ?Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, my brothers and sisters, you have done it unto me.? Matthew 25:40 and 45 Finally, the attitude toward self: ?Whosoever will save his life (self) will lose it, and whosoever will lose his life (self) for the message of the Father will find life (self). Matt.16:35
Therefore, the Poet-artist, in Psalm 82 addressed the character of my Totality of which I am a part, now. Only in my human actions is the character of my Totality I call God revealed. If I act unjustly or with hatred I can be judged for malfeasance in office! For I have committed divine malpractice!
Conclusion: I am in a mixed state of justice/injustice and love/hate. My life is dedicated to reach the imbedded Totality in me?the unmixed State of pure justice and love. I am the primary Sacrament as artist, scientist and faith sage; I AM the ecosystem, for the betterment of my natural world.
Social implications: Empowerment is now within each person to be just and loving. Where two or more are gathered in justice and love is the character of my community and our job description as human beings―in my natural world.
George, {dialogue is welcomed} [dialogue is considered necessary]
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