12-06-2008, 12:00 AM
How frustrating it must be to be seeking power in the weeds of morality. "Only an impeccable person may do such and such".
Suppose that the entire universe ultimately has one common origin and ultimate destiny. Then, impeccability could be measured by how close to the totality of
everything one might be. Now suppose there is no "inherent unity of all things". That would mean there is no preordained path, and
"impeccability" cannot be measured by how closely one might be to something that doesn't exist.
If there were an inherent unity to all things, a man would have a single soul as the Christians, Jews and Muslims say we have, as our spiritual anatomy would
be expected to reflect the greater anatomy of the universe. Then, we would be justified in being mortified at the cacophony of voices that we hear in our
sundry heads.
Logic then, would dictate that ultimately we have an underlying unity, and the many voices in our heads would necessarily mean that we are too shattered to
discover our totality. We are stopped. There is no clear route to power until we are unified in imitation of the greater universe.
Then we find ourselves compelled to find "the master key" which will align our diverse selves into a totality. Perhaps it is love. Perhaps it is
intent, but the legends say that if you choose wisely, and align yourself to an abstract principle, that your shattered diversity will align to a totality like
metal filings line up to a magnetic field.
There are, of course, alternative ideas. No one need be a monotheist. Perhaps the universe has diverse origins and ultimate destinies, and the comittee mind of
a human being is a proper reflection of the world one finds themselves in.
Polytheists speak of several souls as a result of observing how people move through the universe. Monotheists cannot derive their beliefs from observation,
monotheism is revealed, not derived. Polytheists are stuck considering that "impeccability" is not a door to power, monotheists have to deal with
setting up a hierarchy so that some voices in our heads are better than others.
It is, in practice, high blasphemy to reject monotheism and its attendant derivations. The ultimate unity of all things, and the morality of achieving it, ring
loudly in our ears. But if our doors are closed, if we cannot achieve power without the light of moral perfection, why not look in the darkness? Some suggest
power is there.
I suggest that for the non-monotheistic person, impeccability is blessedly irrelevant to the search for power.
Suppose that the entire universe ultimately has one common origin and ultimate destiny. Then, impeccability could be measured by how close to the totality of
everything one might be. Now suppose there is no "inherent unity of all things". That would mean there is no preordained path, and
"impeccability" cannot be measured by how closely one might be to something that doesn't exist.
If there were an inherent unity to all things, a man would have a single soul as the Christians, Jews and Muslims say we have, as our spiritual anatomy would
be expected to reflect the greater anatomy of the universe. Then, we would be justified in being mortified at the cacophony of voices that we hear in our
sundry heads.
Logic then, would dictate that ultimately we have an underlying unity, and the many voices in our heads would necessarily mean that we are too shattered to
discover our totality. We are stopped. There is no clear route to power until we are unified in imitation of the greater universe.
Then we find ourselves compelled to find "the master key" which will align our diverse selves into a totality. Perhaps it is love. Perhaps it is
intent, but the legends say that if you choose wisely, and align yourself to an abstract principle, that your shattered diversity will align to a totality like
metal filings line up to a magnetic field.
There are, of course, alternative ideas. No one need be a monotheist. Perhaps the universe has diverse origins and ultimate destinies, and the comittee mind of
a human being is a proper reflection of the world one finds themselves in.
Polytheists speak of several souls as a result of observing how people move through the universe. Monotheists cannot derive their beliefs from observation,
monotheism is revealed, not derived. Polytheists are stuck considering that "impeccability" is not a door to power, monotheists have to deal with
setting up a hierarchy so that some voices in our heads are better than others.
It is, in practice, high blasphemy to reject monotheism and its attendant derivations. The ultimate unity of all things, and the morality of achieving it, ring
loudly in our ears. But if our doors are closed, if we cannot achieve power without the light of moral perfection, why not look in the darkness? Some suggest
power is there.
I suggest that for the non-monotheistic person, impeccability is blessedly irrelevant to the search for power.