Everything and Nothing by Michael Kelly

Everything and Nothing by Michael Kelly

Author:Michael Kelly [Kelly, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2016-05-16T07:00:00+00:00


Never Mind, It Doesn't Matter

Before we proceed any further, we first need to address a possible serious error of understanding. It's another of those 'lies to children', useful models which initially help us to grasp the principles of magic, yet later prove to be troublesome if we assume them to be literally true.

Although at a higher conceptual level, this potential error is in many respects a Remanifestation of that old subjective / objective one that we discussed in the 'Matter and Spirit' chapter of the solve part of the book. Although it is a convenient and helpful model to initially assume that the Cosmos and the Void are separate and distinct things, the fact is that they are not. Subjective and objective, in spite of all appearances, are ultimately not irreconcilable; at some level, even your most secret, innermost thoughts exist in the same Reality as the solid foundations of your house. Sure, they're at complete different places on the overall spectrum of Reality, but they are both a part of that spectrum. In a similar way, matter and mind are not opposed; they both have their place on that scale.

You can see where I'm heading here. The Void and the Cosmos are not opposing forces. Not at all. A little thought will show this to be the case. For a start, the two are not equal. Nor is the inequality loaded the way you might think. It would be wrong to say that the Void is immeasurably 'larger' than the Cosmos, because the Void pre-exists the manifest Universe and notions of time and space do not apply to it. It may perhaps be slightly truer to say that the Void possesses more capacity for expression than the Cosmos. After all, the various myriad possibilities and potentials of a thought, idea or event in all of its phases must be far, far greater in scope than the single narrow bandwidth that actualises as a physical event[5]. The Cosmos contains only those things which actually manifest in being, but the Void contains everything which has manifested, will manifest, might manifest, probably won't manifest and will never manifest but exists as a concept anyway. So we are not talking of two equal but opposite things here. We cannot blithely declare that “the Cosmos is the Void, and the Void is the Cosmos”, because it simply isn't true, the relative scales are all wrong; indeed the very notion of scale can't possibly exist, due to the nature of the Void[6].

The simple and logical conclusion must be that since the Cosmos is made manifest out of the Void, since its things and events are manifestations of one possibility out of the Unmanifest many, the Universe must be considered a part of the Void, a subset in which a plethora of manifest possibilities interweave and cohere in a way that establishes a Universe which exists according to the laws created by the interrelations between its component parts.

You will notice that I have been very careful not to state or imply that the Universe is unreal, nor is it an illusion.



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