the negative image of being

The negative image of its absolute and eternal being which the soul projects into intellectual existence, the artificial world of the city, is precisely the idea of the individual self. Leaving behind the reality of absolute being the soul enters the delusion of intellectual existence. Abjuring the absolute categories of the infinite and the eternal, leaving behind the absolute values of morality, justice, peace and mercy, the fallen soul becomes self-conscious within the relative actualities of existence, affirming its own existence as an individual self, a negative image of being. Whereas the soul is guided by moral values founded on absolute principles the self, an image of non-being projected into intellectual existence, rejects morality and the values of absolute principles, and constructs systems of ethics founded on relative principles.

becoming and being

Since the fallen soul can no longer live in the reality of absolute being it enters into a relative actuality, an invented, intellectual existence in which it is constantly becoming and striving to be who it truly is in reality. This, of course, is not a possibility since the soul is an image of the absolute and therefore itself absolute and the ground of its existence is only relative. It is able merely to project a negative image of its being, the idea of an individual self, into the artificially invented actuality of civilization, where it is held captive, conditioned and deformed by that artificial and false environment, the city, from which there can be no escape without a faith which reintroduces the absolute, spiritual categories into the world of intellectual relativity, thereby redeeming the soul.

A little about faith

The reality of being is absolute and transcendent to every actuality in existence. This absolute being is spiritual, encompassing the void and the physical universe within the void. The universe is a universe of relativity in which the only presence of the absolute is the presence of the void at the center of each living being. Within the relative actualities there can be no absolutes. These relative actualities are limited by the boundaries of rational thought, and it is precisely faith that introduces the absolute into the actual universe, not as idea but as transcendent reality. Faith instructs us that the reality of being transcends the actualities of intellectual existence. This reality is transcendent and absolute while existence is intellectual and confined to a rational universe where everything is relative. 

Indirectly Speaking !

Existence is not being. Existence, the field of relativity, only exists within the human intellect, discovered when the conscious mind moves from an immediate perception of the universe as unity into a reflective cognizance of the universe as a duality. The soul falls from an immediate subjectivity to the absolute categories of being into a reflective and objective perception of the relative categories of existence, from positive into positive and negative, from good into good and evil, from innocence into innocence and guilt. Existence is the objective invention of a human, rational, intellect that has fallen from a subjective contemplation of a reality that is spiritual and infinite into an objective actuality that is material and finite. The rational intellect fails to distinguish between reality and existence and, rejecting the void, which cannot be experienced or thought, denies the reality of the absolute, the reality of spirit and the reality of being. God does not exist, which is to say that God does not inhabit human intellectual existence. Absolute being simply is, eternal, infinite and absolute and to actualize that being we need a particular religion which provides a dogma of faith in a transcendent and absolute being that has appeared within the actualities of relative existence, an unthinkable paradox that can only be believed, can only be related to by faith. Whether we like it or not, whether we admit it or not, we are held captive in a world of both good and evil, of both positive and negative, of both attraction and repulsion and a world, moreover, where the negative appears to be increasing in power and the good diminishing. To be redeemed from that world we need faith in an absolute being and a moral discipline founded on the absolute principles which can be provided only by true religion. Christ provides that religion.

On re-establishing the innocence of the lost soul.

Initially the soul is innocent and the relationship of the innocent soul with the world is a relationship of immediacy. Everything appears good and absolute, indeed, is good and absolute to the innocent soul. Confined in time and space, the innocent soul eventually makes contact with the negative in existence and reflecting from this negative the soul loses immediacy and innocence and now, in the reflective relationship with the world of relativity, of positive and negative, of good and evil, the soul is tempted by the negative and becomes guilty. In order to regain lost innocence the soul must discover the presence of absolute good in the world of relativity and reflect once more to discover the redemptive power of this absolute good. Believing in this power the soul can reassert an innocent relationship with the world, free from the illusory power of the negative. Only the paradoxical presence of the absolute within the world of relativity can trigger this double reflection, the necessary precursor to faith. Christ is this presence in the world.

Always the same about the same

Relativity is not absolute, therefore it is not true !

Intellectual relativity

Since the fallen soul can no longer live in the reality of absolute being it enters a relative actuality, an intellectual existence, in which it is constantly becoming and never being who it truly is in reality. It projects a negative image of its being, the idea of an individual self, into the artificial actuality of civilization, where it is held captive, conditioned and deformed by the false environment of the city, from which there can be no escape without an existential faith which reintroduces the absolute, spiritual categories into this world of intellectual relativity.