 124. Philosophy � Greek |
Subjective Source of the conditional world and the conditional self, is to transcend both the conditional world and the conditional self by means of Truth, or the only "knowledge" (or Realization) That can set you Free.
God is not "known" (or Realized) by the body (or in the process of bodily experience), since God is not reducible to any kind of object (or Objective Force).
God confronts you bodily, materially, or in the objective (or otherwise conditional) plane of conditional Nature only in the form of effects (or an Effective Influence). Therefore, God cannot be "known" as God (or Truth) via any confrontation in the apparently objective (or otherwise conditional) realm of conditional Nature. Objective effects (including an Ultimate Objective Influence) are only conditional or representative forms of God. Therefore, bodily experience, or bodily confrontation with conditional Nature, does not prove or even necessarily indicate or point to the Existence of God.
No bodily experience is an encounter with Truth.
No bodily experience can set you Free.
God is not an Object or an Image or an Idea that can confront the mind. Whatever confronts (or is known by) the mind only modifies and occupies the mind itself. Occupation with ideas, or states of mind, can only motivate you toward further activities of mind (and body). Therefore, there is no idea that is Truth, since attention to an idea cannot liberate attention from mind itself.
Bodily experience and mental (or conditional) knowledge are both based on encounters with objects. In general, bodily experience and mental knowledge motivate you to seek more bodily experience and more mental knowledge. Your seeking, therefore, is for more and more encounters with bodily and mental objects.
Your search for bodily and mental objects is your bondage. It is the sign of a fundamental stress, or presumed un-Happiness. If you Understand that your search is un-Happiness, then you Stand Free in relation to all of your possible objects, all of your possible experiences, and all of your possible ideas. This Understanding transcends experiences and ideas. It reduces your motivation toward objects, and thus It permits your attention to contemplate (or, by means of feeling, to be relaxed, released, and transcended in) the otherwise uninspected (and Perfectly Subjective) Source That is God, Truth, or the Liberator, Eleutherios.
God, Truth, Reality, or Happiness cannot be Found, "Located," or Realized by the movement of attention in the midst of the objects, relations, conditions, or states of the individual (conditional, or experientially defined) self.
God, Truth, Reality, or Happiness cannot be Found or Attained by the movement of attention in the conditional realm of Nature Itself (or the movement of attention in relation to whatever is not Recognized to be Consciousness Itself).
God, Truth, Reality, or Happiness cannot be "Located" by the ego within the egoic body-mind.
God, Truth, Reality, or Happiness is not reducible to Objective Energy, or to any conditional and subjective or objective form of the Energy That seems to Pervade all of conditional Nature and That seems to be the Ultimate Object of individuated consciousness and experience.
All seeking finally leads to the "consideration" of Consciousness and profound Identification with Consciousness Itself.
