A is for Axioms:
It is possible to know the nature of ultimate existence. Ultimate existence is only ordinary existence projected out into infinity. Without infinity to generate it, there would be no local system. The mathematical principles operating in our system operate in all systems. There is a higher form of mathematics in which mathematics grades into something more.
This something more is the series of polarities that generates all things. This series of polarities begins with the polarity between mathematics and art. This is the same polarity that appears as the distinction between weightless information and energy (that is neither created nor destroyed). These polar oppositions between the fixed and the fluid, between “dharma” and “karma,” provide the axles for the cart of divine cosmology.
Everything begins with the infinitesimal. At the level of the infinitely tiny are the cracks in existence that are the beginning of all things. Here we find endless differentiation, the creativity of the primitive soul that is the free source of all cosmologies and the subjective aspect of all mental states. Out of the eccentric privacy of this infinitesimal beginning comes the fundamental models that determine the relationships to which these private realms attach, and the public realms they will generate by their mutual attachment.
The attached world is the finite world.
B is for Body:
The physical emerges from the attachment of the creative infinitesimal of the soul to particular combinations of waves, particles and quantum events. The physical is best known by empirical means. The public world emerges from it as a result of the assembly of ever-larger parts by the combination of component parts and by the emergence of new and higher levels of organization. Just as the private world is infinitesimal, peculiar, and free, so the public world is statistical, common, and predictable through norms.
From the physical, comes its polar complement, the infinite whole. Just as the physical is best described by facts obtained scientifically, so the infinite whole is best described mythologically. Just as any given truth is likely to be false about the body, so any given truth is likely to be true about the infinite whole. Thus science and religion are polar opposites that complement each other.
The public world that generates the endless hierarchy of levels of organization that merges the finite into the infinite (wave, particle, atom, molecule, cell, organism, tribe, city, etc.) is itself the polar opposite of the private world of the eternal differentiation of the infinitesimal. Just as the public world is the mechanical effect of all things, so the private is the free source of all things.
The body is the result of the attachment of the private in the processes of its assemblage of its public complement.
C is for Cosmology:
The world is in denial of the possibility of such a universal cosmology. Scientists do not want to give up their special status as visionaries of a “higher physics.” Theologians do not want to give up the special status of their “chosen religions.” Educators do not want to surrender the special status of their official curriculum for a curriculum that includes the private mythologies of primitive people.
Educators do not want to believe that we can find as much of importance within ourselves through meditation as we can discover externally through learning. Scientists do not want to believe that myth can tell us as much about ultimate being as science can. Mathematicians do not want to face the power of energy over form and logic.
So we are stuck in a metaphysical box defined by the public, scientific, and logical corners we have made for it. Yet, the subjective, the private, the dynamic pass through the walls of this box without our even noticing they are there.
The realm of larger cosmology is defined by the realm of larger mathematics, by the possible form that can be given to an infinite whole that integrates all things, including the infinitesimal roots from which it came. This means a system inclusive of all opposites, of freedom, of subjectivity, of feeling as the complements to mechanism, objective form, and reason. This metaphysics endlessly expands into the infinite, making the magic of endless time.
D is for Development:
Evolution controls development, but it controls local development. The infinite is a result of the interaction of private subjective choice and public emergent space-time. The finite changes in hidden ways at its infinitesimal roots and infinite outward extensions. The freedom of the infinitesimal appears in public space as statistical randomness. Yet, its infinitesimal character places it outside the parameters of statistical prediction. It is something wild and untamable, the infinity of infinitesimal changes that curves a line back in the direction from which it came.
Statistics can only predict the characteristics of the statistical world. The statistical world is only one world of the many. Gilbert Ryle pointed this out his book titled “Dilemmas." An accountant can claim that his books record all the facts about his company. Yet, they are still accounting facts.
It is true that the world of evolution is best known to biological science and not theologians studying the Garden of Eden. Yet, biology can say nothing about the larger context. The Garden of Eden is one metaphor for that context that only becomes false when it is used as the only possible correct context.
The religions of the world have created myths that picture the souls of god and men as causal forces in cosmic development. These myths transcend local scientific fact.
E is for Eccentric:
Because the subjective is the infinitesimal inexistence that generates all existence, the freedom that is the source of all natural government, the subjective possibility that is the source of all factual actuality, the eternal principle that is the source of all local probability, the individual information that begins the cosmic synthesis, because this is so it is fundamentally eccentric. The soul, the spirit, the subjective essence at the infinitesimal root of eternity is utterly peculiar, utterly bizarre.
Each soul is the author of its own universe, which just happens to combine with others to form larger wholes. Each soul is the source of its own utterly distinct cosmology, utterly distinct mythology, utterly distinct reality. God is something different to each soul because each soul is primal existence generating a different kind of god.
The soul is the answer to primary metaphysical questions. Since each soul is unique, each answer is different. Since there are infinity of eternal infinitesimal souls endlessly expanding their nothingness to generate the flow of time, there are an infinity of unique answers that are themselves endlessly evolving to no final end.
Whatever interpretation is given, the soul, the subjective core is the cause, the essence, the freedom, the singular beginning of finite things. All objective events are assembled on its primitive foundation beyond the world.
F is for Form:
Form fools us. The finite overwhelms the infinitesimal and drowns it. Empirical facts explain the finite. Natural realities provide the objective evidence for our interpretations of existence. These facts tell us that consciousness and free will are the dreams of fools. Freedom and creativity are myths generated by the storms of nerve cell messages that wash across the surface of the brain.
Yet, empirical evidence can never explain the origin of things. Empirical evidence can never explain where freedom is hiding. Empirical evidence can never explain why subjective elements of consciousness feel so primitively real. Our imperial systems invent imperial god to explain it all, but the action of these catholic and orthodox gods makes no more sense than the action of the catholic and orthodox states that created them.
Freedom hides in the infinitesimal. Primal meaning hides in the infinitesimal. Creativity hides in the infinitesimal and endures the wreckage of the flesh and the various local worlds.
Evolution over infinities of time can concentrate infinite amounts of information and energy within the infinitesimal. The infinitesimal can evolve into its own unique microcosm. The possibilities are endless. Each is singular. Each is the representative of its kind. Each is the jewel that redefines the gods at the secret core of their realm.
G is for Gods:
All the gods are true. Jesus is the logos that opens the deep door of the infinitesimal into the infinite. Buddha, Jesus, Allah, Krishna are all metaphors for that relationship. When the Buddhists say there is no self, they mean the attached self, the self of the flesh.
The detached self, the self that claims no self, the infinitesimal self that is pure nothingness, is existential inexistence, that self is the true Buddha. It is the beginning of the pursuit of the ultimate, of the pursuit of the transcendence, of the ultimate Buddhamind process that renews and purifies all things.
That deep inner non-self core to the external attached self is the place where the pathway to nirvana opens up in the depths of the soul. A soul focused on that path looses its desire for attachment and seeks instead the endless transcendence of nirvana, of a destination that is gone, gone, gone, gone utterly beyond.
Each soul creates its own unique way of transcendence. Each soul is a Buddha at its core. Each soul is a raft across the ocean of attachment leading to the further shore.
Each soul uniquely develops its own road on which all other souls can come. For no soul goes to nirvana without taking all souls with them when they go. When the souls actually follow is up to those souls.
All the gods and Buddhas dwell in the soul’s true heart.
H is for Harmony:
There are many harmonies, there are many songs. Scholars are too impressed by some of them. We are so impressed by the harmonies of geology, of physics, of biology, that we fail to hear the notes of art or music, of logic, or epistemology, of Hindu or Jewish religion.
Our belief in physics prejudices us against astrology. Our belief in astronomy prejudices us against Hinduism. Our belief in Christianity prejudices us against evolution. Always we see the limitation of the human mind and its failure to comprehend the breadth of creation.
The human mind is constantly deceived by physical power. It is the physical energy of the world that attracts us and diverts us from the creative use of our inner freedom. We bow down before the physical demonstrations of chemistry and engineering, the dramatic populism of biblical Christianity and Koranic Islam. We cannot keep our eyes off of the physical world. We neglect the existential core within us that is its source.
The soul confuses this source with the mind and brain. It swims in the nerve cells of the brain as a fish swims in the sea. But, all of this is still external. None of this is the fabulous kingdom within.
Just as there are finite worlds in this system, so there are infinite contexts. Just as there are fixed laws, so there is flux. Just as there is public, so there is private.
I is for Individual:
There is no statistical validity for astrology that consistently holds up. Astrology is a magical aspect of existence that only emerges in the development of individual nativities. Astrology is the proof of the individuation of the cosmos at its deepest roots. Astrology is not a science and will never be a science. It is a magical art combining metaphysics and theology (as in Hinduism) demonstrating the creative redefinition of existence by each individual at their ultimate subjective beginning.
The birth of each individual redefines the cosmology of all worlds. The patterns of this redefinition enter into the fabric of all existence. In the end they are rooted in the creative inexistence that generates the subjective becoming that is the source of all objective form.
Astrological relationships are not visible within the empirical world. Astrological relationships emerge from the deeper mythology of individual lives and the events of those lives.
The idea that all things must be limited to the empirical world is a prejudice that cannot be proven. We assume that the world of science is the only important world. Yet, we cannot explain where the world of science comes from. We invent gods and creators to explain where the world of science comes from. Never do we think to look to the depths of our own heart. Never do we think to look for something deeper and more refined than material form.
J is for Jesus:
No myth or theology is ever completely false. Every cultural symbol stands for some part of the larger whole. Jesus is a symbol of that inner core, of the spiritual center that is the logos, the spiritual creativity that make all things.
The discovery of true immortality, true freedom, true salvation is the discovery of the pure Jesus, the pure Son of God, the pure savior hidden in the depths of our being. This real Jesus transcends any particular story, legend, church, theology or theological account. The true Jesus is the manifestation of a spiritual principle that awakens all personal potential, not just that of one particular man in ancient Palestine.
Each of us must find what that Jesus, Buddha, Virgin Mary principle is for us. Each of us must find our own version of that holy legend that is true in the eternal Christmas time and Easter time of our own heart. Each of us must find our own Krishna of Brindiban, our own Zeus in the Mount Olympus of our own soul. We must not go whoring after someone’s else’s gods and goddesses, we must be true to our own God and Goddess in our own true heart’s core.
This inner Jesus is the inner way, the inner life that holds the key to the unique relationship of the individual soul with the ground of being. This inward theology, this creative theology of the inner heart is the true theology. It is in this inner chamber and not in the outer world that the soul finds its salvation.