Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00176)

Mark Kusek wrote:
>
> Although speaking strictly metaphysically, the Absolute cannot have a
> point of view or a relation to any thing. This would create a duality
> and therefore not be Absolute.

I have been pondering the border between the infinite and the finite, which seems to be a similar
mystery. Somehow, within the absolute/infinite itself is the ability to assume form, without losing
its absoluteness. This ability is what the Bible calls "the Word". The "word" is "the mystery of
life". It is both one with the infinite ocean of absolute being and part of the moving and changing
life we call "creation". The "Word" is the essence of "life" as we know it. The absolute is forever
unknowable, except through its vibrating aspect - "the Word".

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> > >Intellectually there is always a connection between any form and its
> > >SOURCE, since logically the ABSOLUTE INCLUDES EVERYTHING.
>
> >From the point of view of logic, the Absolute includes everything "in
> potentia." All forms in the system owe their origin to the "formless
> form" of the triple Logos.
>
> > The big problem that I have with cause is that it only takes
> > place within time:  it takes time for a cause to become an effect.
> > The divine Monad is outside of space-time, so how can it cause
> > anything? Yet somehow it does.

Again, there is a link - the "Word". The vibrating aspect of the absolute. Impossible to grasp
intellectually, of course.

Bjorn