Theos-Talk Archives (December 2000 Message tt00011)

Dear Gene,

 

Here are some reflections that arise from reading yours.

 

You ask,   "What is the difference between 1 and 0?  (same as between 10 and 0)"

 

When I try and sense into this it seems there can be no difference.  There is only ever the ONE.

 

To the conceptual mind that is born of differentiation, and thus cognises differences, the Absulute is reduced to  NOUGHT  that can be conceived.

 

To the intuition it  is  always  the  ever-present   ONE.   The ever incognisable PRESENCE.

 

It is notthat it is no-thing.   It just isn't any-thing.

 

In other words it is 'empty of other'... empty of any-thing other than ITSELF, the ONE.

 

This is how I would understand the description of SPACE given it in the Secret Doctrine as "bare subjectivity."   It only appears "unconscious" to our limited kind of conceptual conscoiusness.  Reall it is pure consciousness, Absolute Consciousness. 

 

It makes sense to me that this ONE which is 'empty of other', "bare subjectivity",  is alsowhat Franklin Merrell-Wolff terms "Consciousness without an object." (in Pathways through to Space & Philosophy of Consciousness without an object)

 

Perhaps adifferent kind of question is,  ""What is the difference between the unmanifested ONE and the manifested ONE?"

 

The conceptual mind adds and subtracts and either ends up in duality "2" or nothing, "0".

 

The heart senses the ONE is in the ONE.

 

The heartcan live with the paradox that the ONE is in the OTHER and yet is always 'empty of other-ness'.

 

Another kind of question is,  "What is the difference between the 1 and the 10?

 

How do wejust sense into that... within ourselves...? 

 

... the ONE that is in the ONE and is everywhere

...the O that is also the ONE which is nowhere... because it cannot be limited to any 'one' place or time.

 

""The One is an unbroken Circle (ring) with no circumference, for it is nowhere and everywhere..."  (Secret Doctrine, vol 1, p 11)

 

Just some reflections to add to yours.

 

allthe best,

 

Peter

 

 

 

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Carpenter [mailto:Ecarpent@co.la.ca.us]
Sent: 05 December 2000 16:39
To: Esoteric Science; theos-talk@theosophy.com
Cc: poles@iitp.ru
Subject: Theos-World Consciousness/Unconsciousness

Big question:  What is the difference between 1 and 0?(same as between 10 and 0)

 

Using set notation and praying for clarity:

 

zero or  (        )

 

one or (  (  )  )