Greetings, Krimel --
[Ham]:
When I say "Primary", I'm referring to that which transcends process. Since Essence is absolute and immutable, it is not caused or created and, unlike man, is not dependent on otherness (being). From the perspective of Essence, there is no other.
[Krimel]:
You are not "solving" the problem of the chain of causality here; you are simply defining it away. You don't answer the question of what caused essence.
Essence is the beginning and end of causality, which is man's intellection of "things in process." Absolute Oneness neither possesses nor is subject to the conditions of space/time existence. A chain is of no value unless it is attached to something permanent. The view that existence is a "chain of causal effects" leads to the absurdity of an infinite regression of causes. I resolve this paradox by positing the ultimate cause as the uncreated Source. This is no great breakthrough, Krimel; Eastern mystics and Western theologians have accepted the concept of an immutable source for thousands of years. Why should we reject this idea simply because we're opposed to the dogma of a "personal diety"?
Man is the product of a dichotomy, a splitting of the One into two by nothingness, which is the beginning of Difference. This results in the appearance of a relational world of which the cognizant agent is a 'being-aware'. Because the experience of this agent is incremental in time, phenomena are seen as events coming into existence as effects of an antecedent cause. And since we don't know what started this stream of events, we defer to Science which holds that it began with a Big Bang. While that answer satisfies the objectivists, it is obvious that prior forces must have been in place for the Bang to occur. What were these forces? (Quality patterns?) And what created them? (DQ?) Such speculation is nonsensical, and we are back to the infinite regression paradox.
The only solution is to understand "process" (the sequence of events) as an illusion of man's experience. The separation of an absolute source into a multiplistic system of relational things is the temporal mode of human experience. But it allows the Value of the Source to be realized, which is man's inextricable link to his essential Source. It makes sense if you can ignore the labels that detractors are bound to throw at it.
Good to hear from you again, Krimel. Your comments are somewhat of a rarity these days.
Best regards, Ham Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
