Saturday, 17 March 2018

Induction, Communion, and the Gender of God

Induction: 
1. Admission to an institution.   
2. Knowledge of general laws gained through experience of particulars.
3. The production of an electromagnetic state by the proximity (without contact) of an electrified or magnetized body.

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In the beginning was the Word...  
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...He said, "Let there be Light," and there was Light.... 
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How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! ...You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high... 

Light. The Positive. Yang. 

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The First Communion is Baptism - induction into the church by washing away the primordial sins of independent Being and Knowing – the sins of our Exile from Eden through partaking in Forbidden Fruit. Exile through our primordial communion with Other. 

Communion is being one with god.  In Christianity this is through partaking in the blood and body of Christ. It is carnal knowledge of the Logos Incarnate.  So that we can give ourselves over to God and become one Mind, one Spirit, one Body.  To release our finitude in Infinity.  To relinquish our subjectivity to Other.  To return to Eden. 

The Miracle is Creation. But Creation is the communion of Male and Female. 

Abrahamic Monotheism recognizes only the Male: the Presence, the Light, the Exposition.  It denies the Female: the Absence, the Dark, the Mystery. 

Western science and engineering in general, and logical positivism in particular, is the ultimate expression of monotheistic metaphysics. It exposes all.  It conquers, controls and recreates nature in the image of Man's Will.  It explicitly aims to destroy all mysteries and metaphysics.  To uncover all, to completely eliminate all subject and thereby expose the pure Object.  And it thus Decides all in binary, digital, mechanical, automated, external, artificial intelligence.  The Pure Intellect.  It is the Cult of Other.  The Cult of Man.  The Fetish of the Phallus.  It is the triumph of Pure Ego as Super-Ego.  It is the superiority complex sprung from the fear of the unknown – fear of the Feminine and loathing of the inferior Self.  It is re-creation of the male through subjugation and denial of the female.  It is the creation of god in Man's Image.  It is Hubris. 

The Tao is Yin and Yang.  Complementarity of Opposites.  Dynamism of Figure and Ground.  Affirmation of Both.  

Buddhism is Neutrality.  Freedom through Dynamic Stasis.  Mutual cancellation of opposition.  Affirmation of Neither. 

Selflessness in Christianity and Buddhism  

The Selflessness of Christianity is exclusive and authoritarian.  You are Chosen or not.  It is the denial of subjectivity in favor of the Ultimate Other.   It is communion in the complete denial of subjective identity and thus of consistency.  It is the forlorn love of the abandoned child.   It is Image Worship without Love. 

The Selflessness of Buddhism is inclusive and empowering.  You choose yourself.  It is the affirmation of self and other in the recognition of common subjectivity.  It is communion in consistent incompleteness.  Is the mutual love of an equal friendship.  It is Love without image or Worship. 

Buddhism may be the anti-religion.  The freedom of transcendental immanence.  Now.  In this Life.  The religion of Being Self.  The religion of Knowing, Believing and Being Nothing.  The Presence of Absence and Absence of Presence.  All and Nothing. Of being full because of being empty.  The fertility of Openness.  The Way of Becoming. 

Induction.... 

Logos

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