Creatorhood vs. Ignorance
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 1:14AM Q: Do you know of a place or a source that has all the answers put together on a single page or two, which includes all the issues, truth, light, good vs. evil, something like, "In the beginning was the Word..."? S.B.
A: Your question brings to mind an archived poetic essay:
Brave the beauty, open wide your lids to endless light, turn your heart by magic to a sun. Let your organs be the planets held by cords of light spun by beauty.
Brave it. Know it to be yours, for so you are. Your heart a sun and all your members worlds pragmatically held by magic to the central core where just the pure can go.
Brave the sun, the beauty that is you...
Always, there has been the impetus and the incubus, the inflection, and the reflection, the creator, and the creature. The impetus is the "Word," better so named because "word" is heard or spelled, recorded, and "impetus" indicates a broader array of possibilities. In the beginning, the Word was not heard or spelled, and it was not recorded except as it was manifest in the creation.
The incubus is the incubation of the impetus. It has taken on an evil meaning, due to the reflection, which came later. The incubus here is the swaddling, the nurturing, that brings the impetus into form.
Inflection is the variation of the impetus, which can be inflected infinitely, producing the varied forms of manifestation in the creation, or the varied forms of creation in the manifestation.
Reflection is where the idea of evil emerges. The mountain reflected in the lake is not the mountain, and if I try to climb it I will drown. It is not real, but is a manifestation of the real, yet a false manifestation. A mirror serves faithfully to reflect the inflection of the face in it, yet it is not the face, is rather the reverse. And thus arose the idea of evil. It is not the real, but the reverse of the real.
Since the evil is accepted as real, there is suffering, torture, killing and the like. And to those in the realm of reflection, it is indeed real.
Enter the meaning of the "middle road." One neither accepts nor denies the reflection. The suffering brought by the reflection is only as real as the acceptance of it. Acceptance of this kind is ignorance. And ignorance is one of the three poisons.
The other two poisons, anger or aversion, and desire or attachment, indicate acceptance in varied degree of what is known through ignorance. So it is that ignorance is at the root of suffering. And out of ignorance grow desire, attachment, anger, aversion.
After impetus and incubus, after inflection and reflection, there follow the creator and the creature. As the incubus brings to being the impetus, and as the reflection mimics the inflection, the creator brings to being the creature, and the creature mimics the creator.
Thus was the race made "in the image of God" -- the reflection. And thus was God made into the two inflections: divine and evil, God and the devil, each the reflection of the other, its opposite, and all the shades thereof.
Since these words are in the human tongue, what hope is there, then, for the human -- being in the image of God, the mere reflection, the opposite, as creature is to creator?
There is the role of ignorance. Ignorance keeps the human in the reflection. Ignorance holds the human in one or more of the realms it engenders -- the inflections of desire and attachment, and aversion and anger (which are the epitome of all the rest -- fear, greed, lust, guilt, and the like).
Taking the middle road, between desire and aversion, between anger and attachment, is the way from ignorance, and from ignorance all begin. There is no great divide between the creator and the creature; one is not one, or the other. Ignorance defines the creature, while enlightenment, which is freedom from ignorance and all its products, defines the creator.
One is not either a creature or the creator; one is either ignorant, or walking into light. Then, you might ask, why are not those who walk into the light, the creators on Earth? Because those who do not, who remain in ignorance, are creators. The creature is only the reflection.
In reality there is only the creator. The products of creation you see on the earth are manifestations of the ignorant creators, and of those who walk into the light. The lie is that there are creatures at all, that the human being is a creature, not a creator.
For a reflection is nothing without the thing it reflects. The creature is nothing without the creator. And the lie is this: You are a creature, not a creator; you are a created thing, not the creator of all things which you experience. That is the lie.
The truth, and the hope, is this: there is no lie; there is no ignorance. It is all a reflection, and when the mountain goes away, so does the reflection. When the creature thus becomes the creator, through dropping the veil of ignorance, the reflection cannot stand. The mirror will only faithfully mirror that which stands before it.
When the human being stands before the mirror as a creator, not a creature, the reflection will faithfully show a creator, not a creature.
Is there, then, no principle dictating that good will win in the end? There is no such principle. There is only the principle of creatorhood vs. ignorance.
That is the principle espoused by Buddhism, and by Christianity, if one is willing to shovel through the ignorance and walk in the light.
This could all be said succinctly in a phrase:
In the beginning was the Word, and the creator made the language, and chose the sentences.
Reader Comments (2)
Very thought provoking! The mirror that reflects our perception of self definitely reflects the lie of the creature. When the mountain crumbles (our ignorance), we will see our true identity, our Creator image. Interesting reflection!
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