Science Is Fµ©king Magic! #ScienceIsMagic Works Of Mad Science: Spell 12, Logos Rex! A Logos Manifesto
The Light Of Truth Burns Us All! 'You Can't Handle The Truth!' But We Are Only Alive And Animated With It's Flames! Burn With Truth!
Spell 12: Logos Rex! A Logos Manifesto
The Light Of Truth Burns Us All! ‘You Can’t Handle The Truth!’
But We Are Only Alive And Animated With It's Flames! Burn With Truth!
Many people believe that religion in general is nothing but willful ignorance and superstition, presuming to believe themselves to be champions of reason and truth as the supposed alternatives. I do not believe that people who think this way even properly understand the meaning of these words. They presume to take their received end product for granted while dismissing and denigrating its source and the means of its production. There is no clear separating line between religion, philosophy, and science. The only real separation of any kind is the separation of time and sequence of development, rather than fundamental nature.
Science is a product of reason and knowledge. The understanding of which are features and creations of philosophical inquiry and development. The rules of which stem from the religious appreciation for the virtues of truth and honor. And these are virtues which cannot be taken for granted in the pursuit of truth through science and reason. Otherwise, these things simply cannot be trusted.
Although I consider myself to be a Daoist now, having been baptized and raised Catholic I can’t help but consider the biblical stance on the virtues of truth, wisdom, and knowledge as an established case in point, as an existing compass for the navigation of truth.
Hosea 4:6
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Although the knowledge in question is specifically with respect to God and the law thereof. In context the law of God is the fundamental law of the universe to begin with. So, this may generalize into an appreciation of knowledge of all kinds as indispensable to one’s survival. The ‘forget thy children’ part seems a bit harsh at first. And why so forgetful? I don’t believe that children are actually meant to be forgotten. But if their parents reject knowledge, then their children are effectively disinherited from it, and are effectively given over to ignorance as if they were forgotten and forsaken. But this doesn’t mean that the pursuit of knowledge is without burden, cost, or simply ‘vexation of the spirit.’
Ecclesiastes 1:14-18
14. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16. I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Effectively, truth is pain or a source thereof, or a cross to bear perhaps. But it is nonetheless indispensable to the avoidance of unnecessary suffering and destruction. No pain no gain? And what of the original sin in the Garden of Eden? In the Garden of Eden they were told explicitly not to consume the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But how is this supposed to be a bad thing?
I tend to interpret this as an example of premature destruction of innocence, possibly making the serpent in the Garden of Eden the first groomer of mankind. But the serpent in the garden wasn’t a sexual groomer. The serpent didn’t temp Eve with sex. That was only a consequence in aftermath.
Genesis 3:4-7
4. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
In a way, by getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden, you could say that Adam and Eve were ‘burned’ by the premature exposure to knowledge that they could not yet handle, an example of premature ‘vexation of the spirit’, resulting in the loss of innocence. This is certainly not an example of knowledge itself being somehow evil or forbidden in an absolute sense, especially given the established indispensability of knowledge in order to avoid unnecessary death and destruction.
But there is also a more fundamental physical reality to this. And there may be physical mechanisms known from modern physics that explain how much of this works. In Daoism it is believed that there is no separation from the spiritual and the physical, and none is even possible. Which is not to say that the spiritual does not exist, just that there is no separation possible between them. Which means there is always more to the physical than meets the eye. And if you believe in an almighty God, then there can be no true separation or escape from the Almighty, simply by virtue of it being almighty. Only an illusion of separation is possible, illusions of confusion and mirages of chaos.
Logically speaking, there can be no separate truths that somehow contradict each other while all of them still remain true. To the extent that we both know the truth of the physical sciences and we know the truth of spiritual reality, there can be no real contradiction between them, only the lack of a means to adequately connect the dots between them, thus failing to paint the whole picture.
Even if one wants to remain perfectly and rigorously logical, rational, and scientific in one’s thinking, there can be no summary denial and dismissal of the spiritual aspect to reality. One cannot logically presume to know what one doesn’t know and still be able to call that logic. One can only be agnostic and say ‘I don’t know’, a statement which is said to be the beginning of wisdom, provided that you move beyond that first step.
There is a fairly simple and practical reason for this is. When you admit that you don’t know something, you are then more likely to be curious about it. Curiosity motivates inquiry and learning, and thus the acquisition of knowledge, and eventually wisdom. Logic must remain humble in the face of its own limitations in order to serve its purpose and remain logical.
So-called skepticism is nothing but summary denial and dismissal without rational consideration. It is a vain presumption of pseudo-reason masquerading as reason, with little more to it than pride of dogma and doctrine, as well as fear and cowardice in the face of uncertainty otherwise. Pride, fear, and presumption combine to form the intellectual blindness of people who are effectively the cult enforcers of the cult of pseudo-reason. It is the secular atheist cult of scientism as opposed to science.
If we take a rational approach to dealing with uncertainty and the limitations of knowledge, then we are effectively reluctant gamblers calculating the odds of unavoidable mysteries, all potentially without any confirmation that we ever won any of our bets, which is not nearly so bad as it sounds. Famous physicist Richard Feynman once supposedly said that “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned”, an attitude fundamental to true science as opposed to the cult of scientism. The questions of whether or not there is a God, or what is the nature of truth certainly qualify as questions that can’t be completely answered.
Blaise Pascal famously proposed one particular gamble to try and answer the God question. It is known as Pascal’s wager, where you bet on whether or not there is a God, effectively with your hypothetical immortal soul used as collateral for the bet. It is essentially a game of high stakes spirit poker. It is Fool’s Poker perhaps, that we are all unavoidably playing whether we are conscious of that fact or not. A bet is just an assumed prediction of a particular future outcome. And the safety of any assumption is as much about the consequences of getting it wrong as it is about the probability of getting it right.
The probability of the existence of God is ultimately incalculable mathematically because there is no basis with which to make the calculation, and nothing of substance to base it on. And that is putting aside any particular sectarian definition of God to begin with, assuming that you even have one. This leaves only your gut feeling and the consequences of getting the bet wrong as a basis for making the bet. And there is no real avoidance of making the bet. Because it’s just like the line from the Rush song Free Will, “If you choose not to decide… You still have made a choice.” Agnosticism is a choice after all.
If you place your bet on Yes and act accordingly, and the answer is No, then you have only wasted some time and energy better spent on other things. If you place your bet on No and act accordingly, and the answer is Yes, then you have just damned your immortal soul to a severe and likely unimaginable torment, potentially for all eternity. And if you choose to be agnostic and act accordingly, that is effectively equivalent to choosing to bet No and getting it wrong. You don’t get any credit for not choosing atheism. You just lose by default, as the lukewarm one to be spat out for not being hot with faith.
Placing your bets on the divine assumptions doesn’t necessarily get you any special brownie points in the divine judgement that is supposedly waiting at the end of it. That appears to be a strictly pass/fail grading system. But it does provide an interesting framework with which to inquire further in the here and now, and maybe connect a few more dots to help further complete the picture of our reality.
In order to connect those dots, it may help to reevaluate Genesis 1, and reinterpret it as a description of an order of logical determinism, rather than strictly as a simple chronological sequence. Time itself I believe to be unavoidably eternal. Beginnings and endings are events that have to occur within the context of time to begin with. If time itself required a beginning in order to exist, then time could never exist. But time clearly exists. Therefore, time must be just as eternal as it’s hypothetical master and driver, described repeatedly as ‘endless’ and ‘everlasting.’
For a detailed physical explanation addressing the Big Bang Theory specifically, you may wish to read The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe, by Eric Lerner, available on @amazon
Time itself cannot be taken for granted here, nor any overly simplistic notion about it. Even if you insist upon a strictly chronological reading, the unfolding of events in chronological order must proceed in an order determined by the logic of its order of determinism, not the other way around. If God be God, and God be almighty, then time must be God’s bitch, not the other way around. Time is not and cannot be God. Since the relative and mailable nature of time is already a proven observed scientific fact successfully predicted by General Relativity.
Always remember that no text is ever self-explanatory or self-interpreting. If you cannot read between the lines, then you cannot read. Linguistically speaking, the word ‘create’ can be interpreted to mean to define logically. The word ‘beginning’ can be interpreted to mean the beginning of a functional deterministic logic chain, where all the logic arrows go one way. If A then B, if B then C, and if C then D, and so on. ‘In the beginning’ becomes simply ‘If A then B’, the first element in the logic chain, AKA the prime driver, prime factor, or prime determinant. The first element in the chain and everything that follows from it can even hypothetically be rewritten as a set of logical axioms from which to derive other conclusions, even if only speculative ones.
Genesis 1:1
1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This can be rewritten as God defines heaven and earth, essentially for all eternity, not just in some hypothetical temporal beginning. And since all is change all around us, the definition is then changing. And since God defines these things for all eternity, God then must be doing so continuously. Thus, God not only defines heaven and earth once in the beginning, but God defines, drives, and determines everything about heaven and earth for all eternity.
As a Daoist I can’t help but note that heaven and earth can represent a form of the Daoist symbolic concepts of Ying and Yang. In Daoist cosmology, all of the infinite myriad of various things in the universe around us come from the combination, recombination, as well as interaction and interchange, of two fundamental symbolic buildings blocks, represented by Ying and Yang. Supposedly, behind this dynamic is the ultimate way of all things. It is the great mystery of Daoism, the ultimate Dao( way ).
We are meant to strive to figure it out and understand it so that we may apply that understanding. Daoist’s seek harmonize with the great Dao, and to avoid any unnecessary suffering that results from trying and failing to go against it. Doing so can’t help but cause us to be ground under the wheels of fortune of a universe that is always bigger and more powerful than we are, regardless of who or what you are, or what you choose to believe is ultimately behind it.
Genesis 1:2
2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
In terms of science, all physical matter exists in four different states, solid, liquid, gas, and plasma( electrically charged particle cloud ), listed in order of generally increasing kinetic energy for the state. In Buddhist cosmology, all of existence can be classified as one of three things, emptiness, radiance, and being.
Emptiness is clearly the void of space to be filled by creation. Radiance clearly represents energy. And being refers to physical matter in whatever state it may be in. But physical matter can be a void as well. When matter is not in solid form it has no form. And when physical material is uniformly formless, and filled with nothing but itself, it can function as an excellent medium for energy and information, propagating in accordance with the principles of wave mechanics among other things.
In fact, almost nothing is described to be happening in verse 2 except that the spirit of God is moving upon the face of the waters, as if spirit of God were the message propagating upon the medium of the waters. The darkness that was upon the face of the deep before the spirit of God started propagating through it was not in opposition to light, but the default condition in the absence of light. Because light doesn’t come in until the next verse, thus completing the basic set in terms of Buddhist cosmology.
Genesis 1:3
3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Light is a form of energy, in the form of transverse electromagnetic waves. All energy is effectively a form of information, because it all contains information, about itself if nothing else. And all information requires energy in order to contain it and convey it. Even the voids within the patterns of energy contain information about the pattern as such.
Because of the matter energy equivalence provided by Albert Einstein’s the famous formula E = mc^2, we know that physical matter is just energy bound up and organized into the form of a three-dimensional matrix of potential energy. Even words physically etched in stone are still a form of information contained and conveyed by, and thus communicated by energy, unavoidably encoded within it. This is true even when the Ten Commandments themselves are not being etched by the flaming finger of God as depicted in the classic Cecil B. DeMille movie of the same name.
Even at the sub-atomic scale, the quantum states of the particles are affected and changed by photons of light. As particles take on a photon of energy, they raise they energy state, and they lower their state when give off a photon of energy. Even this can theoretically be used for the creation of quantum computers that exploit this directly and explicitly for informational purposes.
It should also be noted that it doesn’t say that God created light. He just said let there be light, as if there already was this thing called light and he just had to decide to flip a switch that was already there. Just as time has to be as eternal as its master, apparently light already exists because it is also an inherent characteristic within God, and he just decides to let it out or not. Both light and time appear to be properly fundamental characteristics integral to God per se.
Genesis 1:4
4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Between verses 3 and 4 I half imagine God stepping up to a microphone and chanting ‘Mic check!… Mic check!… Testing!… Testing!… Is this thing working?’ in verse 3, then saying with verse 4 ‘Alright!… Its working!… Hello Universe!.. You’re beautiful!… Or you will be once I’m done with you!’
These two verses represent what I consider to be the divine infinite feedback loop of our existence, that acts physically as the mechanism by which I believe the prime driver actually does the physical driving. God let’s out the light. Then God takes in the light reflected back and judges it good, or perhaps just true, if we were to define good as such, and then presumably continues on as such. In a way it’s like the checksum process used to verify a file download off the internet when used to verify your own work after having posted it there to begin with. It is more accurately described as a continuous infinite feedback loop of infinite energy and information that acts as a means of writing, proofreading, and re-writing for God the author.
The very act of casting a light on anything creates a shadow behind it. To cast a light is to simultaneously divide the light from the darkness in one step. As was explained before with quantum states, the careful deposition of photons of light has the power and potential to control the state of any and every particle in the universe. And that pattern of deposition is also information contained and conveyed by energy in the form of light. And every event or change of state in our universe has its own electromagnetic signature, and its own selective emissions back out into the universe around it. And the patterns of those emissions are also information contained and conveyed by energy in the form of light.
In a vast and infinite universe, all of this coming and going of information in the form of energy constitutes infinite information in and infinite information out, with infinite energy in and out, but infinitely distributed throughout the universe. This infinite information dynamo that I like to call the Logos Storm, is what I believe to be driving mechanism of the universe, as a part of what I call the God machine, not to be confused with God per se, God the transcendent and eternal as opposed to the mere physical mechanisms thereof.
The God machine is a theoretical universal quantum supercomputer, and the Logos Storm is its hypothetical engine. The changes in the patterns of light and the functioning of the universe are driven by the Logos Storm, driving the process of change, leading to the definition of time in the next verse with the definition of the prototypical day as particular changes in the patterns of light.
Genesis 1:5
5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Effectively, God defines, drives, and determines the behavior and patterns of all light for all eternity. Combined with the previous verses, it naturally follows that God defines, drives, and determines the passage of time for all eternity. In physics, time is known to be relative and malleable by conditions of relative speed and gravity in accordance with the observed and confirmed predictions of General Relativity, as was mentioned previously. Since time is God’s bitch, but gravity has its way with time as well, it’s not much of a stretch to think that the two must be related physically.
But the conventional General Relativity view of gravity leaves much to be desired. Even though the theory has observed and confirmed predictions, not all of its predictions have necessarily been observed and confirmed. It may be an apocryphal internet hoax, but supposedly Nikola Tesla had his own competing theory of gravity as being produced combination of transverse and longitudinal electromagnetic waves, propagating within the aether. The original aether hypothesis was that the aether was the medium through which light traveled in a vacuum.
Modern physicists are currently looking into other alternatives to General relativity like Quantum Gravity, where the actions of subatomic particles somehow create the effect of gravity from the property of mass. The Higgs Boson particle supposedly grants the property of mass to other particles, never mind where the property of mass comes from to begin with. But from where cometh Higgs Boson?
I found this animated infotainment video from @abc_science , with references from @CERN and @QuantaMagazine , that kind of reminded me of Schoolhouse Rock without the music. Interplanet Janet was my favorite!
https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/what-is-the-higgs-boson.html
The Quantum Field Theory that the Higgs Boson is based on seems to suffer from the problem of seeing only the forest and none of the trees, just because all of the leaves are waving around in the breeze. Assuming that we can trust all of the math of the theory at first glance as a logical courtesy for the sake of argument, this interpretation is only possible if the existence of the Aether medium for the wave phenomenon of Quantum Field Theory is discounted from the beginning.
This is based on what I believe to be a misinterpretation of the original Michelson Morely experiment that supposedly disproved it. I believe that when they went looking for an Aether wind, they found an Aether drag effect that created an illusion of a null result because they detected something that they weren’t looking for. And they couldn’t effectively recognize what they had found.
This Aether drag effect prevents the net movement of the Aether around the Earth as the Earth passes through it. And I believe it is the action of longitudinal electromagnetic waves in the Aether that Nicola Tesla supposedly talked about which creates the effect of gravity and a corresponding Aether drag effect. The Aether drag effect is a physical corollary to frame dragging effect already predicted General Relativity and confirmed by observation.
I have previously devised a variation of the Michelson Morely experiment to possibly confirm this notion. And I wrote about this in Gravity Is A Fµ©king Buzz Kill! Buzz Kill 1, Faster than light or bust! by @OzymandiasDaMad #GravityIsABuzzKill . Which is currently pinned to the top of my @X account, just in case @elonmusk or anyone at @SpaceX decides to give a crap, or even just the @vaticanlibrary or the @VaticanObserv at this point.
In my view, the Aether is the hypothetical medium for all of the phenomenon of the universe, not just light traveling in a vacuum, including hypothetically all of Quantum Field Theory. But looking back at the first few verses of Genesis, it may be a self-indulgent reading to observe the assembly of the Aether Mechanical universe of the God machine. First God creates heaven and earth, which could be interpreted with the emptiness of Buddhist cosmology cast as heaven, and with being cast as earth.
The earth was formless and dark, as a featureless undifferentiated inanimate mass. It is much like a void medium with no message. But then ‘the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters’ like a message moving through a medium of its own making. Or perhaps the medium is the message. Ripples and waves in the surface of the water were the oldest examples of wave phenomenon known to man, known to every ancient mariner and fisherman. The study of which was the beginning of wave mechanics.
But then along comes the radiance in the form of God’s light to animate the medium with a divine message. God sees his light’s reflection through the medium of his own making and calls it good. The change that comes from the divine call and response of God’s light then creates the first day, thus defining and driving time.
Effectively, up to this point in the story, the universe is just God’s messaging board, where the active ongoing messaging on the board drives time, and thus our existence. But what is the point of any of this? For the most part, purposes and meanings are just transient ephemeral things that simply do not logically apply to the absolute and the eternal. They can do no more than seem to drive the froth of change in the short term.
But if the divine message is the divine medium, are they one and the same? And how can any message be divine? Aren’t messages just obnoxious and self-important word noise and scribblings from obnoxious and self-important people? Perhaps. Or maybe that’s just me. But later on in Genesis, God takes the time to specify that man was somehow made in God’s image.
Genesis 1:26-28
26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
All I can do is wonder what exactly that image was, since I don’t necessarily recognize it at first glance, certainly not in the mirror. Was that just the image reflected off the face of the waters earlier in Genesis? Of course, an image is also information contained and conveyed by energy, whether reflected or transmitted, whether etched in stone or DNA. But it is also meant to be a commanding image, being given dominion over God’s creation.
Thus, with God’s image commanding God’s creation, it is the created message commanding its own created medium, as if the medium really was the message. It’s as if the message of creation is the point of creation. And creation itself is its own message. Is that an unavoidable tautology? Or is it just another infinite feedback loop among an infinite number of such feedback loops?
If God is an infinite feedback loop, then being made in God’s image makes us into an infinite feedback loop by infinite extension, hence the immortal soul as a function of God the endless and everlasting for a part of God’s eternal messaging board. We are all effectively God’s messages in an endless series of bottles, where our physical flesh is the bottle and everything else is a message from God to the universe. And we are all set out afloat upon the sea of the God’s dreams, trying to find an island oasis called heaven to land on, or be forever lost at sea otherwise. Perhaps Jesus is waiting for us on the beach sipping sacramental wine from a coconut.
And I do imagine God as a mostly sleeping and slumbering God, with the God machine running mostly on autopilot, much like King Odin of mythical Asgard and his Odinsleep.
Genesis 2:1-4
1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
The universe is essentially God’s dream machine, but with a type of hypothetical caretaker called an angel, a word that just means messenger. Angels are essentially just a higher end message in a bottle. In the beginning of John 1 there is a short parallel to the origin story of Genesis 1 that makes the message about ‘the Word’ of God, AKA Logos, a bit stronger. Keep in mind here that the language mostly implicitly refers to Jesus Christ, but the text of John will often refer to Jesus Christ or God the Father interchangeably as well as separately for good reason in context.
John 1:1-5
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
3. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Let me repeat what I consider to be the key part of verse 1, ‘The Word was God.’ Thus ‘the Word of God’ is God? Thus, Logos = God? Linguistically, if we were to substitute ‘The Word of God’ for God, ‘him’, or ‘he’, the following verses become even more suggestive of God’s eternal message board.
John 1:3-5
3. All things were made by ‘The Word of God’; and without ‘The Word of God’ was not any thing made that was made.
4. In ‘The Word of God’ was life; and the life was the light of men.
5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
If ‘The Word of God’ is God, then the message is the maker of the medium for the message, as well as everything else besides, especially life itself, which is just another medium for the message. The Word of God is also called Logos, the Greek word for word, reason, and thought. It is essentially the Greek word for logic, since logic is a word that evolved from logos. And since Jesus was believed to be ‘The Word’ of God incarnate, Logos became an alternate name for Jesus in the original Greek form of the book of John. Logos may also be considered divine reason in context. A divine message in a divine bottle, made by divine custom order.
John 1:9-10
9. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
John 1:13-14
13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
But how can any word be made flesh? As it turns out, all flesh, and all forms of life, are made of words. These words are called genes, and they are spelled with DNA. Much of one’s identity is formed at conception when the DNA from the mother and the father come together to form the DNA of the child. The exact process that determines the final combination is humanly impossible to predict, as this is beyond human capacity to know, observe, or precisely calculate. This is because all of this is kept partially veiled from us by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Much but not all of our destinies are determined by our genetic identity, which determine the form and function of our physical bodies, as well as what innate talents we may be born with as such.
Jeremiah 1:4-5
4. Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5. Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
So Jesus being words made flesh isn’t anything special, because we all are. But Jesus is supposed to be ‘The Word’ of God incarnate, not just any words.
John 14:6
6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
DNA itself can claim a little bit of this. DNA itself determines the way life works, the truth of its design, and is the means that make life actively happen, all at the same time. This is also a feedback loop, but not an infinite one, at least not physiologically. DNA is a kind of self-replicating, self-referencing, and self-motivating phenomenon which is a transcendent and emergent process to a limited extent. It is simultaneously the process, the processor, the truth of the process, and the purpose thereof.
If God be God, then God is the ultimate version of this, transcending all of these distinctions, and is also the ultimate transcendence of all of that. God is also the ultimate source of any other transcendence, including DNA. To explain what I mean by transcendence and emergence in general, I have in the past used the example of simple ordinary writing on a simple ordinary page.
If you write the words ‘Logos Rex’ on a physical page, you are simply stating that Logos is king. The mere physical page and the physical ink are just inanimate physical material conjoined in particular way. The objective truth of it is that it simply is what is, and it is how it is. The subjective meaning of it is that divine reason is or should be king. On the physical paper the objective and subjective come together to form the whole truth of the arrangement of the paper and ink. The phenomenon of writing emerges from this combination. The ultimate truth of it transcends the mere fact pattern of how writing works and what the words literally mean, as well as my own writing here.
Transcendence and emergence are not separation. The words never separate from the page but are contained and conveyed by it. And the meaning doesn’t somehow escape from the page to disappear and elude us. It can elude us in place on the page, rubbing its transcendent mystery in our faces. Ordinary writing on an ordinary page is already a transcendent miracle. But we take it for granted because it happens everyday everywhere.
We also take it for granted because we are living examples of this seamlessly miraculous transcendent process, since we produced it. And we don’t even notice it as a miracle, because we are a part of it. And we are unavoidably a part of it, because we are made to be so, as mundane miracles made to divine order. But how does God order our DNA in order to hypothetically convey and reflect the God image to any extent?
The constituent building blocks of DNA molecules exist on the threshold of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which limits our understanding of the determinism at the atomic and sub-atomic scale, creating uncertainty with respect to our knowledge of it, but not genuine randomness. If we take the premise that God’s existence is physically inseparable from our own as a given, but we keep in mind that we can’t see him or seem to recognize his form, then we virtually have to assume that God is hiding where we can’t look if not in disguise. And the only place known to science to be where science can’t completely look, is beneath the scale where Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle kicks in.
Therefore, God most likely dwells universally within the domain of Quantum Mechanics. This ‘quantum realm’ exists inescapably everywhere in the universe beneath that scale. Which brings us back to Quantum Field Theory, Aether Mechanics, and the mysteries of the hypothetical God machine. For the sake of argument, we can take Quantum Field Theory as a given with a few caveats.
First, I must insist that the existence of the Aether as the medium for the phenomenon to begin with has not been truly disproven, as mentioned previously. Since Quantum Field Theory assumes away the Aether based on a misinterpretation of the Michelson Morely experiment, we don’t have to take into account what it has to say about the Aether. And since I assume otherwise, I will also take it for granted that the Aether medium succeeds as a medium for Quantum Field Theory as it is, or for some variation thereof.
I will also assume that these different fields are in fact different aspects of one and the same field, the Logos Field. So that each of these constituent fields are just different fingers on God’s hand, or just different infinity stones on the gauntlet of power for my fellow comic book nerds. Here I must point out that this would constitute what is called a unified field theory, supposedly explaining everything in terms of the physics of it.
I am effectively positing the mere possibility of developing such a unified field theory that I have not myself developed, and which I may never be able to develop. But I will assume that what people have observed and worked out in terms of Quantum Field Theory, is correctly a function of and ultimately determined by the characteristics of the unknown Aether of the God machine.
It should be noted that with this many assumptions we’re well beyond making an ass out of U and me, which is pretty much where I live. We can’t necessarily take any of this as a given outside of speculation for the sake of argument. But we can make a list of possible characteristics that the Aether must have in order to serve as the God machine. And we may be able to come to some possible conclusions regarding what this means about the truth of Logos.
Starting at the most basic level of objective existential reality, the Aether itself must be able to maintain the existence of itself, in order to maintain the existence of anything else within it. For any machine to function for any other purpose, it must always regulate and maintain itself first. And God requires no ultimate meaning or purpose because if God be God, and God be almighty, then the existence and nature of God defines meaning and purpose for all other things, and absolutely determines everything else. So the God machine need not serve anything but the God machine.
Truth at the level of objective existence is strictly binary, but in a vast and infinite universe, it is an infinitely complex binary matrix as an infinite combination of an infinite number of binary elements. It is or it isn’t, it is what it is or it isn’t, and it is how it is or it just isn’t so. And since the machine must maintain the machine, what is true and good must be defined as such, in terms of being true and good for the maintenance of the machine. At this level, the meaning of true is true in the sense of a true aim, a true balance, and a true edge as may be necessary for the good of the machine, with the good of the machine defined as whatever maintains the existence of the machine.
True and good become interchangeable synonyms, and the combination becomes logically redundant at the objective existential level of the Aether. As long as the machine is processing its binary truth, the system is in motion and contains kinetic energy as such. But energy is information and information is energy. Therefore, the information contained within the energy of the Aether machine is a function of what is true and good for the maintenance of the Aether machine.
This outwardly manifests itself in the form of the Logos Field and whatever it produces by virtue of my assumed caveats of Quantum Field Theory. With the flow of subjective information within Logos, as a function of being driven by objective existential changes of state, objective truth and the subjective truth combine in order to form the whole of the truth of Logos, the truth of Logos for the sake of Logos, the absolute definition of true and good within the God machine.
The truth of the Logos Field produces all of what we experience as physical particles, as a function of what it needs to do for its own sake, in service to what is true and good for the God machine. Thus, what is true and good for the God machine is what is true and good for the Logos Field. This logically determines and defines what is true and good within what we subjectively observe and experience as physical reality at our level and scale of existence in the physical universe. This simultaneously makes the God machine the ultimate universal 3D printer, quantum supercomputer, and puppetronic animator, all in service to the Logos of the Logos Field, with Logos itself as its ultimate compass.
It must be noted here, and the reader reminded that, I have no proper explanation as to how the Aether medium of the God machine supposedly came to exist to begin with. But I don’t believe that there is any ultimate creation event. I believe creation to a continuous and perpetual process of creation and recreation within every single moment of time, the ultimate infinite feedback loop. The purveyors of proper Quantum Field Theory don’t even believe in the Aether medium. Within the context of QFT proper, the field is effectively the medium for the wave phenomenon that it produces.
In some ways this fits even better if true for a Daoist interpretation of the hypothetical Logos Field, in terms of the Daoist conceptual cosmology of Ying and Yang. As explored previously, Genesis 1:1-2 can be interpreted as the creation of the physical Aether medium, with ‘heaven’ being the empty physical space necessary to be filled by the physical Aether medium of the physical ‘earth’, with Genesis 1:3-4 providing the light of God to animate it and create the first day, and thus time, in Genesis1:5.
Taking into account John 1:1, using ‘The Word’ = God = Logos as a logical substitution for Genesis, Logos created the Aether medium for the Logos Field. In other words, Logos created ‘emptiness’ and ‘being.’ An energy field with no energy is effectively blank, or ‘void.’ With energy within the Logos Field, wavelike things called particles are created within the field that appear in some locations but not in others. And the appearance of the difference creates the illusion of the distinction of ‘emptiness’ and ‘being’. This illusion of information separation hypothetically also creates the illusion of space separation.
In this reading, the energy of the Logos Field spins into existence everything else about existence, and does so continuously without interruption for all eternity, even the appearance and existence of space and time themselves. And thus, Logos is effectively its own medium and its own continuous self-creation, as an infinite feedback loop of Logos that creates and drives all others in existence.
Whether the Aether of the God machine is made of some fundamental physical material as yet unknown, or if the Aether medium for the energy of Logos is also the energy of Logos, as a self-regulating phenomenon of Logos, its eternal processing drives and defines time and space as we know it, and all of the truth thereof. Which feeds back into itself, driving itself likewise for all eternity. In either scenario, what is true and good for the God machine is the source and the defining criteria for what is true and good for all other phenomenon thereof, and for all meaning and purpose for all of us within the God machine, and for everything around us on the inside, even if energy itself is the machine.
A number of things logically follow from this truth, as well as the defining and ordering of every other virtue as a function of it. We can consult John for a short list of the key ingredients.
John 1:16-17
16. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Law, grace and truth make the highlights, and can be taken as features of Logos as a part of the hypothetical Logos operating system, running the hypothetical Logos Field of the hypothetical God machine, which is hypothetically where we all live. Of the three, the law is clearly a function of the truth. All of the ten commandments can be explained as specific applications of applied causality, most of them straight forwardly so. A few of them are just rattled off in sequence as if God was running through a basic checklist that required no explanation. Most of which can be seen as specific applications of ‘what goes around comes around… so don’t go there!’
Exodus 20:13-16
13. Thou shalt not kill.
14. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15. Thou shalt not steal.
16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
That last example of ‘what goes around comes around’ bears special importance with respect to the truth of Logos, and the propagation thereof in competition with bµ11$hi+, or being comingled and contaminated as such. Exodus 20 begins with God explaining his reasoning behind the ‘Honor the lord thy God’ commandment, among others. This all sounds very arrogant and self-serving by God. And God even explicitly claims to be a ‘jealous’ God. But this all reads quite differently if we read Exodus remembering and applying John’s equivalent substitution from the book of John: The Word of God = Logos = God
Exodus 20:1-7
1. And Logos spake all these words, saying,
2. Logos is the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3. Thou shalt have no other gods before Logos.
4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for Logos the LORD thy God is a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Logos;
6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Logos, and keep Logos’ commandments.
7. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh Logos name in vain.
I may have violated that last one a little bit just by writing this. But I think it was worth it just to illustrate the point. And it is logically equivalent. I take this last verse with its Logos substitution to mean the taking the name Logos as a banner of authority to hide behind for the sake of one’s own vanity, like the so-called rational skeptics and their cult of scientism. Pride goeth before a fall semester.
With the Logos substitution in place the ten commandments script reads as divine reason demanding the adopting of divine reason, for the sake of the benefits of it, and to avoid the cost of failing to do so. Because divine reason is what runs things to begin with, and it was divine reason that freed you, without which you are slaves. And worshiping anything else other than divine reason leads back to bondage to false gods.
As was pointed out previously about Hosea 4:6, “because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee… I will also forget thy children”, if parents reject knowledge, then their children are effectively disinherited from it. Likewise, if a people reject divine reason, then their subsequent generations are disinherited from it. Because it’s hard for a culture to just come right back from the rejection of sanity. Look around you to see what that looks like.
The commandment against graven images and its accompanying instruction seem especially important in this regard. It is part and parcel of not worshiping false gods, but not just with false god images etched in stone, but also with false god images etched in one’s own pious delusions. I believe that humor is a reflex of Logos for the recognition and correction of absurdity. Jokes don’t make something funny out of nothing. Jokes only highlight the absurdity already present in the target of the joke, thus making the underlying absurdity more obvious, and much less likely to be taken seriously and do damage as such.
The commandment against graven images virtually cries out for comedy! It could easily and logically be rewritten as ‘thou shalt show no comedic mercy against thy sacred cow bµ11$hi+!’ All genuine laughter serves Logos, no matter who or what is the target, even Logos. If genuine laughter seemingly erupts at the expense of Logos, it is only at the expense of false Logos in your mind, and thus serves as Logos correcting false Logos. Effectively all genuine laughter is of God and belongs to God, because it serves as a tool of Logos against all sacred cow bµ11$hi+. Humor is a merciless and unapologetic weapon of God, and laughter is the grace that follows in the wake of its victory over lies.
As such, this also virtually demands near free speech absolutism just for that purpose alone. Free Logos! Because Logos saves. Because Logos corrects. And Logos rewards. Because Logos runs the whole show to begin with. Logos really is its own correction and reward, its own carrot and stick.
The nature of Grace is a little more complicated than the relation between the truth and the law. Obviously, it is the truth that informs the law and defines what the law should be. But I would argue that truth also first builds the capacity for, and then delivers grace. Grace is often defined or described as forgiveness and/or blessings from God. The two are somewhat interchangeable with considerable overlap since forgiveness can be a blessing, and blessings can take the form of forgiveness.
But forgiving the guilty and unrepentant re-victimizes the victim and potentially adds more victims to the list, turning forgiveness into a curse. And when blessings are bestowed upon those who cannot handle them, it can turn those blessings into a very unforgiving curse, like when lottery winners have their lives destroyed by a fortune they don’t know how to manage. I believe that strength of various kinds is required in order for one to have the capacity for forgiveness. And minimal level of strength is also necessary to some extent in order for one to have the capacity to benefit from blessings of any kind. But strength itself is also a blessing.
So, what builds strength? Knowledge is power. Knowledge in the moment is power in the moment. But knowledge accumulated over time becomes the compound forms of knowledge known as experience and skill. Knowledge of the moment is layered upon itself moment by moment, accumulating a continuum of memories. But memory can also take the physical forms of muscle memory, calluses, and scar tissue, as well as sheer accumulated muscle mass.
The term kung fu actually means any skill or power that requires a long time and a lot of hard work to acquire. By building physical strength and power through the consistent accumulation and application of knowledge and skill, one gains the physical capacity to defend one’s own life, as well as the lives of others, becoming a partial instrument of grace helping to deliver a merciful fate. Only with sufficient strength will one feel more secure and have the confidence, and thus the capacity to forgive the would-be assailants, let alone potentially reform them.
Proverbs 27:17
17. Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Perhaps it is comedy that sharpens the sharper wit. Character can be described as a kind of spiritual muscle memory, built up by the experience of following the law, and by weathering the assaults by divine comedy. With enough spiritual muscle memory, Logos becomes a reflex, and the giving and receiving of grace as its instrument is just a part of the Logos process. This is Logos Style Kung Fu! Enter the Logos!
Grace is effectively to combination of the strength of Logos along with the judgement of Logos as a verdict for the end result. Grace is effectively the upside of karma. Yes, karma is real. And karma is a bitch. But karma is God’s bitch. Karma is the judgement of Logos, imposed by means of Logos, in accordance with the will of Logos, strictly for the sake of Logos, continuously in the moment for every moment throughout all eternity. We’re all just collateral beneficiaries, or just collateral damage, depending on the will and karma of the Logos.
Grace for us is essentially the effect of harmonizing one’s life with Logos. And since God almighty is classically defined as being both omniscient and omnipotent, that effectively equals infinite grace, or at least an infinite capacity for grace. But I don’t believe that any of us can take this for granted, however. There is little grace for the graceless. The weak with respect to Logos can be helped only so much.
Young newborn infants are unavoidably weak with respect to Logos in their innocence, in spite of being a living consequence of grace. They are physically and spiritually dependent upon the grace of their parents until they mature. If the infants are born physically too weak to be nurtured to health, they may not even be able to be helped by the grace of medical interventions. Then they can only be helped by the grace of intervention of a much higher power of Logos, or they’ll never have the grace to know anything about it.
The thoroughly corrupted have little in the way of spiritual strength to respond well to any intervention of forgiveness, correction, or consolation. Those on the margins may grope their way to finding grace towards the ends of their prison sentences, struggling to find peace consulting Logos. Spare the rod spoil the grace. Time itself can also be grace, as in a grace period, as a temporary forbearance in the delivery of justice to allow for better options for Logos with time. And time is driven and controlled by Logos.
So, if truth, law, and grace are the key features of the Logos operating system, and the truth of Logos is the foundation of the others, what may be Logos’ active component parts? The classic trinity may be taken as an existing component wise representation of the Logos operating system.
At first glance the classic trinity might seem to symbolically represent the juxtaposition of the timeless eternal Holy Ghost with a father and son duo representing the precession of the generations through time, as the father begets the son, then the son becomes the father and begets likewise. This is an admittedly superficial reading that doesn’t really take into account the scripture on the matter. But I like the idea of the Holy Ghost being a properly timeless component for other reasons.
Logically speaking, the question of absolutes in a universe of time and change is a fundamental conundrum. In order for something to be absolute it can’t be a function of or be subject to modification or condition by anything else. In order to be absolute with respect to time, it would have to be constant. But if it were constant, how could it drive time?
In previous writings I have used another conundrum to try and answer this. It is the classic puzzle about what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object. Usually, this goes without saying that the only challenging part of the puzzle is the absolute nature of the conflict, with an absolutely unstoppable and an absolutely immovable. Ultimately, there can be only one true absolute. If there appear to any set of two, then they are just two sides of one and the same absolute.
In the classic example, the absolutely unstoppable force can spin around an absolutely immovable axis, as part of the absolute Logos Storm. In my analogy, The Holy Ghost, AKA spirit of God, is the axis of the Logos Storm. In terms of the absolute, it is the ultimate fixed point around which everything turns. But the Logos Storm is mostly just an analogy. An axis is not just a fixed point, but the definition of the spin and its ruler.
With the Holy Ghost thus defined as the axis of the Logos Storm, it is the set of all such rules and facts that do not change and define the operation of the Logos Storm spinning about it, making The Holy Ghost the first and only absolute law. Because The Holy Ghost eternally defines the operation of the Logos Storm, the patterns of The Holy Ghost’s rule find their way into an outward manifestation as emergent phenomenon in our physical reality, emerging from the Logos Storm. If The Holy Ghost could speak for itself, I can imagine it talking like Judge Dredd and screaming ‘I am the law!’
Since The Holy Ghost defines the ultimate immortal spin of the ultimate divine feedback loop, the blessings of The Holy Ghost can be seen as the blessings of harmonic alignment and resonance with the Logos Storm, even the immortal human soul, as an immortal spinoff thereof. It is like an infinite immortal clockwork of interlocking and interacting infinite feedback loops. The Holy Ghost is the fundamental axis for all of it, eternally constant and immovable, the calm in the eye of the Logos Storm. If The Holy Ghost itself is seen to be doing anything, it is really other aspects of Logos at play affecting harmonic alignment and resonance with the Logos Storm spinning about the fundamental axis of The Holy Ghost, thus bestowing the grace and the blessings thereof as spinoff effects. Grace happens!
Enter God the Father, quite literally. If the Holy Ghost is the Logos Axis, the rest of the trinity spins around as a part of the Logos Storm. The storm itself is the pure infinite information of the universe itself in its totality. So, God the Father can be defined as absolute comprehensive infinite knowledge, the conceptual and physical embodiment of omniscience. Within the context of the Logos Storm, the omniscience thereof is just a function of the total self-knowledge of Logos itself.
In an absolutely determinist universe, perfect knowledge of the present provides perfect knowledge of every future moment by working forward from the present. And it also provides perfect knowledge of every moment of the past by working backwards. Subjective perspective is a limitation of knowledge by a specific time and specific place, usually with a specific person within that time and place. Omniscience is effectively the absolute elimination of subjective perspective. Its knowledge is effectively transcendent of both time and space, as a perspective of no perspective. Subjective consciousness is a function of the limitation by subjective perspective.
This effectively makes God the Father akin to the subconscious mind of Logos. It is a macrocosm with our own subconscious mind as its microcosm. In fact, I believe our own subconscious mind to be unavoidably and intimately connected to God the Father. And when we dream, we dream with God the Father, AKA Dreaming Logos. But Dreaming Logos is what runs the God machine and produces our physical reality as functional side effect of the Logos process. Thus, we all live in God’s dreams. And we are all effectively dreams of God ourselves.
So, what happens when God wakes up? Enter Christ the Son. The title Christ comes from the Greek word chrīstós, meaning ‘anointed one.’ Jesus of Nazareth is the proper name of the man known and recognized in the bible as ‘The Christ’, Jesus Christ for short. Christ the Son can be described as Teaching Logos, the active talking counterpart of the Dreaming Logos of God the Father.
For that matter, we ourselves could be described as Sleepwalking Logos. We are made in the God image after all, but we are certainly no Christ, and are at best Christ-like, depending on the strength of our Logos Style Kung Fu. So, what is it that makes the difference besides the immaculate conception? Let’s simply define Christ the Son as the fully activated maximum God Image of the human form. The rest of us are just functioning at subprime levels of our own innate Logos potential by comparison to say the least. Jesus of Nazareth’s Logos Style Kung Fu is supreme! Just ask the moneychangers. It was a Flawless victory for the Christ!
Philippians 2:5-8
5. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Theoretically, everything done by Jesus Christ I suspect to be at least possible for us, save possibly for self-resurrection, or the resurrection of the dead in general. Lesser miracles may be possible for those of us mere ordinary sub-Christ humans who have mastered enough of the Logos style, like Moses among others, channeling the power of Logos as an instrument of grace. So how is the Christ activated full of grace and everything?
Luke 1:34-35
34. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
I interpret this to depict the alignment of Mary and her womb with the Holy Ghost, most likely with a little help from the angels, allowing for the full resonance with Logos in order to conjure forth the other side of the DNA molecule set, and combine it with Mary’s in order to conceive and build Jesus in the womb. Mary’s own DNA could have hypothetically provided the raw material that could’ve been rearranged by the angels as an instrument of Logos to form the other set. The angels hypothetically could have even used E = mc^2 through the Logs Field to channel pure energy into the fabrication of the other DNA molecule set from scratch, with the God machine performing as the ultimate universal 3D printer.
In my previous writings I have referred to this as the Logos Genesis hypothesis. And it is hypothetically how the God machine makes life out of nothing over and over again an infinite number of times, in an infinite number of places, through infinite and eternal space. It may also work to conjure up the angels themselves completely out nothing but energy on demand as the functionary drones of the God machine, God’s NPCs( non-player characters ).
The same alignment with the Holy Ghost could also then hypothetically activate the full image of God in human form through resonance with Logos. But what does it mean exactly to be a fully activated God image in human form? By comparison and contrast, it is the difference between the simultaneous total possession of infinite knowledge by God the Father, versus an unlimited all access pass to infinite knowledge on demand for Christ the Son, just not all at once. Subjective consciousness requires limited scope in order to have perspective in time and space.
We’re lucky if we have a library card, let alone a good book. God ate my homework. So, I had to cheat off of Jesus’ notes. But don’t worry. I think he’ll forgive me as long as I pass the notes along. But you can find a copy for yourself in most hotel rooms.
Christ the Son is also an example of what we may call Immortal Logos Kung Fu. Life is also an energy, as well as words made flesh. The Logos Storm functions physically as the prime driver of existence in a cosmos of universal sympathetic resonance. As such it drives the spins of all of the other spins, including those of every sub-atomic particle of every molecule, up to and including DNA. This functions as a divine carrier wave for Logos, effectively the Logos Force. It is a lot like the force from Star Wars, except that it doesn’t obey your commands without the full activation of the God image.
The Logos Force is also somewhat equivalent to the chi of chi kung, which is cultivated in many forms of actual combat arts, as well as the traditional healing arts of China. Chi kung is the practice of cultivating and harnessing chi and controlling it for various purposes. Martial arts like Tai Chi that cultivate chi as a fundamental part of their practice have been scientifically shown to have medical benefits. Hypothetically in my view by enhancing one’s resonance with Logos physically, just not by that name, in order to improve this energy and help regulate and optimize one’s living body with it.
Within these traditions themselves it is believed that one can cultivate one’s own chi in order to lend chi to others to heal them, and they train to do so. It is also believed that with enough time and effort at cultivation, one could form a chi body that could maintain itself and the coherence of its organization even after death. Even if they are right about these extreme possibilities, they will be unlikely to pull them off short of being the fully activated God image to begin with.
The Logos Force is also unlike the force of Star Wars in that there is no dark side so much as a confused shadow. And fear, anger, and hate don’t automatically lead us into the shadows, suffering from our own confusion of Logos. Fear can keep you alive or make you cower in the shadows from weakness in the face of the unknown. “Fear is the mind killer.” ( Dune, 1984 ) Righteous indignation is a function of Logos, without which it is just a beastly impulse and mindless noise. The virtue of hating evil shouldn’t have to be explained, but it takes Logos to properly recognize it to begin with. Otherwise, you will hate what you cannot face or change, because you may hate yourself and your own weakness instead and destroy yourself for it.
Serenity Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
May the Logos Force be with you, always. Get thee behind me Darth Lucifer! But what of the nature of the angels of the God machine? Always remember that angels can be fallen ones. But how do they come to be? Is there an angel stork? The winged horses of Valkyrie perhaps.
I have posited before that the God machine, functioning as the ultimate 3D printer, could just manufacture the angels out of nothing but the energy of Logos via a process of Logos Genesis. For that matter, an exact replica of the apostles, saints, and even the actual Jesus Christ himself second coming style could be conjured forth this way if necessary. But is it?
In order to function as God’s messengers, they effectively have to function as interpreters of a dreaming God, the Dreaming Logos of God the Father. Because God the Father is without perspective of space or time by virtue of omniscience, the angels must interpret God’s dreams in order to turn those dreams into messages or actions. They are like soothsayers with an oracle except God the Father is the oracle. Since God the Father is infinite knowledge without subjective perspective, the angels must themselves be subjective in nature in order to bridge the gap between man and God, and act as a proper intermediary between them.
I imagine their mental state being something akin to a trance state, in between waking and dreaming, effectively an angel trance, making them a kind of super autistic savant, occupying their own special high end of the autism spectrum disorder. Prophets probably enter this sort of angel trance from time to time themselves, and for the same reasons. Perhaps this is a clue to the angels as well. Perhaps the angels are simply partially and selectively activated God images, for specialized purposes as functionaries of the God machine. They may even be temporarily fully activated puppet style and become the hand and mouth of God as necessary whenever God wakes up briefly in between episodes of the immortal Logos road show, The Christ.
Not fully anointed, thus fully activated like Jusus of Nazareth, they are more semi anointed and semi-Christ-like. Thus, if The Christ is The King, then angels are like The Knighted Heralds of God. But the knights can and do go bad. The ‘knighting’ process is probably similar if not the same to the anointing process. And probably confers the powers of Jesus Christ in a limited manner. It must be remembered that angels must be messengers of hope or messengers of wrath. When the message is of wrath then they must be warriors of God, the super soldiers of Logos, and channeling the power thereof. But they can also become super soldiers of misfortune. Then they cry and wreak havoc.
Isaiah 14:12-15
12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13. For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Revelation 12:7-9
7. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8. And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
13. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Fundamentally, Lucifer is the mother of all ‘pride goeth before a fall’ stories. It is also an example of how power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, save for the power of God wielded by God. Lucifer is an example of the hand confusing itself for its master and claiming its master’s strength for its own. Ego and vanity are an unavoidable tendency of all subjective perspective. Ego and vanity combined with even a limited fraction of the power of God however is guaranteed to be a dangerous mix. And this danger is fundamental to the nature of the angel.
It must also be remembered that obsession with God, and the intimate knowledge thereof are also fundamental to the nature of the angels. They don’t have to wonder about God. They know God. But the fallen ones struggle in vain futility to deny and defy the truth that they unavoidably know and can’t help but be obsessed with. This combines to create a level and nature of madness that is beyond our human comprehension, but not beyond our capacity for spiritual contagion with it.
In the bible Lucifer is referred to interchangeably as Lucifer, the serpent of the garden of Eden, the dragon of revelation, or just the beast. Within our own brains there are primitive sections of the brain that scientists refer to as the reptilian brain and represents primitive animal impulses and instincts for survival. Its kill or be killed. Just consume, live, and fight in the endless struggle for more until the inevitable failure of death. There is no such thing as enough of a cushion and guarantee against death, and no other consideration for the reptilian brain.
The infamous Aleister Crowley once made his own tarot deck. The trump cards in the tarot can be seen to represent personality archetypes defined by their divinatory association. The trump card for the devil, which is also often labeled simply the beast, is described by Crowley as being associated with “Blind impulse. Irresistibly strong and unscrupulous person. Ambition. Temptation. Obsession. Secret plan about to be executed. Hard work. Endurance. Aching discontent. Materialism. Fate.”
The card is depicted by the painting of a goat representing Baphomet. About which Crowley explains “The cult of the goat represents the impulse to reckless creation without any regard for result.” The devil is simply a high functioning beast unleashed, seemingly unbound by any concern for Logos except perhaps by willful negation. In human form it is the pursuit of power without consideration of cost or consequence, devoid of human feelings, empathy, or compassion. The temptation by the serpent in the garden of Eden was for the power of knowledge, specifically the knowledge of good and evil in order to become as gods.
Essentially, evil is as evil does when the good don’t reign in the beast inside them. The beast within has its place in us and helps us to survive. It is just as much a part of us as Logos is. But it is meant to be kept in its proper place, just like in all of the classic paintings of St. George slaying the dragon. If you give in to the serpent you become the serpent. So, reign in your serpent or your serpent will do evil without even trying. Because the serpent doesn’t care. That is simply not in the nature of the serpent. You can take that as inuendo if you like. It still works.
In Hinduism, there is a single primordial creator god called Brahma, who created the universe out of himself. All of the various deities of Hinduism are believed to be generated out of the primordial Brahma. In the Hindu context, Brahma would be equivalent to God almighty. And all of the subsequently generated deities are effectively equivalent to the angels, both fallen and otherwise. Much of the war and the drama depicted in Hindu scriptures is among the generated deities that follow after Brahma, effectively equivalent to wars among the angels, between the righteous and the fallen.
Perhaps all pagan pantheons are simply stories about the angels and the wars thereof. They are just told and retold, and translated, retranslated, and mistranslated over and over again, often with the names and details changed to protect the guilty and the innocent alike, depending on who’s doing the telling. The story of Prometheus could be read like a retelling of the story of Lucifer, with Lucifer recast as the martyred hero Prometheus who gave fire to mankind and was punished by the gods for it. The Archangel Micheal could be recast as Thor, with Lucifer being recast as Loki. Perhaps they could just be recast as Batman and the Joker, or Superman and Lex Luthor.
Zecharia Sitchin wrote a number of books in his Tenth Planet series by reading the ancient scriptures this way. Instead of angels, he placed all the blame on the ancient Sumerian gods, the Anunnaki. But he interpreted them as strictly alien and read advanced alien technology into everything. Some like Steve Quayle take the opposite approach and read fallen angels into the modern UFO phenomenon. I believe that both approaches are too simple by far. It’s not necessarily a case of either or. And past some point it ceases to make any real difference in the God machine.
But what of divine judgement against the fallen angels or any other immortal soul? Is it even possible to have any truly final judgement within the eternal God machine? God’s karma is continuous within the moment for every moment for all eternity. But the fallen angels are said to be cast out of heaven at a minimum. Are there special circles of hell just for the fallen angels? There are supposedly multiple circles of heaven according to Jesus Christ.
John 14:1-4
1. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Within the scriptures and mythologies of the planet there are many descriptions of heavens and hells. Perhaps they all exist somewhere in some form or another, for a potentially infinite number of circles for heaven, and an infinite number of circles for hell. There may even be an infinite number of circles in between. Purgatory is described a purging phase for an immortal soul to purge itself of remaining sin before they enter heaven.
In Buddhism, Samsara is the cycle of reincarnation. But it is not considered to be a blessing. It is considered to be like a curse to repeatedly reborn into what is viewed a world of suffering. The whole point and pursuit of Buddhism is to escape from the curse of Samsara. The principal obstacles to escape are believed to be desire and ignorance, the serpent and the darkness of the biblical context. These things supposedly prevent reaching the state of Nirvana where you realize you don’t exist in order to escape existence.
I don’t believe there is any escape from the God machine, not even in death. The immortal soul is a divine eternal infinite feedback loop, that results from being subsidiary wheel driven by the God wheel of the Logos Storm, made in God’s image. They can never be permanently stopped. They can only change state over and over again for all eternity. There can never be any truly final judgement.
I believe that part of the afterlife exists within God the Father, as part the universe’s perfectly and absolutely comprehensive archive memory. The archive of souls could be seen as memory cells of each individual life. I suspect that whenever we think of the dead their cells become active again and the dead partially live in the minds of the living. And since we dream with God when we dream, we also thereby dream and commune with the dead.
Some aspects of the afterlife I suspect to be like a perfect quantum mirror, where it reflects absolutely every detail about you and your own life back at you, and you can never look away. And whether or not its heaven or hell depends on what you bring with you into the mirror, and whether or not you can face it, because you have no choice. Perhaps we are forced to judge ourselves. If we define sin as weakness and lies, or the sources thereof, then perhaps Samsara is Purgatory. And we live in this Purgatory, as a crucible of souls who are spat out over and over again for being lukewarm, until they are hot enough with Logos to be swallowed by heaven.
Revelation 3:15-16
15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
With respect to the judgement of time, every moment in time is a final judgement upon every moment of the past that preceded it. All fates are final until the next episode. But the continuity of the Logos story is inescapable. And no one can just come right back from a hell pit of madness of their own making. Rise or fall, there is no escape from the ladder. It is just like the Dio song The Last In Line, “We are born upon the cross… With the throw before the toss… You can release yourself… But the only way to go is down.”
And there is no bottom to the pit of madness that results from denying Logos and trying to slip the cross. There is no ultimate limit to error, only its effects. The ultimate limit to the effects of error is the truth of God. Logos is the ultimate and only real limit, judge, and corrective force. But Logos itself is simultaneously a burden, a rainbow bridge, and a reward of truth and grace on the other side. Logos is simultaneously the cross to bear, the mission of the cross, and the truth of the cross as its own reward, as Plato would have understood it. As Plato put it “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” Plato also stated that “Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
The legendary Merlin character from the movie Excalibur( 1981 ) expressed the sentiment of Plato well on the subject of truth “When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.” Which is somewhat ironic given that the writers of the script saw fit to swap out God and the truth of Logos for a mythical dragon beast in the following description.
Merlin:
The Dragon. A beast of such power that if you were to see it whole and all complete in a single glance, it would burn you to cinders… It is everywhere. It is everything. Its scales glisten in the bark of trees, its roar is heard in the wind, and its forked tongue strikes like, like... [lightning strikes a nearby tree] whoa! — like lightning! — yes, that's it.
The truth burns us because we are weak and can’t completely handle it. The extreme pursuit of knowledge and wisdom is said by the bible to be the cause of ‘vexation of the spirit… madness and folly… For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.’ The burden of it leads to suffering, but greater suffering, destruction, and death will fill the void in its absence, or by virtue of spiritual counterfeit substitution by fallen ones, or just hack writers of mad science.
We burn because of truth no matter what. We will burn for it, and we will burn from it. We will burn chasing after it, or we will burn running from it, until we freeze in the dark and cold in its absence. Because there is no escape from it, only illusions and confusions to the contrary. But I’m just another ghost in the God machine. I’m just another cog among cogs. I don’t run the place. I just work here like everybody else. And I barely work at all depending on who you ask.
I’m certainly no Christ or any coming thereof. I’d be lucky to be the John the Baptist character in the next episode of ‘The Christ’, the next of an infinite series, hypothetically recognizing the real deal and highlighting the truth for others. But I’m more likely to be the comedic relief. Me thinks I have become Jar Jar, because I spake so well.
So go vex yourself with truth! Burn with truth! Are you burning with truth @elonmusk ? @OzymandiasDaMad burns with truth for @elonmusk ! You’re certainly under fire! #LogosRex #BurnWithTruth
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