A post by CGI member ScienceTruth.

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The Winnemucca Institute for Advanced Studies presents

The Changeless The Infinite and The Undivided's Tale

Once Upon A Time . . about a Billion years from now . . in a Galaxy far, far away . . an idea began to resolve itself into a conceptualization that was comprehensible. The Entity receiving the idea became quite excited with the thought that he might be able to manage making it happen! Although it did take considerable mental effort to hold the entire concept as a complete vision and not get distracted into focusing on just one aspect, as there were several components to this vision and they had a rather complicated intertwining amongst themselves in order to make it all sustainable. He thought it might be a rather large effort to make this vision manifest, but the results promised to be so intriguing that it prompted the Entity into deciding to go all in, and do his best to make it become a Reality! This Quest, if we may call it that, first required the gathering of three unique Properties, well, maybe four Properties, as there did need to be a 'location' for which to make this idea manifest into a Reality.

How shall I begin, thought the Entity. What is the most important Property, the one I should search for and acquire first ? Well, maybe that isn't the way to begin. Maybe I should let the three Primary Properties make themselves known to me in their own way, and then entice them to come together and seek out the ways in which they will entwine themselves, for who am I to decide how they should do things, as they may likely know how to work together best. Let's try that approach. And so he did. A while later the Entity was relaxing, not thinking about anything in particular, and he became aware that an idea was arriving from somewhere indistinguishable. Where do these ideas come from he thought? Who knows where they come from, I certainly don't know. So, I'll be careful and do my best to make sure these ideas are worthy of thought, and especially so before implementation. With that in mind, the Entity, for I know not what else to call him, or even if he was a him, for maybe she was a she, or maybe the Entity was not of a so-called 'sex', as Entities that live forever have no need to reproduce themselves in the event they die and no one is left to carry on. And so the thought continued to arrive, an All-Connectedness, one in which events don't happen in isolation, one in which all things have an awareness of each other, one in which the smallest and the largest are equal. And, as it came to be, a 'location' wasn't necessary. For as the three Properties began to become aware of each other, they realized they could create a construct amongst themselves, one in which they would, by juxtaposing their powers against each other, create a 'location', out of 'thin air' if you will, and as if by 'magic'!!! And so the Entity watched, and was amazed! He asked the three Properties, what do you call yourselves, so that I might know how to properly address you. One Property replied, I am called The Undivided, for I am 'One'. There is no 'other' here, only myself. A second Property answered, I am called The Infinite, for I exist everywhere within the 'One' that is Undivided. The third Property, and not to be considered the least just because it replied last said, I am called The Changeless, because I remain the same until something causes me to react to it. The Changeless continued saying, "The Undivided and The Infinite must also be changeless in their overall totality. Because, how can something that has nothing else besides itself in its own extensive Reality be changed by anything else, as nothing else is there in the vast extent of The Undivided to change the vast extent of The Undivided! There is no 'wall' beyond which 'something else' exists in extent to apply pressure to 'change' The Undivided. The Undivided, logically, must be changeless in its basic nature. And, because The Infinite exists in all locations within The Undivided, how can it be different in one location from another location, all within the vast undivided expanses of The Undivided? The Infinite must also be changeless in its basic nature as well. And so, the underlying essence of both The Infinite and The Undivided must be changeless. Just as the Undivided must be infinite, because, it exists in all places and goes to all distances, and there is nothing 'else' in its existence, there is no 'wall' beyond which there is something 'else'. The Undivided must be infinite in its total extent and in its total duration, and so it must also be changeless in its overall extent and in its underlying essence as well.

The Infinite must be undivided in that it cannot be limited to not existing in any of the locations within The Undivided, and so The Infinite must also be changeless because there is nothing that could change it from not being in all locations. And that leaves me, The Changeless, for I must also be infinite in that I am everywhere within The Undivided. I must also be undivided in that I am not prevented from being in any locations within The Undivided. My goodness thought the Entity, what an amazing 'circle of logic', but how will you three all make yourselves 'appear' within your new 'location'? For as I see it, you are the Principal creators in this play of creation. It would be nice if you could also become an acting Principle that appears in your new 'location', one that can be noticed and regarded by any inhabitants of your 'new world'. It might be an injustice to your new 'construct' to remain as only invisible background enigmatic apparitions for its creation. How about also inhabiting your new world so that you can observe more closely how things go forward from its inception.

Some time passed, and the Entity began to notice that the 'new world' started to exhibit some properties that he hadn't noticed before. It became filled with Energy! Then 'particles' began to manifest, and then the particles began to interact amongst themselves. And then, by the Entity studying how the interactions progressed, he understood how the three initial Properties in the beginning, had then become the three Principals that created this 'new world', and how they had now manifested themselves into their 'new world creation' each by becoming a discrete manifesting Principle of themself, resulting in all three appearing in this new world creation as three distinct and unique acting Principles. And so, the Entity made note of how The Infinite manifested itself into this new world creation construct as the principle of Energy : Energy, that which is neither able to be created nor able to be destroyed by any inhabitants of this new world. Energy truly is The Infinite. And of how The Changeless manifested itself into this new world construct as the principle of Inertia / Momentum, that which remains the same until acted upon by some external force. And how, The Undivided manifested itself into this new world construct as the principle of the attraction of Gravity and the attraction / repulsion of ElectroMagnetic forces. Gravity and electromagnetic forces are everywhere, and are always pulling things together, and fortunately they are unsuccessful in trying to make everything, all into one place, and all at one time, because, that would make the 'One', and everything in it, probably disappear. But, due to the infinite extent of The Undivided and it being so big, gravity and electromagnetic attractions cannot ever finish their task, and this gives The Infinite, appearing as Energy, and Energy appearing in its secondary manifestation as Matter, all the time it needs to do all the things that Energy can do. Energy, in its physical manifestation as Matter, really is the only physical inhabitant in this 'new world construct'. Changelessness is a quality that Energy in its form as the particles of Matter will exhibit as Inertia and Momentum. The Changeless manifests not as a physical thing like Matter, it only acts on or within Matter. The Undivided, in manifesting as Gravity and the ElectroMagnetic Forces, are not something physical like Matter, they are both only 'fields', a force that acts on Matter. Without Energy manifesting as Matter, Gravity and the ElectroMagnetic Forces would have no reason to exist. Without Matter; Inertia and Momentum would have no reason nor place to exist. Both, The Changeless and The Undivided are co-dependent upon The Infinite (manifesting as Matter) for a reason and a place to exist. And, The Infinite is co-dependent on The Undivided (and its sidekick The Changeless) for a reason to exist as well, as the Infinite gives 'safe harbor' to the Changeless and the Undivided for a place to exist. Each 'side' of this co-dependency completely depends upon the other 'side' for their very existence ! Neither side can exist without the other, and it is impossible to say which 'side' manifested first! The Infinite is on one 'side' of this equation, and The Undivided and The Changeless are on the other 'side' of the equation. Both sides are completely dependent upon each other's existence for their very own existence ! And the Entity thought, It's a house of cards!!! They're all supporting each other by pulling on each other's bootstraps to keep the entire construct up and not collapsing!!!

The above Tale of how The Changeless The Infinite and The Undivided 'created' our Universe and populated it with Matter, is an example of an "Apparitional Causation" for the creation of our Universe, because our Universe was not created by something that we can 'identify' as existing in the Real Physical World that we live in here, it would be said to have been created by an 'apparition', something that we do not know of what it is, nor of 'where' it existed before our Universe was created. Whereas an "Existential Causation" would be a creation by something that exists in our Reality to begin with, and of which we can 'identify' what it is and where it was at the time that it 'caused' an event to happen. An Existential Causation could not be the 'mechanism' that created our Universe and Reality and caused it to 'come into existence'.

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