Zoomed out a bit too far

[anagogy]

The bedrock of it all is infinity. The question essentially was: what came before infinity? I think I answered my own question at one point: nothing can precede infinity because of the nature of infinity.

Exactly. You've got it.

Infinity is all that has ever been. And in my opinion, it is synonymous with consciousness, because if you really search your heart, you will see in perfect clarity, that consciousness is the heart of existence. Existence = consciousness. Consciousness validates, by its very nature, the fact that YOU ARE. I think therefore I am.

Without consciousness, there is no existence. If a tree falls in the forest and there is no consciousness there to witness it, it *didn't exist in the first place*. But that never happens, because consciousness, or infinity, inhabits all probabilities and will for all eternity. There never was a situation where there was a state of nothingness, which then, by some inexplicable process, boom, magically produced somethingness. As Ra said, "The dissolution into nothingness is the dissolution into unity, for there is no nothingness."

There has only ever been infinite somethingness. But to people enmired in duality I usually start them off with the thought: "because nothingness infinitely does NOT exist, everythingness infinitely DOES exist." However, while close to being the reality, that statement is slightly distorted. The idea of nothingness doesn't even enter into the reality of it. Actually all ideas are distortions relative to unity. The reality is: there is a block of infinite potentiality that is also, simultaneously, actuality (in infinity they are one and the same). What we call "creation" is simply the illusory distancing of perception between the idea of "potential" and the idea of "actual". Or potential and kinetic. In other-words, distortion.

It is analogous to a block of wood. The block of wood contains all the potential forms that could be carved out of that block of wood. From the undistorted vantage point, the infinite forms within the block of wood are so perfectly fused that they are not seen in their separation. Again, I say, they are seen, but NOT in their separation. So everything we see is real, in that sense, but we see it *distorted* from how it really is as the perfectly fused unity of infinite unbroken awareness, or Beingness.

The forms are like ice-cubes drifting underneath the sea. Can you distinguish them from the sea? The sea can't, but the ice cube does. Until it melts of course and then it can't either. Similarly, as long as we identify as as these little selves, or perspectives, within this massive universe, that is the distortion we will experience. When identity is transcended, so are the limitations of that identity, and then you embody all identities so to speak, but you don't see them in their separation.

So how does the 'distancing' or 'distortion' from unity occur? By raw consciousness choosing, or willing, to imagine limitations on its own unbounded essence. When Ra said "infinity became aware" it was infinity becoming aware, and discerning the possibility for something other than undistorted unity. It allowed its raw, eternal, and real perception of undistorted infinity to drift into the realm of the potential forms embedded in that metaphorical block of wood. In otherwords, we are the formless imagining what the perspective of a form would be like.

All of what we perceive and interpret as negativity is simply separation. In unity there is no separation. So it is absolutely positive in the sense of there being no disharmony, and it feels no lack in any regard. It is pure peace, love, joy, bliss, creativity, and all real qualities. Their negative antithesis' don't actually exist as opposities, they are just distortions of those undistorted natural qualities inherent in unity. In otherwords, fear and hate are just distorted love. Everything is just distorted love. It is like how cold is not the opposite of warm, it is simply the reduction of heat. Distortion (falsity) is not the opposite of undistortion (truth), it is simply the reduction of it.