01-10-2018, 03:47 PM
I continue to meditate on the wisdom anagogy dropped on me: what if there is no reason or intent per se behind existence? What if the Creation is not (or is not solely) this project set out upon by the Creator to achieve some end, but instead the Creation is simply a consequence of infinity's awareness achieving focus? What if we impose a telos or reason on it as a way to anthropomorphize the Creation into something that has a resolution that satisfies us?
To even speak of consequences and reasons implies sequence and time, that something would have to precede something else or that something would necessitate something else. I'm not sure we can speak coherently of intent and purpose at the level of the ultimate, outside of time. To even say that the purpose of the Creation is so the Creator can know itself is rather tautological. After all, what else would the Creator do when it can use its focus to explore all of its facets simultaneously, the exploration of which merely appearing to us to be phenomena occurring in space and time? If it cannot but do what it's doing, what sense does it make to speak of "purpose"?
To even speak of consequences and reasons implies sequence and time, that something would have to precede something else or that something would necessitate something else. I'm not sure we can speak coherently of intent and purpose at the level of the ultimate, outside of time. To even say that the purpose of the Creation is so the Creator can know itself is rather tautological. After all, what else would the Creator do when it can use its focus to explore all of its facets simultaneously, the exploration of which merely appearing to us to be phenomena occurring in space and time? If it cannot but do what it's doing, what sense does it make to speak of "purpose"?