THE COSMIC PANENTHEISTIC SELF: A PANENTHEISTIC INTERPRETATION In my writings the main thing to know is that the overarching theme is that of Consciousness or Unconditional Love, or Oneness Pure Being Existing in and of Itself LIFE And wanting to know itself beyond its Timeless Oneness. And so it bursts apart, splits, fragments, individuates, takes on separate paths in time and space in order to know itself in the variety of different ways and forms we call THE WORLD. Timeless Essence gives birth to time and space, has an experience (or many), gets lost there, has an experience of being lost then, through the motion, through the exploration, begins to have another experience. The experience of BEING FOUND. Consciousness returns to Itself, instead of being fixated on the dream of Itself- or a particular aspect of that dream. The Dream dissolves back into the Dreamer And WE KNOW OURSELVES FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. Again and again and again and again SO. This is where this particular writing comes in. Here, I am situating this process in the pre-made bed of PANENTHEISM.
While Pantheism (notice the absence of the EN in the spelling ) is the belief that GOD or ESSENCE OR THE UNIVERSAL PURE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ONE becomes the Universe and that all manifest reality is identical to divinity- i.e. God IS the Universe PANENTHEISM is different. It is the belief (DIRECT KNOWLEDGE, when you come to it ) not simply that the Universe is God, but that the UNIVERSE IS THE BODY OF GOD. THE UNIVERSE IS GOD S BODY. And the BODY has a SOUL or SPIRIT. Of course! The Original Essence. I m not saying Pantheism is wrong necessarily, as the way it is defined varies but PANENTHEISM seems to be more specific and more accurate to my way of seeing. And yet even panentheism has a variety of interpretations so it must be said that what I am eliciting here is my own. In PANENTHEISM with the Universe as GOD S BODY, the SOUL (GOD S SOUL- OR SPIRIT- OR ESSENCE- whatever you want to call it-) remains ON HIGH. Unlike in Pantheism, it hasn t all become The Universe. In Panentheism, only the Body has become The Universe or rather The Universe IS the body. IN PANENTHEISM, The Universe is the material manifestation, or expression, or experience of God. And so in PANENTHEISM, God exists inside of everything BUT, SIMULTANEOUSLY, remains outside. At the same time as BEING IN THE UNIVERSE- or indeed BEING IT as body, GOD- or ESSENCE- THE ESSENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS remains TRANSCENDENT.
What we call God stays above the whole of the time-space Creation (while also being IMMANENT within it as body). In this way of Understanding, what we call God can be seen as PRIME MOVER. The ANIMATING PRINCIPLE of The Universe. PURE CONSCIOUSNESS LIFE. THE PRIMARY LIFEFORCE. Just as The Spirit-Soul is the animating principle of each one of our bodies. GOD is the Eternal Spark that lives within the Universe, and yet FOREVER BEYOND, TIMELESSLY outside it. Even as TIME AND SPACE exist GOD REMAINS THE TIMELESS ESSENCE. Even as time and space come into existence and fade away again GOD REMAINS THE TIMELESS ESSENCE. Whatever is happening in time and space (i.e. the Universe), GOD REMAINS THE TIMELESS ESSENCE. This is the DEEPER NATURE OF SELF we can connect to wherever we are in time and space. Wherever we FIND OURSELVES in time and space wherever we think or believe ourselves to be Wherever we are on the line of time or the grid of spatial differentiation, we have the capacity to CONNECT with PRESENCE. To BE PRESENT. HERE AND NOW. In doing so in this SO BEING WE ARE CONNECTING TO OUR TIMELESS ETERNAL NATURE THAT NEVER CHANGES even as we ride the Play of time and space.
And so, GOD (PURE CONSCIOUSNESS) remains Supreme, and exists in everything. Yes, God Exists in the Creation (as it) but is GREATER than the CREATION also. The Physical is in God, or an aspect of God, but GOD IS GREATER. God is always Greater than the manifestation of Itself. Not equivalent. And yet the Glory is REFLECTED in the CREATION. We could say that the UNIVERSE IS CONTAINED WITHIN GOD. Or if you don t like those terms, that frame that MANIFEST EXISTENCE IS CONTAINED WITHIN UNDYING PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. And even as PURE CONSCIOUSNESS steps into manifestation, arises and falls as separate manifestations- as separate beings living Life, PURE CONSCIOUSNESS REMAINS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. Throughout the whole Universal Show. THE ONENESS OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS flows into every aspect of nature in time-space, but is TIMELESSLY BEYOND it too. The Universe / world is GOD S EXPERIENCE. And OURS. There can be no split and if there is, it s not real. Not Ultimately. Although relatively it might be to time and space (a mind locked in time-space consciousness only ) it is. The world (Universe / Cosmos) is God body, and contains his DIVINE SPARK all living beings do and ARE. GOD IS IN THE WORLD AND THE WORLD IS IN GOD.
There is no changing this and any attempt to do so leads to malfunction. God s experience IS the world. The world is GOD S EXPERIENCE. THIS IS LIFE. The Universe is part of God and more than part- manifestation of but it is not the WHOLE OF GOD AS TOTAL BEING. The Universe is the manifest IMAGINATION of THE ABSOLUTE. Coming into existence to know Itself to experience Itself to Know Itself and Love Itself as we are here for also. For ourselves and each other. FOR THE ONE that encompasses ALL. FOR WE ARE THIS PROCESS, HAPPENING. It is happening in- and through- us. This is really ALL THERE IS TO SAY. I say all this, because it gives context to my work it situates it a bit better in the general understanding of where and what it is AND WHO WE ARE. ~Nathan Godolphin 09/03/18.