CRITERIA AND CONCEPTS OF CREATION

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THE CRITERIA AND CONCEPTS OF CREATION GROUP

Modes, Models, Methods, Machinations, Intimations and Concatenations;
Incarnation of the Creator in His creation, and image of God in His design
for man, in his physical, mental and spiritual conferments,

thus providing freely the panoply of the plan of salvation
for the cover of those among mankind who receive Him

Requirements and Findings, Empty Bins for Drastic Designs
Creative Criteria and Omitted Payloads

Little Things 3, esp. *3,

Dizzy Dashes, Heady Clashes and the Brilliant Harmony of Inevitable Truth 6
(listing of critical failures in reductionist methodology and result, and includes rank and file failure of naturalism, at every chief philosophic turn, a mere outcast that casts out data to live it vagabond death)

Dig Deeper 2 (unity of creation, history, past, present and future before God, and survey of design as scientifically required, with reference to the definition of design, on which also see Ch. 8 below)

Glory, Vainglory and Goodness Ch 1
(tracing elements of creation that are benchmarks in unison)

Note that this GVG chapter has been increased with new material
for our present purpose, so that it forms an integral part of the section.

See also Ch. 5 and Ch. 6 of Evidence and Reality, the Prince and the Proof, Constant Christian Faith and the Fickle Frenzy of Force, concerning design, creation and culling of inconsistent concepts, muddled thought and evacuative hypnosis. .

The list proceeds.

Grand Biblical Perspectives Ch. 3 Appendix (the exuberant vitality and discipline of creativity displayed in creation's masterpiece of precision, division and display)

Scaling the Heights ...Ch. 5,

Glory, Vainglory and Goodness Ch. 4,

The Glow of Predestinative Power Ch. 7

Wake Up World! ... Chs. 4-6

Jesus Christ, Defaced, Unfazed ... Ch. 9 (survey in the light of the answers in Christ,
of the ludicrous character of the non-answers that answer worse than silence would, including a look at books)

Modes of Learning and Deploying, Institution and Constitution Compared

Repent or Perish Ch. 7 (criteria and concepts of creation),

TMR Ch. 1, 5, 6, 7

Defining Drama 2 (modes of learning and contribution to knowledge)

History, Review and Overview Ch. 4, Ch. 5

Jesus Christ, Defaced, Unfazed ... Ch. 4

Dancers, Prancers ... 3, 5
(includes the devastating spread of coverage, required for any workable theory -
criteria of creativity),

   The Bible: Not the Declamations of Distillations of Man,
    but the Doctrine of Deity Chs.   4,   5 (in dialogue: consideration
    of definitions of intelligence, creation, design, the justification of models
   and the need for 'infanticide' for the concept of magic, fabric of childhood);

    Bewilderment, Bedazzlement, Bedevilment, or the Beauty of Christ's Holiness
    Ch. 3, on creation and exuberance, as The Bible ... Ch. 5 is on perspicuity,
   in association with History, Review and Overview Ch. 5 on the initial creation list
   of criteria.amplified by the ingredients noted in ROP   7.

   Meta-Design is found in   BBBCH Ch. 6 , in some ways a confluence, in some a summit
   for earlier Chapters cited in the paragraph above.

Earth Spasm ... Chs. 1 and 7

The Wit and Wisdom of the Word of God 2,

Delusive Drift or Divine Dynamic Ch. 6

The Desire of the Nations 2, Epilogue

Secular Myths and Sacred Truth Ch. 8
(broad conceptual coverage)

Spiritual Refreshings ... Ch. 13

Swift Witness Ch. 6

See also from the perspective side on design in particular, and its definition. Ch. 8 below.

Particularities, Peculiarities of Non-Design Models and Empirical Odes to Impartiality in Perspective: Creation is Incomparably Indicated
Resolutely Relatively Recent and Neither Distanced nor Divorced by Desire

The Divine Drama Ch. 3, Christ, the Cumulative and the Culmination Ch. 9,

Cascade of Truth, Torrent of Mercy Ch. 6,

Divine Agenda Ch. 1,

Christ, the Cumulative and the Culmination Ch 9,

Calibrating Myths, Machining Dreams and Keeping Faith. Ch. 1,

The Defining Drama Ch. 3,

Deliverance from Disorientation Ch. 6.

TMR Chs. 1, 6, 7, and

SMR pp. 140ff..

Creative Design in History: Designs of Destiny

Grand Biblical Perspectives Ch. 3

News 1, Joyful Jottings 22-25

News 121, 122

Answers to Questions Ch. 5, SMR Ch. 8

Red Heart, Dead Heart, and Pure Heart Ch. 6

Barbs, Arrows and Barbs 30

The Lord is the Light of My Life Ch. 3, Ch. 8 , incl. *1

Cascade ... Ch. 12, pp. 155ff., The Impregnable Tower Ch. 1

Cascade of Truth ... Ch. 4; Dastardly Dynamics ... Ch. 10

News 87, Biblical Blessings Ch. 2, Regal Rays of Revelation Ch. 12.

INTRODUCTION

PRESENTING MAN CLAD IN PANDEMONIUM
BY HIS OWN DRESSING

Art, Arts and Artistry

It is not only in the division of the indivisible, as if thought were the scalpel of life, nor merely in the ignoring of the fundamental, as if logic were the lap-dog of convention, nor again just in the abortion of scientific method in the reversal of order in systematic thought, namely from observation to theory to the illicit alternative, theory as the director and observation as the slave^*1.

It is not only in these ways that design has become a tool of the trade of cynicism and an artifice for the task-master of a tedium of magical irrationality doing full justice to the Greek myths and the Roman gods as precursors^*2.

We have been asked to ignore what is the construction of life in its teeming finesse, vast originalities, violently abrupt advances and eruptive innovations as if achieving something in twenty ways but with one language were the very essence of life (cf. Grand Biblical Perspectives Ch. 3, Appendix).

Artlessness, Nescience
and the Metaphysics of Blah and Bah,
Bathed in and Creating the Politics of Abuse

Man is required by a kind of French Revolution of 1789 in the citadels of thought, to embrace liberty from logic, equality with nothing and fraternity with folly. The summit of system (cf. SMR Ch. 2) is to be equated with the imperial rule of chance; the height of brilliance is attributed to the depth of a stupidity which lacks intelligence altogether (a point not lost of Cambridge's so brilliant Professor Hoyle - SMR pp. 224-231), while the starry marvels of beauty in intricacy of colour combinations, harmony of artistic evocations in form and feature and functional felicities staggering even to the imagination, are to be set as based, in tragic dereliction of intellection, on nothing at all.

When products would stir a Raphael to emulation, what of the producer ? What insect can appreciate such profundities of art or what consignee of brute character, the finesse and felicities of art; and what need is there for such an army of innovation, using multiplied systems in creative sweep, and then deploying similar methods or units, in varied combinations, all conceptually assiduous in precision! It is as with the artist and the writer: why bother! It is because of the creative thrust, the sweep of power into wonder and of knowledge into its domain. If then this be the result of nothing, of no direction, no creativity, then is result the divorcee of cause, and production the art form of nullity.

If ever there were a folly, this is it. Culture has closed its eyes so firmly, it gains not merely a head-ache, but a heart-ache. What then is the cultural calamity concerning the origin of life ? The opposite of what is apposite is de rigueur, and one can almost see the multiplied Jacques of the French uproar, like their Communist successors in 1917, muttering hatred of institutions while erecting the guillotine of truth.

To be sure, in the French case, as least, the abuse had been epochal, ludicrous and odious, preceding the final fracas; but the revolution's principles to be used instead of aristocratic and autocratic 'church' rule by Romanism, these were as empty in phrase as later, were those of the Communists^*3 (cf. SMR pp. 832ff., 912ff., Ancient Words, Modern Events Ch. 14, . These, both of them, were dreams without substance, words without the means for their own fulfilment, taken from heaven and mutated in hell.

Nevertheless, though in the French case of 1789-1791, there was superabundant abuse leading to reactionary abuse, as indeed to a lesser extent in Russia (where as Solzhenitsyn, that careful observer, points out the death rate from law under the former Tsar was less than that under the later Commissar), the principle is the same. There is an uprising and ALL must fall to the abortive thrust of unchained distemper.

What then, to revert to our own immediate interest in creation, is the abuse which has led to anti-design in the midst of its definitional realities of design, as a theory for the abuse of logic by man ? or many of the race ? Why has such a contradiction in terms arisen ? It is, infamously, in this case, the abuse of God. Such is the passion which in this case precludes clarity. To be sure, it may be the love of money or the love for the love of many, but underneath, something is being used to displace reality, like an incentive to the spirit to divert.

It is not that HE, the Lord Himself, has been cruel, Rather man, having sampled the inflamed medicines of humanism and the inglorious taste of utter power in the midst of what might once have been called civilisation rather than psychic intoxication, is insatiable for more. He will not stop, like Eve, till the throne of God is in his sight, and the rule is accorded, not to the Messiah, but to himself.

There is design in man's intellect, in his logic, in his artistic composition in himself, and (except for contemporary and recent aberrations of all but comic drollery) in many of his own works, in his social aspirations and political hopes: albeit without God, these are destined to certain failure.

This present world and generation is a text book on failure in political dynamics, international brigandage, confused ideals, loading troops here and there without the necessary vision or purity of heart (cf. Dastardly Dynamics Ch. 10), and bombarding these or those, sometimes by mistake, while internecine warfare from local souls abuses all; of seeking to build up heart where there is none, by troops, or purity where false religion has already sold its soul. It is a scene of famine and revolt, oppression and indifference to the fate of millions: it erupts like lava storms, and oozes like force dismantled, till it erupts again.

This generation is apt as illustration of the wounded spirit, the closed mind, the shut eye and the visionary exultation which like a Lear Jet with unconscious pilots, soaring ever upward in its flight setting, only to dash itself down through its failure to control. Thus is the wonder of creation turned into ruin by the brutality of desecration, first of spirit and then of mind and then of bodies innumerable, the sediment of the seething liquids of disbelief in the Lord of creation and the God of truth, who does not change.

Thus is the negative reversal of man's gifts, by failure to use them UNDER GOD, attestation with the positive, of their scope. Little is more searchingly devastating than designs of high magnitude and power, when out of control. Even their order seems bent to disorder, and their prepared power to devastate, like armies of lemmings, proceeding with all their misdirected finesse, to their own doom.

Man's design is exemplified in his soaring products, in the bridges of his own vast earth work and soaring constructions, fit product for one who in himself shows those brilliant linkages between psyche, consciousness, will, thought and accomplishment in his inner being, without which he could not even operate. So magnificent is man's design, indeed, that is dwarfs every visible design, despite genuine magnificence in some cases, in his own power to produce.

Without the subtle, peremptory and suffusive devices which enable man's correlation of spirit with will and vision, mind with logic and discipline, and body with power to implement, the most apt object for the fulfilment of the definition of design known to man, there could be no designation of thought, including arguments concerning design.

Casting out his Basis in Belligerence
Does not Adorn Man,
but is Self-Mockery
as if a Logical Death were a Liberation from Life

Without God there could be no truth in any of such argumentation, since it is to be found only in that absolute which transcends the merely procedural and knowing more than empirical resultants, is accessible for the ascertainment of actuality concerning our systems.

Without the knowledge of God, the case would be just as bad, since the endeavours to mine the truth from the mind of God would be as ludicrous as any to mine diamonds in the tonsils of a baby. For truth to be found, it must first be there; and for it to abound in man, you need what has it, to release it, lest man's obvious limitations, diverse control mechanisms and multiple programmatics become in their very reception of 'truth', its demise.

	Ignoring the necessities
	of the presence of something, before anything could be; and those
	of rejecting that no-go dreadnought, nothing as a basis for anything, and the pit of the imagined futile presence no less, of what is inadequate for all the designs for man as their origin,
	man becomes an orphan to rationality and a victim for disorientation, and being well designed, has enormous power to ruin himself, his globe and his destiny.

Equipped as he is with those designations which enable him to design thought and bridges, skyscrapers and philosophies, as their basis,

man is required by logic to think not in detached units of virtually indescribable irrelevance. Yet he has constant passion to opt for this blind alley of darkness and anguish.

He has to be coherent, and far more, to be valid, to move into the realm of actual accounting in logic, and actual empirical basis in science. Yet he turns like silly sheep at the gateway, and unheeding to the shepherd and dog of help alike, he finds the ruin he achieves with such panache, scarcely to his tormented taste.

It is not that the many masterful and astounding designs are not apparent, from the savvy marvels of electronic and atomic power structures, the sagacious laws whether the big three^*4or the multitudes which fill volumes in the material sciences and are the basis of much of man's own constructions. That a child could see, before culture created confusion on creation. It is that design is present from the geometrics of space, and the intellections of geometry, from the logical exquisiteness of algebra to the brilliant law-ruling structures of calculus, so enabling the very achievements which led to the race to the moon, without any thought of lunacy, but rather of actually landing on the thing.

What is there is what is used, and the accord of nature with law and man's mind with both, in its power to ruminate and construct, is basic to the implementation of the thoughts of his own design, by which he designates the ways which work.

MAN IS DESIGN, and his designs are so potent that he even has designs on God.

What is meant by this, that man is design ?

It is that

that correlation

	of order and effectuality,
	of realms of correlative commands and physical means,
	of symbol and meaning,
	of meaning and method,
	of method and resources which is integral to life and without which its material format lacks (cf. Ch. 3 infra as marked),
	from the architecture-bearing DNA in each living and nucleated cell, to the geometries of growth, which enable format to be adapted with astonishing mathematical brilliance (cf. SMR pp. 131-145, Jesus Christ, Defaced, Unfazed: Barrister of Bliss ... Ch. 4, The Wit and Wisdom of the Word of God ... Ch. 2, ).
	from the realities of need and the designations of correlative powers, to the provision of implements, codes and contrivances to fulfil and elaborate on them

which is so thoroughgoing in KIND
that to ignore this
is like saying that air is not in a gaseous form.

You can, to be sure, gain precipitations from air, and these are not gaseous. However, this illustrative of mere adaptation of its design, not denial of its essential nature, a case parallel to that of crystallisation, inherent in the chemistry of the substances and conditions concerned; and with the design even in the material realities of man, the case is not different.

Moreover, it is meant that the same KIND of felicitous functionality of multiplied elements, coherent in categories, synthetic in sum, unitary in final fabrication and designable capacities, is to be found not only in the mind of man, but in his spirit as well; and that the very cogency or even rationality of his musings is conditional on THIS design - which enables man to designate ANYTHING, with word or other symbol, and construct thought and its products - being itself valid^*5!

RETURN TO REASON, REVELATION, INFORMATION AND COUNSEL

Gives to Man Place, but No Place for Pride

How can this be ? It is only by following reason where it leads and as shown in SMR and TMR, for example, and confirmed in Light Dwells with the Lord's Christ and kindred sets of volumes on this site, accepting the God whom it demands, and the word which this demonstrates, the Bible, as His, and so the Christ Jesus, as the method for man to live and the truth of his life: it is only thus that man can think validly. Otherwise, his thought is modelled on illusion, improvident without basis, an exercise in invalidity, an affirmation from a model of denial. Let us however pursue the positive, which is rationally required.

FIRST, it is only thus that he can be rational in progress to what is impossible to avoid, the God of creation; and SECONDLY, it is only thus that he can find what validates itself from its testable realities, those of the Bible, thus confirming reason and its integrity and enabling verification to become the handmaid of validity.

But let us not depart this scene without doing more justice to more varied and particular design.

Thus there is design in much that encompasses man like a universe of its own:

there is the design

	of life^*6,
	of liberty^*7,
	of conscience and of consciousness^*8,
	of the incarnation^*9,
	of the temptation of Christ^*10,
	of the resurrection^*11,
	of the presence and scope of the devil^*11A,
	of the divine strategy of God in the plan of salvation^*12,
	in the exposure of the nations and the utilisation of Israel^*13,
	in the abandon of this world as it nears its judgment and
	in the judgment to fit it^*14;

There is design

in the unheeding, unfeeding frustration of all philosophy, psychology and politics,
of all grace with peace^*15, because without God this is a sphere
unable to escape a contradiction in terms.

In prophecy^*16there is design, to expose folly with precision in advance,
and to bring contempt on foolish ideas by defeating them in advance by advanced knowledge before the time, and in this the more utterly to despise the paths of impurity and pretence;
it is non less to show the love and mercy of God, confirming itself
as His power fulfils His own written word, and He proceeds to know His people
who are His, not by force but by faith, giving them light from His word while darkness, uncomprehending, seeks to envelop, but rather is itself enveloped,
a dull stain the more exposed by the presence of light.

DESIGNS UPON DESIGNS,

LIKE THE SUCCESSIVE RANGES
THAT MOVE TO THE HORIZON IN GREAT MOUNTAIN CHAINS

The stage is made, a setting majestic and worthy of the infinitude of wisdom, surrounding the home, like that on a sheep station, with territories astronomical, sheer prodigies of energy given form as little lights, and their adjuncts, as wonders of magnetism, of energy dispersal, all bespeaking the magnitude of conception for that wonder far past all stages and foci of energy and light, power and wonder, man who can think about, speak to and receive commands from the God of all order, all design, all wisdom and all creativity.

Its design evokes admiration, awe and wonder, as is most fitting; its scale being prodigious evinces glories of conception; but its array of life makes of it a worthy if dumb spectator, one as the Psalmist is moved to point out, though without speech or language, yet declares the glory of God.

Up we go, as shown in Life, What is it ? from the single cell, always most complex, to the multi-cellular, from designs only comparatively simple, because they are in themselves art work in energic economy, mathematical skill and integrating wisdom for a multi-partite singularity that works as one to even more. Through batteries of vicissitudes, like letters written by a mathematical engineer to an architect friend, go KINDS, whether of dinosaurs or ferns, of flowers of eminent aesthetic design specifications, or of waste disposal functionality, like bacteria or fungi. The spectacular varieties within KINDS are like the pyramids of Egypt, wonder to challenge the practical understanding, as to how it was done. Versatility of imagination and ingenuity of intellect are exposed on all sides and ready to be appreciated only by what has the correlative capacity.

This, it is creation by Creator of presiding capacities adequate for the conceptions implicit in the product, and exhibited by it, those of the world where such ideas formulate what matter is used to foster and bidden in explicit and observable commands, to do; and it is for whoever is created with what it takes to savour it! Such is the way of creation, and when it is God who creates, the limits are not by licence!

We come to man. Here is the power to know truth, so often ludicrously welded to models of thought which evacuate truth, decrying its very possibility, while announcing that this particular theory is not only possible but the only possible one! We become aware that the potential of man is one thing, like a car in the garage; but that the works of man are quite another, being as variable as those of 1000 cyclists, 900 of whom all crash in oblivion, not for the want of legs, but of wisdom in their use. Freedom is indicated, along with moody rebelliousness against all truth, and wilful entreaties to destruction, whether through smoking tobacco or marijuana, or taking ice or pep for continuity of stress with alertness.

Wisdom is evidently not automatic; although its vast prodigies are to be found scattered through the earth, whether in the abstruse formulations which control material itself, or in diverse living architectures, where words abide in the thought back of it and forms reside in the displays evincing it, whether in the intellectual, in profound inscriptions of words for their own directly symbolic sake, or in the morals seen in gracious actions of deep nobility that need no aristocracy for their declaration, in the production of beauty, or in the awareness of duty or the realisation of responsibility: and this last, it is not only WITH the use made of gifts dowered, but FOR their upkeep and maintenance.

Man moves to the heights of awareness of the Creator of his designations, his liberties, his design, his capacities for disposition, dispersion or disposal. He wanders to the depths of crude irrationalities, dreaming of being gods while practising the arts of devilry. Communism has been precisely so, while many a religion is merely farce facing lust, and making absurd concoctions without so much as coherence, consistency, validity or verifiability, except in the negative (cf. SMR Ch. 10).

The plan is clear, that God has made man apt to be melded in fellowship, separate but able to be conjoined in closeness of affinity; or else, fractured in confusion. It is this which follows remorselessly and empirically throughout history, since God does not mutate, knowing all things and needing to be none but what does not alter its depth and dignity, its nobility and its power, its place and its apprehension made before time, of all the things time has, each of which is the product of His power, first in creation, and then either in placement or in principle, as in the case of liberty.

We move over the earth, its fractures, its frictions, geological, astronomical, cultural, military, botanical, with plagues, curses and disruptive thrust apparent in the midst of what by contrast is magnificent machinery, surpassed in mental and spiritual splendour by nothing man can even begin to make.

We look to the Creator and there is plan. It is for conjunction or regression, for order or for confusion, it is for corruption or confession. He provides, He casts into the lap.

It is the significance of sin, and the siting of curse on this earth, which gives to much the look of a magnificent stallion, first wildly coursing and then whipped for its futile sprees and endless neighing and kicking. Now comes judgment in the universal flood (cf. News 1), and now mercy in the rainbow - there has been no other such flood, though the very inventiveness of man has known few restraints and little concession; for mankind is upward bent with downward thoughts. His mind has a marvel of liberty in the material world, being designed to engineer with it, to activate it or produce wonders with it and from it, like children given some exalted kind of leggo blocks, but ones fit for the intelligence granted to man. With what then is he instructed ?

We find that so far from there being no word, other than those in the DNA^*16A , there has been word from the first. Made with words as stated in Genesis and found in architectural commands to his body, man was told AS A BEING NOW CREATED, of the saviour to come (Genesis 3:15), and needed none to tell of his need.

God planned an Abraham to carry the covenant of divine speech to a whirling disorder inflicting the earth, an earth cursed for contempt of conditions, and given pause for its advocacy of illicit passion of ambition.

God sent the nation of Israel to bring both blessing to all, through One to come through it and in it, and to be placed in a chosen site, one justly famed and always contested, since God is contested by pundit and philosopher, by the erratic and the erotic, to such an extent that when His design to come was put into incarnate actuality, naturally He was killed. God's plan being deep, and His design for man as an operative unit being as profound as the gifts given to man so that he might be and exist, therefore this killing was not only an operative unit but a triumphant achievement (as implied in Luke 9:31) in His thought.

It was prepared as a sacrifice for sin, conceived in love, executed with courage, wrought in power, achieved BY the very enemies who hated Him, foretold in detail (cf. Psalm 22, 40, 16, Isaiah 49-55), fulfilled with a precision which none has EVER been able to fault. If it had been possible, such was the acumen and motivation of His enemies that the whole crusade for salvation would have sunk like a torpedoes ship.

But it achieved the control by an Emperor of the Roman Empire, which one though flitting amid the realms of politics and power, was a testimony to its grandeur.

Breaking death as foretold in Psalm 16, 22, 40, Isaiah 26:19, Hosea 13:14, Psalm 118, Isaiah 53-55 (cf. Joyful Jottings 22-25), He launched a crusade which nothing could stop, for truth, which is He (John 14:6), though it may be murdered, mangled, tangled, tossed and spun, lives in the very nurture of reality and the more it is killed, the more it lives. This is so ONLY because God being omnipotent, HIS traces never die, and truth is His preserve.

Though lies abound, they are found; and though judgment seems far off, it comes; and if it comes in these early instalments of the designs of God for man, it will come with enhanced splendour when the purpose of the design, and the designations for those people who have the advantage of being designed, find the bite or blessing of their ways.

The thrust of the book of Acts, people called continuing the very work of Christ with the same dynamic though not the identical purity or wisdom, yet in the power of the Spirit enabling people to perform things indistinguishable from the very works of God, shows the tide of truth accruing, just as history soon shows the satanic forces which seek to masquerade, to copy, to malign, to re-create just as did Eve, in her misconceptions so evilly allowed, and leading to corruption.

The test in the grand and divine design continues, as the designed brain of man and the created spirit move to a culmination of copying, ignoring and mandating proud follies which like the Titanic, merely the worse fail because of their eminence. Individuals, cities, races, civilisations, empires, all have their day and way, each showing this or that folly and fabrication, pride or spiritual fornication, flustering with non-faith, bustling with brutality, declining in inertia based on exploitation, or whatever the case might be.

God designated several of these in Daniel, their order and sequence, in specifying in which, the last of four foretold including the initial one and its sure fall, and the coming of the Messiah in the fourth, as of course happened (cf. Highway of Holiness Chs. 4, 7, 10).

DESIGNS of DESTINY

Destitute rather than Repentant,

or Regenerate because of the Focus on Fall
and the Function of Redemption:

The Class of the Individual, the Empire, the Society and the Soul

These have come and only the last of the empires announced remains, as this it does as divinely predicted (SMR pp. 886ff., 902ff., 912ff.). It now is coming on its foretold way, partly strong and partly fragile, as also prophesied of it in Daniel 2:42.

This, it is the Roman one, the European entity which it launched, and how strong - pictured as iron in the 'feet' of the image of which this was the fourth and last - it was! It took over vast areas of Europe and pushed beyond to the East, and past the Mediterranean to Britain. It fluctuated somewhat in the days of various emperors, and in the height of its extravagance, under Augustus, it suffered a quite major reverse from Arminius with the German hosts, who so cleverly entrapped a major army in 9 A.D.. Emperors occasionally however could be captured or killed, some in succession suffering from internal violence, and multiple efforts to subjugate the Germanic peoples were rarely successful and often repulsed.

Here lay a source of trouble to come, when in 410 A.D. a vast number of peoples having repulsed the decaying self-indulgence of Rome, and allies becoming unreliable, the city fell. Yet the Eastern arm continued, and had its own troubles and triumphs with Constantinople as base or capital, and when Attila the Hun with his hordes threatened to subjugate Europe, the battle of CHALONS in 451 A.D. saw his defeat, not to eliminate him - he lived a couple of years more - but to eliminate the terror of the 'scourge' as one called him and he evidently loved to be perceived in his atheistic thrust, even a famous sword having a specious ring of religion in his wild but brilliant battles.

Our point in this context from all of this is simple: Europe was continuing that astonishing testimony of being partly fragile and partly strong. Its power rang like the ring of an axe; its failures morally, in virtue and in religion, in battle and internecine strife and follies were enough to see it fall where once it had been the chief, in Rome itself, that formalised, pseudo-religious setting which was to become a new scourge for Europe, from 1100-1600 especially.

However in some ways, the Holy Roman Empire had a carnal power of its own, with directions as far from Christian refusal to fight for religious rule as possible (John 18:36), this being a new disease incurring ultimate fragility in its lust and licence for power and primacy in religion, yes and in political power as well. It distempered and divided Europe, but it did so long after Muhammad had made his own religious renegacy (he featured Christ in a positive but ludicrous distortion of all known historical facts, making a new product of his own mind - cf. More Marvels ... Ch. 4, SMR pp. 1080ff.). Moreover, he made his own elevation a matter of zero evidence, but as later with Romanism, he tried very hard with the sword or scimitar, to make it a reality, and in continued parallel, did so in a way that had its impact.

Yet as with Attila and the Germanic tribes, while major defeat stalked the Empire, continued existence made it notable if not notorious. Here the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D. put an end to the real danger of Muslim hegemony in Europe, which ever since has failed, so that when al-Qaida with its new Attila, bin Laden, a man with few troops but many troupes, recalled former 'glories' of territorial accomplishment and spoke of desire for restoration*, it brought a memory of the utter ruthlessness of power, which made all subject with a subjection intolerable, inhuman and contrived, while speaking of mercy and such things more glibly than graciously. Meanwhile Africa had been invaded in no small measure, and this effort to capture Europe had the renewed exhibit of its fragility, while the failure of the endeavour to subdue it, showed the strength.

Together, therefore, these double features of strength and fragility in what Daniel designated the last Empire in the spiritually discerned succession, were abundantly and exceedingly clearly exhibited.

When Romanism tried to make itself synonymous with Europe, it failed to subdue Britain in the famous Spanish Armada, the divine assistance with tempest, yes and other winds, being especially notable (cf. Grand Biblical Perspectives Ch. 3). Indeed, Sweden, then a major power, was active against its maraudings, and Germany became divided, both in war and in its results, in different regions for Protestantism and Romanism. When Hitler tried again, he NEARLY succeeded, but like Napoleon, in the French arm, he failed - came so close, but failed. Many were the outposts of empire, of nations in Europe, throughout the world, the pope at one stage even presuming to put a line which would divide for the world, the Spanish and Portugese domains!

The various efforts to localise power arose, and fell in Europe, while the reverse image of Nazism, Communism (*3), displayed a like intemperance for human nature, nurture or truth, proclaiming its impotence in the very voice of power, its theories in ruins until in 1991, its finances in the USSR met the hand of reality and it failed. It too, holding much of Eastern Europe, had tried to overcome, and make something alien the father and feature; but merely adding to the failures of Hun, Islam, Romanism, Nazism, its own special pride and fall.

So did Europe continue in its buffeted course, till the Common Market founded in the Treaty of Rome, becoming the European Union, its ten-fold predicted nature having been shown not a little even at this phase (cf. SMR pp. 917-923), the concept of ONE EUROPE proceeded, one so prominent in Churchill's thoughts as dangers receded and need approached.

It continued. It reaches now to perhaps 350 millions of people, and is incremental in its thrusts.

Yet Russia in this 21st century, can turn off the gas amid European cold, in his little conflicts with the Ukraine, and remind it of its fragility! As both these features were notable in prophecy, so are they notorious in history.

Let us survey it a little more broadly, in less detail.

The fourth Empire of Daniel, then, this has moved from Rome in its harbour of Italy to the civilised world, to defeat, to its Eastern arm in Constantinople, to resurrection in the Holy Roman Empire, to defeat of that after molesting centuries in alliance with Romanism as a religion, to resurrection in Napoleon's failed endeavours, profound in scope and fascinating in conception, but fragile in the end, to Hitler's parallel for Germany, of much the same kind, to the dawning recovery of the Common Market and the now dynamising advances of the vastly growing European Union.

In all of this, a continuity has thus been provided, together precisely with the predicted fragility. It all moves with the stately progress through the waves and storms, of some great liner.

Yet what power and what cruelty has been shown in the totality of the thing, this mutating Empire, both on the religious side, in the heresy of ROMAN-ISM (cf. SMR pp. 1032-1088H), and throughout the various forms of the imperial power which held off the end, by continuing on this or that foot, like a prancing horse. Thus has the phenomenon been phased in, the desired phenomenon, the foretold one, the deployed one, like a stalking horse, the strategically significant case of Europe, and so has it duly proceeded^*17.

God has not tempted man, but man has flouted the ways of God, and God who knows man, has disposed the dynamics, and used them, making of them a means of giving the message to man, that though he be outside grace and out of his place, he is not beyond either the power or the mercy of God. Pride of face, place, mace more recently, of space, vicious authorities, girded by inanely manufactured gods in the throbbing imagination and the vaunting heart of man, every kind of cruelty and lust: these things stand empty in their ghoulish ghastliness as man has 'progressed' to the pit. The lecture of the Lord has its pointer in history, its text in the Bible. The designs of man as he grasps the design of God for man, become the designations of deity, as power passes to the dust, but not its record.

So has He acted and does He act (Psalm 99:8, Deuteronomy 32:15-21, Romans 1:17ff.), though His mercy is ever near, like a rescue vessel bobbing up and down on the nearby waves, as the impenitent in their preoccupations and fears, simply drown (Ezekiel 20:9,14,22, Micah 7:19ff.). The designs of God are multiple and marvellous^*17A, in the interstices of creation, in the avenues to the soul of man, for the spirit of man, for his instruction and redemption, for the rebuke of evil, and the emptiness of power without glory.

The Gentile world (SMR Ch. 8), its heart its own, its reactions constrained not into immorality, though this is insistently and the more frequently chosen, but into their apt and due clefts, bears its own witness. It proceeds as the sovereign God completes His program, consummates His designs for that design called man, in whom is that precious adjunct, spirit, and that highly precious jewel, cognitive power to commune with God: indeed, it continues with its miraculous way.

In what is it then miraculous which is so grimed into squalid machinations, evil machines, foolish wit and spoiled splendour ? It is in this: that God is able to move those with so bountiful an initial display of liberty and reality in their creation, so that for most of this fallen race, as they will amiss, so they but move to the confines He has resolved for such a thing. Rebellion is foreknown, its paths researched and proclaimed, predicted and depicted.

To those who are fallen, and do not arise, those of the race not redeemed even yet, truth may still seem obtainable, and they act in their declarations very often on that premiss, whether or not they declare IN ITS NAME, that it cannot be found; and in these things also, it proceeds to the point that his precise predictions APPLY! (II Timothy 3:1-5).

Predictions apply! the bill might have read thus, in terms parallel to those of the verbiage and phrasings of modern commerce! (with its conditions apply). They worked^*18 on Tyre, Babylon, Nineveh and have worked in Rome in its own paradigm, they worked in Europe, and have been fulfilled in Iraq, where remorselessly the word of God destroyed Nineveh and has stricken Iraq, the Assyrian legatee, in its depredations, to this very day. Such are His predictions, who knows.

They work.

They are sharp and also keen, these predictions (as in Revelation 6, Matthew 24) like the edge of Cambodia's evil sword in its day, of that in Vietnam, in China, in Russia, in Sudan, in Biafra, in Europe, both Western and Eastern, itself quivering as Putin puts his hand on the carefully monopolised power supply in gas, for that same Europe, and thinks about the weapons in the war that was lost. They are seen also as the US seeks to plant missiles where they speak security which last time, Europe in the East at least, did not know or find! and Putin fusses the more.

While the great powers play and work, the multitudes in distress are slaughtered physically in deserts and civilisation alike, and many in mind and spirit as the propagandas of the three spirits like frogs hopping from the mouth of the false prophet continue their cane toad-like spree (Revelation 16 cf. News 121, 122 and see Matthew 24:24, II Peter 2).

So was it in Revelation 6 where the very breath and smell, the vision and thrust for DEATH is so dramatically revealed. It is as if the combined follies of Islam (cf. More Marvels ... Ch. 4), and Communism^*3 together with the brutalities remembered in Romanism's earlier inquisitions were unleashed without limit or control, this very thing being the ultimate of the chaff blowing for the wicked as defined and declared in Psalm 1.

This is the designation for the wicked, the anti-Messiah, the axe the Messiah thrust, with force or mere mental contrivance: chaff blown, not souls known to the Lord. They reached in their vainglory and puffing once, to the Messiah as in Psalm 2, just as they now reach into judgment, as most graphically foretold in the end of Psalm 2, and to the end of this Age, which advances like an express train, to its condign ultimate sanctions (cf. Answers to Questions Ch. 5, SMR Ch. 8).

The grand design for designs, as well as in them, that design for the spirit of man as well as in its amazing construction, that construction for the capacity of man to commune with the meaning of nature and its laws, as with that of his own mind and some of its ways, indeed within his own spirit, though for many it is lost in confusion as in psychiatry and psychology (cf. SMR Ch. 4): that design enabling if it so will, the liberty of man to rebel, providing for the frugality of God in replying in kind but with restraint, and then with the functionality of replying at length as the case requires: it operates as the wind that moves. It flows as the river that flows; it continues as a symphony that knows its end, and indeed, the script for it is already written (Amos 3:7, Revelation 1, 22).

It is this self-same design, in fact supra-design as explained below, which provides for the whole to be contained in its explanation, declarations, definitions, diagnosis, prognosis and judgments in the book of the Lord, the Bible which alone justifies that title empirically or rationally^*19: this proceeds like a vast space ship. It is not however merely moving into space, for it moves space itself, till the time comes when it rolls away, as indeed Einstein feared it might do in the midst of atomic explosions (II Peter 2).

The design of a new heavens and a new earth (Revelation 20, Isaiah 65, II Peter 3) is small compared with that designated and performed in the plan of salvation by the Messiah, due for murder as His yielding love provided. Thus was He to in plan, and did He in performance achieve redemption for those who receive it by faith in simplicity like that of a little child, which in its own wisdom is like that from the Lord Himself (when milk is replaced by meat, as in Paul), whose it is.

It is this eternal wisdom which proceeds, and is never replaced.

The plan of it, the design for man has been stated from the first, proceeds to the last^*19, is listed and certified, proceeds and consummates without fuss or failure. Accordingly, how zealous was His passion, amidst His compassion, to fulfil all that He had given in the predictions of the Bible that then was (Matthew 26). What would you expect ? HOW THEN, He asked, if He had used power to pre-empt the arrest, how then would the scripture be fulfilled that THUS IT MUST BE!

Design ? It is the way God has chosen. When He creates, as He did, He knows what He is doing, and the millenia show it to be so, and to be known to be so, according to His written word. Rebellion is part of the option in the design; and ruin is one of the fantastically apt results of voluntary abuse of the equipment by the folly of spirit in its fantasies, one which may be pursued by man, as some pursue profit in gambolling and death in smoking, yes and madness in drugs.

The design and the designs for it, this is profound; but in the end, the issue is simple, so simple that not only MAY a little child receive the Redeemer and know the power of God arisen from the dead, by violating the vile and accepting the guilt and paying for it; but a child is precisely the one who often does so! It is as Christ demonstrated so tellingly in Matthew 18, one of the conditions of becoming a child of God that one remembers what childhood is, and towards God acts not the master, but the learner, not the adult in wonder, but the babe in arms, ready for instruction, for growth and for friendship at last.

At last, abandoning the clever claptrap and the benighted mesmerisms of the impossible, and receiving the intimations of profundity, the disinterment of truth from its grave in popular culture, there is need to realise the situation thoroughly. It is precisely as depicted in the eloquent symbolism of Ezekiel 1 (as explicated in First Vision of Ezekiel). It is there that there are eyes, eyes in conspicuous places, roving, open and active, seeing, throughout the complexities of the created elements in the vision. It is however not only in vision that the checking, knowing, measuring, alert awareness and productive procedures of God are apparent.

There are in all places by this and that means, atomic, electronic, sensory, neurones, memory banks, survey of mind, awareness of spirit, systems within and for systems, sub-systems and directions for such, programs and personal volitional provision to adjust, in conscience and impact from the Spirit of God, in energic displays and elementary distortions through the complexities of corrupted will and their survey in mind and heart. It is just what Ezekiel shows. There are 'eyes' which not only are directed, but can gaze into the haze of activity to control it, to perceive it, to report on it. As the Psalmist puts it, His eyes behold, His eyelids try the children of men! (Psalm 11:4).

The most important eye of this kind is the spirit of man, which as Proverbs announces, is the candle of the Lord by which He investigates the innermost parts of the heart of man (Proverbs 20:27).

The Spirit of the Lord also, when in or moving upon the heart of His creation, man, a matter of much design before it can happen because of the estrangement and alienation which so aptly resembles the condition and position of Iraq at this date of August 200: this divine person also sees. Indeed, He not only sees but reproves of sin, because man has not believed in his remedy, Jesus Christ and judgment, because of the atrocious imposters to whom man is always applying for 'deliverance', fairy follies which lead routinely to the death of millions and the deprivation of far more (John 16).

In fact, in the heart of the redeemed, this very Spirit of God labours with intensity, in the beauty of holiness in prayer, so that there are in the midst of the imperfections of even the best or most tempered of the Lord's people, groans and travails beyond the expression of man, amidst which it appears the Spirit of God is bringing in abundant grace from and back again to the Lord, yielding the report of the heart and need, the bestowals and receptions, the prayers and the seekings of man (Romans 8:26-28). Thus does the Spirit, sent by Christ from the Father (John 15:26) participate in the intercessions of the Lord Jesus Christ for man (cf. Hebrews 7:25).

All of this, it is MORE than design. It is DEITY at work in His mandated mankind, inter-personal in complexion, factual in orientation, yearning in love, profound in pity, unrelenting in expectation and powerful in motivation.

Design is a mere precursor; counsel and compassion, intercession and participation, these are the motions within what is made. It is like the driver and the car, except far more profound in this, that the 'car', that is man, is itself personal, and has the capacity to move with the Lord. If however it moves against Him, then like any design, it is merely misplayed, faulty in execution and crumbling in antipathies which at the material level might be fricative forces, but in man become spiritual quiddities, uncertainties, angst and unhappiness. This includes that species of inert 'life' which continues to congratulate itself as it truncates life, and lives a death of spirit which is like a visit to the grave on a trick cycle (Ephesians 2).

Such is Deity and such is Design, and such are the designations in the creation called man, and such is his destiny, in or out of the Regal Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Because of the amplitude of His provision and love (Colossians 1:19ff.), it is most mercifully quite impossible for anyone to find accidentally or merely incidentally that hell which is the final exclusion zone of the irremediably lost; and its character is this, that only over the dead body of Christ can one get there (cf. *17A, *11). That is, only by the divinely known ultimate rejection of Christ as Redeemer, alive in the heart, dead on the Cross, once, and now alive for ever is there scope for inhabiting this hopeless mess: and what is worse than the hopeless, and what with hope is to consign itself thither!

Yet man, the creation, infested with devilish pride, or its counterpart in reaction, melancholic indifference, or a spectrum of oddities spraying like water at the foot of vast falls, will often parade his impotence, with panache rising into the atmosphere like spray, or smouldering rebellion like smoke, rather than be, what in fact he is, a creation of God, one of the uttermost felicity of design, in whom liberty and love have meaning, and death in its advent is an invention already covered (cf. I Corinthians 15:42ff.).

Thus do Creation and Counsel in the cosmoi of power and thought, evince the creativity of God. He creates the physical structure in its ultimacies of material contrivance, command, correlation, as also the mind in its analytical and relevant prowess to contain and gain significant control over the lower order, and the spirit, source of insight and dreaming, good or bad, understanding and will. With this, He creates the synthesis by which these three work in staggering co-operation, so that the sublime is near to the deadly, and man cannot stand without folly, except in the continued creativity of God, who having made this witty invention, knows how to maintain it! (Psalm 1, 139).

There is no guarantee or warranty in it, but only from the Manufacturer, to whom one must return the form of faith, when the Plan of Salvation is heard, created by God for man in his abuse of truth and reason, his own life and his destiny , and the Gospel is known and credited, that good news from God. Created likewise is not only the resolution of the sin, in redemption (Romans 3:23ff.), when God Himself bears it, as only He can, being infinitely pure and powerful alike, offering this to all, receiving what is given Him (Isaiah 53:1-6, Romans 8:32), but also the resurrection of the body. This is created in a form fit for eternity from which it comes, though in itself as created and fallen, it is merely temporary, while created no less is the regeneration of the heart of man, soiled beyond repair and requiring entire re-manufacture (Titus 3:3-7).

All these things has He created, even the gloriously free imagination which misused becomes the power of man to make myths, foretold as a specialty for the end of his Age since Christ (II Timothy 4), and duly fulfilled in creative fantasies which would be admirable for fairy stories for children, if they were not taken seriously, but kept in the category of Cinderella and the like, where they belong.

How is this that man tries to avoid the creation of his very kind by God in mythical formulations which lack causative validity (cf. TMR, Wake Up World... Chs. 4-6, The gods of naturalism have no go! Causes) ? He dreams unification grounds for a cascade of inter-related systems, based on concepts, effected through causes, inter-connected by devices, all literally talking the same language; he dries up truth while proclaiming it, making a universe of precursors which never show their grounds for precursion, in a place of curse, which does show multiple grounds for that curse.

He eliminates counsel and uses it to eliminate it from his ground, source and basis in a world model so mottled with mockery that there is no room at all for thought.

What sort of a model does man machinate, or or in what sort does his punctured thought place
him ? It seems like this. He wants nothing to aspire to the level of genius, rather than a sub-moron, yet the more he finds of intricacy, ingenuity and mutuality in the affairs of life's construction in the material aspect, the more he dismisses any ground or reason, talking of inherent powers of a matter which is so marvellous that it needs no ground, though it is delimited on all sides, and yet is so poor in production, that it provides neither mind nor spirit to imagine. It can be troubled, tested, whacked, they can whinny, cajole, but it stays steadfastly inert to all. It is a sub-stratum of creation, knows nothing of mind and spirit, and almost grins, if it could, as the mayday marvels of man’s artless art attest the frustrated fury and slurry of his distemper.

Why, these concepts of fantasy and thingummy theories, cast in ideational robes without reason or empirical support, neither SHOW themselves in ANY action, nor conform to the laws of Information science or any other; nor are they duplicable in any research, nor do they find satisfaction in any logic, nor leave their credentials in things past, where abortive 'attempts' should litter the earth, nor does manufacture of command appear without intelligence, nor does the cosmos of thought find visible or available outlet in matter, except by inscribed command, not being written, but ... there.

That is the attestation of creation, negatively, positively in a moment. Indeed, with it is to be found the most exquisite aesthetics in floral and landscape, seascape, cloudscape, and the power to appreciate it, the most inspiring moralities, sometimes actually followed to the plaudits of many whom they inspire, and the combination of surging intelligence and conscious and analytical memory for its application which makes of man a viewer and doer, be his enterprise despicable and his perception jaundiced or not.

Meanwhile, mind, matter, spirit, logic, imagination, plan of salvation, redemption, regeneration, prophecy, fulfilment, exhibits of the same innumerable, being inscribed for millenia in the Bible, power for healing, help for wisdom, all are created; but a clean heart ? (Psalm 51). For fallen man, this is the most important, one which can love with truth instead of despising, deleting or invading with venom and confusion, instead of devising the devilries of hatred, the atrocities of distortion, the pretences of hypocritical formalism or the vague religiosities of warlike competition. A humble and a contrite heart which returns to Him on His only appointed path, this God will not despise. The case however for the bulk of mankind is otherwise, as foretold in Psalm 2 and 110, in Isaiah 24, 59, in Matthew 24, Luke 21, in Revelation 6ff., in II Peter 2-3, II Thessalonians and in so many places it might confound merely to list.

It comes. It is created, and God who knows the foolish dynamisms and devilries of pride in man, of listless faithlessness alike, knows how to direct its blundering follies, since it insists on being, into foretold paths, for society, empire, nation and culture, till the destiny created for man being lost, it is inhabited by those few who in faith apprehend it, and are apprehended for it (Philippians 2).

Creativity and design, they are twins. They work from God and in man in His image, together. That is the way it is, is attested and comes to be. Shutting the eyes never removes the object of vision, only the power to assess it (Matthew 13:14).

Some of these things will be given more attention later in this volume, but they are conveniently lodged here, as they have come from creation as it surges on its appointed course, man choosing the evil, God providing for the result, in mercy through the infliction of murder on His own Son, the Saviour, or judgment when this is despised, ignored, flitted from or made subject of divorce: to the end.

DESIGNS for DESTINY

Passing by the Eunuchs of Irrationalism
to the Seed of Faith and the Wonder of Truth

There fallows an excerpt from an Extended Version of Ch. 1 of Glory, Vainglory and Goodness, with an adjunct for our present concern. The words and works of irrationalism, that ignoramus approach to design which inherits a defunct destiny, indeed a judged one, we turn not only to design, but from this to the ultra-systematic and the supra-design realm, following this to the meta-design dynamism of actual life for man. It starts with an allusion to earlier work.

An excerpt from Dip Deeper, Higher Soar … Ch. 2 gives a broad perspective in the logical and the realm of alogism, where irrationality rules and dissociation of ideas is the criterion.

The various ‘books’ mentioned below are design co-ordinates, reaching outward, upward, inward and downward, and their integrality is part of the design. In this, rationality replaces the magic of finding total pointedness with conscious symbolic logic associated with implicit symbolic logic, and written species of the same in the DNA, where order and command, symbol and significance, signification and execution vie for mastery, and find none, there being only the quietus of design, and the facility of inter-connected function overlaid with understanding, and just as amazing, the capacity purposefully to misunderstand if that is the demand of the conscious driver of all this!

Consciousness is simply a co-ordinate of personality functional in spirit, co-ordinate with a material contrivance for application to the physical, a mental composition for the interpretation and understanding and a direct spiritual functionality for purposing, imaging and willing. The ability to act in this realm requires for personality an awareness which allows it to illustrate what it is, perform what it is constructed to do and be responsible for its actualisation of what it perceives.

Morality is no less and no more remarkable and demanding than consciousness, being an aspect of the instructive construction of the spirit of man, in the image of God. The defilements of evil willing, self-aggrandising or self-glorifying lusts, mental compulsions born of fallacious fictions which pander to the pride of man, and the like, impinge on this construction, partly subduing it, but never deleting it entirely. Thus even a prominent al Qaeda leader admitted that he did not LIKE killing kids and that sort of thing, but look, it is war, he declared, with the spiritual shrug of the immoral and immobilised conscience. It is not the deaths alone, but the mode of it which brings to light the darkness for examination! And when it is examined in the light, it flees.

Hence the wounded consciences, the ludicrous rationalisations to salve it, the irrational use of the concept of right and wrong, good and bad by materialists, in their exhortations to others (and this includes the exhortation not to look at morals, for it is WRONG to do so!), the popularity of psychiatrists, so often used as Lady Macbeth comfort stations, to remove the spot which signifies, and the rash denunciations of many, who with their own morals mixed, muddled and broken, are quick to assert the same of others, hence entering into those squalid judgment sessions, which almost seem to be intended to usurp the last judgment; but they are no more this, than is a burp, a speech.

Thus introduced, the Dig Deeper ... excerpt follows,
slightly revised for our present purpose..

AMID ALL THIS TRAFFIC SURGING AROUND MANKIND,
LET US BE BOOKED

At the outset in our site, we have first noted and then examined two "books" - and it is very close to LITERALLY two books. They are both exceptionally well-known, the Bible for the mind and the heart of man, and the DNA for his structure. Each is inscribed with efficiency, profound symbolic coherence and cohesion, intimate capacity for correlation with command, system to the finest point, and just that combination of meaning and symbolic method which constitutes design, direction and communication. If this is not communication, nothing could be.

This however is not all. There are two additional books, somewhat more figurative, but not in the least imaginary. The FUNCTIONS to which EACH OF THESE EXTRA 'BOOKS' REFERS is as real as any between two covers in our ambit and purvey of scholars.

The third then, or the first of the two extra books is this: the co-ordination of mental world and physical world, auditory reception and command execution, between the man whose bodily equipment is programmed, and the world which has its physical and botanical, biological equipment programmed. The programs intermesh well; their symbolic sub-structures are unitary in kind, so that the efforts of the one, avail in the other, the impacts of the one are understood in the other, and (cf. Predestination and Freewill, Part 4), there are no alogisms to be found: the logic is unitary.

More, the mind of man, using programmed sub-structures for its ultra-programmatic progressions and pursuits, can understand the products that surround him.

There is therefore, and this is the fourth book, this second unit in our second series: and this is the comprehension-combination that transcends. It goes far beyond the mere structural logical cohesion and synthesis. To emit and receive in terms of a common system is one thing, extremely magnificent though this created product undoubtedly is; but to be so prepared in spirit and mind, so that the raw materials, themselves coherent and cohesive between the two systems, within and without, are able to be grasped, intuited, subjected to imaginative incursions, brought into the scope of thought and will and analysis, yes of understanding for action by the non-material, purpose-proposing, imaginative dimension of the being called man, his spirit, this is the next generation of marvel. (Cf. SMR pp. 348ff..)

Yet it would seem indeed scapegrace in gratitude to God who performed this production with the necessary linguistic, mathematical, comprehensive, analytical skill to manufacture symbols and significances (symbol targets), intimations and executions, thought sub-structures in logic and meaning, and interaction with a subject also formed, if we did not notice a fifth book. This is the power to ruminate concerning the Maker Himself. This naturally is the copestone, to which the imaginary relationship of Pinocchio to his craftsman corresponds in reality. Right through to the inward realisation of the thrust of the logic, the communality of the communication, the direction of the design, the strategy of the construction, man can peer toward the God who made him.

He can do more. It is not necessary in this field to speak of a 5th book, although it would be perfectly meaningful. One prefers not to do so, as at the level we have now reached, the affair is inter-personal to such an extent that the term 'book', so fitting earlier, is somewhat distanced. Rather this is the intimacy-provision for creator and creature when that creature is man. This is what book No. 1 provides for (the Bible), book No.2 is sub-structured to enable (the cells DNA and allied phenomena, atomic parameters and provisions), book No. 3 ascends to substantiate, book No. 4 arises to confirm. We shall however give it a name: there is in this fifth dimension, a correlation that is spiritual in kind, so that it may be termed scope for spiritual communication, and for concord. We are moving from the concept of 'book' to that of 'look', or inter-personal interchange.

This allows testing of promises, assimilation of pronouncements, reaction to orders, comprehension of commands, in a SETTING of illumination of conspectus, like a search-light revealing from the nose of an aeroplane, the configuration of the land far below, and something of the ways of those who live there. This is an ultra-programmatic conspectus, and an inter-personal opening. It is a vista on the divine.

It is complicated by just one vital feature, which is equally a vital failure, such as one may get in a damaged automobile, or TV. There is a perverse streak which surfaces in man, so that the more the promises of God in the Bible are fulfilled, and objectively they all are always found to be of this kind, the less they are wanted; the more the prophecies are brought into history, like obedient little lambs in a fenced paddock, the more is the distaste; the more the disciplines for folly, the more the folly, or the less the concern. While this is not like rectilinear motion, a mere reciprocity, and is complicated by the resilience and capacity granted to the immaterial spirit of man, happily able to divorce itself in imagination and purposes proposed for itself, from almost anything real, at will, it nevertheless is a thrust, an historical trend.

These preliminaries allow our minds to realise the UNDERLYING design, before we consider the externally more obvious examples of it. We can now proceed, this base work done, with what is gained from The Wit and Wisdom of the Word of God, the Bible True to Test Ch. 2 .

On design definition, the case is clear. You need what has integrity, or better integrality, oneness in multiplicity, so that many things minister to one result. You need the power to imagine it, since commands do not imagine themselves; the capacity to codify it if you want to use, as in DNA, programmatic devices, the comprehension to make code articulate with command, and command with the raw material for its implementation; you need a series and sequence so that the correct data come with the correct matériel and the correct provision of it at the correct time, and the correct concept with which to edit any errors and rectify any oddments. So is it with the embryo, and indeed in much of the following growth, outside the womb.

This of course is precisely what is found in design, to make it so; and nowhere on earth is that of man surpassed in any visible realm. How is this so ? It is a question of

complexity for the unity,

differential divisions
of mind, spirit and matter for the components,

inextricably interwoven for normal function,

operational sufficiency and efficiency for the command centre
or operational agent to secure the results which are to be gained
from comprehensive USE of all the equipment and connections
and phases of life involved.

Nothing comes near such versatility, power and combination, synthesis of dynamic diversity in KIND, as this. Fulfilling the specifications for the definition of design, it yet surpasses all other visible examples. To remove this example, this exemplar indeed, man, from design, would have to remove the concept; but the concept is based on billions of examples, systematically found and implemented by the designed unit himself, man. It is just that his observable case surpasses all in the various elements that constitute what is defined to be design.

There follow three citations from earlier works, to illustrate the ludicrous results which come when man tries to ignore the data, and invent by magical moments in thought (cf. A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-9), what no moments in nature contrive to produce; for you may watch forever, for what lacks what it takes, to take what it has not got. Cars do not produce cars; you need the extra features to imagine and purpose, to contrive and to make them arrive. Man-maker has to have all of this, and for such a thing as man, inventor, creator and imaginer, comprehender and amender, you need as it were the machine tools correlative to that; but it is not machinery: it is imagination and all else that the formation and formulation of command exacts.

Correlative with this again is the obvious fact that INFORMATION does not arrive, but in information science as seen below, we find that information tends to dissipate, like other design. What is based on its autonomous arrival, when the law directs that the natural course of information is its dissipation: this is not only UN-scientific; it is ANTI-scientific, and justly put into the realm of magic, where causes inadequate posited, with no evidence, are imagined to go with the results desired.

This may be pursued at The Wit and Wisdom of the Word of God, the Bible True to Test Ch. 2 .

Pursuing yet further the integuments, the integralities and the implications of empirical reality, we turn to History, Review and Overview Ch. 5. For our present purpose, this is re-arranged somewhat and extended.

HISTORY, REVIEW AND OVERVIEW Ch. 5

It is all or nothing. It is not only

irreducible complexity, but

indivisible integrity,

indissoluble co-operation,

inter-and intra-systematic proliferation,

coherence of logic and symbolic notation with
executive receptors, skilled to catch meaning and execute orders,

continuity of sequence from

connotation, to denotation, to implementation,

in a series of systematics incomprehensible except in totality

(indeed see SMR pp. 332Gff., Stepping Out for Christ Ch. 9, Repent or Perish Ch. 7, in End-notes, and for further considerations!).

The path of true reductionism^*20, false to science, of course, is always to ignore what you have got, and to explain what is not there. It is however the essence of the challenge to meet the case as it is, in all of its sequential, symbolic, integral and mutually intimate and pervasively singular procedures, whether in code type, implementation, co-ordination or exuberance of methodology; and to do so in a world which likes energy for construction and time for destruction. The other point about the construction ? it is direction. The third ? something to do as directed. In this world, and by any form of valid logic, the specifications of life parallel the requisites of intelligence with available power.

The result, life, it matches nothing but mind, requires nothing less than something as far beyond mere genius as the heavens above the earth, requisitions an artist, artificer and maker down to the last electron and the least of the biota. Paintings do not paint themselves, Raphaels do not come by omission of the artist, and life is as far beyond these things in what it demands, as a genius beyond a talented toddler.

The perspectives and nuances of art, its undertones and its overtones, its sentiments and its modes of communications to receptors called human beings, who may decide to pretend not to like it as a competitive device, such is their programmatic liberty of will in certain arenas: these do not arise from what does not cognise them; but only in what goes far further than that. It must with enterprise not only appreciate but perform, and not only perform, but meaningfully perform, and activate the executive elements of the body of the artist to ensure that the result actually appears; and that the way in which it does so can be 'read'. Art is merely one facet of life. ALL functions must be accounted for in any reputable endeavour to present its basis.

As soon as one discovers one phase, feature or facet of human life in particular, there are realities within, meanings beyond, there is all the grooming of a thorough-bred horse, all the intestinal reality of a cathedral, the coherence of a great speech, the intricacy of superb mathematics, the intimacies as of love, such is the subtlety and the inter-dimensional as well as intra-dimensional sophistication, as if intelligence were easy, and brilliance a manner of life.

As if ? THIS is the testimony. If someone places a new Boeing 747 on your drive-way, it is not as if it had been built! It is not the nature of life, or logic, to give output without input; and what we see now as the centuries progress, is no more input, but the same residual decrement. In design terms, there is to be found, as Gould emphasises, DECREASING residue. The progress of centuries in this system is the regress of design types. What is needed is simply NOT NATURE. It needs its author.

There is vast loss of the remains of output, one not now to be found, as is natural in creations, which tend to dissipate. As with creation in this world generally, on the part of human participants, this decrease follows the vast effort of bringing things to be; and as that is distanced, forces work to the detriment of what one has made. All this is precisely as the Bible depicts (Isaiah 51:6 for example), and it is simply anti-scientific to dismiss the enduringly correct, and uniquely present solution, while appealing to the calamitously non-verified imaginations of the heart, which dismiss the eyes and dispense with their testimony.

That is quite literally anti-science, what is biblically called knowledge falsely so-called, one of the chief dimensions of that falsetto spuriousness, which infects much of modern 'science' to its profound detriment and everlasting shame. Do not misunderstand, science has not done this, for on its method as shown in SMR pp. 149ff. and TMR Ch. 1, this is the result: creation is indicated irrevocably by all the criteria of scientific method. It is the work of some who name 'science' as their trade or profession.

Scientific method is clear, and delightfully sure in its results in creation; but since science lives in culture, a pathological culture can even constrain it till the point comes that argument is substituted for admission, non-reality is explained by reductionism and pathetic propositions are constantly presented, which neither logic nor observation ever sanctioned.

In the intimacies of ever-more unravelled marvels in life's visible provisions, we find increasingly that everything provides for something else, and the more we dispense with ignorance, the more simplistic substitutes for empirical observation surge into the farcical.

For centuries now, man in his growing secularistic conceit, sham imaginations and shameful self-fulfilments, mere ferments of disorderly imagination, has tended to under-estimate all of creation, except himself.

What we are facing then, is not only all the above. It is also directional dynamic with integral meaning, once exceedingly fast-moving, now long arrested. As well have spare tyres and spanners and gear levers in incomprehensible confusion lying about, as think of this or that chemical as if this were at all to the point. The electrons have their partitions and procedures; the atoms likewise; as do the molecules; the compounds are characterisable; the genes have their task and the DNA its blueprint. Each is a construction. Each has required the art of the artifice and the power for the presentation. ALL require a totality of systematisation to render coherent their interaction, univocal their meaning and practical their interaction.

In the light of our other concerns with excerpts and text above, we may now add to the above list, so that to preserve it all in one we repeat it:

irreducible complexity, but

indivisible integrity,

indissoluble co-operation,

inter-and intra-systematic proliferation,

coherence of logic and symbolic notation with
executive receptors, skilled to catch meaning and execute orders,

continuity of sequence from

connotation, to denotation, to implementation,

in a series of systematics incomprehensible except in totality

To this we may now add:

	complexity for the unity,
	differential divisions of mind, spirit and matter for the components,
	inextricably interwoven for normal function,
	operational sufficiency and efficiency for the command centre or operational agent to secure the results which are to be gained from comprehensive USE of all the equipment and connections and phases of life involved.