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CHAPTER 15

THE CRUCIFIXION OF LOGIC

It is in the most singular degree fascinating that the word logos (logos) means word OR cause or reason. In fact, it is clear that it is word in John 1:1, because it is presented as the SON of God, full of grace and truth, so that the personal is eminent and overarching. However, in the crucifixion of the entire scope of the personal expression of God in that format of 'image of God' which allowed for such an incarnation, there is undoubtedly crucified with Him what is His own - cause (as creator of all), and reason (as the ground of all being) and in this, there is a sad and equally savage assault on all that makes man man!

Here we see the sheer irrationalist folly of seeking to dispense with the utter and entire necessity of the spiritual God of all, and the missing front teeth of the face of the abuser of truth who will not find Him. It makes for a peculiar lisping sound which is a sheer give away.

CHAPTER  7

Repent or Perish

CALL to the COHORTS of the CONFUSED, CAPTURED AND CONDITIONED -

The STATE OF GRACE
 

IT IS STRANGE HOW LOGIC IS CRUCIFIED; BUT LESS SO WHEN ONE RECALLS
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHRIST.
IT IS REPENTANCE, NOT CAPRICE, WHICH IS VALID HERE.

CRUCIFIXION OF LOGIC

These realities may be helpfully introduced with so bleak and yet presaging a picture as this, and in our CD-ROM version, we place also an organ improvisation on 'Puer natus est' - a boy is born. It is so easy to forget both that we ARE human and that the correlation with the Creator is intense, though the chasm between both because of sin and of creatureliness can be catastrophic. As we shall see, as is the case in mountain climbing, chasms are not insuperable if you have the right equipment. The equipment for dealing with this with the Infinite and Eternal one is however sufficient only when provided by and from Him ... in a child in whom was planted the divine reality, so that God was His unique Father, and HE ? He, the eternal Word of God, came from above, to which He has returned, and from which He shall make all things clear, both in mercy and in judgment. As to the mercy, it is in the Gospel. But of all these things, we shall find the logical impetus as we proceed.

It is strange how logic is crucified, since the LOGOS is Christ. True, this word has far more meaning than mere logic; but not less. It involves the "word" and all that goes with that, logic and expression and meaning, and declaration and presentation and demonstration and application. Let us now consider the theme in a brief conspectus - much amplified elsewhere - with 3 EXTENSIONS, available at the end in order to prevent the pith from being diffused as you read the initial coverage.

1. It is crucified by the assumption that meaningless units in a meaningless universe can discern the meaning of it: viz. That it is meaningless.

2. It is crucified by the assumption that without absolute truth so much as existing, views on the topic of truth can be made, are meaningful, and not nonsensical. In fact, of course, for anyone to have access to absolute truth, it first must exist, for what is not absolute cannot create what is, any more than what is relative can create what is not. Fairy talk is useful at bed-time for children, at times, but for adults at noon.

3. It is crucified by the concept that series constitute a) reality and b) a way to know it and c) a substance or stand which is beyond occurrence, which assesses occurrence, for what it really is.

4. It is crucified by the concept that what keeps laws makes them, that what observes commands, issues them: that matter is mind and will, despite its refusal to yield evidence of such powers. Materialism is dependent on the prior concept of mental validity, which is not material, to exist.

5. It is crucified by the idea that what is descriptive, is prescriptive, as if there were some logical mandate for preferring some one thing among the multitude of events, and hence having any form of intellectual or vital morality: or having any valid view on anything mental or other, at the moral level, such as the rights and wrongs of teaching this and that, this way or that.

6. It is crucified by any concept of beauty as the artless derivative of meaningless series. Beauty then becomes a subjective reaction of no value, and its urge would be pleasure only, and not differentiable in value from eating an ice-cream: that is, it would be a reactionary occurrence, and nothing more.

7. It is crucified by the notion that will is a derivative of non-will. Not merely does the concept operate without interface, in the manner of science, but without cause. All ideas of "happening to happen" do not constitute scientific or logical grounds for anything, but constitute simply a verbal ploy, or confused noise, choose what you ... will, to avoid the fact that the cause is being sought by reason, and words are being used instead of an admitted failure to account for these things.

8. It is crucified by the nostrum that a man's spirit, his power to project in imagination whether to architecture or love, to religion or morals, to culture or to systems, is "the result" of its absence. The criticism is precisely the same as above, but yet more incongruous with reason, if possible.

9. It is crucified by the whole negligent concept of whole worlds of being - such as the above touches and such as are dealt with in more detail in SMR Chs. 3-4, esp. pp. 305ff, with 332Eff. - arising from their absence; and anything arising from nothing, a mere contradiction in terms.

10. It is equally crucified by empirical claims that evolutionary progress occurs, has occurred or should occur; since empirically this is not the case.

11. It is crucified by the idea that gradual occurrences give ground and reason for rising edifices of construction contained in no part or premiss of the original. Gradually becoming intelligent is a mere misnomer, in terms of creation of the facility. It is mere exercise of its deposit which is available. Gradual production of anything presupposes the entire capacity of what constructs to do so. "Give me time!" is reasonably relevant only when capacity is present.

12. Suddenly becoming intelligent, or possessing parallel properties, is no improvement on the gradual acquisition, causally, since a cause sufficient is required if one is to become proficient, and so efficient (cf. SMR pp. 210-211, 134ff., 252Eff.).. The artful avoidance of all that is required is the artless abandonment of reason. Irrationality however proves nothing but the incapacity of the debater who descends to it. That he is able so to descend attests spirit; that he does so, attests loss. Nothing may be argued on behalf of that which forsakes reason systematically in advance, and since language and logic are intermixed in rationality and coherence, thought and language alike are thereby dissociated from much of their basis, and so rendered inoperable. This is effectual un-creation, a sort of parody of hell, but no more than does hell, does it avoid its creator.

13. The crowd at the crucifixion includes those who break the empirical, intellectual, logical, moral, aesthetic, epistemological, aetiological, ontological, heuristic, analytical and volitional attestations in order to avoid God. One way is to murder the man, who presents it, Jesus Christ: this has been done already, thwarted by the resurrection. The other is to murder the truth in thought. In murdering it, however, you lose the power to appeal to it. Reason jettisoned is debate lost.
 
 

2. CONFUSION OF THE CRUCIFIERS

This crucifixion was not the beginning. In a vital sense, it is the end.

For centuries man had defied the truth, relied on God, used Him, abused His name; though many believers had indeed adorned the earth amidst this superficial fantasising without sincerity.

A. Initial

Man at length, through Rome and Jerusalem alike, in aweful wedlock of interests, crucified Christ Himself, and not merely the thought of God, the command of God and the kindness of God. It was God Himself in human form who was visited with this particular response.

The deadly and deluded devices of man had long preferred what one could see, to God, making, as Jeremiah declared, a stone one's father, a concrete illustration of the theory of organic evolution.

Such delusion as this is a kind of mental devastation on the one hand, and a mode of spiritual exhaustion and sickness on the other. Like much disease, its end is death. It cannot stand in life.

Let us review then some of this age-old fleeing from God, concerning His creation, and the age-old provision of God for its healing and the restoration of man... or those of them who are restored to His "image", according to design specifications, without which, of course, all discourse would be mere futile sharing of reactions.

Progress? Up the 'scale' of life? There is need in all progress for a number of additional features at the verification level.

Each time a cell-membrane 'arises' to make life environment proofed or covered, so that it may exist, or any species of 'improvement' over barren matter, there is not merely an event but an advent. One fallacy in the folly of the mere 'arising' of symbolism-performance-synthesis, contrivance-code-command integration, of worlds of new being with laws of their own, vitality of their own, characteristics of their own, characteristic features of their own, is this: it calls for what is not there to operate, to provide what is. While this is called 'chance', it is merely a tag for absence.

The farce of myriads of originations of codes, contrivances, quality, synthesis, imaginative modellings by the billions, of cohesion, systems, multitudes of inter-systematic syntheses, co-ordinations, co-operations, combinations, creative adaptations, applications and so on, almost for as long as one would care to write - of all these entities DOING IT, BEING, ARISING without an originating agent is obvious; but let it be said.

When a whole canvas displays just such things in its domain, with no signs of forsaken canvases on the way, we know this: an artist is at work - or a program devised in conjunction with one, which in the end, comes to the same requirement.

The reason is simple. When exhaustively the criteria of creation are displayed, it is farcical to act as if this were not the case - being obtuse, obfuscatory and obstructive. Quality called for is quality supplied, and in this domain of the world of creative thought, there is its characteristic expression requiring for the powers displayed, the a priori capacities.

When thousands, nay millions of pictures in a vast gallery 'arise' in concert, and they are moved - the movement 'arises' - to form part of an incredibly brilliant whole, being a kind of artistic mosaic, and then re-assembled to form other wholes, then we see something analogous to monocytes, small cellular aggregations, then trilobytes with their amazingly 'advanced' eyes, near the first, together with subsidiary styles of art, now shown in diversifications, at times indeed in divertimentos, of mutual involvement.

If these pictures were, each one, to live, and even reproduce within 'kind' specifications (found by seeing what happens, and then by investigated how it is done), we would see at work a creative artist in the world of life - a world of multitudes of domains, all synthetically correlated, all nevertheless individual.

The requirement is now architectural as well as artistic, supra-technical as well as creative, supervisory as well as original and originating.

According to the kind, calibre, quality, control, co-ordination, coded programming, diversification-allowances and constraints, allowances and limits, facilities to vary within these, to the breadth and scope of product differentiation and on the other extreme, integration, so is the call, the constraint for designating the cause, the base, basis, agent, artist, architect, mathematician, maestro - the creator.

There is simply no relevance to discussing nothing as the base, when the criteria, characteristics, codes and consequences are of a type exhibiting a sufficiency for these actions. Intelligence is what produces correlated, integrated, systematically conceived and coherently workable consequence, does so characteristically and not merely episodically. Products are results of its exercise. Domains are spheres of its influence. Worlds (that is, arenas of many domains, with laws, styles and conditions uniquely appropriate as a milieu for action and a provision for it) - these are structures of its main, with wisdom, art, brilliance, creativity, originality and qualities so numerous they would merely bemuse the reader: these are the field of its operations - with word power, command power, construction power, co-ordination power, wit and cleverness, it makes these worlds.

Hence as verification of the necessities which prove God from His works in mind, matter and spirit as seen in Chs. 1, 3, 10 of The Shadow of a Mighty Rock (SMR), we see these colossal, characterisable elements, aspects, components and members of a deposit, a dynamism and drive expressed in life. As verification they speak yet again with unmuted mouth, specifying the cause a posteriori, requisitioning it a priori, incapable*1 of any other declaration*2.
 
 

B. Logical Collisions

Similarly the collisions with the branches of logic as sketched above (in 1. Crucifixion of Logic) and dwelt on elsewhere (see That Magnificent Rock Chs. 5, 7, A Spiritual Potpourri Chs.1-8 et al, SMR Chs.3, 5,10): these are no longer present when characterisable qualities are associated with collated causes.

Indeed, the infamous 'wriggle' that 'survival' created it all is as absurd a proposition as ever passed the lips of man. Does good driving (or 'better') of a Volkswagen create a Rolls Royce, even in stages? Does non-death mean imaginative re-coding? Does creation consists in endurance? Is all language to be a puppet of pretence? Do billions of designs have to be added to billions of visible ones, as 'steps on the way' - always invisible? As if this made things 'easier' for a characterisable end-product called life - far less, one called the universe, the very name of which connotes the summing in sequential array, of some of creative components noted above. Or does their absence, these prodigious outpourings of imagined designs on the way (cf. Professors Thompson, Løvtrup, et al., SMR pp. 199-200, 252Aff.), after diligent delving, make their theoretically useless - indeed, pejorative - addition, please any better, any rational enquiry?

Creation, dear readers, like mathematics, art, is what it is - does what it does, and is characterisable by criteria which it, like other powers, displays. The display is variously, multitudinously, concertedly, co-ordinatively, discretely and synthetically present in a canvas reaching beyond measurement, figures and features beyond assessment, stretched before one of the products, called man, so that he can - if he will - show the sheer prodigality of the imagination used in creating him, by 'assessing' it all - with himself - as betokening, really, no creation at all, just specks of paint spattered on the canvas, that has no basis, from tins with no basis, by a hand that is not there with an art that is.

At odd times, he even imagines that despite the clarity of his logic, he may be deceived by his logic, and reasons with 'validity' that it is itself invalid, just to show the tantrum-esque follies of which he is capable, abusing logic - like an asinine trader, abusing as mutinous, another man's mule for not following him - before falling to the ground in a fit of irrationalism, matching rigor mortis. Next, schizoid but chastened, he returns to USE logic to escape logic, and then confused, he continues to speak as if the mere mouthing of words avoided issues.

The 'paint's' power to 'describe' its integrity of thought, just while it despises its creation and intelligent embodiment in this world of art, and the domain of man, meanwhile, mocks its pretensions; for the less it has in basis, the less its statements portend in truth. If, on the other hand, its merest thought is valid, so is its capacity to know truth, and the necessity for truth, not reaction merely, to exist - for it to be there; and so is the requisition of the ultra-system surveyor who knows what really is, as its illimitable creator-sustainer^{*1, *2, *3} ; and exactly likewise is the necessity to know Him, so that one's product status does not limit, far less its casual character distort or its intra-systematic nature abort with its summarily confined credentials. Even exalted capacities do not draw truth, unless it exists!

When the characteristics are faced, then, and the agent adequate realised, this is not all. It is then that man's greatest journey must commence. The alienation from God that these erratic, unscientific and irrational romanticisings exhibit, produces and attests problems, more than mental, than intellectual.

Alienation (cf. Ephesians 4:18ff.) of such a dimension as this is in a domain of its own - the human will, which suffers disease. Even realisation of God's existence is far from solving this problem. Not for truth alone, but that harmony with it, peace in it, and recognition of the Creator Himself that is more than perfunctory, is man's need if he is to be whole, real and cured. Sick minds at this level, betoken sick souls. The function of life itself is involved.
 
 

3. THE NECESSITIES OF SPIRIT
FOR THE VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN DEALINGS
 
 

Mercifully, the everlasting Gospel (cf. Item 17, Barbs, Arrows and Arrows) is and has been provided through one more, utterly basic work of the Creator, whose provisions, like His prophecies, cover all that is needed (cf. SMR Chs. 8-9).

Man needs to REPENT of his alienation from the God of His creation, whose response to his sins is quite as real as the planning of man to sin, in the firs place.

Man needs to RECEIVE the truth that sin brings judgment in such stages s God devises - He is very clever and deep; and the other truth, that we continue at all because He is merciful and this third, that the mercy, like the creation, has a domain of its own.

Expressed categorically in Jesus the Christ, crucified for the cover of sin, the satisfaction of justice in God's plan of salvation, this mercy is active utterly and finally when He as Lord and Saviour is received by faith. This is different from cultural acceptance, social conformity. It is an adoption more real than that of any child, an acquiescence deeper than in any marriage, an attunement more harmonious than any music, a capitulation more total than anything military, a devotion wrought in greater depth than any ocean.

It is commerce between a created being on earth and God in heaven accomplished through the One who exhibited the reality and power of God, His everlasting word made flesh, becoming man and doing for man what he needed. It is total in its embrace as to competence, and individual as to its grace in action. FAITH is the mode of acceptance, REPENTANCE is the path to the door, and the door is open to knocking, the knocking of need, in the path of return to that God who, having made the earth and the DNA specifications, also made peace in this way, for all who come to Him, not to something else and lesser, not in some admixture, according to the word of this same everlasting Gospel. 

God did not make man in order that He should be made the butt of the human proclivity to sin, misusing freedom, lust to defile liberty, as if HE made man in one way, and then endorsed his abuse of that way in another, and lacked either the power or the purpose to rectify things, covering the sin with justice and hence with the love willing to pay, to redeem. Nor did He make man upright as He is, in order that he should propagandise his innocence before all domains, as if God winked at folly and was subverted by His own inventions! To pile up works from a heart such as man’s is, is to pile up all the more condemnation; and to have no remedy for this degeneration, is to share its moral infamy. God is not thus, and in Christ alone in all religion, is the need met, the validity found. (Cf. Ch. 2 above, Beauty of Holiness Ch.  4, SMR Ch. 1). The everlasting Gospel (cf. Barbs… 17, That Magnificent Rock Ch. 3) is the only, and the unchanging, the age-old but never aged answer of God, to and for mankind.

The characterisability of its domain, as with other cases, is shown in its works, here those of heart, of healing, its procedures and power.

Christian life is the life of Christ within you (Colossians 1:27); for in the domain of personal power expressed on earth, God has raised Him from the dead, to the fury and frustration of sick minds: an act which not even the power of the Roman Empire versus Jesus Christ, could prevent, far less plausibly dismiss. Indeed, in one sense, he took it over, this Empire, which persecuted His people (cf. SMR Ch.6, pp. 931ff.).

It is necessary to repent, receive Him by His free Spirit, accept His word of living substitution, so that the offer becomes an enactment, assuring that your sin is borne - for it is received, this sin, not snatched away (cf. John 8:24). It is necessary to believe Him, and then as God's creation, in the first place, you become a new creation at the last (cf. Ephesians 4:24, Colossians 3:10).Then 'born of God', grow, for no live baby fails to grow... in grace, in faith, in knowledge, abiding in His words which set you free, and help to keep you clean (Psalm 19:9), just as the blood once for all shed (Hebrews 9), washes you from all sin (I John 1:7ff.).

The matter is BOTH propositional and personal. GOD SPEAKS (let no one else presume to share this prodigious enterprise from the powers and prerogatives of the King of Eternity), and we have His resultant word. GOD SENDS, and the world has crucified His incarnated Son. GOD commands REPENTANCE*4, and we hear this personal call. It is ACCORDING to this word, this gospel, this instruction, these propositions, that we come; but we do not come TO the propositions as if they were God. THESE are what He has said, and we believe and receive them. They however TELL us to go to HIM. No division of the obvious is in place, for theology itself will often contrive with those escaping from one delusion, to lead them into the next. It is the word of God, read it yourself which informs, and the Son of God to whom, as person to person, you come. It is HE who saves, it is His word which instructs, and which operates, because He makes it to be so. Listen in conclusion then, to His own words:

"Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life; and they are they which testify of Me. And you will not come to Me, that you might have life" - John 5:39-40. The two remaining barriers therefore, put aside in a repentance not to be repented of, and BOTH follow His word, whoever else presumptuously and inanely may say what is more or beside, and COME to HIM, who spoke it, and trusting in Him, be His as you were planned to be, in your original specifications.

End-Notes and Excursions

1.

EXTENSION 1

This represents a very large excursion, in three stages, so take your lunch.

The State of the Data
and its derivatives
A Review of Earlier Relevant Materials - with Significant Extensions

We shall for the moment extend our thought into these interstices.

Below we reproduce from The Shadow of  Mighty Rock, pp. 332-G-H (in blue font), a small plan of a large work, that of the construction of the human body, in logical form.

PART 1
 

A PATTERN OF MAN - For Survey and Simple Mnemonics -

A Summary Structure (PSC).
This is envisaged as a skyscraper, and may be conceived upwards or construed downwards. (See pp. 140-145 supra.)

THE ELSEWHERE-EARNED EDIFICE,
 WITH OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR MAN

(View as one skyscraper: floors are in general in order of their management significance, though this may vary.)

1.  Principal (top floor)
2.  spirit
3. perspective
4-6.  personality-imagination-expression (PIE)
7.  principles
8-10.  priorities, penchants, affections (PPA)
11.  purpose and purposes
12-15.  comprehension-analysis-intelligence-mind (CAIM)
16.  proposals
17. corporicity
18.  procedure
19.  principial error
20.  plan
21.  performance error
22.  program
23.  unsuccess
24.  significance
25.  semantics
26.  syntax
27.  signification
28.  symbols
29.  cells (equipped as per 24-28, the 5 S - Words)
30.  system
31.  sequence
32.  series
33.  singularity
34.  subsistence (ground floor)

These are operational data relating to man.

Added to these, further functionalities could be noted, such as:

CREATIVITY, INTER-PERSONAL CONSTRUING; LOGIC, MEMORY, SYNTHESIS, SYSTEMS, DISCIPLINED-IMAGINATIVE-CONSTRUCTION; SURVEY - WITHIN AND WITHOUT.

While these extend our sight of the donated territories accorded to man, they can be understood in such terms as: mind, spirit and their intimate inter-relation. Here we see not only worlds within worlds in the construction called man - a multiplicity of cosmoi, but a disparity of components, duly combined and correlated to work as one unit: that is the art and essence of creation.

The splendour of the architecture that creates, together with the wonder of the elements in man, themselves creations -

the legally inert substructure; the vitally informed, the alert, the discerning, the comprehending;
and the volitionally directive, the spiritually profound, soaring inexorably:

these in their display and their unison attest and verify at work... the sublimity of divinity.
 
 

SURVEYING THE SCINTILLATING SCENE
OF THE UNITARY SKYSCRAPER

Now let us look from the top storey down.

At the top,
the spirit (q.v.) of man, as active but non-autonomous, and derivative (2),

is subsumed beneath its principal (properly God, but it may be contra-factually opted for or yielded to as the devil, self, self-sufficiency, self-satisfaction, self-fulfilment, ideological activism, existential angst...instead), whatever it may be (1);

just as
perspective (3), in turn, is set below spirit.

Then is seen the personality as functional upon this, with its principles, priorities and purpose, all functions of it, proceeding in turn to utilise the whole realm of the mental and engaging the physical, with all the errors which in practice may divorce purpose from results.

The structure in its course then moves through the purely programmed
to the anatomy of matter and the singularities of what subsists (ground floor).

As to the principal of man, on top, this may be subjective, merely existential; or the upward gateway to reality. It may be imagined to be diverse from what it is, or even disregarded, with the same sort of uncontrolled folly as should occur when a child elects to drive his father's car. He DOES drive it, it is NOT his own car, but he does not know HOW to drive it. What follows is the world. It both looks like it and is like it.It is not least for this reason that the Bible speaks in such dire terms about 'the world'. Thus James says this: "Whoever therefore wants to make himself a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God" - 4:4.

The control room for the whole is in the top floor; and as we have noted, the merely existential approach per se lacks what life requires. The reality incomparably and immovably attested, is the Lord Jesus Christ who, the only begotten Son of God, the Word of God, achieved the building and offers to restore the mismanaged to the designed holiness: at cost to Him, by sacrifice once made, and power, epochally shown in His bodily resurrection. This restoration comes through personal faith and repentance, including His actual top-level reception, where He belongs; and His free acceptance of the purpose-deflections and other errors, sins at any level, unburdened to Him and His waste management.
 
 

LET US NOW EXTEND THIS EARLIER MATERIAL

The substance of these things has been pursued in Ch.3 SMR, but we shall here add some aspects. Above, in the blue font, we have looked at the area of organisation, codification and command, in living matter, living mind and living spirit. We are not merely looking, even at the procedural level, at events. We are rather seeing a STRUCTURING of events, as when, for example, we use a tape-recorder, which does indeed include what will become events in our re-play, and refers to what were events in the original actions recorded, but for this very reason has a structure of command. Particles convey depths and heights of artistic activity, being merely a conveyer belt for what is built elsewhere, and composed entirely differently. (Cf. SMR pp. 316D-G.. ) The orders come, duly inscribed in code to that effect, because orders were made. When the agents acted the piece tape-recorded in the first place, their own spirits gave the commands to their bodies. Now the structure of the recording conveys commands in order to reproduce faithfully the results of THOSE orders at the purely and merely reproductive side for the listener. This is a representation of that.

Now, with the systematic structural elevation of things, put in the form of a skyscraper, set forth, we shall look at the same data in a more mobile manner, with a kinesthetic emphasis, not on what is beneath what, but on the whole movement, in tableau, like snapshots, seeing now this and now that functioning, moving, acting, and what it implies. We shall now consider the first which strikes the attention... in a sort of cosmic kinesthetics, assessing the perception of movement, interaction and the mutual involvement of what acts.

This then, to return to the body itself, is the COMMAND-EXECUTION phase. Then there is - parallel to that - the CODE-CONCEPT furrow (for convenience of thought, lodging it all together as so many furrows on a field). Here the considerations of code, which not merely addresses the inherent properties of the particles performing their physical rites, but commands them to perform the adventures derived from another domain, are correlative to concept, containing the structure of thought which transfers the one to the other, and elevates the merely episodic to the programmed performance procedure.

With all this is found of course not merely the DNA and the RNA but the variety of RNA in its various messenger and construction procedures, so that as we consider the enormous complexity and the astute beauty of the techniques employed (as Denton as ably exhibits in his Evolution: A Theory in Crisis), in their slender elegance of form, microscopic magnificence of compression and fail-safe procedures, editing and conserving (expressive to perfection of the Biblical command to reproduce after "their kind", and now unveiled in the continuing results of that Biblically recorded command experimentally before our own eyes in this most fortunate generation), we come to another furrow. It is the CONTRIVANCE-COMPOSITION furrow.

Next, merely noticing a hidden aspect of what has gone before, we come to the CREATIVITY-MULTIPLICITY furrow. While there is only ONE LANGUAGE for all these codes, commands, concepts and execution rites, that lead to building, so conserving life, there are many diversities in what that language says, exactly as with a human author, except that this is surpassingly ingenious, staggeringly compressed. It is indeed unexampled in sheer brilliance by any of man's creations on earth, even using the intelligence of MANY researchers, and the accumulated knowledge of many generations, and much equipment as an aid to action. Further, not merely, as has been noted in some detail in SMR Ch.2, is there even in the Cambrian Age (see SMR Index), a vast variety of creatures, but there are sub-categories exhibited with that sportive munificence, that disdain for penny-pinching which is so characteristic of great creation. Our own composers will do just so, not merely 'throwing off' a wonderful work, but giving variations and varied recompositions of it in this or that form, or flirtations with it, such is the thronging genius with which some are equipped.

The author of created creativity, such as that of man,  is in sheer abundance unmatchable, and the beauty of it is this: that the more we show our abundance, the more we attest His; for His is the creativity back of the symbol-code-command, contrivance, multi-plan integration of mind, matter and spirit with all the sub-categories inherent, which we call life, human life.The more impressive it is, the more surpassingly so is He.

We move to the ARCHITECTURE-CONTEXT  furrow. In computing there is a study called Computer Architecture, where the construction of domains and dynamics is melded into one whole. There are ways of doing these things, which belong of course to the realm of mental dynamics, codes, symbols, words, devices, directions. That is the discipline. That is the input for the output. That; is where it lives. These are the ingredients of this type of production, the arena of its discourse and the demand of its presence. This is how it goes. The facings, as it were, of the walls are of stone, the height is thus and the moulding is configured to this or that form; and so, in the pseudo-verbal context of assigned symbol-command creativity, it goes on with the deftness of electronic architecture. For precision and continuation, much is required; and in life, much in the editing and conserving, the energising and the actualising realms IS provided, in one synthetic whole, where the very plan is set forth eyeball to eyeball, for our inspection.

There is likewise, to take another aspect, the DOMAIN-DOMINION furrow. Here we see the provision in EACH field for the particular molecular 'arms' to reach and arrange in each part of the whole, which in turn is integrated in further involvements of other domains where other dominions are exercised in terms of the marshalling dominion over all.

This in turn relates to the ORGANISATION-ORGAN field, where there are to be considered the phases or segments of the operations, like the energy-production unit which is so necessary and discrete in its own right (mitochondria units), so that like chapters of a book, distinct and pseudo-autonomous, but really deeply integral to the whole, these contribute in their commanded place, their organised way and their settled locus in the team-work.

This in turn requires as it likewise exhibits the MELDING-MENTALITY aspect. Here we focus on the fact that such organs and organisations in human nucleated cells, require a melding to reduce all  not only to that one language which is one of the data of life, a commanded, conserved, commissioned unit which is just... ONE, but to the use of this language of life to DIRECT the overall, overarching composite concurrence of all, in timing, sequence, coding sufficiency, task-force proficiency and the like.

Then we consider the KNOWLEDGE-KNOWABILITY aspect. Thought itself, a product, is not internally self-sufficient, is aetiologically deficient, and leaves a causative gap, is not self-accounting. We are required to find its cause, as with all else, and that involves at least in the end, a mind. It could not be less, for the requirement is for what produces thought. (For detail in this phase, see SMR Ch.1, where the steps are set forth, as also from another aspect, in Ch.3, where we find that an eternally self-sufficient Being whose functionalities include and surpass all this is absolutely necessary.)

Just as knowledge to be known, requires mind, so the knowledge as shown exhibits it. Command with its concepts and knowledge with its savoir-units, as it were, inhere in the system; but it is more, for since all inter-connects with a roving beauty and a seemingly effortless facility, there is the comprehension-control phase likewise. All this is implicit, its works are explicit, and the means are observable, as the overall plan.(See SMR Ch.1 for the detailed exposition; also Ch.10.)

In all these things, of course, the concept of an iota advantage, a tiny 'progress upwards',  is merely superfluous, just as it is invisible (cf. That Magnificent Rock Chs.1,6). In such complexity as noted in Ch.2 SMR, as is seen FROM THE FIRST, or if you prefer, even in the "simplest" cells, there is no room for some rough-and-ready outdated pretence of simple 'advance'. In any advent there is a wall, a battery of considerations to allow for, just as in some computing composition of great complexity, the danger of bugs is enormous, and the requirements for streamlined, concurrence of the new and the old is most exacting, demanding that very specific and sophisticated command of the language of command, and that very knowledge that moves in the realm of the knowable, which is the requisite for such matters. The millenium bug is exquisitely simple in its ERROR, but incredibly complex in its CURE in the synthetic whole of a firm's computer programs. And that? it is producing no human body, believe it!It is moreover one simple matter, per se, of a childishly straightforward error. It is the consequences ... where lie the rub!

Naturally enough, the Stephen Jay Goulds of this world are noting with some vigour, if not venom in some cases, the Nilssons and the Goldsmiths, the incredible folly of PRETENDING (yes and the Løvtrups, all of whom are featured in Ch.2 SMR - see  Index) that the evidence is of gradualism. It is not. Not merely is the torrent of a vast percentage of life forms found in the so-called early Cambrian 'level', not only are most sophisticated exhibits like highly developed eyes found right there, and that in great abundance in trilobites, but successive phases, such as mammals also in their own place, appear to descend on the scene in overwhelming suddenness and complexity. All this is attested in SMR loc.cit..

That is what one would EXPECT if giving the matter thought. Since the domain is creativity, and the requirement is intensively complex and sui generis, we do well to look at what creativity IS and find that it is not a pettifogging matter, but requires and exhibits a mastery and overall overview of vast if not indeed prodigious dimensions.

Looking down our field, we then come to the COLLOCATION-CAUSATION furrow. We observe quite simply the requirements (cf. *3) of causation. Shown in Chs.3,5 in SMR to be irreducible and indefeasible, these proceed remorselessly on pain of capitulation of all logic, leaving the unfortunates who prefer that way, mentally unbuilt as the price of their preference. The causation requirements are currently being sketched in detail for life, and have been shown
(That Magnificent Rock, Chapter 1) to leave a hollow when neglected, requiring a cumulative filling which precisely conforms to the minimal approach to the Creator, God.

The BRILLIANCE-AMBIENCE furrow next claims our thoughts. The facility of the pianist who moves through myriads of  scales (as a theoretical background) to his seemingly effortless performance merely illustrates this. The very versatility of motion in and through endless domains, while creating with them and tossing them about like a kitten with a ball of wool: this requires is own basis and its own battery of causative enablement.

Somewhat similar is the furrow of WORLDS-WORKER. There are as seen in the 34+ member-list above, a whole series of domains, of worlds, of places, sites, activities, take whichever phase you will, which, each in turn, and all turned into integration together, require the expertise and the operational enablement. They require first that which each world has for its own ambience, its existence, its movement and its exercise, together with the requirement for all: a strategic, supervisory, synthetic comprehension both of all the worlds and of how they may be masterminded into a unity that both preserves the reality of the diversity, and allows the same to be expressed and responded to, in each world. The 'astronomical' task of creating a 'universe" (the human cell and its architectural plan) which weds the worlds is one of the phases in realistic assessment of what we have and what is deployed in it.

PLATFORM-PLANS focusses another phase. For any plans as complex, neat and contrived, as brilliant and unified as our own in each nucleated cell in our bodies, containing the plan of all, there is needed not only knowledge and concept, designation for communication, but a basis for the operation to be functional for the operative dynamic. Mentality is mind at work; you need the mind for the mentality. You need minimally the person for the mind. You need the substance for the series, as we saw in examining Hume (SMR Ch.3), you require the viewer who can assess and ascertain, direct and maintain, as we do when we talk and consider as now.

A description or explanation does not happen; prescription is not description and the symbolic inter-relationship which contains the object and the subject, the assessor and the assessed, the possibility of error and the rigours of exactitude, the power for proper use and the facility for misuse of symbols, this neither is nor ever could be anything to do with mere series. They are, proceeding about their business; and for them,  inert activities, error is irrelevant. The dysfunction of man's mentality, intentional or other, however, is not and error lies there as  an extreme vulnerability.

Those, the inert,  proceed as they will; but this, it assesses what proceeds and seeks to ascertain what it will be, and was ... and why. The omission of the thinker in the thought of Hume made of him a creator, of sorts, of mankind. It is true it was a misnomer, and that what he created was Humian nature, and indeed humorously unhuman nature, a sort of unintentional burlesque. But he did create it! showing the nature of his omission by the errors which he made. This was no happening; it was wrong. He omitted the platform for assessment, its relevance and its logical structure by which it is fundamentally differentiated from happening, and becomes overview of happening, requiring not series but substance, not episode but basis, not dynamic merely but disposition. (See SMR Ch.3 for detailed criticism of Hume and what he stands for...)

This in turn reveals and exposes the ASSESSMENT-ASSESSOR furrow.

CONSTRUCTION-MOBILISATION is another furrow. It is not MERELY thought, any more than it is not merely series which is in view. There has to be more than command too. It must be OBEYED. This is not the province of matter which has its own exhibited facilities and form, plan and performance criteria, obeying its own matrix. What we see in life is the command USING matter to MAKE it copy or represent, perform, rather like a trained dog, what it is SHOWN it MUST do. The energy, yes, as we saw, in the cell, that is manufactured to the purpose. The code, symbol, command and all this entails; yes we saw it. But it must also be CAUSED to EXECUTE it with precision and permanency: it must be mobilised to the point of the plan and made to continue in that ... furrow.

Another way of seeing it, is down the EXECUTION-DELEGATION furrow.  There is a delegation of authority in terms of lower and lower levels of operational requirement, and down the line the message passes.

Again, there is the CONTRADICTION-CREATION furrow. If this were not creation it would be contradiction. ALL that creation is found here; and all that it is not is not. Interestingly, the facility to contradict the fastidiously obvious components and composition which constitutes creation is one of its chief marks; for a SYSTEMATIC if irrational approach to misconception is far more than series. It is anti-series, matching in intemperance and obduracy, what the series does with facility and obedience. This highlights the reality of the human spirit and its own necessity of creation that it might so belie creation by decrying it in the midst of its attestations, even though logic lies slain while it is being used for the purpose. The very facility to know, which is used, is impossible without the existence of the knowable truth, which being truth, is not subject to mere intrusive exercise of the human spirit, as if this were some absolute indicator and objective criterion, while yet basking in the meaninglessness assigned to it in monistic theories. The knowledge of Him who is that truth is the other pre-condition, for hearing of something is not knowing it, and even desiring it is not having it.

Then, like the MELDING-MENTALITY aspect, is this: the COMPLETENESS CO-ORDINATION. We are considering diverse aspects, and this encapsulates the surveying totality of the overarching spirit beyond it all, while the former dwells rather on the constructive aspect in the move from formulation to formation. It is not only the capacity but its vigorous exercise which is required.

The PROTECTION-PROGRAM aspect has been considered, but is here given a name - referring to the extensive and intensive editorial facilities in the cells, which enable the work to be rather like that of an assistant-Editor, reviewed in operation, so that mistakes are cut down and barriers are erected to limit change of type in that domain, to keep within the texture and the organisational requirements which are like the rest, sui generis. "After their kind", the dictate of Genesis, is here seen in objective symbolic format at the micro-biological level, after many centuries, thriving and conserved.

The INTELLIGIBILITY-ABILITY aspect is again, similar to the contrivance-composition furrow, but the formulation occasions focus on the ABILITY required. We talk of brilliance and execution, of melding and so forth; but we must keep in mind that what is involved is more than, but never less than ABILITY. Intelligence is merely one phase of it. Adaptability - not TO but WITH powers - is relevant. The IMAGINATION-MATRIX furrow is closely allied. Into reality there must be the ABILITY to drive, to force, to forge, to compose from imagination, rather like an architect (see SMR Ch. 8, initial cartoons).

This opens up the furrow of the FORMULATOR-FUNCTIONARY. There is a survey, construction, overview, imaginative totality at work in the performance of such things in such a setting as is our own. It not only does, but devises. It has its harassments, its complexions, its procedures and requires as computing so often reminds us at (in comparison) a rather low level of mere 'slavery', much ability to furnish plan to the domain, and make it work.

The WORLD-SOURCE - CONFORMER is another furrow. This sums up the above. In the world and over it is a source which makes the operational compulsions to be  compulsory from matter up, and then formulates and sends the intrusions in one language, effectual as commands, so that a whole ONE WORLD results, though its internal diversity is enough to contain a Hitler and a Freud, a Socrates and a William Wilberforce, to have love itself, along with its reductionist contrivances and theories, manipulated and manufactured by man, inept and debased, fitting nothing but the theorist's conception. Though this be so, yet  for all that, these results, however flagrant and foolish, also fit the creative munificence in creating the thinker,  who may for his own indulgence, misthink with such admittedly episodic skill.

As to man, however, his 'platform'  is so well-formed, that he even gives reasons for his work, using what he dismisses with great system and address. Thus Freud has the unhallowed effrontery to tell us of the unconscious drives which control, while himself supposedly being one of these Freudian-natured constructions which he makes, and confuses with the world of men.  Yet if that were really so, truth would not be so in the undeliverable medley of his initial assumptions which if not universal (so that he himself could be excepted) do not constitute a ground-plan for humanity; but which if universal, remove him from the knowledge of it, as we saw, inter alia, in SMR Ch.4. From  non-knowledge, however, he can give no knowledge, the initial capacity for his theory be ship-wrecked. (For more on Freud, see SMR Ch.4.)

We move now to the EXPRESSION-ARTICULATION area, where the function in view is the relationship of thought to word, or of knowledge to language, of formulation to expression and all the forms of action which, in their various systems, are required in the entire ambit of transcribing from spirit to mind to execution, through symbol and code and command and correlation and conservation. That is one focus and feature amidst the well-marshalled battalions of functions found in man.

Then we come to the EXISTENCE-FABRICATOR aspect. For things to be movable and mouldable, they must first BE. Existence has to happen. WHAT EXISTS with all its divergencies from nothing, requires institution if instituted it is to be. We have in That Magnificent Rock, Ch.7 dealt with the illusion that what is 'nothing' (which requires by definition the removal of any character or characteristic thinkable or non-thinkable, for even in the latter case, it would be designable as non-thinkable and hence have something which diverges from nothing as a feature or focus) should nevertheless be equipped with a not-nothing creative power. IF it could create, it would AT ONCE be NOT NOTHING, but SOMETHING-WHICH-CAN (and did) CREATE. This existence feature, then, is also necessarily present, and if we are thorough, it too requires its cause, and that the criteria as shown in SMR Ch.1, minimally necessary for such a cause.

The LAW-LEGISLATOR furrow is similarly brought into sharp focus in such a phase, for with non-nothing we have laws so multitudinous and enveloping (That Magnificent Rock, loc.cit., SMR Chs.1,3,10), that with the non-nothing creation from the non-nothing creator we need this phase of legislative prowess. It is always one of the most beautiful of the banalities of the nescient view (i.e. I do not know, I do not want to know, I do not think, I do not want to think) which substitutes for knowledge, that it cannot escape even in its degraded formulation, the reality of thinking and so the necessities which language itself enshrines, of logic, which being used, has its dictates. These present us with the creation, as we saw in SMR Chs.1-5.

The COMPOSITION-COMPOSER aspect is one which is like IMAGINATION-ACTION, but has the sense of the overview, the creative fusion, as distinct from 'mere' creative evocation,  and the delegation of powers and requirements prominent.

PERFORMANCE-POWER is similar to DOMAIN-DOMINION above, but has a more basic aspect before us. It is different too from EXECUTION, since all such things  presuppose  power. Mere power, however, is not small in this case and is demanded.

INHIBITION-INHIBITOR is another and opposite requisition. The systematic and sustained reality of cutting off by code, of undesired variants is a system in itself, and is - if less glamorous than the purely imaginative areas - no less important. It is like preserving yourself from plagiarisers. Genetic engineering is not a break-down of this code, for it merely means that having desired a being who could be blatant and colossally incompetent, as the other side of the ability to be loving and magnificently gracious and realistic, the Creator is prepared to suffer interference, whether for good purpose or ill, whether with a facility far beyond wisdom or with restraint, as men merely manipulate with some of the results of His creativity, some of the other results of His creativity.

The architecture and anatomy of reality, in this world, and not merely the material building blocks of the physical segment, are crucial ingredients in the data. Beyond even these units, and all they imply, are the intellectual and volitional, the affairs of mind and spirit of man per se. Directive for the architecture of this elaborate trilogy called man, collating 3 magnificent domains, divergent and diverse in the extreme, is the call for one integral ensemble; and beyond that is the Being whose call it is, whose powers are so deployed who, with all these creations, understands and surpasses them assembles or discards them.

Thus, on survey of the biological (and indeed the cosmic) scene, in terms of verification of what was demonstrated in Chs.1,3 of SMR, we find that not only do the data verify what we have shown to be the case, continually and eloquently, like good students always able to act and understanding their role, but they clamour for the original propositions themselves, exactingly demanding them all over again, so long as logic has place and thought has force; and where it does not have this, then dismissed, it has no capacity to argue. Reason admits, consents to and demands, exacts and requires, demonstrates and demonstrates anew the fact that God is, that we are merely among His works, though gifted in such an extreme way that the headiness of mad civilisations and woeful worldly self-preoccupation is both understandable and the more lamentable.

Now let us extend these concerns further and with some diversification, for review and simplification, as also for perspective.
 
 

Part II

THE FOUR BOOKS AND SIX DIMENSIONS

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.

It is one reaching high points at fairly regular stages of our history, as first one philosopher and then another, proposes some folly such as is shown in Chs. 2,3, and 10 of SMR. Many follow. It is modish to follow. Tomorrow, few follow, and there is a new modishness.

That occurs on one side of the actualities, the human.

On the other, there is a vastly different attestation, and we find this.

• The word of God, in simple, plain actuality and fact, does not do this.

·  It stays so fixed that the fixed stars almost seem variable by comparison.

·  It does not yield a micro-unit in its style, its proposals, its propositions, its claims and its results.

·  Like a great tennis player in a tournament in good form, it covers every contingency, all assault, and seems not at all to be fazed by any fiasco, however impudent,

·  whether that of the goddess of reason in the French Revolution, which did not seem to bequeath too many goodies,

·  or the god of forces in those so different systems, each devoid of reality,

·  such as those of Nazism and Communism.

As we have shown in great detail, the irrational inanities of organic evolution, a third force system for what far transcends it, like those of inalienable subjectivism, a sort of intellectual schizophrenia, cannot even stand up to routine rational enquiry. (Cf. A Spiritual Potpourri, Chs. 1-9, That Magnificent Rock, Chs. 1,8, SMR Chs. 1-2 etc.; and for the 'subjectivism', SMR Ch.3 and Barbs, Arrows and Balms, Item 7, for example.)

Yet it continues, this phase readily being replaced with almost knee-jerk reactionary relish, by that, in turn destroyed, so that generations pass and are sown in the muck, by the million ... on a regrettable error like Darwinism, which is contra-factual, or Freudianism (cf. SMR Ch.4, Section I), which is rationally not possible. Meanwhile, both failing, the next generation pays what the last did not - that is, those who did not meet the sod somewhat too early in illustration of the fanciful character of the mischiefs fashionably followed.

This quite naturally is the other side of being made in the image of God, that is, with a degree of capacity to formulate, postulate, propose, propound, create imaginary pathways and bypass God in mind, though not in destiny. It is necessarily so if we are to have something of that power, for nothing "determines" God. We cannot be like Him in this, that we are not increate, but on the contrary, creatures, products; but we can in the realm of designated inter-change, of spiritual arousing and dousing, arrival and departure, make furrows which when it rains, become a quagmire, into which the race habitually descends. Nor is it merely ideational; that is one facet. It is also behavioural, cultural, political and so forth, as different specialised consequences accrue, and then in turn, make their contributions to the disastrous mêlée.

This then merely illustrates the ACCURACY of that particular Biblical dictum concerning our meaning, position and, for that matter and as a result, our plight as mankind. This is for example found in Ephesians 4:18-19, 2:1-10, John 1, Jeremiah 17:9, with the corresponding advice of Jeremiah 9:23-24 - cf. The Biblical Workman Ch. 4, on the one side; and in history on the other. The third feature is that it is also reaching crescendo proportions of a specified dimension, in history, within the historical framework portrayed for this occurrence (namely now, in this generation - cf. SMR Ch.8).

The next phase of this 5th., this inter-personal dimension, after the inter-relation of the book from the mind of one to the mind of the other, from the life of one to the fallen life of the other, is this. BECAUSE that which has been enabled in the grandest invention of freedom (cf. A Spiritual Potpourri, Ch. 16, The Flashing Falls of Freedom), is the necessity of removal or remedy as shown so often earlier and elsewhere in this site (e.g. SMR Ch.1).

That is called the Gospel. That in turn was predicted thousands of years ago, and many hundreds before its basis in the excursion of God, the Son, into this world occurred (cf. The Everlasting Gospel, Item 17, Barbs, Arrows and Balms). In this, He made a platform for retrieval, in that the public defamation and physical anguish, the legal penalty of death and the social dismissal were all precisely what mankind's misuse of his equipment, all 5 grand phases of it, merited.

Catching up with this in sound style, spiritually, in justice, in judgment, in destiny, in doom, for this is no machine but an inter-personal reality (cf. That Magnificent Rock, Ch.5) , God has sounded the death of death (cf. Hosea 13:14, Hebrews 2, Acts 2, I Corinthians 15, Philippians 3:20-21) for His people, and all are called to come, while providing equally the remedy for quarantine, exclusion. This He did by actually bearing it in the physical format of a man, the scoffing and satire of the religious officials being most useful for the purpose as planned. This format was something made easier by that God who always knows the end from the beginning, through His being Himself a plurality in One, existing in persons as Speaker and Spoken, Father, Son and Spirit, Lover, Loved and Love, so that the despatch, like the problem, being foreseen, could readily be executed, resulting in the foretold execution of the Son. (Cf. Predestination and Freewill, SMR Ch.8, initial pages, and Ch.1).

Naturally, the Son being innocent, and all-powerful, although the vulnerability spoke of sin, the triumph spoke of His increate character, so that even in justice, no judgment could cling to Him, merely to His format. He died, but He rose (cf. SMR Ch.6, Biblical Blessings, Appendix IV, The Magnificence of the Messiah and . He went, but His spirit went immediately back to His Father.

This is the 6th dimension, the inter-personal donation, the remedial, and as it is personal in its process, so it is personal in its consequence. From this, an indissoluble union on a specialised basis occurs, open to one and one, not to many per se, so that a person among mankind can become a member of the kingdom of heaven, the commonwealth of grace through the purchase, the grace and the favour of Jesus Christ, the Lord.
 
 

PART III –

THE PLANES, THE FURROWS, THE BOOKS, THE RIMS,
THE EYES AND THE SPIRIT:

IN GRATITUDE TO EZEKIEL 1,
WHERE THE LORD DIVULGES MUCH IN VISION

 

It is of the most intense interest to note, after reviewing some 34 planes of operation,  29 furrows of management and the 6 books which are incorporated in the universe with its 3 major outthrusts from the creativity magnificence of God, mind, matter and spirit (cf. SMR Ch.1, and pp. 348ff.), to consider the symbolism in the vision of Ezekiel in Ch.1. We have studied this in general in Biblical Blessings, Ch.1, but here there is one specific item to focus on, relative to our current specialised topic of worlds within worlds, about worlds, interpenetrating worlds, orders and thrust of intimate correlation, towers and layers of comprehensibility and creation.
 

A major arresting feature for our current realm is that  found in Ezekiel 1:16, first, in the nation of "the appearance of their workings was as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel". THIS was the look of the wheels, one each, which stood beside the four living creatures.

Here we see that there are living creatures, a sort of complex polyglot, to use an analogy from language, a figure suggesting the inter-relationship on the one hand, and the diversification in kind, on the other, of the items of the living creation. There are thus four faces, for each of the four "living creatures", the face of  an ox, eagle, lion and man. As to their movements, there are several notable features. First, there is a "straightforward" motion (1:12), as if there is an element of programming, discipline or both; but there is far more than any mere programming, for "they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went" - 1:12.

In the "living creatures"
symbolising created life outthrust from God into its place in our world,
there is thus a spiritual, or spirited dimension,
expressive in the various contours and permissions, according to instinct, or rational thought,
or spiritual understanding or some combination, as the sovereignty of God is expressed
and... impressed.

In 1:14 we learn that there is a certain dimension of mobility, in terms of which "the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash  of lightning". There is thus a dynamic beyond mere externality, such as we now associate with messages to or through nerve tissue, going around 70 miles an hour, for example, from head to toe, one gathers. Moreover this is only one of many modes of sending messages, glandular, chemical, indeed, more distantly by thought and eye, by look of the countenance, with great diversification.

The point to which we now come is this: the WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS, as the English idiom has now for so long come to express this very thing. This indicates the complexity, the realms, worlds, inter-play of system, diverse system, analogous system, parallel system (as in the sympathetic nervous system and the central nervous system), organs and sub-organs, as the brain and the cranial lobes and so on. It is not a quewtion of spelling out all this, else where would symbol be. It IS a point of indicating the immense and awesome (1:18) character of the modalities available, the equipment which God has made, that it is far from simple, exceedingly complex, of staggering wonder and deft control.

More however than this symbolic index appears. We find that not merely are there wheels within wheels, so to render it, but that "as for their rims, they were so high they were awesome, and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them." We here recall that there were four living creatures with one of these awesome wheels, with its internal complexities nad external measures of constraint, to each.

The eye of course would symbolise the conscious conceptualisation, the accessibility to and capacity for review, realisation, understanding, perception, conception and interplay of life with whatever constructions were deemed suitable for its existence, mobilisation and endurance, its dimensional relationships, whether with God (here pictured enthroned above it, in glory), or the environment, the physical world, or the biological world (such as DNA), the instinctive world or the world of cognition, comprehension or fellowship. The eyes are EVERYWHERE in the seat of action, the RIMS, where the concept of power to move is lodged. These are FULL of eyes.

One says that the concept of motion is lodged there, for there are limitations, in this, that the wheels "did not turn aside as they went".

This programmatic fact of wheels exists together with the spiritual fact that "wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went... for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels." There is thus a subordination of means to ends, of programs to purposes and in the end, as the ascent in the whole living civilisation occurs, there is a spiritual eminence, under the throne of God. In the end, past all the movements towards higher cognition in the divine deposition  of kinds in the day of creation, as one roves over them with the eye, there is man's gift of rational consciousness, spiritual interpretation, and capacity to exist knowingly in the very presence of the Almighty, though His glory is unreachable by any mere intrusion. Such is the figure.

These treble emphases:

1) on the wheels within wheels,

2) on the eyes widespread and abundant, so that they were "full of eyes" and

3) the subjection in the final analysis of these things to the dimension of spirit, under God, are a format of expression which may help some to realise what has been said in non-symbolic terms elsewhere. There are worlds of motion and thought, of cognition and comprehension, of comprehensibility and correlation, of program and liberty which inter-play like a massive, a spectacular, an extraordinary Jubilee Year fountain display with fireworks, vast in scale and scope, heavily and incredibly organised, with feet not turning aside programmatically as they go, and a capacity for wonder under the majesty of the Creator whose purposes are fulfilled, whose appearance upward was "as it were the colour of amber with the appearnace of fire all around within it" and downwards "as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around",  there being around Him "the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day" (cf. Genesis 9:13-16), just as over the heads of the living creatures, there was "awesome crystal".
 

Thus the inviolability of the Creator is expressed, the majesty of His glory, the incandescence of His brilliance, the crystalline character of His understanding and the clarity of His comprehension. At the first, indeed, the symbol is this: "a whirlwind coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire".
 

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EXTENSION 2

The State of the Mind

An Extension that is also an
Excursion into something better than Space

This is an edifying arena in which to observe the antics of the day, and seeing them, to depart from them.

You are not dealing with a "mysterious universe" to which to answer, but with the "declared God"! See Isaiah 45:19 -

“I have not spoken in secret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
’Seek Me in vain’;
I the Lord speak righteousness,
I declare  things that are right,”

and consider the following!

First, let us notice that as far as EXPERIMENT is concerned, the latent powers vested in the "mysterious" universe (try this language in any other area of science for size in your Ph.D.!), do not bother to do any actual thing. Like the grizzled, superstitious ideas of misled savages of old, they are looked to with awe ill-assorted with their actual capacities. They do NOTHING to the point. We have refuted the odd concept of 'nothing' as having power. Foisted on an often drooling academia by Davies, it was no difficult task in essence, being a device of irrationalism which is ill-equipped to fight logical battles, in default mode showing systematically the incapacity of his hypothesis on 'arising' to be any better than all the other no-no's of old, which sat, but not for long, on the inadequate note-books of science students. Red marks would quickly come from the Lecturer's pen on any such evasion, however much confusion may have been the cause. (See Models and Marvels, in That Magnificent Rock, Ch.7; and Item 29 in Barbs, Arrows and Balms.)

The illustrious concepts of time moving backwards and forwards in some scientist's idealised, ideational nostrum of a universe, in which such things may chance to happen, while it does credit perhaps to his powers of abstraction, is not for any real world. As to such things, it is better to see them where they are most nearly to be found, in the surveying scintillations of the divine mind, not in the creations which He has made (see SMR Ch.8, where this is expressed in detail). In the real world, conceptions do not so nimbly flow from the mind of man to the world of events. The world does not worry or flurry to conform! Words of man do not so readily flow into deeds, at the flick of a thought. A rooster being clumsily 'murdered' presents an illustration. Right, let's turn time 'backward' and what then? Then a neuro-surgeon of distinction might find his work rather impossible, given the suitable specialised equipment.

Time by itself is no such neuro-surgeon. It is time we dealt with the facts, as of yore, and ceased the musings of philosophy as the raw-material for science, re-joining in vain the ancient Greeks in their sadly comic litanies of all 'arising' from air, fire, water or some belaboured component (surreptitiously fitted with the womb of the morning), that neither spoke nor acted nor experimentally conformed to these, their fantasies. The flitting of fancy ran headlong from the work of facts. ANYTHING was said and nothing was done.

It is true this is precisely what organic evolution has been doing for long; it is true that familiarity can breed contempt, and this way of ASSUMING what is NOT seen, and making it the GROUND for inventing theories, the reverse of scientific method, and the stuff of dreams has long enough been deployed as these mental magicians show utter contempt, it would seem, for the realm of facts.

For those interested in the same, however, the case is ABSURDLY simple, a real, potent and cogent testimony to the clever pathologies of man without God. The creation perspective is simple, it is factual.

Whatever has happened to bring about what is, it is not showing itself at all now in so doing. Such labours are evidentially a thing of the past. In the usual way, what-is shows that what-was is not the same in the operations of this world. Standing orders have altered. As to institution, the end has come. The beginning lay elsewhere. Present process shows no evidence of past performance by which present process came into being. It is processive per se; not creative per se. The degree and manner of coming-to-be which brings in things such as mind, matter and spirit, is not around any more. That is the observational fact on which, in the end, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is built.

Things, in observation, do NOT grab creative prowess and start creating away like inventors. They do not do it fast, they do not do it slowly. Moreover, they do not show the capacities in any form, system, contrivance, power, dynamism or equipment. The more we find, the more we find that what we find is what is, not what makes. The more we analyse what we find, the more we find on analysis that it is coded, ordered, contrived, causatively compelled with current powers that do not even relate to its invention. We are seeing a construction; but we are not seein