Dan, have you ever read Rene Guenon?
I think if not, you would really enjoy and be challenged by his work.
He fills in the BPW and rationalizes a lifetime of comparative observations from most exoteric and esoteric systems.
He knows his history secret, occult and formal. I am finding him a great guide through symbols and sacred science.
Sacred science, that’s an interesting question thing area of study for myself recently. Being a syncretic mystic type, it would make sense I would find him sooner or later. I think he adds some to the discussion of UTs throughout our history using myth and symbol. He puts true Christianity in perspective, compared to the empty formalized one.
You kind of led me to him looking for the edge of metaphysics.
I’m closing the loop sort of speak.
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I’m seeing beyond Leibnitz and the BPW Dan. No one here cares as much about the battle between metaphysics, physics and philosophy more than you probably.
I come to metaphysics late, mid-life, but I get it intuitively and more and more rationally.
Guenon sees Leibnitz the least limited of systematic philosophers, but sees him still off the mark using ‘possibles’ and ‘compossibles’. They seek to limit universal unmanifest Possibility. This has been the conflict and source of your and my arguments at times.
This world is an ensemble of manifested compossibles, but not the sum total of all that is possible. Just what is possible using these cosmic variables. Every possibility has its proper existence according to its non-manifest nature.
Dan, what we have here before us is an impossible ‘round square’. The two possibles are realizable at the same time.
I only briefly wade into Guenon’s case extending the BPW. Is there only one world as Leibnitz posits? This is either a pure tautology or it is devoid of sense. The existence of a circle does not negate the existence of a square. Many worlds could exist side by side. Possibles in one world exist outside the limits of another. So no possibility can be excluded from universal Possibility because it does not conform to the limits of this world where we consider other possibilities.
To manifest is to limit. Each possible world conforms to its own nature. Leibnitz’s struggle for the best possible world is not metaphysical. This is Guenon’s point.
Any attempt to transpose what is merely a biological hypothesis onto all that is manifest or not is unintelligible. In metaphysics, every possible is real according to its own nature.
The impossible alone is nothing. Dan is not denying possibilities of non-manifestation I think, if he is, I think he is wrong
They just aren’t our concern maybe. Real and possible are not exclusive of each other, which is the mistake of philosophy Guenon believes. Space is only one possibile mode of the possible.
This provides the foundation for multiple states of being possible. I don’t think Dan would disagree. Possibilities of manifiestation and non-manifestation are equally contained within total Possibility. So being is not infinite. Outside of being are all the possibilities of non-manifestation, which is non-being, but this is not nothingness, as some philosophies imply incorrectly. So non-being must contain being. Universal Possibility contains the totality of possibilities. Being and Non-being are its two aspects.
Manifestation is always conditioned and transitory. Non-manifestation is permanent and unconditioned. Nothing manifest can ever be lost. To become non-manifest is a passage beyond form. Death is just a change of mode. Possibilities of non-being are mutually exclusive to being. So neither is superior. We consider these things from the point of view of manifestations. The void is not non-being, but only one of its states.
Non-being is our primary state. Silence carries within itself speech as non-being contains being. Unity is just metaphysical Zero, Non-being. So speech is just silence actively expressing itself. We introduce no distinction on the state of non-being, we can’t.
We are luminous manifestation here now within non-manifestation. Black is not negative, only to us on the white side must it be spoken of in negative terms. Guenon is formidable, no? I love it.
Head hurt yet
I think this fun to mix it up considering these things. I think there is much more work we can do on the BPW. The BPWH is like the Stoic saying, obviously something is happening here...it’s just not your concern really because this is your experience here manifested real.
So where do the portals come into this? Maybe an airlock between the manifest and unmanfest or just another mode of manifestation other than space-time?
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What freedom is possible then?
“Absolute freedom can be realized only through complete universalization. Only a being liberated from the conditions of manifested existence, whether individual or even Supra-individual, has become absolutely ‘one’, or without duality if it’s realization surpasses Being. Only then can a being be a law unto itself, because this being is entirely identical with its sufficient reason, which is both its organizing principle and its final destiny.”
-- R. Guenon - The Multiple States of Being
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