49. About you: Chapter - The sacred man (23)

In describing the representatives of dualities, that is, the intersection of horizontal time and vertical space, we can refer to the following:

1. The human being is body (corpus), soul (anima, psyche), and spirit (spiritus, pneuma): Our life cannot only be described by the rules of biology (e.g., growth, reproduction), physics (e.g., motion, volume changes), chemistry (e.g., chemical reactions), or mathematics (equations, simulation models, statistical calculations), but also by the qualitative relationships that transcend these, which are connected to dual pairs such as being and life, body and soul, matter and spirit, space and time, and exist within the relationship between humanity and the One and Only. The participant pairs are always in interaction, interdependent, and are not opposites, as many believe, or worse, teach. One could even say that "our world" and we, within it, are the sum of material and spiritual relations, a quantum field network of both quantity and quality.

2. The human soul is dual: In the space called Paradise (in a unified state), man was one with the One, and the One was in man. Upon entering time (the biblical expulsion), when man was put to the test, unity was broken, and duality emerged. The one became many, quality became quantity, space became time, and being became life. We were given the task to reverse this transformation, that is, to make one from the many, quality from quantity, space from time, and being from life, thus closing the cycle. The inherited soul, belonging to the unity of being, is the universal self or spirit, while the soul that entered time is the individual self. The connection with the One is given by the universal self, the irrational soul that transcends mind. This connection, bond, and depth is the most difficult to understand, mysterious, and its interpretation has occupied theologians, philosophers, artists, and laypeople for centuries. It was the modern, liberal age that stripped the soul of its meaning and attributed it to mind. Even today, psychology, which once belonged to philosophy, is now merely referred to as the science of behaviour.

3. The human being as a representative of universality, part of the order, the image and likeness of the One: The universality of man is given by the intersection or cross of horizontal life (time) and vertical being (space), or more precisely, by the recognition that man's universal self (centre) is shared with the centre of the intersections. Since the centre or axis is not only found in the microcosm of man but also in the planets of the macrocosm, it could be said that our world exists and "works" by the centres, which represents universality. An example of the necessity of the centre can also be found in genetics, where during cell division, chromosomes at the poles descend to the division site with the help of the centromere (centre). If there were two centres in the universality, it would no longer be a true centre but rather a periphery. The "operation" of the centre, the maintenance of balance, is provided by stillness, while the periphery, movement, provides imbalance. When we lose our balance, the hierarchical order, we move to the periphery, that is, we become disorderly.

 4. The sacred man: The One entrusted the world to us to watch over it and to make it our home within the One's "world," so that the One's world to be within us. Our "inner world" is manifested in our universal self, while our "outer world" manifests itself in the "life-sustaining" gifts we have borrowed, such as the sacred elements: earth, water, fire, air, nature, space, time, love, and the other person. It is a gracious gift if we recognize all of this. The four ancient sacredness—fire, water, air, and earth—were considered the primary substances in the Middle Ages, from which we are made. Perhaps the least understood of the sacredness are space and time, love, and the other person. Space is the realm where we live now, and later the state where we will exist, which is open to our material and spiritual creative activity. Created time is the opportunity for awakening, for events to happen, and for experiences to be had—because the soul’s return to the One requires awakening and initiation, and this requires time. Therefore, life can even be considered as a time-traveling journey spent in waiting.