64. The centre

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Creation is cyclical, constantly repeating itself, just like the visible changes of the seasons or the invisible changes in the micro-world. The cycle, the circularity, the movement was initiated by the One, and the "structure" which we can call order, truth, freedom, beauty, etc., has been functioning ever since. Life, cyclicality, and movement are characterized by change, while being is marked by stillness and permanence. Just as the essence of life is being, the essence of movement is stillness. Life and being, movement and stillness are part of duality. What is certain, constant, or what we call reality, is duality—the universal space and time, stillness and movement, the relationship between the microcosm and macrocosm. We are part of this relational order or universality every day. 

Reality is what exists: the universality, the One, the network of relationships, the above and the below together. What connects us to universality is the complementary ability of the pairs of duality to relate to one another, which is given by the alignment of the "centres" of the "creative parts." What is common is the centre. We are this relational centre, a concentration, an emanation of manifested universality—being and life in one. Only through our universality can we unite the centre of the microcosm within us with the centre of the macrocosm, connecting movement and stillness, space and time. This is universality, connection, the relationship between horizontal and vertical networks, the very world itself—so the world is within us. 

Based on the complementarity of dual pairs and their common centre, it can be stated that, for example, the centre of space is time, and the centre of time is space; the centre of being is life, and the centre of life is being. Since the complementary pairs share a common centre, they can transform into each other. Science expresses this transformation in the case of space as the curvature of space. Therefore, if space is curved, time must also be curved, or else the transformation does not happen. When we, as awakened beings, seek our universality in the world mapped by our consciousness, we are looking for this intersection, this transformation point, this connection, this centre, and as initiated beings, we are capable of finding it. This centre, this connection, is the universal self, the One, reality itself. Outside of this, there is no other reality. 

As uninitiated what we perceive as reality in fact is an illusion, a dream world, that which is tangible and visible. Thus, the One and Only enters the world through our universality. The realisation is through the One, with the One, and in the One. The message "Go and rule the world" is directed to our universal self because only it can rule both itself and the world. Our universal self is the bearer of the encoded message within us, but also its executor. What connects our universal self with the One is the centre that connects circular and vertical movement with stillness. If we see the world around us and within us as linear rather than circular, we exclude ourselves from the recognition of duality, from the centre of ourselves and our universality.

Regarding the duality pairs, it can also be stated that the stillness, space, and centre always generate the periphery—movement, time—or, as physics describes it, the centripetal force generates the centrifugal force. The periphery (time, life, movement) can cease, but the centre, stillness, and space cannot. The constant, the immovable, always exists. What ceases is movement, life, the periphery, which is always capable of restarting if it has a mover. The "force" that drives this is the wave-like pulsation generated by the transformation, such as the beating of the heart. The formation of order through duality thus does not stop because order is continuously forming. If we project this order onto the world around us, we can say that even if the current outer world were to end, another world would begin, because the constant generates the variable. The inner world of the human being ends only when the person voluntarily renounces it. 

In the non-pagan Christian concept, the eternal centre of stillness, the universality, is called Paradise, where the One and the created spiritual human pair (already representing duality in itself) were together. In the One, there was duality; in stillness, there was movement; in space, there was time, and within it, the man. When the first man duality sought to become divine, wishing to be like the One, it forgot that it was already divine, because it was in stillness, in eternity. Ignorance of its eternity, stillness, space, and universality led the man to abandon its safety, its being, and to choose time, movement, trial, and life. It took a risk, which can be called temptation in religious terms. 

Even today, we continuously risk, as if we seek to escape from our being. The voluntary renunciation of perfection, the failure to recognize our universality (e.g. hiding behind the fig leaf) has always led and will always lead us into a state of constant proof or insecurity. Interestingly, when we find ourselves in uncertainty, we immediately long to return to eternity, to safety. This also implies that we are the potential for connections, which provides the opportunity for experiencing duality: in ignorance, we move away from the One, but in awareness, we yearn to return. We are either under the influence of the centrifugal (pushing away) force of movement or the centripetal (pulling in) force of stillness. The normal and true human tends to choose the latter one.