83. Lightness

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One must be somehow a wise thinker to imagine the hierarchical (sacred primal principle-based) organization of the world, where the foundation of lower forms of existence is the higher ones, and where the whole is not just the sum or total of its parts, but rather the parts exist within the whole. Just as heat is within cold, the negative is within the positive, the female within the male, the male within the female, the light within the darkness, and the darkness within the light, and the list can be continued. This is the binary, dual or dualistic existence of our world, which is both material and spiritual. Our world is one of pairs: up and down (in the beginning there was the earth and the sky), cold and hot, object and subject, affirmation and negation. These two together form one unity. If we can formulate our doubts, if we recognize the duality and the relationships between the elements, we reach the unity. We, like all other natural beings, and nature itself, are representatives and embodiments of this duality’s unity. 

What we call revelation, incarnation, or manifestation is the expression of this dual unity, of the interconnecting networks between them, manifested in a form so that our sensory organs, which are constrained within certain limits, can see, hear, or touch it. This is the tangible part of duality, while it is the other half which can be grasped by our intellect. The unity of duality manifests everywhere and always, revealing itself, emanating, being in circularity, moving in waves, both in vertical and horizontal planes. 

The visible and perceivable dual movement always exists in time, in history, and in the pair of time, in light. Although the oscillation and circularity exist in time, no change occurs because it can perpetually recreate itself and self-correct. This single unity constitutes the whole, the "above" (space) and its counterpart, the "below" (time), which in biblical language are heaven and earth. This duality, this unity, is the unified order. Order is the arrangement of the relationships, the network of the components. Those who do not recognize this order will experience the disorder of one or the other element of duality, the material or the spirit. 

Those who speak of progress and development are referring to this disorder, to the disorganization, the particular and the opposing elements. In reality, there is no material or spiritual development. Matter only transforms, changing its content, external and/or internal properties, and therefore sometimes manifests as visible matter and other times as invisible energy, undergoing transformation. The spirit does not change, otherwise cease to be spirit, it would no longer be universal but reduced to the particular. Similarly, we cannot speak of regression. 

In order, therefore, there is no development, nor is development necessary, because there would be no order but disorder, or what is called a system, which is nothing more than the disorganization of relational networks. The system is always created by humans, while order is given freely from above. The system breaks down, produces waste, and can only function under external influence. Order functions on its own, because the components are always in their rightful place within the network, and when needed, by virtue of their self-determination, self-organisation they can correct themselves. Those who speak of theories of development or evolving systems are on a dead-end path, from which there is only one way out: turn back to where they started and begin again in a different path. Revelation, emanation always happens in pairs. The pair itself is the revelation, as there is no "meaning" to the manifestation, to the emanation in isolation, because then the integrity of the wave-like motion, the circular flow that constitutes order, would be disrupted, as we say, the balance would be upset or the scale tipped. 

The revelation of order, of duality, can be found partially in Eastern sacred texts, such as the Vedas, in those who support the acquisition of knowledge through intellect, such as Clement of Alexandria, in Europe among the Stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and in the Neo-Platonists (such as Plotinus). For instance, the Vedas believe that the attainment of unity occurs in three stages: the recognition of the soul’s duality (universal self and individual self), the deconstruction of perception and rational thought (the suppression of the individual self), and the experience of the ecstasy, catharsis, and universality of order (the emergence of the universal self). According to the Stoics, creation began with the appearance of light/fire.