A is for Attachment:

Attachment to the body exhausts the soul and leaves it dependent on physical form. The soul’s dimensions become rolled up in the quantum events of the body so that the soul is flat and ghost like. Exhausted souls are easily trapped by new bodies and taken over by them as a source of true life conferring subjectivity. The body sucks the subjectivity out of the soul in order to empower the alternative quantum world it exists in and change it from dream and possibility to actual events. The body sucks the soul’s subjectivity out of Zamaini-Dreamtime-Purusha into the Sasa-Maya world of temporary manifestations.

The souls that become trapped in physical bodies are weak souls that are unable to fight their impulse to attach to physical pleasures. The souls that attach to human brains are souls addicted to the pleasures of human flesh. These weak souls have no creative power in themselves and wait for some human or animal brain to create the electrical excitement that can awaken them from their endless Dreamtime sleep.

Attachment to the body weakens the soul’s ability to gain access to its store of information from previous lives. All the soul’s powers are drawn into the body and it’s experience of the body’s feelings. Emotions bind the soul to other souls that share the experiences and the astrological systems that create these emotions. They pull the soul away from its own unique roots and weave the threads of the soul’s history into the cloth of the world.

B is for Body:

As Buddhism teaches us, this false self, generated by the body, is a phantom with no depth or permanence. It draws us into pleasure. It generates desires. It generates emotions that lash us to the wheel of birth and death and rebirth.

The true self is the Buddha principle that blows out the desires generated by the flesh and cuts through the fundamental basis of existence into the pure freedom of creative inexistence, creative nothingness. This true self is the endless Budhisattva principle that generates the detached essence of eternity. This true self is pure detachment, pure reversion of the self, separation from the body and its external form.

It is the pure rejection of the world; it is pure detachment from all relationships. It is the pure creative isolation from all form, all action, all desire, all pleasures and emotions of body and flesh.

Joined to transcendent possibility, it is the joy, the love, the creative non-being that liberates all things. It is the Nirvana that unites all existence in the creative void.

It is this transcendence that regenerates the body, that remakes it as the vehicle of this creativity rather than the obstacle to this creativity. Once the soul is detached from the body, the body returns to the soul as the agent of the Dharma, of the eternal order of endless Buddhamind.It is the attachment of the soul to the body that weakens.

C is Cause:

The soul has power in its pure creativity, as pure cause, as pure Nirvana. Only when the soul returns to the pure subjectivity and pure detachment of this desireless state does it regain its creative power. As long as the soul is attached to objects and desires, its power is undone, its creativity is deflated, its freedom is bound. The world of effects is the world of fear and anger, of failed hopes and expectations. In the world of pure causes, there is no fear, no anger, no failure. This pure Nirvana is endless love, joy, peace, salvation, freedom, creative novelty.

The true self regains its power as primary cause when it detaches from greed, pride, lust, and the attempt to advance the self generated by the body. Only when the creative spirit substitutes humility, joy, trust, love, virtue, peace, and harmony does the eternal Buddha self emerge. This self is the primal cause of all things as the infinite enters into its pure nothingness to discover the creative freedom that remakes the heavens, the gods, and the cosmic order. Through this infinitesimal Buddha self, the old order is endlessly blown out into the Nirvana of perfect peace and joy.

The soul’s power as cause lies utterly outside the existing world system. It is the spiritual essence symbolized by Christ and Buddha that generate the Nirvana, the New Heavens and the New Earth that lie utterly beyond.

D is for Detached:

God, Buddha, Christ, the immortal soul, Nirvana, the ultimate cause do not exist in the world. The world of our experience is the product of mechanisms of evolution in the thermodynamics of various levels of emerging systems in quantum relativity ordered space-time. Subjective reality utterly transcends this visible space-time. Its source lies utterly beyond, in the depths of the breaks, in the depths of the nothingness that the soul generates in the fabric of being.

The core of our subjectivity is this pure Nirvana, this pure Buddha Christ spirit, this Krishna as world destroying time that remakes and reforms all things.

To find our true self, we must detach from the world and enter into this pure nothingness, as described by Thomas Merton in Seeds of Contemplation and in his writings on the spirit of meditative Buddhism. When we access this hidden self, we discover that it is the Oversoul described by Emerson, the creative Spirit described by Thomas Troward and Ernest Holmes (Science of Mind). It is the Kingdom of Heaven described in Matthew and the creative freedom described in the Dhammapada.

It is endlessly individualized in us only as we endlessly give this independence back to the infinite from which it came. When we seek to keep it. When we fail to detach from it, it will fail. Then we will fade to a ghost. We will become the meaningless subjectivity of the materialists.

F is for Fade:

This is why there is no proof of immortality. This is why we cannot find our soul. This is why we have lost contact with our previous existence. Our soul is dead. God is dead. Immortality has faded away. Because our attachment to this world has caused the transcendent to fade, killing our soul, heaven, God, all the spiritual powers. Our subjective freedom is a ghost trapped in the collapse of our true being. We wander soulless in a self-created hell.

The body is our ruler. The brain is our jailer. We are brought to life when it chooses to revive us. We are told by it what to think and feel. It throws us scraps of pleasures and brings our memories to life at its pleasure like old movies played to entertain some tyrant king.

It loves to torture us with our powerlessness. It mocks our slavery to its physiological states of being. It throws depression and elation at us as it pleases. It generates anger and passion that we cannot control. We are a ghost it has called up from the depths of hell to animate its machinery, to witness its processes as the prisoner of its mindless whims. Yet hidden in this dance are the infinitesimal remains of the spiritual kingdom, the invisible remains of its power. Strangely, it is when we let go of our poor world bitten egos, when we cease raging against the world for the failure of our hopes, we can hear the hushed voice of its harmony. We catch a glimpse of its light flickering through a hidden window deep within. We are reminded of that eternal freedom still shining in the depths of our heart.

G is for Genesis:

When connected to the infinite, that window is the genesis of all things. There are no limits to its possibilities for it emerges out of the boundless and operates in the pure subjective unbound, prior to all limits, prior to all objects, prior to all worlds of known and measurable things.

The world limits it, the body limits it, the flesh limits it, only when we give the world and the body the power to limit it. The world kills its, the world enslaves it, only when we give the world that power. It dies only when we allow the flesh to destroy it. It fades only when we allow the body to wear it away.

When we keep it free from the world, when we keep it innocent and unstained by the mistakes and problems of the world, it soars into the endless and lifts us up into the immortal and the good. Joy, love, beauty, virtue, abundance, satisfaction, justice, eternity overcome the limitations of the world and proclaim the coming of the infinite kingdom. Our faith is the genesis of that new world. We must believe in altruism and kindness, in beauty and truth.

In this sense Islam in its notion of total submission to the transcendent, Buddhism in its notion of the total otherworldly nature of the transcendent, Christianity in its conception of the total triumph of the transcendent, capture a core spiritual truth of spiritual genesis, in spite of their use of this truth to support the world’s power structure.

H is for Humanism:

Humanism is the mother of the sciences that have remade our understanding of the world. Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity remind us of the need to seek refuge from the world. Neoconfucianism and Neotaoism describe the larger system to which the world and the transcendent belong. Hinduism describes effect of that system on the soul. New Thought describes the means by which the soul can transcend this effect and any caste or karma thrown upon it by the world.

Buddhism outlines the negative and Christianity the positive aspects of the morals of the transcendent. Neotaoism outlines the negative and New Thought the positive aspects of the metaphysics of the transcendent.Humanism reminds us of the rational limits of the material world and the human species as an animal emergence within that world.

Somehow we must keep our feet planted in that material reality without allowing it to bind our souls. This world is the product of the scientific system described by the sciences generated by the Humanistic tradition. These sciences are the only reliable source of information about the natural world. There is nothing faulty about the Humanist tradition that has generated modern science, the democratic-liberal tradition, and liberal morality. The problem lies with the skepticism that Humanism has used to fight the superstition and dogmatism of the Church. Too often that skepticism becomes a dogmatic denial of all.

I is for Interpretation:

Each soul develops its own unique interpretation of metaphysics. Each soul is a unique timeline developing its own unique progression. All public metaphysics is invalid because each soul is the source of its own unique cosmic evolution. There is a unique true metaphysics for the eternal time dimension created by each monad of existence. Each monad of existence is an infinitesimal rip in the ultimate metaphysics through which the boundless pours to radically reinterpret all things.

Each soul is the Buddha, the Krishna, the Christ of its own unique interpretation of Nirvana, Brahman, Heaven, God the Father, the Holy Virgin Mother. That unique interpretation is bound to other interpretations to form the cosmologic systems that generate astrology. The soul is bound to other souls by its level of virtue, by its level of faith and feeling. The order of virtue, of faith, of feeling that the soul’s subjectivity attaches to determines the astrology of its birth, death, and rebirth, determines the system and level of its reincarnation.

Yet any negative thinking, and limited belief system that attaches a soul to other souls, traps it in a hell. It becomes a fallen angel because it fails to fulfill its Buddha role, its role as a unique savior, a unique source of freedom, a unique creative reinvention of the world.

The soul’s involvement in the existing order is caught up in the astrology of its birth, death, and rebirth.

J is for Jiva:

There is no evidence for the existence of the Jiva in the world. The Jiva, the soul, cannot befound in the tamas guna that makes up the world or the rajas guna that makes up the karma that generates the world. The soul belongs to the sattva guna, to pure subjectivity. In terms of the system described by the German zoologist Bernard Rensch in this presentation at the Darwinian Centennial at the University of Chicago in 1959, the soul does not belong to the laws of correspondence (tamas) or the laws of coherence (rajas). The soul belongs to the laws of parallelism (phenomenological, existential inexistence).

The soul is the pure novelty generated when the existing cosmology is punctured. The soul is an infinitesimal hole in that cosmology through which the boundless moves to generate a unique thread of endless time. The soul is the novel differentiation of the possible, the extension of the boundless through that dimension of the infinite. The soul is the pure subjective possibility that creates the objective actuality of the world.

The memory of the past is hidden in the cosmology that generates astrological fate. Our current astrological progression is the projection of the memory of our previous existence in the larger system of our universe and the collective unconscious supersystem that governs it.

Our true immortality exists in the subjective boundless.

K is for Karma:

The karma, the actions of our previous existence trap us in the world of death. Within this world our previous existence has reality only as the karma that controls the nature of our current existence. Our previous life is dead except as the karma that generates our current astrological fate. True immortality exists only in the novelty where the soul breaks free from the confines of this world and generates novel possibility in the realm of the subjective boundless.

The Buddhists call this novel possibility “Nirvana” and the state of breaking free that generates it enlightenment or “Buddhamind.” The Christians, Jews, and Moslems call it Heaven and the state of mind that generates it Christ, or Salvation, of Grace, or the Holy Virgin, or the Prophet, or the Word, or the Angel of God.

The New Thought movement calls this subjective possibility the Spirit. The existing cosmology that the Spirit endlessly fertilizes is the Law, the Dharma, the Collective Unconscious. Included within the Collective Unconscious is the existing Karma of previous lives and states of mind. New Thought calls this collective product “race thought,” because it is the collected negative thinking of a community, or species of being, that enslaves it to a lower level of evolutionary achievement. The Spirit (sattva guna) fertilizes the Law of Attraction with its thoughts and actions and causes it to react (rajas guna) to generate the manifest world (the Body, or tamas guna).

L is for Lives:

Our previous lives are bound within the cosmology of the world and the astrological systems that generate the world. That immortality is a living death. The memory of our previous existence is a faded ghost that is absorbed in our attachment to our new existence.

The wheel of birth and death assimilates our previous lives. The world digests our souls and uses the marrow of our souls to fuel its systems of transmigration. Our unique thread of time is twisted about the threads spun from other souls till we are bound and trapped in hells and purgatories that endlessly punish us for the relentless drama of our lust and greed.

The only salvation is to seek the Buddha, the Christ mind in the heart where the soul breaks free of the world in the pure subjective dreamtime of open creativity. Here the thread of our immortality breaks free into the boundless magic of pure possibility, of Nirvana, of Heaven, of the supernatural void. This subjective kingdom is the realm of salvation, of true immortal life.

This is a state of the Spirit characterized by a mind that frees itself from its old order of thinking and puts its faith and trust in a new order of love, of joy, of a New Heavens and a New Earth. This is Nirvana. It is a state in which the old order of negative thought and lust and greed is blow out. The soul is left free to rejoin the boundless, to choose love over hate, faith over fear, harmony over discord.

M is for Maya:

This subjective kingdom cannot be found in the objective world. There is no evidence for it in any data of science, in any public information. The world has no true knowledge of it. The world’s vision of it is garbled by ideology and dogma, and stained by intolerance and prejudice.

This is why the Buddhist rejects the Hindu attempt to use it to justify the existence of priesthoods and castes that exist to serve the gods. The Buddhist deny the ultimate validity of this and point to something higher than any of the gods that is a blowing out of all the emotions that attach one to this world (Nirvana). This other reality is described as gone, gone, gone. For Christianity, it is the ever coming Kingdom, the God ( per the Lutheran theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg) that only exists in the ultimate future.

The problem is a difficult one. We must avoid getting trapped in Maya, in the illusion that this objective world is the cause rather than the effect of our subjective state. But, we must also avoid the dogmatic thought systems that the world uses to justify exploitation and traditional systems of power. For us, caste systems, dogmas, intolerance, prejudice, the notion that one holy book is better than another, must also be part of this Maya. It is an idolatry in which we are deluded into the belief that any system within the finite can capture the essence of the infinite.

There is no place to pray except the secret chamber, there is no way to Heaven except though the depths of the heart.

O is for Out:

The way out is though subjective freedom, though Nirvana, though the blowing out of the world, through the ever coming kingdom of the ultimate future, the kingdom of the endless Christmas of the heart. The way out is through our own Narnia (children’s literature of C.S. Lewis) and our own Aslan.

New Thought describes this as a path of affirmation, a path toward the Absolute, toward Cosmic Consciousness, toward the Creative Spirit, toward the All Good. It is a path of the First Cause, of the Word of God, of the Christ Within. It is a state of union with the Creative Mind of the Universe, Infinite Mind, Divine Mind, with Spiritual Causation, it is Mystic Consciousness, it is spiritual Light and Life.

Affirmations of the following kind lay the foundations of a faith that supports that power within: “I let go of everything and enter into an awareness of joy and love, of good and truth and beauty. God is all there is. The highest power is the only power in my life. The Ultimate Spirit is my Spirit and it enters into me in a unique way. It awakens my creative power and my immortal life is reborn in the kingdom of divine perfection and divine power. My immortal life is a new dimension adding endlessly to all existence with my unique gifts of love and joy, my unique interpretation of the divine creativity. Today I am an agent, an angel, an avatar of God touching everything with God’s truth, beauty, love, and justice.”

P is for Power:

This subjective creativity is the power that renews the soul. It allows the soul to remain attached to the body because it replaces the energy the body draws from the soul with the unending supply of energy out of the boundless. This is the miracle; this is the magic that remakes Heaven and Earth.

It turns greed into generosity, it turns lust into altruism, it turns pride into productivity. It resurrects the old world in the new. It is the endless Easter of the world. It is the endless grace that saves all things.

It is the power of affirmation that is extolled in New Thought. It is the liberation of Yoga, the Nirvana of the Buddhist enlightenment. It is the soul’s realization of its connection with Infinite Mind and the power of that connection to make all things new, to make all things possible. It is the ever coming Kingdom of God.

This power can only be described with the language of the old systems. Therefore, the wise have called it indescribable. New Thought in the West and Zen in the East have attempted to describe the process whereby its hidden presence can be used announce the entrance of Divine Mind into the world at a new and higher level of emergence.

The ancients called this kingdom of the ever coming boundless “Dreamtime” or “Zamani”. The Buddhists called it “Nirvana.” The Polynesians called it “Mana.”

Q is for Quartet:

This subjectivity, boundless supply, is the result of the ultimate endlessly exceeding itself according to the understanding of logic inspired by Godel. The highest levels of organization are broken open by the infinitesimal pinhole of the soul. The soul draws the cosmic order out into a new freedom that endlessly weaves a new dimension to cosmic hyperspace. Out of the weave together of the soul’s new dimension of the endless with other threads comes the emergence of the space-time of particular universes.

Always this subjective becoming is open to alternative possibilities as it weaves its colors through the landscape of alternative quantum reality. This hidden subjectivity weaves a quartet of secondary realities: quantum indeterminacy, space-time relativity, hierarchies of systems organization, the natural world as the effect of the prior three. Thus: Openness, Synthesis, Model, and Nature.

This quartet is the reflection of a prior quartet that generates it. That quartet begins with subjectivity as the creative Spirit. The creative Spirit sets in motion the universal order, Dharma or Law, the Collective Unconscious. Out of the operation of its mechanisms comes the thermodynamics of the world. The visible world generates evolution that awakens the subjectivity of its creatures in the form of conscious mind. This mind awakens the hidden subjectivity within to spin a new thread out of the boundless. Thus: Spirit, Law, Body, and Mind.

R is for Realization:

Humans are generally stuck in the lower quartet. They are caught up in the systems that maintain the various levels of organization that are evolving in the natural world. The human brain is composed of quantum events organized into protons and electrons of atoms that are bound together into molecules. These molecules are organized into the cells of the human organism.

The human organism is structured by the language and culture that it absorbs as it develops. Civilized cultures are structured by written and printed language. Modern civilization is structured in turn at a cybernetic and a computer program level of information storage. These levels of organization are aspects of a natural world that is structured at a microscopic level by quantum indeterminacy and at a cosmic level by space-time relativity.

New Thought asks us to recognize that the objective world described by the quartet of systems models, quantum indeterminacy, cosmic relativity, and natural form is a manifestation, a physical world generated out of a higher system, a universal mind. This universal mind has a creative aspect that is pure boundlessness, pure possibility. The subjective aspect of our individual mind enters into that subjectivity as an endless thread of creative becoming.

When we discover the subjectivity of our mind as this Nirvana, we enter into the Buddha realization. We enter in to Christ Consciousness. We discover ourselves as Spirit.

S is for Spirit:

When we discover the creative Spirit as the subjectivity that is the source of creation, we discover that we are Divine Mind in action, that we are Christ Consciousness, that we are Buddhamind. At that point we enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we become the coming of God’s Kingdom from within.

This plants the seeds of creativity in the law of attraction that resurrects our body and our world into a new order of being. We cease to live in death. We are reborn to eternal life. We turn the Karma of the Dharma wheel in the direction of the Buddha principle. We enter Nirvana and it sets us free from bondage to birth and rebirth. We are Cosmic Consciousness in which all things are made new.

Buddhism and New Thought both teach us to ignore theology and astrology because they are about the world of race thought, the old world of limited thinking. Nirvana, Creative Spirit is a blank slate, it is pure creative possibility that is able to be and do all things good.

We must detach from this old world of negative thinking that tells us what we can do, that thinks in terms of problems and limits. The Spirit puts us in touch with creative subjectivity and its boundless possibilities. In Spirit we are free to attach to whatever order of being our mind invests in. We reap as we sow; it is done unto us, as we believe. This miracle is not in the natural world but in the ground that makes the natural world possible.

T is for Tangible:

It is difficult to believe in this spiritual reality, this spiritual immortality, this spiritual creativity because it originates in the utterly transcendent, it originates in Nirvana, in Dreamtime. It does not belong to the world but to the Kingdom of the Ultimate Future. It is totally subjective. Its objective aspect is a reflection only and has no primary power, no deep causal influence or meaning.

This goes against all our training. We are taught to believe in the tangible. We believe in a tangible God that came in the flesh. We believe in a tangible Church with tangible holy words and sacraments. We believe in tangible evidence for our science and our history. It is difficult for us to believe in intangible things. Yet, the Spirit is the utterly intangible, the utterly beyond.

This intangible source is the necessary beginning of all tangible objective things. Its creation emerges from the necessary freedom out of which order and form are structured. It is the essential invisible in which the visible takes form.

Those who insist on making all things tangible would have form with out any background to generate it, effects without causes to generate them, creation without creativity to create it. They would have energy that endlessly winds down to entropy without anything to wind it up. They would have all meaning in superficial objects and deny meaning to the deeper subjectivity within.

U is for Ultimate:

Yet, our true reality is that Ultimate, that Divine Mind, that Infinite Intelligence, that Creative Spirit. The forms we see are the outer clothing of that deeper subjective meaning.

The Buddha realization is the discovery of the boundless Nirvana, is the discovery of the identity of my Spirit and Divine Mind. No longer am I punishing myself by attachment to my belief that I am just a body, just flesh. No longer must I use greed, and lust, and pride to fill my needs. Released from the punishment, from the purgatory, from the hell of desire, free from astrological fate, free from race thought, I am the creative Spirit; I am Nirvana making all things new.

Through faith in my Ultimate nature, I rediscover the Christ Mind, the Creative Spirit and it renews my body and my world. The flesh is resurrected into a New Earth. My soul is liberated into a New Heavens. My belief in the Christ within has saved me from the hell of my self-punishing greed and hate. My positive affirmations of Divine Love and Forgiveness have set me free from sin and I become the Son of God entering the Kingdom of God that has come in my heart. The Christmas of the soul has joined the Easter of the Spirit in the triumph of Infinite Mind over limited belief. The key to this new Buddha state is found in the first verse of the Dhammapada, which tells us that everything we are is the result of what we have thought. I affirm Buddha mind. I affirm Christ mind. My world and my flesh are renewed, resurrected in Nirvana-Heaven.

V is for Victory:

Existence is either victory or self-punishing desire depending on my faith. If I enter into the Dreamtime of subjectivity in a state of affirmation of the power of Dreamtime, of the Creative Spirit, of the Easter of the Christ, of the Christmas of the Holy Virgin, of the Prophecy of Islam, that affirmation will give me victory over the world.

My faith will set me free. My affirmation of the Divine Kingdom will plant seeds that will grow in the soul of the Collective Unconscious that will renew the world as the perfect fruit of the Kingdom. The Kingdom of Divine Mind will return.

It is my limited faith that punishes me. Believing my self to be flesh rather than Spirit, object of the world rather than creator of the world, I strive in the world to achieve my expectations through greedy actions. I struggle to get my share of power in the world by attempting to win that power from others. This state of mind is sin, it is mistakened. I create a hell through my continued belief in these self-limiting thoughts and my continued investment in these self-punishing actions.

My attachment to the body is a result of my self-punishing failure to accept reality. I have expectations of the world that are unrealistic, that cannot be meant. I expect the world to fulfill my needs for joy and love. I assert my special status in the world in pursuit of my desires.

W is for World:

The world is a place where I attempt to advance my pride positions. These pride positions are based on self-punishing expectations that cannot be meant. I fail to recognize the reality of my weakness, that my pride positions are self-punishing illusions. Exorbitant expectations, impossible standards, are self hating ways that I fail to accept the limitations of a finite world and punish myself for attaching to a body that cannot meant my inflated desires.

The failure of these expectations, the failure of these desires can be used as an excuse for torturing ourselves, for entering a depression because we were not able to live up to these expectations. There reality is that life in a finite world is tough. We die. We grow old. We cannot fulfill all of our desires all of the time.

When we accept the reality of the world and its limitations we cannot detach from our need to make it into a paradise and our need to set ourselves up and princes and kings in some sort of perfect place where we are immune to death and trouble.

The solution is to affirm the perfection of our Spirit. The body is only a reflection of the Spirit. The body is finite; the world is limited by its finite parts. Perfect peace and joy are products of the inner kingdom, not the external world. The Divine Mind within us is the source of our victory over the world.

X is for Xenos:

The Spirit is something strange, something alien to the world. It is Nirvana, it is transcendent, it is gone, gone, gone, gone utterly beyond. The Spirit is the creative xenos, the creative stranger to the world that remakes all things.

We torture ourselves when we try to make the body immortal. We torture ourselves when we try to make the body perfect, beautiful, give it winning power. The body must fail because it is finite. The world must fail us because it is a place of norms and averages, not of nobility and extraordinary achievement. All our specialness will fail when we attempt to overcome the reality of the world.

Immortality exists in the inner world of the subjective Spirit. Perfection exists in the boundless kingdom of the Infinite Mind. By affirming this deep resource and its power for good, we can detach from our attempt to find this goodness in the struggles of the public world. We can enjoy our body as a local and limited manifestation of the unlimited powers of Universal Intelligence.

Scientific realism helps us discover the proper use of the flesh. The flesh is a local and finite manifestation of the endless one. Our soul is a unique interpretation of that endless ground. We do not need to seek imperial powers in the world. Our true freedom exists in our soul and its ability to make all things new in the ever-novel realm of the Spirit. When we discover that we are xenos, that we are from beyond, we can detach from the world as a savior.

Y is for Youth:

There is no immortality in the world. When we attach to the world and the flesh, our immortality fades. The world and the flesh cannot fulfill our desires and expectations. Attempting to find eternal youth and beauty in the finite is a hopeless enterprise of self-punishment. We must accept our limitations, our weaknesses, our failures, our aging and dying.

It is the creative Spirit within that is immortal, that has endless youth that endlessly renews and reinterprets all things. When we invest our resources in that inner youth, we discover a beauty and a renewal that will not fail. The subjective is a dimension of the boundless and has no end in time or space. It transcends time and space and the limitations of the flesh and the world.

The mental condition that seeks eternal youth, seeks perfect satisfaction in the flesh is unrealistic. Buddhism teaches us to seek the truth in respect to the flesh. Christianity encouraged the growth of the sciences in order to discover the truth about the finite world. But, the truth about the finite is not the truth about the infinitesimal and the infinite. Here it is possible to experience the eternal youth of the soul, of the endlessly creative Spirit.

The Christian metaphor for this eternal youth is found in the symbols of Christmas and Easter. The Hindu metaphor is found in the eternal youth of Krishna in Brindiban, in the endless reincarnation of Vishnu as Krishna, Christ, Buddha.

Z is for Zamani:

Zamani is the African word for the Dreamtime, for the subjective, for Nirvana, for the Beyond. The natural world comes out of the Zamani into the limited and bound, into temporary time and returns back to the unlimited. All things are immortal in the Zamani and mortal in the limited.

The great truth of science is the finiteness of the finite. The finite must be known through the particle and the atom and the cell. It must be known through the partial and the tentative, through experiment and observation. The great truth of religion is the boundlessness of the infinite. The infinite must be known through the dream and the vision. It must be known through the holistic, whole, wholesome, and holy, through mysticism and faith.

Before we can see heaven, we must clear the eyeglass of earth. We must admit the earthly reality. We must admit the problems of the finite, the limitations of the finite. We must abandon our selfish attempts to grab the infinite through pride positions, through self-punishing lust and greed. Once we face the limits of the finite, we can focus on the infinitesimal mustard seed of the soul through which the light of the infinite can pour if we are able to fill it with just a bit of faith.

This is the faith that brings salvation, this is the realization that brings the Buddha, brings the love of Krishna, brings the ever coming Kingdom of God, the Creative Spirit.

E is for Evolution:

Evolution is the result of the thermodynamic dissipation of energy toward entropy and the development of competition in energy dissipative structures. Evolution is the manifestation in the finite world of endless progressions within the boundless. The boundless forever expands beyond itself according to a Godel like endlessly self-exceeding numerical relationship. The emergence of energy in the finite to decay into entropy and drive evolution is an expression of the endless expansion of the subjective source of the objective world.

New Thought metaphysics describes the hidden beginning that is the source of this visible emergence. The visible emergence begins with the Creative Spirit that fertilizes the ground of being with the seed of the manifest world. This seed germinates in this soil to form the world we see.

The soul rips the existing world open so that the boundless can expand into a greater boundless. Where it gashes the infinite, the boundless endlessly pours through forming new dimensions of infinite space-time. The threads that endlessly pour through these rips adhere together and weave a cloth upon the loom of existing cosmology.

This loom is the soil of existing system, of astrology, of metaphysics, of theology. It is the Collective Unconscious, the womb, the Holy Spirit of God. It is the Dharma wheel. The seeds planted within are the Karma that turns it. This Karma generates the evolution of the finite worlds.

N is for New:

There is a New World of Metaphysics and an Old World of Metaphysics. The Old World of Metaphysics is the Dharma, is the existing order of cosmology expanded into greater cosmology, of finite life generating birth and rebirth in an infinite system of heavens and hells, of universes beyond this universe in an endless series.

The New World is generated where the infinitesimal creativity of the soul rips this old system open and allows it to endlessly expand into something new. This New World is Nirvana, is the Creative Spirit, is the Brindiban of Hinduism, the ever coming Heaven of Christian salvation, of Islamic prophecy. The soul generates immortal time threads, immortal threads of primary causation as the infinite pours out of its pure generativity. These threads are woven into the cloth of the world on the loom-womb of the Collective Unconscious, on the order of the infinite law of attraction, the infinite system of the Dharma. The creative activity of these threads and their combinations is the Karma that turns the wheel of the Dharma. This Karma manifests as the energy of evolution, the processes and events of the visible world.

In this process of adhering together to make the world. The threads of pure subjectivity become attached to particular objects, become incarnated in physical bodies, become attached to the flesh. Once attached to the flesh, they forget their origin in the endless and their original freedom.

K is for Karma (Continued):

The previous existence is continued at its level of organization (Value, Virtue) in the system of the metacosm. It becomes part of the basic astrology that determines the point of rebirth. The new body develops its own unique mind and is open to choices that allow it to develop in novel directions.

To the extent that these directions are at animal or atomic levels of being, that they are selfish and angry and primitive, what is generated is a local hell in which the new incarnation is trapped at a low level of biological or social evolution. The soul that has its time line wrapped around the rebirth cycles of a low level system is trapped in hell. Astrological forces generating such imprisonment are associated with Saturn, Mars, and Pluto. These planets symbolize the more primitive aspects of the evolution of cosmic intelligence (demonic or satanic, concerned with war and security).

These memories, these previous lives need to be liberated from hell and death. They need to be liberated from attachment to the world and the world’s primitive systems. This is called “moksha” in the East. The tangle of birth and rebirth is “samsara.” The cause of samsara, the individual twists are “karma.” The system that they twist about is “dharma.” The levels of karma are the “gunas.”

Tight bondage to the world is “tamas.” The process of binding is “rajas.” Opening up to moksha is “sattva.”

Tamas generates a level of bondage that is called “hell” and “sin” or “evil” in the West and “Maya” or illusion in the East. Rajas generates what is called “purgatory” in the West. Sattva generates what is called “heaven” in the West and “Nirvana” or “Brahman” or “Purusha” or “Samadhi” in the East.

Samadhi is what liberates the individual “Jiva,” “Buddha,” or “Atman” (Soul or Logos or Christ-mind in the West). Purusha is the transcendence that accomplishes the liberation. Nirvana is the ocean of boundless subjective void the Buddha enters. Brahman is this void as the One or Absolute of the West (Hen of the Neoplatonic trinity).

In New Thought terminology, Sattva, Buddha, Samadhi, Moksha is the Spirit. Dharma is the Law. Maya and the Gunas are the Body. Tamas is a body bound to Maya, to the physical plane. Rajas is energy and change. Sattva is a body that reflects the Spirit and thus is liberated into the Spirit. Rajas generates the Karma that turns the Law.

Only at the Sattva level does the time thread lift free enough from the Karma turns of the Dharma law, from samsara (birth and rebirth) that the soul has access to memories of its past lives. This access generates liberation, salvation, Moksha. This state of liberation generates a return to the primal cause, to the creative essence: Buddha, Christ, Spirit, Samahdi. This state is a resurrection of the body and a salvation of the soul in the heaven of Christ, of the second coming, of the new kingdom of the boundless, of the Amidha Buddha that emerges from pure Nirvana.

This is a total destruction of the tamas body and the Maya self that is totally bound to the tamas body. The resurrected body is free from sin, free from tamas flesh, from sinful flesh. All that is left is the selfless Buddha self that is detached from the flesh (moska). This detached Buddha self is the infinitesimal drawing out the infinite, is endlessly entering Nirvana and generating Buddhamind (Purusha, Heaven).

This state is an endless dance of the Son (Buddha), the Father (Nirvana), and the Holy Spirit (Buddhamind), of Sattva (Atman, Jiva, Avatar), Purusha (God), and Brahman. The Purusha dances as Spirit (Brahma), the dance of the Spirit (Shiva), and the fulfillment of the Spirit in Brahman (Vishnu). Brahma is the threads of the infinitesimal entering the infinite, Shiva is the dancing of the threads, and Vishnu is their union with the boundless (Brahman).

In this world of tamas, of attachment of the infinitesimal threads, of the jiva-soul-monad time lines attachment to the physical, of their tight winds around low level birth and rebirth, there is little awareness of the content of past lives. The root of the past lives is buried in the winding of birth and rebirth that generates the astrology that determines the fate of the current life. That fate is deeply buried in the systems of attachment the soul has generated with lower levels of the finite.

In this world, subjectivity behaves as the prisoner of the body. The Christians call this “original sin,” in the East it is Maya, the illusion of the bondage of the Spirit.

New thought calls the collective bondage “race thought.” Race thought generates world systems of Maya. In the East these world systems are called “loki” and the periods of their evolution are called “kalpa.” In the West we call them “universes” and the time periods “ages.”

The birth and rebirth of our time thread binds it to other time threads generating the thermodynamic processes of this world of space-time, this universe of relativity (binding together of separate threads). The coming together of the threads generates relativity, the process of their coming together involves thermodynamics, and the individual events of which the threads are made are the quantum events of quantum mechanics (strings of string theory).

The threads only exist as threads on the subjective side. All that emerges in the finite is the strings and quantum events they generate. This subjectivity appears to be a secondary effect from the finite side. Its causal, primary nature, is not empirically demonstrable. This condition in which the finite appears to be the cause of the infinitesimals (Buddha) regeneration of the infinite (Nirvana) is known as Maya, cosmic illusion in the East.

Science will never reveal this system. Science is caught in the visible and the finite and the deeper truth exists in the invisible and the boundless. Immortality will never be proven in the visible because the visible as primary is the death, the destruction of immortality. Only the invisible as primary restores the immortal cause, the pure creative Spirit (Christ, Buddha, Kingdom of Heaven).

True metaphysics can never be physics. True astrology can never be astronomy. Metaphysics and astrology transcend science just as Heaven transcends Earth.

This is why salvation comes by faith and love. Only faith and love can generate the higher knowledge. Knowledge bound to perception can never leave the finite.

Science liberates the powers of the world at the expense of bondage to the world. Science gives us a clear glass to see the finite at the expense of being stuck to the glass like a fly to flypaper.

When we attempt to contact the roots of our soul and our previous lives while attached to this body, all we do is tangle these threads more deeply about this body of attachment. The only solution is to seek these roots in love and meditation rather than through perception and memory and thought. All the thoughts and perceptions and memories constructed by the brain, to which we are currently attached, only attach us more.

We must seek the pure subjectivity that generates the attachment. We must return to the Buddha, Nirvana root. That is why Zen teaches us to avoid the confusions generated by the attempt to use Maya to liberate ourselves from Maya. That is why the Sermon on the Mount tells us to go into our chamber to pray, to avoid the religion that only binds us further to the greed and pride of the world.

L is for Lives (Continued):

The soul is the infinitesimal root endlessly extended into the novel. The world is its opposite. It is a temporary assembly of a public space. The world emerges from the finite quantum now into the boundless all-time and all-space of the hyperspace whole that is the opposite of the quantum now.

The finite breaks the soul’s eternal time line by punctuating it with death and rebirth. The boundless whole is the only weapon the soul can use against this breakage.

The soul is eternal and infinitesimal. A Carbon Atom takes up a tiny finite space and endures for billions of years. A mouse population takes up much more space and lasts for much less time. The hypercosmic whole is a boundless instant of time.

The soul manifests in the world according to the level of organization it attaches to and the virtues and values it is faithful to in thought and deed. Only the boundless good, only the Nirvana of the Buddha, the Future Kingdom of the Christ can salve the soul from its bondage to the world.