{"id":12836,"date":"2020-09-09T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=12836"},"modified":"2022-09-09T00:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:04:24","slug":"the-mess-we-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=12836","title":{"rendered":"The Mess We Are In"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The idea that nature is a closed system of natural causes and that natural causes provide a complete account of everything that occurs in nature is deeply entrenched in the West. ~ William \u00a0Dembski<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The common sentimental idea is that the Garden of Eden was set up perfectly for Adam. This cannot be the case as it stands. The natural world existed as such, which we still experience. Adam was given supernatural graces that could never be given to animals, plants, and minerals. But animals still lived natural lives, and there were natural dangers from fire, and other events.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Adam had preternatural abilities. Although preternatural abilities are beyond nature, Adam was the agent (not God). These abilities intrude willy-nilly into life even in our time, so we can presume Adam had more control over them. They go by the names paranormal, psychic, second sight, and so on. If they exist, their occurrences seem to be mostly random.<\/p>\n<p>Adam\u2019s natural abilities were enhanced. So he was always aware of what was going on and was never distracted. His ability to think logically and act rationally were unimpaired. The reason I express it this way is to show that if the primordial state cannot be an aspiration, at least it can be understood (at least to the initiated).<\/p>\n<p>There is no point to turn Adam into some sort of Prometheus as though we can now \u201cthink for ourselves\u201d. If that is so, the results have been completely underwhelming.<\/p>\n<h2>Fallen State<\/h2>\n<p>The soul is spiritual and corporal. The former transcends the world and the latter is tied to the body and its function. The Fall indicates that the center of being descends from the Self of the spirit soul to the Ego of the corporal soul. The Self is forgotten and largely subconscious, or better said, superconscious. The attributes of the Primordial State are suddenly transformed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Knowledge<\/strong> \u21d2 Ignorance, stupidity, opinion (in place of gnosis)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Integrity<\/strong> \u21d2 inner confusion, lying to self and others, deception, doubt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impassibility<\/strong> \u21d2 motivated by unhealthy emotions and disordered desires. Malice and Concupiscence<\/li>\n<li><strong>Immortality<\/strong> \u21d2 Death, with associated fear and anxiety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Fall is never total, and there is always the possibility of access to the higher attributes.<\/p>\n<h2>Fallen World<\/h2>\n<p>Multiply that by 7.6 thousand million and we have the modern world. Ignorance, malice, and concupiscence used to be considered faults to be overcome, like this<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education to overcome ignorance<\/li>\n<li>Control of emotions to overcome malice<\/li>\n<li>Moderation to overcome excessive desire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is no longer the case. Propaganda replaces education. Malice is encouraged as a method of social control. Hardly any sexual desire is considered anti-social and even gluttony is defended.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"rightbox\"><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WorldInfluences.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12835\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WorldInfluences-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"World Influences\" width=\"200\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WorldInfluences-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WorldInfluences-200x115.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WorldInfluences-90x52.jpg 90w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WorldInfluences.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWorld Influences<\/figure>\n<p>The world, then, is ruled by conflicting opinions, not to mention outright falsehoods. This situation is represented in the diagram by small arrows going in random directions. These are called the \u201cA\u201d influences. If you remember your vector math, you can see that the sum of all the vectors amounts to zero. That means that the entire world process, under these A influences, is going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>That is the global view. However, locally there may be clusters of A influences that are aligned together. In that section of the world, they can wield power because any opposition, being disorganized, again sums up to zero. Eventually, even that apparent unity dissipates into its opposite.<\/p>\n<p>There are always attempts within the world process that promise unity. Thus, science, philosophy, political programs are proposed, but never achieve the goal. Science, for example, is simply too difficult for the majority of people to understand, and its conclusions\u2014never really definitive\u2014are perverted for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that there will be a scientific, philosophical, or political solution to the problems of human life\u2014some day in the distant future\u2014is widespread among the educated class. It is considered a marker for intelligence, despite all available historical evidence. For the person who comes to terms with this, there are two choices<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nihilism, the notion that there is no ultimate truth<\/li>\n<li>The solution must arise from outside the world process system<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So that is the ultimate result of Adam\u2019s hubris to determine good and evil for himself. He can remain delusional, admit that his project ended in failure, or seek to return to the Primordial State that he had rejected.<\/p>\n<h2>Nausea and Repetition<\/h2>\n<p>I sent the little ones youtube videos of one-celled animals eating each other, disintegrating, cloning themselves. The kids were delighted, especially the ones with microscopes. But I wondered why. For perhaps hundreds of millions of years, these critters have been reproducing the same drama over and over and over again. Eating, dying, attacking, reproducing for no purpose. Nauseating.<\/p>\n<p>The ducks wandering about the neighbourhood are the same. Occasionally, one will nest and lay eggs behind the bushes around my house. A dozen ducklings hatch. They leave the nest, all following the mother. The next day some are missing. More missing on the day after. Maybe one or two reach adulthood just to start the cycle over again.<\/p>\n<p>Who can live like that? But human life is no different. The same little dramas repeat and repeat, just with minor variations on the theme. A confessor used to ask me about Moses\u2019 neighbour. Who dat I asked. Exactly. No one cares about Moses\u2019 neighbour anymore. Ever since then, the same stories, the same situations, the same sins. Just different people, all 50 billion of them soon forgotten. Multi-celled paramecia.<\/p>\n<h2>The Way Out<\/h2>\n<p>In the diagram, notice the longer and larger arrows all pointing in the same direction from right to left. These represent the influences of revealed religion. Some people, in despair, will respond to those B influences; the remainder will continue their neverending battles of opinion. Those exoteric influences show the path to escape the world process. For a few, there are the C or esoteric influences. Although the B influences are sufficient in themselves, the C (and higher) influences can lead to even higher states of being.<\/p>\n<h2>Infallible<\/h2>\n<p>Obviously, to be of any benefit, these higher influences are necessarily infallible. The way out of the mess cannot be just one more opinion among the others. It will be countercultural, much different from the way the world thinks and acts.<\/p>\n<p>Many are offended at the notion of infallibility. I can&#8217;t understand why. I haven\u2019t met many people who would concede that their opinions about all manner of things might possibly be incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Many others will become interested in this Revelation. So they will read books about it, seek out teachers, even idolize their favourite authors. They will know much about the way out, and how predecessors described the way out, but they seldom bother to actually tread the path.<\/p>\n<p>A few will claim to guide you on the way out, but they are wolves in sheep\u2019s clothing. They will often tell you how wonderful you are. And all the time how wonderful they are.<\/p>\n<h2>Salvation<\/h2>\n<p>The story is misunderstood if it only about living in a perfect environment, like a mouse utopia. That is insufficient, because even the serpent inhabits the garden. Evil, therefore, was a possibility of manifestation, so it manifested. Salvation is something else, something much greater than the garden. And it involves the serpent, but that is another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that nature is a closed system of natural causes and that natural causes provide a complete account of everything that occurs in nature is deeply entrenched in the West. ~ William \u00a0Dembski The common sentimental idea is that the Garden of Eden was set up perfectly for Adam. &hellip; <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=12836\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16603,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/16603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}