Argument 5: Blindness is Ultimately the Only Enemy

Against Awareness of our Singularity and thus Peace

We have laid the required foundational knowledge and now, with further discussion about spiritual blindness and our singularity, we will put up the framework of our house of knowledge.

Singularity

We can measure the earth with instruments, but that is not how our conscience (suneidesis)¹ measures it, our highly developed form of awareness—co-conscientious awareness of ourselves and others. We measure the earth against our galaxy and, without seeing it, know that it is a super-miniscule singular dot. But our suneidesis² sees it as a place for the world singularity of our co-conscientious awareness, shared by all of us as a great multitude of permeating names of light in the light of Name.

Opposition created by blindness divides our awareness of our position in the singularity. As a result, we cannot share in the peace of singularity between us or individually. For it is a peace beyond our individual ability to experience, unless we first share it together in our singularity and, through that, reap its unimaginable peace in ourselves. It reverberates between us in our singularity and then in our awareness instead of opposition. There is no greater peace in the singularity of our suneidesis than when we are using the principle. For it is the only way to maintain awareness of our singularity.

Not Resisting Blindly

As discussed, we must not resist blindness, even when it is dividing our awareness. For this will give us a chance to understand it and learn how to see; otherwise, we will also resist the actions of blindness in others blindly. But not resisting blindness and not resisting blind actions blindly work together and erect the framework of our house of knowledge. If we do both with the principle, we will expose the divisions in our awareness of our singularity in Word.

Political blindness in the perception of our singularity creates divisions through different moral standards, causing war after war on this miniscule dot. However, through the framework, loving all political sides for their place in our national singularity lifts us out of the divisions of blindness, allowing us to remain on one or more sides through the eyes of our world singularity. It makes us opponents only and blindness the only nonnegotiable enemy, at least from our perspective, those who follow the principle.

We lose all peace though when the divisions between Israel and Palestine create political turmoil in our suneidesis. We can measure their ancestral opposition to be around 4,000 years potentially, but our suneidesis sees only how their opposition divides our national singularity with its own past.

See the world singularity of Word in both Israel and Palestine and in their political parties. Recognize where beliefs and moral standards have made them blind to it all. The principle makes it possible for us to love them in Name’s light and hate their blindness and the actions it engenders. We need this kind of love for our own political opponents to endure the suffering their blindness brings. But humbly endure since the principle shows us how to see the suffering caused by all sides.

Necessary Blindness to the Oneness between Mind and Suneidesis

To understand the role we play in becoming blind, consider the knowledge of Word that teaches the mind and suneidesis are one. Referring to us when we are blind, it states:

“Both their mind and suneidesis is defiled.” The usage of is is not a grammatical mistake, as treated in English translations that read—“…mind and suneidesis are defiled.” Greek manuscripts clearly use the singular form of the verb not the plural.

When choosing to do something without agapé (unconditional love) or out of limited agapé,³ we limit our awareness of the unlimited agapé working in the singularity of our suneidesis. This simultaneously limits our mind working in our singularity. Together, defiling them as one, our mind and suneidesis, it blinds us to being in the presence of everyone in the singularity and restricts our mind from understanding that blindness. Without this though—we would never be able to carry out such actions against others. Our seeing conscience would not allow us. And this would take away our free will to do so.

Blindness is thus a necessary enemy for us to carry out choices we make that go against our democratic, co-conscientious nature. However, it results in addiction to blindness and that reduces our freedom to choose to do so, while compelling us to do so if we decide to stop. While we are blind and addicted though, helpless in that state, the kindness of Name in our singularity leads us to Word, who, without compelling us, provides us with opportunities to change our minds and thus the state of our suneidesis in their oneness.

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1. Suneidesis, pronounced soon-eye-day-sis, is a Greek word that joins our natural awareness with our sense of conscience. Click on the link for a detailed explanation. It is central to this teaching. Using this foreign word regularly in discussions helps us get accustomed to experiencing something new and positive working in our awareness itself. When the word conscience is used, it will refer to the aspect of suneidesis that involves right and wrong, but this aspect cannot be separated from our co-conscientious awareness of all things.

If I understand that my awareness of something as simple as a cup includes co-conscientiousness, I do not allow myself to get blinded by the cup alone but know it as part of all creation at the hands of the Creator or the universe, depending on one’s beliefs. Spiritual maturity does this naturally.

2. The repetition of suneidesis is meant to challenge you to consider this dimension in your awareness. Apologies, but it will only be a necessary annoyance until it becomes natural.

3. The nature of unconditional love cannot be limited, but the number of people using it can, through the different appearances that bind us in groups and confine our awareness of Name’s agapé for those outside them.