When Reading "The Spiritual Story of Democracy"
It restores the reflective/nonreflective nature in the singularity of our suneidesis.
This articles is listed as Discussion 2 in the Index of Articles of this series.
Next in our journey is to check the soundness of our house of knowledge. We need to be able to verify our perception of things within and outside our circles to make others more important in ways that are meaningful to them. This requires the oneness of our hearts—the reflective/nonreflective nature in the singularity of our conscience (suneidesis)1—to be sound, so that we can give all our agapé, unconditional love, to Name through everyone.
First Thoughts
To the degree you manifested the spiritual essence of The Spiritual Story of Democracy, it has become the senses of your heart, and you have memory of the visions you formed of the story working from these senses. Unlike other visions, these work from the structural drama of your house of knowledge, vivifying your suneidesis2 when using the principle for anyone.
The degree to which we are not able to manifest its spiritual essence is due to our holding on to the temporary self-image of the image of woman or the image of man, explained in Jane and the Image of Woman. For such opaque self-images do not permeate, keeping our suneidesis in the foyer of the house of knowledge. And the reflective/nonreflective nature in the singularity of our suneidesis depends on permeating the surface of appearances.
The general story of democracy is about resolving the conflict of visions between political parties and nations working in the duality name. The part of this name that designates us spiritually dead empowers false identification with the physical body through opaque self-images. Those suffering under the image of woman envision men as the problem; those under the image of man envision women as the problem. Both are right—men who think they are men and women who think they are women are the problem. The same is true for every non-heterosexual type of false identification with the body. And all of this divides our reflective/nonreflective nature in our singularity.
All of these perspectives are also wrong—gender is only one way to express the problem, not the problem itself. The problem is that, although we are all life-giving spirit, whose nature is agapé, unconditional love, loving even the enemies of suneidesis, some of us prefer blindness. But we can also change our minds, as some of us do after reading such stories.
The thing to remember is that choosing to change restores the reflective/nonreflective nature in the singularity of our suneidesis step by step. That means we see with a better singularity from our co-conscientiousness and reflect what we see better. And we can see the division between the singularity and reflective/nonreflective nature in our world suneidesis better. Those under the division in their perception will appear to be more conflicted and, as a result, we may feel more conflicted until we recognize that it is only our restored reflective singularity reflecting their division better. It helps us check whether our agapé for those outside our circles is equal to those inside them. Reading The Spiritual Story of Democracy brings this distinction to our awareness repeatedly.
Strengthening Our House of Knowledge
A. As we move away from the images of woman and man as living souls with soulish bodies, working on the illusory side of the foyer in the story, we learn about the structure of our spiritual body as life-giving spirit in the image of Word. It works in the reality of agapé light in the story’s symbolic pan-diamond room. Being able to distinguish these strengthens our house of knowledge, empowering us to verify our perception of things within and outside our circles—to make others more important in ways that are meaningful to them.
Consider the word ethnos in Biblical Greek. It means both citizen and nation. The spiritual body of Word consists of each of us as citizen-names of light and as nation-names of light, all nations in the world in their spiritual singularity of light. Word’s national and world singularities are joined in its spiritual political singularity. The image of Word thus serves as an individual, political, national and world self-image of life-giving spirit for each of us in our spiritual body as part of the permeating singularity of Word’s whole spiritual body.
In this oneness, consider the reflective nature of such light in the eyes and mind of your heart, not in any form even remotely resembling the physical body and obviously not its gender. Also consider the nonreflective nature in the oneness of such light between us in Name’s symbolic pan-diamond eyes.
And yet, there is even a oneness between our physical and spiritual bodies, which includes their human and spiritual words. In The Spiritual Story of Democracy, this is the oneness between the human and spiritual locutions of Word. They are not one in the same, but have an in-each-other oneness, necessary to translate and interpret the contours of the principle throughout the world, strengthening the structural drama of our house of knowledge.
B. There is no self-opposition in Word’s spiritual body itself, only the opposition between seeing with the eyes of its spiritual senses, according to the principle, and being blind without the principle. As expected, with the soulish body we use moral standards to govern the blind part of our suneidesis in the foyer and thus judge others to justify our soulish self-importance. With the spiritual body, we use the principle to govern our suneidesis and moral standards a guide. This frees us from judging others to practice spiritual fasting, which requires making others more important, the key to strengthening our house of knowledge.
We hear the judgment working in the self-opposition in and between the images of woman and man in our world singularity. But when we are conscious of ourselves in the image of Word, rather than judgment, we work from the agapé light in Word’s door that is two, the doors of importance. With it, we are not deceived into thinking there is judgment coming from us or about us from others—except in the blindness of the foyer. It keeps us humble, even in the presence of those who hate humility due to their blindness. Through these doors, everyone is welcome to enter the democracy of our world suneidesis, but Word only lets those in who want to learn the principle, even though we may not even know we want to when being let in.
At times under pressure, we all surrender our awareness of Word’s agapé door that is two, at least for a moment, forcing us to resort back to moral standards alone to govern our suneidesis. During these moments, we cannot comprehend how Word’s judgment, the reasoning of our suneidesis, can be based on the principle. For blindness holds on to its blindness of the past.
Resolving Unresolved Stories
Through the light of the principle entering our awareness, we see that Word overlooks past failures if we practice the principle. As a result, we learn how to resolve our perception of unresolved stories in our past—through the structural drama of our house of knowledge. This allows us to develop our moral standard through the principle, working in the agapé nature of our spiritual body, without self-opposition. With the timeframe of the Now of Word, we can discern the connection between past blindness and present vision in a suneidesis governed by the principle. See the secondary boundary of the structural drama for more discussion about resolving such stories.
Israel and Palestine’s World Suneidesis
As covered in the spiritual story, the nation-names Israel and Palestine were made more important in the house of knowledge, allowing us to see them in the key ancestral conflict between nation-names of light in Name’s World Orchestrated-Waves Symphony. In this the fulfillment of the times of the nations, world-names and political party-names are seen at work in and between nations, displaying their connections, starting with Democrats and Republicans as covered in the first part of the spiritual story.
The political parties of every nation are challenged to resolve their perception of the unresolved ancestral blindness in Israel and Palestine’s world suneidesis. The cycle they keep repeating is explained in Chapter Four - Translated, Name speaks visions in the Worldwide Orchestrated Permeational Waves. They rise out of the spiritual blindness of their duality names in the foyer—as the reader/envisioner resolves their unresolved vision conflicts. The reader envisions the outcome as follows:
Out of the clear-glass wombs of Name’s goodness, the nation-names Israel and Palestine manifest anew in the pan-diamond and mirror a fold of their light into transparent chrysoprase living faces for each other. In the foyer, it renders the effects of involuntary reactions in their thoughts and joints completely useless, restoring their awareness of Word’s spiritual joints in the grand seeing room. As spiritual actors with this kind of bodily light, they see the jasper hues of fellow Israeli and many fellow Gazan souls—who have risen by the power of Name’s Word in their forgiveness for one another.
Suggested readings:
The Eyes of Democracy (Introduction and Index of Articles)
Suneidesis, pronounced soo-NAY-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.
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.