Preparation for The Spiritual Story of Democracy
Envisioning the Duality Name
Updated from its original posting on Nov 13, 2024, this article is listed as Argument 5 in the Index of Articles of this series.
With knowledge of spiritual fasting in our house of knowledge, we can do our part to regain awareness of what is really going on spiritually, not as science sees it, for science does not belong in our spiritual hearts. We are all giving Name all our agapé, unconditional love, through each other—in the singularity of Word in our world conscience (suneidesis).1 The nemesis of all names of light consciously doing so is the duality name, particularly in our daily lives. Thus, in line with knowledge of Word that teaches that agapé grows in mature knowledge and all perception, next we will pursue knowledge that prepares us for envisioning Name’s agapé light in story form—with and without perception of the duality name in the story.
A Symbolic Diagram With and Without the Duality Name
The upper half of the diagram, introduced in Democracy and Addiction to the Rose, symbolizes the part of the duality name that designates us spiritually alive, not blinded to Name by appearances on any level, and the lower half the part that designates us spiritually dead, blinded by them all. When free of the duality name, all of the diagram symbolizes us alive and knowingly giving all our agapé to Name through each other in Word. Both ways together, they symbolize a framework for the living story of Name’s agapé light. Envisioned, it helps our agapé grow and prepares us for The Spiritual Story of Democracy, the next article in this series.
Note that this diagram is not AI generated precisely because it would have glass realism reflecting light that dazzles our sensitive optical system. And that would work against its intended use of having us form its images in our mind and then using them to envision living forms that fulfill our spiritual needs as living beings.
The Symbolic Diagram
The symbolic objects in every physical diagram represent things in their own space, sometimes one thing inside another. But these symbols represent objects completely permeating each other. Thus, whether at the top, middle or bottom, or to the right or left, envision all these symbolic transparent objects permeating each other in the same position. They are all distinguishable on their own permeational level in this one spiritual form. The key objects holding it all together are the two rounded squares symbolizing Name’s agapé light (explained below).
In the same permeational position, the one in the upper part of the diagram and the one in the lower part permeate each other, holding together all others doing the same in the same position. If you felt some peace when envisioning these two permeating each other completely, you are on the right track. If not, be patient. The permeation of agapé light sees right through the duality name in a process called “the door that is two”. It is explained in The Spiritual Story of Democracy, Introduction: The Doors of our House.
Starting at the top, the rounded square in the center between the two transparent cubes symbolizes Name’s agapé light and the exquisite light-fold between Name and Word. It also symbolizes the pan-diamond room in the story as does the diamond in front of the rose and the same rounded square in the head of the figure on the bottom. None of these are drawn exactly as a single light-fold in a glass cube, for that would require taking in too many details as we keep adding more light-folds and glass cubes in Word’s singularities. Consider these higher symbols to allow your mind to envision the generalities of light in our inner vision.
The two rays of light coming out of both sides of the top rounded square symbolize us giving Name all our agapé and Name giving us all its agapé, both through Word’s singularity. The two cubes symbolize two names of light, us. They represent Democrats and Republicans in the first part of the story, Israelis and Palestinians in the latter part. The curtain of stars behind the cubes and rounded square symbolize the orchestrated permeational waves in Name’s pan-diamond room.
If you are having trouble envisioning all of these permeating each other, it is because you are using human or other opaque forms instead of these symbolic ones transparently in each other. Remember, this is our position in Name’s agapé light in our inner vision, not physical light seen in relation to its absence in darkness. There is no darkness in agapé light, only permeations of varying intensity.
The square within each of the two cubes symbolizes us again manifest in our inner vision with Name. The partial blue sphere behind the square represents the idea of the universe and the pearl coming out of each one the spiritual seed of our journey into the universe. The two pearls in the lower part of the diagram represent the physical seeds of our birth on earth.
The upper seeds on both sides are on top of two large outlines of a head, symbolizing our spiritual bodies. The multi-dimensional cube within each head symbolizes Word’s singularity in the world suneidesis,2 remanifested from within the square in each of the upper cubes, Word’s singularity in the City of Agapé Light. The two blue spheres within each multi-dimensional cube represent Word’s lesser singularities in our suneidesis.
Discussed in Democracy and Addiction to the Rose, the rose in the center of the diagram represents the beauty and pleasures of spiritual and physical life. In the duality name, the rose works with Name’s golden agapé light where we are designated spiritually alive, the upper half, and against it blindly in Word’s jasper piety light where it designates us spiritually dead, the lower half. Representing the absence of the duality name, jasper and golden light are symbolized equally throughout the diagram.
The oval sphere below the rose represents the universe receiving us before birth in our physical body. The ring around the sphere and the three below it symbolize genesis personages, introduced in The Spiritual Drama of Democracy. The large body formed out of the universe below it symbolizes our physical body, which works with our spiritual body when we are free from the duality name, but with the soulish body when we are not.
The rectangular cube to the left of our physical body represents the inner part of our life in this world, engaged in its inner surface appearances, the one to the right the outer part, engaged in its outer surface appearances. The human figure in the center of both cubes is birthed from the seed above it through its progenitors, represented by the two heads at the bottom of each cube. While our body between the cubes symbolizes us alone, the figures on both sides of us can represent us and another person, or two other people or groups, the same two names of light symbolized by the transparent cubes at the top. From the light of Name’s agapé within our head, we permeationally look at Name’s agapé light outside us (between the two upper cubes) in the same position permeating each other.
The circles around the rose and the large one around our body below it represent cycles of time, while the square around the rose symbolizes the Now of Word. Under the duality name, we have no true experience of the Now of Word in our suneidesis and thus in our spiritual life, symbolized by the upper half of the diagram. Free from the duality name with its non-permeation, we experience the Now of Word as the primary timeframe of our suneidesis in all the permeations of our house of knowledge, symbolized by the whole diagram. How the permeational intersects the non-permeational is explained as the pan-diamond room permeating the foyer in the second half of “Where is Your Agapé?” in Chapter Four of The Spiritual Story of Democracy,
Necessary Blindness to the Oneness between Mind and Suneidesis
Being freed from the duality name to envision Name’s agapé light is a step by step process when we choose to blind ourselves again and again. To understand the role we play in becoming blind, consider the knowledge of Word that teaches us that 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 to point to their oneness.
When choosing to do something without agapé or out of limited agapé,3 we limit our awareness of the unlimited agapé working in Word’s singularity in our suneidesis. This simultaneously limits our mind working in Word’s 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. In other words, our seeing conscience does not allow us to do anything wrong against anyone, since it sees everyone giving Name all their agapé through us in Word’s singularity, some through the supersession. And if we could not blind our conscience to this, we would never be able to carry out our free will to do so.
Blindness is thus a necessary enemy for us to carry out choices we make that go against our co-conscientious nature personally and democratically. 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 leads us to our singularity in Word, who, without compelling us, provides us with opportunities to change our minds and thus the state of our suneidesis in their oneness. And freeing us from the duality name is this oneness, also called the mind of our heart.
Choosing Vision with the Mind of our Heart
May your envisioning journey through The Spiritual Story of Democracy take place without any need to blind yourself, but if it does, may you take it again without needing to by having the oneness between mind and suneidesis, the mind of your heart. Remember that desire is at the center of our decision, the rose symbolizing beauty, pleasures and desire as well. Under the duality name, our desire for physical things blinds us in the part designating us spiritually dead. But by choice, we keep returning to the part designating us spiritually alive in order to desire spiritual things, such as the desire for a rewarding life after death and unconditional love now and then, all working from the mind of our heart.
When we do our part in spiritual fasting, we realize that our true desire is for Name and its memory. It is fulfilled desire when we give Name all our agapé through everyone in the City of Agapé Light, and thus it is not desire at all, no longer something longed for. But when we do not give our agapé this way, it is unfulfilled desire creating addiction, working through the word-symbol evil in spiritual blindness.
The spiritual addiction works out its physical symptoms through physical desires. And that is at the center of deciding whether to blind ourselves for our physical desires or trust that Name in Word will fulfill our desire for Name—in the spiritual present, the Now of Word, and memory of its eternal past.
Be aware that if we choose to blind ourselves, we not only come under addiction to our own physical desires but lock ourselves into the addictive desires of others, our desires blindly tempting each other. For as depicted in the diagram, we exist in pairs with Name in and between us. Choosing blindness sometimes makes it impossible to change and choose agapé—until the cycles of time permit it.
Choosing vision and thus our desire for Name, however, locks us into each other’s agapé in the light of Word’s singularity. Here, we can consciously permeate each other in the light of Name’s agapé through the oneness of our mind and suneidesis, the mind of our heart.
Choose wisely, my fellow names of light. You can enjoy the physical beauty, pleasures and desire in this world better when they are kept in perspective within the spiritual beauty, pleasures and desire in the Now of Word of your world suneidesis. Keeping them in perspective of the principle this way allows us to develop as we move to the spiritual light of Name’s agapé.
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The Spiritual Story of Democracy
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.
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.