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 cannot build a model to predict what happens in our spiritual soul — all of us giving Name all our agapé, unconditional love, through each other in the singularity of Word in our world conscience (suneidesis).1 These and many other factors are examined by comparing spiritual with spiritual.
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 The Spiritual Story of Democracy.
Image Symbols and Living-Forms
As discussed, spiritually speaking, words are labels for the things we can experience with our senses but are symbols for the things we cannot experience this way. When word-symbols are true, they transform into living words in our mind. The word-symbol “love” is true when it is unconditional, for love waiting for conditions stops being love. Thus, the word-symbol love or agapé transforms into living agapé in us, an experience not a label for an experience. We can know this because we are living and know when something else is living or not. This is how we know that agapé is real.
When we draw an image that represents agapé to us, it will also transform in our mind into a living image of agapé. The word-symbol agapé, of course, does not have a visual form like the image-symbol agapé does. If we use a human form to draw an image of agapé, we restrict formation of the living image, but if we use symbolic forms in the knowledge of Word, we transform them into potentially infinite living images. This is due, for one, to the simul-forms used in the supersession.
Knowledge of Word states: “Present yourselves to God [Name] as alive from the dead [out of both sides of the duality name before it happens while always true in the supersession] and your members (relationships) as instruments of righteousness to God [Name].” (Romans 6:13)
We have to present ourselves as such by envisioning them when we are not free and in such states yet. Thus, paraphrased, Paul goes on to ask, Shall I take your relationships in the agapé of Word and make them relationships in the blindness of the duality name? Even further, by loving the enemies of suneidesis, we enter an adversarial relationship with them, but a relationship none the less, and by seeing them in the supersession, we make them our instrumental relationships of Name’s agapé, loving Name through them, even as they wrestle Name blindly.
As you read “The Spiritual Story of Democracy”, notice how words are used to encompass this and many other factors, which must be taken into account when diagramming the symbolic images of Name’s agapé in Word.
Democracy is about people who care for each other enough to keep it for their collective well-being as they strive toward unconditional love, often unknowingly. Democracy without agapé or the hope for it is an imaginary world in our minds, vulnerable to the whims of anyone who would tear our conditional love and thus democracy apart. But with true agapé words and image-symbols, we can envision the image-symbol democracy with this diagram and protect ourselves.
A Symbol-to-Living-Form Diagram
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 forming its image symbols in our mind and allowing them to take living forms in our suneidesis as word symbols do.
First, spend some time just looking it over and see whatever meaning you see about agapé in democracy.
The top two cubes (as revealed in knowledge of Word of symbolic agapé forms) represent the Democratic and Republican political party leadership. The rounded cube between them is Name in Word, the life of both. The larger cubes under both upper cubes represent the national membership of both parties. As discussed in Argument 4, the large squares and circles between them are the true and false realities of the world in our perception when the duality name is seen correctly from the Now of Word outside and incorrectly from within it, respectively.
The two cubes on the bottom under both memberships represent the family reality, and the human outline between them is the individual reality, determining true perception of family, nation, the world and Name in Word or false perception. This is the position for you the reader.
Symbolic objects in every physical diagram represent things in their own space, sometimes one thing inside another. But the symbols in this diagram represent objects completely permeating each other. Thus, whether at the top, middle or bottom, or to the right or left, form all these symbols as transparent objects permeating each other in the same position.
Make them all distinguishable on their own permeational levels in this one spiritual form but do attempt to form them in detail. Consider these as higher symbols to allow your mind to envision only generalities of the agapé light in our inner vision. The key objects holding it all together are the two rounded cubes symbolizing Name’s agapé light (explained below).
Once they are formed or pictured with the light of your mind, the next step, which requires practice, is to work from soul and envision them with the agapé light of your heart, beyond any description in human language.
In the same permeational position, the rounded cube 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 a peaceful response 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 cube in the center 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 do the diamond shapes in front of the rose (besides symbolizing the three types of appearances on another level), and the same rounded cube in the head of the figure on the bottom.
None of these are drawn exactly as a single or double light-fold (another symbolic form of agapé in knowledge of Word) forming a glass cube, for that would require taking in too many details as we keep adding, through discussion, more light-folds and glass cubes in Word’s singularities. Again, consider these as higher symbols to allow your mind to envision the generalities of light in our inner vision.
Remember, there is no darkness in Name anywhere, so any fear of forming this is evidence of the belief in darkness. As the belief is exposed, the light of agapé will appear in greater permeational depth, for it cannot coexist with fear.
The top two rays of light coming out of both sides of the top rounded cube symbolize Name giving us all its agapé. The bottom two rays symbolize us permeationally retracing it and giving Name all our agapé. Both ways, we always give our agapé through each other in Word’s singularity.
The two cubes on both sides of the rounded cube represent not only Democratic and Republican leadership but any two agapé names in a light-fold, as well as agapé nation-names in a light-fold, specifically Israel and Palestine in The Spiritual Story of Democracy. Keep in mind that it is up to us to present our relationships as instruments of righteousness to Name. The curtain of stars behind the cubes symbolizes the orchestrated permeational waves in Name’s pan-diamond room.
If you are having trouble forming any of these symbols permeating each other, you are using them opaquely, which means you are not making who they represent more important, and your own light is eclipsing theirs. Use the principle and form them transparently to the point of making them invisible until, with spiritual fasting if necessary, you can hold their full brightness permeating yours in what is spiritual transparency.
The square within each of the two upper cubes symbolizes the inner vision of our world suneidesis,2 as knowledge of Word states, we are “full of eyes around and within.” The partial blue sphere on one side of each square, coming out the other side projecting a pearl above each of the middle cubes, symbolizes our journey into the universe, with the lower pearl in each of the lower cubes symbolizing our being embodied in the universe.
The outline of a head around each middle cube, where the upper pearl is received, symbolizes our spiritual body. The non-symmetrical shape of these cubes represents the intersection of their multi-pandimensions. It symbolizes our spiritual body’s diverse participation in all of Word’s singularity.
In The Spiritual Story of Democracy, the drama of our spiritual bodies in agapé double light-folds engages the entire City of Name’s Agapé Light. The two squares within each cube symbolize our inner and outer vision of the city, the two blue spheres within them our inner and outer perception of the world in the city.
The oval sphere below the rose represents the universe receiving us before our birth in a physical body. The ring around the sphere represents time, appearing in our perception either as a superflux of change just below our bodily surface experience or the wholeness of Word’s eternal, nonchanging agapé in the present. The former is due to the word-symbol evil blinding our perception, the latter to the word-symbol democracy giving us permeating perception.
The three rings below oval sphere represent the three key genesis personages introduced in The Spiritual Drama of Democracy. The stars on three sides of the rounded cube within the human outline represent all of our genesis. This outline represents 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 the physical body, with inner corners designated, represents the inner experience of our life in this world, engaged in inner surface appearances. The cube to the right, without any display of inner corners, represents the outer experience, engaged in outer surface appearances.
The human figure at the center of each cube is birthed from its progenitors, represented by the two heads at the bottom of each cube. Here, we are members of our family, while the large human outline represents our individual relationship with Name in Word, working in the family, political, national and world double light-folds of Word’s singularity.
In full, the diagram represents our el-elohe-names in relation to the universe. Our spiritual permeations intersect this non-permeational world in a way explained as the pan-diamond room permeating the foyer of our house of knowledge. See 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 working in 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 working in 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 working in 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.
Suggested Articles:
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.