Spirituality and Democracy 3
The Voices of Hatred will be Silenced when the Voices of Unconditional Love are Respected
The practical value of this teaching is obvious when we can experience everyday events in the Now of Word. It is also called the now of our world conscience (suneidesis),1 where the voices of unconditional love speak. Time does not fly here; it does not exist here, while simultaneously we are also moving in a physical reality centered on time. Politics is part of the Now of Word when our conscientious reality oversees our physical reality. When it does not, a money-time reality oversees our suneidesis,2 where the voices of hatred speak. This veils us from the timeless interaction between Name and Word in the exquisite light of our world suneidesis.
Politics in the Now of Word is about spiritual justice, which encompasses racial justice, gender justice and so on, without forcing us to know each other according to physical attributes. We are quite capable of knowing each other in our symbolic form in the light of Name while working with issues created by our physical differences. For the singularity of our light in democracy is a position of strength in Word. With it, we can examine the political crisis today and respond wisely.
Review
Spirituality and Democracy 2 introduced the all-important knowledge of seeing the form of Name’s light symbolically. It is the basis for getting to know each other according to our symbolic form in Name’s light. Without it, The Practical Guide makes no sense and our collective vision of democracy cannot develop beyond its partial misuse of capitalism. See Capitalism in the Democracy of our Conscience (Suneidesis).
Understanding our symbolic form in the light of Name, we see the value in blessing those of us using illusory boundaries in limited agapé (love). If we cannot see this value, we do not grasp our singularity and remain in our own illusory boundaries, passed down to us generationally through our own lineage or another’s. We do not have to be blind to the singularity of our democracy in the world suneidesis, or its position in the interaction between Name and Word’s exquisite light, or to others’ blindness to it in the current political crisis.
Envisioning
To see physically, we simply open our eyes. To see spiritually after learning the basics, we need to envision what is already manifest in our world suneidesis but not visible to us. Knowledge of Word provides us with the testimony of two individuals, David and John, who fully understood this, both translated literally here from Hebrew and Greek, respectively.
“I envisioned You (Name) in the sanctuary to see Your power and Your glory.” (Psalm 63:2) If we envision Name incorrectly, we are only imagining.
“We know that when he (Word) manifests, we will be like him because we will envision him just as he is.” (1 John 3:2) If we envision Word incorrectly, we are only imagining and will not be like Word through the nature of our suneidesis.
This is the nature of spiritual light in our suneidesis, transforming us into it when we understand it and can use it to see it from our position permeating it. Seeing Name and its memory in the Now of Word, by seeing with it, transforms us into its light. This is key: not seeing alone, but envisioning our symbolic forms to have them triggered into indescribable forms to see with in and of the light of Name.
Seeing ourselves according to physical attributes carries over into how we incorrectly envision Name and Word. And this leads to the main error of thinking that agapé can be directly experienced in our human forms, even directly expressed in our human faces. But the nature of our experience as bodily names of agapé light works in a singularity in the Now of Word in the unlimited agapé light of Name. It is beyond our individual or collective physical experience, but we can each experience it directly in our suneidesis and express it indirectly through our physical body. Unless we envision and see Name and Word with this singularity of their agapé light, we are envisioning them and each other incorrectly.
Symbolic Forms of Agapé
Words, of course, cannot describe the actual form of Name’s agapé light, so to help us envision the visual pattern of agapé, knowledge of Word provides us with the dimensions of Word’s permeating light through two symbols: double light-folds and a glass cube. By envisioning our singularity in these forms of Word’s agapé light, we can symbolically see each other and trigger vision of Word’s manifestation in the light of our world suneidesis. It is beyond all description with our languages, for one, because it is part of the Now of Word. If it is correct up to this point, we can use it to see with and are just one step away from envisioning Word interacting with Name in their timeless exquisite light, and those of us participating blindly.
Preparing to envision the Exquisite Light
The phrase double light-folds indicates that our unfolded light permeates each other and forms light-folds that permeate each other in double light-folds, together, four bodily names of light. They coalesce into single formations that work in the form of the symbolic glass cube, which is held together by six double light-folds, twenty-four bodily names of light, the form of our singularity in the agapé light of Word. It is organized between us as permeating bodily names in the agapé light of Name, with our personal (adopted) name housing our political, national and world-names from its permeating nucleus.
Each level of the collective part of our personal names consists of massive numbers of double light-folds, but they appear as only one since they all permeate each other in the same position of the cube of light. However, all appear through two or more names in the same position when we take interaction into account. All four levels coalesce into our singularity, our bodily agapé light in Name, working in the exquisite light of the Now of Word. We harm ourselves as members of it—only when misusing it to make ourselves more important.
Laying the Visual Groundwork for Form within Non-form
As the light of Word, our singularity also exists in each of us since Word exists as the life of each of us. This lays the visual groundwork for our names of light to be manifested in multiple positions simultaneously. Knowledge of Word reveals this about Name with the revelation Name made it rain fire and brimstone from Name in heaven. Name is omnipresent and, in this reality, without form, for form cannot be omnipresent, Name takes countless forms within its omnipresence, each being Name in full. The greatest concentration of forms within Name’s omnipresence with Word is their exquisite light-fold in our double light-folds of cubic glass.
Being in the image of Name through Word, according to knowledge of Word, we each occupy a single omnipresent permeation in them, with countless forms of our name manifest in our omnipresent permeation through Word’s singularity in each of us. This is what makes seeing with Word’s forms possible, for we permeate them already since they are manifest in our omnipresent permeation. Word said, Wherever I am, you will be there too.
The Greek word for brimstone is a variation of the Greek word for God. This reveals that Name’s presence in our blindness has the effect of brimstone, the burning effect present when trying to misuse agapé in our singularity, denying us access to the blessed agapé in the exquisite light of the Now of Word. This happens when we make ourselves more important knowingly to take advantage of someone. Thus, with our bodily names of agapé light manifesting multiple times in Word—it either multiplies the burning in our world suneidesis or it multiplies the scope of our view of Name’s beauty in its multiple presences with Word in their exquisite light.
Now we are ready to envision and see Word and Name interacting in their timeless exquisite light, which encompasses the democracy light of our world suneidesis, including those of us participating blindly in it.
The Piety Light of Illusion
As explained in The Practical Guide, we bless those of us who are blind (implying completely blind since we all have a blind part free from addiction or not) for who they are when we can see their illusion of being the source of their own light. It can be envisioned since it works through misuse of three aspects of Name’s light in appearances. In such illusion, they imagine they are able to use time to wrestle with Name’s light in the Now of Word. We envision them blindly wrestling Name in its exquisite interaction with Word and envision them again in the piety light of Word. This light is another form of Name’s agapé light in Word—one showing Word appearing as though it were their illusion.
When seeing through the illusion, we see Word’s piety light as agapé light in the exquisite interaction. When we do not, we partake of the illusion also and participate in the exquisite interaction blindly, unable to give Name all our agapé through each other.
Participating with Vision in Pairs
To start, we need to envision another name of light through our name of light in a light-fold. Making theirs more important without being against ourselves, we do not allow either light to block out the other—so that we can give Name all our agapé light through theirs as they do the same through us, even when they do so blindly through Word’s piety light. It is already manifest in our world suneidesis, waiting for us to envision. In fact, it is manifest in Name and Word loving each other this way, for their exquisite interaction is our world suneidesis and Word’s piety light is part of it.
Then, we need two more names of light to get a better idea of the visual pattern of agapé in double light-folds. But there is no need to envision this in all its details. To account for all the light-folds, relationships, working between four names of light, each name manifests three times simultaneously in Word’s singularity in its own omnipresent permeation—all permeating each other to form light-folds and double light-folds in the symbolic glass cube.
All four names form six pairs of light-folds between each other. Two pairs form a double light-fold in cubic glass, the six forming three glass cubes or sets. Each set is a different arrangement between the four names in their light-folds, with all three glass cubes permeating each other as one cubic form in the singularity of Word’s agapé light of names. They all partake of the exquisite interaction between Name and Word in their exquisite light-fold permeating their light-folds, thus, in substance at least, they all make each other more important individually and collectively.
Each manifestation of our personal name, a bodily agapé name in the light of Name, participates in double light-folds on the political, national and world-name levels through its permeational nucleus. With this expansion, we collectively make each other more important on massive scales permeationally within and between us. But believing that we are limited agapé names of bodily light, we use appearances to form illusory boundaries and experience existence mostly through Word’s piety light.
A Detailed Example
Let’s take the personal name of light Hannah, with the political, national and world-name Likud Israeli Jew. In one set, let’s say Hannah pairs up with the personal name of light Aaliyah, expanded to Hamas Palestinian Muslim. Let’s say the second pair of this set is between the personal names of light Emma and Anahita, expanded to Republican American Christian and National-Front Iranian Muslim, respectively. Hannah and Emma are likely to have similar illusory boundaries, as are Aaliyah and Anahita, neither pairs making the other more important.
The two other sets show Emma and Anahita each in pairs with Hannah, and the remaining two names of light in each set in their own pairs. Through the two double light-folds in each set, Hannah sees Emma, Anahita and Aaliyah in a triple light-fold, as each of them sees the other three in triple light-folds. Illusory boundaries are multilayered here, but the single cubic form of agapé names of light in Word’s singularity never loses its good boundaries in Name’s light.
The pattern continues with each additional name of light revealing more of the depths of the permeational nucleus of all positions, always manifest in the exquisite light pattern. Once envisioned with the light of our mind, it is triggered with the light of our heart for us to see and see with as an immeasurable part of Name’s City of Agapé Light. Like infinitely-deep facets of a perfect diamond, everyone reflects everyone else’s crystalline faces of agapé light in and between each other.
Participating Blindly in Pairs
Focusing on the blindness in Hannah, the illusion in appearances, we can follow the guide and cleanse the eyes of our heart to see and bless her for who she really is, a bodily agapé name in the light of Name. We can recognize that when she expresses hateful anger against anyone who threatens her loved ones, it is her misuse of Name’s healthy anger against her. For she refuses to make all others more important and spiritually mature by using agapé-anger stronger than death to protect her loved ones. She thus suffers by experiencing Name’s love for her as brimstone in its anger for her. Amplifying it, she blames Aaliyah in their double light-folds, who, doing the same in return, puts them in a tailspin.
When we make Hannah and Aaliyah more important in our double light-folds with them, working through visions in our suneidesis with or without being in person, Name’s healthy anger for them works through us—in our desire to see Name and its memory in them in the Now of Word. It empowers us to give Name all our agapé through them as well as Emma and Anahita in our cubic position. All of our agapé light-folds manifest in the exquisite light between Name and Word and again, to different degrees, in Word’s piety light. And by using the principle to govern our world suneidesis like this on all levels of our names, we do not allow our moral standards to form political illusions in Word’s piety light.
There is not any real political opposition between parties in Iran or Palestine, so having the political names National Front and Hamas, Anahita and Aaliyah, respectively, is not necessarily a sign that they are under political illusion in Word’s piety light. For they might just be using these names as a means of survival. With political opposition in Israel and the United States though, Hannah and Emma are most likely in truth a Likud party member and Republican, respectively.
However, there are strong autocratic leanings in both of these parties due to religious beliefs favoring kings over democracy. Hannah and Emma may be blind to this or openly for or against it. The question is whether they use the principle first and not moral standards in their world suneidesis. If not, they are blinded by political moral standards governing their thoughts and feelings, working through political illusion that addicts many to judging others.
King David loved his enemies, but none of the other Israeli kings in history did. They all blindly wrestled with Name by knowing themselves as living souls and not life-giving spirit, in form, bodily names in the agapé light of Name.
A Vision of the City of Agapé Light
Now in the fulfillment of the times of the nations, we are witnessing the historic completion of all of our nation-name boundaries, determined by the agapé light of pearl uniting and transparentizing us or polarizing and entangling us. Outwardly in our world-names and inwardly in our political names, our boundaries as nation-names form the cubic glass formations in the timeless Now of Word. The hyper-brilliant forms of our agapé names of light are already manifest pan-arrayed in the singularity of Word’s world suneidesis. This form of Word is ready for us to envision, folding and refolding us in the exquisite light-fold suspending us within Name and Word.
Behold the unbending beauty of all of Word’s nation-names of light permeating each other here in one suspended position pan-center. At any one time, it appears first through four bodily agapé names interacting in its cubic double light-folds. Word’s world suneidesis reveals itself to be the City of Agapé Light. It displays the full singularity of Name and Word’s unfolded efflorescences forming the exquisite light-fold and appearing in us—the nation-names of the city’s agapé light—radiating as gems at the pan-nucleus of the city.
Superseded
By consciously participating in the exquisite exchange between Name and Word, making each other more important in their light-fold permeating ours, our desire is fulfilled and we are completely pleased with one another. When blind to this though in the piety light of Word in but not of their exquisiteness, our mind and suneidesis are superseded here by Word being our life, showing us consciously participating anyway.
To envision this and see Hannah, Aaliyah, Emma and Anahita’s double light-folds as part of it, first of all, again it does not matter whether they are physically in the same room or we are there with them. For the very thought of each other either empowers us to envision each other in the City of Agapé Light, including every superseded presence, or it blinds us to our superseded participation in it through the misuse of appearances in the illusory city of chaos. This is the symbolic City of Babylon,3 where chaos is the envied lifestyle of its elite in Word’s piety light. Rather than wrestling with Name blindly in this city, they have another choice.
Through the service of those of us who love them as enemies of the world suneidesis, they, as bodily names of agapé light, can be shown how to see themselves as unfolded permeations joined to each other in light-folds, each one participating in the exquisite light-fold permeating them transparently. In their first experience of this pan-reality, together they can see through the appearances they previously used to form blinding illusions of themselves in each other’s eyes. At this point, they are still unaware they are being superseded in Word’s piety light in the exquisite light-fold.
But then, joined in agapé double light-folds manifesting in the cubic glass formations of the City of Agapé Light, they suddenly realize that they were being superseded here. They find themselves with those they previously hated, together entering the cubic glass formations of the city through their fragrant, self-existent double gates of peace.
With the agapé light of Word in your heart, trigger these symbols, first formed with the light of Word in your mind, to see Name in Word’s singularity of names.
The Spiritual Battle Before Us
The problem before us—in the climax of a world political crisis that has been evolving over thousands of years—is getting those of us who choose the light over blindness to learn how to envision it and see with it. And yet, seeing it as a problem indicates that we are still not seeing well enough ourselves. We did it as children, for it works naturally from the agapé light we are, but now we need the specific knowledge in Word to restore it.
Apply what you have been experiencing through your understanding of the word suneidesis. Co-conscientious awareness extends to anything from a cup to an entire nation of people. Suneidesis allows us to be aware objectively to a much higher degree—while simultaneously experiencing the conscientiousness of the principle in others and the degree to which there is blindness to it among them. Use this rule to discern the degree: the voices of hatred are silenced to the degree the voices of unconditional love are respected.
The key to enduring the crisis is to see everyday events and the past—as part of Name and its memory. For one, that means stop seeing the past through the false eyes of living souls and see it through Name’s memory of us as life-giving spirit temporary blinded. See memories as they are linked to ships from the past, arriving now at the fulfillment of the times of nation-names. Their ancient hulls are right now being instantly filled with the Now of Word, no longer able to stop and start time in our suneidesis. It allows everyday events to disembark from these bygone ships and humbly step into this world as it exists in but not of the Now of Word.
Look around with your agapé light of pearl, the world is full of blind names in Word’s piety light and seeing names who are after the heart of Name through them.
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Suneidesis is pronounced soon-eye-day-sis. After reading the link explaining it, you will see how central it is to this teaching. Using this foreign word regularly in discussions helps us get accustomed to experiencing something new and positive in our awareness. 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.
Misusing Name’s aspects inverts our perception of each other in Name and Word’s interaction. Such inversion is symbolized by the full Hebrew word for heart spelled backwards, translated Babel or Babylon, which means “chaos”. Blessing others according to how we see them in truth removes any remaining chaos in the eyes of our heart.
Thank you for such contemplated thoughts and readings and feelings and beliefs.
This is good! It reminds me of deep Jewish teaching💙