The All-Knowingness of Our Worlds
Seeing outside it with the mind of the heart
***If you do not see the relevance of the following to the political upheaval today, you may have already lost the battle of perspectives.***
The All-Knowing Attribute
Did you know that when you love, have agapé, you have agapé’s all-knowing attribute? Do you know what this attribute is in spirituality and democracy?
Knowledge of Word explains it like this: Name is agapé. One who loves knows Name...(If you love), you have charisma from the sacred (agapé) and you know all.
Since Name is agapé, what could be more sacred or holy than agapé? Breathe that in, for holiness is meant to be breathed in and experienced in all of our lives as shown in The Spiritual Story of Democracy.
And since Name is all-knowing, agapé is also. Therefore, if we have agapé, we are clothed with Name’s all-knowing attribute, by the anointing charisma1 of agapé. But it must be agapé in its original form Word, for Name’s Word is agapé, not the same but the same. This is spirituality.
All-Knowingness Transfers Without Loss of Substance
Unlike all transfer in the universe, the agapé of Name transfers as the agapé of Word without any loss of substance, carried over in its all-knowing attribute.
Now, “knowing all” does not mean we “know about all.” Knowledge of Word states that the charisma teaches us about all. This is not a minor difference, but at the same time it is when we consider what the all is that we know. Call to experience or focus on the mysteriously-sublime feeling of agapé if you are already experiencing it now. It is at its brightest when loving the spiritually blind or at least those whom we think are according to what we know about them — whereas each political party sees the other as blind without loving them as their political enemy. Agapé is at its brightest when loving the blind despite what we know about them because this is when we have greatest compassion for their state of mind and then experience their allness.
Hatred and tolerance come from what we know about others, while agapé is foremost unconditional love based on knowing others in the allness of their personhood.
The experience itself of knowing all is first knowing — the all of Name’s personhood and Word’s, the singularity of Word, and the oneness between them and their agapé, beyond all human knowledge and experience alone. It is an allness experienced and understood only in the oneness of our mind and conscience (suneidesis)2 working in the mind (dianoia) of our heart.
With the dianoia of our heart, we directly know Name and, with our mind (nous) able to understand what our suneidesis3 reveals about Name, we can thus hold the all-knowing experience of agapé as it permeationally transfers between Name and Word in us. This leads to the experience of it transferring permeationally between us, without any loss of substance.
Reasoning with the Appearance of All-Knowingness
Now, how do we reason with those who believe they have the all-knowing attribute of agapé but do not? Do you have it or only think you have it? Can you be reasoned with, reason with others who see things differently, all based on the principle of agapé?
Name’s Word is agapé. Life’s truth is agapé.
We see both political sides judging each other as though they have an agapé all-knowing perspective of the other. Their words speak right to each other’s suneidesis but from their perspectives only, without the dianoia of their hearts.
Both sides hope that what is true in their eyes awakens the other’s eyes. Shock therapy for the suneidesis. But no one can rush the conscience of the suneidesis.
Consider the following description of how, today, the shared two-way mirror of two political sides of the suneidesis communicates. Remember, suneidesis is co-conscientious awareness.
They each color what comes in from the other with their own impurities and reflect it back into what their impurities imagine the other’s lesser state can understand. A death spiral, but under the pressures we are in, it often, for the sake of survival, forces the state of one or both political sides into the colorless, pure reflection of agapé.
A purely reflective suneidesis operating under agapé does not require a perfect person but only one who sees Word’s agapé with the dianoia of their heart. First that means we make the suneidesis of others more important than our own.
Then, we create communication that carries undistorted meaning to convey conscientious thought as each side sees itself, without letting it get twisted into something it is not by the other side. When both sides feel their thoughts are being heard and not judged by the other, we move on to the work of discerning how this works in the all-knowing attribute of agapé.
We all work from the all-knowingness of our own world, be that a tent on the street or a large community holding each other responsible. How much we know about it is secondary.
All sides can be wrong or right in each other’s eyes but unaware of it — if unable to recognize the limitations of their own all-knowingness. With agapé though, we can expand our all-knowingness to include those we dislike but have made more important, regardless of whether they do the same for us. This puts us in a position to better understand what is in their eyes, as well as our own.
Conveying undistorted meaning of conscientious thought is possible within one’s experience of agapé all-knowingness, not outside of it. Knowing this gives way to recognizing the transfer of Name’s agapé without any loss of substance. Then the focus can turn to finding where loss of meaning occurs between groups so negotiating of meaning can resolve it. This is spirituality and democracy.
The Historic Depths of the All-Knowingness of Agapé
Finally, consider the historic depths to this. In the United States, on the democratic side, the movie industry has long glorified the human body without regard for the all-knowingness of agapé. On the republican side, churches have long glorified the life of moral people without regard for the all-knowingness of agapé. In both cases, consider the aspects of fear, anger and desire as explained visually in the Three Refined Rules of The Practical Guide.
Many of us grew up in this all-knowing American world, with many of us grasping in the dark for the light of all-knowing agapé.
Every nation has its own. Before Israel was a nation again, there was too much disaster during the Holocaust for Jews to hear about the all-knowingness of agapé. Today, before Palestine is a nation again, there is too much disaster in Gaza for these Muslims to hear about the all-knowingness of agapé. The prayer is for the semitic brothers Israel and Palestine to adopt the principle and live as neighbors in the only true peace, the light of agapé.
Here, conveying the undistorted meaning of conscientious thought between them is possible without being against the singularity between themselves and the rest of us.
In the process, the world must take responsibility for its role in turning Israel into what it has become, by having denied its children refuge from Hitler, just as we must take responsibility for our role in what Hamas has become by having subjected the Palestinians to what Israel has become.4
Individually, we too may be in a place of too much disaster to hear the truth about the all-knowingness of agapé. But even if we can hear it, knowing that things are wrong still in the world, the all-knowingness of our own world keeps us trapped. We go in circles making a myriad of excuses to avoid learning how to envision the all-knowingness of Word’s agapé with the noéma mental-function of envisioning in our hearts.
However, again, it is times like these that reveal the way for all of us to enter the colorless, pure reflection of Name’s agapé for us, transferring between us without loss. May The Practical Guide and the all-knowing attribute of Word’s agapé get us there sooner than later.
Suggested Reading:
The Spiritual Story of Democracy
The Eyes of Democracy (Introduction and Index of Articles)
Charisma is an English word from chrisma in Greek. It is normally translated anointing. One of the meanings for charisma is “a divinely conferred power or talent”. I use it this way to allow nonbelievers to join in without having to believe in all that comes along with anointings in the Bible and tradition.
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.
If 165 million Americans were murdered and the rest of the world could have prevented it, half the population, the next ten generations of Americans would have a distorted view of the world. Israel lost half of its population only four generations ago because the world did not let them enter their countries. Where was the all-knowingness of agapé?
This is not meant to offend anyone. It is only intended to bring attention to what Israel and Hamas must be going through without excusing their behavior.
George, I love how you show that agapé isn’t about knowing it all but about seeing with the heart. Such an important reminder toward compassion.
—Afterforever