Contribution 4: Information in the Democracy of our World Conscience (Suneidesis)
For most of us, the most difficult part in this series, even more than the idea of loving someone we hate, even if it is only in the conscience, is believing that we are names of light. Every moment of our lives is filled with the physical experience of knowing one another and ourselves by facial consciousness. Although immensely logical that we are more than this experience, facial consciousness consumes us.
Then, we look at the sky and stars with our little faces and get lost again. How can Name be so great as to be greater than all this? Having made, created, manifested, however you see it, all of it, concealing the greater from our little faces of consciousness is no feat at all. But if knowledge of or using the principle has raised our conscience (suneidesis)1 and thus mind just a little, like a sparrow stretches its tiny legs to see more, then we have evidence that there is more that we can see…
Knowledge of Word gives us a portrayal of all of us looking back at our youth, saying, when I was a child, I spoke as a child. Referring to the innocence of our agapé (love) at that time, it says that agapé believes all things. As we grew, we learned to distinguish between all knowledge and all information and stopped believing all things.
We started testing every idea to see if it actually was knowledge as others claimed, either with our senses for scientific or academic knowledge or with our inner perception for knowledge of the conscience. If our conscience was governed by knowledge of a moral standard, we perceived information with it and, making snap judgments addictively, did not get passed many of its appearances. When governed by the principle, our perception of information identified appearances and, considering possible blindness in the conveyors, got past all relevant ones.
Perception of the Conscience
Knowledge of Word also gives us a portrayal of all of us in our maturity, saying, when I became an adult, [paraphrased] I spoke as an adult. Explaining our mature understanding of the perception of conscience, later we say that to the clean (conscience), all things are clean (in the conscience), but to the defiled (in conscience) and unbelieving (refusing to believe in the principle foremost), nothing is clean, but both their mind and conscience is defiled. The usage of is instead of are in the Greek text is not a mistake. It reveals the oneness of mind and conscience and their effect on each other as explained in the necessary blindness.
Willfulness
When governing our conscience with a moral standard, however, we interpret a clean conscience as the result of obeying the standard alone and being forgiven when we do not. Governing our conscience with the principle though, we interpret it as the result of keeping the principle through our moral standard, that is, loving all others in our conscience foremost and expressing it in the world through our moral standard, knowing that forgiveness comes from resuming the principle after failing to keep it due to addiction preventing us or doing so willfully.
Under either governance, the process of forgiveness and restitution is heavily influenced by our belief in Name as God or Life. But only under the principle can we have a clean conscience free from addiction, which, when achieved, makes failure to keep the principle completely willful. This is a much more serious act than willful failure under addiction, which is going further than our addiction compels us. The former requires more than simply resuming the principle to receive forgiveness. Before resumption can begin, a cycle of blindness occurs for however long needed.
The knowledge of conscience needed to make these distinctions is as important to our individual and collective well-being as true information and knowledge are to our democracy in the second stage. For the struggle against addiction is hopeless without true perception of the conscience, whereas with it, we learn how to overcome addiction without thinking we need to be perfect, one of the signs of a humble person and a humble nation.
While still under addiction but with a clean conscience under the principle, we can learn how to recognize addiction in our political, national and world-names and not mistake it for addiction in our personal name. Knowledge of Word also portrays this stage of our growth in adulthood where we are thinking, if I do wrong when I choose to do right, it is no longer I who do the wrong; it is wrongness in me (addiction working in political, national and world-names in my world conscience), adding, who will deliver me from this body of death (diamond bodily blindness)?
Recognition of addiction in these names is the first step in removing the addiction in our personal name. The second is using the principle to see through our blindness of these names by making them more important – not allowing our light to eclipse theirs so we can see the visual pattern of agapé in them, starting with Israel and Palestine. This frees us from that body of death. As a result, we have a clean conscience under the principle without addiction, and all of our past failures are forgiven, for our conscience is transformed, something we could not recognize in others when our conscience was governed by moral standards.
Knowledge of Yirah
Word delivers us from diamond bodily blindness not only with knowledge of the principle but with knowledge of yirah, together cleansing our conscience from the disabling agent of fear. Although translated fear in English, yirah is a Hebrew word that has a dual meaning. As part of all bodily blindness, yirah means fear, but at the same time, as part of all bodily light, yirah means cleansing. This cleansing takes away the blindness of fear, restoring the essence of yirah. Word said to be careful lest the light that is in you is darkness, which also tells us to be careful lest yirah, which is part of the light that is in us, is fear.
Knowledge of Word reveals that the yirah of Name is clean and endures forever, available even when we are blind. At such times, we can direct our fear onto Name with the knowledge that, by practicing the principle and yirah of Name blindly, Word brings us into the bodily light of a clean conscience, our eye of singular light, to practice them both in the light. Helping to free us from addiction in diamond bodily blindness, yirah of Name is Name’s treasure, a treasure second-stage democracy cannot live without. For it ensures that we breathe knowledge of the truth and get the information needed to work from our singularity in the world conscience.
Spiritually Smelling
Knowledge of Word reveals that yirah works in the spirit of knowledge and yirah of Name. Using this spirit or energy of God or Life, Word spiritually smells (smell translated from a Hebrew verb derived from the Hebrew noun for spirit) with the yirah of Name and does not judge by what the physical eye sees or what the physical ear hears – concerning the appearances that embody everything in this world. Word directly tells us not to judge by appearance but with the righteous judgment (of the principle, which works in the spirit of knowledge and yirah of Name).
For us, the act of spiritually smelling does more than free us from appearances. It is the fragrance of Word revealing the unsurpassed experience of knowing and being who we really are in the light of yirah ice, which reveals the aroma of Name’s mature agapé – the unsurpassed experience of knowing and being who we all really are collectively in Name.
In science, we can compare yirah ice to certain materials that, at extremely low temperatures, exhibit superconductivity. With electrical resistance becoming virtually zero, it allows electricity to flow with no loss of energy.
In the whole bodily light of a clean world conscience, Name’s mature agapé is conveyed in the light of yirah ice moving through the visual pattern of agapé, without any resistance from diamond bodily blindness. Within this movement, the light of democracy exchanges accurate information between the personal, political, national, and world circles in our singularity.
Conveyance of Information
The word angel in Hebrew and Greek means messenger, from the verb to message or convey. As names of light in the world conscience, we have the ability to convey, to convey one thing to those within our circles and another to those outside them, knowingly or not. In blindness, we think we are conveying one thing while conveying another, which makes it essential that, in addition to information itself, we keep the angels of our nation, national conveyance in our national conscience, cleansed of appearances.
Conveyance and False Conveyance of Word
Whether we see angels as heavenly or fallen beings or as processes of conveyance, everyone depends on them for knowledge and information. Although we may take it for granted that the knowledge of Word is conveyed correctly, we can at least test it in the perception of our conscience, or can we? If Word’s conveyance itself somehow creates blindness in us unknowingly, we would be testing the knowledge conveyed with false perception in our conscience and either reject it as false or, if false knowledge were conveyed in it, we would see it as true.
Word tells us that Satan is the father of the lie, a blind angel which, symbolic or not, is the conveyance of just one lie. This lie would not be so hard to expose were it not for the fact that this conveyance uses Word’s conveyance to blind us first, making it impossible to expose the lie. Knowledge of Word tells us that the appearance of Word’s presence (manifests) according to the working (energy) of Satan (blind conveyance). This represents blindness producing absolute resistance, resulting in zero conveyance of Name’s mature agapé in the light of yirah ice, the truth, and the appearance of full conveyance of Satan’s lie.
As for the lie itself, knowledge of Word reveals that we changed the truth of Name into the lie and served the creature instead of the Creator (the flesh instead of Name). Although first revealed as absolute truth, that we are living souls formed from the dust, it was stated this way only to prepare us for the absolute truth that we are life-giving spirit in Word, formed in the singularity of Name and moving in Name’s mature agapé in the light of yirah ice in the now of Word.
But once it was used to keep us from the truth, saying that we are living souls, creatures of the dust, became the lie, conveyed in our conscience by the working of blind conveyance that makes it appear to be coming from Word as the truth.
We have no choice but to believe that we are living souls from our first breath up to the point in our journey of knowledge where we are empowered to reason beyond appearances. If we refuse to continue our journey at this point, refusing what this knowledge reveals, we invite the necessary enemy of blindness into our conscience to keep ourselves blind to the truth – with the lie in false conveyance.
At some point, we all change the truth of Name (God or Life) into the lie, the moment we refuse the truth in our conscience. Consumed by facial consciousness and the greatness of the universe, we have no memory of it or will have none if we reach this point in our journey and stop learning. We need to know this process so that we can renew our mind with who we are and be freed from the addiction that we have created collectively in our world conscience.
The Dokimon Mind and Mature Agapé
Word of knowledge also portrays those of us who reach maturity first and teach those of us who have not yet done so. They encourage us not to be children in our minds, although babes in the worthless (reasoning of blindness), but to be mature in our minds (foremost to have mature agapé like Name). The knowledge a mature mind uses and the perception a clean conscience uses together produce mature agapé like the agapé of Name. We need it to understand the enemies of democracy spreading false information in our world conscience through false conveyance of Word.
Knowledge of Word states that agapé grows and grows in knowledge and all perception, not all knowledge, all perception. There are two Greek words for knowledge, the one used here meaning mature knowledge. Our mind needs mature knowledge to interpret all perception in the world and in the world conscience. This process gradually produces an efflorescence in our mind, an unfolding of its light as the principle takes its central position in the maturing of our agapé.
The unfolding shows that much of our own perception has been locked out of the now of Word. But as our agapé matures, our perception is becoming less and less a part of the appearances that are falsely conveyed as true knowledge or accurate information.
The transition from first-stage to second-stage democracy is the collective transformation of agapé into mature agapé, by national and world events moving us to resume our journey of knowledge. As stated, even when we are blind, we can still direct our fear onto Name (God or Life). But now we can do so with the knowledge that, by practicing the principle and yirah of Name blindly, Word unfolds our whole bodily light in a clean world conscience to practice them in the yirah light of Word’s now. This is the part of all perception where we understand the generational and ancestral appearances veiling the democracy of our world conscience, displaying Name’s mature agapé in the unfolded efflorescence of the mind of Name.
Knowledge of Word states that there is no fear in the agapé (that grows and grows), but mature agapé casts out the fear (in blindness) because the fear (in blindness) has torment. One who fears has not been matured in the agapé (that uses the fragrance of Word and moves with Name’s agapé in the light of yirah ice, a love stronger than death even for the enemies of conscience).
The Appearance of Anger
The quick understanding of mature agapé gets us beyond the appearance of anger we see in each other, particularly in the endless conflicts engendered by democracy in the first stage. Knowledge of Word reveals that the irreverent store up anger in their heart (revenge for others); they do not cry out for help when Name binds them (with false conveyance of Word).
Binding our perception this way makes us believe that Name’s anger at us for not loving the enemies of our conscience is actually our own revengeful anger working in hatred stronger than death. Whether it is one person or nation misusing Name’s anger to get another person or nation to misuse Name’s yirah and fear them, or two people or nations misusing Name’s anger against each other to make themselves more important, we should continue using the principle and never give up our perception of Name binding their perception.
Blindness to Name’s agapé anger is conveyed between Israel and Palestine and reflected in diamond bodily blindness throughout the world conscience. But the mature mind tests it and sees Word conveying the truth, for the mature mind is a dokimon mind, a Greek word meaning testing. With mature knowledge, it tests all perception by spiritually smelling with the yirah of Name until it uncovers Word and Name’s fragrance in all names, citizens of our national and world democracies.
The Adokimon Mind
When we changed the truth of Name into the lie, we limited our conscience and knowledge of Word revealed that we were given over to an adokimon mind, the mind in a state of non-testing, a state of blindness. Believing every appearance since it cannot test it, the adokimon mind worships false conveyance of Word and its lie. We did not know what we were doing.
The anger, fear and darkness we thought we knew were the anger, yirah and light of Name’s agapé in our bodily light. Here, in the democracy of our world conscience, it kept us from seeing Word manifesting us and the names of light all around us.
Contribution 5: The Two Singularities in World Democracy
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.