Discussion 2: When Reading "The Spiritual Story of Democracy"

It restores the reflective nature in the singularity of our suneidesis.

Nov 15, 2024

This is an updated version of the article published Nov 15, 2024, no different than its republished form on May 17, 2025. Keeping both published is to preserve restack links.

Next in our journey is to check the soundness of our house of knowledge. We need to be able to verify our perception of things within and outside our circles to make others more important in ways that are meaningful to them. This requires the reflective nature in the singularity of our suneidesis to be sound.

First Thoughts

To the degree you manifested the spiritual essence of The Spiritual Story of Democracy, you possess its essence in the senses of your heart and have memory of the visions you formed of it. Unlike other visions though, these work from the structural drama of your house of knowledge, vivifying your conscience (suneidesis)1 when using the principle for anyone. The degree to which we are not able to manifest its spiritual essence is due to our holding on to the temporary self-image of the image of woman or the image of man, explained in Jane and the Image of Woman.

The general story of democracy is about resolving the conflict of visions between political parties. It all works from false identification with the physical body. Those suffering under the image of woman envision men as the problem; those under the image of man envision women as the problem. Both are right—men who think they are men and women who think they are women are the problem. The same is true for every non-heterosexual type of false identification with the body.

And all are wrong—gender is only one way to express the problem, not the problem itself. The problem is that, although we are all life-giving spirit, whose nature it is to love, including the enemies of conscience, some of us prefer blindness. But we can also change our minds, as some of us do after reading such stories.

The thing to remember is that choosing to change restores the reflective nature in the singularity of our suneidesis2 step by step. That means we see with a better singularity from our co-conscientiousness and reflect what we see better. And we can see the division between the singularity and reflective nature in our world suneidesis better. Those under the division in their perception will appear to be more conflicted and, as a result, we may feel more conflicted until we recognize that it is only our restored reflective singularity reflecting their division better, there for us to understand things better and love them through the principle.

Strengthening Our House of Knowledge

A. As we move away from the images of woman and man as living souls with soulish bodies, working in the illusion of the story, we learn about the structure of our spiritual body as life-giving spirit in the image of Word, working in the reality of agapé light in the story. Being able to distinguish these strengthens our house of knowledge, empowering us to verify our perception of things within and outside our circles—to make others more important in ways that are meaningful to them.

Consider the word ethnos in Greek. It means both citizen and nation. The spiritual body of Word consists of us individually as names of light and as part of our nations of light, all nations in the world in their spiritual singularity of light. Word's national and world singularities are joined in its spiritual political singularity. The image of Word thus serves as an individual, political, national and world self-image for each of us in our spiritual body as part of Word's whole spiritual body. Consider such light in the eyes and mind of your heart, not in any form even remotely resembling the physical body and obviously not its gender. Taken from the Spiritual Story of Democracy—

And yet, there is a oneness between the physical and spiritual bodies, which includes their human and spiritual words. They are not one in the same, but have an in-each-other oneness, translating and interpreting the contours of the principle throughout the world, the structural drama of our house of knowledge.

B. There is no self-opposition in Word’s spiritual body itself, only the opposition between seeing with the eyes of its spiritual senses, according to the principle, and being blind without the principle. As expected, with the soulish body, we use moral standards to govern the blind part of our suneidesis and thus judge others to justify our soulish self-importance. With the spiritual body, we use the principle to govern our suneidesis and, as played out in the story, form others with bodily agapé names in our singularity to give Name all our agapé through.

We hear the judgment working in the self-opposition in and between the images of woman and man in our world singularity, but working from the agapé light in Word’s door that is two, the doors of importance, we are not deceived into thinking it is judgment coming from or about us. Thus, it keeps us humble, even in the presence of those who hate humility due to their blindness. Through these doors, everyone is welcome to enter the democracy of our world suneidesis, but Word only lets those in who want to learn the principle, even though we may not even know we want to when being let in.

At times under pressure, we all surrender our awareness of Word’s agapé door that is two, at least for a moment, forcing us to resort back to moral standards alone to govern our suneidesis. During these moments, we cannot comprehend how Word’s judgment, the reasoning of our suneidesis, can be based on the principle. For blindness holds on to its blindness of the past.

However, through the light of the principle in our awareness, Word overlooks past failures if we practice the principle and, as explained in The Spiritual Drama of Democracy, resolve unresolved stories in our past through the structural drama in our house of knowledge. This allows us to develop our moral standard according to the oneness between the singularity and reflective nature of our suneidesis governed by the principle.

Israel and Palestine’s World Suneidesis

To maintain this oneness in our suneidesis, we need to make the democracies or struggling democracies in Israel and Palestine’s world suneidesis more important than our own. For their seeing and blind areas work through the seeing and blind areas of our spiritual political singularity—in our spiritual and soulish national bodies. Like all nations in the fulfillment of times, their political parties in part suffer the self-opposition of living souls, unable to handle different moral standards or interpretations of them—governing their respective national suneideseis (plural).

Challenged by the ancestral blindness in Israel and Palestine’s world suneidesis, every nation’s reasoning works from whether or not they resist such blindness. or resist the actions of their blindness blindly. Resisting blindness is like resisting a shadow. We get ensnared in the warring drama of the shadow, and the ancient war starts raging again through the generational war in our national singularity. But by not resisting it but seeing their illusion with the principle, we see the outcome of their agapé light—their collective visions of enlightened mature agapé—in the face of Name looking at them with it. In Chapter Four of the Spiritual Story of Democracy, it reads:

Out of the clear-glass wombs of Name’s goodness, Israel and Palestine’s nation-names manifest anew and mirror themselves into chrysoprase living faces for each other. It renders the effects that involuntary reactions had on their thoughts and joints completely useless. Through each other, they see the jasper hues of the Israeli and many Gazan souls—who have risen by the power of Name’s Word in their forgiveness for one another.

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