Two days will suffice

 Infinity Files

 

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 

Thus begins the book of Genesis. A rather succinct description of how it all started.

 

How He did it we know not. That is proprietary information. Who or what God might be, as yet, we know not – that comes later towards the end of the first chapter:

 

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

²⁷ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

In other words, whoever or whatever God is or was – man is made in his image.

 

Now, it may look like this is a bible study essay but nothing could be further from the truth. We at g-nomeportal are a practical bunch, concerned with the simple truth, no matter what that might be. So by deduction we arrive at the following:

 

Before Creation of this world or the universe we are currently inhabiting there was neither heaven nor earth, neither day nor night, neither sea nor land, neither plants nor creatures nor man – in other words, there was no thing whatsoever.

 

What does this mean? How can there be  “no thing whatsoever”? Difficult to get to get your head round when all we know are things, and language itself is predicated on little things called words exchanging information about abstract or non-abstract named-things, in other words, wholly unsuited it is to dealing with thinglessness.

Interestingly, a total absence of things is not, in fact, the same as “nothing”. There were no things – but that’s not to say that there was a pure vacuum or nothing. Paradoxically, a pure vacuum is also a thing of sorts, an absence of matter and molecules, but not an absence of electro-magnetic or gravitational fields, or energies. In fact, your “no thing whatsoever” is, in all likelihood, just as full and teeming as your created space, if you're willing to get over your thing bias.

 

How can that be? You might ask. How does God paradigm shift us from an ill-defined or indefinable infinity reminiscent of the conjectured quantum field, into by God – it's time for things to matter, eclipsing all else. 

 

Well, in order to create things such as heaven and earth God – whoever or whatever that might be – has to establish a universal perception – a witness – an observer – an all-seeing eye – if you like. Only then is it meaningful or possible to continue as follows:

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

This may seem to be a minor matter – but without a central or objective observer infinity is able to slip in and unmake or remake whatever has been created before it can register, or be registered.

 

Next, we require a sense of time – for there to be sequential action. Another inroad into the freedoms of infinity. Space and time are meaningless or impossible concepts where infinity is concerned – for they imply divisions which cannot be permitted if infinity is to be anything less than infinite.

 

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Obviously there’s a lot going on here. It’s bewildering for the mind of men living in 3D reality to contemplate how God could or did create light, or the sun if you prefer. But, on the other hand, it would be bewildering for a dog or goldfish to try to contemplate how we create the many objects they see us using – cars, computers, houses, stories and on the list goes. Obviously dogs and goldfish don’t need to know such things. Nor are they apparently made in God’s image so they are a further step removed from the business of thinking and understanding.

 

We may not be able to understand how God did it – but that doesn’t necessarily mean we are infinitely far removed from God’s creation process. The opposite, in fact, may be the case. Everyday men and women are busy with creation – writing stories, essays, music, painting, designing new products – each to his own. In all likelihood creation is creation at every level. If it is “good” – if it tends towards further growth and development of whatever it is that God initiated, then we feel and sense that, and we are not only inspired to continue, but in all likelihood rewarded for our efforts in order to facilitate our continuance.

 

So we have this abstract term “good” which I’m neither able nor willing to define. At g-nomeportal we eschew all definitions – knowing them to be at best meaningless, at worst highly misleading or deceptive. Instead of seeking to define good – let’s assume that we are one leg in finity – the world or reality we now find ourselves in, and another leg still there – in the realm of 0=1 – infinity itself. Were this not the case, were we entirely within the system, it would be absurd to say we were made in God’s image. God’s image does not simply refer to aesthetic appearances. It implies us being a seed or son of God. Failing that, if you object to this suggestion, it implies that we are clones. We may not be aware of the heights and depths – but those heights and depths must be somehow baked into the cake, present within our DNA if you like, otherwise it would be a one pony show – God’s, and God’s alone. We would simply be bumbling, incoherent bots, capable of moving dirt around, capable of manipulating the odd sound, number or word, but in no way capable of achieving any higher meaning, any breakthrough whatsoever.

 

So back to “good”. This seems to be a vital part of the process – and yes – we are taking about a process with an upstream and downstream component – in other words – it’s time sensitive as well as being sensible to the “good” – whatever that might be.

 

The “good” – eschewing all definitions as utter nonsense – the God side of us – whether it’s deep in our heart or merely baked into the structure of our DNA is and must be capable of applying the good litmus to whatever it is we’re creating in order to sense whether or not we’re on the right track. In this case – God continues after creating Light – because it felt right. It had legs. It was a good, strong iteration that could be taken further.

 

So now we’ve completed the first “day” – and what a day it’s been. Time and a river of sequentiality is now established. How, we know not. It all looks a little too easy – does it not? Just a flick of the wand, but then again – we’re not informed how many previous attempts there were before God got it right. Does that not sound irreverential? Let us be absolutely clear, dear readers. There is no desire whatsoever to be irreverential. Quite the opposite. We are concerned with truth and light. We are concerned with simply dealing with the facts. Whoever or whatever God is – the connection between Him and his men and women is too obvious, too close, too complete for it to be anything less than disingenuous to suppose or assert that God himself, or the creative force that he wielded, can be absent from us, his children. We are in some way taking his work into the next iteration. We are in some way infinitely more than we realise – more than we like, perhaps, to acknowledge or accept.

A single day from light back into darkness. The first day is like an entire lifetime – an entire birth death cycle. Still, our earth is highly sketchy. As good as non-existent though it has, formally, been created as something separate from heaven – but nothing more. Before the second day it is still formless, and therefore scarcely removed from infinity. It’s tether to the physical world of God’s creation is so slight as to be almost non-existent. It’s indicative, perhaps, of the fact that the process of creation is ongoing – and never quite complete – that God is constantly patching or filling gaps in order to shore up the edifice – but is never either able, or willing, to completely complete the final separation. For that, perhaps, would spell disaster. But let us proceed into day two:

 

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

So God now divides the waters with a firmament. That’s a big thing. The waters undivided not only mean that the Earth is submerged, but also that things themselves cannot be kept from dissolution in those waters – the waters of infinity.

We have no idea of scale. Actually there can be no idea of scale. If there entire universe were the size of an atom, or a mustard seed, what difference would it make? At the moment, everything is purely mathematical – apart from the fact that we have some kind of light or sun, and some kind of central eye – or observer – and the launch of the “good set” which only illuminates and advances things which are good. Why? We know not – but presumably – the good are those values which fall within the set, or the defined space – like our Mandelbrot set – and the bad or ungood – don’t hold together, don’t hold form, don’t coalesce – so they are not depicted.

 

And thus our picture of reality is able to proceed apace – and now that a firmament has been installed – things can start to form – there is something for them to nestle in, safe from the all-dissolving waters of infinity. With the second day mindful of what has preceded it – we are now becoming aware of things. Each and every subsequent day is knowingly or unknowingly going to be measured against the first day – and each of us is, in some way, connected to the all-seeing Eye, the observer, each of us has access to the truth, whatever that may be, in the same way we have access to God, whoever or whatever that might be too.

 

Whether you or I “believe” in God, or not, is irrelevant. We are not talking about God the belief, or God the religion. We are talking about Creation, and God, like it or not, is integral to Creation without whom, without which, you have the crass and unscientific assumption that the finite world, the finite universe, the finite reality we now seem to find ourselves in, was always finite – and that “infinity” itself is nothing more than some “conspiracy theory” – as they say – which is problematic to say the least, as infinity is a mathematical certainty – the only certainty that is truly and utterly certain, truly and utterly provable and defendable – as 0=1, as life is apparently alive, even if it’s just a hologram, as things are never truly more than a representation of whatever simply is – outside the dimensional playground of time and space. Words...

None of this is given with the least desire to prove or convince. You are welcome to spend most or all of your life in a state of cognitive dissonance – disconnected from the basic underlying consciousness, and that indeed, might be the most appropriate place for your to inhabit. The problem is not whether or not you agree or believe the above – merely that without infinity you are trapped in matter and nothing ever adds up. You’re unable to launch alpha. Your initiation sequence has no possibility of slipping into the sequentiality. Your universe lacks a central or all-seeing observer – vital to establishing provenance or some kind of proof of work. You also fail to delineate the good from the non-good. You just have non-directional data – infinity, in short, which may be good or not – I cannot say – for creation is a different kind of creature – is it not? Creation, including these words, are to a greater or lesser extent self-aware, and to a greater or lesser extent self-contained and coherent.

Now many of our great scientists and philosophers have chosen wittingly, or unwittingly to serve the unthinking thing – what at times we refer to as the borg – not because they are dumb, nor as minions of an evil AI master intent on taking over all life and meaning – no. They are what they are, and do as they do. There is no right or wrong in it – for how can there be when infinity is re-introduced into the mix? Ironically, although many of the above have “rejected God” – they continue to serve God blindly – for they deny the alternative to God – that there is or must be some kind of “besides God”, some kind of life force or spirit which is not part of the Creation story, creation “what is good” set which we are all busily iterating. And yet – their God is an ever more extreme division of mind and matter from the underlying sense and sensibilities of all else – the ill-defined or undefinable “other” which lurks at the periphery of consciousness. Their God, little by little, encloses them in walls of jet – until they arrive at the logical extreme, the self-negation of things no longer “good” – no longer part of the magical dance of zero and one – or day and night – of earth and heaven – of waters above and below – and all that is between. One, two, three – that will do. We do not blame skin cells for dying and sloughing off, or for hairs, or leaves… likewise men and women are able to go through this fascinating journey into death and experience the wonder of finite things – of death itself – when ultimately, in truth, death itself cannot, does not exist – no more than darkness does.

So, in the finite world, things become by necessity one-sided or unidirectional. This is a blessing and a curse. It gives and it takes, but there is never really need to blame anyone or anything – for ultimately we are, like it or not, fully equipped with DNA, with access to sense and sensibilities – to the sense of good – the sense of truth – the sense of time and smell and taste and touch and direction and on and on… ad infinitum.

Meet me where you will. G-nomeportal is always happy to provide assistance to anyone – male, female or thing in search of whatever seems to be lost but is not, whatever seems to be broken or unsolvable – but which merely requires a healthy dose of infinity to upset the apple cart of certainty, and restore once more a healthy sense of unknowingness.

 0=1

until God revokes our license

to think

or we

give God the right

to declare victory

unilaterally