From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 21:37:55 BST
Hi All
Mysticism has been associated with the idea of nature
as an organism, but also with DQ. So how does DQ/SQ
relate to the idea of the cosmos as an organism?
The below may help. Any comments?
"The simple mystic will often compare creation to a tree. This is because
the mystic believes in growth. This is not the growth of an earthly tree
because this tree has no predetermined form. The substance of the tree is
the element water, the tree itself only being a process of the water. This
process prevents the motion of the water and curtails its wave-like nature.
This process has been called the regimen. Below the tree there is no growth,
no creation, because below the tree is nothingness. Only within the tree is
being, therefore only within the tree is growth. The tree is not of the
world but yet is the world. The tree is the entirety of creation as it is
and as it was, and yet the tree is not known in the world. The roots, and
even the trunk of the tree, is a graveyard. It is the graveyard of the world
manifest, the dead bulk, the multitude of abandoned forms, the geometry of
stagnation. Growth is not to be found here. Growth is to be found at the
extreme heights of the tree. On the tip of each branch burns a flame.
So it is that growth does not take place in a vacuum but begins in a system
that is already complex, highly organised, adapted, self-sustaining and yet
somehow incomplete. This much I know but I ask myself: what sort of
condition is it for a man to be unfinished? How does it feel to be a man who
is no more than the seed of a man? It is to be a part-man, a potential man,
kept alive by some sort of form-field; a field that awaits the day of
effectuation, a field that seeks and desires the whole-man. To be a mortal
man, to be a part-man, is an agitation. There is no rest for mortal men. But
this is life, and activity gives pleasure to all differentiated things. But
to all differentiated things belongs also death. Death brings the cessation
of activity. One man, therefore, can die many times in his life but most men
do not even know themselves once. Most men do not wish to die even though
death brings such joy. This is not the death of part-men, who are the
eternally living, but the death of the whole-man. For in wholeness activity
ceases and is nothingness. But in each death is a new birth because creation
grows like a tree and flows like a fountain; so that by each addition to the
graveyard of creation, with every inch reaching further out of the soil, out
of nothingness, the tree of creation spreads and pours.
Is the whole-man then an impossibility? I do not know. Where, even, is the
whole-man to be sought? This is the real burden of life: the elusiveness of
the whole-man. For if I knew him, I would already have found him, thus it
seems impossible to know where to seek. But wait, is this not the hub, the
whole-man is only obtained by an act of creation, by an emergent form, not
only completing an existing field but generating in addition a new one."
From my novel the "Secret Of Matter". Anyone wanting to read the full thing
email
me directly.
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