Logic and Other Vulcans

Tales of the Socratic Future : II

 

 

 

 

 

 

As much as the early development of human logic abhored what it perceived as the meddling nature of the Gods, the Gods themselves decried the inability of man to separate himself from his attending forces. Its a situation we come to view today with some sympathy for both sides.

 

' I'm just human,' is an expression that excuses our lack of initiative for things we consider humanly impossible. ' The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak,' is another. But isn't there a standard on these things?

 

Human insight into the nature of the absolute records the experience as circling back on itself. That would mean that the absolute is founded on the nature of the relative experience. But where the absolute is reported as a fixed entity, it covers a complete experience in respect of each activity or species life. Hence the creation of the universe is expressed as the life of stars. The world is viewed as the life of the rock of ages. The plants represent themselves as the life of flowers and fruits.

Each cycle in the creation aspect relies on its own peculiar form of expression and meaning, however they each represent a complete understanding of the story of life in the creation process in their own way. ' As in heaven so on earth,' says the Bible.

 

A man's task is to create such interpretations of these past phenomenon, sometimes encountering the nature of the life force in them and bringing that to define in specific terms, the life of man. If he does it right, he comes into a familiarity with the cyclical nature of life's phenomenology and realizes that it is educating itself on the issues as much as him.

 

Man is the vessel of its store of knowledge. It is in viewing such an experience that Vedic man and some recent experiences, may have exclaimed how man is the cause for the creation of the universe. Even if that is accepted as a correct application of logic, man has to re-cultivate in his own mind, how he had relied on these attendant forces to help him understand himself.

Therefore he concludes his understanding of himself by affirming that we are all created in the image of God, where God is representative of these attendant forces and him. In discernment of the different qualities of experience we may declare that it is one and the same.