A
philosophical speculation
An
eternity he had slept. - Slept? - Only a homo sapiens would say so
as he cannot imagine eternity, because eternity has no time. It does
not last. It is not "long". In eternity there are no
subsequent events. It does not move. It is static.
No,
"to sleep" was not the right word for it. Nothing could be
further from the truth. It was a state of perfect knowledge, a state
of sublimity and ecstasy at the same time, but also a state of
perfect leisure, a nascent state, his original state. He was sufficient
unto himself and knew of no GOOD and EVIL. He knew he could know
anything if he wanted to know it - HE who possessed an inexhaustible
potential for every possible cause - a potential however, that
remained completely unused.
But
now he wanted to be active and make an impact in order to enjoy it
and at the same time look away from himself. For this he had to
assume an identity that matched the game he intended to play. First
he created himself a point of view which he occupied. He now WAS the
viewpoint. That made his first major, nameless identity. From this
viewpoint he created space by demarcating the area with postulated
points and thus gave it a definite dimension.
He
chose a very ordinary three-dimensional space. Now he had already
created something that he could look at, a large, perfectly shaped,
spherical space. But now he realized he was alone. And that gave him
no joy. He needed company, wanted to go into communication with other
beings, wanted to make an impression, to be admired. That was the
effect he wanted to achieve. And he thought of something very
aesthetic others would certainly like. So he went to work.
First
he created a spherical body which radiated a beautiful, bright
yellow light, then, within a reasonable distance, a second one in the
color blue, which now was shone by the first one on one side and thus lit up green there. Then he created a third one in the color red, which
then was orange-blazed on one side. He looked at his creation and it
was great - just perfect. He could make it appear and disappear at
will and was now very happy that he had something to look at.
But now he wanted to show his work to another being.
"Hello, is somebody there?" he thought, let it flow out as a pure question of expectations and
was surprised that he immediately got a response.
"Clearly there is someone!
What do you think it would be just you alone? "
"No,
no, I'm glad that you exist! Look, I've made something very
beautiful. Do you like it? "
"Well, yes .... seems to be
all right ... It just looks to me .... a little too easy! Are you
really such a simple creature or was
it intentional? "
That
was enough for him to be silenced. He withdrew and let his work
disappear by simply no longer creating it. He felt slightly upset.
"I'll show them though. I'm not simple," he thought, and
immediately started with something new.
Now
he expanded his space into the nearly immeasurable, put a sun in it,
then a second, third one and so on, and let them circulate at
proper distance to each other on different orbits around a common
center. The center was empty. He himself was the center. He added a
few satellites to each sun, which thus received their own centers.
And he created an increasing number of such systems. In a frantic
pace he doubled, multiplied them at a huge number until they, viewed
from a different point of view, were hardly to recognize in detail or
as only little more than points in a fog. The structure, considered now
as a whole, assumed the form of a disk-like galaxy. Now he was highly
pleased with himself and happy. No one should say anymore he was
simple!
But
now he had a problem. His work was not simply existing on its own. He
had to re-create it at every moment, so that he could look at it.
However he wanted that it remained there without having constantly to
maintain control over it. He had to invent something that caused that
his creation retained its shape and function.
Having
thus equipped his universe with a galaxy, it was necessary to forget
that HE HIMSELF had created it, and this in turn presupposed an
abrupt abandonment of his omniscience. An at least partial ignorance
was now essential that his universe remained existing, because if he
now had taken over full responsibility for its creation, this would
have been the end of it. He even had to imagine someone else had caused all this, because that was one of the possible
conditions that could set the time and thus survival.
Had
not the other being prompted him to create something that
he could no longer control? Yes ... so it must have been! The other
one had caused this and was therefore responsible for it.
And
so the first big lie found its way into his world. For the
absolute truth was quite simple: FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN
CREATION, and that would turn a NOTHINGNESS - in other words: the
total absence of matter, energy, space and time - and HE HIMSELF as
an unlimited potential!
But he had made his decision. He
wanted to HAVE something. And indeed, he had made it! Now he
possessed something that seemed to exist for itself alone, without
having to manage the process, a perpetual motion machine, a mechanism
that automatically ran. But the price was ignorance. He had to
pretend he did not know better. And so began his downfall.
An immense time span lay in
between since then. - But this again is expressed quite wrong,
because he owned his own universe. His concept of time was as
individual as that of those beings with which he had contact. He
himself had time absolutely under control. There were sometimes small
changes in his universe, that took "half an eternity" if he wanted it that way, and on the other hand, big circulations
which claimed hardly a moment. - His universe had assumed the form of
a spiral galaxy in the meantime.
There was now a lively exchange
between all the different viewpoints, or better said, the beings
who revealed their own taste of creativity. He had borrowed from
other universes interesting things and new ideas by simply
duplicating them in his own world. There were huge
clusters in bizarre shapes, binary star systems, gas giants and much
more what makes up a universe. No one would now dare to call him
"simple". In fact the complications became more and more
complex and the malice now existed rather in the difficulty of
keeping track.
And time arrived when these
created forms became more and more solid, due to the constant
communication between the beings involved. The first clashes of
worlds happened and a great confusion arose over the question of who
owned what. An increasing number of collisions took place and at
a precise sorting out of responibilities was little more thought. An
erasing of single individual worlds seemed to be no longer possible.
For all beings this became now a big problem because they were barely
able to change their own creations without the consent of the other
creatures. The interdependence gave them a very bad puzzle to solve.
And finally they were struck with this all-important question: What
shall we do with this universe?
The only plausible answer to
this question was now obvious: a common universe had to be defined
and upheld. This included agreement on laws and function, and a
collective understanding of time. Gradually it became clear that the
most common opinions and postulates about how a universe should
behave prevailed. Newton's laws of gravity, the inertia of
mass, conservation of energy, etc. were born and stabilized, i.e.
agreed upon.
The common understanding of time
was determined by the average vibration of atoms of matter in this
now called the physical universe. That vibration was felt throughout
the universe and became a sing-song or "hit" for all the
beings who were involved. Thus a common time was enforced that would
be representative of all times. The individual time then was assessed
by the changes of position of particles, i.e. stars, planets etc. The
universe grew to an ever-expanding universe because it contained the
law of conservation of energy.
Now there were quite a few
beings - although a minority - who did not agree. They were of the
opinion that the laws of this universe were extremely restrictive,
stupid and materialistic and would sooner or later lead to the fact
that the physical universe turned into a maze and thus would become a
dangerous trap for all beings, who identified themselves with it.
They were the nonconformists of creation. They revolted against it,
split off and joined forces to form a group to create a separate
universe they also could use together, but which left them at the same time
full liberty to retain their own individual points of view.
Thus a parallel universe
developed – or more accurately, one that was lying outside the
physical universe – which was similar to it in some respects, but
was defined differently in terms of function and structure.
Particularly lacking in this separate world was that fatal law which
resulted in an expanding universe, namely the conservation of energy.
But all other laws could also be amended or repealed. This superior
world should later in the course of time become the very ground for
all major philosophies and religions in the physical universe,
because the beings trapped in there lost their natural abilities,
became weaker and weaker and needed the longer the more urgent help.
And indeed, in the ensuing eons
the physical universe went through a fatal development. The more
beings were entangled in it and the bigger it got, the more solid was
its matter. The laws of physics were fully applied and worked out to
be chaotic. Galaxies collided, huge suns exploded and created giant
solar nebulas and new planets, which in turn formed new systems. The
physical universe developed a life of its own, a self-running system
that was out of control. It was a vast labyrinth of masses and
energies, in which the spiritual beings were less and less able to
orient themselves. They lost their spiritual orientation
points and were becoming increasingly dependent on shapes and objects
in order to align themselves accordingly.
The greater this dependency
became, the more they tended to see themselves as a part of masses
and energies. In other words, a spiritual being was overwhelmed to
the degree by the physical universe as he agreed with it and
considered it as the true reality and truth. And with that his
intellectual potential and consciousness became more and more
restricted.
Over the millions of years, some planets
cooled off enough so that they were ready to receive life in the form
of primitive organisms. This rudimentary organic life was first
created by the spiritual beings who were trapped in this universe.
They sacrificed, so to speak, a part of themselves to endow matter
with life energy. This life energy, to some extent mixed with a
suitable material, was the start of the protoplasm lines, which
first consisted only of very primitive single-celled organisms. The
protoplasm followed a certain cycle, namely conception, birth,
procreation and thus developed through millions of years of evolution
to ever higher – i.e. larger and more complex – organisms which
in turn continued, completed and perfected their genetic lines.
The beings in the physical
universe had no other choice than to start a large-scale life-cycle
that would allow them in the distant future to be able to take over
adequate and appropriate bodies and by the help of them - and that
was their only hope - once again be able to be cause over matter,
energy, space and time.
They had to ensure from now on
that the stream of life did not dry up. And thus the two factors GOOD
and EVIL came into play. Good was everything that helped life in
general to go on, evil was everthing that destroyed life or disabled
its progress. A duality was created. The smallest unit of anything
that concerned the organic life was TWO: good and evil, right and
wrong, beautiful and ugly, etc.
But there were many beings who
did not want to wait that long until appropriate bodies were
available. They wanted to play the game of life, no matter what the
cost, and adopted without considering the consequences animal bodies.
The other ones, not yet that degenerated and still capable of being
cause over matter, energy, space and time up to a certain degree,
better waited until the evolution had proceeded far enough to
produce human-like bodies. They were the ones who promoted the
evolution and made sure that a diversity of species came into being
and that the development followed a certain direction. They created
the different races according to their own special taste.
LIFE
ITSELF, though trapped in this universe, but provided with its
inherent, inextinguishable longing for immortality, had no choice but
to accept the challenge in one way or another. The game of life had
been given a new name and a supposedly new function. The
reconquest of the physical universe had
begun and was in full swing. To survive
was now the order of the day.
