[MD] Is Morality innate in the cosmos?

[Ham Priday]

Hi SA --

> [Y]ou said you would finish reading the
> previous post I had to help clarify those questions.

Yes.  Would you do me another favor and re-post the previous message?   I
still have not received it in my mail, so I presume no one else has seen it
either.  I found it by coincidence while browsing through the moq "open
subscriber" site:
http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/moq_discuss@moqtalk.org/topic.html .
(I'm not sure I can find it again for your remaining questions.)


> Ham,
>     I am not asking how we experience existence or
> nothingness, I mean I might be implicitly, but what I
> am asking is how can Essence and Nothingness both be
> here when Essence is all and Nothingness is not all?
> Yes, Essence can 'say' I am not that and therefore
> provide nothingness, but how can it provide
> nothingness since it is All?

I don't exactly know how to approach your question, except to say that all
creation is a negation.

In 1974 Joseph Pearce wrote a best-seller called "Exploring the Crack in the
Cosmic Egg."  I was intrigued by the title because it suggested that the
author might be using the "crack" as a metaphor for the nothngness that
permeates the universe.  Unfortunately, it turned out to be a humdrum
psycho-social analysis of man's split personality.  But I still like the
metaphor.

If you can imagine Essence as an egg of 'infinite potentiality', you will
perhaps see that the only way for this egg to create (an other) is to split
into finite pieces.  But the "splitting" does not
destroy the integrity of the infinite egg because the "cracks" are spaces
filled by nothingness; that is, from the egg's perspective they don't exist.
They are "illusionary", and they actualize an illusionary mode or system
(existence) that is an "other" to the egg.

Nothingness is really an illusion -- a "not-other" -- but it is the illusion
that creates our existential world, so we have to live with it.  In fact, we
are the CORE of this illusion, and all the things we experience are
perceived as fragments of the broken shell.  To put it another way: WE are
the "cracks" observing Essence.  That's a metaphysical imperative: Awareness
(the negate) must be separated from, estranged from, the source to derive
its value.  And, inasmuch as nothingness is the "separator" -- illusionary
as it may be -- its purpose is essential.

That may seem like weird logic to you; but, as I've said elsewhere, "Man is
a rational creature in an irrational universe".  We cannot expect ultimate
reality to conform to our limited notion of what is rational or logical.

Does this ease your frustration?  (Or have I just made things more
complicated?)

I'll await your reposted questions.

Essentially yours,
Ham