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Anthropocosm
According to the Anthropic Principle, any theory that explains the existence of the universe must also explain the existence of human life, particularly consciousness - life's essence. Along with this comes the question of cause and effect. Is conscious life the cause or the effect? Or both?
We human beings exist in the abstract as well as concrete. Which came first? Can one
exist without the other? Regardless of how simplistic the first life form may have been, or where it
came from for that matter, what brought it into exist?
If one chooses to believe that life randomly came into existence then the universe is self-creating. Ironically, such a concept is the same as believing that an intelligence created the universe. If an intelligence created the universe from what could it create from except itself? Again, there is self-creating taking place.
The effect of this self-creation, conscious life, is perception. What enables
us to perceive is the physical universe. So, between original cause and perception, both of which
are abstractions, there exists the immediate, concrete world we experience. It is a giant step
in thought, but in applying the anthropic principle to this sequence of cause and effect the idea
emerges that Man is not so much form as he is an abstraction, or that which perceives. Form is
merely the means by which perception is attained and the act of self-creation is expressed.
There is a deep mystery here that is truly unexplainable and must be sought by the individual. But to continue in hope of approximating this mystery, the life of the symbol (its esotericism) in its identification with the life we live (its exoterism) is what defines reality. In other words, the life of the symbol is the experience of our consciousness, which is the consciousness of the human Microcosm (the effect), summarized by the cosmic Man (the cause) of which we all are a part.
This knowledge of cause and effect, and how it is expressed through the symbolic, is responsible for man's eagerness to continually construct approximations of this universal 'truth,' in other words religion. It is an expression of actualized knowledge of one’s ‘Self,’ still dormant in the person. Such a state of affairs enables that which existed as a cosmic and historical event, to persist in us from this moment forward. In effect, Consciousness grows or evolves pushing form into a more refined state so that perception, the effect of creation, reaches a level equivalent to the original cause.
Anthropocosm - The Man Cosmos
Potentially or in fact, there is nothing in the universe that is not in Man. For the material form
of man birth and death manifests the break in this eternal ring. The circle always exists so only
the natural aspect is affected by the break. This absolute circle is fixed and stable and is the
essence of life that is ‘the becoming’ as well as ‘the return.’ The fragmentation of consciousness from
the abstract into the concrete (birth) and then the return (death) gives us a lesser quantity than
macrocosmic man. However, for pure quality size does not exist. An animal is not a microcosm, but an
aspect of it, an intermediate state. Man’s wholeness is a virtual wholeness, and becomes actual
wholeness when his consciousness is freed from mortal boundaries. Wholeness is consciousness
in itself, with no further reflection. It is the circle without break- the entire cosmic phenomenon.
As does all of nature the human mind exists in a state of duality with the innate and the mental consciousness. What we call the mind, the mental consciousness, perceives only the immediate world for that is its purpose. Innate consciousness, what we know as truth without instruction, is the fingerprint of absolute quality and our birthright as an abstract (spiritual) creation; how people perceive and the essence of creation or the Creator. It is only through its resonance with the mental consciousness that we rise above the level of an animal. It is also the source of morality. How this is communicated from the innate to the mental is accomplished is through esoterism and the symbolic, which is built into all of nature. Its symbol evokes the innate consciousness in man to remind him of his true nature. Man is a totality, and for that reason he himself is the cosmos. Man is a cosmos. Man is the cosmos.
In the Pythagorean science of numbers the point is the One representing the absolute, God, which is the
mother/father of all that is. In truth, God is unknowable. It is only through the creation of Two
that consciousness exists. Being made in God’s image Two, or Man, is that consciousness. But it is through
Three, which is simultaneously created with Two, that we can relate to God. Through the creation of
Two by One, the Self becomes the ‘I,’ the Ego, which is the mathematical definition of the value One, as
something in relation to itself. Next, with the original ‘I,’ the becoming of consciousness, blends into the
Self after all experience has been acquired. Herein lays the answer why God is described in the plural, and
why a certain man, once upon a time, who knew the truth despite the social consequences could call himself
the son of God.
Pythagoras and the Science of Number
Philosophers can carry out systems of logic and analysis as far as they like, but in order to overcome the obstacle
before them, Cause, they will always be forced to resort to faith, or negation expressed through atheism or rationally
justified indifference. Any explanation of life, its origin and end, can never be more than the circling of a central point,
which is logically un-definable. Such logic halts when reason acquires the certainty that this point exists.
