ONE

"There is One only. You are that One...Each droplet of the ocean is totally individual from all others, yet they make one body of water. Each is the ocean. You are the ocean. Even in the depths, there are no levels...That which appears to be a diminishing of the Self is in reality a greater realization of the Self. The ocean has been dumped into one who says "I have been thrown into the sea."" This is from The Word of One, ed. Sharpe & Cooke, Tarnhelm Press, Lakemont, GA 1975. Good luck in finding a copy!

If there is One only, i.e., if divinity and the droplets of divinity that are our individual sparks of consciousness are all that truly exist, then what is nature? An illusion of some sort? Or Maya (the setting for a stage-play) as the Yogis say? Or is it as some medieval Christian mystics said, "Nature is a thought in the Mind of divinity?" Or are these various ways of saying the same thing? This is a radical thought for Western man.

We have long believed in the absolute reality of nature, while for the past 500 years, we have had difficulty believing in the reality of consciousness. It is merely a useless "ghost in the machine," which Western academics try to wish away, since they cannot explain it, and cannot explain it away. Empirical metaphysics gives us an alternative worldview, an alternate theory of reality.

If the Nameless One is the ultimate reality, capable of creating or destroying universes, then the One must be immortal. There is nothing outside of it to destroy it. So we must examine this symbolic revelatory and divinatory material more closely in later chapters, because it may contain the most important secrets that we seek.

Copyright © Thales 1999

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