The Inverse of God

"There is One Infinite Mind from which all things come. ... There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says "I am" he proclaims It. There is One Infinite Substance and every time man moves he moves in It. There is One Infinite Law and every time man thinks he sets this Law in motion. ... All the Power there is, all the Presence there is, all the Love there is, all the Peace there is, all the Good there is, and the Only God there is, is Omnipresent."

- Ernest Holmes (The Science of Mind)


It is a pardox: ultimate reality is one, must be one and cannot but be one - yet everywhere we are surrounded by multiplicity. How can this be? What is the answer to this riddle? How can the many come from the one? Is the muliplicity truly real or illusory?

Our senses are more accurate than most philosophers want to grant credit to. Our senses tell us that there is a reality to the multiplicity, that the duality we are immersed in is indeed both beautiful and terrible simultaneously. The world is both good and bad. We cannot think away the duality.

So then, how to reconcile the paradox? The world is the INVERSE OF GOD.

The One, the Absolute, The Good, God, Emptiness - all imperfect words that point to the ultimate and only true reality. Yet the One has inversed itself so that out of the One has come the many, yet the many is still one. The many is still one because ontologically it is still God, and the many is just as real as the one because substantially there is no distinction.

God has inversed itself to form the world. Creation ex nihilo? Yes, but only in so far as the ex nihilo is God himself! For One is Zero, Zero is no-thing and from Zero all proceeds, both positive and negative. From nothing we all come and to nothing we shall all return. The inner essence is emptiness.

The One is neither this nor that but everything else is both this and that. You cannot find something that is fast because "fast" is relative to the observer. A snail is fast to a rock and a jetplane is slow to a bullet. Concepts like "fast" and "slow" are irrelevant and tell us nothing about the other, only about the observer.

You call somebody good and another bad? Why? Is the one you call good never bad? Is the one you call bad never good? Meaningless. It says nothing about the other and everything about you.

The One neither exists nor not exists. It is real - in that sense it "exists"; it not just a concept. Yet to exist is to be dual, to be both this and that, relative to an observer. The One is neither this nor that - it is not subject to any duality.

Duality is relative, relative to an observer in time and space. To exist is to be subject to non-existence: life and death, pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. All such things are an inverse of the One Absolute God.

The One is not subject to observation because it is the Observer. The One is the Observer. It is your inner witness. It is consciousness - the only consciousness. It is what it is. It has no name. Yet it sees all, is in all and is the essence of all that is and is to come.

So there is one reality and we are observing it from the inside out. The universe is really a mulitverse and it is becoming more multiplicitious by the second. You will find no answers by observing the universe - all such "answers" are subject to abject failure; subject to the temporal whims and fragmented perspective of false observers.

Turn inwards where you are already One, already Whole. Only that which is Whole can be Holy. Become the Observer and let the Observer become you. The Kingdom of God is within.

Enough for now.

Both Good And Evil

"Love, joy, and peace are deep states of Being, or rather three aspects of the state of inner connectedness with Being. As such, they have no opposite. This is because they arise from beyond the mind. Emotions, on the other hand, being part of the dualistic mind, are subject to the law of opposites. This simply means that you cannot have good without bad."

-- Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now, pg. 29)


Whenever somebody is murdered, it has become customary for a reporter to go out of their way to quote a relative, friend or neighbor that the alleged killer is really a good person. "Well he was always polite to me!" "It can't be him - he is such a good person!" Check out any daily newspaper and you will see this response so prevalent that it is comical.

One of the older and more spirited debates in philosophy and psychology regards the moral nature of mankind - is man inherently good or evil? Some say man is totally depraved, sinful at birth, and utterly wicked. Others say man is good and worthy of admiration and where there is a lack of good it is only because of a dearth of proper education and opportunity. Both camps have a point and yet fail to see the truth.

So which is it - are humans inherently good or evil? Both, simultaneously - every single one of us.

In fact, so strong is the admixture of "good" and "bad" in each of us that it is impossible to classify anybody as a "good person" or "bad person." We are what we are and we are both good and bad.

Yet not only us but Nature itself is both good and bad. Behold the gorgeous beauty of Nature, yet that very nature will bring forth from her bosom horrible tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and diseases. Which nature do you see? Depends on which facet you are looking at. What person do you see? Depends on which facet you are looking at.

What of God or Being? God is neither good nor evil but beyond all such duality.

Those who wish to classify God as pure goodness have a serious problem, the so-called "Problem of Evil." For if God is pure good then where does all the bad come from?

If you posit a separate entity - a Satanic figure or demiurge - then God would no longer be God. God implies singularity and oneness: exchange the word "God" with "Being" and it becomes self-evident that there is not two but one. Being has no opposite and everything that IS must proceed from it. Trying to cast blame on humans or Satan is fruitless and illogical.

Secondly, you could simply deny that evil really exists - classify it as an absence of good or as a mental illusion. Good luck. Those who have encountered real evil know that it is no illusion. Evil exists - it is as real as Goodness. Remember - humans and Nature are BOTH really good and really evil, simultaneoulsy.

So, then, the Problem of Evil is solved by viewing the origin of the All as neither good nor evil. So too could the problems of mankind be solved if humanity could ever come to grips with the dual nature that we all share, so that we are all equally good and evil - every single one of us. As the proverb says - we are all in the same boat together.

The next essay will attempt to address the origin of this dual nature.