Man as First Idea

Where does the World end and Man begin, and conversely Man end and the World begin?

It may be that the World is not the beginning but Man is. For Man, as the inverse of God, the consciousness of God, the "son of God", is the very first of all ideas, and thus of manifestations, and that Man necessitates a World and a World necessitates a Universe. For the idea of Man can by no wise exist without the idea of a World and a world can not exist without a universe. Thus, the idea of Man led to the idea of a universe. It is not that there was a universe that was then populated by worlds and then worlds populated with living organisms and then man evolved from them. It is the exact reverse.

This makes sense when working with the Inverse Principle: for if it is an inverse in every way then the inverse cannot work from greater to small, as with God, but from small to great. Thus the Universe started with one Man, which then necessitated a Woman, and from there everything that exists.

Now if God, the Agathon, creates only Good and Good is in fact the eponymous substance of God, then the Inverse Principle teaches that Man must create inversely. If inversely then Man cannot ever create Good but instead creates only Evil. Thus man's greatest creation - the World System - is thoroughly evil through and through, its economies, its political systems, its business, it's culture, its institutions, everything. None of these things proceed from God, but from Man only.

As God is the creator of All Good, Man is the creator of All Evil. Yet, since God is Neither/Nor and Man is Both/And, God transcends even that which is good and man is capable of creating good via the agency of God. So then the Gnostics are half-right: this is an evil, created world but not because of a Demiurge but because of us. Man is the Demiurge.

It cannot be any other way; It is necessarily and permanently so. There is no possibility of redemption or escape from it. The World System is incorrigibly evil and yet this is the Best of All Possible Worlds and The Only Possible World. At this point, Schopenhauer seems to be on target with his pessimism but we find that the mystical insights of the masters of world history have demonstrated that, though we may not escape the world system's evil while human we can reverse the inverse by becoming a god. Then we shall stand above the world system and cease to be Man. While being a Man there is no hope. Only by becoming a god - only by gaining our soul - can we hope for wholeness. For even if one should gain the "whole world," they would lose the chance for the World Soul, for godhood.

The relative is relational and the relational is relative. What is relative is relative because of its position in relation to the absolute - its nearness or farness, it's hierarchical arrangement to the hypostases and the eternal Ideas. To be relative is to be in relation to God, but to be a god is to be God's relative.

God is the absolute center of Being and Man is the infinite Becoming of all things. The Absolute inversed is the Infinite.