Consider the hierarchy presented below, within are titled levels of existence, with the introduction of the 'Unknowable Realm' - the purpose of this article. Below the titles are a metaphysical stations of existence, the metaphysical stations encompass categories which may be applied to any state higher than themselves, an elementary consequence of reflection. However it is thus necessary to treat the Knowable Realm as encompassing all the levels of existence below it, so that the hierarchy presented is complete. From a downward perspective we of course see ontological reflection of, for example, 'Isness' as pervading the very fabric of existence. This ontological reflection however is presented itself in 'Becoming' as a form of 'Isness' and 'Being' as a form of 'Becoming'. The upward reflection is of philosophical importance in its essence being completely contained within the higher totalities thereby allowing us to prescribe the category to all stages of the hierarchy, and more importantly to provide a concrete platform for meaningful discussion, for example to identify 'Being' as a fundamental a priori notion of the soul. Underneath the metaphysical station I have elaborated as to the nature of its locus of manifestation, for example 'thinking' is the manifestation of the awareness of 'Being'.
Soul
Isness
Produces The Field of Cosmic Imagination
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The Unknowable Realm
Becoming
Feeling
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The Knowable Realm
Being
Thinking
The First Illumination of the Unknowable Realm
The knowable is the lens of philosophy, and has given rise to the most powerful and persisting illusion of human understanding: that all must be an image of the knowable. This is to presuppose the knowable as the highest boundary of existence, we have defined the Soul to be the highest totality of the self and have shown there to be an ideal of Truth transcendent of the knowable categories hereby thoroughly shattering this illusion. This first transcendence is how we construct a heaven of the 'Unknowable Realm' above the Knowable, and imagine it as a blanket of stars encompassing the world seen. Truth is an ideal, understanding is its respective state of being. The disjunction between ideals and states of being is arbitrary and is provided only for the purpose of clarification, just as we introduced Cosmic Imagination as an alternative statement of the Soul.
Philosophy is wisdom, and wisdom is the incarnate of truth manifested in dimensions of knowledge; it is the alignment of knowledge with the higher ideal. I have used the term spiritual sensuality to describe the nature of the Unknowable Realm. The material realm is concerned with physical sensuality, the Knowable with the sensuality of thought, and the Unknowable it can be said with feeling. I use the word 'feeling' here to encompass a variety of meanings, indeed the ideals of the Unknowable overflow into the expansion of Being, to flood the mind with thought and the body with emotion, but the waters of passion are effused from the springs of the soul itself, not subject to a mere tasting but requiring a full indulgence and intoxication of the spirit in becoming.
The ideals of becoming find their purest expression in spiritual states, reflected in the capacity of emotion though we must be careful to not conflate the two concepts - experiential emotion is devious in its state, it may not necessarily correspond to ones higher state due to the misrepresentation of the perceptive categories of emotion applied to the physical presence. Just as the Knowable Realm may be understood in infinitely many ways, of different names, relations, and categories, so to is the Unknowable Realm infinitely manifest in dimensions of perception. The particular ideals may vary from systems of philosophy and traditions of spirituality and religion, but some arbitrary examples chosen for the purpose of this discussion could be 'longing' or 'despair'.
The state of being refers to the expression produced from awareness of the ideal, it is the becoming that we speak of. I have given an example of 'despair', I will here make a point to address the notion that spiritual states must be good, for goodness pertains to the elevation of the state of being and thus in this sense despair is the spiritual state motivating one to closeness with the Divine presence. Despair in the context of absolute separation and loneliness, a helplessness and emptiness of purpose leading to the existential angst so to speak and overwhelming one with the pangs of evil is not an ideal of the Unknowable Realm, in fact it is not a reality or existence of any cosmological hierarchy for it is precisely the ignorance, and abasement of the true self that leads to despair. In general evil is the degradation of ones state of being, it is the separation from God. How could the lesser be manifest as the higher? There is no singularity of evil, for evil in itself is the separation from singularity, the absence of totality leading to the darkness of the void, a carnal pride induced to the self-proclaimed divinity, but understand, one is but God of his sorrow.
To each ideal of the Unknowable there is an entire realm produced. As truth manifests in understanding, understanding manifests in thought; each thought is an instance of the physical presence which draws a higher ontological status through its merging with the essence of the unknowable, a concept is ordained meaning through truth. We find an analogous structure through the ideals of the unknowable such as 'longing', it is an act of becoming which finds expression in the states of longing we may feel in our lives. To attempt to provide an exegesis into longing through the Knowable Realm and namely through Ontological Logic is foolhardy. Yes, it is possible to formulate meaningful metaphysical statements, but of what use are these? One does not satisfy his thirst by glancing at a glass of water, for sight and taste are separate emotions entirely and in this it is meaningless to try to compare one with the other. Similarly, if one seeks to understand the ideal of longing then it is best to mindfully examine its manifest emotion, and conceive the ideal in itself. Truth finds expression in understanding, longing it can be said in separation, if we may temporarily assume that to be its ideal, the name does not matter as explained.
This does lead to a more profound point, that just as the Knowable Realm leads to a system of Ontological Logic which by virtue of ontology finds an apprehension of every metaphysical plane and station, so to does every other Realm of the forms of the Unknowable formulate their respective Ontological system allowing one insight into every sphere of creation through its lenses. In longing one may find the universe contained, and in its fervour discover the splendour of God disclosed. We have expressed the entire field of my philosophy through the Knowable since this is the clearest and the only practical method of communication. One must not idolise the Knowable as the purest path to God, for as we have seen the Knowable too rests upon the Unknowable through inexorable ontology, finds meaning only in that which lies beyond meaning, and is limited in its apparent nondelimitation. Treat every moment of life, every instance of being, and every act of becoming as a path in itself towards Divinity, as a guidance of the Soul towards itself so one may absorb themselves in the Isness of communion.
Discourse into the Metaphysical Stations of Existence
The 'Isness' of the Soul is the most mystical and necessarily fundamental. The Soul simply 'Is', this statement is the ultimate reduction of our awareness of reality, which through the course of my philosophy we have shown is no different from awareness of the self and the absolute conceived totality of the self. The Soul as we have said, is the metaphysical first and the epistemological last structure of existence. To discuss the soul is error, to doubt it is a paradox. Again, my article 'The Metaphysics of Awareness' explains this idea in more detail, that any 'doubt' must occur within the infinite kingdom of the aware Soul, and so even doubting is in itself a manifestation of the 'Isness' of the Soul. The Soul as the direct reflection of God provides the greatest insight into his Being, that more so than Being and more so than a perpetual self-Becoming there lies a pure 'Isness'. To Isness there is no prior, there is no greater and no whole, Isness is, just as God is, and the Soul with him .
Beyond 'Being' is 'Becoming', for things that are said to 'Be' can 'Be' only in their ontological state as resting upon their singularity, upon the higher plenum. It is in this consequential notion of 'Being' that I use the term 'Becoming' to refer to the metaphysical state of the Unknowable Realm, first we 'Become' and then we may 'Be'. As thought is awareness inside the Knowable Realm, truth is the awareness of the Knowable Realm as a totality. The Knowable Realm in its vast ocean of Being gravitating and perfecting in orbit the ideals of knowledge drawn to the sun of wisdom, a light of truth, cannot be conceived in a mere spectacle of awareness in an instance of 'Being', it requires a movement of spiritual sensuality, a flooding of consciousness woven into a state of being, a 'Becoming' of the Soul.
The 'Being' of the Knowable Realm is a category of fundamental unity, conceived within the boundaries of its existence. All objects of awareness are said to have being, this fundamental category has been conceived within the bounds of Ontological Logic and consequently abstracted in a transcendental fashion, so to elevate its status from a conceived logical category to now a metaphysical perceived category which can be applied to each state and level of existence, and prescribed to Divinity itself. From the Knowable Realm as enveloping and absorbing into its essence that below it, it henceforth follows that Being is the category applicable to all existence, of every state and station. This is not a new concept, nor am I purporting this to be a proof or any sort of elucidation into previous discussion on 'Being', this is simply a reframing of previous discussion within the context of this article.
The 'Isness' of the Soul is the most mystical and necessarily fundamental. The Soul simply 'Is', this statement is the ultimate reduction of our awareness of reality, which through the course of my philosophy we have shown is no different from awareness of the self and the absolute conceived totality of the self. The Soul as we have said, is the metaphysical first and the epistemological last structure of existence. To discuss the soul is error, to doubt it is a paradox. Again, my article 'The Metaphysics of Awareness' explains this idea in more detail, that any 'doubt' must occur within the infinite kingdom of the aware Soul, and so even doubting is in itself a manifestation of the 'Isness' of the Soul. The Soul as the direct reflection of God provides the greatest insight into his Being, that more so than Being and more so than a perpetual self-Becoming there lies a pure 'Isness'. To Isness there is no prior, there is no greater and no whole, Isness is, just as God is, and the Soul with him .
Beyond 'Being' is 'Becoming', for things that are said to 'Be' can 'Be' only in their ontological state as resting upon their singularity, upon the higher plenum. It is in this consequential notion of 'Being' that I use the term 'Becoming' to refer to the metaphysical state of the Unknowable Realm, first we 'Become' and then we may 'Be'. As thought is awareness inside the Knowable Realm, truth is the awareness of the Knowable Realm as a totality. The Knowable Realm in its vast ocean of Being gravitating and perfecting in orbit the ideals of knowledge drawn to the sun of wisdom, a light of truth, cannot be conceived in a mere spectacle of awareness in an instance of 'Being', it requires a movement of spiritual sensuality, a flooding of consciousness woven into a state of being, a 'Becoming' of the Soul.
The 'Being' of the Knowable Realm is a category of fundamental unity, conceived within the boundaries of its existence. All objects of awareness are said to have being, this fundamental category has been conceived within the bounds of Ontological Logic and consequently abstracted in a transcendental fashion, so to elevate its status from a conceived logical category to now a metaphysical perceived category which can be applied to each state and level of existence, and prescribed to Divinity itself. From the Knowable Realm as enveloping and absorbing into its essence that below it, it henceforth follows that Being is the category applicable to all existence, of every state and station. This is not a new concept, nor am I purporting this to be a proof or any sort of elucidation into previous discussion on 'Being', this is simply a reframing of previous discussion within the context of this article.
The First Illumination of the Unknowable Realm
The knowable is the lens of philosophy, and has given rise to the most powerful and persisting illusion of human understanding: that all must be an image of the knowable. This is to presuppose the knowable as the highest boundary of existence, we have defined the Soul to be the highest totality of the self and have shown there to be an ideal of Truth transcendent of the knowable categories hereby thoroughly shattering this illusion. This first transcendence is how we construct a heaven of the 'Unknowable Realm' above the Knowable, and imagine it as a blanket of stars encompassing the world seen. Truth is an ideal, understanding is its respective state of being. The disjunction between ideals and states of being is arbitrary and is provided only for the purpose of clarification, just as we introduced Cosmic Imagination as an alternative statement of the Soul.
Philosophy is wisdom, and wisdom is the incarnate of truth manifested in dimensions of knowledge; it is the alignment of knowledge with the higher ideal. I have used the term spiritual sensuality to describe the nature of the Unknowable Realm. The material realm is concerned with physical sensuality, the Knowable with the sensuality of thought, and the Unknowable it can be said with feeling. I use the word 'feeling' here to encompass a variety of meanings, indeed the ideals of the Unknowable overflow into the expansion of Being, to flood the mind with thought and the body with emotion, but the waters of passion are effused from the springs of the soul itself, not subject to a mere tasting but requiring a full indulgence and intoxication of the spirit in becoming.
The ideals of becoming find their purest expression in spiritual states, reflected in the capacity of emotion though we must be careful to not conflate the two concepts - experiential emotion is devious in its state, it may not necessarily correspond to ones higher state due to the misrepresentation of the perceptive categories of emotion applied to the physical presence. Just as the Knowable Realm may be understood in infinitely many ways, of different names, relations, and categories, so to is the Unknowable Realm infinitely manifest in dimensions of perception. The particular ideals may vary from systems of philosophy and traditions of spirituality and religion, but some arbitrary examples chosen for the purpose of this discussion could be 'longing' or 'despair'.
The state of being refers to the expression produced from awareness of the ideal, it is the becoming that we speak of. I have given an example of 'despair', I will here make a point to address the notion that spiritual states must be good, for goodness pertains to the elevation of the state of being and thus in this sense despair is the spiritual state motivating one to closeness with the Divine presence. Despair in the context of absolute separation and loneliness, a helplessness and emptiness of purpose leading to the existential angst so to speak and overwhelming one with the pangs of evil is not an ideal of the Unknowable Realm, in fact it is not a reality or existence of any cosmological hierarchy for it is precisely the ignorance, and abasement of the true self that leads to despair. In general evil is the degradation of ones state of being, it is the separation from God. How could the lesser be manifest as the higher? There is no singularity of evil, for evil in itself is the separation from singularity, the absence of totality leading to the darkness of the void, a carnal pride induced to the self-proclaimed divinity, but understand, one is but God of his sorrow.
To each ideal of the Unknowable there is an entire realm produced. As truth manifests in understanding, understanding manifests in thought; each thought is an instance of the physical presence which draws a higher ontological status through its merging with the essence of the unknowable, a concept is ordained meaning through truth. We find an analogous structure through the ideals of the unknowable such as 'longing', it is an act of becoming which finds expression in the states of longing we may feel in our lives. To attempt to provide an exegesis into longing through the Knowable Realm and namely through Ontological Logic is foolhardy. Yes, it is possible to formulate meaningful metaphysical statements, but of what use are these? One does not satisfy his thirst by glancing at a glass of water, for sight and taste are separate emotions entirely and in this it is meaningless to try to compare one with the other. Similarly, if one seeks to understand the ideal of longing then it is best to mindfully examine its manifest emotion, and conceive the ideal in itself. Truth finds expression in understanding, longing it can be said in separation, if we may temporarily assume that to be its ideal, the name does not matter as explained.
This does lead to a more profound point, that just as the Knowable Realm leads to a system of Ontological Logic which by virtue of ontology finds an apprehension of every metaphysical plane and station, so to does every other Realm of the forms of the Unknowable formulate their respective Ontological system allowing one insight into every sphere of creation through its lenses. In longing one may find the universe contained, and in its fervour discover the splendour of God disclosed. We have expressed the entire field of my philosophy through the Knowable since this is the clearest and the only practical method of communication. One must not idolise the Knowable as the purest path to God, for as we have seen the Knowable too rests upon the Unknowable through inexorable ontology, finds meaning only in that which lies beyond meaning, and is limited in its apparent nondelimitation. Treat every moment of life, every instance of being, and every act of becoming as a path in itself towards Divinity, as a guidance of the Soul towards itself so one may absorb themselves in the Isness of communion.
