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Works: Being

quinta-feira 1º de fevereiro de 2024

  

Être

Being does not coincide with the “pure Absolute”; it pertains to the Divine Order inasmuch as it is a direct reflection of the Absolute in the Relative, and consequently it is what may be termed paradoxically the “relatively absolute.” If the personal God were the Absolute as such, He could not be an interlocutor for man. [GTUFS: PlayMasks, Ex Nihilo, In Deo]
Being is the relative Absolute, or God as “relatively absolute,” that is to say insofar as He creates. The pure Absolute does not create. [GTUFS: UIslam, The Path]

Being / Intellect: Being is ‘ambiguous’ because it is at the same time absolute and relative, or because it is absolute while being situated in relativity, or again, to express ourselves more boldly though perhaps all the more suggestive, because it is the ‘relative Absolute’. In an analogous way, the Intellect is ‘ambiguous’ because it is at the same time divine and human, uncreated and created, principial and manifested, which can never be said of Being; Intellect is ‘manifested Principle’, while Being is ‘Principle determined’ or ‘made relative’, but always non-manifested. [GTUFS: GnosisDW, Ternary Aspects of the Human Microcosm]