Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving-Bernadette Roberts
I used to wholesale reject the notion of a Trinity, but lately have been grappling with it's significance and have found different descriptions helpful. From The Gateway Experience Army report:
"The description of energy totally at rest, in infinity fits the Christian metaphysical concept of the Father while the infinite self-consciousness resident in that energy providing the motive force of will to bring a portion of that energy into motion to create reality corresponds with the Son. This is so because in order to attain self-consciousness, the consciousness of the Absolute must project a hologram of itself and then perceive it. That hologram is a mirror image of the Absolute in infinity, still exists outside time and space, but is one step removed from the Absolute and is the actual agent of all creation (all reality). And, the eternal thought or concept of self which results from this self-consciousness serves the Absolute as the model around which the evolution of time-space revolves to ultimately attain a reflection of and union with Him. That thought model, which perfectly reflects the essence or “spirit” of the Absolute fits the Christian metaphysical description of the Holy Spirit."
This makes sense, if anything Bernadette Roberts stressed that any attempt to explain the trinity was not the trinity in itself, and was the person's best understanding of it in words. Which of course, do not reflect their actual understanding--inference is needed.
Exists--which is why we can attempt to explain it.
I used to wholesale reject the notion of a Trinity, but lately have been grappling with it's significance and have found different descriptions helpful. From The Gateway Experience Army report:
"The description of energy totally at rest, in infinity fits the Christian metaphysical concept of the Father while the infinite self-consciousness resident in that energy providing the motive force of will to bring a portion of that energy into motion to create reality corresponds with the Son. This is so because in order to attain self-consciousness, the consciousness of the Absolute must project a hologram of itself and then perceive it. That hologram is a mirror image of the Absolute in infinity, still exists outside time and space, but is one step removed from the Absolute and is the actual agent of all creation (all reality). And, the eternal thought or concept of self which results from this self-consciousness serves the Absolute as the model around which the evolution of time-space revolves to ultimately attain a reflection of and union with Him. That thought model, which perfectly reflects the essence or “spirit” of the Absolute fits the Christian metaphysical description of the Holy Spirit."
This makes sense, if anything Bernadette Roberts stressed that any attempt to explain the trinity was not the trinity in itself, and was the person's best understanding of it in words. Which of course, do not reflect their actual understanding--inference is needed.
Exists--which is why we can attempt to explain it.
Just another pointer, another view into the unviewable, another attempt to eff (thank you Alan Watts) the ineffable lol
I like that, eff the ineffable.