Yesterday, we located a suitable beginning point for our intended journey exploring whether or not Creation has a discoverable and discernable purpose explaining its Existence. As of yet, we have not lifted, even one foot, so to take our first giant stride (perhaps, in our Seven League Boots) onto the visible-less road leading to the Answer.

The road we must travel is a curious one, indeed, as no one has drawn a useable map describing critical landmarks, treacherous bridges, quicksand perils, rivers to be crossed, monsters to beware, or even the location of the endpoint. Why is this so? Because the road we must travel is both “road and not-road.” As such, the correctness of each and every step taken cannot be mapped in advance, but, must come from a deep and unbiased attunement with the “destination or not-destination,” as the case may be. We must travel without preconceptions, without identification, without attachment to any fruits of the journey.

To succeed requires our becoming impeccable travelers, travelers desiring only to be with the Truth, be such pleasant or not, desired or not, acceptable or not, or contrary to the teachings of every previous Sacred Being. For many of the Ancient Divines feared to journey in the Unknown Totality and so created intuitive and inferential maps congruent with their deepest theological understanding. However, maps only lead to partial truths and answers. Even so, the journeys of the Ancients provide useful data to help us find the invisible road and not-road as taught by our tale of the Library of Babel.

As the deep feeling is not yet with us, I think it wise to continue with our blog from yesterday as to the extreme positions of the theists and atheists as to Creation of physicality (with or without souls). You recall that theism teaches that the universe was consciously created by a Grand Being, Cosmic Mind, personal God, or impersonal God (deism). The manifest universe (including aphysical elements or souls) is separated from and less than God, though connected with God in some way. For theists-deists, Creation is purposeful for God intended to create. This is what I named Purpose A.

Though, Purpose A provides a tentative answer to the question as to whether or not this universe inherently has a purpose, I find it unsatisfying, as I cannot locate any unequivocal, collaborating, independent evidence supporting theism’s hypothesis that beyond the manifest universe there is an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, omnicompetent God (or gods). To accept such a premise, as an actuality, based solely upon existing, unfounded belief systems is irrational and of no use to a seeker seeking permanence and enlightenment. For the common human being such belief may serve an important moral and existential purpose so it is not to be debased in public discussion.

Yesterday, we saw that atheists prefer the alternative theological position that the manifest universe came into existence under discoverable Laws of Nature, rather than by Fiat of a Conscious God. Additionally, some atheists will contend that as the universe came into existence automatically, as a matter of natural law, and so had no purpose because no Conscious Entity intended or designed the universe. While, such atheists may have intuited correctly that our physical universe may have arisen solely via laws internal to the universe and not by Conscious Fiat, to say that Creation is without an inherent purpose is an unsupported contention. Rather, the simplest and most rational presumption contends that the purpose of Creation is immanent within the laws of nature and the universe itself, waiting to be discovered. This is the cognitive position I meant when I bestowed upon the atheist school, Purpose B.

So we are almost ready to take our first heart-guided stride. To travel upon an unexplored ‘path and not-path’ demands our assuming and maintaining a necessary and open mind. If we start our journey believing in Purpose A, we will find ourselves on an ancient, well-trodden circular path leading back to the same answer we began with. Emotionally satisfied, but, none the wiser.

Do not fret, child, God will not be upset–for a true God desires nothing less than for God’s children to arrive at the Truth God knows. Do not sin so to make your God, a petty God.
So we begin our trip, adopting the logical conclusion we derived from our atheistic brethren’s arguments. For presuming that purpose is immanent within the living universe, but remains hidden to our intellect awaiting to emerge, as the phoenix reborn from its burning pyre, ascending into the empyrean radiating sparks of multihued and splendorous knowledge, is the wise choice of the enlightened seeker. Moreover, nothing is lost being careful.

So tomorrow, we take our first step so to arrive at another resting point for contemplation and meditation.