CONSCIOUSNESS, CONSCIENCE, SPIRIT AND REALITY

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Chapter 1

Consciousness, Spirit, Reality and the
Rhythmic Thump of Ridiculous Ruses being Smashed

Consciousness ? A Spiritual Work from the Face of God

Consciousness is a matter of vast concern to the unruly. HOW does it arise as something different from directed mail, from directed ingredients, directing all things ? WHY does it work as it does, in acute correlation with that of which man is conscious, such as stars, and cars, communication and concept, physical and chemical law, aesthetic conceptualisation and artistry ? If it has to be, why is it such an indubitable component in conceptual parallel to many things, all with their own systems, significance and significations, and what leads it from what is, to what ought to be!

Seeking to find from materialism - that naive insistence on the material component as if it were all, when in fact in consciousness it is necessary to have validity for thought before you can have any theory about anything at all with warrant, what it is all about - is like seeking to find from a nib, the purpose of a pen. You really need to consider the whole pen. Then you look for this: by what it is being used.

If it cannot be seen, heard, quantified, it is not real ? But is that theory quantifiable ? This is mere antilogy, the antics of angry fluff, the hubris around bluff, making man sneeze unwarranted words.

You move from consciousness as a conveyor, the thing at work, to what it works. What does it work ? It is an enablement for thought, personality projection, communication, symbolisation, reading of symbols, resistance to force, or to breach of law, deliberate false assessment to further illicit motives, deceit, greed, connivance with corruption (that is, what removes the functionality of man by trickery, deception or force, on the basis of desire).

WHY is it such an enablement ? and what is its relationship to the component called conscience ? and what does it so work ?

It is because consciousness is not only a link, as an overseeing part of a multiplicity of systems, all attuned and co-ordinated with the brilliance of a military compaigner, a scientific genius, a mathematical star and an industrial giant (except far more so, the sophistication surpassing man's ability even after thousands of years to get going with his gifts). It is an also interpretive part, formulable in command, functional in creativity, fathoming in address. It can embark on the assessive, whether physically or morally.

Thus we need to pass beyond mere consciousness, an aspect of the human capacity, to the powers which it enshrines, the personalities which it enables and the laws and rules which it admits. We come then to spirit, the name not for a mere graphic, verbal or conceptual awareness, but for the willing, purposing, conceiving, imagining, imaging, surveying, sympathising, hating, loving, corrupt or virtuous producer, according to taste, waste and basting. The products require a producer; the functionalities require what functions and the multi-purpose deployments require what deploys. It is neither a vacuum nor a nullity. It is what has what it takes.

If we are going to consider one part, we must in all order, conceive all of which the element is that part. Consciousness in this broader setting of integral functionality of the type noted above, is merely the screen, the awareness of the powers, of their use, of their usability, including the power to propose, to purpose and to fight. The self-awareness of spirit is a necessary correlative of its capacity to be personal, to be functional as a unit of thought, thrust, plan and assessment.

It is part of what spirit is, and without spirit it would be a mere phantasm, a figment, a thing hanging in the air, with neither physical nor logical roots. That is precisely why secular 'science', that is, the sort of thought which assumes the irrationality of materialism as a preliminary to thought, fails to 'solve' what consciousness is, and talks all around and about it with the daring non-composure of a child walking on the keys of a grand piano.

We hear so much about the 'god of gaps' that there is a strong tendency to forget the gaping gap between what is and what is not. What is ordered and systematic and conceptualisable and subject to command by symbols, but only within its own scope, and constructed in logical terms, some implicit, some written, is not a matter of gaps. It is a matter of a chasm between this and the empty naturalistic chatter which assumes everything, from substance to law, from order to logic, from force to fashioning: and provides nothing.

ALL that is required is missing; all that is needed for what is, is not present in the secular world view. The gaps between types of things, always vast in units of information input required, and the conforming ability of each kind that lives, towards various pressures, alike are simple empirical facts. The gaps between each realm of order and of operation and the basis, origin and power to make them, and nothing, the other option, are rather like a choice between a chasm as the source of a mountain peak, and earth with power and propulsion upward in its system.

We have then not a god of gaps, but a gap in place of God, a logical gap, of which all the smaller gaps are mere applications. It is rather like finding a house and four garages, one with a boat, one with another car, one with a space vehicle and one with a robot, and then entering the climate controlled house, and asking how the underlying matter really managed to move from the floor to the walls, from these to the ceiling, from there to the roof, from there to the air, from there back to the basement, from there to the vehicles in the garages, and before there, to the garages, and finding the one questioned becoming slightly impatient with those who do not SEE that OF COURSE it was all like that. Like Topsy, it just was: why worry about how or why! Such science...

The very IDEA of creation is naturally ludicrous, since this is the ONLY way anything of this systematically original and integrated, overall purpose-oriented kind ever comes to be in all empirical reality and systematic thought that does not forsake causality. It is naturally ludicrous for SENSE a forbidden word, and creation is anathema. Since you can't use it, then it cannot have happened, even if the sheer majesty of the maverick substitute for thought resembles an atomic creator.

Yes, there is a gap, the creation on the one hand and the correlative and vast arenas of integrated and multi-functioning powers and wisdom needed to put it there.

There is another: the design^*1. Creation, the propulsion into existence, it is one thing. Then, creation involves design, to some extent, and sometimes magnificently. Of course you can doodle on a pad while you talk on the telephone, and that can be fun and in a way, creation. I remember a medical specialist doing that, perhaps frustrated. However this is not the scope of what we actually have. It is rather more than doodling that enables us to converse right now: it involves, logic, symbolic communication, systematic thought, personalities with consciousness, spirits with survey properties, patience, interchange of underlying thought modes without static or at least without tune out, ethical and moral principles duly applied; and this is merely the beginning. Yes, it is more than doodling.

Such a complex, purpose-driven, system-enabled, personally related totality does not create itself, the only other alternative, since matter does not have these qualities, and wanting it to evolve, is not the same as finding it is able to do so! Nor does nothing secure matter in the first place. On this, let us look at an excerpt, below, slightly adjusted for this purpose, considering the obfuscatory art-work of the diligent anti-creationist in the drugs and stimuli of reason-forsaking misalliance with chaotic thought and disenfranchised life.

With such things in mind, we turn now to a series of excerpts from other works on this site, which consecutively explore arenas, worlds, dimensions and perspectives found in such a diversity in such integrality as is ours, before making a final assessment.

THE SERIES OF CONSECUTIVE EXCERPTS

THE GENERATION OF THE DISPOSSESSED (Barbs ... Appendix 1)

The Gap in place of God is the emptiness for the fulness, the imagination for the reality, the despair for the triumph, the woe for the wonder. The generation of ashes finds itself fancy for a time; and then the disrepair of the heartless sets in, or the disruption of the dispersed, or the shadows of the illusions, the once gleaming aluminium foil of the pretences and pretensions, the false ideals, the imagined hopes fall twisted, making crazy patterns, some gleaming for the time in the dirt, some "successfully professional", some already visible relics.

And where are those patterns? In the dust. Man disdains his dust and imagines his life is self-productive in the generation of the dispossessed; but the dust is the material and God is the Creator both of dust and of destiny, of soul, and mind, and spirit and emotion, of feeling and of the whole architecture which is the basis of the product called man. Ignoring reality is the stuff of dreams and the site of irrationality.

What is it like? It is like a pen that thinks, but disdains to write, for it conceives there is no author, and it was produced in a fit of abstraction by what is not there. So it is used to dig the fields, and it leaks and it breaks and the maker of pens is disdained, or despised but in any case not considered. Ink-blots are then the least of the troubles, for the 'advanced' case where paper is still considered 'relevant'. The philosophy of the relevant replaces the spirit of service; but relevant to what?

"Just keeping fit, Uncle!" says the young man in Punch, as he goes off to tennis in the days of mere gadding about. "Fit for what!" returns his senior. Fit to be considered, in that case, recklessly irresponsible as his glamour world of self-entertainment misuses the joy of sport by substituting the life of self-satisfying balms, which turn sour. Survival of what? of ashes, of twisted metal, of dirty houses, of broken staircases to the loft, to the skies, so that the light is not seen in the sunken basements, carved out, hewn from below for the purpose?

THE FOLLY OF THE MOCKERY

The architecture of the house is ignored.

The schema of the life^*2 is disregarded.

Its physics in leverage and mechanics,

its inorganic chemistry in interactions and reactions,

its organic chemistry in manufacture of life materials,

its circuitries for transmission and reception,

its sensors for assessment,

its nuclei for information storage,

its engineering capacities for continuation of the scenario,

its feelings for response,

its analytical thought world for mental review,

its moral grounds for integral understanding of purpose,

its spiritual dynamics for assessment of proposals, construction of response, disposition of personality, response at group level, guidance of direction, return to the Maker, deliverance of understanding:

its worlds of function, all inter-related by the integral design, the overall co-ordinating triumph which is man, the person whose mind and feelings and body and heart and soul and life in the vision and vigour of multitudes of planes and facets:

it is ignored like dust, returns to dust; but not only to dust.

THE VISIONARY VICES

The mental wreckage is a destructive act; the visionary vices are a warping distortion, the wild sprees are a frustrated dysfunction, the blindness to fact is a toxic violation of the power to imagine, the assurance of godlike powers is the denial of God, and the denial of God, even when a false god who has no power, no creation and no judgment is imagined, is the assertion of delusion.

Deluged with delusion, what do you expect? Will not even mentally active professional people of discipline in the mental world, show their barrenness in the moral and the spiritual, because they do not understand that it is there.

Immersing themselves in 'Nature', which is somehow made into something real, rather than a series of products inter-related by plan in the multitudes of inter-meshing worlds, with which they live, they look to the visible, as if a pen worshipped paper when its maker would use it, and the two went off on a spree of finding out what "life is like". It is then like absconding with equipment, with madness for vision and recklessness for reason.

The feelings that go with the exultant trip are those of ruin, when the fling is past, and of ashes, when the fire is burnt. Some fires burn more slowly, and the bitterness of facing death without reason becomes a lust for life that will pay thousands for drugs to extend it just a little. Some rejoice like Solomon in their works (though in Ecclesiastes he saw through its vanity to the truth); but the worker is ignored, and his destiny is like that of any thief. To the productive worker in Song of Solomon, comes this word: "Your own vineyard you have neglected!"

To use the words given: "I have not taken care of my own vineyard" (Song of Solomon 1:6). What if it is not remedied? When judgment is delayed, it is not dismissed.

The dispossessed are repossessed, if not by demons, as we see more and more frequently, in higher and higher profile, then by lurid dynamics, broken systems out of control surging and charging, like an aircraft on one engine, inadequate and only partial; or a power aircraft acting as a glider which looks to the drafts which cannot lift, because it is constructed for power; and because the engines are not there - but only things that happen with a roar, so that no oil or service is provided as the pilotless craft crazes through the skies of life into the oblivion of dramas ending in death.

Perhaps it crashes into other craft before it hits the ground.

THE STARK HULKS OF MISEDUCATED MISSIONARIES

Stark hulks without life, they are often taught by miseducated missionaries to believe in their sacred selves, their internal fulfilment, their hold on life; so that? so that they may look to their survival as relics, spiritual outcasts, demented meddlers with mind without the knowledge of its place in the hierarchy of the soul, and the place of the soul in the agile vigours of the spirit, and the placement of the spirit in the hands of God who made it: for the realities of fellowship with the One who having given it meaning, means nothing else! (Cf. Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:13).

The escalations of matter, mind, imagination, feeling, personality, spirit with their multitudinous equipment in ever more intricate divisions, as of a firm, directions and instincts, programs and programs suffering intervention, opportunities of understanding and results of ignoring it: these like a vast skyscraper sit in each yard, in each life (cf. SMR 332G-H).

No manager, but abuse, no standing orders but the self, no purpose but to be there, no care but desired receptions from the clouds that pass, no service but what is lusted, no significance but what is assumed, nothing: this becomes the parlance of the place. It is the generation of nothings because of dispossession; of dispossession because of blindness; of blindness because of sin, and of sin taught, actively instructed, belaboured on the tormented brows, the lost minds and the steely hearts.

WHY, WHY, WHY do these and those horrors happen even with the very young! they ask. Why do so many children murder, why is there no sensitivity of heart, cluster of morals, awareness of significance! Why is the mind dead ? they ask as they deliver the mind-destroying drugs of their cultural dis-ideals? Why is there no heart ? they query, as they give the cultural substitutes for good, the heart-arrest drugs, since there is no heart is there? only when it is needed!

But does such vain asking after ruin, does this remove the misinstruction, the blindness which led to the collisions with the lampposts on the side-walk, because not only are the eyes shut tightly, but the arrogance of flesh is promoted, promulgated, survival is sainthood and sainthood is getting there, whatever your thing is, whether in work or play or pleasure: getting it.

YOU are the mentor, the mind, the player, the worker, and NOTHING shall interfere with you; because you come from nothing, it is a matter of nothing. SO what is not there is the imaginary source of what is, and what is there is the object of blindness and yet they wonder: WHY! There is no answer from the dismal nothing, the great myth, the self-contradictory illusion; it is time to turn at length to the Producer who leaves 'nothing' of life's blessing to the dead who turn from Him, who however, will not find that nothing which is their desert. (Cf. Proverbs 8:34-36, Isaiah 66:24, John 3:30-36). What is to be found in such a case has nothing to do with nothing but much to do with the reality, and in reality, with mercy dismissed in the spiritual spree, there is judgment.

THE REPOSSESSION PHENOMENON

Repossession by demons, by malfunctioning systems, abused mentally, physically and certainly spiritually, by social imaginations of community, and pretences of unity, pieces of manufactured specification which surge on without life or meaning, vision upon vision, the visions of death for the blind: such is the call, such is the tenor, to this due result of desecration is the destiny.

Are not the demons of World War I enough, that World War II has to happen; and is not World War III, the Cold War enough without making more specifications for what we will do with the world, as if we had invented it, or ourselves! Will Brussels teach man, will the United Nations become God, will power teach truth, will force make faith, will desolation produce reconstruction, will a US reconstruction-assist Europe manufacture for its pains, a new world, whirled about in the cyclotrons of human hope, resting on the radioactive powers of flesh in a one-world where the environment is desperately stressed! Why? Because we cannot make it, because we are not God; and His creations die off, and His world is misused, and it cannot be created anew, so it grows old: so the human capital must be conserved, so ever more desperate methods must be devised to make the veteran vehicle, this world, seem capable (cf. Isaiah 51:6).

IT IS NEVER ENOUGH

It is never enough. There is only one way out of the derelict pretences of a drugged nation, and that is to return to its founder. Even "Advance Australia Fair" once had a verse in which "Christ" at the helm of the nation, was paramount.

More conscious, then, of the lack of conscientiousness which forsakes conscience and is conned into confusion, let us consider the depth and height of the background, which mere process simply represents. Consciousness is a function of a reality which can inject grief into it, or joy, and which has many grounds for either. It is not a mirage, but a picture, a depiction of a mutiple-storied works which relates to many others. Mirages do not produce: except perhaps delirium.

For further on this, we look now at an except from News 74, in the matrix of life.

NEWS 74

There may be value for some in having at hand here, FOR THIS SITE, the Index survey of materials on the topic of life in terms of the lower creation.

And what terms these are!

We see:

Its scope of sheer variety, intense complexity,
graded qualities each superb in technical brilliance;

its games, deployments and wit;

its rebukes to our complacency and parodies of our pride;

its consciousness modes, dowered,
conferred with a form that allows some individuality,
depending on the height of the creation concerned,
within the other parameters laid down for each;
its limitations and its programmatic heights;

the vitalised kindreds of computing procedures,
leaving these 'modern' inventions of ours by comparison
in the wilderness of kindergarten, mere simplicities,
when compared with the sophistication and the manoeuvrings
of the lower orders of life as if it were putty.

To the construction of this multi-storied building, and among others like it, and for the debris of the model's requirement which imagines happening its own source, we now look in News 81.

NEWS 81

There is simply no point, let alone ground, for trying to make creatures, in the case in which groups have some marked similarities, tread the uphill gradient so that one becomes the other. Groups internally have such variabilities, such intimate and bold specialisations, that the effort to compare them via some small variable, with other groups is doomed to presumption. Not variability amongst far off creatures, and variability among humans is the need to show; for we know of these things by observation. Man has the reason aboard, the spirit, the incomparable capacity of thought, conscious resolution with grounds abstractly conveyable, communicable and the fashion of purpose and ideal, with the opening of rational self-consciousness and spiritual God-consciousness...

WHERE is the series TO BE FOUND, which by a fleet of working examples, has each one moving up and on to the ‘goal’ ? Where are the steps on the ladder by which ascent was made ? Why is the ladder not there ? Was it stolen ? Have the myriads of failed cases selectively hidden ? What has science to do with concern about the absent in such multitudes, when what is present in real multitudes has only one message. Is this science by inadvertence, or the use of the name instead of the method ? That, of course, would literally be science falsely so-called, the Biblical term used in admonition.

The substitution of variability in each group for such an upward series is nothing if not wearisome irrelevance. It is not uncommon in the spheres where the barriers are strong, the internal peculiarities marked, and the ‘arrival’ is sudden (cf. SMR 236, 160-162). In the domain of the mind and spirit, the change is just as categorical. The very conception - forget the evidence for it! - is almost amusing. Ill-wrought messes instead of logic, hollow and witless consciousnesses instead of analysis are mere mountains of horror, butts for power steering riotous and askew when manual might work. It is as always, a case of having the operative facility that really works, or nothing. Less than this simply does not work. Nor is it found. Let us however return to what IS found.

Having considered necessary progress, in all its lip-stick and smear unreality, we now examine more minutely man himself, in this quest for consciousness and conscience, the meat of meaning and the reality of man.

LITTLE THINGS Ch. 5

In the case of man, however, as repeatedly emphasised on this site, there is a capacious uniqueness which is far more than that found in formal ratiocinative capacity, intellectual prowess, power to exercise symbolic logic with critical and conscious finesse, investigative method and thought, with modes of procedure and hypothetical testing which go beyond mere patience, into precision; for it can incorporate moral innovation, his downfall, or conceptual innovation, a major strength, and he may be drawn to far greater things yet, as we shall see.

Man is capable of a discerning loyalty, based on thought, understanding and conception, assessment quite profound and commitment with deliberation. To this, he can address himself with the heart, the mind, the body, or each of these. This is lateral, between members of his kind. However he is also able to depart from his originating parameters, and become perverse in spirit, mind or body. He is capable of a treachery so fastidiousness cruel, so wantonly selfish that it causes an involuntary shudder to consider, or of a cruelty proportionate to his spiritual liberty, and applied sometimes with an eloquence of evil almost impossible to contemplate.

This versatility is proportionate to man's capaciousness of mind, of spirit, of understanding, and hence with the liberties granted to him, of heart, of moral perception and faith. He can seem to make the very devils stand back in awe at his perfidy, folly and transparent roguishness; he can seem to come close to the angels in his self-sacrificing love, nobility of character and radiant delight in things wonderful.

Indeed, to man, in parallel and basic to all of this, is there granted a capacity to know God, and not only some of the elements, quite formally as well as intuitively, of his own thoughts. Man may soar into vision, rise in illumination, and in each case, be deluded or willing to test, to check, to consider the claims and the values, the verifications and the logic of the matter, and to be a unitary being, not only in body, which is a simple but amazing gift, but in mind and spirit.

Law, Limits and Wonder

Not that he CAN do all these things, as if he were a miracle worker. His own body is a miracle, if you define miracle as any action of a supernatural being, which is put into the universe, and is not (even mediately) originated by it, but for it. We have considered such things in SMR Chs. 1-3, and That Magnificent Rock (TMR), Chs. 1, 5, 7, 8, as well as A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-9.

The unity of language IN our DNA is like the unity provisions in our speech potential, also ingrafted into the conception of grammar, the cohesion of thought internally and with speech, so that we too may 'speak' and create, within limits. The fulfilment of such provisions of spirit, mind, potential and speech, settled in an organised structure called the body, is mankind.

The unity of logic is likewise, a capacity which, while taking practice, much as speech does (alas too often neglected in today's substitute for the old rigours of teaching English in multitudes of slovenly substitutes, perhaps economically motivated towards the market of today), is a unit implanted. The unity of speech WITH logic, is a synthetic added capacity granted. Of all this, we have the product before us, for it is ourselves. What we do is done in us, to make us, generation by generation, without our aid, in principle at all. We are emblems of the magnificence of our creation, just as we on a lower level, exponents of it.

To what can this be compared ? The conceptual conquest which is illustrated in the orders, commands and conditions, circumstances and procedures which relate to the building of man, like new Empire State Buildings (but much more difficult, for we are without comparison, indeed, that is at all near), from the old one, is thus a far greater thing to behold, that it would be if ... ? What then does it exceed ? It far surpasses the prospect of seeing the Empire State Building having children, bringing them up, communicating with them, and leaving them with all systems alert and connected, going concerns.

It does this because the magnitude of man's equipment, with billions of synthetically organised brain cells, for a start, all designated for design specifications and functional correlations, and provisions for these to be MADE on site, while the parents may be more ignorant of such things than a humming bird of higher mathematics, is overwhelming. It does surpass, moreover, because man can think and make other buildings, other Empire States, bridges, books and prodigies. His functional, emotional, spirited and logistical realities are so far greater than anything which the limited intelligence of man, or the vaster collections of that of many men, or the still vaster collections of that of many people with much historical provision from former generations of learning, research and construction of able facilities, can produce, that we are as little children. Our powers are completely eclipsed by what is attested in our own creation, AS creative.

That of course, is precisely what you would expect. If we, in using what is merely given to us, can be so effective as to destroy whole parts of the earth with radioactive marvels of prodigious intelligence (there is, to be sure, a little irony here, but still, it was clever if no more to find the WAY to do it), what is the requirement, what requisition must be made in logical demand, of the maker of this thing, himself, called ... what is the name ? man, mankind, the human race ? Take your pick. If vast are man's power to devastate, destroy, degrade with ingenuity, what is the power and what the elevation of majesty in the Maker of man, using a power to create, not desecrate, and rendering a functional multi-purpose unit of integration to the uttermost, into existence!

The engendering of order in no case comes from its absence. It requires a cause. Of laws, the case is the same. Of integrated laws, the same. Of design specifications, no less. The functionality is the criterion, the requisition is the result.

To pursue the point, we consider a narrative.

STEPPING OUT FOR CHRIST Ch. 8

It was quiet and I lay down, only to find the location strangely changed. An erratic seeming man arose, like a geyser from the earth, and jabbered away at me, as if possessed by some sad mania, which grappled with and quite overcame his mind. It all arose, he said quietly at first. It just happened. Try to tell me that this organisation and order and beauty and composition and harmony needed more than nothing, and I'll force the words back into your mouth. So far he sounded vaguely like some ranting University lecturer, on vacation.

One day, he composed himself as I watched him, as a doctor might a tubercular patient coughing, nothing was feeling unhappy because it had nothing with which to console itself. There was to be sure, a certain logic in that. If it was nothing, that would be dim. It was just that nothing has nothing with which to feel, no centre for consciousness or mode of wishing. However with such minute details, I did not harass him in the splendour of his diatribe.

Feeling fulfilled when something arose, he went on. Now that too troubled me a little. Something arose. That was very venturesome for nothing to accomplish. He seemed to read my thoughts. Oh, there wasn't ONLY nothing. There was something there. There always has to be.

Oh! I said, startled by the admission. I agree with that. But WHAT was the something there which arose, and which was there all the time ?

Oh it was just stuff, he said, a sort of material.

Oh was it a material composed of matter, or something slighter ? I courteously asked.

Of course it was matter. It was all matter, he replied.

Then one day there was a material something, and it felt lonely because it was all that was there, and wanted a companion ... is that really, then The scenario, I speculated for him.

No! stupid. I SAID there was nothing, and I meant it.

You ALSO said there was something, so didn't you mean that part.

Of course, I meant that too. Are you trying to be clever ?

To be clear. So there was one day, which is time, which is not nothing, something, which for all that was nothing, and it felt, though it had nothing with which to feel, unhappy for the lack of other things, though there was no way a conception about something could enter the mind of nothing, which to say nothing more, was not there in the first place.

You simply do not understand the grandeur of my conception, he said.

Was a conception there ? I asked, rather patiently.

Of course it was, for how otherwise could nothing have an idea of what it wanted though it wasn't there ?

So, then, I continued, you are really implying that one day, when time was there, there was something called nothing which was nevertheless equipped with feelings and conceptions and hence the mind in which to cherish, contain and display, not to say modify and consider them. So one day, in a time situation, there was a location of some kind, where a mind was at work, and it was feeling that it had nothing much to do, and wanted something which was not called nothing with which to ... re-assure itself ? Is that it ?

Except, he said, beginning to warm to the task, of course there was an understanding, for how could this nothing ever grasp the idea of company without a world view of some kind.

Good. One day something with understanding, code-named nothing, equipped with mind and conceptions, experienced a yen, urge, desire, existentialist surge ...

Sure, he said. Just because it was nothing, that did not mean that it did not have some spirit, something with which to yearn and desire.

So then, I said, one day there was in a time-space module...

NO! he declaimed. What is all this about a module ?

Good, so one day there was a time without constraint in a space which was limitless, occupying all that was there, and the time ticked without being too tidy about it, for there was no trouble about limitation of any kind. There was in fact a universal occupancy of what ? of what was or was not there ?

Of what was there, of course, he said, for how on earth or beyond it could you occupy what was not there to occupy ?

Good. So one day there was a terrain and domain of space time, suitably constrained and oriented and organised, which had the facility to be in suitable order, so that bits did not wander about chaotically, and to arise in a sequential mode, so that there was room for development. It was code named nothing and felt moved to become more ... developed.

Now you're getting it, he graciously acknowledged. Further, it became obsessed with the notion of upward ho! A sort of British space-time domain.

A domain is usually something ordered by someone, or organised by some force, constraint or power, I noted.

Yes, it was organised by a power that was purely inside itself.

Good, so then this power in itself, was an organising power; it could conceive and ... well, create ?

Of course, dumb-head, he went on, somewhat less graciously. How do you think anything got here if something could not create ? Why, if you know ANY logic, you will at once see that this is the minimum initial power.

Good. Then we have one day, in time, an ordered domain in which a creator lives.

Who said anything about living ? he asked. The creative principle was just around.

A principle ? This is a form of mental notation about what happens. So there was a mental notation about what happens, which made things happen. There seems to be something missing here. Perhaps what you really mean is this: there was a mental facility which had a movement, a dynamic, a flow, an outward manifestation in making things move in a direction the opposite of nothing, into somethings ?

Yes, that's it. It was not a person, or even a thought, though of course it had thoughts, or there could be no thought of matter having in itself a repository for them, called law.

Good again. Thus we have a repository for thought, capable of exercising thought, and placing thought into material things. Let's call it God.

Why not ? It is just a name.

Fine! So one day God found a place to be, in a space-time situation, and finding within a power to conceive and create, proceeded to use it, so that things became, well, not just variations on the original theme of space and time being ordered, but conceptions with material occupations ... like roses.

Precisely. You are really coming along! he cried with an appearance nearer to peace than I had yet seen. This being then had principles and one of these was the upward move, to more form, structure with which to do things, and more law, ordered function so that things could be done.

Then the scenario is this, I mused for him. One day, in a space time domain, ordered, organised and set in a situation of operational facility, a being bred conceptions and organised laws, and implemented both so that the space time structure became inhabited with a lot of divisible entities which performed their various functions in an inter-related way.

You'll do me, he said. What is a better - a more descriptive name for it, do you think ?

Well, I like God, I replied. But in the meantime, if you wish, it could be called the Imaginative-Conceptualising-Conditioning Creator ?

For other presentations, and their involvements in logic, we next consider an excerpt from The Biblical Workman, Appendix 2, suitablly extended, which encompasses itself with another work, namely ...

DIG DEEPER, HIGHER SOAR … Ch. 2

Thus a note from The Biblical Workman, Appendix 2 is apt here. It is dealing with the phenomenon of alogisms, to which are linked antilogies and antinomies in the grand larceny of logic to which anti-God movements necessarily move. It is interesting here because of its aspect of consciousness, and for its ramification into the background of this functionality. It notes that these matters are exposed in the following references, and then makes an application in what follows, before reaching on to the work Dip Deeper, loc. cit...

See:

The Marvels of Predestination and the Ways of Will Ch. 8.

Jesus Christ, Defaced, Unfazed, Barrister of Bliss Chs. 8 and 9,

History, Review and Overview Ch. 5.

An excerpt from Dip Deeper, Higher Soar … Ch. 2 gives a broad perspective in the logical and the realm of alogism, where irrationality rules and dissociation of ideas is the criterion.

The various ‘books’ mentioned below are design co-ordinates, reaching outward, upward, inward and downward, and their integrality is part of the design. In this, rationality replaces the magic of finding total pointedness with conscious symbolic logic associated with implicit symbolic logic, and written species of the same in the DNA, where order and command, symbol and significance, signification and execution vie for mastery, and find none, there being only the quietus of design, and the facility of inter-connected function overlaid with understanding, and just as amazing, the capacity purposefully to misunderstand if that is the demand of the conscious driver of all this!

Consciousness is simply a co-ordinate of personality functional in spirit, co-ordinate with a material contrivance for application to the physical, a mental composition for the interpretation and understanding and a direct spiritual functionality for purposing, imaging and willing. The ability to act in this realm requires for personality an awareness which allows it to illustrate what it is, perform what it is constructed to do and be responsible for its actualisation of what it perceives.

Morality is no less and no more remarkable and demanding than consciousness, being an aspect of the instructive construction of the spirit of man, in the image of God. The defilements of evil willing, self-aggrandising or self-glorifying lusts, mental compulsions born of fallacious fictions which pander to the pride of man, and the like, impinge on this construction, partly subduing it, but never deleting it entirely. Thus even a prominent al Qaeda leader admitted that he did not LIKE killing kids and that sort of thing, but look, it is war, he declared, with the spiritual shrug of the immoral and immobilised conscience. It is not the deaths alone, but the mode of it which brings to light the darkness for examination! And when it is examined in the light, it flees.

Hence the wounded consciences, the ludicrous rationalisations to salve it, the irrational use of the concept of right and wrong, good and bad by materialists, in their exhortations to others (and this includes the exhortation not to look at morals, for it is WRONG to do so!), the popularity of psychiatrists, so often used as Lady Macbeth comfort stations, to remove the spot which signifies, and the rash denunciations of many, who with their own morals mixed, muddled and broken, are quick to assert the same of others, hence entering into those squalid judgment sessions, which almost seem to be intended to usurp the last judgment; but they are no more this, than is a burp, a speech.

Thus introduced, the Dig Deeper ... excerpt follows,
slightly revised for our present purpose..

AMID ALL THIS TRAFFIC SURGING AROUND MANKIND,
LET US BE BOOKED

At the outset in our site, we have first noted and then examined two "books" - and it is very close to LITERALLY two books. They are both exceptionally well-known, the Bible for the mind and the heart of man, and the DNA for his structure. Each is inscribed with efficiency, profound symbolic coherence and cohesion, intimate capacity for correlation with command, system to the finest point, and just that combination of meaning and symbolic method which constitutes design, direction and communication. If this is not communication, nothing could be.

This however is not all. There are two additional books, somewhat more figurative, but not in the least imaginary. The FUNCTIONS to which EACH OF THESE EXTRA 'BOOKS' REFERS is as real as any between two covers in our ambit and purvey of scholars.

The third then, or the first of the two extra books is this: the co-ordination of mental world and physical world, auditory reception and command execution, between the man whose bodily equipment is programmed, and the world which has its physical and botanical, biological equipment programmed. The programs intermesh well; their symbolic sub-structures are unitary in kind, so that the efforts of the one, avail in the other, the impacts of the one are understood in the other, and (cf. Predestination and Freewill, Part 4), there are no alogisms to be found: the logic is unitary.

More, the mind of man, using programmed sub-structures for its ultra-programmatic progressions and pursuits, can understand the products that surround him.

There is therefore, and this is the fourth book, this second unit in our second series: and this is the comprehension-combination that transcends. It goes far beyond the mere structural logical cohesion and synthesis. To emit and receive in terms of a common system is one thing, extremely magnificent though this created product undoubtedly is; but to be so prepared in spirit and mind, so that the raw materials, themselves coherent and cohesive between the two systems, within and without, are able to be grasped, intuited, subjected to imaginative incursions, brought into the scope of thought and will and analysis, yes of understanding for action by the non-material, purpose-proposing, imaginative dimension of the being called man, his spirit, this is the next generation of marvel. (Cf. SMR pp. 348ff..)

Yet it would seem indeed scapegrace in gratitude to God who performed this production with the necessary linguistic, mathematical, comprehensive, analytical skill to manufacture symbols and significances (symbol targets), intimations and executions, thought sub-structures in logic and meaning, and interaction with a subject also formed, if we did not notice a fifth book. This is the power to ruminate concerning the Maker Himself. This naturally is the copestone, to which the imaginary relationship of Pinocchio to his craftsman corresponds in reality. Right through to the inward realisation of the thrust of the logic, the communality of the communication, the direction of the design, the strategy of the construction, man can peer toward the God who made him.

He can do more. It is not necessary in this field to speak of a 5th book, although it would be perfectly meaningful. One prefers not to do so, as at the level we have now reached, the affair is inter-personal to such an extent that the term 'book', so fitting earlier, is somewhat distanced. Rather this is the intimacy-provision for creator and creature when that creature is man. This is what book No. 1 provides for (the Bible), book No.2 is sub-structured to enable (the cells DNA and allied phenomena, atomic parameters and provisions), book No. 3 ascends to substantiate, book No. 4 arises to confirm. We shall however give it a name: there is in this fifth dimension, a correlation that is spiritual in kind, so that it may be termed scope for spiritual communication, and for concord. We are moving from the concept of 'book' to that of 'look', or inter-personal interchange.

This allows testing of promises, assimilation of pronouncements, reaction to orders, comprehension of commands, in a SETTING of illumination of conspectus, like a search-light revealing from the nose of an aeroplane, the configuration of the land far below, and something of the ways of those who live there. This is an ultra-programmatic conspectus, and an inter-personal opening. It is a vista on the divine.

It is complicated by just one vital feature, which is equally a vital failure, such as one may get in a damaged automobile, or TV. There is a perverse streak which surfaces in man, so that the more the promises of God in the Bible are fulfilled, and objectively they all are always found to be of this kind, the less they are wanted; the more the prophecies are brought into history, like obedient little lambs in a fenced paddock, the more is the distaste; the more the disciplines for folly, the more the folly, or the less the concern. While this is not like rectilinear motion, a mere reciprocity, and is complicated by the resilience and capacity granted to the immaterial spirit of man, happily able to divorce itself in imagination and purposes proposed for itself, from almost anything real, at will, it nevertheless is a thrust, an historical trend.

These preliminaries allow our minds to realise the UNDERLYING design, before we consider the externally more obvious examples of it. We can now proceed, this base work done, with what is gained from The Wit and Wisdom of the Word of God, the Bible True to Test Ch. 2 .

On design definition, the case is clear. You need what has integrity, or better integrality, oneness in multiplicity, so that many things minister to one result. You need the power to imagine it, since commands do not imagine themselves; the capacity to codify it if you want to use, as in DNA, programmatic devices, the comprehension to make code articulate with command, and command with the raw material for its implementation; you need a series and sequence so that the correct data come with the correct matériel and the correct provision of it at the correct time, and the correct concept with which to edit any errors and rectify any oddments. So is it with the embryo, and indeed in much of the following growth, outside the womb.

This of course is precisely what is found in design, to make it so; and nowhere on earth is that of man surpassed in any visible realm. How is this so ? It is a question of

complexity for the unity,

differential divisions
of mind, spirit and matter for the components,

inextricably interwoven for normal function,

operational sufficiency and efficiency for the command centre
or operational agent to secure the results which are to be gained
from comprehensive USE of all the equipment and connections
and phases of life involved.

Nothing comes near such versatility, power and combination, synthesis of dynamic diversity in KIND, as this. Fulfilling the specifications for the definition of design, it yet surpasses all other visible examples. To remove this example, this exemplar indeed, man, from design, would have to remove the concept; but the concept is based on billions of examples, systematically found and implemented by the designed unit himself, man. It is just that his observable case surpasses all in the various elements that constitute what is defined to be design.

There follow three citations from earlier works, to illustrate the ludicrous results which come when man tries to ignore the data, and invent by magical moments in thought (cf. A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-9), what no moments in nature contrive to produce; for you may watch forever, for what lacks what it takes, to take what it has not got. Cars do not produce cars; you need the extra features to imagine and purpose, to contrive and to make them arrive. Man-maker has to have all of this, and for such a thing as man, inventor, creator and imaginer, comprehender and amender, you need as it were the machine tools correlative to that; but it is not machinery: it is imagination and all else that the formation and formulation of command exacts.

Correlative with this again is the obvious fact that INFORMATION does not arrive, but in information science as seen below, we find that information tends to dissipate, like other design. What is based on its autonomous arrival, when the law directs that the natural course of information is its dissipation: this is not only UN-scientific; it is ANTI-scientific, and justly put into the realm of magic, where causes inadequate posited, with no evidence, are imagined to go with the results desired.

This may be pursued at The Wit and Wisdom of the Word of God, the Bible True to Test Ch. 2 .

Pursuing yet further the integuments, the integralities and the implications of empirical reality, we turn to History, Review and Overview Ch. 5. For our present purpose, this is re-arranged somewhat and extended.

HISTORY, REVIEW AND OVERVIEW Ch. 5

It is all or nothing. It is not only

irreducible complexity, but

indivisible integrity,

indissoluble co-operation,

inter-and intra-systematic proliferation,

coherence of logic and symbolic notation with
executive receptors, skilled to catch meaning and execute orders,

continuity of sequence from

connotation, to denotation, to implementation,

in a series of systematics incomprehensible except in totality

(indeed see SMR pp. 332Gff., Stepping Out for Christ Ch. 9, Repent or Perish Ch. 7, in End-notes, and for further considerations!).

The path of true reductionism, false to science, of course, is always to ignore what you have got, and to explain what is not there. It is however the essence of the challenge to meet the case as it is, in all of its sequential, symbolic, integral and mutually intimate and pervasively singular procedures, whether in code type, implementation, co-ordination or exuberance of methodology; and to do so in a world which likes energy for construction and time for destruction. The other point about the construction ? it is direction. The third ? something to do as directed. In this world, and by any form of valid logic, the specifications of life parallel the requisites of intelligence with available power.

The result, life, it matches nothing but mind, requires nothing less than something as far beyond mere genius as the heavens above the earth, requisitions an artist, artificer and maker down to the last electron and the least of the biota. Paintings do not paint themselves, Raphaels do not come by omission of the artist, and life is as far beyond these things in what it demands, as a genius beyond a talented toddler.

The perspectives and nuances of art, its undertones and its overtones, its sentiments and its modes of communications to receptors called human beings, who may decide to pretend not to like it as a competitive device, such is their programmatic liberty of will in certain arenas: these do not arise from what does not cognise them; but only in what goes far further than that. It must with enterprise not only appreciate but perform, and not only perform, but meaningfully perform, and activate the executive elements of the body of the artist to ensure that the result actually appears; and that the way in which it does so can be 'read'. Art is merely one facet of life. ALL functions must be accounted for in any reputable endeavour to present its basis.

As soon as one discovers one phase, feature or facet of human life in particular, there are realities within, meanings beyond, there is all the grooming of a thorough-bred horse, all the intestinal reality of a cathedral, the coherence of a great speech, the intricacy of superb mathematics, the intimacies as of love, such is the subtlety and the inter-dimensional as well as intra-dimensional sophistication, as if intelligence were easy, and brilliance a manner of life.

As if ? THIS is the testimony. If someone places a new Boeing 747 on your drive-way, it is not as if it had been built! It is not the nature of life, or logic, to give output without input; and what we see now as the centuries progress, is no more input, but the same residual decrement. In design terms, there is to be found, as Gould emphasises, DECREASING residue. The progress of centuries in this system is the regress of design types. What is needed is simply NOT NATURE. It needs its author.

In the light of our other concerns with excerpts and text above, we may now add to the above list, so that to preserve it all in one we repeat it:

irreducible complexity, but

indivisible integrity,

indissoluble co-operation,

inter-and intra-systematic proliferation,

coherence of logic and symbolic notation with
executive receptors, skilled to catch meaning and execute orders,

continuity of sequence from

connotation, to denotation, to implementation,

in a series of systematics incomprehensible except in totality

To this we may now add:

physical, ethical, moral, aesthetic, discursive, ruminative, intellectually integrative, spiritually imaginative and metaphysically cohesive unity of perspective, operation and concentration,

unitary understanding explicative of all,
derived from the summit of experience and
comprehension in the Creator.

The last is as demonstrated in an earlier work, which it is pertinent to provide in its full dress on this occasion. It is -

LIGHT DWELLS WITH THE LORD'S CHRIST

WHO ANSWERS RIDDLES

AND WHERE HE IS, DARKNESS DEPARTS

Bible or Blight, Christ or Confusion:
The Comprehensive Resolution of Man's Intractable Problems
is Found Only in the Bible, the Word of God

A Pair of Volumes: Opus 128 and 129, of some 2.3 million words

In fact, the concept that not only does

an integral unit

of multi-tasking capacities, dirigible from an intellectual base in what is purposive, lying in a stupendous system of semi-or wholly programmatic means in what is structurally supportive,

contrive to be alive and operative,

but to possess structural additives for this purpose -

	such as an intricate, multi-layered defence system, multi-stage digestive system, kilometres of blood vessels with multiple agencies mutually supportive and collectively correlative in a multiplication of tasks,
	all integrated in turn,
	a nervous system which can correlate and co-ordinate sensory perceptions from multiple organs for achieving raw data from the outside world, which in sequence relates to a quasi-computerised organ which collects data purposively and distributively for diverse possible purposes, stores the same and has memory provisions for access; while
	this structure, basis for personal action, is presented in code which is a species of language (Jesus Christ, Defaced ... Ch. 4),
	intelligible, perusable, commanding, executable, executed, with multiple provisions for the transmission of the code over thousands of years, to enable the accomplishment of the programs and the provisions for this methodical action, with the result that neither does intelligible direction, nor cohesive inter-relationship of elements, nor arrival of instruments for the fulfilment of orders fail, so that we have not less, but more than design, namely presented design, self-fulfilling through cognitive elements, speciated into the scenarios of language; and
	not only all of this, but a spirit to will and a character individually to develop,

while for all that, this is not a design:

what shall be said of it ?

What is the genus of such a concept as that ?

It is one that constitutes far more than a breach of definition. It is as if meeting infinity, it is so overwhelmed that it declares it zero in self-defence.

In fact, these things meet to perfection one of the most obvious definitions of design:

that assimilation of numerous complexities into integrality,

that solution to numerous procedural problems
with ingenuity of mode not to be found per se in the constituent materials,

that subsumption of multiplied processes to ordered,
salient and sequentially sustained results,
whether for comprehension as in art, or action as in engineering,
with overall meaning for a stateable whole.

Because of the NATURE of the aspects, it is brought to the realm of what is not only beyond man, but correlatively beyond him, so that appreciation of the work is possible on an analytical basis, just as logical necessity drives to the same conclusion.

What then of the denial of this particular design, to be such ?

It is an exercise in antinomy so profound as to constitute an hiatus of reason.

When however we learn that

	among the other systems,
	integrated and available in unison for purposes of the spirit which directs choice of environment and desire for specialisation, love, friendship and understanding (or other options),
	is a reproductive system
	which is capable,
	without any but the most minimal knowledge of program or nervous system,
	integration or correlation in all of these systems,
	of producing a new multi-design, pan-designating, destiny relating mind-matter format for spirit's operation,
	in short, a baby,
	which will have all the ingredients of the preliminary provision for speech, walking and understanding lodged in it, so that work produces results in the desired fields:

then not merely do we have the very accolade of designer's design, the art work beyond design which gives it name and glory, but unique work of the hand of God becomes both apt and appropriate.

Here is what is beyond man, in miniaturisation, in method, in time, in unprogrammed purpose, in imagination-provision and original conceptualisation capacity, to name but a few. Moreover, not only this so, but what is in man, beyond his capacities to create, is the ability to discern what is beyond him, as being in him! This is the image of God, the ability to see what is required while not having it, and to look intelligently for it, and to find it where it or rather He, has attested Himself (cf. The Meaning of Liberty and the Message of Remedy).

Not only is there successively no other source for the various outré features of such a result, rationally, but there is no other basis revealed to reason, sourced in validity and verification, than the Bible; nor person, as there specified, than Jesus Christ who incarnate, is shown to be He whose handiwork, as life in eternity, brought to pass in time, itself also created ( cf. Reason. Revelation and the Redeemer) both what we are and our capacities to deny it, ourselves, Him or whatever else takes our fancy, or rationally rules our will.

One of the features of this pan-operative profusion, girded with personality and alive with reason, is the moral, and one of the correlatives of that is consciousness, as indeed of other elements of the personality and its objects of application, research or action. Some of these are noted in *2a below, and they include such features as the:

	1. PSYCHIC
	2. PHYSICAL
	3. INTERPERSONAL (including friendship, hostility, and the political, social, economic)
	4. RATIONAL
	5. EMPIRICAL
	6. AESTHETIC
	7. MORAL
	8. SPIRITUAL
	9. EMOTIONAL
	10. NOETIC and INTELLIGENT
	10. ASPIRATIONAL
	12. IMAGINATIVE (including both the creative and creativity itself)
	13. METAPHYSICAL
	14. DESIGN DOMAIN
	15. MEMORY FIELD
	16. DIVINE

	Let us pursue the consciousness concept in the light of the above list, perspective and analysis. For man, it is personal, psychic and intelligent.
	With this amplitude, we may return to consciousness, a concern of major importance from the first.

CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness ? It is merely a filament in the light. It is the awareness of the interstices of things, the symbolism that underlies much, the concatenations which inhere, the logic which instils, the order that it exhibits, the focus for thought, the tablet for truth. Without what it does, the world in which it functions, the source of its powers and the address of its utilities, it would be a mystery indeed, being equipment without purpose, and a template without function. In the setting of its sequences, the scope of its travail, as an arm of thought and a shute to significance, a plateau for survey and a carrier for orders, it implies what does the travail, gives the orders and sees the significance; for the awareness is no more the thrust of it than is a monitor the thrust of a computer. It signifies the significance within, in perceivable form. It is the perceptive implant for the structure, like a speedometer, a RPS needle, but of overall scope for portrayal.

It is merely the exhibition panel of what is done panel-apart, on its own grounds, for which the panel is the counterpart, contrived by design to exhibit the results of design. Without it, personal reality would be bewitched, scope would be suppressed and the actualities of man would be hidden even from himself. So far from being an anomaly, as in the secular model, it is a necessity of substance.

Recently an astronaut expressed, very much comme il faut, the thought that design is not scientific. Perhaps then his space ship is not designed, but like himself (on such a basis of thought) a sort of throw-up of matter, equipped with genius, understanding matter, using it, co-operating and manipulating it ? It is then a contradiction of the most blatant and patent sort, a contradiction in terms. This sort of thought is not merely illogical, irrational, unscientific, but it denies the very conditions of its own discourse. It is orphaned in its model, by the model's postulates.

It absconds with truth and then uses it; it removes the ground for truth, the understanding that is objective and adequate and sourced where it is not mere presumption added to assumption, and then exhibits it for us, as if some child declared, I cannot do mathematics mummy, and then quickly worked out at 33.3 cents per minute, what his pay should be for doing the dishes and controverted any effort to reduce it.

IF he were a series that kept on coming up, so that the concept of series is invisibly and surreptitiously fused with that of movement upwards, the meaning of up-ness, the grounds for it, the machinations in each aspect of it, were it there, and the grounds for it to become there: then series being all, there would be no scope for a series-surveyal which would unravel what a series is, why it invents things outside its own scope and how it can become self-aware, gain the understanding, first in possibility, then in functionality for correct self-portrayal, even if it could work in self-conscious objectivity at all.

What is the object of objectivity when subjectivity is all, except to smuggle illicit objects for the model in view; and absolute reality, how does series provide its sensor, or achieve its existence, as truth ? Does a happening become a truth-meter ? Or is an event moral ? or does an interactive escapee from causality achieve distance and knowledge of all, in order to relay it back into the midst which is after all, all there is for this model! To what then does it escape, and how, and why does such a model of thought breach its own limitations in order to check in with truth, when experience and interaction without any absolute is the milieu of all operation ?

If the absolute is there, we have a need for abstraction from the model, of what understands it and surveys it correctly with all knowledge, and for knowledge you need the knower, and for the knower you need the ultra-relativistic, and for the knowledge of this Knower, you need a conveying of the truth past the limitations of the one within the model, the man, and for this you need an action in the field of the absolute which overwhelms and instructs the relative, and for that you need a correlative functionality for the transfer, and a willingness, since man cannot operate at that level, on the part of the Knower. In short, you need God and revelation for what the minus-model grabs out of the air of self-contradiction.

What then of the limited elements in the materialist model ?

If it is a series of numbers, it does not do it. If a series of atoms, it does not do it, but goes about its atomic stuff according to its atomic laws and instituted conditions. If it is a thought, where is its mind, and where is the thought in matter ?

It is implicit in its construction, but entirely invisible in its actions. Thus a double negative visits the smuggling of entities by series, by mere actions and reactions.

If all were series, indeed, the concept of series would not be a series, and so the idea is self-contradictory on all sides.

Reductionism is merely an escapee from reality, and all its theories, ignoring the integrity of each element, are precisely like a measuring style scientist, disregarding those findings which are inconvenient for what he wants 'science' to say.

And that, as in all fudging and dodging, is where you have not only an inadequate model, but inadequate morality, itself an ineluctable element even of order, since it provides the barrier of model wandering, as well as the implicit ground of action. You do not have to be morally good to desire to be correct in your statements, it is true; self-interest could propel you: but you do need to know the MEANING of the ACTUALITY of MORALITY even to seek to give an impression.

The reality of series and adequate modelling without mere mischievous or confused verbiage replacing rationality, indeed it is as shown in SMR Ch. 3, an excerpt from which follows.

Here too the nature of cynicism and scepticism is related. But what is it like, this mini-modelling reductionism ? It is like a charlatan telling his troops that all they need is food for victory, and merely assuming they have enough sense to realise that they also need composed and clear minds, fit bodies, purposive motivation and confidence in their leader. These little items are omitted in the grosser folds of the simplistic garment which is a cover-all and do-nothing.

SMR p. 301

Let us then review the broader issues. The gradual elevation of uni-series to substance, of engineered matter in its sophistication to errant human thought, of movement in a line to a concept of a line, and to the failure to draw it right... of awareness to objectivity, processive participation to plenary powers of oversight, of determinism to freedom, of interactive interfaces to supervising systems-assessors, of components to critics, containment to illimitable perspectives, of coercion to liberty and material units into error-prone persons, of forced fragments to foolish philosophising (as mutually often judged) where pundits say what is wrong and hence imply access to what is right; the elevation, I say - of elements prodded by force into persons goaded by guilt, of reagents into agents, jostled particles into judges of particularity, asserting obligation and denying it both in theory and in practice: all this may satisfy 'God' machinists.

It may seem splendid to deity manufacturers, who have nowhere from which to gain all these powers (having denied God). But their manufacture of these gods is one of the most obvious testimonies (*15) to God, manufacturer of themselves, giving them logical bases for such powers, though here they are but abused.

LET US CONSIDER THEREFORE

It is not a matter of the god of gaps, but the coercion of nothing into unwonted activity: the gaping gap between ground and cause, sufficiency and efficiency, the empirical and the rational, the actuating and the thrust. It is the expulsion of God from acts. Chance is invoked which, without system before it, has no chance of operating, and with system, is bound to the same system. You need invention, not sedation.

But what is the mentality of doomed man, increasingly self-critical of his world, and uncritical of his own follies ?

It is gaps gasping into creative geniuses, and nothing arising to empower.

It is not just in major categories or kinds that ground for ordering is required, and not gained;
but in major spheres for which kinds are inhabitants,
and their meaningful correlation in order to produce an integrality
in each massive kind of the pack,
in each massive sphere for such kinds,
in each massive co-ordinating and underlying system mode, such as logic,
in each grouping of such massive modes
into interface and co-operation,
with the body-constructive words in life in one language in all,
and works of life in dimensions all but innumerable,
sporting varieties envisageable in one vision of attainment and mutuality

(cf. What is Life ?, Repent or Perish Ch. 7).

But what is this mentality of neglect and this review by omission ?

	It is achievement by desire, when the desire is merely in the thoughts which post-date the events by thousands of years.
	It is casuistry with causality, and back-reading of desire into the backwaters of nothingness, or the immersion into imagination, where what rules is magic and the ground is nothing at all. Indeed, whether the ground or the start be nothing, there is nothing in it either way.

Consciousness then is merely an exhibit, as in a crime investigation, in its whole inability to give itself basis or meaning or ground; or an example of Gaping instead of God. In the secular model, in it there is presented Casuistry instead of Causality, the mind well-equipped to know full well that to omit cause is to omit the meaning of language and the reality of logic itself (cf. Causes).

In The Meaning of Liberty, the Message of Remedy Ch. 6, the point is extended ...

If, therefore, there is a category, a characteristic, then there is a conduct that accords with it, in the thing so characterised. To divorce this simple causal coherence, is to remove the applicability of speech or thought. Hence such theorists of disjunction of causation are involved in an illicit antilogism, and are systematically excluded from coherent speech in their quest. What reason requires, they deny, and so lose their place and gain one as irrationalists; and without reason, and its correlatives, they cannot even speak, or present an issue. If they should still wish to do so, thus, they would need to abandon their premisses; and so their argument lapses.

Thus if causality is gone, then characterisability is revoked and so language becomes defunct, the laws underlying its particularities and performance are annulled, the grounds for their operation are removed, the operation of reality is rescinded and a world of imagination is conceived, in which the cause of causality, as in Kant, is assigned (cf. SMR pp. 140ff., Predestination and Freewill IV); but it cannot be.

If there is no such thing as CAUSE, then any attempt to estimate what caused it pre-supposes what is being dismissed, and so begs the question. Remove this antilogy, and antinomies in which Kant moves like a trapeze artist, go with it. Clarity and consistency are the compliments of the season for the return to rationality and the restoration of actuality with its causality.

It is inherent in thought, and necessary for logical action, has pay-load in assignable features, not magical but mission-built, function-clad, and application in definition of terms. It is confirmed by its application into the resolution of all things, as a component of logic, which is a component of the image of God status of man, which is a component of the universe, which is a component of creation which is a work of God, whose work is as indefeasible as unalterable. You never escape magic or irrationality otherwise: and as to the former, it is merely an exposition of what is not found in terms inadequate for the result, or if adequate, then unattested; and as for irrationality, it is merely the 'won't' of the obstinate, the frowning refusnik, who insists on giving reasons for his unreason, and arguing for his self-contradiction with means which ostensibly, he despises.

It is in principle not unlike the rich American 'teen-ager of the sixties, using his parents' money to flay the system which supports him.

Unfortunately for man, the abuse of his conscience has helped to enthrall him, in his modern dress of irrationality, with the hope that by shutting his eyes to facts as well as morals, and hoping desperately that somehow everything MUST have come from somewhere he can control: therefore it must go as he controls, and if not, then he will die in the attempt.

In many cases, this last result is true; and in all cases, judgment rather than mere death is the non-antidote to worry as men scurry, flurry, thrust and bust in their inimitable ways, refusing to be conscious of their nature, of its origin, of its destiny, alive only to a destitute surrealism, a depraved reductionism and an irrational casuistry which always wants everything from nothing, either to things granted (from nothing), or the way to proceed (creatively, at the top level, from nothing).

For all this there is nothing for it, but judgment^*2. Of this in turn, mystified modern man with his illicit models prefers not to be conscious. Not merely is consciousness an anomaly in his cut-down versions of understanding, but he likes to pre-empt its action, by downgrading it, either with the enervation of despair, the pragmatism of illicit profit, or the empiricism which ignores what he is, while he does what he does: as being a car, he thought only of four tyres, since there alone did he have contact with the road. To the reason for roads, the purpose of his journey and the point of transport, he is lost.

In politics, misappropriation of funds is at the international level seems more and more to resemble a political perquisite; violent intractability is no more mere pride, or fear, but has a peculiar blatancy which does not much value the existence of the earth, since its meaning being lost in imaginary models, the point of life is neither realised nor applied.

Other Ages may have faced judgment for much less; but this one flirts with it, with glowing eyes and adoring looks. It just has the name wrong.

Drugs are one way of seeking a sensationalism which obscures the reality which impends, and their spread is a futile exhibit of the inability of immoral models to bring the peace of understanding. Reject that, an any other irrationality is not far away, as in the death-squads of militant Islam, rejoicing in their demise, because slaughter is valued in some heaven, and maidens await to solace such brutality, seeking to overcome with horror the ministrations of pleasure, and to institute a rule or regime where what bred it, leads it.

That is always, in addition, the problem with blind pragmatism: its victims of truth, justice and righteousness on the way to its dream, these storm though dead, in the very clothes of death into the conscience, and mutilate the heart, so that it is not angels, but brutes who, were they temporally successful, inhabit their new lair. Judgment is not stalking, or merely talking: its impacts are already rocking the earth, and as in a cyclotron, the more 'hopeless' the case seems, in knights errant erratically marching on this side and that, knights of the night without honour, intractability the name of the game and blatancy the mode, the more adventurous become the sallies into sublime folly.

To this day, however, reality in the mercy of God, is infused with His light, so that He may be found. He has not created us to frustrate us; for He needs nothing from us, being in no way a defective in someone else's system, as if holding a mere place of a creation. That too is simple contradiction of the logical necessity which shows His place and in which empirical evidence attests His action (cf. Celesial Harmony for the Terrestrial Host).

Nevertheless, He has not withdrawn, but opens His hand from restraint at times, to allow sin to bring its own frustrations.

Yet, for all that, He allays even these, as men, at times bucking and wiling in saddening sequence, complain of His severity at their inventions of heart, mind and society. Indeed, we can provide Him with nothing that He needs, for if we could, His would be a mere compartment of the world which logically and physically depends on Him, and not the Author of departments and the Lord of limits.

As to Him, however, with no limits, He can provide us with all, and if in our consciousness, we collapse the fact into some alogism, some paraphernalia of a distressed mind and a forgotten mentality, neither true to reason nor the empirical, then so be it. We are starving in the midst of plenty.

At least, however, while we have crocodiles, as part of 'Nature' worship in Queensland, disporting themselves amid the populace here and there, by permission, and sharks doing much the same in our urbane follies, at suburban sea-shores, shooed off in their sacredness to live another day, by the commission of what is the latest sacred sea-cow: let us not complain. That, it is too rich: like drinking a nice wholesome seeming glass of milk, and declaring it is sour cream. To ask for it, to BEG for it, to beseech for it, to write treatises to induce it, and then complain of the result, it is like what ? It is like drinking clotted cream when thirsty, and eating ten pounds of chocolate, when already weighing in at 250 kilograms.

It is a rich sort of poverty.

In this situation, the self-induced poverty-stricken suffer in more ways than one.

SCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

IS AN EXAMPLE OF MUCH MORE

In the Journal of Creation, Volume 21(1) 2007, there is a book review entitled, Consciousness, a Problem of Naturalism, in which the usual sort of naturalistic reductionism which enters into this field, is considered in a recent volume.

Most interesting is the distinction between pure philosophy and the 'scientific.' These captions are often confused, not only by ma

	Its scope of sheer variety, intense complexity, graded qualities each superb in technical brilliance;
	its games, deployments and wit;
	its rebukes to our complacency and parodies of our pride;
	its consciousness modes, dowered, conferred with a form that allows some individuality, depending on the height of the creation concerned, within the other parameters laid down for each; its limitations and its programmatic heights;
	the vitalised kindreds of computing procedures, leaving these 'modern' inventions of ours by comparison in the wilderness of kindergarten, mere simplicities, when compared with the sophistication and the manoeuvrings of the lower orders of life as if it were putty.

	complexity for the unity,
	differential divisions of mind, spirit and matter for the components,
	inextricably interwoven for normal function,
	operational sufficiency and efficiency for the command centre or operational agent to secure the results which are to be gained from comprehensive USE of all the equipment and connections and phases of life involved.

	that assimilation of numerous complexities into integrality,
	that solution to numerous procedural problems with ingenuity of mode not to be found per se in the constituent materials,
	that subsumption of multiplied processes to ordered, salient and sequentially sustained results, whether for comprehension as in art, or action as in engineering, with overall meaning for a stateable whole.