Settled upon the Horizon of Truth

Why do I call this vision of mine “abstract”? Because the Unity of the Source can never be perceived by senses that have grown comfortable worshipping material Concretion and become shut up in its husks. It is a truth grasped by insight — the insight that understands the essence of Abstraction and passes through to what lies beyond the image. In this school, the independent human being is the one whose eye sees the Creator in the trace of every thing, without falling into the trap of illusion and supposing that the thing is the Creator Himself. I understood the laws of this existential connection through the idea of the “original signature”: every atom in this vast existence carries the imprint of the one Source, encoded in its make-up, so that the whole cosmos is a living testimony to the unity of the will and the power of the Originator who designed it. My categorical denial of material incarnationism came from seeing it as a kind of flight from the charge of vicegerency into a “coma of unity” that abolishes distinction and responsibility. My affirmation of the abstract Unity of the Source, by contrast, is an open call to wakefulness and consciousness. Since we all draw on one Source and one outpouring, we are necessarily bound by one moral charter and one cosmic law that favours no one. Authentic independence, then, is to hold the right of access to this Source through knowledge and action, reaching the exalted state of witnessing that sees the One behind the many. This concept also revealed to me the secret of human uniqueness and the human being’s place in this philosophy. Because it is an abstract unity of source, each being’s existential degree is determined by the breadth of its consciousness and by its capacity to receive and process the Source’s outpouring. The human being is the highest disclosure of this Source in the earthly world, for he is the only being granted the “permissions” to understand, to modify, to rise, and through Ascensional Evolution to lift his consciousness above density — by reason of a merit rooted in the nature of his constitution. True elevation is to rise through your Abstraction until you are as near as can be to the attributes of the Source in His knowledge, mercy and creativity, without daring to claim pure Lordship for yourself. In this way I shattered the illusion of separation, which pictured God as an “observer” standing beyond the boundaries, and established the truth of connection, which makes God “the light of existence” and its supreme mover, flowing through every disclosure. With the close of this section, you and I have completed the circle of the second Inquiry of my journey to discover existence sown in God. We began together by denying spatial separation; we passed through the physics of slowed light and understood the speed of light as a cosmic and existential barrier; we paused at the Lordship Matrix and the return to the Central Archive; and we have ended by fixing ontological identity in the abstract Unity of the Source. I have cut for you a third road, joining with precision the absolute transcendence of the Essence and the all-embracing encompassment of the Acts. For it is the Unity of the Source that secures what Ibn Taymiyya, may God have mercy on him, pointed to: that God is “distinct from His creation” in His Essence and His majesty, and “encompassing His creation” in His Names, Attributes and Acts — even though we differ from him in the general thrust of his creed. Our journey through this Inquiry has been a cleansing of the engine of knowledge from the sediment of materialism and Concretion, so that we are ready to move on, in the Inquiries to come, to astonishing horizons concerning “the humanisation of the machine” and “the engineering of the consciousness to come”, with a firm certainty unshaken by the winds of doubt or the illusions of blind materialism. The “sovereignty through meaning” whose foundations I am laying takes its full shape here. The cosmos is an ever-renewed outpouring, and faith, at its core, is a sincere and continuous synchronisation with the Source. “’Peace’ — a word from a Merciful Lord” (Q 36:58) is the law that enfolds this journey and protects it, affirming that the Source wills for us continual ascent and a return to Him in peace of consciousness and fullness of witnessing. Hashem Nassar All rights reserved