Not having any sort of background in Victorian Occultism, most of the above just flies right over my head as if spoken in an obscure dialect of Martian. Especially the parts hinting at Hinduism, Zoroastrainism, Kabbalism, and any permutations of those foreign and esoteric "isms" ("Ahriman", anyone?) as Victorian Occultists were wont to do.
However, I can give my perceptions of the nature of this universe, realm, dimension, or what have you.
Basically, everything is mostly nothing.
Consider: all material matter is made up of molecules, which are made up of atoms, which are made up of subatomic particles. Molecules are mostly empty space, vacuum, in which the atoms distant from one another are loosely bonded together via bonding forces of attraction.
Atoms, likewise, consist of subatomic particles and appear as microcosmic solar systems, in which particles orbit other particles, with huge amounts of empty space, vacuum, between them, bonded together only by those "binding forces" mentioned above, just as a macro solar system is composed of relatively tiny particles ("tiny" relative to the size of the solar system as a whole) orbiting other particles, bonded together by gravity.
Entire galaxies are just clumps of gravitationally bonded stars and solar systems, just as molecules are composed of bonded atoms. Those galaxies themselves are bound together by gravitational forces into "associations", which in turn are bonded together into clumps and long filaments of galaxies forming the greater universe.
Now getting even tinier, what are the "subatomic particles" that atoms are composed of made of? They are made of discrete bundles of energy, and nothing more. Just tiny clumps of energy held together by their own energetic attraction.
So, at it's most basic, everything you can see, feel, touch, smell, or taste is mostly nothing, mostly empty space, mostly vacuum, and the tiny bits of space that are not empty are occupied by insubstantial, un-solid, clumps of energy.
So, everything is mostly nothing, and what bits aren't nothing are just plasma, more or less. Nothing is "solid"... but it sure feels solid when a rock is thrown at your head! That "solidity" is just an illusion formed by the attractive and repulsive forces of all the smaller energies taken together.
Your "solid" body is just a clump of cells, which are clumps of molecules, which are clumps of atoms, which are just clumps of energy.
So, in the final analysis, everything that is "you" is just a clump of energy, swirling in mostly nothingness - or, maybe, several clumps of different sorts of energies, which we have labeled "corporeal body", "soul", "spirit", and "mind" simply for the sake of convenience and discussion.
Really, all - the entire universe including you - is just the interplay of energies... every person, tree, bush, plant, rock, radio wave, light wave, and gravity wave.
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However, I can give my perceptions of the nature of this universe, realm, dimension, or what have you.
Basically, everything is mostly nothing.
Consider: all material matter is made up of molecules, which are made up of atoms, which are made up of subatomic particles. Molecules are mostly empty space, vacuum, in which the atoms distant from one another are loosely bonded together via bonding forces of attraction.
Atoms, likewise, consist of subatomic particles and appear as microcosmic solar systems, in which particles orbit other particles, with huge amounts of empty space, vacuum, between them, bonded together only by those "binding forces" mentioned above, just as a macro solar system is composed of relatively tiny particles ("tiny" relative to the size of the solar system as a whole) orbiting other particles, bonded together by gravity.
Entire galaxies are just clumps of gravitationally bonded stars and solar systems, just as molecules are composed of bonded atoms. Those galaxies themselves are bound together by gravitational forces into "associations", which in turn are bonded together into clumps and long filaments of galaxies forming the greater universe.
Now getting even tinier, what are the "subatomic particles" that atoms are composed of made of? They are made of discrete bundles of energy, and nothing more. Just tiny clumps of energy held together by their own energetic attraction.
So, at it's most basic, everything you can see, feel, touch, smell, or taste is mostly nothing, mostly empty space, mostly vacuum, and the tiny bits of space that are not empty are occupied by insubstantial, un-solid, clumps of energy.
So, everything is mostly nothing, and what bits aren't nothing are just plasma, more or less. Nothing is "solid"... but it sure feels solid when a rock is thrown at your head! That "solidity" is just an illusion formed by the attractive and repulsive forces of all the smaller energies taken together.
Your "solid" body is just a clump of cells, which are clumps of molecules, which are clumps of atoms, which are just clumps of energy.
So, in the final analysis, everything that is "you" is just a clump of energy, swirling in mostly nothingness - or, maybe, several clumps of different sorts of energies, which we have labeled "corporeal body", "soul", "spirit", and "mind" simply for the sake of convenience and discussion.
Really, all - the entire universe including you - is just the interplay of energies... every person, tree, bush, plant, rock, radio wave, light wave, and gravity wave.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake