The "Mystic Secret"

THE MYSTIC SECRET

"The world is filled with G-d." ~ Psalm 24:1

"... if G-d were to remove His attention for even an instant, all worlds (explicate order) would revert to the state of utter nothingness (implicate order) that existed before creation." ~ Chaim of Ohalov

Quantum theory seems in agreement with the above mystical insight. The act of observation and the thing being observed arise together in the moment, influencing each other. Here is cause for my faith - undergoing testing at the moment in the laboratory of the "solid" world - that things, circumstances and events do not arise apart from us. In other words, there is no "out there" apart from the "in here" of "I am." As it says at the bus stop "you are here" - which perhaps is our only certainty andthat place upon which we may stand to move the world. To change anything, all there is to work on is me, my perception, which is at best a fragmentary perception of reality, yet a place to start.

Remember that the brain is a part of the quantum universe, and may engage quantum processes as well as neurological ones. The unconscious alone would seem to provide the required attention needed for a material event to unfold in time. Memories and beliefs are certainly a major part of our every action and reaction.

That both the act of observation and the thing observed arise together, being a reciprocal influence on each other seems strange to us yet here is a cause for hope and faith. As there is no persistence of things without an observer, so all events and circumstances are in theory not "etched in stone." Changing me in fact, changes reality - as I perceive it.

As living systems we may be able to take advantage of quantum effects in unexpected ways such as retrieving buried personal and archetypal memories and virtually erasing them as one might wipe a computers memory. The effects that our programs generate would then be completely different. We would have discovered how to change our experience without a lag in time.

Those without any familiarity with the "New Thought" Churches, might be surprised that the so called law of manifestation is derived from religious scriptures. There is a fundamental LAW of existence which us encoded in the Tetragramaton of YHVH. This law is the objective order of manifest existence and is the objectification of Life, Life itself is a subjective Being which manifests through time within all universes as the Person of G-d ... Emanuel; G-d with us, G-d made flesh. In spite of popular books like The Secret, we are still learning about this LAW and in the process many have relegated the Person of the LAW to near irrelevance, substituting our ego in its place. Notwithstanding, any success in using these partial teachings is due to the likeness be share with G-d.

Of this mystery I believe the Zohar referes when it says:

"Since that first day [of creation], it has never been fully revealed, but it plays a vital role in the world, renewing every day, the act of creation."

Properly understood, This LAW and its Person as Presence gives us a path not only of manifestation but of return to G-d. It allows us to see where the worlds religions have been lacking in failure to include one aspect or another, and even gives hints to the new science of quantum mechanics for the resolution of the "problem" of consciousness in the the equation of the universe, not to mention providing a clear understanding of the healing of the soul in spiritual guidance. There is much to say about this at a later time (it will take a book). For the moment I will simply give the formula of existence as YHShVh, where Sh = the Divine Presence. The English translation of these Hebrew letters an astute reader would note, would be; Jesus!

It is said that before the world was created only G-d and His Name existed. Thus the importance given to meditation on the letters YHVH. Writes Elijah de Vitas:

"A person who desires to gladden his soul ought to seclude himself for a portion of the day for the purpose of meditating on the splendor of the letters YHVH.... For our souls issue from the name (LAW of) YHVH.

The stumbling block in applying all of this, when understood, seems to be the let Letter V (Vav), which has to do with time, especially psychological time. Enough said for now, but perhaps was refered to by Nachman of Bratzlov when he wrote:

"The man of true love is a great man indeed, and the very existence of time depends on him."

Love, by the way (and the theory of the Rasa's), has to do with the letter Y (Yud) and its (blissful) union with H (Hei). What St. Paul referes to as the "Mystic Secret" has, I believe been found. It is for a few of us to elucidate it, G-d willing.

Happy Holidays!

© Arjay 2008