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# Re: Digest Number 435

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Digest Number 435
- From: Eric Sommermann <esomm@...>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:33:15 -0500
- In-reply-to: <1083147138.551.9299.m12@yahoogroups.com>

    Hi Rawn,

    Thanks for the answers.

> `Why do you differentiate 'change' from 'evolution'?`

`
Well, when I look our 93 Ford, I see rust. It makes me think of change, but not evolution (granted the chunks of rust found on our driveway may eventually cycle back into a Form 'more evolved' than one of 'Henry's better ideas!). I think most people in our 'upwardly mobile' country think of evolution as progress *towards* something greater, instead of simply a change of forms. Or in the sense that you 'get closer to God' or ' Realize the Divinity' progressively instead of just going around on a merry go round of changes.`

> `Infinite change,
> which is an aspect of Now, is evolution in action. The eternal state of
> Ultimate Perfection acts upon the imperfect temporal present moment
> like a magnet to iron shavings. The imperfect moment seeks out the
> Equilibrium of Perfection *through* infinite change. So yes, there is a
> temporal progress *toward* Ultimate Perfection but it takes the whole
> infinite span of time-space to reach it.`

`
It sounds like the idea of the world 'reaching perfection' or even 'improving' is like reaching the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A major chunk of our culture clings to the hope that this sort of thing will actually happen, which is why I find these conclusions so fascinating.`

> `;-) Which, if you really
> think about it, means that any single present moment of time-space is no
> closer to the end of that infinity than any other.`

`
So when people refer to ' the progress we have made' in our culture it is pretty much a culture-centered delusion.`

>     There is however, a shorter-term rhythm in which we achieve a *balance*
>     (as opposed to an *Equilibrium*) which temporarily manifests a portion
>     of the Ultimate Perfection within time-space. But this is followed by
>     an opposite movement away from *balance*, which is followed by movement
>     toward a *new* and *different* balance, ad infinitum.

`
These are the cycles referred to by the astrologers eg: a 'Day of Brahma', or the 'great ages'?`

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