The Final Truth

A Theory of Practice

The Thirteen Intentions of Creation

1. 2. The Thirteen Intentions of Creation
1. The Model of Creation
2. Intentions of Creation
3. Numerological analysis
4. Love

The Model of Creation is an abstract and conceptual model that illustrates the main aspects of Creation. One can imagine the Model of Creation as being an abstract model photographed as if the photographer were enjoying a panoramical view of Creation. Such possibility, however, is purely hypothetical, because nothing can exist outside of Creation according to the definition given in Section 1.5: Creation is a recursive totality that includes all possible realities, and so there is no "outside" that is not already a part of It.

There are four main elements in the Model of Creation: the Origin, the Line, the End, and the Result. They are shown in the diagram below.

Origin

The Origin is the point of reference for everything within the Model. It is symbolized by a circular infinity, which represents the unification of zero and infinity into a singularity. It is in the Origin that the essence / core / source / spirit of all Creation resides, an essence that is sometimes personified as an omnipotent being called the Creator. If we interpret the Origin as a place, then it becomes a true, divine and perfect manifestation of Creation, sometimes called as Heaven, Spiritual World or Paradise. It is important to understand that Creation is not only the Origin but also all Model elements taken as a whole. The difference here is that we are focusing on the core aspect of Creation while ignoring the "fringes" of Creation that lie outside of the Origin and stretch the boundaries of the Artificial Creation (a.k.a. Universal Matrix, Nature, Virtual Reality) to a maximum limit (Result).

Line

The Line represents the distance between the Origin and the End. It can also represent a process that expands the boundaries of the Artificial Creation as one walks away from the Origin. Being absolute, Creation cannot be rejected or denied, and thus attempting to do so is akin to feed an illusion. In fact, denying the Origin can only lead one to the Result at most.

End

The End is the farthest point from the Origin. It represents the goal of those willing to go as far from the Origin as possible in search for oblivion, unconsciousness. The problem, of course, is that a state in which Creation is seemingly no more is still a state pertaining to Creation. Therefore, searching for oblivion may very well be a futile endeavor, but it still plays a purpose in leading one to the Result at most.

Infinity and zero are the conceptual extremes behind any conflict in the universe. The End can coincide with either one of them: a person can choose either zero or infinity as an ideal to follow, but not both at the same time. It is a duality of choice that is in direct opposition to the unified (non-dual) nature of the Origin.

Result

The Result represents a theoretical limit for the process of the Line. Theoretical because the process does not necessarily stop at this point; instead, real progress ends and an illusion of progress begins, which means that from the Result onward we can only hope to walk in circles as long as we are still looking for the End. Alternatively, the Result can be interpreted as the surface of a mirror that delimits the passage from a real half to an illusory (dream-like) one.

X

The numeric variable X corresponds to how far the boundaries of the universe of the Artificial Creation can reach. According to the research presented in this book, the official value of X is 13.

When we said that Creation is not only the Origin but also all other elements in the Model, we were alluding to the paradoxical nature of absolute concepts such as Creation. An absolute concept does not have to be just one thing in particular; on the contrary, it can be everything and nothing at the same time. As nothing, Creation is the Origin, and as everything, Creation is the entire diagram shown in the Model. More specifically, the distance between the Origin and the Result can be taken as a blown-up (exploded) version of the Origin, whereas the Origin is a condensed (imploded) version of that same distance.

Figure 2.2 - Instances of the Model of Creation

Each instance (copy) of the Model is like a snapshot of Creation. An entire snapshot is actually the Origin element inside another instance. Therefore, from a dynamic perspective we may imagine that, when the process of the Line reaches the Result, a new instance of the Model begins with the process rewired back to the beginning at the Origin. This of course ties with the cyclical nature of Existence as we will see in Chapter 3. Notice that the term instance is appropriate because the Model of Creation is a basic template that never changes.

In several myths of Creation, the notion of a supreme intelligence behind all creation is strongly related to the idea of an omnipotent being responsible for the creation of the universe. This notion is prevalent among many cultures and societies, and for a very good reason: any person as the individual they are cannot help but project the notion / perspective of individuality in everything, and thus they have to personify Creation as an individual being in order to understand It better. The result of an absolute concept such as Creation that becomes individualized and hence personified is an absolute being that may be given the name of Creator. (Note: there is a reflection between how beings can imagine a creator god and what beings are themselves in their own spiritual nature. This will be further discussed in Chapter 4.)

Creation, Creator, the Whole and Consciousness are all absolute concepts due to their transcendental qualities. Because an absolute concept is always referring to an incontestable authority, two or more of them can only be different titles for the same Thing (Absolute). It is simply not worth it to give the Absolute only one title, because each absolute concept embodies a different aspect of the Absolute that could easily go unnoticed if left unmentioned. There is nothing wrong with us using different terms to try to build a complete picture of the Absolute; we only need to remember that the Absolute is not limited to have a single identity or to have an identity at all. (Note: capitalization is a way to ensure that we are talking about an absolute concept instead of the ordinary meaning of the respective word / term.)

Existence = Universe = Whole = Creator = Creation = Reality = ..

Absolute concepts refer to infinity and so they cannot be defined through limited means of communication. Of course, their meanings can always be approximated with words and symbols, but the moment we bring in a description of an absolute concept, we define it, and the moment we define it we frame it in limitation and we deceive its true essence. The idea prevalent among those who are addicted to symbolic representations of the Absolute is that there is hidden / occult meaning behind their symbols that only a selected few can comprehend. Not only this creates many ills associated with elitism, but it is also a misleading approach to the Absolute: whatever the Absolute is, may even transcend the meaning of meaning. Certainly, the Absolute does not need to have a fixed meaning, and even if It does, this meaning does not need to be one that is hidden. The very meaning of the word meaning implies that nothing is quite what it is, but rather is representative of something else. In this sense, any attempt to convey meaning to the Absolute will always remain as an open question.

As a personified absolute concept, the Creator represents someone that is manifest and immanifest at the same time. As manifest He embodies All That Is (Creation), and as immanifest He is beyond anything that can be imagined. While the Creator is the essence and the spirit of Creation, Creation is the entirety of existence; Creation entails everything. Therefore, it may not be a good idea to depict or conceive the Creator as an individual, because He is everywhere (omnipresent) yet nowhere in particular; He is everybody yet nobody in particular. At the least, the Creator is an abstract entity that does not need or want any kind of special devotion from people. In fact, worshiping the Creator may be an insult, as when someone passes judgment on the appearance of a person while ignoring who the person really is beyond the body.

God is a common denomination for the Creator seen as an anthropomorphic deity. All kinds of attributes are traditionally ascribed to God by many cultures, but ultimately these are nothing more than petty attempts at molding the Creator to fit a certain image. It only creates mass confusion, and where there is mass confusion there is opportunity for a few to reign over many. Fortunately, the Creator does not indulge in such customs and categories; He is far more like an abstract entity representing universal and eternal consciousness than He is an individual being with definite (human) form. The Creator is beyond form, but He is also the eternal aspect of the form, the eternal force that holds ideas together in manifested form. Everything exists as ideas in the mind of the Creator.

Anyway, people are free to have limited ideas about the Creator. A major problem, however, is that at the instant that they identify the Creator with a god, the potential for the existence of an opposite, an anti-god, is automatically created. Naturally, we may argue that a creator can be complemented by an anti-creator, but then we must ask ourselves about who created the anti-creator, because by definition an anti-creator cannot create, only destroy. Therefore, eventually we have to stop the causal reasoning and acknowledge the existence of a self-creating creator, that is, a creator that creates and/or recreates himself continually along with everything else. A self-creating creator is the same thing as an absolute creator, who is also responsible for the creation of any opposites and/or counterparts he may have.

Another reason why Creator is a better denomination than God is because it puts extra emphasis on the act of creating and the role of creator, both of which are fundamental notions in our rational minds: if something exists, it must have been created by some kind of intelligence. To think of a Creator also helps to take religious bias out of the way when we are discussing God. Anyway, there is nothing wrong with us using the term god as long as we are strictly referring to the Creator. The name by which we refer to the Creator is not all important as long as we have the understanding that we are talking about a personified aspect of the Absolute, which is boundless and cannot even be properly defined with the utilization of a single name.

The idea of antithesis concerning the Creator / God is not exclusively related to mythical personages such as Satan and Lucifer. Everything is potentially the inverse of the Creator, because Creation is nothing more than a mirror image of the Creator. The many aspects of Creation are the many symbols for the Creator. Symbols are like features of the Creator's image in the mirror, which is an inverted (reflected) image by definition. If the inverted image is worshiped as sacred instead of that which is casting the image, then much power is given to forces that oppose the Creator. Because symbols are finite, static and fixed representations, then whenever people take a symbolic approach to the Creator, they are paying attention to something that is the exact opposite of what He represents: an infinite, dynamic and transcendental power.

The mythical story of Lucifer, the angel that rebelled against God, is a good example of a creature that opposes its creator. The story has its origins in ancient mystical literature, but it was incorporated by monotheistic belief systems, mainly Christianity. Basically, the story says that Lucifer was the wisest, the most beautiful and the most powerful angel in heaven. Lucifer eventually reasoned about his apparent superiority only to acquire the desire to become as great as God, his Father, and to be reverenced as such. From that point on, Lucifer's prideful and selfish aspirations turned him away from God and led him to be cast out of heaven for disobedience, hence the famous archetype of the fallen angel.

The story of Lucifer is practically the same plot found in Creation myths in which a primordial consciousness forgets about itself through self-contemplation. Suppose that an infinite consciousness (i.e., Consciousness with capital C), initially unified within itself, decides to imagine itself to be able to explore (know) itself better. As a consequence, Consciousness gets momentarily caught in Its own imagination; It falls asleep while a dream takes over Its mind; it is the enchantment brought about by Its bright image of light. This event alone is responsible for an entire imaginary universe, an artificial design that Consciousness believes to be real but ultimately is not. It is also believed that a disaster occurs at the moment of self-contemplation, because Consciousness gets disconnected from Its infinite mind resulting in dissociation and amnesia. The more Consciousness falls inside Its dream, the more fragmentation It suffers.

Lucifer represents the greatest error (sin) ever committed by Consciousness when in possession of free will. It is the primordial error that results in the first light of Creation, and that is why Lucifer is sometimes called the Angel of Light or the Morning Star. Whether Lucifer's act is evil / sinful is not important because the Creator is ultimately in charge of everything, including even that which sounds erroneous. That which falls like Lucifer falls for the highest good of All. The Creator is like a highly talented painter that is always attempting new moves with his painting brush to purposely create mistakes that turn out as beautiful in the end. In other words, failure is a primitive but necessary step for the advent of Creation, as schematized below.

divine perfection -> failure -> creation of the universe

While Creation is the answer for "what is the Absolute?," the Creator is certainly the answer for "who is the Absolute?." That is, the Creator is the personification of everything that exists taken as a whole; He is Existence personified. This means that there is no beginning or end that applies to the Creator or His Creation. They both exist in the absolute present (i.e., the Now). However, people often assume time is linear and absolute; they assume that there was a time "before" the universe. Well, in reality there was never a divine act of creation at some point in time, because time itself also comes from this act. To propose a time before the universe is therefore just as absurd as proposing a time before time, and so there is no logical basis for us to prove or disprove that the universe began or that it will end. What we can do is observe the current / present universe and from this make projections backward or forward in time, which is after all relative to our perception.

The common scientific view is that the universe started with the event known as the Big-Bang.¹ When it comes to the Big Bang theory, we have to come in terms with the idea of a singularity. The confusion lies in that it is not only energy that is infinitely condensed in the event of a singularity, but also time itself. Therefore, one might say that the Big-Bang occurred an eternity ago as much as one can say that it occurred "billions of years" ago. But you do not learn much from making these statements. This point in time known as the singularity might as well be any point in time, or no point in time at all, because whenever we are talking about a singularity, we are dealing with paradoxes. Also associated to a singularity is the idea of an event horizon, a boundary beyond which all possible events occur simultaneously even if these occurrences are contradictory to each other. In this case, it is true that the universe never really began because it has always existed "inside" the singularity, but it is also true that the same singularity lies in the past and in the future of the universe.

Cosmos is the name given to the universe taken as a coherent whole. And what is an universe? An universe is Creation materialized, made into a system. The term universe refers to all the matter and energy that exist. Unlike Creation, an universe must have a definite beginning and a foreseeable end; it is momentaneous like a photograph of Creation, while Creation Itself is eternal; It is not confined to physical worlds and physical theories. Considering that the universe is the first and the last system subject to measurement, then anything before its beginning must be beyond any possibility of measurement. Therefore, if nothing can be detected before an universe, the only explanation for a first cause is that something literally came out of nothing! Is this a cop-out explanation? Maybe, but we will see that it is in the usage of the word nothing that we find out about the existential paradox that underlies all philosophical indagations.

Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang. Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there is no way one could measure what happened at them. (Stephen Hawking,²)

Considering that everything in the universe is energy in one state or another, let us suppose that everything before the universe was also energy, but in a pure state. There was no space or time. There were no attributes, qualities or activities; there was only chaos. There was absolutely nothing, but nothing as something, as in a paradox. Instead of a mere is/is-not, exist/not-exist alternative, it was like an inconceivable state of existence unified with nonexistence. And it was precisely some form of division / separation applied to that "nothing-as-something" that resulted in the creation of the universe. The point becomes a line, adimensionality becomes dimensionality, stillness becomes vibration, and nothing finally becomes something. This is the basic creation myth. As for the primordial division, it can be interpreted as a spontaneous desire to create that the Creator had, that is, a desire for self-expression.

Since before time and space were, the Tao [the Absolute] is. It is beyond "is" and "is not". (Tao Te Ching,³)

Myths of Creation are romantics ways to explain a simple yet divine act of creation. The Creator creates by simply imagining Himself into being. But with this imagination comes an illusion of separation, a certain distance between Creator and created. After all, for the Creator to see His image on the mirror means that a line of division must be introduced: the mirror surface. The drawing of a line on a blank canvas automatically creates two sides. Furthermore, we can imagine this mirror shattering into many pieces, with every broken piece still containing a reflection of the Creator in full and within the boundaries of its unique shape and size.

Rationality dictates that whatever exists must have a cause for its existence. Consequently, such rationale can lead us to a succession of questions trying to determine a never-ending chain of causality. This is what happens when we keep trying to justify phenomenon after phenomenon while failing to see that the only phenomenon that remains unchallenged and uncaused is that of Existence. In other words, Existence is the primordial and absolute cause, the cause that is its own cause. There is no further cause or purpose behind Existence. Any chain of cause and effect begins and ends with absolute concepts, all of which refer to some form of self-existent energy, that is, an energy whose existence does not depend upon anything.

Throughout the ages many philosophers have questioned the meaning of Existence. For example, one of philosophy's most perplexing questions is "why there is something instead of nothing?." To ask this question is to imply that there is a purpose to Existence that has nothing to do with Existence Itself. Whoever is asking this question is forgetting that Existence is already the highest purpose; that is, the purpose of Existence is Existence Itself. One can either accept Existence without flinching or one will keep trying to find "higher purpose" for who knows how long. Another point often missed has to do with Existence's paradoxical nature: both nonexistence (nothing) and existence (something) are two sides of the same Existence. Therefore, we can offer the following rebuttal to the previous question: if nothing, by definition, is lack of existence, then how could it exist? Because all that exists is Existence, in one state or another. Nonexistence is still a valid existential state, just as nothing is still something.

The Artificial Creation (A.C.) is a virtual world that is analogous to a featureless image of the Creator like a silhouette or shadow. By definition, a shadow is a distorted image of the true shape of the object casting it, and it does not reflect the features (qualities) of that object. The Divine Creation, in contrast, is a genuine and flawless depiction of the Creator because it reflects His attributes, His characteristics, and most importantly, His intentions of how Creation should be. Both the divine and artificial versions of Creation are images of the Creator; they are imaginations produced by an infinite consciousness. The only fundamental difference between the two is that one is genuine (real) and the other is false (virtual).

For example, if we consider the Artificial and Divine Creations as being like photographs of Creation, then the A.C. is the negative photographic film while the Divine Creation is the positive film. This is why these two versions of Creation are not absolute concepts themselves, because when we are considering a static (photographic) representation of Creation, we are invariably discarding Its dynamic and transcendental quality of absolute concept.

In a virtual reality, everything is programmed and hence not actually real in the sense of a reality that feels natural. But then, how is it possible that the obvious physical surroundings composing one's reality are not real? Well, reality is a very subjective term. What is real for a person may very well be illusory for another, because reality is simply the baseline of that which feels more intense, hence more realistic, for someone. There is always a degree of illusion in any reality as well as a degree of realism in any illusion. Fundamentally, reality and illusion are equivalent concepts because the former implies in that which is manifested, which is always the outer appearance and never the spirit of who is casting (creating) the image. It is true then that all images / looks can be deceiving, because nothing can embody (reflect) the spirit of Creation perfectly.

Therefore, the reality of the Divine Creation is one replete with aspects (forms) that most approximate the perfection of the Creator, while the reality of the Artificial Creation follows the exact opposite direction. The Divine Creation is a clear and honest manifestation of the Creator, but still deceptive (illusory) to a very small degree. This is why Maya, a concept in Hinduism meaning "world of illusion," is a name sometimes attributed to Creation. The only thing that can be considered absolutely real is the spirit, because all substance lies in the spirit even though the spirit is formless and insubstantial by definition. Such is the paradoxical nature of that which lies behind the veil of illusion: in the case of Creation, the spirit is the Creator Himself.

Both versions of Creation can be interpreted from a technical perspective as well as from a philosophical one. Philosophically, it is much like Plato's Allegory of the Cave:⁴ there is a world of ideal forms and a world of shadows. The prisoners of the cave are inclined to believe that the shadows are the only reality, as opposed to the true reality outside the cave. But it is only in the ideal forms that knowledge about the essence of various things can be found. The shadows are mere instances of the ideal forms and often carry distortions that cannot be trusted. Plato also discusses the existence of filters obstructing the soul's ability to perceive ideal forms. In principle, the Divine Creation is a spiritual world of unending beauty, because everywhere you look there are imageries of infinity. But put on a perceptual filter and you begin to see limitation instead, which cuts infinity short and brings beauty to a superficial level of mere appearance (shadows), and thus the possibility of ugliness arises.

The Artificial and Divine Creations are primarily different mental locations and lastly different physical locations, in which case we may rightfully consider the existence of different locations / realities throughout the Universe that must pertain to one (Divine) or another (Artificial). Such distinction, however, is only visible when we still have filters occluding our perception of Reality. In the absence of filters, we no longer see the two versions of Creation as being distinct; we no longer take specific scenarios as being Heaven or Hell. Instead, the ideal is to train our "spiritual eye" to see the singular pulse of Creation in all of its glory. The ideal is to realize how Creation is a divine artwork in which the ugly and the artificial is also beautiful and natural.

The A.C. is an universe ruled by time and space, hence dimensionality. It is not limited, however, by the values that time and space can assume as the individual variables they are. This means that the A.C. has not a spatial or temporal boundary, since time or space can vary from zero to infinity. The only limitation of the A.C. is the lack of creative power to be able to keep up with an infinite amount of time or space, and so eventually the same spatio-temporal configuration has to repeat over and over again like a broken music record. The A.C. is subject to stagnation, to limitation and repetition, and that is why it is artificial. But in the case of the Divine Creation, not only there are no limits in time and space but also no limits in creativity. After all, the Divine Creation is a direct manifestation of Creation in Its absolute form.

In the Model of Creation shown in the image below, the arrow represents how the Line keeps advancing toward the End while bypassing the Result, which is the maximum theoretical limit for any single direction of advancement. This means that, with respect to the A.C., something can grow toward infinity or shrink toward zero, but such illusory extremes are never truly achieved. The Result is the only extreme that can be achieved, although that only happens in the realm of theory, because in practice the Line never stops for anything: time and space are forever recycling within the A.C. and forever renewing within the Divine Creation. It is just that when the Result is achieved, the doors of perception become open to infinite realities and possibilities; it is not that all realities have been already traversed and all possibilities have been already explored. It is just that the riddle of Existence has been solved. As an example, consider the Result as being a final conclusion (theory) achieved after much study, experience and intuition, whereas life, evolution, or whatever may be our interpretation of the process of the Line must go on advancing toward either infinity or zero -- you choose.

Let us assume a perspective from inside the A.C. The primary consequence is that the Model of Creation suffers an inversion of principles: the End and the Origin exchange places. This exchange, however, has nothing to do with a mere horizontal flip of the Model, because what really transpires is that the extremely dualistic nature of the End takes over and becomes the fundamental characteristic of the universe. We can no longer see the Origin directly. Instead, we see the End in every direction we look; we see either zero or infinity as a conceptual limit. Everything revolves around these two opposite extremes, with the Result occupying the exact middle point and thus being easily overlooked during our quest for extremes. The Divine Creation, which lies at the Origin, vanishes from sight to become like a distant and illusory oasis that is theoretically reachable only through behavior rooted on zero or infinity.

The right side of Figure 2.# is more complex: Let us represent Creation as a dashed circle and then "invert" this circle to produce the star pattern shown in the figure, which then represents how Creation looks like from the inside. Of course, there is no such thing as an inverted circle unless we take the idea of infinite discontinuity into consideration: There are four curves, one for each quadrant, forming the star-like graph of the inverted circle. This graph has four infinite discontinuities, which means that each pair of adjacent curves have to meet at infinity. Therefore, we can never be sure whether we are looking at a single figure or at four disconnected curves. If that shape is a seamless figure, then we are still looking at a full circle, but an "inverted" one.

As we can see in the inverted Model of Creation, zero is in the place originally occupied by the singularity of the Origin. A singularity is what the Origin really is, and thus the main reason why the Origin disappears from the Model once an inversion occurs is because all characteristics of the Divine Creation seem to vanish, that is, they are no longer perceived directly or they are no longer perceived at all; they become invisible and fleeting to ordinary perception and thus they tend to be ignored ideologically. In other words, the main consequence for a perspective inside the A.C. is that it lacks signs of the Divine Creation -- it can be an horrific view. Fortunately, the A.C. is not only finite and temporary, but also fundamentally flawed / imperfect, which is the reason why the Divine Creation cannot be shunned completely. That is, something of a divine nature always has to bleed in through the crack of the A.C., which can also function as a hatch for anyone willing to escape to a Model instance that is less artificial and more divine. (Refer to Figure 2.2).

Zero and infinity are the conceptual extremes of the universe, and an universe by definition is the largest system we can think of, that is, the one that includes all the others. The universe of the A.C. is populated with extreme forces that lead one to approach zero or to approach infinity, never both simultaneously. It is an universe torn between two opposite forces exerted by two magnetic poles: one at infinity and the other nowhere to be found. And the only way for these two abstract forces to coexist without doing it simultaneously is through continuous alternation (i.e, each one has its turn). Alternation is the basis of vibration, which means that the A.C. must be completely based on polarity, since for something to vibrate it has to have two poles between which to oscillate.

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¹ The Big Bang is a cosmological theory and also a popular idea / scenario regarding the origin of the universe in the past when it existed as a point of infinite density known as the singularity. Following this state, the universe expanded inside a conceptual (mathematical) space to become what it is today. As a scientific theory, the Big Bang is born from cosmological analysis that lead scientists to believe that the universe, hence cosmological time, must have a beginning at some point in absolute time. Now, at the same time that scientists agree that time should not have a meaning independent of the universe, the concept of absolute time is fundamental to scientific determinism. Proponents of the Big Bang theory who like to interpret it as fact are not always aware of this paradox regarding time.
² Stephen W. Hawking, "The Beginning of Time," Public Lectures, http://www.hawking.org.uk/index.php/lectures/62 (accessed July 24, 2010).
³ From Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching.
⁴ The Allegory of the Cave, also commonly known as Myth of the Cave, is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic. According to Plato, we are supposed to imagine prisoners chained deep inside a cave. The prisoners have been there all their lives with their necks chained so that they are always facing a blank wall. They watch shadows on the wall produced by things and people moving past the mouth of the cave, and they listen to echoes of distant sounds. This parable tries to illustrate that the shadows are mere reflections of a true reality outside the cave, but the prisoners are inclined to take the shadows as constituting reality instead. Plato then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

Suppose that every conceivable thing, not mattering if concrete, abstract or imaginary, is derived / created from a very basic and fundamental knowledge that we can interpret as being constituted of a few intentions of cosmic creation. Suppose that this knowledge is about everything, not just about a few things, and once we are in contact with it we can learn about the nature of reality and consciousness, the physical and spiritual laws of the Universe, and the great paradox of Existence.

To be in possession of the right kind of knowledge means that you can become a cosmic genius in a very short amount of time. Does this sound like megalomania? Not quite when you understand that everyone is omniscient at the core of what they are spiritually, but most have not come to mind what they already know intuitively on a cosmic level; they have not brought this knowledge to their conscious awareness by relating it to words and concepts. Well, this is a gap that the Thirteen Intentions of Creation come to fill with excellence.

Crudely speaking, the Thirteen Intentions are Creation. They already constitute the simplest and most rational way for us to look at Creation. They can be interpreted as energies, principles, meanings, archetypes, levels (steps), tones, commands or laws -- you name it. But, for a better understanding, imagine some kind of universal consciousness, a creator god if you will, who has a finite number of intentions regarding how his creation should work / operate / behave. Every creation has a corresponding creator, which means that the will (intentions) of the creator can be found even in the smallest details of his creation. This is precisely the case when it comes to the Thirteen Intentions, the Creator and Creation as we know It. We will see many examples in this and further chapters of how the nature of reality is intuitively defined / programmed through these Intentions.

The premise of this book is to offer a logical explanation for why the Thirteen Intentions are central to everything. We should always remember, however, that it is not possible to completely justify the existence of something that is already the cause of everything. There is no real reason / explanation for something that is already self-explanatory, although we can still attempt to study the obvious; we can still come up with all sorts of pseudo-reasons to help us understand the obvious. The Truth should be simple, but unfortunately It often seems complex for the untrained, chaotic mind. Thus an entire theory based on the Thirteen Intentions becomes necessary. Fortunately, we can rest assured that there is nothing "better" than these Intentions in terms of a theoretical knowledge of Creation. Better than theory, only direct experience, only strict practice.

The Thirteen Intentions are initially abstract energies and thus cannot be put into words easily. However, much like a psychic can use words to describe invisible energies sensed by him, we can find concrete meanings that most approximate how each Intention feels like. Of course, there is no real logic behind such process of interpretation because any logical analysis can only come after the Intentions have been translated from a sensational domain to a purely objective one. The interpretation brought forward by this book is a list of directives of Creation carefully chosen for each Intention. All that we need for an unified theory of Creation is right here on this list. No grand unified theory of everything is worth its name if it does not recognize the existence of these directives on an abstract level.

1. Unification, Origination, Simplification, Principiation, Singularization, Individualization, Prioritization, Adoration, Representation, Idealization, Declaration, Motivation
2. Polarization, Differentiation, Linearization, Mensuration, Rationalization, Isolation, Delineation, Limitation, Identification, Separation, Externalization, Classification
3. Activation, Animation, Manifestation, Realization, Electrization, Stimulation, Circulation, Creation, Automation, Imagination
4. Formation, Formalization, Solidification, Foundation, Stabilization, Structuration, Materialization, Objectification, Concretization
5. Potentiation, Infuriation, Energization, Excitation, Acceleration, Irradiation, Exploration, Experimentation, Corporation, Movimentation
6. Compensation, Accommodation, Equilibration, Variation, Oscillation, Alternation, Equalization, Fluctuation
7. Harmonization, Syntonization, Reverberation, Sensation, Vibration, Intonation, Inspiration, Situation, Orientation, Association, Organization
8. Maximization, Magnification, Amplification, Accumulation, Augmentation, Verticalization, Exaggeration, Extrapolation, Multiplication
9. Spiritualization, Nullification, Annihilation, Cancellation, Certification, Confirmation, Internalization, Specification, Meditation, Anticipation, Liberation
10. Integration, Assimilation, Adaptation, Particularization, Divination, Instantiation, Concentration, Densification, Intensification, Totalization, Optimization
11. Approximation, Regulation, Moderation, Adequation, Preparation, Destination, Qualification, Graduation
12. Finalization, Termination, Crystalization, Personification, Cooperation, Communication, Dedication, Sacrification, Universalization, Dissemination, Solicitation, Conscientization
13. Acceptation, Perpetuation, Salvation, Immortalization, Preservation, Propagation, Continuation, Transformation, Transmutation, Regeneration, Purification, Renovation

Besides directives, each Intention is also associated to certain qualities, concepts and techniques. To see a complete description of each Intention go to Appendix 1. You might as well use Appendix 1 as a reference for the remainder of this book.

The Thirteen Intentions can also be seen as an universal decree formed by thirteen principles or ideas. This possibility comes from the fact that there is no other set of principles more fundamental to the universe. They can also be taken as laws or commandments, but the fact is that not all of them work or behave as laws, although some of them are directly associated to certain spiritual laws well-known by spirituality practitioners. In most cases, however, it is better to think about them strictly as Intentions of Creation.

What really makes the Thirteen Intentions special as principles haivng universal validity, is that they can be applied onto themselves. Each Intention can clarify aspects about each other and/or the whole set. This means that all the knowledge about the Thirteen intentions is found in the Thirteen Intentions themselves! In the remainder of this document, we will be making references to Intentions when they prove something about themselves using the IC #n (Intention of Creation) where n is a number.

We have already seen in 1.5 - Principles how zero and infinity cannot give us a proper (definitive) answer with respect to the universal truth, and so we decided that maybe the number of universal principles is a finite one. Indeed, discovering the Thirteen Intentions is just a matter of finding principle by principle until there is a number of them that finally covers everything. If the number of Intentions was any higher than 13, it would not be possible for us to settle at this number and not suffer with a feeling of incompleteness. In fact, that is exactly what happens when we are aware of less than 13 Intentions.

To discover an Intention is to understand its meaning with respect to all of Creation. Fortunately, one Intention leads to the discovery of another very easily. When we have already found out about a few Intentions, it does not take long until we become aware of all of the first 12 Intentions. The only exception to this chain reaction of discoveries is Intention #13, because this Intention can only be found by pure intuition, that is, one of those "a-ha!" moments.

Anyway, as it is the case in any field of research, a researcher eventually reaches a point that if he simply knows the truth then he no longer has to believe in it. The truth is that there is not a real cause for the fact that 13 is the right quantity, because it is something that becomes self-explanatory after we learn about the sheer amount of evidence pointing to this exact number of steps for the cosmology of Creation. The Thirteen Intentions are the end of all knowledge, and this notion only gets reinforced as we learn more about them. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that supports number 13 as being the right one, and amassing this evidence is one of the main goals of this book. We will see in Chapter 3 how the Thirteen Intentions literally implement reality in all of its details.

Should you just believe that there are 13 Intentions of Creation? Of course not, because first you have to prove this to yourself. Believing is not knowing. You must be rooted in a state of knowing, not based entirely upon beliefs, most of which are false. People believe that they have to believe and in the process they forget about the importance of having genuine knowledge, of having certainty. A belief is a form of self-deception -- you either know or you don't, so why fool yourself? If you have to believe in something then you have already been defeated in your quest for knowledge, but do not worry: there is nothing better than beginning this quest with the certainty that all that you know is that you do not know anything.

All Intentions are only different aspects extracted from the great singularity that is Creation. Of course, Intention #13 coincides with the singularity manifest, and so it is more than only an aspect. Anyway, to help us visualize the cause for the name Intention, we can imagine each Intention as a vortex. When something is caught inside a vortex, it is dragged toward the core, which lies at the innermost extreme of the vortex. As something gets nearer to the core, tension tends to infinity. Now, from the word innermost we have the prefix in, and so we get intension by joining in with tension. Sure, an intension is not the same as an intention, but the two words share the same etymological root. While intention may refer to a mental state, a state of intension is specifically one of internal tension, and for all matters, internal is the same as mental. Indeed, each Intention of Creation functions as a psychoactive frequency, a mode of consciousness, that causes a certain degree of tension on those assuming (mentalizing) that particular intention.

None in reality. Each Intention has unique properties that are essential to the whole set. All Intentions are uniquely (IC #1) and equally (IC #6) important. However, according to the directive Representation (IC #1) there must be one Intention that represents all the others: a leader. A leader is not necessarily better than all the others, but is simply ellected because of his skills to be the spokesperson and to represent the group. A leader is usually an authority that is occupying the highest (IC #8) place. Well, if we need just one Intention to represent all the others, and one that occupies the highest place, then that can only be Intention #13.

Intention #13 is the representative (IC #1) of all Intentions, but since Representation and Unification are both directives of Intention #1, then another way to see it is that Intention #13 equates to the unification of the first 12 Intentions. In other words, Intention #13 not only has an independent meaning but also single-handedly represents the entirety of the first 12 Intentions. Therefore, when we need to address something about all Intentions taken as one, we can very well do this by using Intention #13 alone.

The Thirteen Intentions can be interpreted as simple command statements from a low-level programming language used to write the program that renders Creation as a virtual reality (VR). We have already seen that the Artificial Creation (A.C.) is pretty much like a VR when compared to the Divine Creation. But before we explore this idea any further, we need to first define what a program is. In computer science, a program is a set of instructions in sequence for the computer to execute. In essence, a program is a function from input states to output states, which means that specific output data will be produced from given input data. The output of a computer program is predictable by definition. Furthermore, all program instructions must be coded in the machine language native to the target computer that is going to execute them, and irrespective of the methods of codification, all machine language is simply binary code.

Of course that the program of Creation is not really a computer program, but a consciousness program. The output of this program is the A.C., which is the sum of all virtual realities. A VR is an artificial (false) reality contrasting with a natural (true) reality. By definition, VRs cannot have an independent existence from a natural reality; after all, they are created inside one. For instance, VRs that are based on real-world technology are all created with computers and rely on them for data storage and processing. A technological VR does not differ from a real one except for what creates it: the A.C. is a product of consciousness instead of technology. That is, Consciousness is a metaphysical supercomputer that runs the program of Creation, which in turn outputs the A.C. and all physical reality contained therein. The Creator must be then the master programmer, that is, the one who implements the Program.

The A.C. is programmed and hence machine-like; like any machine it cannot function without an external power source. To unplug consciousness from the A.C. is equivalent to unplug the power cord from a machine. Without the infusion of spiritual energy that consciousness provides, the A.C. would vanish forever, although it could still exist for a few more cycles powered only by residual energy. The bottom line is that the A.C. only exists through the consciousness of each being that is willing to participate in one or more scenarios / realities of the virtual world. Therefore, in a sense each being is helping to create the realities of the A.C. Each being is a co-creator, an aspect of the Creator.

In the same manner that a VR has an underlying programming, the A.C. is completely programmatic in all of its 12 levels. (See Figure 2.#.) The programming is not always obvious to those immersed in the computer simulation, and they should remain forever ignorant if it was not for a miracle that prompts them to recognize the artificial aspects, the anomalies, of their reality. What miracle would that be? Well, it is Consciousness that creates the reality / world of the A.C. and thus holds the last card when it comes to maintaining it or discarding it. Since individual consciousness is linked to universal consciousness, conscious individuals already have access to the power needed to evolve beyond, to transcend, any kind of reality. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the miraculous power of Intention #13.

In other words, a being endowed with consciousness has unbounded potential as it can access (channel) the power of Intention #13 at will. This is because consciousness (IC #12) as the ordinary concept is directly linked to the absolute concept of identical name, which corresponds to Intention #13. Therefore, the individual who embodies Consciousness already has all the power within himself to override programming and thus transcend the virtual world in order to access realities that better reflect his true identity as an incarnation of the Creator living inside His own Creation. For example, these realities will not be of programming and limitation like the ones of the A.C., but instead they will be of infinite creative potential like the ones of the Divine Creation.

Now, at the same time that Consciousness is running the program of Creation, It is also being programmed by it up to a certain point. In this context, the Intentions are instructions to control (program) Consciousness while at the level of individuation (i.e., the individual being). Thus, during the course of the Program, Consciousness has to follow a few rules that It created in the first place. This happens because self-regulation is the only way that Consciousness has to force Itself to evolve. It is important to understand that it does not matter how much comfortable anyone can be with their spiritual progress, because from the perspective of Intention #13 there is never enough progress. There is only eternal revolution, which can be interpreted as being evolution on top of evolution. At the exact moment that one believes they have reached the "end" of their evolution, an entirely new horizon of being and possibility opens.

Let us write a pseudocode for the program of Creation. We already know that each Intention is a computational step in the Program, and so all we have to do is analyze the directives of each Intention and figure out what functions they perform over Consciousness. For that we can make use of specific keywords. See the table below.

We basically have a subroutine composed of 12 steps / commands. Is there a 13th? Certainly, but it lies in another scope of execution, yet we can consider it as coming right after the execution of the subroutine. Which name is given to the 13th command will depend on how we interpret the 12th, because the latter can cause termination of the Program and/or of the subroutine. If the Program stops, then we must assume that its main body (routine) is the subroutine already; that is, the subroutine is the Program. This means that the subroutine is executed only once before the Program ends. However, the Program may be started again, in which case the 13th command is appropriately named RESTART. Now, if only the subroutine stops, then we must assume that the Program runs forever (IC #13) and causes the infinite reiteration (loop) of the set of 12 instructions. In this case, the main routine of the Program contains only the command CONTINUE (IC #13), which causes the subroutine to be called (started) repeatedly.

Every time that the Program's subroutine gets executed, the instruction set based on the 12 Intentions is the same. In other words, the implementation of the Program does not change; what changes is the input data given to the subroutine, which is really the subprogram of Creation. Consciousness Itself is the variable passed as an input parameter to the subprogram. The input data is used in calculations until an output value is produced (returned) at the end of the execution: it is Consciousness again, but this time in a much higher state / level, relatively speaking.

What can be said about the 13th command is that it represents how Consciousness is always seeking to break monotony and learn something new. This is known as the quest of the Spirit (IC #13), and it is the same moving force that breaks a cycle, stops a program, only to start (IC #1) a new one. The next step in evolution for Consciousness is always to start anew, not necessarily "again." Intention #13 is about renovation, not repetition. It is only within the scope of the program of Creation, and hence of the Artificial Creation by equivalence, that repetition of patterns tends to be a reality.

As you can see, to equate Creation with a computer simulation may seem counterintuitive at first, but it is an approach that provides tremendous psychological and spiritual insights. In this vein, the program of Creation is the solution to the problem of how Consciousness can move beyond Itself while still remaining as Itself. The program of Creation is the actual implementation of a miraculous (IC #13) process that allows One to move beyond the impossible. The Program must be followed, but at the same time it must be transcended.

As explained in Section 2.1, the A.C. is all about polarity, and where there is polarity there is the antagonism of two poles, and so there is potential for challenges and competition -- a game scenario. Indeed, the A.C. is very much like a game for those experiencing it first hand. Games are feedback control systems where players perform actions to get desired outcomes in an attempt to compete with other players. Playing games is important for the acquisition of intense experiences, but often players will be so caught up in winning against others that they forget the fact that no game has a clear, eternal winner except for the game creator, the programmer. The programmer exists beyond all rules and parameters that have been established according to the programmed logic of his game. In the case of Creation seen as a VR game, we already know that the role of the programmer belongs to the Creator, and to Consciousness too, although Creator is more accurate in this context.

Once inside the virtual world of a game, new players get the impression that they are participating in an exciting adventure as they see all sorts of scenarios randomly appearing before them. However, the programmer knows that the output generated by his program is not random at all, but instead it happens according to carefully chosen instructions. The programmer is completely aware of how his program works just as a game designer knows all possible outcomes of his game. Therefore, it is just natural that a player devoid of the same kind of technical knowledge will be in awe of the apparent ingeniousness and complexity of the game for a while. For the programmer, however, all is very deterministic and simple.

Let us call the program of Creation, now equated to a game, as the Game. Everybody wants to play this Game because, frankly, it is the only game in town: there is no better option to speed up spiritual evolution. Players of the Game are self-conscious units; they are beings that represent a systemic anomaly within the Game due to their non-deterministic / spontaneous behavior based on free will (IC #13). It is by design that their free-will conflicts with the deterministic nature of the artificial world they are participating in. The core theme of the Game is free will vs. determinism -- this is the ultimate challenge for any being accepting the role of the player, since it is something that touches very deeply on someone and thus forces their evolution on a spiritual level.

Of course that in the end it is not really a matter of conflict when it comes to playing the Game, because it is the players themselves who designed the Game and agreed to play it for the purpose of acquiring intense bits of experience. See, all players (beings) by definition share the consciousness phenomenon; that is, all players are individual expressions of an universal consciousness that is willing (IC #13) to play the Game. Whether players are conscious of this fact or not, there is never an unwanted challenge given to them. One simply cannot exist inside the Game if one is not willing to play it at some level. But what about winning? Well, the Game exists to be won on a personal level only: as one comes to understand all of what has been said here and much more, a process of transcendence (IC #13) takes place that will ultimately allow the player to exit (IC #12) the Game.

The Game is fun while it lasts, but it must be seen to its ending. This happens precisely when all players, all strands of consciousness, all inputs of creativity, have left the Game. As a player progresses into the many levels / stages of the Game, he comes to understand the game mechanics better. During his journey he collects little clues embedded in the fabric of the virtual reality that reveal how unnatural, fixed and repetitive the A.C. is. What was once fun can become boring, because the player is beginning to see repeating patterns -- time to look for a new game. The goal of the Game is evolution of consciousness up to a certain threshold, and this is true on an individual basis and on a collective basis. With achievement of this goal, the Game can be declared to be over, although technically it is only an instance of the Game that ends. Finally, nothing can stop Consciousness from wanting to start a new game that will present an entirely new set of experiences.

The concept of number is born when we seek to divide the energy continuum of the universe for purposes of rationalization. Breaking the continuum in parts makes it easier for us to reason about the universe. We attribute symbols to different aspects of the continuum to enumerate them and reinforce the notion that one aspect is completely separate from the other. Still, any separation is nothing more than illusion caused by limited (IC #2) perception of the universe. Perception is characterized by a process of discretization that breaks the continuum in parts, and this happens on a sensorial level as well as a cognitive one. The continuum, of course, remains undifferentiated: there are no parts that are not also the whole. Every part is just the whole "dressed" differently; every part is an aspect of the whole. Ultimately, there is only the Whole (IC #13), which means that all parts are reflections of Infinity (IC #13).

If we imagine the universal continuum as a line of infinite extension that includes an infinite number of smaller lines (segments), then a number is what symbolizes the size difference between one segment and the other. But we are dealing with a continuum, an ultimately indivisible extent, and so it does not matter how many times we divide it into smaller pieces because we can never determine the exact (precise) extension of a line segment. All numbers on this line must be then discrete approximations for the creation of an abstract metric for the nature of reality, because all in all there are no real divisions on that line; there are no exact extensions in that line. If we do not know where one line segment ends and the other begins, then we might as well consider all segments as being the same infinite line: For example, if we do not know where 2 ends and 3 begins, then 2 and 3 might as well be the same number (i.e., 2 = 3), and if we do not know where 3 ends and 4 begins, then 2 might as well be 4. We can do this until we equate 2 with 8676.78 if we wish, but ultimately all numbers are infinite because all segments equate to the infinite line. In other words, there is only one indivisible line with infinite extension -- anything else is an illusion.

In general, people only associate quantitative meaning to numbers. Scientifically speaking, there should be nothing special about numbers themselves, because they are mere abstract concepts used to evaluate reality. But what is reality after all? First of all, in the real (concrete) world there is no place for abstract entities, and so numbers are not actually real; they are only real in the sense that they are encountered as quantities in the realm of experience. But there is a deeper reality surrounding numbers: Consider that the real world is one of sensations before it is anything else. We do not see an object; we feel an object. We do not count a number; we feel a number. Feelings are the basis of awareness / perception. Therefore, the key to understand how numbers can be meaningful beyond their ordinary quantitative meaning lies in the study of how numbers as archetypes can evoke certain feelings in us. That is, we can identify ourselves with numbers on many levels such as personal, emotional, spiritual, intellectual and mental.

Numbers reveal a deep significance that is independent from how symbolic they can be only as the numerals they are. For example, the Greek philosopher Plato postulated a higher dimension of existence, a perfect world populated with ideal forms (i.e., spiritual objects) that exist independently from the realm of sensible experience where only their shadows can be appreciated. Well, in the same way that in mathematics everything can be translated into numbers, everything in Nature can be reduced to essential qualities, also known as archetypes. Unlike Platonic forms, an archetype takes an outer / shadow form and it still presents itself as an inner / ideal form, and so an archetype is a paradox that can actually exist in the real world. Numbers illustrate this concept beautifully, because they are both logical / mathematical objects as well as spiritual objects. Numbers are archetypal in the strictest sense, expressing the infinite in the finite: we have seen previously how numbers are individual ways to express Infinity, and yet they appear as finite discontinuities.

You begin to see numbers as having special significance when you begin to see the deep connections that they have to the natural world. Reality (IC #13) has the need to manifest Itself (emerge) out of an energy continuum, of infinite dimension, and we have seen in Figure 2.2 that the first pattern that emerges is the abstract metric of numbers. (Note: one possible etymological definition for archetype is "original pattern.") Numbers are "the extension and energy of the spermatic reasons contained in the monad [the One - IC #13]."¹ That is, if the Universal Mind (Consciousness) reasons about Iself, then It is automatically breaking Itself down, numerically, in order to experience Itself objectively. Therefore, one option is to take numbers literally, and the other is to take them symbolically as descriptions of ideas (i.e., lines of thought) that the Universal Mind has about Itself. In the latter, each idea corresponds to a number, and so numbers function as the Universal language / code describing and encoding every aspect of Creation, every Conscious experience.

Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras and his followers believed numbers to be the language of the universe, specially the natural (counting) numbers: {1,2,3,4,...}. The Pythagoreans' motto was "All is Number." Indeed, the natural numbers in sequence are literally describing the structural order embedded in the universal continuum; therefore, numbers reflect and echo the nature of reality. That is why mathematics, the science of numbers, is an exemplar science that shows us the rationality present in the order of the universe. Mathematics greatly expands the number language by adding many new symbols and ways to organize and relate numbers to each other. Mathematics also defines other categories of number (e.g., rational, irrational, real, complex) that are less intuitive, less natural. Still, all mathematics is constructed around the logical theory of natural numbers and its basic arithmetic operations.

Numerology is the field that studies the occult and qualitative meaning of numbers. While mathematics sees numbers only as effective means to an end, numerology sees numbers as an end unto themselves -- numbers are everything except meaningless. Numerology is actually a spiritual science that rescues the philosophy of numbers, and for that reason it serves as a link between philosophy and science, since numbers are the language of science. We learn through numerology that many ancient cultures understood the spiritual power and the cosmic significance of numbers and based important aspects of their culture on them. They had a deep affinity for numbers in themselves,² and all of this when they knew little or nothing about the myriad of ways that numbers can be manipulated through mathematics. In short, history shows us that numbers are just as useful for solving philosophical problems as they are for solving mathematical problems. The Pythagoreans, for example, evolved their philosophy from the science of numbers.

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The whole idea of numerological analysis is finding the numerological meaning of integral numbers (integers). In the case of the decimal system, which uses the digits 0 to 9, the set of basic meanings are those of the single-digit numbers 1 to 9 excluding zero whose meaning is simply "lack of meaning." But If a number has more than one digit, its meaning is seen as a composition, combination of the meanings of numbers 1 to 9. Thus, When we want to find the composite meaning of a number, we must first break the number down and analyse each digit separately, as for example: 13 = 1 + 3 ; 6782 = 6 + 7 + 8 + 2.

Numerically speaking, zero is officialy introduced with Intention #10, but, as you can see, it comes attached to number 1. This is because the meaning of zero is that of a paradox (IC #10). Although zero is considered an ideal from the perspective of Intention #9, it eventually reveals itself as being a paradox, an absurd. It is possible to go as close to zero as possible in reality, but zero taken as a limit is an absurd idea, and also the reason why Intention #9 leads to #10. Zero is always a relative concept, and only absolute concepts can operate as Intentions of Creation. At most, zero is an integral part of the paradoxical Intention #10, which represents a dynamic whole that merges opposite extremes.

Naturally, the meanings of numbers 1 to 13 come directly from their respective Intentions of Creation, and so we do not need to focus on these numbers for now since we already know what each Intention means. Our goal lies in numbers 14 up to infinity that do not have Intentions associated to them. their meanings come from different combinations of the first nine Intentions, forming composite meanings. See the examples below.

14 -> 1 + 4 -> an ideal (IC #1) structure (IC #4)                               
27 -> 2 + 7 -> a limited (IC #2) vibration (IC #7)                              
31 -> 3 + 1 -> a manifested (IC #3) singularity (#1)                            
465 -> 4 + 6 + 5 -> a variating (IC #6) potential (IC #5) object (IC #4)        
564 -> 5 + 6 + 4 -> an equilibrated (IC #6) material (IC #4) energy (IC #5)     

But the most important practice in Numerology is to reduce numbers with more than one digit to the sum of its digits and continue until a single-digit number is reached. This process of simplification is also known as pythagoerean math or numerological arithmetic, and it is an attempt to find the root/elementary/basic (IC #1) meaning behind the composite meaning of a number.

10 -> 1   20 -> 2   30 -> 3   40 -> 4   
11 -> 2   21 -> 3   31 -> 4   41 -> 5   
12 -> 3   22 -> 4   32 -> 5   42 -> 6   
13 -> 4   23 -> 5   33 -> 6   43 -> 7   
14 -> 5   24 -> 6   34 -> 7   44 -> 8   
15 -> 6   25 -> 7   35 -> 8   45 -> 9   
16 -> 7   26 -> 8   36 -> 9   46 -> 1   
17 -> 8   27 -> 9   37 -> 1   47 -> 2   
18 -> 9   28 -> 1   38 -> 2   48 -> 3   
19 -> 1   29 -> 2   39 -> 3   49 -> 4   

The purpose for this process is simply a matter of convenience if one wants to get down to what the composite meaning of a number adds up to (results) in simple terms. It's like reaching a conclusion, a summation for what is the outcome of the combination of two or more number meanings. From one side it is an unified meaning that sums up pretty well, on the other hand it wastes important details only found on the composite meaning. Therefore, In any way it does subsitute the composite meaning. A few examples are included below.

14 -> 1 + 4 = 5 -> an ideal (IC #1) structure (IC #4) results in robustness                                    
27 -> 2 + 7 = 9 -> challenging (IC #2) vibrations (IC #7) are certainly found in meditation (IC #9)            
31 -> 3 + 1 = 4 -> a manifested (IC #3) individual (#1) thing is obviously an object (IC #4)                   
465 -> 4 + 6 + 5 = 15 -> 6 -> a variating (IC #6) potential (IC #5) object (IC #4) leads to equilibrium (IC #6)

There is nothing magical about this process alone because it even depends on which numeral system is adopted. If we were using the hexadecimal system, which uses sixteen symbols, we would have fifteen symbols corresponding to fifteen basic meanings, and all multi-digit hexadecimal numbers could have their composite meanings reduced to one of these fifteen basic meanings. Of course, all numerological meanings are ultimately borrowed from the Thirteen Intentions, and fifteen basic meanings would extrapolate the number of meanings that are really basic and fundamental with respect to Creation. we would be mistakenly attribtuing a fundamental status to the nomerological meaning of the fourteenth and fifteen symbols of the hexadecimal system.

Numbers with repeating digits introduce the notion of multiplication (IC #8) in our analysis. at first there is only one single-digit meaning contained in the number, but multiplied one, two or more times. Multiplifiation is the same as amplifying/reinforcing the single-digit meaning of that number by an arrbitrary number of times, but this reinforcement itself has meaning, because it happens through another number. against through or by in the same way when we say (one number by another).

44 -> 4 x 2 = 8 -> an object (IC #4) reinforced by separation (IC #2)                  
666 -> 6 x 3 = 18 = 1 + 8 = 9 -> equilibrium (IC #6) reinforced by manifestation (IC #3)

More examples, but this time with no repeating digits:

3 x 4 = 12 -> reality (IC #3) happening through form (IC #4) equals consciousness (IC #12)

For numbers containing the digit zero, we do not have a combination of intentions anymore, but just one intention at a higher order (IC #8). a highe rorder means the same energy is at a higher level, being more intense and more powerful. the more zeros you add, the higher it is. Because Intensification is a directive of Intention #10, then any Intention or combination of Intentions can be multiplied (IC #8) by Intention #10, that reuslts in the same energy at a higher level at which it is felt more intensily . See the following examples:

30 = 3 x 10 -> manifestation (IC #3) at a higher order                                    
350 = 35 x 10 -> (3 + 5) x 10 -> electric (IC #3) energy (IC #5) at a higher order        
50000 = 5 x 10^3 -> an explosion (IC #5) whose power is at the order of ten thousand units

FInally, For numbers 10, 11, 12 and 13, and their corresponding Intentions of Creation, we can still analyse them numerogilically, yet there is no need because we already know their meaning as Intentions of Creation. Their meanings as Intentions of Creation andas numbers are two separate things, but they stil coincide with each other, as shown below.

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¹ Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, p. 70, http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/index.htm.
² John D. Barrow, Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy (NY: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 102.

We are not going to talk about love as if it was a mere feeling or emotion; on the contrary, we are going to ascribe a cosmic (universal) significance to it in the same way that we did with the Thirteen Intentions of Creation: Love is the primary, the highest and the most powerful energy in the universe. Love is the substance of everything that is, the foundation of all existence. It is incredibly difficult to convey the true meaning of love to another person because love transcends any form of representation. In fact, it is only through personal experiences that a true knowledge of love can be attained.

There is very little room for a rational interpretation of love in the universal sense, that is, love for all things in the universe. Shortly after coming into existence, a being is still immature and thus comes to experience love as an irrational urge / feeling. As the time passes, the being starts building a bridge from rationality to irrationality. Knowledge is what anyone gets after sufficient time being a rational person. All beings can feel love, and they are always in love with something, but not always are they mature (powerful) enough to be able to control the energy of love so that they can be in a state of love permanently. Again, love is the most powerful energy, which means that controlling it is the biggest intellectual and physical challenge for any being.

The word love in its ordinary usage is so loaded with assumptions that it is almost impossible to define it in a way that does not contradict the true meaning / nature of love. As many spiritual teachings like to put it, love is very close to the idea of an unconditional and transcendental force, meaning that it does not care about limits, boundaries or conditions. Anyway, because of the great confusion surrounding the meaning of love, let us consider Love (IC #13) instead, with capital L, which should coincide with the definition given on the first paragraph: love as an infinite energy.

infinite (IC #8) energy (IC #5) -> 8 + 5 = 13 -> IC #13 -> Love ; Will

Many sources have referred to Love as the basic law of Creation, the only law we have. A famous phrase was coined by occultist Aleister Crowley: "Love is the law, love under Will." Technically, the last part of this statement is wrong considering that Will and Love share the same level of importance, although some consider that Crowley only wanted to emphasize that those two absolute concepts are aligned with each other. Indeed, any law expects a degree of commitment and discipline requiring that one's will is aligned with it. In the case of Love, no restrictions are cast upon anyone's will, and this alone acts as the whole of the Law, but for one to actually be in a state of true will (i.e., Will) great discipline and training is necessary. Therefore, in the end Love turns out as being the most restrictive law of all, but also the most liberating if understood correctly.

Love, human of the Earth, is the first and last law of all being, therefore of life, altogether. Without Love no creation may form, and without Love no transformation may be completed. Love is required for all changes of life, for being and not-being, for light and darkness, for the coming and the passing away, for life and death, for everything in everything, and for everything in the existence altogether. (Law of Love,¹)

As a law, the general alias for Love is Law of Allowance, which in turn is said to manifest / express the Will of the Creator (a.k.a. Will of the Universe, Divine Will). Love determines just one rule: allow and accept (IC #13) everything dearly and unconditionally. This may sound contradictory for a law, but the Law of Allowance does dictate something: free will must be maintained at all costs. Above all, free will is the right of being, the right of choosing to be, and this means that Love protects all existence by ensuring that everything can exist (be) and continue (IC #13) to exist unimpeded. Also, by even allowing negative expressions of Itself to exist, such as hate or fear, Love maximizes the possibilities for the exercise of free will.

Love = Law of Allowance = Law of Creation

If you had to follow just one law, that would be Love, but the paradox is that Love is the only law that does not require obedience, although we can also say that Love's only requirement is that we should remain free to obey It or reject It. Each one is permitted to experience Love as they understand It, even if the experience is one of denial. This means that in one way or another we are always obeying Love -- there is not really a choice in the matter. Of course, perhaps an individual refuses to choose whether he wants to obey Love or not, but he is still making the choice of not having to make a choice. In fact, there is no such thing as an existence without choices.

Choices can be made consciously or unconsciously. When choices are made unconsciously, people play the victim role as consequences arise and they pretend not to know where they came from. On the other hand, it is through the conscious affirmation of our choices that we exercise our free will, and that is how we abide by Love, whereas our freedom dissipates when we remain oblivious to our choices. Still, even an unconscious choice is abiding by Love, at least indirectly, because at some point in our existence we made the conscious choice of not having to assume responsibility for our choices anymore. Therefore, Love is the only law that everyone can be happy with, because there are no obligations except accepting responsibility for our own choices.

In the song "All is Full of Love" by singer Björk, the concept that Love is an omnipresent energy is well illustrated with the passage "All is full of love, you just ain't receiving." In other words, the problem was never really about the search for Love; instead, it is about a simple decision to embrace Love right now and ever. It is a matter of letting Love flow inside us naturally, without resistance. Also, still considering Love as an omnipresent energy, we may conclude that the Law of Allowance is already implemented everywhere in the universe; it is therefore useless to dispute It or run away from It.

It should be clear by now that it is not really possible to reject Love, as Love is responsible for the very miracle of existence. Love is already implemented and realized with full force in all forms of existence. This fact turns the idea of following and/or applying Love into a pointless task, because everyone is already doing this in one way or another -- everyone is a part of Creation (i.e., overall existence). On the other hand, acknowledging that everything is full of Love and so there is no need for us to ever worry about anything is also something pointless, because we are merely stating the obvious and using it as an excuse to drop our responsibility.

Love does not require any kind of special devotion, and It does not expect us to do anything in Its name or that we act in a certain way all the time. Love only expect us to surrender ourselves to our true will. The fact that Intention #12 is right under Intention #13 in the sequence of Intentions means that any kind of consciousness (IC #12) is already close to inherit all of the Will of the Creator, which is Love. The only missing part between Intention #12 and #13 is the unique account that comes with individuality (IC #1). In other words, all beings share the will of the Creator, because each one of them has an unique way to express Love. Consequently, to follow your Will really means to express Love in your way.

12 + 1 = 13 -> consciousness (IC #12) individuated (IC #1) is the same as a being (IC #13),
who has its own will (IC #13) based on Love (IC #13)                                       

As implied by the Law of Allowance, one of the most efficient ways to express Love is to simply allow things to happen and allow them to change. However, it is important that we comprehend that allowance does not always mean inaction, because our passiveness can also tamper with the free flow of things. For example: In a river stream full of fish, you decide to set free a fish that got stuck. This may be considered Love in action, but it would not be Love if you tried to impede the fish from going with the flow or if you remained passive while there was a clear need for intervention.

Allowance involves a subtle transformation of consciousness from denial (fear) to acceptance (Love). An entire reality of pain and suffering can disappear when one is able to accept it, because corrective actions can be taken far more efficiently once fear is gone. First you have to accept a situation, and then you do whatever is necessary to correct (change) it. Unfortunately, it is more common that people stay in denial about problematic situations, and sometimes they even work to remain in this state .

Before one can practive Love efficiently, they must learn discernment based on the Law of Allowance. Sometimes our assistance is truly needed; soemtimes it is not, and thus it is our duty to allow things to happen. There is great wisdom in being able to honor the way things are. In fact, Love is really like an affirmation, a declaration made by the Creator Himself with full force: "So be it!". Additionaly, beliefs that are limting our choices may also be liminting our abiity to practice Love. As an exmaple, there is the idea that Love is only about "good" deeds. But Love is not devoid of force, strength or even violence. The gentleness of Love may also be the gentleness of strength. Sometimes love can even account for its "negation" if the final objective is honorable and pure, that is, an even greater expression of Love.

Love is a paradoxical concept for the simple fact that It is a law that does not work as one. A law that is already fully operational and cannot be violated is no more no less than just the way things are. Therefore, when we state the importance of Love as for example with the phrase "Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion" (David Icke), we are not crazy or deluded, but we may be putting too much emphasis on the obvious. An ingenuous approach toward Love serves no purpose in the real / practical world. We cannot forget that a true understanding of Love can only come with personal experience, and an experience by definition is something that happens through a series of real and often problematic situations. This means that our reality and experiences are all-important, because they work as a jumping platform that propels us toward a greater knowledge of Love.

In sum, there is no reason for us to forget about all our problems just because "love will prevail." Yes, It will, but only at the very end of our journey back to the Source. (See the Model of Creation in Section 2.1.) Creation is wholly sustained by Love, and it is in Its core that infinite, perfect and genuine love resides. Everyone is already spiritually present at the Source, but not everyone has achieved a state of mind in which this truth is realized. There is always more work (evolution) to do, and that is why it is important that we avoid falling into extremes of denial of Love or denial of reality. We must understand that absolute concepts such as Love are not removed from reality, no matter how grim that reality is.

Intention #13 is the most powerful energy of Creation, or, to be more exact, the divine energy that we call Love. However, from within the Artificial Creation (A.C.) Love is actually spread out, fragmented, and must be rediscovered through a series of experiences that form a line of evolution for the individual. In fact, evolution is the name of the process of Creation, a process that justifies the existence of the physical universe, which is the A.C. Figuratively speaking, if there was no evolution there would be no need for the A.C. and the Thirteen Intentions, and Creation would remain as an immanifest singularity without levels of energy forming an evolutionary ladder.

Each one of the Thirteen Intentions is a different way to express Love, with Intention #13 being the one that brings Love forward in Its full glory. Such genuine love is sometimes referred to as "unconditional" love. The problem with such denomination is that unconditional still sounds as a condition within the context of the Law of Allowance. Love in action is comprehension, understanding, cognition, knowledge, ability, mastering, respect, logic and certainty, and all based on wisdom, which in no circumstance means a complete lack of conditions. That is why there is no such thing as unconditional love inside the A.C.; there is only a learning process toward reaching Love with capital L, and any accomplishments during this process are at most approximations of what Love really is. Love as the universal law cannot be directly applied in practice because it involves a level of self-awareness and self-responsibility that has nothing to do with us doing some thing or another in particular, but that also depends on every single action of our part.

Is it justified to kill for Love? Certainly not when we are wise and always looking for a better solution, but in reality there is no answer to this question because Love is above the category that elicited it. This question itself carries a fundamental mistake: trying to answer it is giving in to the possibility that Love can fail. But Love is absolute and cannot be violated. A feeling of Love provides us with wisdom beyond words that will decide the best course of action we should take. however, this does not mean that we cannot devise a code of conduct compatible with this feeling.

Therefore, it is only when we break Love down into rules and directives that we can begin to understand It from a more rational and scientific viewpoint, and thus we find effective ways to follow and apply It in our lives. That is where the Thirteen Intentions of Creation come in. With the Thirteen Intntions it is possible for us to plan in advance, take decisions and translate our understanding of Love into rational thoughts. Then we will be able to make decisions according to the best possible principles, the Will of the Creator. This is mainly what Chapter 4 is all about: to show how the Intentions can be applied in practice.

To exemplify, suppose that we could see Creation as a spherical jewel floating alone in the void. With the creation of the universe, or from a perspective located inside the A.C., it can be said that this jewel has been shattered into numerous pieces. The jewel still exists as a fragmented whole, but it is no longer in a pristine condition. In any case, the jewel seen as a single object is the Divine Creation, whereas the Artificial Creation corresponds to how the jewel looks like as a bunch of fragments from the outside or a bunch of facets from the inside -- both scenarios are valid.

The most important thing in life is to experience, which in turn means to learn more about Love. To learn more about Love is an eternal task in reality, one that is made discrete in the form of cycles (lives). This means that the act of living is the purpose of life itself, because any life cycle is a modal unit of experience. Life is supposed to be lived according to your Will. The goal is to keep living, to evolve, and to let others do the same. There is no such thing as a restrictive plan for life, because that would go against free will, which is an incorruptible right according to the Law of Allowance. However, discipline is always good to ensure that you are living in the best possible way, and thus you are making the right choices. Discipline yourself by making your own rules according to your Will and the directives of Creation, because then you can amplify your life's experience and thus serve as an example to others.

Fear is basically a feeling of spiritual disconnection. Fear emanates from the shadowy part of the Self that is temporarily separated from the Divine. Fear arises when one gazes into nothingness, the void that once was occupied by a spirit. The vibration of fear takes over when one cannot find their essence / spirit anymore. Fear is the greatest barrier to personal growth, a barrier that can prevent us from acquiring self-awareness and rediscovering our spiritual nature / identity. Fear can easily spiral out of control and transform into despair as one gazes deeper into the abyss of the soul. However, not all is lost, because according to German philosopher Goethe, "Tiefer, tiefer, irgendwo in der Tiefe gibt es ein Licht." (Translation: "Deeper, deeper, somewhere in the depth there is a light.")

If we are supposed to come up with an opposite for Love, then that opposite is fear, not hate. Hate is actually the opposite of Love's lesser / ordinary version: love with small l. We have already exposed unconditional love as being a fallacious and extremist version of Love, and such judgment applies the same for other ordinary notions of love because they all tend to be extreme and imbalanced. Ordinary love is extremist like hate, and so the two are pretty much sides of the same coin. On the other hand, Love reigns supreme over all sides as if they were one, and a force against Love does not really exist except as an extremely distorted form / aspect of Love Itself. Although it is true that everything in the universe is a matter of love vs. fear, you can see that this conception is only valid when we are talking about ordinary love, because there is no opposition at all when fear is in reality Love playing an inverse role of Itself. This means that an opposition between fear and Love is nothing more than an illusion propagated by fear itself.

It would be a great shame for Love if It had to do battle with a counterfeit opposition. True love comes from a much higher plane than the unconditional version that requires its adherents to turn the other cheek in masochistic style. The Big L may also turn the other cheek, but not because It is incapable to react: being Love an infinite power, all fights are already decided in Its favor. What Love represents at the level of Intention #13 is already an eternal victory, while the battles and competitions involving the polarity aspects of Love are just for fun, just for laughs, since playfulness is one of the main aspects of Love. Think about it: if you do not care about losing or winning, then what good is a game to you?

Fear is considered the primary instinct of survival (self-preservation) in dangerous situations. But here we are more interested in the energy of fear and its fundamental nature, not in physiological and psychological effects caused by fear. We are talking about fear in the spiritual sense, because fear is like a barrier causing one to be disconnected from the Spirit. Fear is the principle by which consciousness is persuaded to continue to maintain that barrier, which is needed for the preservation of the being inside the game of Creation. In Section 2.2 we had a glimpse of the actual source code of the universe as the program (game) of Creation and we saw how consciousness becomes individuated when it first enters this game. Well, fear makes sure that the player (being) has a chance of surviving all stages of the game. Fear prevents the player from giving up too soon and will leave him with no choice other than progressing into the game.

When you avoid something out of fear, it's only because that thing still exerts influence over you, and you may just right into it without knowing. just fall back to it in the drop of a hat. fear is a great attractor, and we always attract that which we fear. A negative attitude based on fear draws a negative experience that will feed that fear of yours. fear has to be overcome / mastered first through acceptance of it, and then by confronting it. just sitting and acknolwdgeing the fear is not enough. One must transform the fear into higher levels of understanding, and the highest level is Love. The key is to experience and subsequently to learn to control and direct the fear energy, transforms his fear into fury, caution, courage... the fear energy is which is Love on the mirror, , so reaching out for Love automatically means letting go of fear. translates to a unfocused, uncontrolled love. not put into action or movement. lack of control of one's energy.

To put it simply, fear is ignorance, unawareness and, deep inside, denial of Love, because there is always a choice at the level of the subconscious mind. We have already made the connection between fear and denial when we were discussing Love in the beginning of this section. Fear is always associated with denial of some integral aspect of Creation, and most importantly, everything that Intention #13 represents. Intention #13 can represent many things, but one of Its most important aspects on a personal level is change. Change always involves some loss by the introduction of the new and the removal of the old. False expectations instead of acceptance of whatever may come is what characterizes a fearful approach to the new (IC #13). When the new is falsely imagined beforehand rather than being accepted for what it is, it is turned into an unknown, and all fear is generated by unknowns. In addition, fear involves an ignorant perspective of denial, which means that the fearful entity does not even understand the reason for its feelings of repulsion.

... all our worries and wars are based upon change. We fear that something will happen, or we fear that it won't; so we fight to prevent change or to speed up the process. But whatever we do, change is 100 percent guaranteed. The only question is its rate. Slow change we interpret as evolution, fast as revolution. Changes are the epitome of Unknowns -- the greatest of fear generators. (Monroe 2)

Whereas Love is latent in the first few Intentions of Creation, fear is potent, and can be pictured as being a natural force pushing away from Intention #13. Considering that this force must go through Intentions #3 and #2 in order to reach Intention #1, we can resume the focus, the culmination of fear as being an existence (IC #3) that is removed (IC #2) from Love in the most absolute (IC #1) manner. But how absurd does this sound when we already know that Love is absolute? Surprisingly, not so absurd considering that absolute (IC #1) existence (IC #3) -> 1 + 3 -> 13 -> IC #13, which means that fear still guides one to Intention #13 after all. Indeed, what is shown in Figure 2.# is a perspective from within the illusory reality of the Artificial Creation. It only appears that fear opposes Love, because in reality fear is a force of attraction toward Love without the conscious participation of the individual.

Intention #13 is is a singularity (IC #1) manifested (IC #3) meaning that It is self-sufficient, It is whole unto itself, and does not need the other Intentions, including Intention #2. Now if fear is denial of love, it is also denial of what Intention #13 represent, and so fear justifies the existence of polarity which means two poles and not just a singularity. Fear in adition is a potent (IC #5): it pushes the poles fara way from each other as possible, that is, extrapolate (IC #8). it wants the two poles to be completely (IC #10) separate. biut it can at most make an approximation (IC #11). ANyway, see Note how we have mentioned ICs #5, #8, #10 ansd #11 come into the picture just because of the process of polarization which is directly related to fear. We could also derived the other itnentions. but the fact is the firts 12 intentiosn only have their existence justified because of thsi process of division that we call fear.inshort this processa alone involves all 12 intentions.

Let us see some examples of how fear is simultaneously repulsion from Intention #13 and attraction to Intention #1. Fear of death, for example, is supported by the belief that there is only one (IC #1) life that must be preserved as sacred; however, according to Intention #13, there is continued existence as long as there is will (IC #13) to exist, not mattering how many lives happen during the process. There is also fear of life when one is afraid of not living according to external (IC #2) conventions (Representation - IC #1) that require conformity to social standards. Fear can make people choose to conform instead of expressing their individuality. Interestingly enough, according to numerological arithmetic we have individuality (IC #1) expressed (IC #3) -> 1 + 3 -> 13 -> IC #13, and so fear of non-conforming goes against Intention #13 as well.

Now, if fear is a force that pushes away from Love, we may ask ourselves: away from Love toward what? Well, the answer is nothing, because the very premise of the question is an absurd. Indeed, fear is love of nothing; it is still Love, but without control by the hands of the individual. For example, the Divine Creation disappearing in the inverted Model of Creation means that the Source can no longer be found. The Source contains an infinite amount of love, and the fact that all this love is suddenly gone creates a feeling of disconnection that leaves the being completely lost. At Its essence, Source is Love and as such Love is the only real (authentic) energy in the universe; all else is just illusion associated with the game of separation, which is fear, that defines the physical universe. Fear is the shadow of illusory disconnection from the Source, which is everyone's original home. Fearful beings are attracted to nothing because it is a placeholder for where their Home was. Fear manifests as denial of reality in favor of nothing because instead of looking forward to go back, the being is looking back to where it came from.

Still according to Figure 2.#, consider that fear is a magnetic pole at Intention #1 whose force of attraction, or sphere of influence, is stronger at Intention #2 (separation), #3 (illusion) and #4 (physicality). Therefore, we can say that fear is rooted in the illusory perception of separation that pervades the physical universe. Anyway, and perhaps fortunately, fear is gradually released as there is attunement to higher Intentions of Creation. As the individual suffers a spiritual (IC #9) transformation, focus shifts from fear to Love as an ignorant (fearful) approach to Love is replaced with a conscious one. Thus fear is the foreshadowing of such transformation. Indeed, it is always a surprise for those who held a negative connotation about fear to see that their greatest fears were essential to their spiritual awakening. From a victim of fear they have become masters of Love. They were on the right path all the time -- they just did not know it.

In spite of fear being an illusion considered by many as the cause of negative experiences, fear is vital for an evolutionary existence. In Figure 2.# we can see that without a force of repulsion that creates separation there would be no distance or difference between Intention #1 and #13. This 12-fold distance is the conceptual length of an evolutionary process for consciousness as it traverses the universe. In short, fear sets forth and justifies an entire context of evolution and spiritual progression. Fear is only fear as long as there is lack of spirituality, a phase in which the individual is unknowingly seeking Love while guided by its own fear. That is, the individual requires the experience of fear until it is ready to experience Love.

Fear is the original disassociative distraction of the spirit of Creation. The Spirit, or Consciousness forgets about Itself, but it is a wilful act so that it can remember about its nature anew. In other words, it is a like the mythical Luciferian rebellion, a denial of Love, so that Love can be rediscovered, because rediscovering Love is the only way to learn more about It. To deny Love is still just an experience, but perhaps not the most pleasurable one, reason why it cannot be sustained forever. however multiple attempts can be are done continually, efefctively creating a continuous process. in intention #13 acceptance and eternity are related; therefore, there is no such as "eternal denial". there is only eternal accepatnce and temporary denial. denial _is_ the temporary process, while greater and greater acceptance is a continuous, eternal process.

To say that there is a state where one becomes fearless is an exxageration. Some degree of fear is always present. However, when we are able to accept our fear, we can control / master it. Courage is mastery of fear. Denial of fear is the only obstacle to its transcendence. The only thing we have to deny is denial itself, The only thing to fear is fear itself, and that is how fear eventually cancels itself out. A fearless / courageous person is more afraid of not facing their fear than what they fear. Also, if ic 3 representes infintie power (5 + 8 = 13), and fear is denial of what ic13represents, then our deepest fear as beings (IC #13) is that we are powerful beyond measure, and that we can overcome all of our fears.

To conclude, know that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with fear. When Consciousness enters the game of Creation and becomes individualized, it is only natural that a feeling of loneliness sets in on the being. But it is these emotions based on fear that will lead the being back to its original home where true love can be found. In other words, without a number of fear-based lessons there is no way for the being to finally be able to see (remember) the bright (loving) side of existence. One must never forget the fact that Love rules over everything. Fear is only the illusion that there is something wrong with Creation, or that life in the universe is unsafe. There is nothing to fear but fear itself, and this implies that ultimately there is nothing to fear.

Love in action should lead to unity, coexistence, comprehension and cooperation; therefore, when we are talking about love set against hate, we are talking about love with small l. Between love and hate, the first is when Love is approached by an immature spirit, while the second is when Love is approached by a rebellious spirit. There is passion in both sides: love is a positive passion and hate is a negative passion. Also, in both cases there is non-acceptance of what Love represents, and this means that there is a dose of fear on both sides. The idea here is really one of polarity (IC #2): love and hate are opposite forces, and a force by definition is exerted by a pole. There is no real difference between love and hate, because each aspect / polarity has the other in its heart. (Example: the immature is rebellious at heart and vice-versa.) Therefore, any vocabulary used to describe love can also be applied to hate, and vice-versa, because the only thing that we can be sure is that both sides possess a low degree of connection to Love's energies.

The idea behind opposition is polarity. A pole by definition implies in the existence of another pole. With respect to any pair of opposites in the universe, one pole is always attracting to the direction of Love, which is the right / good direction after all. (How could it be that the best side is not the side of infinite balance, wisdom and freedom?). But we can also extrapolate and claim that Love is wrong / evil, and indeed It is in a paradoxical sense: fear is the hallmark of Love's severity and toughness. There is darkness in Love in the same manner that a loving person is not immune from casting a shadow. Think of a father that wants to teach his son how to grow stronger, but he must do that indirectly by lending minimal assistance so to not spoil the child. The fact is that Love can be defined in a recursive fashion exactly as we did with the Whole (IC #13). Love is the output of a continuous process of atonement for any pair of opposites that eventually arises. The pair is neutralized and made back into one. Therefore, Love always wins by transcending dualism, but It still leaves room for an eventual challenge.

Love inside the context of polarity gives rise to two extremes: one of light and one of darkness. Light and Dark are more fitting names for the polarities because they clearly indicate that we are working with a contrast of ideas. What is not obvious is that both Dark and Light share the same power source: the Source (IC #13). In fact, it is denial (fear) of the absoluteness of the Source that results in some seeing It as an emission of white light or black light, because in reality the Source emits both types of light at the same time that it emits no type in particular. The closest denomination of color / energy to what we are describing here is golden light, which corresponds to the perfect energetic balance of Love. (Note: it may appear that we are being more figurative than literal here, but when positive and negative energies are seen for what they are, they can only assume one appearance or another according to the binary and extremist nature of the universe. We will learn more about these aspects of color in Chapter 3.)

Symbolically speaking, the main difference between the respective sources for Light and Dark is that one emits a very bright light and the other emits a deep darkness. Therefore, whether it is due to obfuscation by too much light or due to lack of visibility within the darkness, followers of both factions are continually tripping and falling on their way to the Source. All paths lead to the Source and all of them are fundamentally rocky (challenging - IC #2), because the universe is after all an illusion based on polarity. Being polarity the main characteristic of Intention #2, then it also implies in the presence of challenges. Anyway, instead of exclusively focusing on the light at the end of the road, a balanced perspective based on Love gives as much importance to the journey as well to the goal, and in fact it sees no difference: the journey (evolution - IC #11) becomes the goal (end - IC #12), which in turn becomes an eternal beginning for the sake of experience (i.e., eternal (IC #13) beginning (IC #1) -> 13 + 1 = 14 -> 1 + 4 = 5 -> IC #5 -> experience).

The polarities operate under the principle of fear, and use it as their main weapon. Fear is a force that pushes for total separation between poles. Both polarities want to be the "monopole" that concentrates all the power for itself, but of course that this is impossible as long as there are two competing for hegemony. Dark and Light are perceived as different depending on your perspective, but the truth is that they are identical (IC #6). An individual can have both Dark- and Light-based traits and alternate between them. What does not change is that both sides display fear-based purposes: a darksider's approach is more direct and so it is willing to do anything to cause fear that will feed its source; a lightsider's approach is more indirect and so it expects everyone to eventually worship (fear) the "superior" source of Light. The fact is that both sides desire everyone to feed their respective power sources with fear energy. These sources are always represented by something external: gods, masters, symbols or even oneself when there is a self-serving and self-centered attitude, because it is also polarization when an individual worships self from an external perspective.

If the polarities are identical sides of the same coin, then anything that is said about one side must be inversely proportional and applicable to the other. However, we can also draw many parallels and similarities between Dark and Light. As an example, consider that darksiders have no higher purpose other than just to deny Love in the most explicit manner. They simply like to cause fear on others, specially because they need this fear to feed their energy source: the Dark. On the other hand, lightsiders seek unconditional acceptance of Love, but a lack of understanding prevents this acceptance to occur in practice. Lightsiders fail to fully accept Love because their unwillingness to accept the rightful existence of Dark violates the Law of Allowance. Lightsiders hold an extremist (imbalanced) idealization of Love in such high regard that they end becoming fearful of what Love truly represents: perfect balance. They end worshiping and adoring a distant representation of Love. Therefore, we may also consider that lightsiders depend on fear, since they expect everyone to worship (feed) their energy source: the Light, which they mistakenly equate to Love.

The polarities do not have an existence independent from each other. After all, they are polarities, and polarity corresponds to Intention #2, whereas the notion of existence is only introduced later with Intention #3. But it is by Intention #6 that we can begin to understand how the polarities come into existence as a whole: they are equal halves that form a dynamic balancing act, a spinning yin-yang kind of thing. In other words, it is not only a matter of us recognizing how the polarities coexist in the big picture; we must also take into account a dynamic relationship in which the polarities feed on their mutual desire to confront each other, because they would both starve and die if those feeding channels were removed.

Fear, a force of extreme polarization, is an illusion. Attraction toward what Love represents is the only valid and real force in Creation. It is only when there is denial of Love that an inversely proportional force seems to exist, and so the complex interplay of forces characterizing the universe begins. Denial of Love corresponds to when we assume an inverted perspective of Creation, which means that the standard sequence of Intentions becomes inverted as well, with Intention #1 replacing Intention #13. In the inverted "mode" of Creation, we have a force of unification (IC #1) based on separation (IC #2) instead of a force of universalization (IC #12) based on approximation (IC #11). Fear is attraction (unification) based on repulsion, or attraction toward finite difference, while Love is attraction (approximation) that seeks to cross boundaries and eliminate differences, or attraction toward infinite sameness -- like attracts like.

The polarities subscribe to the quest for total separation that characterizes fear, but they are still affected by an universal force of attraction based on Approximation (IC #11). By analogy, this force is the inverse of a repulsive force based on Separation (IC #2). The latter pushes for oneness as Intention #1, while the former pushes for Oneness as Intention #13. There is repulsion and attraction happening simultaneously over the polarities, much like in a love-hate relationship. In other words, the two forces respectively based on Intention #2 and #11 end up equilibrating each other to create the spinning motion of a binary system.

Polarity is a fundamental aspect of Creation. The game of Creation requires both polarities to be active both on a macroscopic and microcospic scale. No matter how much one has raised their consciousness above duality, for an external judge they will always fall into one side (Dark) or the other (Light). Of course that somewhere in the course of eternity one may achieve 100% control over both the Light and Dark aspects of their being. The only one who already occupies this position of absolute balance is the Creator, who is after all a personification of Love.

Polarities exist in all levels of Creation, but they are active only in some. As will be further explained in Chapter 3, polarities are active only up to the sixth density. In the seventh density there is only positive orientation toward Love, and then comes the next higher octave. (Note: a negative orientation in this case is one that is still focusing on Intention #2 [polarity] or lower instead of Intention #13 [newfound unity].) In the sixth density, the positive entity is already facing the right side, but the negative entity has an additional step to take: a 180 degree turn to face the positive side. It is however a simple reorientation that the entity has to make considering that one who reaches the top of the mountain but ends in the shadowy side only needs to take a small step into the sunny side.

When someone needs to learn and evolve, it does not matter if this is done though a positive (Light) or negative (Dark) path. What is important is that one becomes aware of where one is ultimately going. A darksider will learn a lot in his path of darkness, but eventually such path reveals itself as being wrong under the true light of Love, not under the false light of the Lightside. There is always time, however, to change the road that one is on. Similarly, a lightsider roams erratically in his path because he is being blinded by the Light, and this too eventually turns into a mistake as the lightsider is unable to complete his course. There is really no Darkside or Lightside; there is only evolution toward greater wisdom acquired through experience. Wisdom does not have a polarity.

The good thing about polarity is that it appears to be a very simple game: Light is the inverse of Dark, and the absence of one means the presence of the other. However, polarity games do not look so simple when we rise above the chess board, because then we can see the many possibilities for moves and strategies. Being equal (IC #6) halves, one polarity can imitate the other easily. Dark in particular is better known for its ability to imitate Light in a very shameless and deceiving manner. As an example, consider that whenever we are talking about the top of a pyramidal hierarchy, we are already implying extreme polarization (e.g., top vs. bottom). Because Dark is the polarity between the two that tends to be more explicit (extreme), then we can say that every "master of light" who expects or demands worship is a darksider in disguise.

Another aspect of the chess game of polarity is how both Light and Dark think that they deserve the throne. Both factions consider themselves as "illuminated" and the other as being "in the dark." This is interesting, because it shows how the polarities are nothing more than sides of a coin that is constantly flipping. In the end it is only a matter of perspective. The truth, as we already know, is that one side cannot exist without the other. Without Light there is no Dark and vice-versa. They have to both exist to exist.

Dark and Light cannot be beaten in their own game because the very purpose of the game is that players adopt the "win or lose" mentality. A polarity game exists as long as there are hopes that the game will end once the forces of Light overcome the forces of Dark, or vice-versa. But Dark cannot exist without Light. The game only ends when both factions self-destruct, because one faction cannot destroy the other without destroying itself in the process. Were Dark to destroy Light, it would self-destruct into nothingness (IC #9). Nonetheless, a polarity game can be won on a personal level when you remove yourself from it without guilt or remorse. One should not attempt to destroy polarity; one should transcend it by evolving past desires for action against another. According to the cosmic law of balance (IC #6), for each person that leaves a polarity game that will remove one pawn of Dark and one pawn of Light. In fact, it can be said that Dark and Light already exist in perfect (IC #12) balance according to a perspective based on Love.

The polarities are not completely unaware that they cooperate with each other on behalf of Love. They may pretend that they want each other dead / destroyed, or that they need to stay far away from each other, but deep inside they know that they need each other as in a love-hate relationship. This in turn provides an interplay of forces that is fundamental to keep the game of Creation running. As one side taunts, attacks or avoids the other, it gives the other purpose and motivation to react. Action and reaction. What would be the purpose of a lightsider if not to fight off the "dark forces"? And what would be the purpose of a darksider if not to corrupt the Light that the lightsiders consider and love so much?

Love can be seen as Light or Dark. While Light feeds Dark and vice-versa, an incarnation of true love lies above the battle field, laughing, observing, learning and participating indirectly through all sides as well as by a side of its own. It is certainly insuffienct to say that Love is a neutral side, because although it assumes the role of a neutral side, it is also more than just a side, and carries a richer proposal other than just neutrality or indifference. Love is the only extreme that unifies, equilibrates and integrates all other extremes in perfect harmony and balance. Love is the true Light that remains occult (dark) until one is able to find It.

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¹ "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier, Gesetz der Liebe [The Law of Love] (Augsburg, DEU: Printing Service, 1995).

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