The quintessence, the Alpha, and the Omega of all philosophy and religion are summarized in the following:
--- That there is an absolute Reality (God, the Source, the Creator, the Cosmic Potency), infinite, eternal, conscious,
--- and that all the things of the Universe, perceived as various and distinct, are only manifold manifestations of this unique Reality.
The plurality of phenomena is merely apparent - but the unity of the Noumenon is real.
According to Plato, the Noumenon is the idea of what is thought, that exists in the images of an observer's mind, the intelligible, which can only be comprehended by reason, and not by the senses, to something not phenomenal, that is, it does not belong to a sensitive intuition, but intellectual or supersensitive intuition.
This term was well known in the philosophical studies of Immanuel Kant.
The Reality has no beginning and will not come to an end - while its phenomena begin and ends, are born and die. Transient phenomena are caused - the eternal Reality is not caused but causes all effects.
When it is said that finite man is infinitely inferior to divinity, it confers with what Albert Einstein - this immense cosmic genius of science, visionary, humanist and mystic - said in one of his academic speeches that: “... a spirit manifests itself in the Laws of the Universe, which it is much superior to that of man”.
The only virtue, the only thing necessary for human beings, where they reach perfection, is to perceive and integrate themselves into the unity of the Absolute Cause through the plurality of relative effects.
Realizing plurality without unity is philosophical illiteracy; perceiving unity without plurality, is a beginner's unilateralism; to perceive unity in plurality, is that it is the highest degree of perfection. The first state is chaos; the second is monotony, the third is harmony.
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