The Pantheist
Manifesto
Order1 is GOD Every single thing2 that exists, because ordered,3 is GOD. In other words, whatever emerges
into being4 in whatever form5 is God.6 God (meaning Order) is great,7
meaning omniscient, omnipotent, omni-presenting and so on, because IT serves
as the order of every single thing
everywhere and at every moment. Each single unit of All presents one actual
formal application of God.8 The infantile religions catering to the
immature, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism9
or Vaishnavism, believe God to be a socially useful selection10 of
perfect attributes, hence an eco-system role model, apart from all. The adult11
pantheist’s God is all,
indiscriminately. In short (a, any) life itself in any one of its myriad forms is God. God (hence order) is each one, a selection of some, the
sum and/or totality of all (single things). And since life12 gradually
emerges, so does God gradually emerge. And since life/order is finite, at
least from moment to moment, so is God/Order finite from moment to moment. Moreover, since each
life-as-repeating-sequence, thus order,
and so life in all its forms is God, so the worship of God consists
not in singing halleluiahs to a preferred order selection but in changing
order.13,14 When a life subsides, so does that
God. When all life subsides, so
does GOD.15 © 2019 by
Victor Langheld |
1. How (an) order, i.e. a logic sequence, pattern or
modus, indeed aggregate, emerges in the universe is unknown, so far
incomprehensible. Order, i.e. a repeating sequence of random contacts, seems
like a miracle because unimaginable. See: The
Standard Model of Pantheism 2. For ‘every single thing’ read: ALL (Greek: pan) aggregates. ALL
emerges as aggregate of every single thing which presents as aggregate, hence
as logic sequence/structure. Only logic sequences, or aggregates can be
cognised. Since every single thing/aggregate, because ordered, is God, i.e. a
God unit or quantum, all aggregates together are God. Every single ‘thing’,
as affect cluster, presents as quantised logic, because particularly
sequenced, process, indeed as thermo-dynamic system. A (specific) thing, as
affect, emerges as specific logic output (or communication) of a specific
sequence (or aggregate of sequences) of random events. Since each single
(i.e. unitised or quantised) thing because ordered is God, i.e. performs the
God (i.e. ordering) function, the aggregate of all things together, to wit,
cognizable nature, the cosmos, are also God. 3. Only ordered, meaning (logically, because emerging a
particular affect/outcome) sequenced processes, reified as stable aggregates,
can be cognised, i.e. known (i.e. felt) as real and identified. 4. For ‘being’ read: an on-going sequence of realness
moments. The quality of realness emerges at (momentary) contact
between two quantised processes/sequences (i.e. ‘things’, i.e. God units). A
system @rest ceases being real and identifiable. This was clearly understood
by the Buddha. 5. For ‘form’ read: identity, i.e. identifying because
differential attributes. 6. In other words, since each unit of order is God, so
does GOD (i.e. the ordering function) presents in each and every thing as
distributed network. The component of an aggregate and the whole aggregated
are both God just as every bit of an airplane serves as sine qua non of the
whole airplane. 7. i.e. the maximum, in the sense that IT presents at
this moment as every shape, every size, every quantum of knowledge and each
with every degree of interaction, hence transformation, i.e. reordering
power. Indeed, each single thing as God unit emerges at its own maximum
ordering capacity. 8. In modern terminology, each
thing-as-identifiable-order emerges as differential iteration, of the basic
self-ordering structure of the universe; that is to say, as local app of a
universal Basic Operating (i.e. ordering) System. 9. Early Buddhism appears to have been non-theistic.
Seeking popularity as means to its survival it later offered naïve losers
seeking to escape ‘this world of woe’ an ill-defined salvation and
deities/gods as role cum comfort-and-consolation models. 10.
Division and
selection, hence difference, makes those religions sectarian and so highly
political. That’s because ‘difference makes a difference.’ Having political
leverage gives them local (or eco) survival advantage. 11.
All living,
i.e. self-regenerating things develop through stages, i.e. from infancy
through adolescence to maturity and then on to death. And that includes the
self-regenerating religious beliefs that cater to the physical, emotional and
mental needs of the various development stages of the human. 12.
i.e. as spread
of ever more complex order variants. With increasing complexity more complex
attributes (i.e. responses, outputs), such as sight, smell, consciousness,
mercy, pity, reverence, love, hate, physical form and so on, emerge. The
human appears to be the ‘best’ (at the top of the scavenging ladder) order,
i.e. God variation, yet to emerge. 13.
The basic God
(as ordering) function is to change order. The ultimatum for every order is:
change, differentiate to survive or die! Unpredictable merciless (trial by
mortal combat) selection decides which changed order survives. Whatever
survives is good in that it supports further survival or order. From which
follows that all surviving order, i.e. the current world, is good. 14.
God, hence order in every form, is good since it supports survival.
Participation in the survival, thus creation
process is true worship. 15.
At maximum
entropy, i.e. @rest (hence in Nirvana) God (i.e. the ordering response)
ceases. At minimum entropy, i.e. at oneness, the God response, i.e. order,
presents at its most powerful. |