Lesser light: Emotion.

Lesser light: Emotion.

Genesis 1:14–19

The Lesser Light, as emotion, follows consistently from the definitions of the Greater Light and the stars.

Here too, time means understanding the path leading to a definition. In the second creation cycle, time was defined, while in the third cycle, the sequence of experiences, which in time is already capable of appearing one after another. It becomes possible to create a sequence of knowing by arranging the appropriate experiences in sequence.

Emotion is also interpreted information, because the interpretation of experiences creates emotions as well. What distinguishes it from the Greater Light is whether a definition can or cannot be created from the available information. The repetition of experiences provides increasingly precise knowledge, but until there is sufficient experience and information to understand the cause of an event, we can only establish the repetition of our appearing reactions, not their cause.

When we already recognize our repeated reactions to repeating experiences, but are not yet capable of understanding and defining them, we identify them as emotions. We cannot create an explanation for our emotions, because if we were able to create an explanation for the appearance of a given emotion, then it would already be a definition, which further experiences would make increasingly precise. When we only recognize our repeated reactions, we identify these as emotional reactions, and on the basis of our reactions we are able to describe and define the emotions, but we cannot interpret or define the appearing experiences.

Our emotions therefore do not determine conscious actions that we are capable of understanding and identifying as our own actions, or even interpreting as our will, because we cannot predict what will happen. We cannot predict our emotional reactions in any way, because we have no definitions whose functioning we could interpret.

Emotions, however, are just as I-identical as our definitions, and thus we also interpret our emotional reactions as our own actions from the perspective of the conscious I.

Thus the conscious I rules by day, and the unconscious I by night. The actions and will of both are I-identical, but we are capable of understanding only one of them, because emotions are emotions precisely because we do not yet have the possibility of creating definitions through which we could understand them.

In the case of emotions, it is also essential to understand that experiences are necessary for emotions to appear. We are initially capable of identifying the repetition of experiences and our reactions to them as emotions, and then, with the further repetition of experiences, we are already able to create definitions, while with the further repetition of experiences, our definitions describe the experience with increasing precision. In this process, the appearing emotion appears very strongly, and throughout the process of knowing it continuously weakens, until finally it disappears completely, because as a result of the repeating experiences, we understand with increasing precision the law appearing in the experiences and its functioning, its relationship with the other laws, and its place among the laws.