Living: The appearing effect of unknown laws.
Living: The appearing effect of unknown laws.
The laws that serve as the basis of changes, which are unconscious. Emotions, behind the effects of which there are laws that we do not yet know due to the lack of sufficient experiences. Our experiences lead toward the knowing of these laws by the fact that they influence our life unconsciously.
Genesis 1:20–23
In the text of the Bible, living is not a definition in the biological sense. The text does not call everything that is “living” living, therefore this is a designation that refers to something other than what we understand by it today.
Among the definitions that define the world, it does not call the appearing laws living based on whether the definition refers to living or non-living matter, but based on the extent to which we know them.
The effects of known laws are information for us; we know exactly what consequences they have, therefore living means definitions that we do not yet know completely, whose effects we do not know precisely.
The word living appears for the first time in verse 20, even though plants are also living beings, and beyond this, it also makes a distinction between the appearing concepts, because it calls only the animals appearing in the waters living, but not the birds.
According to our previous analyses, the reason for this can be clearly defined according to the process of knowing, which also makes the process of knowing itself clearer.
During the process, we come to know the laws of God on the basis of our experiences; from the information acquired through experiences, the intellect creates the appearing laws, which is precisely its task.
On this basis, at first we should also call the birds living, but in fact it is precisely the concept of living that makes it possible to distinguish exactly between the bird and the true law created by God that appears in the material world.
The bird is not living for us because the bird represents a concrete definition, on the basis of which free will appears. The definitions with which consciousness identifies determine how they will appear in the future, what will happen. The bird, however, is not present on the earth, but flies above the earth, upon the firmament of heaven, which, according to our interpretations so far, means precisely that the definitions with which we have identified represent concrete expectations, according to which we imagine the future, but the future does not appear according to our expectations when it becomes the present on the timeline; rather, every experience of ours appears according to the laws of God, which God defined precisely during the six cycles of creation.
In this interpretation, the bird is not only not living, but it does not appear either if our knowledge does not correspond to the true laws.
The appearing reality differs from what we expect through our will that appears according to the birds, therefore we do not see it in advance. The future that we see reflects our knowledge; we see the result expected by our knowledge as the future, therefore the appearing reality will be the living, because when what we expected does not appear, we do not know why what we expected did not appear, but we cannot change reality.
We ourselves will therefore also be living, but it will not be our knowledge that is living, but our appearing and our actions, which do not take place according to our will. We ourselves may also react completely differently, may do something different from what we planned, and therefore we ourselves are also living for ourselves, which means that we do not know why what happens happens; with regard to ourselves, it means that we do not know why we do what we do.
Our emotions appear when what happens is not what we calculated, what we planned, and we regard this as an instinctive, emotional reaction, but even so, we cannot explain why something different happened, why we did something different from what we wanted.
Later, the living will be distinguished even more concretely on the basis of what God calls living, but here, on the basis of the fifth day, the fundamental difference can be defined.
The definitions that we possess on the basis of our experiences so far appear within us not as living, but as expectations, as the manifestation of free will. They determine what we want, what we want to do, and what we expect, what must appear in the world.
When the experiences that become the present do not appear according to our expectations, emotions appear against those definitions with which consciousness identifies, that is, against ourselves, but we identify with these emotions just as we identify with our definitions, because these too are presented to consciousness as perceived information, as experiences.
Living is therefore an event that we did not see in advance and whose cause we do not know. Thus, we ourselves also become living beings for ourselves, because we do not do what we intended to do according to our will, and therefore we do not know the explanation for the actions that appear through ourselves either. Our emotions appear as an explanation; we regard what we cannot define as an emotional reaction, and therefore the text calls emotions living.
Living is therefore a result, an experience whose cause we do not yet know, but whose result we experience. Through repetitions, we can also define the appearing result, but not yet its cause. We call these experiences emotions when they are related to us, when they appear in our own actions, and a living being when an event takes place in the external world whose cause we cannot define more concretely.