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Old 08-22-2008, 11:38 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Anagogy View Post
...Its like this: the One has no limitations. It is an unbounded essence. While infinite, it cannot experience growth in its omniscience, because growth implies ignorance, which is the complete opposite of omniscience. However, omniscience implies all knowledge, which includes ignorance, paradoxically enough. In order to experience growth, it forges "limitations". This results in energy, or consciousness, being restrained into "form". We could say the One dreams these limitations up...
This is where I started my journey in earnest, by reading The God Theory.

Makes perfect sense to me, except I can't puzzle out why the One wants or needs to experience growth (although I'm certainly glad we do...).

Maybe the fact that I'm glad we do, is the reason itself.
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