The sacred reality is the most important and obvious characteristic of divinity as well as the basic interpretation and appraisal of human being on divinity.
The sacred reality includes heavenliness and substantiality. The sacred reality takes reality as carrier and heavenliness as essence. If certain sacred thing is not substantial, then it doesn’t involve heavenliness; if a kind of sacred thing is not sacred, then it doesn’t involve divinity.
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The sacred reality is a kind of evaluation and experience of human being on divinity, which belongs to the speciation of “human being”. If there is no evaluation of human being, then it doesn’t involve heavenliness and reality.
1. The sacredness of the Divinity
We before once quoted a word of Yiliede as “sacredness” is a kind of element in consciousness structure. The essence of such word is that as human being, it means that it has a kind of sacred interpretation and judgment on human being, surrounding world and the relationship between such two. In case of further analysis, we will discover that just as in the consciousness of human being, “the universe has certain sacredness”, thus human being distinguishes them from animals and makes themselves go to the way “only belonging to human being”. In the eyes of tiger, the goat is only food; in the eyes of goat, the tiger is only a kind of natural enemy. For them, there are not the problems related to sacredness at all and hence there are not issues related to “exposure to the sacredness” and leaving from beastliness either.
Einstein said, “the world is in order and harmony, we can only partially grasp its logic beauty in humble way.”①Paul Dirac said more clearly, “it is more important to let equation delicate than to let it conform to experiment.” ② In accordance with those mentioned above, as world-class scientists Einsteinn, Paul Dirac, they more demonstrate certain sacredness of the universe than look for certain laws of universe; They more discover certain laws of universe because their steady belief and devotional faith direct and correct their scientific thought and scientific researches than discover the sacredness of universe by virtue of their cognition to the universal laws.
① ②〔UK〕 Paul Davis: God and the New Physics, translated by Xu Pei, Hunan Science&Technology Press, Edition 1996, Page 241.
The problems lies in that what is the origin of such sacredness of universe- felt and experienced by human being? Many scientists think that they are autogenetic in the universe, while theologists think that they are endowed by divinity (God) while divinity creates the universe. Facing to such two ideas, we can audaciously say that such scientists seem to be a little stupid. Is it not? The cognition to the materiality of universe must adopt such ways as experiment, demonstration and arithmetic formula, while the cognition to the sacredness of universe must adopt theologists’ ways as apperception, experience and deduction. For example, Paul Dirac is cleverer than such scientists, as he thought it was “more important” to believe in sacredness of universe than the laws of universe. As in his opinion, the belief into sacredness can’t only direct the discoveries and experiments of laws but further perfect and correct the interpretation and demonstration on laws, while reversely, if the belief into and humility to the inner sacredness of universe, namely “the source of laws”, are given up, then human being will not know what to do due to the disturbance of laws.
Different from the so-called “scientists” mentioned by me, theologists advocate that the sacredness and regularity of universe should be interpreted with creator- divinity. In the opinions of theologists, the sacredness of universe is just the universalization of divine sacredness and the regularity of universe is just the expressing mode of sacredness of universe- finally the sacredness of divinity. The reason why the divinity has sacredness, as what theologists say, is that the divinity stands for and shows the awesome deity expected by people like order, harmony, beauty, truth, advancement, rise, etc.
Now, we are clear that such as Einstein, the reason why he sticks to “the logic and pristine beauty” is that he strongly believes that “the world is rich of order and harmony”; the reason why he strongly believes that “the world is rich of order and harmony” is that (despite he himself did not clearly say, while in accordance with the integration of his scientific achievements and religious emotion, it is easy to reach such conclusion) the universe shows its certain deity through its order, harmony, modesty and beauty; the reason why the universe has such sacredness (scientist say continuously), is that the creator (namely divinity) applies certain divine thing to the universe while creating it. Perhaps someone will ask who creates the creator, which is the same with that the goat asks its mother, “since you bring me to the world, why do you let tiger eat me”, and the mum can only answer like this, “to bear you is the willingness of God and so does to eat you”. Therefore, if you insistently ask who creates the creator, we can only answer, “the creator is created by another creator”. That is no more but to say “the mother of creator” creating the creator is definitely a kind of “divinity”. In this way, we once again return to the problem related to divinity or in other words, we must firstly understand creator for knowing “the mother of creator”.
It’s true. Along with the “upward” direction, we firstly induce “the regularity of universe” from the “materiality of universe”, followed by the “sacredness of universe” and the sacredness of divinity (creator); along with the downward direction, we induce the “creator”, namely divinity, from “the mother of creator” in the same way. If so, since the thinking ability of us human being can only reach the level of creator, namely divinity, then we can only “reach” the divinity level, namely to sue the sacredness of divinity to interpret the sacredness of universe and further interpret the regularity of universe with sacredness of universe and the existence of universe with the regularity of universe, etc. reversely, it is discovered from the human being themselves and the understating on the universe and everything in it: “all things” related to human being all originate from the divinity, namely creator; all the order, director, justice, truth, conscience, responsibility, love and ideal related to human being all originate from the sacredness of divinity.
2. The reality of the Divinity
The existence namely is the true existence. Therefore, for all things in the universe, the existence is self-evident. However, for divinity, it is a great and even “greatest” problem. The reason for above saying is that not only scientists and materialists strongly “deny” the divinity but divinity is always directly or “indirectly” felt by human being and hence “probabilized” and the existence of divinity can be embodied only in “hidden” way, namely can only be induced but not demonstrated by human being.
The denial of scientists and materialists, as mentioned above, is easy to interpret. For example, all things firstly act as the objects of scientists and materialists and here they can exist in “demonstration” and “materiality” way, furthermore, such things are always embodied as “state existence”- or solid, liquid, gas as well as other state existence, so they can be “demonstrated” in accordance with state; furthermore, such state is embodied as regular movement (or state transformation, growth, contabescence, etc) and such regularity can be indicated; furthermore, such regularity can emerge repeatedly and show the same regularity only if the same conditions are given, which can be made use of by human being. This is the demonstration by scientists and materialists and even humanists through experiments on “existence of universe” or “existence of things”. However, people may ask where the regularity comes from. What is the reason which the regularity lives up to itself or in other words, “what is the regularity to which the regularity lives up to itself?” For this, it can be demonstrated with scientific methods or materialistic logic, while it authentically exists. The reason and origin on which the generation of regularity and the embodied characteristics (such as existence, repeatability, knowability, etc) are dependent are a kind of thing more important and fundamental than regularity. Such thing is divinity as can’t be demonstrated but can feel, can’t be touched but can be apperceived and embodied as hidden way with divine taste.
Therefore, for the “denial” of scientism, materialism and humanism on the existence of divinity, we can’t disprove and be angry but contrarily, should adopt the acceptable and thankful attitude. That is because if they are demonstrated, then divinity is not divinity any more but turn to be “material” and “material regularity”. In other words, just their denial demonstrates the existence of divinity; just that people understand the way that they demonstrate materials makes people discover the demonstration way for divinity completely different from “experiment” and “demonstration”- ①voluntarily “experience”, ② demonstrate “hidden existence” and ③ adopt “indirect existence” way.
Throughout the ages, almost all the prophets and sages of religions all adopt improper ways to demonstrate the existence of divinity, which are listed as follows:
Firstly, superstitious demonstration way, namely non-experience way. Such way means the divinity existence is not demonstrated by followers through their perception and experience but contrarily, they believe that it is the exclusive right of prophets and sages to communicate with the divinity and apperceive the deity and the followers can admit and believe in the divinity only through education by teachers. Then, the belief into divinity becomes the prophet belief or belief into prophets and voluntary experience of deity become the subjection to sage's instruction and the way of voluntarily experiencing divinity become the way as from teacher to prophet, from prophet to emissary, from emissary to divinity (the successive generation of sects in the same religion, the prophet worship in the religious canon and the master and apprentice inheritance in religious dogmata, etc, all originate from it.) more important, such superstitious demonstration way also provides opportunities to wizards, alchemists, etc.
Secondly, the obvious demonstration way, namely as non-hidden way. It is extremely important for the demonstration of divinity existence to admit the divinity exists in the hidden way or obvious way. The divinity is a kind of recessive actuality acting “behind” and “inside” things or human being. As described above, all things and the mass all exist in the way of “material” and “materiality” way. The material is dominated by the regularity and the regularity exist in over-regular way, namely divinity way. By the same token, regularity is just the expressing media of over-regularity, material is just the expressing media of regularity and the various things and the mass are the expressing media of material. Therefore, the “over-regularity”, as the divinity or deity, is a kind of “most deeply hidden” existence. For divinity, a kind of hidden existence, if human being “visualizes” it for the convenient interpretation of it by human being or based on the understanding by prophets, then human being fundamentally deviate from the divinity. As expected, certain prophets or individual describe divinity as human being or as gas or energy body or describe prophet or emperor as the substitute or representative of divinity (such as Pharaoh in ancient Egypt, Son of Heaven in China, Jesus in Christianism, etc). It is a pity that such activities, although divinity becomes vivid, gratifying, tangibly and distinguishable due to its visualization, make the divinity not the original one any more but “man-made” so-called divinity.
Thirdly, the direct demonstration way, namely the non-indirect way. For the divinity, the reason why it is must be demonstrated in the apperception and experience as well as the hidden way is that for human being, the divinity is a kind of indirect- or accurately, “fully indirect”- existence and a kind of special existence which can be discovered only through a series of intermediacy. Of course, human being can quickly get across the intermediacy by virtue of their apperception and ability, which seemingly directly or instantly apperceive the divinity. However, such condition results from the long-term practicing of certain person and can’t be used to deny the intermediacy between the divinity and human being, namely can’t deny that divinity is a kind of indirect existence for the apperception and experience of human being. If so, the eastern wizards and witches burning joss sticks for inviting the divinity or those western star jurists observing stars for oracle are just contemptible scoundrel.
If the analysis above is reasonable, then divinity is a kind of existence existing in its own way and such existence can be demonstrated by human being through way only applicable to divinity, which is the next subject to be discussed in the next chapter.
3 The sacredness and reality of the Divinity is concluded from human experience
The experience is divided into direct experience and indirect experience, of which direct experience belongs to experience and the indirect experience belongs to un-experience experience. The experience is the experienced experience. The experience is divided into self-experience and indirect experience.
More important, the experience can act as a kind of feeling which can be repeatedly and mutually demonstrated with strong common characteristics, namely everyone can apperceive it. Of course, everyone have special experience as human being (special experience) and individual experience. For example, the experience of men and women on male or female is different and the experience of different men on male is also different. The former belongs to special experience and the latter belongs to individual experience. However, for the subjects we are talking about, most are discussions on mutual experience, namely the common experience of individuals of human being.
The experience on divinity and the existence of deity of divinity is the experience which will be experienced by all individuals of human being. As what Eliade said, it results from that the divine experience and divine consciousness are “a kind of element in the consciousness structure” and furthermore, the intent or willingness to pursue truthfulness, benevolence, beauty, excellence and happiness is endowed or driven by the divinity experience. In other words, only if human being lives as human being, then they have the rapacity to pursue happiness and happiness- the self happiness for satisfying oneself or the happiness endowed to other persons or human being, all stem from the self experience on the divinity. The reason is very simple that the divinity endowed a kind of deity to the universe as soon as creating it, of which the initial characteristics include order, harmony and advancement. Furthermore, the rapacity of human being to pursue truthfulness, benevolence, beauty, excellence and happiness is just the nature of such universe, namely the humanization of deity. Human being has various happiness feelings, such as the happiness of prophet for educating himself and other people, the happiness of civilians for getting love, richness sand safety, the happiness of thieves for succeeding in stealing things, the happiness of abuser for tyrannizing, etc. However, human being always has a common understanding on happiness and the recognized happiness, in final analysis, arises from the nature of human being endowed by divinity to pursue truthfulness, benevolence, beauty, excellence and happiness.
If the sacredness and existence of divinity can’t be apperceived and experienced by human being, then divinity can only be a kind of non-existence, let alone sacredness and existence. The sacredness and existence, in final analysis, is a kind of meaning evaluation and value judgment with common characteristics of human being based on human being’s personal experience. Conversely, the sacredness and existence of divinity just arise from the experience of human being.
Here, we can give an example. Yang Liping, an outstanding dancer called as “Dance Wizard” by insiders and broad audience, answered CCTV reporter's interview, “the true dancer should take the nature as platform and the dance as the communication of human being with divinity”. Such cognition results from both her experience as a dancer and her dancing experience as well as the experience on the divinity, the relationship between human being and divinity and the sacredness indigenous to human being. Now, she is dancing her masterpieces Bird and her body (namely material state)becomes the expressing media of her movements and postures (namely the nature of material state) and her coquettish movements and postures becomes the expressing media of her and the audiences for the “dancing beauty”, namely beauty (the experience of her and the audiences on the beauty.) The problem lies in that what is the reason why the “beauty” is accepted by her and the audiences, namely why the “beauty” is commonly deemed as beauty? (I see it as “beauty root” in my book Universal Spirit). It just results from the deity on beauty endowed by divinity to Yang Liping and the audiences - the mysterious and divine existence - why beauty can exist in human being’s heart, why it is called as beauty in human being’s heart, why it is commonly called as beauty in hearts of different persons and why different persons look forward to the same beauty.
Hence, we can see that the “body” of dancers is the expressing media of their “dance”, the “dance” is the expressing media of “dancing beauty”, the “dancing beauty” is the expressing media of “beauty root” and the beauty or beauty root is the expressing media of divinity. Just based on what mentioned above, Yang Liping said in emotion that the real dance was the communication of human being with divinity and if further, the really beautiful dance is definitely the experience and expression of human being on divinity.
We can still give a common example. Everyone remember their parents’ self forgetful love to the end of their life, while what force on earth makes parents show such spontaneous love and heartstrings to their children? It is the divinity and results from the divine and humanitarian nature of divinity as “nature flourishes at the expense of no one” and “benefiting all men and contending with none”. Human being often narrowly gives such parents’ instinctive love and natural motion back to parents as thanksgiving. In fact, what is truly worth of thanks is the divinity who creates and drives parents’ love and consanguineous motion. Regardless of whether parents can consider or children can deduct such love root and emotional source, it is easy to experience that that is the specification of divinity’s love and motion in parents .
In a word, the divinity is both a kind of divine thing and a practical thing, which is the feeling of human being and the summation of human being on various experiences.
Section 2 The magical ability of the Divinity
The divinity is both the most divine existence in the universe but have the most magical ability.
The ability of divinity – just as what many religionists say – is omniscient and omnipotent. In my opinion, the more important problem is to extract the most important one from infinite abilities of divinity. Such action can’t only interpret the omnipotence of divinity with major abilities but provide fundamental cognition for the ability of divinity.
I think that the major abilities of divinity are mainly divided into two categories. One is “pre-design ability”, which can fundamentally grasp the basic relationship between divinity and the universe and all things in the universe, the mass and all souls – the relationship between pre-designer and conductor, designer and the one designed; the other is “leading ability”, which can correct the order and pre-designed result for the abidance by the one designed.
1. The pre-programming ability of the Divinity
Whenever we reflectingly inspect the surrounding world and ourselves, we will always make an important discovery that it seems that the image, function and mutual relationship as well as respective life of all things in the universe, from galaxy and stars to the grass and aunts are all pre-designed by creating magic force and such design – only if it is still it- is unchangeable. The cognition with strong “fatalism” color seems to make human being become decadent apperception, which is hard to accept for human being.
Such feeling of human being is reasonable, while fundamentally it is false, namely it is a great misunderstanding on the pre-design ability of divinity. The pre-design of divinity is the global design of the process of universe whole –system whole and overall universe process, and for the development of whole and the achievement of full process, the partial contabescence and phase inheritance must be used as methods. For example, everyone will complain about the divinity that since you bring me to the world and let me happily grow, why do you still let me horribly and painfully die? Actually, this is just the great position of divinity and it crates every individual of human being in the stage from low to high and endows everyone specific qualification (intelligence qualification, emotion qualification, social qualification, etc) under certain special time & space condition and age condition, which makes us everyone live for ourselves as well as the age they live in. If such person or the age he lives in ends, he himself and the age he lives in have competed the mission endowed by the divinity to him and the age he lives in and connects him and his age with the stage composed of new him and his new age as a stage of certain human being whole of the universe whole and certain full human being process of the full universe process，and furthermore, the divinity also injects the achievement of him as well as in his age into the whole and full process as a kind of element or qualification and hence perpetuate it.
That’s true. We must interpret us ourselves as the “elements” and “stage” and our times from the perspective of the whole and full process. Only in such way can we and our time be led to the whole and full process, the mission of life and times with universe and human being nature be interpreted and we ourselves and our times acquire the whole and full process meaning as well as the short life and times life to the universe whole or full process or human being whole or full process level. For anyone, if he lives only for himself and deem the life just as “flash” of foreordination, then what meaning does such person have even if he “lives a long life to one hundred years”, which is hoped by everyone? On the contrary, although Jesus lived only approximate 30 years, yet he consciously unified his life with certain human being whole of universe whole and certain full human being process of the full universe f process, which hence made him turn to be an important element in the while and the most critical, steady and even stage. In my opinion, just as the life of Jesus is humanized and universalized, hence he appeared so great.
We must understand and consider the pre-design ability of divinity and get the meaning and mission of divinity endowed to or pre-designed for us the whole human being from such understanding and consideration. In my opinion, the essential meaning to the birth of human being is not that since then, the world is added a more selfish and more cormorant marauder but divinity achieves the “conscious recognition” and “emotional communication” of the created things with the creator through creating human being and the intelligence and ability of human being, which hence makes the pre-designed universe whole – full universe process more conform coincident with the design requirements and complete the full process more quickly. Indeed, we human being should thank and awe the divinity with pre-design ability and due to the design of divinity for us, we understand the great mission of life, discover the sublime value of life and apperceive the real happiness of life.
Of course, we can make another assumption that we are already a mature person as soon as we are born – a person understanding enjoyment; besides, we are born the heaven or Elysium sufficiently described by various religions where as Alcoran describes, “The forest is dense, ravine stream rills and milk, good wine and honey run like a river. What people living in Zion eat is delicious geese, fresh melon, fragrant fruit and what they wear is beautiful clothes with waiter and waitress stand aside” ① In fact, many rich businessmen, politicians and even some religious leaders today have already lived in such heaven or Elysium, while are they happy? Does their happiness belong to happiness? It is hard to image such persons have right to use the word as “happiness”, who have brains but do not consider the happiness standard pre-designed by the divinity, have hands but do not work in accordance with the pre-design of divinity and act as one of human being but do not take care of the health condition of the human being whole.
① Yu Ke: World's Three Major Religions And Their Schools, Hunan People's Press, Edition 2001, Page 386
It’s true. The misfortune in life and human being has many categories, while there is only a kind of happiness. As the created things, we can’t get the unique and real happiness except we live in accordance with the design of creator. That is to say that for we the whole human being and we every individual, what the happiness of “human” is, what the mission of “human” is and what the meaning of “human” is, are completely dependent on the pre-design of divinity and the apperception and understanding of us on the pre-design ability and pre-design purpose of divinity. In my opinion, to blindly pursue saddhu- just as what Sakyamuni apperceived after six years’ asceticism- is not the activity of “human”, as the saddhu in no wise conform to the design requirement on human being by the holy and supreme divinity; that to work not for other persons, nation, human being and the universe with great concentration fundamentally breaches the design of divinity for human being; that the purpose to work for other persons, nation, human being and the universe is only for going up to heaven and enjoying the seventh heaven, is not the design of divinity for human being either; that the purpose to work for other persons, nation, human being and the universe is only for enjoying the “working process”, perhaps is not the design of divinity for human being either.
Then, what is the design of divinity for human being? Human being always feels happy and indebted acting as human being and always works and lives acting as human being as well as never pursue rank and fame living as human being or goes up to the heaven after death happily living as “human being”, but always successively apperceive the design purpose of divinity for themselves working as human being- not only able to experience their happiness (the carrier) but care the happiness of other people (the media) as well as live up to the design of divinity for themselves interpreted by themselves (the noumenon), etc. In my opinion, this is the design purpose of divinity and this is the “human being” and the happiness of “human”. I firmly believe without any doubt that a person with happiness in current life due to his no-regret for the divinity will definitely go into the “heaven” and enjoy the “seventh heaven” in accordance with the “design after death” by the divinity – supposing that there is “heaven” or “Elysium”-after his or her death.
2. The guiding ability of the Divinity
Natural things are piles of fatuous and pigheaded things; human being, in certain meaning, is a group of clever but greedy fellows. Who has said that the state law will be executed one by one and obeyed by all persons? Who has said that the design of divinity will be carried out one by one and abided by all people? The fatuity and adamancy of natural things make the universe process designed by the divinity teeter; the cleverness and greed of human being make the morals and love of divinity be made use of.
If the “pre-design” is the masterpiece of noumenal divinity (as described above), then the “leading” is the work of specific divinity (also as described above). While the noumenal divinity is creating the universe and the mass as well as various souls, the deity is also endowed to them, which is the specific form of divinity – the divinity specified into the created things. Scientists may certainly say that the universe is the integration of gravity, such as the four kinds of mutual acting forces. Then, we may ask what force well integrates such the universe as a whole?
In recent years, some string theory jurists are trying to integrate five string theories (namely I type, hybridization O, hybridization E, ⅡA type and ⅡB) and 11-dimensional super gravity as well as M Theory as a whole to interpret material particles and acting force. If the day of “integration” is really realized, then there will be a ghost emerging who will surprise the scientist and such ghost is the divinity. In other words, by this time, human being will discover that what unifies the universe is neither string nor film (many physical scientists are advocating to unify the string theory with film theory along with the penetration of film theory in order to give a whole, namely uniform, interpretation), nor the “Mother” in the M theory (many scientists also call M theory as mother theory), but divinity – the specific form divinity, which exists in the universe and hence has the same “deity” and hence integrates the universe as a whole. Such saying may spark a flurry of criticism of scientists. However, the “string”, “film”, “mother” and other concept (in fact, they are surface characteristics of language with essential different and containing thinking way and thinking background), in final analysis, can only answer such questions related to “what” but not “why”.
Let’s get to business. Behind the design of universe and everything on earth as well as human being, they hold respective nature and hence can’t run, consider and practice in accordance with design. At this moment, ① the divinity specified into the universe and human being will employ its divine force (for natural things, it is regularity, for the human being, it is conscience, common justice, justice, etc) to lead them to the track pre-designed by the divinity; ② the surrounding things and people will use their deity to supervise, enlighten and restrict it or him to make it or him “only” be able to run and act in accordance with requirements by the divinity. The two points said above are the leading ability of divinity.
Take the Buddhism for example. The Buddha and the Patriarchs think that all conscious things are all suffering pains and all conscious lives are greedy and greed is just the root of pain. The problem lies in that all desires are the force to maintain the flow of mind. Even if after people die, such desire will still continue such flow and hence lead to rapacity in aftertime and hence make people turn around. Such “Samsqra”, in the opinion of the Buddha and the Patriarchs, is more horrible than death. Then, the Buddha and the Patriarchs think that the Samsqra can only be paused and people can go up to the nirvana through “all desire die out”, namely the understanding the “emptiness”. The dogmata of the Buddha and the Patriarchs as everyone have both rapacity and Buddha-nature and hence the using convalesce to overcome rapacity, is just using its deity to dilute its evil idea and selfish desire to lead followers go up to Elysium. In order to achieve nirvana and disengagement, Buddhism advances eight roads of sadhana, namely the "eightfold noble paths": right view (clear way respective false cognition with the cognition of Buddha and the Patriarchs), right thinking (clear away rapacity with the thinking of Buddha and the Patriarchs), right speech (correct respective “mouth work”, namely truth, no harsh speech, no taletelling, sense), right behavior, right livelihood, right diligence, right mindfulness and right concentration. That mentioned here is the first point discussed above.
Then, let’s see the first kind above- “leading”. Buddhism has Uposatha Karma held every half a month (namely uposatha meeting) and at the appointed time, monks recite commandment together and in accordance with commandment, the life of everyone in half a month will be checked. The checking method is self exposure (frankly throw out respective loss) and report of mistakes by other people (point out his mistakes by other people). After expiration of settlement in two seasons every year, the meeting will be held, of which the name is “Pravarana”. It means self exposure and exposure of mistakes by other people.
Such “leading ability” of divinity can be found everywhere in the daily life. For example, the milk of human kindness, crisis of conscience and return of the prodigal son often mentioned by people are examples on that their own deity leads themselves and for example, those a rat crossing the street is chased by all, many people follows, the mass can support your rule while can also overturn your rule and give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself are examples on that the surrounding things and person lead individual things or person with their deity.
The reason why the divinity can lead the universe, the mass and various souls is that the nature in individuals of human beings as the pursuit to truthfulness, benevolence, beauty, excellence and happiness is initiatively endowed by the creator, namely divinity. Such condition makes the divinity have certain commanding leading force and primary domination for human being. Just based on such leading force, human being can show such historical trend as goodness and honesty always defeats ugliness and the justice finally always defeats evilness.
Besides, the leading action of divinity is often embodied as leading individuals with the whole and leading the individuals with groups. People often feel puzzled for human being, why the individuals in the group show seemingly opposite state? In fact, this is just the reason why divinity often “sacrifices” part or stage for the whole and full process as we mentioned above. Take the individual of human being for example, once a person is born, then he or she will constrain his or her deity for the realization of his or her private desire and personality, so when such person makes connection with other persons or the society, the constrained deity factors as conscience, equality, love and other factors can be awaken. That’s true. It is a great wonder created by the divinity that different persons and different mistakes lead to the lenient heart and justice feeling of the group after being admitted into the group.
Coincidentally, the divinity has leading action results from the “equal purity”, “equal love”, “equal sincerity”, “equal beauty”, “equal excellence” and other truth or ultimacy of divinity. Immanuel Kant once said such a word as “the standard for judging the kindness of certain activity is that whether you can illimitably expand its rule”. Such word is profound. Such as mother love, the mother love may be the sincerest and the greatest emotion in the world. However, the mother lover is hard to be illimitably expanded. The love of Terrace nun is like that is because such love is more adjacent to the divinity’s love –“universal fraternity”. From this, the reason why the divinity has leading qualification and shows the leading ability for the universe, the mass and various souls is not only its “root of love”.
3. The magical ability of the Divinity is concluded from human reasoning
The consequence namely is deduction, which is such a thinking mode as to deduct another undiscovered judgment or conclusion from one or certain known judgments.
The consequence deducted belongs to rational thing and faces to two kinds of fates, of which one is it become a truth or a mistake through demonstration, the way as science treats the deducted conclusion, and the other is it become the believed object through logic cognition, the way as divinity treats the deducted conclusion. The starting point or purpose of such two ways is different and hence the conclusion and meaning reached is also different, so people may compare such two ways while can’t confuse them as well as may interact but can’t mutually certify and substitute or eliminate. Therefore, the scientific conclusion and theological conclusion is a relationship both mutually independent and with respective meaning and mutually impellent and complementary. In a word, the thinking clue, purpose and meaning of such two are different, hence it is impossible to deem their relationship as “disputing one”.
That’s true. The scientific experiment, theological belief, scientific demonstration and theological deduction are never opposite but not independent relationship; never selective but concurrent relationship. Some scientists often use the cold scientific conclusion to deny the warm theological doctrines and some theologists use stygian religionary canon to attack the aboveboard scientific discoveries, which really is a kind of stupid action caused by misunderstanding. That’s true that even today, most of human being still do not know that just the divinity belie of primitive turns the scientific innovation of primitive and just the scientific development of primitive advances the divinity cognition of primitive; even today, most of human being still do not understand that the religious persecution in middle ages in the west was not resulted from the religion or religionists but belongs to mistakes in human evolution stage and the counterattack of science against religion in recent 300 years is not resulted from the science and scientists either but belongs to mistakes in human evolution stage. Even today, neither the scientists nor the religionist understand the word of Einstein, both scientific and religious proverb, as “the religion without science is lame and sightless”. Indeed, just the craziness of human being especially religionists in middle ages leads to the same craziness of human being especially the scientists after middle ages.
In fact, the pre-design ability of divinity is easy to deduct. For example, why every individual has the similar “life length”? Persons with different races, sexes and different culture background hold not only the common conscience but the similar interpretation on truthfulness, benevolence, beauty, excellence and happiness? Why for the human group living in environment mutually isolated, the starting time, development subject, development road and development target of their civilization are similarly same? Why the evolution of universe is embodied as from mineral to organic matter, from plant to human being via common animals and primates? Facing to the existence designed so accurately and the vivid facts, can theologists not reasonably deduct the pre-design of magic person in accordance therewith? Can scientists not call the magic one as “divinity” which will be demonstrated by the scientists？Can the thinking logic used by theologists to make deduction not be employed and accepted by every individual of human being?
It has great meaning for the existence of human being to admit the magic ability of divinity and then the deduction way of theology. Take scientists for example, the scientists with awesome feeling and adoration to the pre-design ability and leading ability of divinity will show fundamental difference in all facets. For former interprets the divinity due to the awe and hence he will be thankful, modest and humble as well as calm with reverence and awe in his research direction, research process and research conclusion; on the contrary, the latter conducts the so-called researches for their fame, wife & children and even decrying the divinity and hence he will certainly be eager for quick success and instant benefit in the research direction and blundering and flighty in the research process and his research conclusion will also certainly be negligible or ballyhooed. We often discover such a universal phenomenon in the science history as the truly greatest scientists are certainly thankful and awe-stricken with warm mood and healthy psychology and usual mind-set. Oppositely, the so-called and even the “extremely arrogant” scientists will certainly be self-important person. I often think the truly great scientific discoveries must be based on the divinity and the truly great scientist must also be based on the great divinity belief.
In fact, it has the similar actions for any common person to admit the magic ability of divinity and the deducting principle and thinking logic of theology. For example, a man truly knowing the design ability of divinity will certainly keep humble while getting successful enterprise and never impute all faults and wrongs on others in times of trouble but consider the design of divinity on human being, on men and on him as well as whether he has breaches such design for rising from the valley bottom and reaching the peak. It is remembered that when I was 19, I once wrote a poem, “the similar chit of a girl and the same smooth as a baby's bottom, while some looks beautiful and other ugly due to different appearance; the same leader and the same prosperous business men, while some looks benign and kind and other looks nauseous due to the different distance to the mass…. ’ ①For the leaders, “the mass” obviously is their “divine existence” and to take the mass as divinity and to make communications with the mass obviously are the design of divinity for him. In accordance with such interpretation, if obeying the design of divinity for him, then he will be “benign and kind” and if breaching such design, then he will be “nauseous”.
① Zhang Shaohua: Flowers and Thorns, China Broad & Television Press, Edition 1992, Page 72.
Such principle is also applicable to the religion field. We often discover in the daily life that some Buddhist monks are anonymous but have Misericordia and respecting emotion to the Buddha, which makes people respect him on their own initiative; some Buddhist monks say “Amitabha” again and again but have Janus-faced and blasphemous arrogant and treacherous ministers, which makes people avoid it like the plague. All those arise from the design attitude of divinity for the monks, just as I once said in The Declaration of Global Civilization，“the biggest sin in the human being world is to make use of the divinity”.
Section 3 The mystical image of the Divinity
The divinity is both divine and practical with not only pre-design but leading ability as well as the mysterious image peculiar to the divinity. In fact, the “divine” and “magic” things are actually a kind of “mysterious” existence.
Mystery word at the earliest occurred in the poem by Emperor Wudi as You Xian. “ Water bloom pursues people’s profoundness, Yang is hidden to reveal the mystery” .Here, I mean the unfathomable form and body, namely the image, of divinity.
In chapter One, we discussed the triple forms of divinity – noumenal form, specific form and whole form, which obviously composes of the mystery. Besides, the mystery mentioned here by us is only for the divinity, while for divinity, as a kind of divine existence creating the universe and dominating everything in it as a kind of creator and dominator with pre-design and leading ability, its mystery is only the mystery of the Holy. From this, we can discover that the divinity has not only the “triple” image but the “churchy”, namely the supreme and unique, image as that of “Allah”, which also composes the meaning of “mystery”.
That is to say the mystery is neither secretiveness nor personality. Therefore, the composing part of mystery as “deity” “determines the nature” of divinity image and the composing part of mystery as secret “orients” the divinity image.
Such “triple images” and the “churchy image” of divinity result from the consideration of human being. Consideration, often used by western philosophers, originally means the self cognition and introspection of human being. Therefore, the consideration is a thinking system composed of rhetorical question, rethinking, self-reflection, counterevidence and other factors and links. Here, self-reflection means kinds of understanding on the cognitions of reasons for the birth and existence of universe, namely the recognition on divinity concept and divinity consciousness.
1. Three images of the Divinity
Since the birth of human being, the divinity has always been attracting the life of everyone by virtue of its mysterious image.
The mystique of objects determines that the cognitive person can only linger among assumption, guess and even superstition. In recent 300 years, especially in the second half of the 20th century and along with the arrival of sustained peace period after the two world wars and greater and greater leap-forward of the cognition on religion and human being themselves, human being can finally interpret the mysterious image of divinity fundamentally.
As described above, the mystique of divinity image is firstly represented by the “ternary” as the mutual demonstration and support of noumenal image, specific image and whole image.
For such ternary, we can interpret it from two facets listed below:
Firstly, from the perspective of time dimension, the noumenal image, specific image and whole image of divinity are respectively represented by the “prehistoric image”, “after-history image” and “all-in-one image” revealed due to the connection with such two images.
Firstly, the “noumenal image” of divinity is represented as prehistorical image of image before the birth of universe. Chinese ancient people call such image as “endless” form or “Great One” form- such endless creates Taiji and Taiji creates the Eight Diagrams; The Greeks call it as “absolute reason” form or as what Plato said, it is “permanent, substantive and nonmaterial entity, the source of world” and then Hegel called it as “thing-in-itself and thing-for-itself truth-the absolute unity of concept and objectivity”.
Secondly, the “specific image” of divinity is represented as after-history image or image distributed in the universe after birth of universe. At this time, it is then represented as “over-law” image by which the law lives up to itself as well as the “over-specification” and “over-law” image on which the creation, composition and relationship with other things of things are dependent.
Finally, the “whole image” of divinity is represented as the “uniform image” or “all-in-one image” internally connected with prehistorical image and after-history image of universe- in a word, the “integrated image”. It is important to understand this point. The former theology and religion, such as the Genesis in Holy Bible, only see the prehistorical image of divinity and deem it as the image of creator, which do not connect the essence of creator with that of the created things. For example, for the day and night, sky and water, land and sea, light creator and light receiver, bird and fish, land plants and land animals, animals and human being created by the creator, we can see the difference among them but can’t discover the deity existing in them, which hence makes us fail to connect them and integrate them as a whole. On the contrary, we only discover the after-history image of divinity in Alcoran, namely “except Allah, there are no other divinities”. It is more significant that due to failure to interpret the noumenal image and specific image of divinity, hence Buddhism denies the noumenal form divinity but specializes in the specific form divinity –“Buddha”.
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Secondly, from the perspective of space dimension, the noumenal image, specific image and whole image of divinity are respectively represented as general image, special image and integrated image.
Firstly, the noumenal image of divinity is represented as general image from the perspective of space. The so-called general image means that it is dominated by the same deity of the same divinity in the universe whole and in various things in the universe. Vajracchedika-sutra records that Sakyamuni Buddha once told Bodhi, “all Bodhisattva and Padmasambhava should subdue your psychodelic heart like this: for all the mass, from either egg or womb, or water, or moisture, or other materials, either material or spiritual, either minded or unthinking, either completely in the control of human being or much less thought, I will make them all escape from Samsqra and enter into Nibbana and reach the other side of ideal.” ①Apparently, in the opinion of Buddha, all flesh have Buddha-nature and if the sleeping Buddha-nature in the flesh can be awaken, then the psychedelic hearts of them can be subdued. Here, the “general Buddha-nature” means the common nature of divinity.
Secondly, the specific image of divinity is represented as special image. Everything has deity, namely the so-called common nature of divinity; the deity in things is omniform, namely the so-called special nature of divinity. The species balance and evolution through the weak falling victim to the strong and survival of the fittest are resulted from the deity; the evolution of human being and the development of civilization through advancing the self-understanding of human being and awaking the inner conscience of human being are also resulted from the divinity; the gradual creation of planet with enough mass and their entry into stable orbit through mutual collision and integration among planets are also resulted from the divinity. Here, the divinity images specified in the different creatures are mutually different. Just such mutually different natures of divinity compose of the order and evolution of divinity in the universe whole. The common nature exists in the special natures and it is the truth in the mysterious coat of divinity that the common nature of divinity and its whole objective are realized through all special natures.
Finally, the whole image of divinity, on the other hand, is represented as syncretic or integrated image. The true mystique of divinity image lies in its whole image or the “integrated image” integrating its common nature and special nature as a whole. “Integrated’ is a word created by me, of which the characteristic is “integrated thought”, which advocates to discover its integrated nature from the special natures of things and hence start from the outside of things and factitiously distinguish its “syncretic” thinking logic. Therefore, “integrated” namely means “coenochyma”. It is important to understand this point. The special factors of divinity and its common nature can’t become the special image of divinity except with integration and the common nature of divinity can only be embodied by countless special natures, namely having “integrated” relationship with special natures of divinity, so the common nature of divinity comes into existence.
Before the creation of our universe, there was such a mysterious existence as was called as “endless Tao” by eastern people and “absolute idea” by western people, which is called as divinity the human being. As divinity, it is a kind of existence with “pure spirit”, or in other words, it is a kind of “pure mode” and “pure program” with spiritual nature; such pure mode or pure program finally succeeded in finding the way for changing pure energy into material through debugging the existence called as “pure energy” by scientists before the universe. Along with such way, it created our material universe between 20 billion and 15 billion years ago. While creating the universe, it also applied its nature to the universe. In accordance with such nature, firstly countless celestial bodies and galaxies occurred in the universe and then, it created animalcules-plants-animals on the earth, one of eight classical planets of solar system, and created the human being who soon thereafter consciously cognize the universe creator and universe dominator over 5 million years ago. Just such group of human being finally discovers in the 21st century that the creator crating the universe and everything in it is just the noumenal image divinity; the dominator, applying various divinity natures to the universe and everything in it and dominating the universe and everything in it with those mentioned above, is just the specific image divinity; the thing representing the inner oneness of creator and dominator and making all creatures show a kind of mysterious whole is the whole form divinity. It appears that just such three different images are three different existences, while they are just three forms and different images of the same divinity, which is just the new cognition of current people on the mysterious forms of divinity and if popularly speaking, the divinity is at a distance, in the heart and around.
2. The oneliness and supremacy of the Divinity image
The churchy image of divinity seems to have been the common cognition of human being. Persons who have read Tripitaka, Bible and Alcoran all can discover such sayings as “only religion are noble”, “the unique omnipotent God” and “except Allah, there are no other divinities”.
In fact, we are discussing the exclusively noble image of divinity while observing the ternary images of divinity. Therefore, in my opinion, the exclusively noble image of divinity has at least three meanings, of which the first is the noumenal image of divinity, so its exclusively noble image is represented as “unique creator image”, the second is the specific image of divinity, so its exclusively noble image is also represented as “omnipotent dominator image” and the third is the whole image of divinity, so its exclusively noble image is also represented as “omniscient sustainer image”.
Creator is the first and the most fundamental image of divinity. All major religions place the creator image of divinity in extremely important position, which is correct. However, that all major religions think divinity created human being with mud and then make it alive through blowing it and the ancestor of human being Adam and Eve were expelled out of Eden and then gave birth to human being is false. Then, how on earth to interpret the creator image of divinity? Such problem, even today, is also the most important and greatest guess in theological field. Many theoretical physical scientists think that such problem is out of meaning due to its remoteness to reach. For example, Hawking once said, “it is no meaning to ask what happened before the birth of universe, as the ability of human being still can’t be prior to the universe and hence to propose such question is no more than to avoid to such question.”
In fact, this is not a physics problem but a standard problem related to theology and divinity epistemology. That is to say that if the creator image of divinity is connected with other images as “one of images” of divinity but not the “unique image” of divinity, then the creator image of divinity will become very simple and very funny with much meaning. For this question, I unwrap it in such two directions as ①prior to the universe- around the birth of universe- after the birth of universe and ② prior to current things and us- surrounding things – at the time of birth of universe- prior to the universe. For this problem, we will discuss it in “Mother- Child Cosmism” of the fifth theory as Consciousness-Selfenergy theory.
The reason why I do so is that I am based on such cognition, namely divinity has both creator image (namely noumenal image) and the image of dominator dominating the creatures (namely specific form) and the image of sustainer integrating the creatures as a whole (namely the whole form), which makes every person who studying the divinity able to forwardly deduct the creator image of divinity from the current self and reversely deduct current self in accordance with the creator image along with deductive direction. Then, the divinity is both the creator born prior to the birth of universe and then creating the universe and the dominator hidden in every current thing and inside every current “self”, which makes it show “omniscient sustainer image” due to the integration of creator image and dominator image.
If the divinity image can be interpreted so, then we can further reach another conclusion: ① the divinity is creator, so it has been “omnipotent” before showing its latter dominator image; ② it is hidden in all things, plants and animals as well as human being as a domineer, so certainly it is omnipotent; ③ further speaking the divinity become dominator by virtue of its creator image and then another profound problem is derived, namely the reason why it can become a omnipotent dominator is that it is a omniscient sustainer- the divinity knows the former reason, nature, destiny and the ending of every creature; Further analysis can be made that the divinity, as the unique omniscient sustainer and then an omnipotent dominator, has a unique creator image. We can suppose that as the creator, if such figure is a little more than “unique”, then it will make the universe composed of creatures disorderly and unsystematic; if the universe is disorderly and unsystematic, then the earth we live by can’t emerge and run.
In accordance with those discussed above, we can reach a very important conclusion as the divinity has unique image and such noble nature is composed of the following three elements: unique creator image, omnipotent dominator image and omniscient sustainer image.
It is true that throughout the ages, the forefathers, prophets and sages let us knee in the Haven and look up to sky or gaze the icon and halidome. However, where is the divinity in the heaven? What does it look like? What action does it have? For this, human being has reverence and awe but doesn’t see a ghost show its presence or power, mumbles but is noncommittal. In much the same way, other forefathers, prophets and sages let us keep away from the out world and give us environment as that of animals but not the life of that of animals, make us live in the hills like plants and make autocriticism every day and go to church every year. However, where is the divinity in the heart? What does it look like? What action does it have on our life? For this, human being is self-conscious but not moved, feels compassion for the state of the world and its people but doesn’t get Niyama. The reason why the divinity belief becomes persistent superstition, sightless adamancy is that it can’t properly and correctly understand the exclusively noble image of divinity.
3. The mystical image of the Divinity is concluded from human reflection
Phenomenology of Mind by Hegel makes at least two major contributions to the mind of human being, of which one is that he divides the phenomenology of mind into five stags as consciousness- self-awareness- rationality-spirit- absolute spirit from low to high and the other is that he defines absolute spirit as self-reflection, just as what he said, “the last form of spirit is absolute knowledge and absolute knowledge means to understand private spirit in the respective spirit state. ”①
①〔Germany〕gel: Phenomenology of Mind, translated by He Lin, etc, Commercial Press, Edition 1979. Page 24
In accordance with epistemology and noology, human being has at least two characteristics: one is self-reflection, namely to let thinkers understand themselves; the other is reflection, namely to let “understanding ability” understand “understanding achievements”. By virtue of self-reflection, human being becomes self-conscious and free beings; by virtue of reflection, human being turns to be self-explanatory and confident being. Through self-reflection, human being distinguishes them from animals and through reflection, human being also distinguishes them from divinity.
Laozi once profoundly pointed out that who understands the world is learned and who understands the self is enlightened. In fact, that the person who understands the world means to learn others and that the person who understands the self means self-reflection. What is more profound than the “self-reflection” is the “reflection”. Human being doesn’t discover future in the reality but oppositely, grasps and plans the future in accordance with cognition on “history” and especially the cognition on “understanding on the history”.
Facing to the history, human being seems have forever insuperable limitations, which results in that the “consideration”, “cognition” and “emotion” of human being fail to be referenced by later generation as well as that the consciousness and emotion fail to be discovered by archaeologists and historians forever.
Essentially, human being lives in the surroundings of various cognitions and thoughts and such cognitions compose of the deepest layers of human being existence, namely world view, philosophy and values. If human being wants to make progress, there is only one way, which is to understand world view, philosophy and values. What world view involves is the point system on the world, what philosophy involves is the point system on life and what value involves is the point system of people on society. In such three major point systems, there will be unavoidable but important problems, namely the problems related to divinity concept and divinity belief. Whether the world independently occurs or be created by divinity composes of natural world view and world view of Creationism. Whether the life is independent or dominated by divinity composes of the willingness v and the divinity philosophy; that the mission of human being takes people or divinity as center composes of the value of humanistic theory and value of divinity theory. The mind field of human being just involves such problems as which is right in the two concepts and how to treat such two concepts.
We are facing to two seemingly opposite view systems on world, life and value, of which one is world view, philosophy and value of naturalism and scientism and the other is world view, philosophy and value of aloof and theology. Throughout the ages and especially before European Middle Ages, it seems that aloof and theology seemed in the commanding position; after middle Ages, naturalism and scientism got the ruling position through further vengeance. The Middle Ages, called as golden ages by theologists but dark ages by scientists, are now being replaced by another “new Middle Ages”, called as golden ages by scientists but dark ages by theologists, the “Middle Ages” since British Industrial Revolution.
Such ages are two kinds of opposite but practically existing “Middle Ages”, which is resulted in by misunderstanding firstly by theologists on divinity and then by scientists on science. The problem lies in that their mistakes are not caused by that the character of theologists and scientists have problems but the problems emerging while theologists are considering theology and scientist are considering science. Therefore, the true task lying in front of us is to re-consider the theology and science or in other words, to re-consider the “reflection on such two things”.
Scientists take researches into “natural law” as their first duty, so they must adopt “demonstration” to face to “natural existence” in the universe; however, theologists take researches into “transcendent law” as their first duty, so they must adopt “deduction” way to face to “natural reasons”, namely “supernatural existence”. Therefore, the relationships between science and theology should be complemental one demonstrated and supported each other. The nature will be one without basis if without super-nature and the super-nature will be one without carrier if without nature. Such condition is not the correct and profound insight of current people but facts doomed in the early of human being. The human ancestor, on one hand, formed their society, expanded their tools and determined their production way through “totem worship” and on the other hand, repaid the grace given by the divinity with their labor results and even their blood and life. Even in Middle Ages when religions seemed mad, the relationships between religions and social management, temple buildings, unreligious life and divinity belief are also supplementary one, while those persecuting scientists and governing the regime still belonged to branch.
Just the “scientific Middle Ages” today, when scientific craziness should not be originally resulted in by scientific prosperity, is more worrisome. The world which has stepped into global times, the scientific rapid development out of control, the human being dominated by greed and savagery of animals and the planet in which greenhouse effect continuously rises and human conflicts become more and more serious will certainly have a grim prospect full of crises. The fundamental methods for changing such abnormal state are dependent on the cognition and judgment on the “cause of disease”. In my opinion, the cause of disease is the misunderstanding the flouting on divinity. In other words, only if we have a completely new divinity idea- the Trinity idea of noumenal image, specific image and whole image of divinity as well as a completely new divinity belief – to believe that the divinity is a unique creator and omnipotent dominator as well as omniscient sustainer, then fortune of human being can be fundamentally changed.
The divinity concept mentioned and the divinity belief provided here obviously is resulted from the reflection, the reflection of us today.
