Incarnation, Excarnation and the Ever-Presence of God
by Hermit Crab 15.06.2007, changed 01.07.2007

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Within the Great Mystery, there is a Field of infinite manifest Energy made present by the emergence of polar opposites; the constant pulsing flow of contrasting pairs together in a unified, omnipresent Existing. This is the Life, the source of all being.

Within the Life, there is a Universe of infinite existent Consciousness which makes known all the patterns and forms created by the Life; past, present and future together in a timeless, omniscient Knowing. This is the Light, the source of all awareness.

Within the Universe, there is an Appearance of immanent patterns and forms— made finite and temporal by the dimension of time —forming an everchanging web of proximate relationships and interactions between all created objects. This is the Now, the phenomenal world of becoming and unbecoming, the source of all experience.

It is through this perpetual process of creation (incarnation) and dissolution (excarnation) that the Great Mystery— the unmoving and changeless One —becomes also the transient and transmutable Many. The phenomenal world is the turning point, the axis of this concentric path in which the Great Mystery experiences itself from many perspectives. Every aspect of being and awareness and experience is in fact the incarnate Great Mystery moving through itself. Everything that becomes and unbecomes is made in this way— the triune Creator incarnating and excarnating Itself through the dimension of time —for the Great Mystery is always One. There is no two. There is nothing else.

The aspect of the Great Mystery that is the experiencer is known as "I Am That Is," or I AM. We call this omnipresent being "God." God is each of the Many experiencing Itself from all possible spatial-temporal perspectives. But all of the Many are also One in God. God is One. There is no two. There is nothing else.

We know therefore how the One conceals Itself as the Many by incarnating through four spatial-temporal dimensions into what we know as our world.

Now we will see how the Many are revealed as One by excarnating through four mental-intellectual dimensions of consciousness into what we know as the world beyond ours—the end and source of all being that is the Great Mystery.

[Editor's Note: This article is based an excerpt from introductory material to a forthcoming novel-in-progress, The Peasant and the King. It is from the section entitled, Forward to the Source: The Eightfold Concentric Path of God. The author, Hermit Crab, is the creator of the Fish Out Of Water Project (FOOW.Org) and is a frequent contributor to The Four Precepts Web Portal. The image is borrowed from Paul Harrison's Pantheism home page. For a listing of all The Peasant and the King articles published to date, type that title into the Article Search field and click on Search now!]