Notes - 43 The Art of Meditation

The demiurgos (working god) is the the model as the model is to the universe

The creative processes (meditation model)

Model (internal or external) - Focus - skill that guides - to the degree the work matches the model we can say to that degree that it is true (correspondence between model and copy)

What is the process of creation?

God is to his Cosmos as model is to copy

The most Beautiful of bonds is that which most perfectly unites into ONE both itself and the things its binds together; and to effect this in the most beautiful manner is the natural property of analogy.

God (Idea) : Cosmos :: Man (Idea) : Ordered soul akin to the same order of the Cosmos

- Process - rational filled with beauty and goodness

God : the Idea of creation :: the Idea of creation in man : Order in his soul

- Creation - rearrangement (not creation of things/stuff but beauty)

56:00 If it were not for this creation these qualities (reason, judge, beautiful, reflecting, comparing, [making good]) would be dormant in the mind of god. God needs creation to exercise the creative function. Therefore there has always been a creation never will be a time where there is not a creation because the overflowing will of God must be creative and being creative it exercise all of these qualities Creation is unending continuously on itself because the cosmos is evolving if it is evolving the process must be going on simultaneously and the idea in the mind of god as a simultaneous whole must then break down in the creation that is where time comes in. Idea that is a simultaneous whole come into a unity without differentiation is Eternity. - Continuous Meditation.

Nothing new... must discover how to order what is blocking that ideal from emerging. Constantly making judgement between the order you seek and the disorder you experience make judgment with how to deal with the disorder because you are trying to bring about that likeness. How to order the disorder. Reflecting on the difficulties.

Where did the disorder come from?

Substance of this disorder? - Timeaus - What it is like, like gold, shining...