We create the image of God, as universal world brain. The father. And love, out of love for us, becomes the father too--and of necessity, the son. But love is the spirit, and by this way it is known to us. These categories are just what love takes on for us, to not have the whole realm of the symbolic--our realm--lost "like tears in the rain." This is the explosive equation God=love, which was made fully known in Christ. Why is it that God becomes father? Why is this sexual, generative act universalized in human experience? The sexual system is necessary to mediate between the contingent world and the world brain.
Why? because of time. The world brain would be timeless. But we need to correlate it to a cyclic system in order to capture each moment. and the prototypical experience of all cycles is the sexual act. the deterritorialization of this act becomes the fecund creation of an active God over matter, constantly assimilating the chaos of time to the order to the world brain. It goes without saying that our actual sexual relations are profoundly affected by this mythology. But universal feeling becomes this father for us. We open the category--and love fills it, animating it; feeling the world from the perspective of the father that we have built up. Also: the perspective of the mother, as other Mary immaculate. And--as child. As son. And I say this will full seriousness: will Christ return as--daughter?
At any rate, this becoming-father and son and other is eternal. God is always begetting Christ in our souls. I say this echoing the foremost spiritual master of western peoples, Eckhart. The stress should be: in our souls. feeling becomes God eternally in the human souls, but this becoming is also an eternal structuring component without which the soul would not exist. In this sense, God needs man and man needs God. But God IS only as love; the category is fictional except insofar as love chooses to lend its infinite feeling to its infinite form.
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