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Here is where the 'woman' closed with sun, becomes important, for it represents an advanced vision of the reality about man that the Apostle John had beheld after years of working with the Christ idea, of experiencing it in Christian healing. This advanced perception came to light, not as just a higher increment of an old concept, but it came to light as a whole new reality that is totally different from any conventional concept recognized about man before, that cannot be approximated in any conventional sense, nor be understood in any conventional sense. Thus, the dramatic metaphor that John presents, of a woman clothed with sun, actually makes sense. It makes sense in that it points to the spiritual absolute as an entirely different dimension of reality, above anything conventional. It is as different in terms of fundamental characteristic as a polygon is from a circle.
The scientific distinction between man and animal.
In reference to man, the fundamental distinction that sets man apart from any living species on this planet, is the human intellect, the capacity for intelligent self-awareness, creativity, and an awareness of an infinity called God that is greater than oneself, that man is a part of, that is man's base for infinite development. The emergence of man on the planet represents a species jump from a polygon type of existence (as referenced earlier) that is limited by its primitive geometry, to an awareness of a fundamentally different reality that is based on a higher concept of geometry and requires a wholly different mathematical approach to comprehend.
Man has become capable, through the development of intellect to understand God in terms of infinity, and to understand man's place as an integral part of this infinity, rather than being aligned to a lower level geometry of existence. Thus, man, understanding God in the higher dimension of Truth, understands his own reality as rooted in the infinity of Truth which opens the horizon for man's continuous development, which a lower 'geometry' of existence would close. Man is not a higher animal, but represents a quantum jump in the unfolding of life. A whole new platform has entered the scene, which is an intellect that has virtually an open-ended potential. Intelligence causes discoveries, creating scientific understanding, which creates new resources for living, these in turn leave man time and energies for the further development of the potential of intelligence. Thus, intelligence sets up a self-accelerating positive growth system of creative potential. This positive type creative development system is unique to man. Nothing in the animal kingdom matches it. All animal species live under a negative growth system. They increase in numbers until they outgrow the available food resources. Since animals lack the intelligence to develop new food resources as their numbers grow, but rather tend to weaken them by unintelligent foraging, the population growth collapses through starvation. Then the cycle begins all over again. It is not a very rich cycle, but one that is marked in large measures by starvation or predation. It is a cycle that is self-limiting, as the foundation does not exist for creative development.
This foundation, however, exists in the human dimension. It is a foundation that creates a certain profit in the cycle of life, which, then, can be applied to uplift the status of living and further advance the exploitation of the mental foundation that creates the profit for development. This creative growth system, is a very strong positive growth system that is not limited by the earth-bound parameters of poverty that drive the animal populations into continuous cycles of collapse. It is a system that is not marked by starvation and predation, but by an increasing potential for reaching out for infinity, for exploring the universe and to enrich it with life. The human intellect, which is the foundation of this positive growth system, marks mankind as the brightest star in the unfolding creation of life on this planet. Man comes to light as the highest manifest of mind, which has become understood as the highest reflection of infinite Mind, or God the Creator, the creative Principle of the universe.
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