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Hello all, GFL, and Others!
To get straight into it: if being precedes seeing, then what predates essence? As the words are ambiguous, I will do my best to reword the question. So, if nature comes before knowing, then what heralds in the beginning?; if the beginning predates becoming, then what ushers in the beginning? *All can be interchangeable as in the reference to if and then questions. For example, if knowing comes before energy, then what comes before knowledge? On a 3D or linear scale, the precursor, start, or beginning is usually obvious. In terms of existentialism and epistemology, clearly the question is either what is the makeup of being and knowledge or what creates existence and knowledge? If a creator to a creation exists or has existence, then what came before the existence of that being? If knowledge is the starting point or the goal, then what drives us towards intelligence? Interesting how in the Kabbalah, The Void is before Knowledge, as The Crown or Supreme Being is before both The Void and Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding. So, even in terms of infinity or eternity, what is the antecedent to something such as nothing(ness) or endlessness of something or nothing? At least in the physical realm, we are before we see the world. Or actually we are becoming who we are, but arguably speaking, we already are before we are born - either being in or existing from the womb. So for the sake of concluding this mad rant, let’s say being is energy, the beginning, essence, nature, something indispensably intrinsic or inherent. Just a thought, if everything is, then how could anything come before anything? For example, what isn’t an existence, or what doesn’t have essence? It’s baffling and trippy for the mind and even a little bit for the soul. If the utmost, utter, quintessential, etc. force preludes anything; if that force is beyond energy, nature, essence, character, truth, knowledge, or existence - gosh darn it, if any of this has made any sense, and again sorry for the mad rant - then what would come before an existence? Is nothing something? If any thought or image of the All, like nothingness, anything finite, change, Principles, etc. came from the Supreme Source/Force, then what was the potential sense of that thought or reality? What created the Big, Almighty Force? We don’t know how long life will be sustained from the Big Bang or else it would have been called the Infinite or Eternal Bang. How can infinity create something finite if eternity can make images of itself, such as time? Can time make an idea of eternity? Sorry guys! Lol I would say my final question is the following: not only what created the consciousness of Source, but what created Source - or if sense cannot be separate from (a) being, then yes right back to the beginning, what is the antecedent of essence?