Recognize the «Divine»

Start with «Heaven and Earth»

The Root Hierarchy can be divided into a Transcendence part agove, an Actualization part below, and these are mediated via EL4-Experience.

Recall that the Root Hierarchy (see image) can be divided into:

A higher zone of 3 Levels which involved transcendence and disconnection from current messy and unsatisfactory realities.
A lower zone of 3 Levels which involved actualization via engagement with and enmeshment in such realities so as to modify them.
Mediating between these two zones is your Experience-RL4, which enables awareness of what is above and what is below, and continuously appraises in terms of your sense of yourself.

This same pattern, drawing on these phenomena, plays out in the interacting Planes of Existence of the Root Typology. Why? The Root Typology Primal Quests, from which the Planes directly emerge, reflect and embody core values and features of the corresponding Root Level. See the initial accounts.

As a result, the Planes of Existence are divided into:

A higher zone of 3 Levels which correspond to «Heaven» where one set of Model Beings is found. These heavenly beings/planes are termed «Divine».
A lower zone of 3 Levels which correspond to «Earth», where a different set of Model Beings are found. These earthly beings/planes are termed «Human».
An intermediary Level (RH'L4) where semi-divine human functioning is possible.

Because it is found within THEE, the «Divine» must be part of the human condition and intrinsic to our endeavours. (It may sound contradictory or paradoxical to say that the Divine realm is a Human phenomenon, but that seems to be the case.) The full picture is shown below.
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Practical Divisions

The Planes of Human Existence as a whole sustain our humanity just as the physical plane sustains physical reality. If space and time were to vanish, then humans would cease to exist physically. If ethics and creativity were to vanish, then biology-driven subjective experiences (psychosocial reality) might persist, but humanity as we know it would disappear.

From the perspective of everyday life, the Planes of Existence and Model Beings fall naturally into three groups as follows:

Worldly Existence

The lowest two existential Planes are used on a daily basis and are accessible to all human beings. This is the world of creative work. Although one or the other Plane is chosen as the principal or preferred one for regular use, bothPlanes need to be used.

RH'L1: Plane of Practical Existence ↔ Instrumental Being
RH'L2: Plane of Psychological Existence ↔ Mindful Being

Advanced Existence

The next two higher existential Planes are accessible to all in principle, but are only sustained in very few. People functioning on these Planes exert an invisible attraction for those on lower Planes, probably because they consistently serve as direct conduits from the Divine Planes. This is the world of creative service to humanity.

RH'L3: Plane of Aware Existence ↔ Awakened Being
RH'L4: Plane of Cosmic Consciousness ↔ World Saviour

Divine Existence

The upper three existential Planes are «real» for us in the sense that they are experienced and engaged with in psychological and social ways i.e. within psychosocial reality.

There is again an important distinction between the Model Beings (imaginary and subjective) and the Planes of Existence (imaginary but objective because of psychosocial phenomena). Although we do not live in or on these Planes, we actively sustain them and are influenced by them. They represent the world that creatively preserves our essential humanity, stimulating and encouraging what is best (and worst) in us.

RH'L5: Plane of Divine Creation ↔ Supreme Being
RH'L6: Plane of Divine Will ↔ Cosmic Forces
RH'L7: Plane of Divine Oneness ↔ Universal Spirit

From Biology to Primal Emanation

If there is anything, below RH'L1-Pleasure Quest, it is biological mechanism. In our biological substratum are instinctual, reflex and neuronally programmed tendencies. Biology is physics-and-chemistry based, not language-based, not dependent on willingness, nor driven by values and goals. Biology must underpin everything that is psychosocial, just as chemistry must underpin biology and physics must underpin chemistry.

The survival need to recognize and sustain the self is what creates a «Human» life revolving around a seeming self. This self is an artificial continuity in the flow of experiences: 'artificial' because everything is dynamic and nothing can be stilled. This continuity uses language in maintaining itself and resisting change.
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Language creates and sustains psychosocial realities of all sorts—including the Model Beings and Divine Realms—by enabling continual self-reference and social institutions. At Level-1, human language is used to support Instrumental Being and the Practical Plane—without which survival as a human being would be impossible.

Can anything exist above RH'L7-Spirituality Quest? Going beyond unification with a Divine Ineffable Oneness-RH'7 would be to enter a state beyond nothingness. That must be even more unknowable and inexpressible than can be expressed or imagined.

Because I can write about it here, albeit rather indirectly, it exists—in my psychosocial reality at least. I would be inclined to term it the Primal Emanation, because all possibilities of non-being and being emerge from it. I'm not sure what use it is or whether it matters: but it might. So, as Pascal proposed, it seems best to play it safe. Let's just leave it there as neither being nor non-being.

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Originally posted: 14-Sep-2012