1,2,3, many

Without finishing Tanabe, I've started to pick at Hegel. Hegel makes me think I could have been a philosopher - he is wild. As Dr Who stories are often fun if the Dr helps history turn out as it in fact did, Hegel is fun because trying to make a philosophical cosmology that explains everything, including himself and his philosophy as the first breaking dawn of self-sonsciousness across the vast ocean of cognition in people. He does so in theological language very often, but with a turn JM Bernstein (bernsteintapes.com) describes as the major turn of continental philosophy - to show that the transcendent is actually immanent.

1,2,3, many is one of the most common levels of numerosity (facility with numbers) in nature, and if I recall correctly, is about what babies naturally have. (They also can discern ratios above ) This has become a little slogan for my understanding of the nature of the trinity and creation.

God (the father, or Pancreator in Gene Wolfe) has a self-image (the son, or Conciliator) and a relationship between the two (the spirit, or the Increate). With these three, God is complete in himself and for himself. But what about some independent other being(s), being only partly union and partly separateness? At which point - many! The universe boils into existence, condenses into particles, which condense and form the first stars, the morning stars sing together as they burn themselves up to create more complex elements and pretty soon, new minded beings are balancing around on two legs.

Then, at the far end of the universe, things have separate themselves - those things that have taken on enough of God's nature to obtain his power of being, remain, as new 'others' together. Those that are left are left forever boiling away in the destruction of the wicked.

The energy for this boiling is the fire of hell for those being consumed, but for us who are being saved it is the light of the knowledge of the glory of God.

Is this new, I wonder? If it is, it is probably wrong. (Even if not, probably...)

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