This mediation was prompted by threeo things: the statement at Project Ploushares board meeting that PP is a coalition of churches and belongs to CCIC (Canadian Council for International Cooperation); reading the December 1999 issue of Scientific American; and my previous essay on Kabbala hierarchies.

Examples of multi-tiered coalitions abound:

1. Parishes within churches within Project Ploughshares within CCIC within Canadian NGOs within world NGOs.
2. Individuals within families within neighbourhoods within towns within metro within countries within continents within the world. (The subsidiarity structure.)
3. Quarks within hadrons within nuclei within atoms within molecules within substances.
4. Organelles within cells within organisms.
5. Species within genus within family within order within within kingdom within life on earth.
6. Stars within galaxies within clusters within universe within multiple universes.
7. Explicate order within implicate order within super-implicate order…

The Kabbala Parzufs also form such a hierarchy. En Sof the unimaginable rules all universes; each universe has its own El Kether (a hair from En Sof’s head. Then, concentrating on our own universe, the deities bifurcate into Gods and Goddesses, the highest pair ruling galaxy clusters, the next pair ruling galaxies, and the third pair ruling star clusters. The Root corresponds to stars, in our case the Sun, so often venerated as Ra or Sol, the source of life. Fruitfulness rules planets like the Earth, in our case Gaia. Fruitfulness gave rise to Kingdom, i.e. the five kingdoms of life on Earth. And Shekinah is the Holy Spirit inspiring humanity, even in exile.

Starry heavens and the moral order – the two miracles that inspired Immanuel Kant.

“Roots and Wings” = stars and living planets (Helios and Gaia, with Pluto and Poseidon added.

Astronomy and cosmology involve mathematics, but change only one letter in MATH and you get MYTH.

Psyche (Mind) does the four life-creating tasks to regain Eros (Love), and then learns to speak – acquires language. Aphrodite is the wicked mother-in-law; seductress like Venus in Tannhauser.

Mind and matter converge at the Omega point, or bifurcate if we go the other way. This convergence occurs at even higher energies than the unified field of the four forces of nature. And Omega is En Sof, in 10 or 11 dimensions.