(Meditation on a Quaker query.)

Divine sparks of Godhead emanations descended into flesh…
Same essence in all minds but different manifestations…
The Godhead is individuated at Its extremities
and unified at Its centre…
We too are differentiated yet integrated…
if only we could see the connection clearly…
When the Son of God meets the Son of Man the circle closes..
The Godhead is the Ovum of the Universe…
Yet there is a crack in the Cosmic Egg,
a crack in everything, which is how the Light gets in…
Simplicity of the Godhead Essence (Ousis)
and complexity of the living flesh converge,
like plus and minus infinity in the plot of the hyperbola,
like the super-hot and the super-cold in magnetism.
But this physical picture ignores the moral universe.
Turn from Kant’s pure reason to his practical reason,
from the starry heavens to the beauty of the moral law.
The Categorical Imperative assumes reverence for (human) life and the unity of essence as underlying principles.
But we don’t share the distant Godhead’s essense,
who is Holy, wholly Other. Yet the Emanations, Sons and Avatars, Prophets, Spirits, Angels and Saints, mediate.
Can there be shadings of essence? Or only quantum jumps?
Or a Jacob’s ladder? (Like a DNA ladder.)
Descartes was wrong; we can’t start from introspection.
The room of the mind is too dim except at the centre of attention; the dark walls and secret rooms of the un-conscious remain inaccessible.
We know less about the inner space than about outer space.
Yet in a sense we know NOTHING BUT the inner space,
the illuminated part of it, the outer layer.
Except – to come back to it – the divine spark of light
mysteriously shining deep inside.