The Way in Divine Metaphysics

THE WAY IN DIVINE METAPHYSICS— CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Way of Nature .............................................................1
Chapter 2: The Way of the Shaman ......................................................7
Chapter 3: The Way of the Brahmin ................................................... 13
Chapter 4: The Way of the Magi ........................................................20
Chapter 5: The Way of the Philosophers .............................................27
Chapter 6: The Way out of Egypt .......................................................34
Chapter 7: Druidism: Preparing the Way .............................................42
Chapter 8: The Way of the Prophets ..................................................47
Chapter 9: The Way of the Essenes ....................................................54
Chapter 10: The Way of the Lord ...................................................... 58
Chapter 11: The Way of the Apostles .................................................65
Chapter 12: The Way of the Sufis .......................................................71
Chapter 13: The Way through Later Philosophy ..................................77
Chapter 14: The Way through Science ...............................................84
Chapter 15: The Way through Later Science ......................................91
Chapter 16: The Way into the New Age ........................................... 98
Chapter 17: The Way in Divine Metaphysics ....................................105
Chapter 18: The Way in Equipoise .................................................. 110
Chapter 19: Equipoise Symbols and the Unified Event ..................... 120
Chapter 20: Equipoise in the Eternal Dreaming..................................136
Chapter 21: In Spirit and in Truth .....................................................142
Chapter 22: The Psycho-spiritual .....................................................150
Chapter 23: Divine Metaphysics: The Angelic Science ......................155
Chapter 24: Equipoise Divine Geometry ...........................................165
Poetry Appendix ..............................................................................171
Bibliography .....................................................................................175

To my beloved, who inspired me,
and to all those of the Way.
With Love to my Son Laib and Daughter Wanan

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The Way: Introduction
In many religions, philosophies, and disciplines of spiritual growth, ‘A Way’ is spoken of with quiet reverence. It is, primarily a path, a discipline, and a code of conduct. The purveyors of such a path or discipline do not intend it as an artificial way devised by humankind according to the culture of a specific time and place, but frame it around an awareness of ultimate reality—of ‘the Way things are.’
The Way is revealed though the divine order and accessed by mystics and contemplatives who have studied the divine order or experienced enlightenment or divine inspiration. To understand and describe the Way things are in universal terms is the goal of metaphysics, and such meaning and purpose that this brings to human life expresses an ideal Way for human individuals to follow.
This current work is a study of the many human expressions of the Way. It is not a study of the many purported truths of humankind and the many ways based on these. It is my aim to reveal that there is a Way, a Divine and Natural Way, which runs and has run as a common thread through the thinking of many peoples in the world at different times in history. This Way is subject to a developing understanding and has passed though different phases of human awareness. There can only be one truth about the existence of beings in the world, though it finds different expression in different cultures and languages. Only one Ultimate and Divine Truth can exist, for if not, there would be nothing worthy of the name ‘Truth’.
This metaphysical standpoint underlies this study. Metaphysics is the area of philosophy that is concerned with what is ultimately real and true—that which is always and everywhere real and true, not simply case-specific knowledge. Any claim to universal truth is a metaphysical claim, and all competing claims to universal truth from religion, philosophy, and science can be viewed side by side and examined in the field of metaphysics. Any Christian would say, ‘Christ is the Way’, and he or she may indeed be right. But Christ, as Logos and mind of God, should have had access to all wisdom, human and divine, and stood at a pinnacle of growth in divine awareness. To say or imply that Jesus would have been unaware of the wisdom of Taoism, for example, is to deny that he participated in God’s greater eternal and omniscient awareness. All world religions and philosophical traditions leading up to his advent may be seen as forming the true Old Testament to this world saviour. This is the context of the current study, which deals with many of the world’s most significant religious and philosophical wisdom traditions leading up to Christ and beyond. I have been selective in the material presented, to point out recurring themes and focus on the golden thread that is the Way. However, I have also tried to highlight differences that are often important and should not be glossed over. This is a very concise introduction to the world’s pearls of wisdom, and I hope it will inspire others to conduct further research and, more importantly, to attain greater and more universal awareness.
The name metaphysics derives from a section of the works of the great philosopher Aristotle. In these works, which concern universals and first principles, Aristotle speaks of a ‘divine science’, a science of the mind of God—‘Being such a science that God alone could have or God before all others.’(Aristotle The Metaphysics) The ‘mind of God’ or ‘Logos’ concept in the history of ideas is one theme of this work. For seen in these terms, it is the Logos that regulates and determines the Way.
This work is a study in worldwide metaphysics. It presents and introduces all the world’s most significant wisdom traditions and religious philosophies. In the book’s later section, I will introduce my own metaphysical philosophy of Equipoise, which can then be seen against the backdrop of its inheritance in the greatest traditions of metaphysics. This metaphysical philosophy of Equipoise is a universal law of necessary equivalence and symmetry, involving necessary counterbalance. I hope this will serve as an indication of what metaphysics might become as a ‘divine science’ in taking on the crucial insights of science and the profundity of religion. The spiritual influences that have shaped nations and influenced history through the ages are a theme of this book. The Way in Divine Metaphysics examines one evolving truth and one Way, discovered, and not invented, through various approaches, in different environments, as seen from different perspectives. * * *

Grounds of all being
Orderer of nature
Divine source
If it be thy will
So guide ourWay
Love uniting all
Opposites conjoined
Very God, I pray
Every being within you, give you praise.

—agnoi ‘God is Love Prayer’; the first letter of each line spell this