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"All is the manifest of Spirit," she repeated. "Every single atom in the entire universe is a structure that derives its shape and all its characteristic from the force of principles. Nothing would exist without these ordering principles. Not a single planet would exist, much less galaxies of them. But what came first, the principles or its expressions that shape the atoms and thereby construct what we call the universe? Didn't the principles come first? It's a universe of Spirit that we live in, and its order is harmonious and intelligent in design. Then look at life. Each living cell reflects vast principles of chemical construction and interaction and replication. Life is an immensely complex construct. But didn't the principles precede the first cell? Without the process of principles there would be no cell, no development, no creativity, no intelligently directed growth of anything. Principles move everything. Life is Spirit manifesting itself. Spirit is the 'sun' of the universe. Everything unfolds around it and derives its existence from it. Nothing exists that is isolated from this 'sun.' That makes us all truly one in essence though individual in form. We are united by the Spirit that is the Spirit of the universe. Should we not feel this closeness and respond to it, and so be enriched by the wonders that unfold before us?"
I nodded silently. I couldn't deny what was actually already happening.
"Let me sell you, that what you feel now is more natural than everything that you considered to be a part of closeness, like the sexual feelings you have felt before. You had limited your sexual feelings by treating them as sensual impulses. They are much more than this and luckily so, for were they not so, you would have a difficult paradox to resolve. You have entered a universe in which time and distance have no meaning, because there exists nothing that isn't the expression of the same Spirit that is the 'sun' of the universe. This applies to us right here, including you and me. There is no 'distance' between us to bridge, because that distance doesn't exist as a reality. The very idea of being close to another person has no meaning when there exists no distance in real terms. The final reality, of course, lies even beyond that. What you feel is the unfolding oneness of all being. Being close to another person is a primitive concept that must give way to experiencing the oneness in which there is no separation. Don't be surprised if your experience during your visit here is richer than what most people experience in a lifetime bound to the Earth. In this 'unfolding' universe of ours, where space and time have no meaning, one touches upon the absolute that cannot be easily explained but can be recognized by its effects. Of course the absolute has no limit. It does not impose a limit that one cannot go beyond. Infinity is not a limit to itself. Limits are invalid concepts that we leave behind like the darkness of night when the day dawns. The absolute is Love. One cannot go beyond it. Nor would one want to, because at the absolute the universe expands horizontally, that is laterally. Everything unfolds laterally. We can see this unfolding beginning in love. Love has no limits, because it unfolds laterally in its infinite dimension. Does this make sense?" she asked.
I nodded and answered with a long lasting embrace that gave expression to the new feeling, a feeling of being infinitely embraced.
The feeling that I felt being together with Odessa was as rich as the day was bright, and the sun seemed brighter on Bohr's planet. Also the sun on Bohr's planet set with brighter colors in the sky than I had seen anywhere else. I was almost overwhelmed by it. It added a crowning splendor to my first evening there that I was privileged to share with Odessa.
I wondered whether this feeling, and the love that embraced me, were merely a reflection of my new awareness of something wonderful that had always been a reality, but one that I had not accepted before. In the past it didn't seem to fit into the mold of the traditional universe and its lower dimensions, defined in terms of space and time and privatization of everything, like privatized love written in small letters; privatized money, the withholding of love, the key to wars; privatized property, the root of all the poverty that turned the Earth into a dark an meager place. Now the incredibly profound that no one would even look at before seemed suddenly totally real.
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