This matrix is the source of our being. It is our being. Through our experience this matrix is manifested. It is all the meaning that we can feel. The matrix is the God we manifest. We are nodes in the relational flux. Each node reflects the totality.

The matrix is alive. It expands and contracts in the infinite dimensions of its existence. It is the qualitative analog of an abstract quantitative matrix that is mathematics, wherein the nodes are the natural numbers. Each number exists only in relation to all the others. Each one embodies and is substantiated the entire quantitative matrix.

Our matrix is the chain of being. Reality is its emanation. There is only one matrix. The experiential flux of human history involves the bulk of the matrix. There are other histories that are relative to ours. The histories are infinite in potential experience, but not in extension. Any competing mega-reality would have to be orthogonal to our own world and would thereby be unimaginable to us.

All histories converge on the Omega, the eschaton, or the telos that is the source of all meaning. The temporal beginning of our experiential space and time is a dim reflection of the omega. As we awaken to the omega, history is the dream that we are pulling with us from the primordial abyss. It is our rationalization of the irrational. The omega is our infinity, the alpha is the zero. Each contains the other after its own fashion.

The ultimate source of our understanding and participation is the embedded node of history that contains and manifests the alpha and the omega. I am referring to the christ event. This is the historical intersection of the finite with the infinite. This is our touchstone. There is a logical necessity manifested therein. Understanding that logic is our ticket to the infinite. Each of us already contains that understanding which will unfold in the eschaton as we awaken to ourselves.

The particularity of the world is based only on our own individuality. Objects have an identity only through us. Personal identity is, in its turn, only a reflection of the cosmic coherence. That is the chain of being.

The quest for real substance reached a dead end in the abstractions of modern physics. The burden of substantiation then must fall back upon us and upon the relational matrix. There is a kind of Mach's principle involved in providing a ground for all substantiality, but instead of appealing to the inertial frame of the fixed stars, we must appeal more pragmatically to the relational matrix.

In a relational world, the accidental is incidental. What is incoherent or meaningless fails to become real. The world is redeemed in becoming whole. Reality is what we take with us out of the abyss into the eschaton. That is all we can remember in our waking.

The space-time manifold dissolves into the matrix of meaning. There is a dramatic rending of the cosmic veil. As we approach the event horizon of the eschaton, space and time dissolve. The christ event transforms into the christ consciousness that is entirely unobstructed. We merely allow ourselves to be pulled into that light. The objectivity of the world will be undone. The impersonal dissolves into the personal. The universal wave function collapses spontaneously. This is the contraction.

History will not be repeated. It is final and unique. Once redeemed, always redeemed. Any other sort of cycle would have to be entirely orthogonal and not imaginable from here. Thus is our purpose guaranteed.

And how will the eschaton come to pass? What will be the cost? Our ransom has been paid. The cost is our overpayment. Our leap of faith will be our ability to stop payment. Our resistance to the greater reality is overcome. The arrangements for our surrender are being completed.

There will be a global relaxation and realization. There will be a trigger that will be just perceptible as a spreading realignment - a paradigm shift. The anomalies of materialism coalesce into an expanding opening to immaterialism. Scientific objectification dissolves from within and without. The stepladder of technology is transcended. The revolution will be non-violent.

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