Fragment: 6

We must move to the time of the late Renaissance, if we are to understand the nature of Aten. To the terrifying vision of Jacob Bohme. Bohme is a very difficult to read, he did this on purpose. Thge reason was the vision Bohme had of the one god terrified hem, and did not want anyone who was not ready for the knowledge to understand what he wrote. Bohme of course, identified his vision of god with the Christian god, but as I have said all monotheism are cults of Aten. I will examine later why there are so many competing Cults of Aten. Back to Bohme's vision. In his vision Bohme describes god as a series of seven concentric spheres or circles; we shall use circles as concentric circles are easier to visualize. Try to imagine the concentric circles as wheels that are always rotating around a central hub. Each wheel represents a fountain spirit, or natural property in Bohme terminology. These wheels are the categories that explain and create all creation. Each category being present in every object, but with one predominating in the object. Each wheel also has a connection to the hub, where it exchanges energy. The hub is identified with the Second person of the Trinity, or the Son. This is the homunculus of alchemy, of which I shall have much more to say about later. The wheels are always turning like a great vortex, They suck up the unconscious aspects of creation and categorize them according to the fountain spirits or natural properties. It must be noted in Bohme vision of god that god is not all knowing, but constantly learning more about himself. In Bohme vision of god, god is always active, involved in his own self-realization. ONce the unconscious aspects are categorized, they become a further creation, which leads to more unconscious aspects of creation, thus the never ending activity of god. God is always abstracting, creating by the seven fountain spirits or natural properties. The reader should note the mechanical nature of god (Aten). Aten is like a perpetual motion machine.I will have much more to say about this in coming Fragments. This vision of Bohme leads us to the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel was one of the most important thinkers of the 19th century, and heavily influence by Bohme. Hegel was able to turn Bohme's imagery into abstract philosophy. For Hegel god is the law of non-contradiction continually working itself out, abstracting, and cutting experience into categories of Hegel's logic. Both Bohme and Hegel saw god as a verb and not a noun. Let us examine Hegel's god or Absolute more closely. Like Parmenides's One, Hegel's god is the law of non-contradiction., unlike Parmenides there is no end point; pure being is never reached for all time. Instead the dialectic of Hegel's god is being nothing, becoming. Once pure being is reached it must be defined by what it is not nothing. The the two terms being and nothing must be reconciled or integrated, thus becoming. Hegel's term for this integration or reconciling is "sublate". This is Hegel's formulation of the law of non-contradiction. Again we see the mechanical nature of Aten. Aten is the threshing blade that constantly cuts the wheat form the chaff, or being from non-being. This is the true nature of Aten the constant cutting of being from non-being without stop or rest It is completely mechanical. Next Fragment I shall show how this nature works out in the various Cults of Aten. a Necromancer