Intelligence of Change

Intelligence of Change

The “essence” of which we speak is not a property, which has a locus: being truly essence-tial, it is an actuality which is ubiquitous. Thus it automatically “governs” at each and every point that it happens to be—and it happens to be everywhere at once. Because it is everywhere at once, all “parts” of it are always constantly “in contact” with all other “parts” of it: that is the essence. And because of its omnipresent (“fundamental”) nature, its governance—at any point, at any time—is sublimely intelligent. That all things, at all times and places, express “self-direction,” or self-intelligence, is not only inevitable—under these circumstances—but wholly necessary. The Latin root of the word universe means “all together,” and the word is defined as “the totality of all things”; the (Greek) word cosmos is synonymous. Considering the universe, or cosmos, as all-inclusive, there could not logically be anything which stands outside of it or apart from it, which powers or propels the action or movement in this cosmos. In other words, the tendency for movement in all things lies within themselves. Any particular thing, and its movement, or perpetuation, are the same thing. Put another way, anything which could possibly fail to perpetuate its own form would succumb, and would die into another form which is perpetuating itself. Our difficulty is to comprehend something which is wholly complete yet constantly changing, a perfection which includes the imperfection of unpredictability. We have difficulty understanding that imperfection is elemental to perfection, that perfection is not the eradication of imperfection.

“Take perfect from perfect, the remainder is perfect.” —Upanishads