We can think of God as the ratio 2:0. This ratio itself is an object. But, more fundamentally, 2:0 is an experience.
2 is the myriad world of opposites — love and hate, life and death, female and male, creator and creature. It both includes and does not include God. But even the exclusion includes God.
0 is utter emptiness, and reduces humanity to the starkest midnight isolation. 0 is wholly other.
2 is in relationship with 0 because of : or Spirit. If it were otherwise, emptiness would be wholly unknowable to us and us to emptiness. : is the bridge between our unspeakable void and our word-filled life.
God is the totality of the worlds of 2, 0 and the relational space perpetually in motion between them. All errors spring from emphasizing one part of the ratio and diminishing one or more of the others. God only lives as an irreducible totality.
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To use language to speak of God is necessary, real and inevitable. Yet to leave God in language is a reduction and desecration. To think that God only exists in thinking and speaking is not to have had experience of God. If you have not experienced God, words may point you to God but they can never in themselves show God to you. More likely, you will want to treat words as an object and dispute them. Language and ideas are partially objects and so can and should be disputed. But God, in the divine totality, includes but is beyond disputation.
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