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Article One: The Hermetic Codeby Michael Hayes.
The Hermetic Code
A General Theory of just about Everything.
Douglas Adams famously quipped that the
number 42 was the key to the secret of life, the
universe, everything. Denizens of the
hitchhiker's quirky world have long delighted in
this revelation, so meaningless as to be almost
profound. Ironically, however, Adams was unwittingly
touching
on an idea that does, in fact, have substance: there is indeed
a
number that embodies a kind of general theory of everything.
Before I expand on this, a little background information will
help
the reader understand where I'm coming from.
Ever since I can remember, I have always been confounded by
the mystery of human existence. This consciousness of ours,
which we blindly take for granted, is to me nothing short of
a
miracle. What it is witness to is equally profound and
perplexing,
natural happenings that we seldom think about, but which in
reality are truly awesome. For example, millions of sentient
beings all over the world, hominid and animal, being born only
to
starve or be slaughtered wholesale, either through natural
disasters, or, more perplexingly, through gross aberrations
in
human behaviour. On the wider scale of evolution, we see the
emergence and subsequent extinction of whole races of people
and species of animal.
And existence is no less capricious in the greater cosmos,
with
the continuous formation and cataclysmic destruction of
planets,
stars, galaxies. Just normal, 'everyday' occurrences - but
these
inviolable and often disturbingly violent events have
persistently
dogged my reason. Why, I wondered, would the cleric's
omniscient Benefactor - if he exists - create such a myriad
of
wonderful formsand then turn round and simply annihilate
them? These endless cycles of light and darkness, life and
death
- what kind of devilish game is being played here?
The ongoing debate over the possible existence and modus
operandiof a conscious, all-knowing Creator proceeds
unabated,with contributors from all disciplines lining up to have
their say.
However, owing to a remarkable sequence of events which led
me on a solitary quest which was to last nearly fifteen years,
I
believe I have found a way of understanding what might
really
be going on in and around us. What is more, in this
particular
scheme of things, 'God' is tangible, very much alive, and
undeniably omnipresent.
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