3.45
When I imply that the prismatic god creates the world as an apparent ‘bubble’ that encompasses all things (§3.2, §3.16, §3.30, §3.33), I don’t mean ‘all things’ cumulatively, as in all entities lumped together. Rather, I mean there is a receptivity to all things—to each and every thing, to any thing, to whatever may present itself, come what may—wherein each and every thing can enter a realm of sensibility (§2.82).
So many of the confusions that appear to threaten my account come from thought that is oriented by the One: that which supposedly unifies all time, all space, as the wherein whereby all things, cumulatively, are counted, arrayed, and reconciled on a universal plane to constitute a totality. The One is the superglue that guarantees knowledge, truth, ethics, reason, and the self.
We used to call the One ‘God’: many still do. But now, the One has dissipated, and its spirit permeates our practices and perceptions everywhere.
It is our ether.