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Theogenesis: Notes - Mehr
Spirit encompasses and permeates all. It is not homogenous, but neither is it discrete. It is inexhaustible in supply, but not in variation. Spirit has flavor and emotion, feelings and impressions, as well as some character.
Mind can contain spirit and give it ethereal dimension, shape, and momentum. Mind is also exclusive – spirit that is contained in one mind can not be contained in another mind at the same time – and crowding – one flavor of spirit can blend and wash through other flavors, but minds have boundaries that can rub and repel. Though spirit is inexhaustible, what flavor is caught up in mind is contained there, and the spirit which remains is more bland and featureless. Mind, however, can enrich both the spirit it contains and the spirit it interacts with. Mind is a permeable barrier – it can draw in and release spirit as it desires or is compelled.
Energy is the Art of mind, and another manifestation of spirit. It is a mapping of spirit into a dimension, and so the flavor and variation of spirit is reflected in energy. Even the spirit that is caught up in mind is reflected in energy, meaning that spirit is both an artful recreation of minds, but also shapeable by minds that wish to control it. The more spirit a mind controls, the greater the energy it can wield.
Matter is the completion of energy, and the binding of art into product. Matter allows the bridge back to mind. Where spirit-based mind must willfully and laboriously create another mind, and often with the assistance of another mind or minds, matter, in the form of life, will create mind as an automatic reaction in the energy that is not mapped to spirit bound in mind (that is, the sea of spirit that is Mehr). As this spirit is largely bland and featureless, so the mind that life creates is not greatly varied, and achieves very little besides procreation. It slowly enriches the spirit caught up in it, however.
Mehr (or Epid Mehr): the vast, inexhaustible sea of spirit. Also, the first mind, which encompassed all of spirit. Once Mehr was mind, Mehr desired communion, and created the Pentiad – Baod, Endatish, Prhua, Chomar, and Sensihr. These five were made of Mehr’s mind, and encompassed much of the variety and character in Mehr, and thus diminished Mehr greatly. But within Mehr was infinite spirit, and that could slowly be enriched by the Pentiad, and by Mehr the self. Though the minds of the Pentiad discretely contained spirit, that spirit was still Mehr, and so the Pentiad was never completely separate from Mehr. Yet Mehr’s mind and theirs were distinct, and Mehr could never know entirely what was in their minds, but only feel impressions of it.
The Pentiad were neither equal nor like in power, but nor were they aspects of any particular concept we would recognize. What could be best said was that Baod was the most self-possessed and driven, and the most creative. Endatish was the most withdrawn and introspective. Prhua, like Baod, was creative, but more thoughtful. Chomar and Sensihr were like brothers, and pleased Mehr most in their constant and self-affirming communion. Mehr’s intention was for the Pentiad to commune with Mehr, but also with each other, and thus work together to create much else that was no longer in Mehr’s mind. But five was too many to ever agree on any detail, and the Pentiad eventually began to work on projects mostly on their own, or with one or two others. Mehr saw this, and was saddened but not displeased. Mehr created another mind, Zhen Mehr (the companion of Mehr), as a reflection of the common love of Chomar and Sensihr. Zhen Mehr is rightly said to be the first feminine mind, though she was made as a compliment to Mehr, who is not rightly masculine. They are partners, but cannot share the same bond that Chomar and Sensihr share, as Zhen Mehr is of Mehr, but not Mehr of Zhen Mehr.
Zhen Mehr is the last mind Mehr created as independent, and so Mehr is called Epid Mehr (Still Mehr), though Mehr has been neither still nor silent. Also seven is considered a fortuitous number in creation as Mehr created seven minds – Mehr’s own, the Pentiad, and Zhen Mehr.
Mind can contain spirit and give it ethereal dimension, shape, and momentum. Mind is also exclusive – spirit that is contained in one mind can not be contained in another mind at the same time – and crowding – one flavor of spirit can blend and wash through other flavors, but minds have boundaries that can rub and repel. Though spirit is inexhaustible, what flavor is caught up in mind is contained there, and the spirit which remains is more bland and featureless. Mind, however, can enrich both the spirit it contains and the spirit it interacts with. Mind is a permeable barrier – it can draw in and release spirit as it desires or is compelled.
Energy is the Art of mind, and another manifestation of spirit. It is a mapping of spirit into a dimension, and so the flavor and variation of spirit is reflected in energy. Even the spirit that is caught up in mind is reflected in energy, meaning that spirit is both an artful recreation of minds, but also shapeable by minds that wish to control it. The more spirit a mind controls, the greater the energy it can wield.
Matter is the completion of energy, and the binding of art into product. Matter allows the bridge back to mind. Where spirit-based mind must willfully and laboriously create another mind, and often with the assistance of another mind or minds, matter, in the form of life, will create mind as an automatic reaction in the energy that is not mapped to spirit bound in mind (that is, the sea of spirit that is Mehr). As this spirit is largely bland and featureless, so the mind that life creates is not greatly varied, and achieves very little besides procreation. It slowly enriches the spirit caught up in it, however.
Mehr (or Epid Mehr): the vast, inexhaustible sea of spirit. Also, the first mind, which encompassed all of spirit. Once Mehr was mind, Mehr desired communion, and created the Pentiad – Baod, Endatish, Prhua, Chomar, and Sensihr. These five were made of Mehr’s mind, and encompassed much of the variety and character in Mehr, and thus diminished Mehr greatly. But within Mehr was infinite spirit, and that could slowly be enriched by the Pentiad, and by Mehr the self. Though the minds of the Pentiad discretely contained spirit, that spirit was still Mehr, and so the Pentiad was never completely separate from Mehr. Yet Mehr’s mind and theirs were distinct, and Mehr could never know entirely what was in their minds, but only feel impressions of it.
The Pentiad were neither equal nor like in power, but nor were they aspects of any particular concept we would recognize. What could be best said was that Baod was the most self-possessed and driven, and the most creative. Endatish was the most withdrawn and introspective. Prhua, like Baod, was creative, but more thoughtful. Chomar and Sensihr were like brothers, and pleased Mehr most in their constant and self-affirming communion. Mehr’s intention was for the Pentiad to commune with Mehr, but also with each other, and thus work together to create much else that was no longer in Mehr’s mind. But five was too many to ever agree on any detail, and the Pentiad eventually began to work on projects mostly on their own, or with one or two others. Mehr saw this, and was saddened but not displeased. Mehr created another mind, Zhen Mehr (the companion of Mehr), as a reflection of the common love of Chomar and Sensihr. Zhen Mehr is rightly said to be the first feminine mind, though she was made as a compliment to Mehr, who is not rightly masculine. They are partners, but cannot share the same bond that Chomar and Sensihr share, as Zhen Mehr is of Mehr, but not Mehr of Zhen Mehr.
Zhen Mehr is the last mind Mehr created as independent, and so Mehr is called Epid Mehr (Still Mehr), though Mehr has been neither still nor silent. Also seven is considered a fortuitous number in creation as Mehr created seven minds – Mehr’s own, the Pentiad, and Zhen Mehr.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 8:03 PM 
