Our Original Sin Is That We Are Not G-d
Or, What In Our Imagination Is More Holy Than Our Reality?
We, you and I, interior to the demand of this writing, philosophize from the point of the individual to become free and powerful insofar as that power makes us free. We are Hegelian Idealists insofar as we are philosophers, not politicians, and we are concerned with the concrete development of freedom which is higher than all particular materials and political movements.
To start with the second moment of our desire is to centralize the sickliness of our own ambitions and the limits of our own abilities within the heart of the first moment. The contradictions of our desires are not immediately grappled with in contrast to our desires and our ambitions, the first moment of empowerment, the first moment which is the cause and the reason to be and to act. The Real Ego, in contrast to the imaginary Ego, is the One which does not encompass what is outside of it, but grapples with the contradiction between its desire to be all powerful, all knowing, and the inevitable failure of being blind to what is outside of it. It speaks politics when it means Absolute Egoism.
G-d is the name for the Absolute, it is an Imaginary One which somehow can encompass all of what is outside of it. G-d is barred because it is holy and can not be represented as a One in the same way Ego truly represents a One, and because it is split in itself as an Imaginary One. G-d encompasses all peoples and the development of the freedom of all peoples while they are simultaneously at war with each other through their differences in desire and ambitions.
G-d is present when people agree and form higher forms of freedom through synergistic desire, and G-d is present when freedom forms through conflict. G-d knows that the individual is not just irreducible to their psyche, but is part of a total system of demands thinking with and against each other. G-d is the circle which encompasses all Ones and the gaps between them, and thinks the total freedom of all.
Insofar as we are in conflict, we can never be G-d. We must advocate for what we think is good, right, and desirable, which will conflict with others. In this conflict we develop freedom outside of our interior abstract understanding and create it in ourselves and others, even as we form limits and enemies to others. #
We have enemies, G-d does not. Absolute Freedom of all peoples has no enemies, but we only represent ourselves, our original sin is that we are not G-d, that we are not the embodiment of what is outside of our own ambition.
