Gospel Koan 70.7

The Want of Power

Koan 70.7

All being is in will of power—Amen.

Summary Exposition

The central mechanism is the definitive declaration that all existence is fundamentally an expression of the 'will to power', meaning every entity's primary orientation is the actualization and enhancement of its own capacity to be and to act. A single, potent example is a plant growing toward sunlight; this is not a passive event but an active, directional striving to capture and convert energy to augment its vitality and reproductive ability. The ultimate implication, signified by 'Amen', is that this will is the irreducible, axiomatic core of ontology. This will is not an attribute of being; being is the activity of this will, making reality a dynamic field of competing and co-peting centers of force engaged in perpetual self-overcoming—to become something other than what it already is.

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by John Mackay

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