Gospel Koan 20.2

Belief in Incompletion

Koan 20.2

The Gospel does not believe: ‘grant leave’ in perfect realisation; every being: ‘action to be’, is absolute: ‘separate away from’ perfection—incomplete.

Summary exposition

The central mechanism is the ontological principle that absolute completion or perfection is a state for which 'leave' is never granted, making inherent incompleteness a fundamental condition of all beings. A single, potent example is a circle, which as a conceptual ideal is perfect, but any physically drawn circle is an absolute action-of-being that is separate from and incomplete relative to that ideal. The implication is that reality is constituted not by finished entities but by absolute acts of existence that are defined by their essential distance from static perfection, making becoming a more primary state than being.

The Gospel of Being

by John Mackay

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