Gospel Koan 20.5

Belief in Gradated Potential

Koan 2.5

The Godspell believes in potential: 'being able to' and thus, possibility over impossibility, probability over improbability, ability over inability.

Summary exposition

The central mechanism is the Godspell's function as the ontological gradient that actively actualizes being along a continuum from impossibility to settled fact. It selectively amplifies possibility into probability and probability into ability, which can then be actualised towards future being: 'action to be'. A potent example is the evolution of a seed into a tree; the Godspell is not the seed alone, but the seed's innate ability via the conference of difference with soil, water, and light that transforms the abstract possibility of a seedling into the high probability of germinating. The implication is that reality is a teleodynamic process, a structured becoming where potential is not static but is inherently compelled to traverse this path of increasing concretization.

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by John Mackay

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