Gospel of Being: ready reference
A concise guide to the conference of difference
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Introduction
This is the summary guide to the Gospel of Being; a groundbreaking new testament which observes all existence to be a Conference of Difference (CoD), thus identifying the process primitive of existence itself—its first principle. This is not a replacement for the book, but rather a summary that permits readers of articles and essays that reference the work to engage with its core themes.
Note: A Note on the Prefix *Con*-
The reader will observe that many of this work's foundational terms—condition, conference, consciousness—derive from the Latin prefix *con*-. This prefix bears a profound and generative ambiguity, meaning both 'together' and 'against'. This is not a defect of language but a revelation of ontology. Existence itself is the perpetual negotiation between these two poles: the drive to declare together (co-petition, synergy, atonement) and the necessity of declaring against (competition, distinction, forgiveness). The definitions that follow are crafted to hold this tension, for the 'conference of difference' is nothing less than the dynamic interplay of bearing together and bearing apart.
Being: the foundation
- Koan 10.1: Principle of existence
- Koan 10.2: Many names, one truth
- Koan 10.3: From dust to galaxies
- Koan 10.4: Towards life
- Koan 10.5: The making of sentience
- Koan 10.6: The genesis of all being
- Koan 10.7: All that is
Belief: the attitude of the Gospel
- Koan 20.1: Radical hope
- Koan 20.2: The gift of imperfection
- Koan 20.3: All being is problematic
- Koan 20.4: The journey of realizing
- Koan 20.5: Allegiance to potential
- Koan 20.6: The ethic of existence
- Koan 20.7: Belief made flesh
Freedom: the illusion of unbinding
- Koan 30.1: The illusion of freedom
- Koan 30.2: All being is relationship
- Koan 30.3: Existence is structured
- Koan 30.4: Dancing within bonds
- Koan 30.5: Ascent into order
- Koan 30.6: Path of least resistance
- Koan 30.7: Cascading ties
God: the first principle
- Koan 40.1: Principal to existence
- Koan 40.2: Enabling everything
- Koan 40.3: God before everything
- Koan 40.4: God realizes all
- Koan 40.5: God's image
- Koan 40.6: God is perfect
- Koan 40.7: Universal endless genesis
Knowing: the imperfect measure
- Koan 50.1: Imperfect knowing
- Koan 50.2: The gospel is complete
- Koan 50.3: Invitation to realize
- Koan 50.4: Objective vs subjective
- Koan 50.5: Towards consciousness
- Koan 50.6: The want of intelligence
- Koan 50.7: The dance of uncertainty
Meaning: the direction of being
- Koan 60.1: Meaning as intending
- Koan 60.2: Adaptive intention
- Koan 60.3: Meaning and sense
- Koan 60.4: Consciousness
- Koan 60.5: The success of meaning
- Koan 60.6: The means to power
- Koan 60.7: The purpose is ability
Power: the currency of existence
- Koan 70.1: Least resistance
- Koan 70.2: Power as latent ability
- Koan 70.3: Regulating power
- Koan 70.4: Corruption of power
- Koan 70.5: Power to adapt
- Koan 70.6: The power to transform
- Koan 70.7: The want of power
Reciprocity: the regulating principle
- Koan 80.1: The pulse of God's spell
- Koan 80.2: The law of return
- Koan 80.3: Reciprocal altruism
- Koan 80.4: Prototype to sharing
- Koan 80.5: Proportional response
- Koan 80.6: Towards responsibility
- Koan 80.7: Maintaining equilibrium
Salvation: the harmony of relation
- Koan 90.1: Two testaments
- Koan 90.2: Atonement
- Koan 90.3: Forgiveness
- Koan 90.4: Cause & effect
- Koan 90.5: Harmony
- Koan 90.6: Minimizing unease
- Koan 90.7: The path to salvation
Transformation: the eternal condition
- Koan 100.1: Ceaseless transformation
- Koan 100.2: Without beginning or end
- Koan 100.3: One chorus to another
- Koan 100.4: Transformation itself
- Koan 100.5: Collaborative transformation
- Koan 100.6: The sacred engine
- Koan 100.7: Transformation is relative
Last updated: 2026-03-19