LIFE AND THE LAW - INDIVIDUALITY, FORM AND EVOLUTION

So what does Science tell us about individuality?

In an article from Stanford University, on individuality in quantum theory, Steven French points out that we think of individual things as being different from one another in form. But we could easily imagine two or more things that were the same – like duplicates or clones, they would still be individuals, because they are separate in space. So a separation in space is one way we recognize individuals.

But if I was in the same space now as you were in a moment ago, we would still be individual. So individuality means we are separate not only in space but also time.

Our FORM defines the space we occupy. You form is different from my form – likely not as wide, for one thing! So our form marks us as individuals. Forms are characterized by a beginning and an end, both in space, defining a shape, and in time, defining a duration.

The quantum physics people know that the stuff we’re made of is reducible to identical types of particles. There’s a list of particles only so long, and that’s it. All things are made of these. And these particles are each defined by little wiggly waves of energy called strings that are nothing more that wiggles in the fabric of space. So we are all made of exactly the same stuff – which in metaphysics we call SUBSTANCE.

So all created things are individual by their FORM, which includes their location in space and time, but things are all one by their SUBSTANCE, which is the same for all things, and which comes from the same creation event, the Big Bang.

But what causes our form? Where does our form come from? Well, form has evolved from the big bang. Substance was created in that first moment, but form evolves. And what causes it to evolve? The action of the Spirit within. That invisible essence that is the intelligence of the Universe that is within us, within all things has evolved in form.

Our individuality comes from the individualized Spirit within us, from which grows not only our form in the physical realm, but our personality in the mental realm as well.

So when you read Ernest Holmes, and you read that God is both Love and Law, the Love part is that creative spirit within you, and the Law is the whole ongoing unfoldment of the Big Bang, by which substance is continually being drawn into an infinite variety of forms, changing and shifting with the creative flow, the impulse of Spirit pressing outward to express Itself in countless ways.

The law has remained the same, but the Love, the impulse, the intelligence, the wisdom is still evolving - at least in the physical universe that we experience.