Yet Another History of Satan

Magus Thomas Potter, 2003

What is the difference between a living body and a dead one? Quantum theory, suspects that there may be another seven or more dimensions that are so tightly elusive that science lacks the tools to measure them. I propose that life and awareness emanates from these dimensions, and this is where my theories of dynamism and panentheism begin. These virtual dimensions may house conscious non-beings — that is, these beings exist mostly or exclusively outside the heavier measures of time and space that we are normally aware of.

In physics, each subatomic particle seems to have some virtual companion that mediates with other subatomic particles. These virtual particles have mass ¹ but do not seem to exist within the four dimensions that we are certain to exist. Physics recognizes — with a good degree of certainty — the four dimensions of time, height, width, and depth. It is, however, suspected that there may be another seven or more dimensions that are so tightly elusive that science lacks the tools to measure them. Real particles do seem to pop out of nowhere, and then vanish again. These particles may emerge from these dimensions and return again. They may also be the remains of those socks that disappear in the vortex of a dryer. The theory is that virtual particles travel within these virtual dimensions where there is a whole range of events within this virtual world that science has yet to ask about, much less define and measure.

This may even answer the question “what makes the difference between an amoeba and a pool of the same chemicals that are not as alive?” This emergent quality that allows an amoeba to will its way through the world may exist within these emergent, virtual dimensions. We call this emergent quality “spirit” or “mind.” There are some events in the universe that do not seem alive, the table upon which I am drafting this essay upon, for one thing. Perhaps events exist entirely of emergent or virtual material. These virtual beings may have an evolutionary process ². This evolution may include a participation with material in the four larger dimensions. Then again, living events contain a virtual species of its own. It is this author’s assertion that gods ³ are one species of virtual beings. Fairies are another. The shapes they take are conditioned by Pareidolia.

A god is a species of virtual being that is a part of the Universe. They have a beginning, and evolution, and an ending. It seems that some gods participate in creation — usually by finding something to make other things with. Still, our stories of the gods may themselves be attempts to explain things that are otherwise unexplainable.

It is known that some of these gods take an interest in human development — a little like 4^th grade teachers. Our need to make sense of the world creates archetypes. The gods take these archetypes and “play their parts” accordingly. They do this — I believe — so they may lead us into enlightenment, easily and with a minimum of struggle. Sometimes — for whatever reasons — the Eternal One, Herself, may take on some of these roles.

1. They interact and influence mass, and so must have gravitation, and so must have mass.

2. Which would infer a chance that individuals, and even entire communities of individuals, can die.

3. I would classify angels as the same sort of beings as the gods.