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The
incompleteness of SANCTUM
Entry of the
pilgrim into the midst of her sanctuary, therefore SANCTUM, dumps her (since
her ‘her’, i.e. her sanctuary wall has disappeared in the process) into
personal incompletion (hence un-realness, uncertainty and non-identifiablily).
That’s because SANCTUM has no boundary (defined as limit, hence identity),
hence no ‘other’. Because IT, i.e. the SANCTUM as Holy of Holies (being all
without difference) has (interacts with) no other, it can’t become real and
identifiable, hence remains incomplete. So, by
stepping into the midst of her sanctuary (and relinquishing her self (i.e.
the sanctuary walls)) and becoming (actually returning to) SANCTUM she goes a
step too far, unless, that is, she has intended that her pilgrimage end in
undifferentiated, hence self-less wholeness. Therefore,
in order to reach absolutely certain, because real, albeit relativised
completeness she must first step out of SANCTUM and onto/as her sanctuary
(wall), thereby abiding in the forecourt of SANCTUM, i.e. in the profane. In
other words, to prepare to reach absolutely certain because real completeness
she has first to limit (or slice) SANCTUM, thereby creating a SANCTUM slice,
to wit, a sanctuary, i.e. a particular (hence relative) wholeness presenting
(i.e. presencing) as identifiable unit and sit on (i.e. become) the sanctuary
wall. The sanctuary she thus attains is, however, virtual, not real. To reach
(indeed make) her virtual sanctuary a real one, she needs to invite a visitor
into it. More precisely stated, she needs to collide (or connected it) to
another sanctuary, i.e. a stranger cum visitor. The collision between the two
sanctuaries makes whole, wholly real and having real identities. By quitting
absolute (because undefined, unlimited, hence also uncertain, because
incomplete) SANCTUM she as it were reduces SANCTUM to within a particular
limit (or boundary or slice), thereby falling short of (i.e. failing to be
wholly) SANCTUM (hence returning to incompleteness. The upshot
is that in order to be able (to have the potential) to define (hence
experience) SANCTUM, both relativised and absolutised, the pilgrim must first
fall short of IT. In
religion-speak, a pilgrim who falls short, i.e. who does not reach the mark
(i.e. wholeness in particular and wholeness as such, elsewhere named G-d) is
called a sinner. Only a
limited/sliced whole of unlimited wholeness (likewise goodness, perfection,
truth and so on) has the potential to display (or experience) wholeness, its
display (or experience being absolutely whole by virtue of the fixedness
(read: completion, wholeness, @1’ness, unit or quantum status) of its
boundary (i.e. identity, and any identity will do). Consequently,
the smart pilgrim (but not the mystic) will end her journey (and which
is the Inner Pilgrimage) one step short of the final goal, that is to say, at
the sanctuary but not in its midst. The Inner Pilgrimage ends at the event
horizon of absolute wholeness, completion, perfection, goodness and so on. Alas, the
Inner Pilgrimage to the event horizon of fulfilment (read: completion) ends
in virtual completion, and which is fundamentally incomplete (save for the
pilgrim who seeks virtual completion). |