IV.2.1 Ultimate Symmetry and Ultimate
Asymmetry
Although known by Allah for all eternity, the Constant
Entities are nonexistent at the level of Inclusive Oneness, because at this
innermost level of being, no other existence may be conceived, not even the
hypothetical observer. Therefore, in the end, there is only One God, and
nothing else may exist besides Him, the most Exalted Real. Nevertheless,
because He is Real, and His existence is not temporal or conditional, God
exists with everything else, while nothing may ever exist with Him! Indeed,
this primordial fact is the source of the arrow of time and, equivalently, all
kinds of motion and change, or creation in general; otherwise if any (confined)
observer may equally see God as He is seeing us, He will also be confined, and
there will be multiple real beings.
Therefore, as a matter of fact, from our point of view as
created entities, geometry and counting should be non-commutative and
absolutely asymmetrical, because the existence of every single thing is utterly
temporal and restricted to its instantaneous state of being that can not
persist for two moments. Although the total configurations of most objects seem
to be invariant under many conditions, this is only because we are ignoring
many microscopic details, otherwise everything is constantly changing and never
repeated the same at all. Geometry is commutative and absolutely symmetrical
only from the point of view of God, because for Him all things exist at once
and nothing is ever changing. Actually, this can be conferred even from the
current formulation of Lorentz group although it still does not realize the
hidden discrete symmetry of the genuinely-complex time-time geometry, since it
considers both space and time to be continuous. The fact of the matter is that
it is not possible to conceive multiple things simultaneously without moving at
the speed of light that should be treated as infinite as we explained in
Chapter I. Only under this condition we can be here and there at the same time,
and we are temporarily experiencing this, especially with the sense of vision,
when we look at physical objects, but this perception is temporal and
imaginary, as we explained in Chapter II.
For God, however, this is always the case, because He is
the Light of the heavens and earth [Quran, 24:35], and this gives Him real
knowledge of all things as they are. We are confronted will all kinds of
singularities and infinities only because we are treating our perceptions as
real, and continuous, while they are in fact (hyperbolically) imaginary, and
thus granular and non-commutative. We are actually seeing things by God, and we
are not gods, and that s why we will not be able to understand their realities,
unless we realize that we are looking through Him. Ibn al-Arabi expressed this
nicely by saying:
If my beloved is manifest, with
whose eye I may see Him? Through His Eye, not with mine, for except Himself
none may ever see Him.
The science of Time is a noble science, that reveals the secret of Eternity. Only the Elites of Sages may ever come to know this secret. It is called the First Age, or the Age of ages, from which time is emerging.
