The Field and the Life
by Hermit Crab 26.02.2007, changed 02.03.2007

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The Field is not an object; it is not a creation of the Great Mystery. It is the manifestation of the Great Mystery in the form of energy – a presence that moves within the unmanifest emptiness like light waves through space, or sound waves through silence. Through this process there is the potential for the creation of all things – for manifest energy to become existent as the patterns of its movement. The movement of the Field is the inherent cause of everything that was, is or ever could be. We know it as the Life.

Everything that is made, therefore, is made by the Life and with the Life, and nothing is made without it that is made.

Without first manifesting as potential in the Life, nothing can be existent. What causes the Life to move as it does remains a Mystery – we do not see the potential, only the resultant patterns. In this way the Life can be compared to the dream of a thing before it exists; but it is also the ordering principle that holds it together while it exists, and the destructive force that makes it cease to exist. The Life is the very ground of existence.

Without manifesting as the Field, the Great Mystery is not present; being manifest in the Field, the Great Mystery is omnipresent. Because of this reality, we know that the Life is present in all things though we do not see it. But at no point does the Field have any reality or manifestation outside the Great Mystery, which is always One. Thus the Great Mystery and the Field are One, though the first gives birth to the second.

[Editor's Note: This article is based an excerpt from introductory material to a forthcoming novel-in-progress, The Peasant and the King. It is the second part of the section entitled, Forward to the Source: The Eightfold Concentric Path of God. The author, Hermit Crab, is the creator of the Fish Out Of Water Project (FOOW.Org) and is a frequent contributor to The Four Precepts Web Portal.]