The Subtlest Level of Reality

In our modern world, we think of the most mysterious of realities as photons, electrons, quarks, and neutrinos. For us these substances underlying reality are the most subtle of all, giving rise, of course, to the "real world" of shapes, forms, and living creatures where we live. But Sacred Tradition says otherwise. This not all. Underneath all quantum, microcosmic reality, deeper still, holding all else, is a Realm of transpersonal relationships called "God's Infinite Nature" filled with potentialities and qualities that give rise to every other substance that human beings know directly or that can be detected by science.

Those potentialities have names and possess qualities--we call them the Names and Qualities of God out of which everything else arises. This Ultimate Reality is the foundation of the universe and is a network (or tissue) of transpersonal relationships between these qualities just like human society is a network or tissue of personal relationships.

And we human beings not only have an inner instrument called the heart that can detect this, the finest and most subtle reality of all, but that instrument can also take on (or absorb) those qualities and distribute them throughout the whole of human existence both personal and collective. Everything, then, from the most subtle qualities of God (in living relationship) to the most material of all, forms a web called the "Unity of Being" in which the heart lives and out of which it helps to build its own unique reality called "the Kingdom."

Interestingly, the prophets, the carriers of this most subtle energy and light of the Divine Nature, embody these qualities and make them available to us. They live in these relationships and each in their own unique ways open the human soul through the doorway of the heart to this level of the most subtle of all realms so that we also can embody and manifest (make real, or realize) these qualities ourselves and through them help establish or build the Kingdom--that ultimate realm of human habitation. We also in ourselves on earth can live in the lattice of these relationships--in the living tissue of the Divine Nature beyond quarks, neutrinos, electrons and photons.

It is a great gift made to us--this opening--and it is called a "grace." As the prophets have said, "We have opened you."