7.
The Edge of Infinity

      Throughout the sweep of galaxies and the whirl of planets, nothing of time and space is fixed or immutable. From within the temporal flow and the spatial blanket of relative existence, realities seem to surge into being from nowhere, only to fade and vanish again.
      The finite, however, is a mode of being, embedded within the reaches of infinity. From a higher perspective, there are no beginnings or endings, only endless transformation.

      Gaze with me in your imagination, if you will, at the incessant appearings and disappearings of realities within creation. Planets swell into being, then vanish through interaction with other space bodies. Civilizations arise, only to fall to earth and become blowing dust. Humans come forth from their mothers, then close their eyes in the final earthly sleep.
      Our view is too close to follow the true trail of the realities involved. Let us drift up, in our visualizing, to a height whose perspective includes more of the panorama of being. Observe, from this increased elevation, wispy streamings in the scene below, not visible from close proximity. Each reality carried on the currents of time leaves behind it a wake which, shimmering and expanding, joins with reality wakes from other realities.
      Keeping our eyes focused intently on the reality wakes as they fade, you and I detect faint stirrings, within the spaces where the reality wakes were, which gradually solidify and emerge to the light of being as new realities, or temporo-precipitates. Not absolutely new, but relatively new: reality consequences of the passage-of-being of the original realities, which created the reality wakes. And suddenly you and I understand that the realities of creation do not appear or disappear: they transform, through the coils of time, into other realities. The universe is a cosmic butterfly of many parts, and time is the medium through which it waves its scintillating, metamorphosing wings.

      Personality, upheld directly by the Infinite Personality, who is also the Infinite Unifier, always functions to unify its constituent realities. Some personalities are infinite, as the Infinite Deities. Some are more than finite, as transcendent personalities. And some are finite, as mortal persons. Some are estate-progressive, as mortals who, after death, repersonalize in higher estate, taking with them only the character consequences of their previous living and leaving, in the universe domains of their previous activity, spreading reality wakes and gradually appearing and transmuting temporo-precipitates.
      As you and I study the reality transformations of temporo-precipitation, we gradually realize that personalities of mortal ascenders are exempt from the cycle of disappearance and reappearance through reality wakes. Each ascending personality periodically detatches itself from its associated cluster of personality realities and reattaches itself, like a celestial comet's head, to a different ensemble of cosmic reality. Personality is the reality organizer and unifier of the cosmos. It can function at any levelate of being. Existing at the dimensionless line where the temporal and finite meet the eternal and infinite, personality is the edge of infinity.
      Personality's dimension of action is choice. Volition. Action selection based on values. Goals are not values, they are means to ends. As you and I gaze, in our imaginations, at the endless reality transactions of life, we perceive that choice is sometimes abandoned for reaction. Cultural or environmental circumstance can cause mere conformance to appear to be personal volition.
      Contemplating the magical function of choice, you and I resolve never to abandon this gift of the Infinite.