As Above, So Below

"As above, so below."

I have a strong sense that few people understand what this actually means.

It has the ring of truth to it, which means many people hear this statement, and find it naturally resonates with them. Why is that? What does it really mean, instinctively and naturally?

It's not about attempting to reflect heaven on Earth. That is, it's not about humans attempting to divine what lies "above," so that we can bring it to the "below." It's also not about Semitic magic - attempts by humans to control what lies "above," to enact change in the "below."

"As above, so below."

What lies above cannot sit in opposition to what we experience here in the below.

We don't know what lies above. We can't know. It's beyond our reach, beyond our capacity to comprehend at all.

What we know is what we experience - and what we learn through the experiences of others. This means something which seems to escape the minds of most: what lies above cannot possibly be antithetical to what we observe, perceive, and learn about the reality we inhabit.

It's not about control or divination. It never was.

It's about understanding that any philosophy, ideology, religion, or framework of beliefs which demands a view of the above that is antithetical to our physical reality is necessarily a malicious, cancerous deception which must not only be rejected, but loudly opposed.

"As above, so below."

There is no universal depravity, no universal salvation. There can't be, because our reality proves, over and over, that all misdeeds are not equal (in moral or practical terms). Reality proves, over and over, that we are not all the same, and we are not linked by some intangible spiritual bond to all other humans on Earth.

Christianity isn't false because I say so. It's not false because Jews created it. It's false because it demands believers accept that the above is the polar opposite of the below.

If this is true, we are meant to exist in a state of constant psychotic delusion.

Therefore, it cannot possibly be true.

As above, so below.

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