The Veil of Ignorance

The veil of ignorance is a trickster. Once we have chosen ignorance we never know where it will manifest. It is as a prolific weed that is also a chameleon able to pretend. It replicates itself everywhere we look and fashions itself to appear to be what we are looking for. It sets the parameters for denial and we begin to consider things as they are not. It does not mimic the rational mind, it employs it.

In our social experience ignorance is prolific and as we grow and fit ourselves in, we give it permission and accept things as they are not. To be a member of the social community it seems a rite of passage.

It has a true purpose. Having become the filter, clouding the lens through which we consider everything, we are given our appointment. It is intended that we learn to see it. To learn its tricks and and then we can find our way.

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Comment by Mystic Tourist on February 4, 2012 at 1:48pm: It is true Ron, Divine essence is not a term I favor but I have no quarrel with it. I want to comment in greater scope to your post but haven't the time just now. I find that your comment is thought provoking, no surprise there. Perhaps I will remember to get back to it when I have some time. Thanks Ron.

Comment by Ron Krumpos on February 3, 2012 at 3:45pm: Michael, in my ebook I mention (spiritual) ignorance often. Sufis refer to it as the veil which obscures Reality. You don't care much for the term divine essence, so substitute love, grace and spirit.

37 Using Allah, (celestial) Buddha, God, ha-Shem, Ishvara, or other words does not change the divine essence. Preeminent Reality is the holy One in All and All in the wholly One. Soul is simply a word for our spiritual essence, now separated from the ocean of Reality by a cloud of ignorance. Like rain, it does come from that ocean and it will eventually return to it. The billions of souls on Earth are just as surface ripples in the vastness of the universal One.

60 Divine essence might be felt as spiritual energy, an interpretation acceptable to many religions and mystics. Matter is the mass, the apparent physical makeup of this Universe. As spiritual awareness, suprarational consciousness could figuratively be “seeing the light” or, more literally, penetrating the cloud of ignorance that prevents people from realizing the divine. Some mystics speak of awareness of a divine light; Einstein himself said that the “most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.”

73 In mysticism, sin is while the self is separated from the divine by ignorance. We can overcome ignorance of eternal life by accepting at-one-ment with One in the All. We can close the huge gap, as seen through dualities of space and time, between our self and the transcendent divine by reuniting our self with the divine immanent in our soul. It is not our soul, it is an emanation of infinite, eternal divine essence that permeates all of existence, regardless of how we view the creating process. Religion and science address only parts.