On Participating In Being

Every being (small b) is being-in-itself, the slight but important connection with Godhood, or Being (capital B), is by way of the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood Within.  In any case, Godhood transforms or transmutes, that is, evolves, into cosmic Godhood. Aquinas said we can't say “running itself runs,” but yes we can, when the runner and running are seen as ongoing and endless evolution, and when we don't give overdo emphasis to abstract things.

The distinction between Being and being is between levels of evolution, with the highest evolved as Being-Godhood, and beings which are still evolving to Godhood. This shows that life is in the old “image of God,” as well as illuminating the old alchemical saying “as above so below.”

Saying such things as “the concrete participates in the abstract” gives far too much attention to the abstract, as metaphysicians tend to do. Even if a metaphysical model may need its abstract “pure form,” definitions and denotations of the concrete are inferior, nonliving, elements of the concrete, or should be considered so.

The concrete in any case is always evolving and changing, as is the river of Heraclitus, and this includes transforming Godhood, therefore “perfection” is not an unchanging thing, even if metaphysics desires an unchanging thing and therefore defines an abstract principle as unchanging. Godhood is as real and alive as you and I, only far higher evolved, and this is the perfection of the cosmos, which  transforms into cosmic Godhood.  Old cosmos continue seeking to evolve to cosmic Godhood, activated by the Spirit-Will within the the life within them.