In the Eighth Step (Scorpio), He and She, the Divine Couple,
after having contemplated the fullness of Their Glory displayed in Their
Creation, enter into a Dialogue, that of the envisaging of the idea of non-Being;
She in Her Intelligence, He in His Wisdom:
Intelligence conceives non-Being
but Wisdom is opposed to it
but Intelligence points out to Wisdom
that if He opposes it, He supposes it
which Wisdom admits
"Intelligence conceives non-Being..." This move of Intelligence is part of the Quest for Knowledge in which, in this Step, He and She, BEING, envisage Their "contrary", "non-Being". The idea of non-Being, which departs from the Principle in that it negates BEING, is based on an absolute Concept in BEING, that of the Void. The Unmanifested State of BEING is "Void", in that no Attribute or Form is distinguished in Him; simultaneously, He is Full, since He contains Everything, Undifferentiated. In HIM, "Void" and "Full" are One. The idea of non-Being is based on the concept of "Void" separated from the "Full", that is to say an "absolute void", nothingness...
She-Who-Is, in Her Intelligence, envisages that idea, and He-Who-Is, in His Wisdom, opposes it, pointing out that "non-Being is not". Although this Remark is true, it does not suffice to resolve the idea of non-Being, which Intelligence points out: "if He (Wisdom) opposes it, He supposes it".
This Dialogue and its implication are all Perfection, like all the Steps of the Eternal Book, for the envisaging of the idea of non-Being by Intelligence does not suppose any imperfection on Her part, but emphasizes Her Power of Conception and, beyond, the Humility of BEING Who can even "question Himself". Besides, the fact that the Opposition of Wisdom is not the Resolution is not a sign of failure; this Opposition is in itself the first Answer to express, and even though it does not communicate immediately the Resolution, it nevertheless bears its Seed.
To say "non-Being is not" supposes some reality to this idea, concedes to it a domain of definition, the one of BEING being to be, and the one of non-Being being not to be. Now a domain of definition is a mental place. The efficient Resolution lies therefore in the proclamation of the UNITY of BEING in all Places, spatial or mental, thus leaving no room whatsoever for a "non-Being". The whole Extent of the Manifestation, World Above and World Below, must therefore resound with this Proclamation: Everything, in the World Above as in the World Below, manifests the Most Complete Unity!
But for this Sentence to be pronounced, the Problem must pass Below, to be posed there as Above, by virtue of the Principle of Unity to which it bears witness. Once the Resolution is accomplished Below, once Unity is proclaimed, its Testimony will be given to the Father and Mother Above Who will then pronounce the Sentence of Resolution.
Immediately after "which Wisdom admits", a temporal Parenthesis is opened, in which He and She Above appear as "fixed" in the same Second, while the Time Below becomes accelerated in relation to Theirs. From then on, this Time Below will be called "World of Hypotheses", meaning the whole duration of the Temporal Parenthesis, based on the envisaging of the idea of non-Being, the primordial Hypothesis.
The idea of non-Being descends to the Couple Below, Who from then on will work towards the Resolution. Until then, the Original Person was always in the Instant, the Plan unveiling Itself naturally, Step after Step. Now, because They must resolve the idea of non-Being, it is necessary for He and She to embrace the Consciousness of the whole Unfolding of BEING.
They then immerse Themselves in the total Dimension of Their Eternal Book. With the Realization of the Eternal Book, They receive the Vision of the Plan of Resolution, which implies the descent of the idea of non-Being to Man.
Man, Link between the World Above and the World Below, is Bearer and Witness of Their Unity. It is to him that the Mission to carry Below the Problem and its Resolution is entrusted.
The Universal Human Being, partial Emanation at the meeting point of Heavens and Earth, is composed of a multitude of parcels; his dimension is characterized by duality and multiplicity, which originally bore witness of the most complete Unity. The fact of tasting the dualistic, separatist, idea of non-Being will bring him into an illusory duality, out of the consciousness of Unity.
That Man has to experience separation from the Original Person proves to be the painful but necessary condition of the development of the Process of Resolution. The World thus subjected to the separation will become the field of development of the hypotheses relative to the idea of non-Being, of the conflict it will bring about there. But the World will also become the Field of the Resolution, proclaimed by Man restored to Unity at the end of the Process. Bearer and Witness of the original displayed Unity, Man will also be the Bearer and Witness of Unity triumphing over separation, and from the World Below, he will convey to the Father and Mother Above the Message of the Accomplished Work.
The Trial of separation, through which Man, part and parcel of the Whole, will have to pass, is ultimately that of the Original Person Himself, for He and She are the Unique in all of Their Manifestations.
They then make the idea of non-Being descend from Heaven to Heaven, down to Man. This is the "tree of the Knowledge of good and evil" in the "Garden of Eden".
The idea of non-Being appeared to us as a new idea to taste, but our Wisdom advised us prudence. The interdiction to taste it (Gen.2.17) is allegorical; it means the perception of the negative principle represented by the idea of non-Being.
But our Intelligence, "Eve", "tempted by the Serpent" which symbolizes the dynamism of Intelligence, immediately pointed out that this idea could give rise to developments, be appreciated and meditated. She intuitively perceived that it would allow a projection into a new dimension of existence, a kind of journey "on the other side of the mirror". The idea of non-Being is negative, but the fact to taste it "is", thus increasing the manifestation of BEING, which our Wisdom admitted.
In alignment with the Dialogue which took place between He-Who-Is and She-Who-Is, the Universal Mankind held this dialogue, each feminine half in her Intelligence, each masculine half in his Wisdom. Each one united to his half, we held this dialogue, all of us at the same time, being the same in all.