How Many Consciouses Do You Think You Are?

This is an imagic world in an imagic universe. Earth is an image of the Divine. It's ecosystems and societal systems are imagic. Our bodies are imagic, too. They are our own “natural order.” We eat starchy, fattening foods because a bacteria in the gut wants it. Cells in our body want oxygen and nutrition. Our natural order gets them to them. Infection occurs and white blood cells, each an individual consciousness, attack.

This is all very simplistic - there are chemical causes and relationships involved, but in principle we are god over billions or trillions of cellular consciouses. This reminds me of Moses’ Jethro. We see it - this symbiotic relationship - going on, and we don’t really understand it. What is its nature? How is one talking to another? What directs its response? God says in Exodus 3:14 that it is all him. The relationship and action is him. Imagic of him because it is the manifestation of him.

And so we wake in the morning to respond. What is directing us? Other cells, or God? Our own self-lordship, or is there another purpose we can rely on?