Universe

The Universe is the total manifest order — All that has taken form, at every scale, held as one.

Physically, it is everything the sciences survey and infinitely more than they have yet illuminated: the Observable Universe is the lit porch of a house whose extent remains Dark (Energy). Metaphysically, the Universe is not a container of dead objects but one Living System — the body of manifestation, emanating from, existing in, and returning to the ØNE, every part interexistent with every other (The Holarchy of the ØNE).

The Creator's Intent for the Universe is the ultimate context of every smaller intent (Intention); the Meta Authority of the Universe transcends every temporal authority; and its daily gift — the income of Energy from sun and cosmos that powers all Life — is the original commons, the endowment on which every economy actually runs.

And because no mind holds the Universe whole, we inhabit it through renderings: every cosmology, every physics, every sacred story — and the LIØNSBERG Narrative Universe itself — is a Current Best Articulation of the one Universe that exceeds them all (Essences, Renderings, And Ineffable Referents · Map of Reality).

Discussed in: Observable Universe · LIØNSBERG Narrative Universe · The Map of the LIØNSBERG Universe