Analogue 45 The Manifest and the Un-manifest In the ordinary world, if something appears to be absent or is not manifest to us (to our ordinary senses), we imagine it to be outside of or beyond this world. Conversely, if something is known and obviously present to us (if we can perceive it), we define it as being a product of or caused by other things in the horizontal world in some material way. But imagine if these categories are entirely insufficient to define reality. These are simply our categories, based upon the senses, imposed upon our world. In our reality, that which fails to be detected by the sense cannot be said to exist—at least in materialist philosophy. The truth, however, is that much of what we know to be reality, exists beyond sensory awareness. From the viewpoint of this Gospel multiple conditions (seen and unseen, manifest and un-manifest) exist and neither condition excludes the other. If we allow an exclusion (or fail to recognize an excluded dimension) that woul...