Thoughts

Thoughts are the imprint of the will. Prayer is focused thought.

Thoughts are very important within creation and it is hard to grasp how important it is to control your own thought. Thought forms the main interconnections between people that remain within God's image (God's mirror existence inside of time), despite fragmentation. Remember that the only thing separating people within God's image, from being one, is fragmentation (evil) which is "tending to non-being".

Thoughts as a form of existence allow us to achieve more truth than is capable with crude objects, even when used as symbols. The main purpose of symbols is to unite a community so that the thought of its members takes on a more homogeneous form or existence and is more powerful through the use of symbols.

With homogeneous thought, power is distributed among those that hold it in relation to its intensity, insofar as the thought's existence represents the will of an entity that is hopefully completely of God (but since absolute truth does not exist within creation, nothing is completely of God). Facets of God's fragmentation that are spiritual are called angels and only contain a static will that tends towards positive or negative. Negative angels are also called demons. These angels are the only persistent connection (not temporary, but enduring throughout time) I see between the God outside of time and the God's image, inside of time. The angels must be static though they can take on a form. The angels must contain a part of God's duality (God with the fragmentation of evil) to be able to take on a form.

There is one more connection that could be classified as angels but is called ghosts. They have static wills and are attached to both the static and the dynamic, i.e., the static God or not-God and the dynamic mix of the two ... to be clearer they are attached to God both in its form outside of time and its form within time (or attached to not-God which is possibly in both places but definitely within time).

So, thoughts take on a form through memory and an existence that is part of the duality with God that takes place within time. The highest goal then is to have our thoughts, their form and existence, represent God by being in harmony with God's will.

We have a natural physical understanding of good and evil through our understanding of physical joy and suffering.