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MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA<br />

M.M.NINAN<br />

Definition: The term "Unmanifest Absolute" is here used to define the essential, primary<br />

aspect of the Absolute Reality. "Unmanifest" because this cannot be explained in terms<br />

of any manifest reality, neither mundane nor transcendent.<br />

"The Absolute is the unknowable, undefinable, unfathomable, immutable, timeless,<br />

spaceless, indivisible, formless Omnipresent Divine Reality"<br />

Because no positivities can define it, the Unmanifest Absolute is described time and<br />

again in negative theology.<br />

Examples: See Formless, Emptiness, Mystery in the World Religions for many<br />

examples. This is the original or first principle in the Perennial Philosophy and all mystic<br />

teachings. Mahayana Buddhism (Tathata, Sunyata, etc),<br />

Advaita Vedanta (Nirguna (qualityless) Brahman),<br />

Valentinian and Sethian Gnosticism (Forefather),<br />

"Pseudo"-Dionysius and Meister Eckhart (Godhead),<br />

"Infinite/Spirit" in the Great Chain of Being diagram of Huston Smith<br />

http://www.kheper.net/topics/metaphysics/unmanifest_absolute.html<br />

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