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Laszlo offers two concepts of the Devine, one the minimum, the other the
maximum. In the minimum, a Devine agency (God)
creates the potentials for a self-creating
universe but is not required for divine
intervention thereafter. In this minimum
concept the processes of virtual domain's
'in-forming' are the means by which God guides
the unfolding of the evolutionary process.
In the minimum concept of the Devine, encoded in
the primordial virtual energy domain were two
potentials, one for the manifest entities and
one for consciousness.
In the maximum concept, that domain
constitutes the primordial nature of God.
[Laszlo, p. 116]
Thus, with the maximum concept of the Devine,
two perspectives are possible.
When manifest entities assume the
standpoint of an external observer, they
find that evolution leads from a field of
virtual energies endowed with pure
potentials (the primordial cosmic plenum),
to a virtual energy-field containing the
full record of the realization of those
potentials (the fully in-formed field
at the termination of the evolutionary
process). And when manifest entities
take the stance of the introspective
observer, they find that evolution leads
from a mystical nothingness filled with
potential to a mystical coherence that
embraces everything in the whole of
experience.
In the maximum concept the introspective
perspective on the scale of the cosmos as a
whole is the perspective of God....The
evolutionary process occurs within God's
consciousness...[and it all ends] in the
complete coherence of all things that exist
in space and time. It marks the full
achievement of divine creativity: ultimate
coherence in the mind of God.
[Laszlo, pp. 117-118]
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