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APPENDIX Z62:

2010: Cosmologist Haisch

***

Clones Summa I

(copyrighted & published 1988)

“The purpose I propose that life has is a grand one,
and

even, I think, a logical one. We are the means whereby

God experiences his own potential, and this is why
the

Universe has some of the amazing properties
conducive

to life that it has….” (p. 20)

“The purpose of life is to let God make his own
potential

real. And of course this cannot be limited to
human

experience. God in this view seeks the experience of
all

living things on this planet and wherever else life
might

exist and whatever else it might be like….” (pp.
20-21)

“Back to the question of evil. If we are to
believe

in a God, we would surely like for him or her to
be

benevolent and merciful in addition to all-knowing
and

all-powerful, omniscient and omnipotent. How could

he or she tolerate the cruelty that some inict on
others

(including on animals) and still merit our respect
as a

kind and loving God?

What I am proposing—and it is no original idea of

mine—is that God chooses to deliberately stay off
the

playing eld in order to let freedom of choice create

the new and original experiences that the Universe
affords

and that God seeks through us….” (p. 23)

“The idea of an innite conscious intelligence with
innite

potential, whose ideas become the laws of physics

of our Universe and others, makes sense to me. The

consciousness providing purpose can be called God,

who transforms potential into experience and gives
our

universe a purpose….” (p. 85)

“…God desires to experience his potential….
Because

we are the incarnations of God in the physical
realm, God

experiences the richness of his potential through
us….”

(p. 86)

“The Godhead has innite potential, innite
power, innite

ability…but that is all sterile perfection. In The God

Theory the Godhead chooses to convert potential into

experience….” (p. 122)

“…God’s consciousness
wishes to know itself by

expressing itself. God wishes to make his
potential

real….” (p. 126)

“I believe that we live in a purpose-guided
Universe

governed by the laws of science. There is no
conict

between a Universe of matter and forces and a
Universe

of purpose, because the purpose is what went into
the

laws. In order for God to let himself experience a
part

of his potential, he imagines into existence just
the right

characteristics that a Universe needed to have in
order for

life to originate and then to evolve into complex
beings,

such as you and I. His consciousness caused this
and

it is his consciousness that we share and that is
our

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essence. But the arena in which all this takes place
is

fully governed by the laws of nature including
Darwinian

evolution. Hence there is ample reason to believe in

Einstein, Darwin, and God.” (p. 206)

from the author –

This appendix was added-on by myself in
September,

2012, seven years after Summa II was originally
rst

copyrighted and posted online (2005), four years
after

it (Summa II) was available on Amazon, and
twenty-four

years after Summa I was published by KTAV – and

reviewed and distributed globally.

Note that all the extracts from the Haisch book
are

almost verbatim reprints of key and highlighted
sections

of Summa Metaphysica I’s
featured centerpiece Unied

Formulation (reprinted in Summa II).

Summa I (1988) introduces onto the world scene,
among

other concepts, respectfully, my original concept of Quest

for Potential

∞

as well as the inter-related
Potential∞ as the

core of the Divine.

Note as well that Summa I (God and Evil) maneuvers

with the concept of Divine Contraction of Divine

Consciousness in Summa I’s
book-spanning Theodicy

presentation. (Former seminary student) Haisch’s

presentation (2010) of this theme in his above-noted
The

Purpose Guided Universe is almost a verbatim extract

from Summa I.

Finally, Haisch’s centerpiece theme – the actual title of

his book – The Purpose-Guided Universe
– of Potential

fulllment being the purpose of Creation, is
straight out of

Summa I.

Thus, note that Haisch’s
key and central ideas (2006 and

2010) very directly, to
put it mildly, precisely parallel or

restate – ideas proffered
in Summa I (1988) and Summa II

(2005).

Note, however, that in the
‘history of ideas’ it is not

unusual for (alleged) ‘conceptual breakthrough’ ideas to

‘bubble up’ simultaneously in two unrelated
quarters. Of

course, in his case there are multiple identical concepts

bubbling-up here simultaneously – and therein lies the

issue.

Now, vis à vis
my parochial interests, I am ne with

several almost-identical concepts to my own being

proffered-forth by a ne
astrophysicist. It should be noted,

however, that Summa I
enjoyed considerable global

traction for over 18 years (both online and hard
copy)

before Haisch’s works on
cosmology (2006 and 2010).

One may, of course, give
San Francisco-based Haisch

the benet-of-the-doubt and deem him innocent of

conscious wrongdoing.

Vis à vis the global community’s interests, I am of course

glad that the concepts are being given traction – from

whatever serious corner.
May this trend continue in its

intended spirit of Good Will
to all mankind.

*** Bernard Haisch, The Purpose-Guided Universe. Franklin, New Jersey: New Page

Books. 2010. pp. 20, 21, 23, 86, 122, 126, 206.

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