What is the Abraham Principle? What concept did that venerable sage actually innovate? And how did he figure it out?
Let’s step back and look at Abraham’s quest as a logical problem. He was seeking some entity capable of creating and controlling the world as a whole. With nothing more than the world itself to go by, he had to work by inference. Knowing that everything that happens, happens for a reason, Abraham set out to discover that reason. Put another way, he set out to identify that being responsible for the existence of… well, you name it: Matter, energy, motion, and life on the grandest scale imaginable. A theory of everything, if you will.
No wonder, then, that he started by worshipping the sun. It is huge, powerful, and immensely influential. It is our preeminent source of light and heat. It drives the hydrological cycle and makes the plants grow and the animals thrive. It sets the days and seasons.
Today, we can overlook the sun. There are countless thousands of people who wake up indoors, take elevators down to subways, commute to skyscrapers they access from underground, and return home at the end of the day after shopping, dining and taking in a show, all without stepping outside. But back then, who knows, in a Middle Eastern Bronze Age society, it was probably a no brainer to see the sun as the creator of all.
But the sun has its limits. The moon rules the night. Tides, biorhythms and moods are all heavily linked to lunar cycles. And if the moon can act where the sun cannot, it shows a certain greatness above and beyond the sun itself. So Abraham worshipped the moon.
Now he could have stopped right there, like the rest of his compatriots. Each heavenly body with its own sphere of influence. Radiate and reflect, give and take, positive and negative, masculine and feminine, duality works fine for many cultures and faiths. But not for Abraham. He recognized duality, yet he suspected an underlying unity. But why?
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