Excerpt from Aikibojitsu and The Structure of Natural Law, by Tom Read Sensei
The Asymptotic Structure of Space
Pattern within nature suggests a deeper movement, a subtler level of determinative patterns that govern final
manifestation. To human senses designed to perceive the contracted, such patterns are mostly undetectable;
usually only their effects can be observed. These patterns are principles of the nonmanifested, expressions of
preference of the Decontracted Unknown, determinant of the manifested finality of what is. Causally superior,
determinative principles guide and control all action, yet their fundamental nature is not fully restrictive, as a near
infinite range of permutations within their confining bounds allows a near infinite range of possibility within
manifested creation.
Although not strictly formal, determinative principles are not formless either, as each principle expresses
partiality, a departure from pure formlessness. As such, determinative principles carry characteristics of material
substance, but preformal, before form. Taken in their totality, determinative principles comprise a spectral range
of relative definition from most general to most specific, a spectrum of relative contraction that unites the asymptotic
poles of Decontracted Unknown and Contracted Unknown. This spectrum, fully outside of the bounds of time, is
the Stream of Creation. Within the Stream of Creation, superior principles define the limits of inferior principles:
Chaos gives birth to possibility; possibility gives way to probability; and probability ultimately drops away
completely in the immutable instantaneous moment of manifested finality.
The Decontracted Unknown is the origin of Creation. It could be conceived of as an infinite, featureless,
chaotic well of potential from which energy emanates, ultimately to coalesce into total order. At the asymptotic
limit of the decontracted pole there is no thing, only the profound, silent emptiness of absolute potential. At the
other end of the creative stream is the Contracted Unknown, the final timeless moment of manifestation in which
there is total order. Within it, all possibility of change comes to an end as potential drops fully away, the final
contraction frozen and immutable.
Intrinsically hidden, the Stream of Creation is almost totally beyond conception. Nevertheless, certain primary
principles can be identified within it. These primary principles are unique and determinative, fundamentally causal
with respect to manifestation. Combining and interacting within the preformal field, the interaction of the primary
principles creates an extremely complex web of causality, interference patterns of determinative structure, that are
in themselves unique and causal. The infinite number of determinative interference patterns that comprises the
preformal determinative field, is the embodiment of the structure of Natural Law.