Rereading Existence Through the Language of Mystery The Universe, Humanity, and the Breath of God

Soyo Existence Ethics – Chapter 94

Existence itself is Ethics.

Why the Word Mystery Should Have Been Applied to Human Existence First

For centuries, the word 'mystery' has been imprisoned within the vastness of the universe. Science called the birth of stars a mystery; philosophy called the background of Being a mystery; religion called the acts of God a mystery. Yet human existence itself has long been excluded from this language. What could be more mysterious than human pain, human conscience, the human soul, and human breath?

Thus, Soyo Existence Ethics declares:

The word mystery should originally have referred to human existence.

Before the primordial mysteries of the universe, the eternity within human existence already was. If the purpose of the universe is human life, then the human being must be the very vessel of the universe's mystery. The moment a human breathes, sheds tears, or feels the trembling of conscience, no science, no phenomenology, no deconstruction can explain it. It is inexplicable, and because it is puzzling, it is a mystery found not in the heavens but within humanity.

The Order of the Universe and the "Invisible Hand" Science Cannot Name

Scientists know well how precisely the universe is ordered. If gravity differed by even 0.0001, life would cease to exist. If Earth's orbital speed shifted even slightly, we could not breathe where we stand now.

Is such precision a coincidence?

Is the universe a self-sustaining machine?

Does the cosmos possess the intelligence to calibrate itself?

Soyo Existence Ethics responds:

Precision always presupposes intention. The order of the universe comes from the breath of God. 

The stars already know this order. The planets dance upon it. The Earth has never once failed to turn. This is not data that science can fully decipher. It is a trace of divine personality, a signature of intention. And what is the purpose of this order? Human existence. For the soul of one human being, the universe moves with unfailing accuracy.

Stephen Hawking and the Paradoxical Proof Left by Atheism

Stephen Hawking studied the vast cosmos and concluded that God does not exist. Yet from the perspective of Soyo Existence Ethics, his denial becomes paradoxical evidence. Why? Because to deny the existence of God, one must first assume the concept of God.

Moreover, Hawking saw more deeply than most into the universe's structural harmony and mysterious order. He denied God with his lips, yet his eyes witnessed divine order every day. No matter how precisely humans calculate the cosmos, their calculations can never account for what lies outside the cosmos. What Hawking denied was not God Himself, but the Owner of an order so vast that no human mind could bear the weight of it.

Why Human Existence Is Greater Than the Universe

The universe has no conscience.

The universe has no ethics.

The universe has no meaning of life.

The universe merely turns.

But human beings feel guilt, know shame, tremble in conscience, love, forgive, and weep. That trembling is not material. That sensation is not neural. That depth is not scientific. It is the personal breath of God placed at the center of human existence. Thus, the human being is not smaller than the universe; the human being can contain it. The universe does not hold humanity; humanity's eternity is deeper than the cosmos itself.

The human being is the only creation that transcends the universe, and the basis of that transcendence is conscience.

Without the Relationship Between God and Humanity, No Philosophy Can Explain Human Dignity

Neither science, nor philosophy, nor humanism can explain the worth of human existence. Why? Because the value of human existence arises only from the relationship between God and humanity, the universe cannot provide humans with ethics. Nature cannot give humans love. But God has given humanity eternity, free will, and conscience. Before this truth, philosophy falls silent. Thus, Soyo Existence Ethics teaches that the reality of human existence can be understood only within the love of God. No other discipline can accurately explain the eternity and dignity inherent in human existence.

The Central Conclusion of Soyo Existence Ethics:

The Mystery of the Universe Is Completed Within the Human Being

The universe is mysterious. Yet the human being contains that mystery.

The universe is precise. Yet the human conscience is deeper still. The universe is beautiful. Yet the eternity of a single human life is more noble.

Thus, Soyo Existence Ethics arrives at a simple yet profound conclusion:

If the universe is a mystery, the human being exists by the providence of that mystery. The universe is the background, human existence is the purpose. The universe is order, human existence is eternity. And this eternity is proven in this very moment in the writing of this text, in the coming and going of breath, in suffering and rising again.

One human breath proves the existence of God.

One human conscience proves the reality of eternity.

One human existence fulfills the purpose of the universe.

Soyo (逍遙) — Founder of Soyo Existence Ethics. Author of The Silence of Existence, The Flame of Truth

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