Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

Religion is political. To the Ancients, monotheism was monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as analogies of multiculturalism.

The Romans adopted and co-opted gnostic Christianity as the Empire solidified and remnants of the Republic were being erased, aka, political branding.

The problem for Western thought is reality is more dualist, than monolithic. Even "matter" is more positive and negative charge, than any actual substance.

The absolute stands in contrast to the infinite. Zero to infinity.

One of the more primative aspects of our current worldview is our concept of time as the point of the present, moving past to future, rather than change turning future to past.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy goes "past to future," as it generates patterns rising and falling, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. As lives go birth to death, future to past, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Cosmic convection cycles.

Feedback loops.