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 what the images on it do.

Ideals are not absolute, but when everyone assumes their ideals to be, it creates lots of tension.

To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

In pre-classical Greece, the young god would be born in the spring, of the old sky god and the earth mother, but by the classical age, this had become set in stone, as Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal.

So the initial appeal of the story of Jesus was it was a story of a god reborn, in the spring no less. The renewal at the heart of life. Which is where the Trinity comes from.

Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Basically the family as godhead. The Romans adopted Christianity as the state religion around the time the Empire was solidifying out of the ashes of the Republic, because the premise of monotheism, the Big Guy rules, was useful for validating a similar political model.

Though they had to obscure the source of the Trinity, because the premise of renewal couldn't apply to the Catholic Church, as eternal institution.

At least until Martin Luther tried pushing the reset button again.

When the West went back to less central forms of government, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.

With Islam, the process worked the other way around, where the power of a common creed was recognized, then the political process grew up around it.

Nature is essentially dualist, rather than monist.

Even the physical is more positive and negative charge, than any actual substance.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. We have the heart and gut processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through the information precipitating out. So it's the anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.

As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its world functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future, but the reality is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns it's generating form and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, while 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.

Though it's the gut and heart processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information.

The path of least resistance for the energy is to expand out, toward infinity, while the path of least resistance for the information is to coalesce in, toward equilibrium, as one wave is more efficient than many small ones.

So religions, cultures, political structures need that totem at the center, to give focus of the centripetal dynamic bringing a community together.

Yet it has to stay in balance with the overall energy. Nodes in the network. Organisms in the ecosystem. Particles in the field.

Synchronization pulling in and harmonization equalizing out.

That's why for culture, good and bad are a cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. What's good for the fox, is bad for the chicken.

It's the function of culture to synchronize society into one larger social organism. So it needs that totem at the center. Though if context is lost, it spirals into the abyss, of fanaticism.