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Obliteration apotheosis3/2/2023 Cooper hatches a plot to save humanity by entering the Black Holewhich we discover leads not to obliteration but is a gateway to a higher dimension transcending space and time. Cooper gets the opportunity to break his chains when he learns of a mission to save humanity and volunteers to travel into the wormhole that “they” made for humans. Life on Earth is temporary and time is running out: “Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return.”Ĭooper has no appetite for farming but dreams of using his knowledge and training to ascend into the heavens. In the film, we learn all plants are doomed to die out and humans will starve and suffocate as a result. They represent humanity’s frailty in the face of time and change. It is no accident that the action begins in a world where most human effort has been reduced to farmingthe symbol of humanity’s dependence upon nature for life. This story should sound familiar to those who have seen Interstellar. They sought a hidden gnosis by which to shed creatureliness altogether and leave this world behind. Rather, they repudiated their material bodies claiming not to belong to this world but to a higher realm free from all the limitations. Gnostics did not look forward to improving finite human lifea vulgar life of scratching a living from the dirt, a reminder of one’s fundamental dependence upon nature. They understood humans to represent sparks of the divine imprisoned in material bodies. The Gnostics recognized a sharp contrast between the inferior and finite world of matter and the transcendent spiritual realm of the divine. This modern apotheosis closely follows a path laid down long ago by the ancient Gnostics. In the future, we ascend to the fifth dimension, freeing ourselves from finitude. We discover this when Cooper travels into the Black Hole and discovers that “they” are really “us” only now perfected such that we are no longer bound by space and time. The boundary between the finite and perfected is no longer a location in space but the limitations of four-dimensional spacetime itself. In Christopher Nolan’s film Interstellar, the “fifth dimension” plays the same role formerly played by the heavens. This has not stopped the modern imagination from finding a realm for the transcendent. There is neither absolute space nor privileged location in the new, constantly expanding universe. Modern science has expanded the cosmos so far beyond the ancient imagination that not only do we now find the idea of divinities living in the sky absurd, but we cannot even place new gods at the edge. Whether YHWH or Marduk, deities reside at the farthest limit of the world. The Israelites and Babylonians understood the solid sky to represent the edge of the created order and placed gods there accordingly. Humans typically situate their divinities at the border of the cosmos.
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