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PART 3 Asma The Synthesis - Identity * * * * * * * * * * (Format: an organised whole with a minimum of three parts.) PUTTING IT ALL TO WORK – INFORMATION GAIA’S COSMOLOGY GIVES US. We see now that with two concepts alone, those of energy (for matter-mass is now regarded as simply a special form of energy), and organization (li at various levels of its manifestation), our whole world can be built up. Since the guiding thread of the rise of organization shows itself throughout the evolutionary process, we are to look for it in the history of human society as well. Joseph Needham (1969). * * * * INTRODUCTION What’s it all for? What’s it All About? Yes, I mean the Big Questions of life, the universe and everything. There are answers – and that’s what this Asma, this Part 3 is about. But also here, in this book, in my laboured description of Gaia’s cosmology, the Pattern of the World, the four energies and so on – what was that all about? In other words, why on earth have I walked you through all that rather detailed stuff? Because: by using the skeleton of the cosmology and its flesh, as Needham says, ‘our whole world can be built up’. Meaning, we can construct a formal, working model of it – which is what we did in Part 2. So now, using this as a foundation, we shall be able to see how sensible answers to The Big Questions emerge. As I said earlier, in the Sufi model of creation (and evolution), Asma is the third phase or stage: it’s the part of integration and completion – of synthesis, wholeness, and therefore of identity – of the universal pattern of process. Whitehead calls this the ‘satisfaction’. Symbolically it is a Three, and here it is the heart of this book. Asma, as Pak Subuh said over and over again, is ‘the working together of God and Nature’. Alternatively, as he explained at other times, it is the working of any organised, pur