2.6 - Postulate 5

This postulate can be expressed in at least two different ways. One form approaches the concept from the mechanistic aspect of cause and effect. The other is in a form that is more of an anthropomorphic reference, i.e., mind and idea. Both are variations of the same theme. The anthropomorphic is important for later reference. It can lead into the mechanics of the mind of Man.

What I am trying to do here, again, is go around the weaknesses of words. The fourth postulate has something that is potentially productive (a matrix). In the fifth postulate, Creation emerges from this potential. With this Creation, it appears that God completed the Self.

We are dealing with the finite limits of words. One tension with the word completed, used in this context, is how can that which is totally whole and complete be completed? The source was always there. It is from the reference of perception that there appears to be a completion.

Within the Eternal Mind of God, there is an idea. Since this Eternal Idea has an Infinite Will or Limitless Ability behind it, it becomes an actuality. The Source is outside of time; the Mind is outside of time; Truth is outside of time; the Idea is outside of time; and so God's Creation is outside of time. This leads to the next theorem.

Theorem 2 -- Given: God and Eternity are One.

Postulate 5 -- Given: God' s Creation is Eternal.

A significant corollary is contained in this theorem. If God created outside of time, and the creative process and its effect are outside of time, then:

This means that God's Creation is not the big bang as we would like to perceive it. The God-Creative process is eternally happening. This process happens outside of time. It is occurring as I am typing this, just as it is occurring as you're reading this. It's only because this Creative process is Eternally occurring that we can create as human beings. It is our participation in this process that allows us to be, as well as to create. We will go over this idea later.¹²
Putting the first postulate together with the fifth, this theorem occurs:

Postulate 1 -- God is the One Source.

Postulate 5 -- God created Creation.

Again, this presents the fundamental unity of the singularity. Although words tend to cut and break things apart, we are still dealing with a holistic whole; a system Absolutely closed within God. God's Perfect Love, by its inclusive nature, leaves nothing out.

Since God is the one Absolute Source, nothing is excluded, and there is only one Creation, then:

Taking a theorem from the second postulate and linking it with a theorem from this postulate, the result is:

Theorem 4 -- Given: God and Love are One.

Theorem 10 -- Given: God and Creation are One.

The last theorem begins to show the true nature of God's Creation. This Creation, from God's Truth Matrix, has the qualities of Theorems 12 through 12C. Combining previous theorems with this one generates:

Creation and Reality are One. This is in keeping with the definition that reality is an effect of the truth. So is Creation an effect of God's Truth Matrix. Putting the last theorems together with Theorem 9 derives:

Theorem 9 -- Given: Will, Love, Logic, and Truth are One in an Eternal God.

Theorem 10 -- Given: God and Creation are One.

This relates to Theorem 9:

Theorem 9 -- Given: Will, Love, Logic, and Truth are One in an Eternal God.

Theorem 13 -- Given: Will, Love, Logic, and Truth are One in an Eternal Creation.

This is several millennium years old, and subject to about as many interpretations. It is in the book of Genesis. It is as if God reproduced Himself. This is something very similar to what you said before.

What if you said God Created God, would that mean the same to you?

No, not really. Creation reflects the Mind of God, just as art reflects the mind of the artist or ideas reflect the mind of the inventors. It is something that came from the Mind of God and in doing so, extended him. This is also saying that the Mind of God is within Creation itself -- a closed circle.

Another way to look at this is through the concept of math infinities. Say God is the Absolute Infinity, the one Infinity that contains all infinities. God's Love is one infinity removed from this Absolute. God's Logical Mind is one infinity removed from God's Love. The Truth Matrix is one infinity removed from God's Logical Mind, and Creation is one infinity removed from the Matrix. The result -- Creation -- still has infinities within infinities and this goes on infinitely. Yet, Creation is a few infinities short of being God.

Creation cannot extend what it does not have. What it can do is extend itself, and the God that is within itself. This still is a situation where infinities are within infinities...carried out infinitely. This is what this theorem means: Creation can extend the God within it. In doing so, Creation calls to attention its source.

We began with the Absolute in the first postulate and advanced to the fourth postulate. In the fourth postulate, the potential to produce is hinted at. With the fifth postulate, production occurs and God reproduces a facsimile of himself. The path follows from Absolute potential, to actuality, to this actuality extending itself. God extended himself.

Connecting Theorem 11B, with Theorem 14, this idea occurs:

Theorem 11B -- Given: The God-Creative process is the only creative process.

Theorem 14 -- Given: To Create, God extended Himself.

A significant corollary is implied by these last several theorems. If Creation has God's Mind and the Truth Matrix, then:

The reasoning behind this is very simple. Creation was created like unto God, Truth Matrix and all. Creation can extend God just because it has access to the matrix.

If Creation can extend God, we have to have to avoid concepts and questions like: which came first, the chicken or the egg? To avoid this confusion, a flow of causation needs to be established. With Theorem 11 this confusion can be cleared up:

Theorem 11 -- God is the One Source of Creation.

This is saying, from God comes the Creative process. So, even if Creation has the Truth Matrix it can be said:

The essence of the Creator determines the essence of Creation. Since the Creator is Eternally constant, Creation cannot effect the Creator. To do so, would mean the Creator can change and that is against the very definition of God in this work.

The painting did not create the artist, the clay did not create the sculptor, and the invention did not create the inventor. The creative process is one way. It manifests from the Truth Matrix and out. It is very important to note there is a flow of causation in this. Everything starts from the first postulate and its theorems; to the second postulate and its theorems; which takes precedent over the third postulate and its theorems; which takes precedence over the fourth postulate, etc. Here, we begin to see again another closed circle. We can see a one way flow, coming from the one source.

It is difficult for a finite temporal mind, which sees the creative process as linear in time, to grasp the Eternal non-linear Creative process. Our temporal perception of cause and effect to an event sees: creation at one point in time, and this creation did not exist previously. A temporal mind will perceive an Eternal Creation as if it always has been. Even from the infinite Eternal Mind's reference, once it has created, the Creation has always been. This conundrum makes the argument between Creationists and Darwinists non-sequetur. From our reference, physical existence was created and it was created with a complete history.

All Creation stems from the Absolute Will of God. He shared this Will with His Creation so His Creation can create like its Creator. It is important to remember that it is impossible to create without God's Will.

Another way the circle can be perceived closed is with the idea that Creation never left the mind of the Creator (implied in Theorem 10). Life is the best example of this: life in physical form, does not leave life to exist. In fact, life is dependent on life to continue its existence. Life, as a creation, never left its creator. This introduces the next theorem:

Theorem 10 -- Given: God and Creation are One.
or, Creation never left its Creator.

Theorem 11B -- Given: The God-Creative process is the only Creative process.

Theorem 17 states the creation never leaves the creator or, in human terms, ideas do not leave their mind of origin or source. This is obvious when we look at how people create. The idea never leaves the mind of the individual artist or inventor. They only share those ideas. The idea remains in the mind of origin. It is the extension of the idea, from the mind of the artist or the inventor, which creates the idea in physical reality.

Of course, being a mortal mind and working with limited temporal/spatial references, the inventor may forget the idea. That only means that his/her attention and desires are not focused on the idea (at that moment in time). The idea is still within the mind of its source.

Life is still the best example of this extension concept. From this work's reference point, life is the fifth interaction within physics, the one unifying aspect or principle of physics. Unfortunately, modern science does not recognize this. It is the subtlest and yet the most powerful, and the source of the other interactions: the source of electromagnetic, the source of gravitational, and the source of the two nuclear forces.¹³ It can manipulate the others from the most mundane level as a beaver building a dam, to magic and miracles.¹⁴

Life is continually extending itself and, if left alone, will grow exponentially. It does not create itself, but is only extending itself. For example: a mouse does not recreate new life, it just extends mouse, or a whale extends whale, or human extends human, or dandelion extends dandelion. They are extending their own version of life.

Yet, one aspect of life cannot be separated from the other. Life needs life to exist. It can not leave itself and remain in existence. It is dependent on the whole concept of life. This life 'spring' is Eternally occurring, because it is participating in the Eternal Moment of Creation. As a spring comes from the ground, the life spring comes from outside of our immediate perception of realties. It comes out of Eternity. It has a potential to be everywhere at any time. The qualities of life are always the same. There may appear to be many diverse aspects and still, they must be looked at and included as part of a whole.

Do you mean the qualities in life are always the same?

It is like one of the things that you started reading yesterday, that article in Atlantic Weekly, or whatever it was. One of the things the guy was talking about, is saying the Universe is a giant computer, and life is digital (it is either on or it is off.). Life is here or it's not. It doesn't change. When it's here, its qualities are always the same. When it appears not to be here we call it death. Life manipulates what is outside of itself to reproduce, self-organize, and extends itself. This is a continual reoccurring process, and it applies to an amoeba or a rock musician.

The concept of ideas not leaving their source is very much A Course in Miracles thing.

Yes, which brings us to the sixth postulate. Postulate 6 says something that A Course in Miracles says repeatedly.¹⁵