2.8 - Postulate 7

This is the postulate where the "shit hits the fan". Whether it is called the fall from Grace, the original sin, the first mistake, the separation, the first judgment, or the big boo-boo; they are all related to this postulate.

Here begins the major discrepancies and paradoxes that characterize language. Up to this point -- dealing with God/Creation -- words are totally inadequate. Words reflect perception, and when all is one unity, no perception is possible. What is there to perceive if there is only one? In Oneness, communication is not necessary -- there is only knowledge, which in many ways is direct experience. With perception, a duality is involved.

Many such discrepancies and paradoxes in spiritual teachings can be seen in books like the Tao Te Ching, "Those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know".¹⁸ Another good one - both of which, I will refer to later when we deal with magic and psychic phenomena¹⁹ -- is, "He who has absolute power is he who refuses to control anything."²⁰ Socrates understood this weakness of words and could use words to lead anybody into a contradiction.

The first six postulates and theorems introduced a fundamental unity: Creation is One with God. A flow of direction is established with Theorem 16. God effects Creation; Creation cannot effect God. We cannot change our source of life. However, in this postulate, something occurs that appears to fracture that unity. Both Truth and untruth are now in Creation's mind. The concept of God's Creation miscreating an untruth is now coexistent with Creation's Mind (Truth Matrix). Now, the Real and the unreal coexist in one mind.

Definition of terms states an untruth is a law by which nothing works. Given there is a system with a set of laws/truths, an arrangement of those truths produced something not applicable to the system. The truth was 'twisted' and the result is not relevant to the existing system.

Two math equivalents can illustrate how a logic system can 'fold up on itself'. One is division by zero. Division by zero creates something totally unrelated to the original logic system and makes a jump out of math reasoning. If for example you divide 12 by 2, which equals 6, through math reasoning the proof of this is 2 x 6 = 12. However, if you divide 12 by 0, no matter what answers you come up with, there is no proof to show that this answer is true. There is no number that you can multiply times 0 to equal 12.

Another very good math example -- which is actually much closer to what is portrayed here in Postulate 7 -- is taking the square root of a negative number. It is only possible to take the square root of a positive number.²¹ Taking the square root of a negative number, creates a whole new number system. This number system is called the imaginary number system, which is fitting because we will be dealing with an imaginary reality later.²²

The imaginary number system is a mirror image of the original number system. It is essentially the original number system repeated with the value of (i) added on [(i) being the square root of the negative one].²³

The two math systems are parallel. They have the same logic or laws of operational math in common. These laws of operational math do not change. However, because of the incorporation of this value -- the square root of negative one or (i) -- the simplest operations like adding, subtracting or dividing become very complicated. With the concept of square root of negative one, it is possible to see how a logic system can 'fold up' on itself and create something other than the original.

An irony of this imaginary logic system is that it is totally dependent on the real number system for its values, operation, and logic. It cannot exist without the real number system. Whereas the real number system can exist by itself, the imaginary number system cannot exist without real numbers.

Would you explain that a little bit more...

For example, the square root of 4 is 2, whereas square root of (-4) is 2i. Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or standing them on their heads: 2 x 2 = 4, 2 x 3 = 6, 2 x 4 = 8, these can be executed without the imaginary number system. However, without the concept of the square root of 4 or for that matter just the concept of 4, the question -- what is the square root of (-4) -- has no relevance. The square root of negative 4 becomes the real number solution 2 (square root of 4) multiplied by i.

The imaginary number system is a mirror image of the real. Just like any mirror image, the image is dependent upon what is in front of it. The image cannot exist by itself, except maybe in Alice in Wonderland.

Fairytales.

Right. Imaginary systems.

The first theorem comes from putting Theorem 8 together with Postulate 7.

Theorem 8 -- Given: That which is not True is not God.

Postulate 7 -- Given: God's Creation miscreated an untruth.

If this is true, then:

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

Theorem 21 -- Given: The miscreation is not God.

Then:

Linking Theorem 9 with Theorem 21 we have Will, Love, Logic and Truth are one in Eternal God. Add Theorem 21 -- The miscreation is not of God -- we developed Theorems 22 through 22E: Miscreation is not the will of God, it's not God's Love, it is not God's Logic, and it is not God's Truth. The miscreation is not God's Infinity, it is not Eternal, or most important, with 22E: the miscreation is temporal. All of a sudden...

It has nothing to do with God.

That's right. Everything before this was Eternally constant. The untruth has introduced a temporality (changes). Yet, this temporal condition is parallel to the Eternal (as in the imaginary number system). This brings us to a kicker of a theorem:

Theorem 8B -- Given: That which is not True is not Real.

Theorem 22C -- Given: The miscreation is not God's Truth.

What a preposterous preponderance. A mistake happened, yet with Theorem 23, the mistake didn't really happen. We have some tricky concepts here. Something happened and it created an event outside of God and Reality. Up to this point everything is One; now there is a fragmentation of sorts. Since this fragmentation originated from a unity, an examination of the relationship between the unity and the fragmentation may give some clarity to this confusion. For example:

Theorem 15A -- Given: Creation can create like unto God.

It is important to remember that this stems from Creation having the Truth Matrix.

Postulate 7 -- Given: Creation miscreated an untruth.

We already introduced this concept with the mathematical creation of imaginary numbers. We showed how doing a very specific operation can generate the imaginary number system. The real and imaginary numbers coexist in mathematics and are separate through the value (i). One is but a shadow caused by an operation in the other.

The temporal condition is parallel to the Eternal. They co-exist, and later I will go over how they co-exist.²⁴ The Eternal and the temporal are separated by an operation of creating an untruth, as the real number system is separated from the imaginary number system by the operation of taking a square root of a negative number.

The Eternal can stand by itself, whereas the temporal is totally dependent on the Eternal to exist. All physical forms are temporal, constantly changing, and are totally dependent on the laws of physics. Yet, the laws of physics remain Eternally constant and determine the physical forms.

As stated earlier, it is within this postulate that the paradoxes around the Divine really start to appear. One paradox, Truth within the untruth, is not new; on the contrary, it is very, very old. I reiterate, Truth does not change; it remains Eternally constant.

Next, we will look at what this means to Creation and how this miscreation effects Creation.

Theorem 17 -- Given: Ideas do not leave their source.

Postulate 7 -- Given: Creation miscreated an untruth.

There are two things within Creation's mind -- Truth and untruth. A major split in its mind has occurred. Both Real and unreal are in Creation's mind. Although that which is not real doesn't exist (from the reference of the Mind of God), it does appear to exist within the mind of Creation. Present within Creation is the Mind of God and something that is not the Mind of God. This is illustrated in the generation of Theorem 26.

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

Theorem 21 -- Given: The miscreation is not God.

Theorem 25 -- Given: The miscreation never left Creation.

Until this postulate there is no duality. There is one singular holistic whole. Now, Eternal and temporal, Love and not love, Logic and not logic, Truth and untruth, Real and unreal are all in one mind. If we accept the statement that which is not real does not exist, then:

Again, we're getting into paradoxes and words folding back on themselves, the duality does not exist from God's reference. However, as long as the untruth is within the mind of Creation, the duality exists from Creation's reference. A delusional state is the effect of miscreation of untruth.

If that does not confuse you yet -- wait, there is more. Now let us see how God's Love affects this situation:

Definition -- Given: God's Love is not exclusive.

Postulate 7 -- Given: God's Creation miscreated an untruth.

That means that Love included the unreal. An untruth, temporal and unreal in nature was included into the Eternal and Real. In the dictionary, the word correct,²⁵ means; to remove, remedy, or to counteract; to adjust so as to meet a standard of a required condition; to make adjustments; to compensate.

Given this definition of correct, then it can be stated that inclusion of the miscreation can be perceived as God correcting for the untruth.

Since God and Truth are one, it also can be stated:

This isn't that weird -- of course truth corrects untruth! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. What is weird or unusual is the sequencing, or rather the lack of sequencing. We're used to temporal thinking, a linear concept of cause and effect. That is, we think something occurs and then something occurs next.

Because we're dealing with an Eternal God, there is no time lapse between the miscreation of the untruth and the correction. They co-exist and occur together from the temporal reference point. One immediately calls forth the other. The mathematics equivalent is: the math thought system adjusted to include the imaginary numbers. As soon as a square root of a negative number is present, so is the imaginary number system.

The untruth is temporal; it must end. When the untruth is gone the correction will also be gone, for it is no longer needed. This leads into the next theorem:

Postulate 1 -- Given: God is Eternal.

Definition -- Given: Eternity is outside of time.

Theorem 27 -- Given: God corrected for the untruth.

Here we have a repetition of this co-existence of Eternal and temporal, True and untrue, Real and unreal existing together. This Truth and untruth existing together is stated in Theorem 28A, which is a simple extension of Theorems 27B and 28. Truth corrects untruth, and to do so Truth and untruth co-exist at the same time.

Since all that which is temporal can exist within an Eternal reference, this theorem can be stated another way:

A way to understand how the Eternal and temporal co-exist is to note that the laws of physical form co-exist with physical form itself. Gravity co-exists with a rock, the sun, the planet, the tree, a bug, or the bird over there eating a bug.

Or us sitting here.

Precisely. The laws are Eternally constant and co-exist with the form itself. This is in alignment with the delusion concept. Even though we are in a dream or a deluded state, the laws of physical creation haven't changed. We can dream of flying, but in no way did we alter gravity.

When the dream is gone, the laws are still there. If we try acting out the dream without an appropriate law of physics, the correction brings us back to earth so to speak. Where all this pseudo logic is leading us is pretty obvious:

Definition -- Given: Physical form is temporal and finite in nature.

Theorem 22E -- Given: The miscreation is temporal.

So everything we perceive to be real isn't. This is an old truism, an adage of mystical/metaphysical teachings for the last several thousand years. The physical form is not part of reality or what is really True. The physical form is temporal, and temporal time is unreal.

This is not an easy pill to swallow. Reason tells us one thing and our senses another. Then again, how many times have one or both led us astray. What is there to trust then? The answer to that has been stated all through this work and now it will be stated directly in this theorem:

Theorem 28A -- Given: Truth and untruth coexist.

Theorem 29 -- Given: Physical form is an aspect of, or related to the untruth.

Physical form is temporal. To see Truth within the form, one must look for the Eternal. What immediately satisfies this idea is the physical laws themselves. If the physical laws did change, there would be no continuity of form. Imagine a chicken on her nest hatching a clutch of eggs. One egg hatches and it is a chick; another hatches and it is a dog; another hatches and it's a rhinoceros; another hatches and it's a jar of peanut butter. Now that would be a silly world. It is this continuity or constancy of the Eternal within the temporal that must be looked at as Real, not the form itself.

Even at that, many times we do not objectively see the form. We see our memory associations or our mental/emotional projections around the form and not the form itself. It is in seeing the projections and not the actuality that we fool ourselves. Fortunately, or unfortunately (depending on your reference), Truth is unaffected by our perceptions and beliefs.

Last, but not least, are these two theorems. Although they are out of sequence with the other theorems, when presented last, they help drive a point home:

Postulate 6 -- Given: I am God's Creation.

Postulate 7 -- Given: God's Creation created/miscreated an untruth.

And the last:

Postulate 6 -- Given: I am God's Creation.

Theorem 26A -- Given: The miscreation has generated a duality delusion within Creation.

In following chapters, we will look at the relationship of Truth and untruth, and how this reflects the human condition. We, as beings, are in an unreal schizophrenic situation. Again I say, this is not new information. Mystics have been saying this for thousands of years. The core of metaphysics addresses this duality in one form or another: the divine vs. the profane, the spiritual vs. the physical, illusion vs. reality, etc. We will use this information to later tie into what has been said by other disciplines.

This chapter is a jumping off place for the rest of the class. In later chapters, we are going to look at the relationship between the real and unreal within us, and how this pertains to disciplines and exercises that have been used by mystics and spiritual teachers for a very long time. We will also be examining the mechanics of how this Truth and untruth layer within us: the flow chart of perception and how it affects the choices we make.²⁶ We can use the relationship of Truth and untruth within us to grow into Truth, and grow into God.

This is the conclusion and review of a very dull first part of postulates and theorems. I recognize that there is a large amount of redundancy in this chapter and it is necessary to drive a point 'home'.

The first four postulates and theorems deal with the Absolute in all its Aspects and Attributes. With the fifth postulate and theorems, there is the Creation. In the sixth postulate and theorems, we are the Creation.

The seventh postulate and theorems introduce a mistake, and the effect of the mistake is unreality. Remember the jewel analogy. It is equivalent to the earlier example of looking at a circle through the multi-faceted jewel. There may be only one circle on the paper, but because our mind/perception is fractured and broken into facets with True and untrue, we see many. However, there is truly only one circle that's really being seen.

There is another reoccurring metaphysical/spiritual theme very similar to this: the dream state. The fractured perception has created a dream state for Creation. Reality is the basis of this dream state. In other words, when we have dreams, what we dream of are things that we recognize in our waking lives, and they carry over into our dreams. Our dream state has no effect on the laws of reality. You can dream of flying, or becoming a tornado, or turning into a dandelion seed and floating on the wind. These dreams have no effect on the laws that determine the initial forms in the dream.

"Don't worry about them dreams none. Their all in your head."²⁷