All that is, exists within God, whose mind and body is the very stuff of existence. As such, God has gone by various names throughout time, all of them imperfect. Among these are Nature, Substance, Necessity, the One, the Monad, the All, the Absolute, the Ultimate, Totality, Being, Existence, Essence, the Ground of Being, Reality, Mind, the Universe, Brahma, and etc. Zhe[1]— because neither male nor female, but both— is all-powerful, all-knowing, ever-present, and perfectly good, but ultimately transcends all contradiction, being unable to be precisely described or summed up in the confines of language, though able to be grasped as a concept, especially through metaphors and allegories or a comprehensive understanding of the Truth.
The Truth is that which corresponds to reality, meaning that there is a match between one’s notions and what actually is. When one knows the truth, one’s beliefs and the facts of the world are in agreement. For this reason, and for instance using a cut as a metaphor, an angled cut that is true is one that corresponds to the angle sought after, such that a cut is true if it matches the ideal. So, if the angle sought after is a 90 degree cut, and the cut is made at 89 or 91 degrees, that cut cannot be said to be true, as there is no correspondence. At least, it doesn’t correspond fully. There are, however, degrees of truth, meaning that there are things that are more true than others. For instance, the same 90 degree cut may not be perfect down to the level of the molecule, where certain aberrations are sure to be found. Nonetheless, it is approximately, or with the best accuracy achievable, true. This does not mean that a better approximation is impossible. A way to tell the likelihood of truth when correspondence is not available for checking is to test against coherence, or consistency with what else is known, so as to see if the information contradicts any information that is more sure. In an effort of critical thought, or considering information against more fundamental data, that which contradicts concrete knowledge (that which is sure by logical necessity) that is more fundamental must be rejected. God or Nature’s necessity is the most concrete, and any so-called information that contradicts this must be fundamentally rejected, for Necessity is the first of origin, without which nothing can be. That which is necessary, is, and from this fact everything flows. As such, depraved ideas such as pessimism, nihilism, postmodernism, absurdism, and so on, which reject Truth, must be put down.
While it was Thales who first proposed that the world was composed of a single substance, it would be Parmenides to first logically argue that this oneness is God, or Nature, and is eternal. This is not to say that God is infinite, though this is also so. Rather, it is to suggest that the Monad never ceases to be in any given point in time or space, but occupies all points in space and time at the same moment, something known today as superposition. Instead, it is us who shift coordinates within the Eternal, another name for God. Such a shift is not “really real,” but only occurs in God’s imagination, which is the same as the body of God, though it nonetheless highlights very real elements of Nature, and, as such, is certainly of reality, even if not of the fullest Reality. If you were to imagine a filament within a solid rock, and a light that traverses this filament, such an imagination would be similar to the nature of our illusory, separate existence within the Monad. This filament, however, in taking place in God, and so in traversing a part of God’s being, however imaginally considered, is nonetheless a part of God’s necessity, each filament highlighting a portion of Necessity such that each individual is themselves coextensively necessary (even if not in a self-sufficient way).
Despite the unchanging nature of Eternity, and following common sense, such as that Thomas Reid defended, we see change, despite the claim that our existence is semi-illusory, and taking place in an unchanging Monad. All change can be reduced to fluctuations within two categories, which, themselves, function in parallel according to correspondence, or equipoise, as Ramon Llull suggested, and transformation, or turning one into the other, as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and John Wheeler, among others, have pointed out, depending on the perspective taken, be it sempiternal or temporal.[2] The sempiternal, is the eternal cycling or oscillation between...
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