Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract.” The first step is an ontological statement of being beginning with the syllogism: “Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all there is.” The second step is the sense testimony (what the senses tell us about anything). The third step is the argument between the absolute abstract nature of truth from the first step and the relative specific truth of experience from the second step. The fourth step is filtering out the conclusions you have arrived at in the third step. The fifth step is your overall conclusion.

The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, but they are always (or should always) be based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week. 

!)    Truth is that which is so.  That which is not truth is not so.  Therefore Truth is all that is.  Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore limitless (there can be no limit to all), therefore infinite, therefore eternal.  I think therefore I am.  Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth.  Since I, being, amTruth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth.  Therefore I, being, am total, whole, complete, limitless, infinite, eternal.  Since I, being, am Truth and since I, being, am consciousness, Therefore Truth is Consciousness.

2)    Emphysema and narrowing of blood vessels indicate trouble breathing and trouble being energized. 

Word-tracking:
emphysema:  trouble breathing
breath:  breath of fresh air, catch your breath, out of breath, take somebody’s breath away, hold your breath, life force
blood:  bleed, bless, life, 
heart:  carry blood throughout the body
oxygen:  element needed for combustion and life
element:  elementary, rudimentary, rude, basic

3)    Truth being all that is, therefore Truth is all that exists, all that lives.  Therefore Truth is Life.  Truth being all that is, therefore Truth is essence, therefore Truth is essential.  Truth being that which is essential is that which is rudimentary, elemental.  Truth being elemental and oxygen being an element, therefore Truth is Oxygen.  Since Truth is Oxygen and since Truth is all that is, there can be nothing to interrupt or narrow or block the supply of Truth/Oxygen.  Therefore the Life/Energy/Oxygen of Truth is readily-available, wide open and uninterrupted.   

4)    Truth is Life   
     Truth is essence,
        Truth is essential. 
        Truth is Oxygen.
        Life/Energy/Oxygen of Truth is readily-available, wide open and uninterrupted.   

5)    The oxygen of Consciousness is the breath of Life.

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