Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what you think is the truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth.
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.
1) 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 otherless, therefore one, Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth, Since I, being, am Truth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore I, being, am total, whole, complete otherless, one. Since I am Truth and since I am mind/consciousness, therefore Truth is Mind/Consciousness. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)
2) Sometimes I don’t feel ownership of my own body, let alone the body politic.
Word-tracking:
ownership: owe, ought, to have, possess, or be master of, to have control of, boss, in charge, dominate, responsible for
body: physical form, nature, natural
body politic: the people of a nation, state or society considered collectively
3) Truth being all that is, there is nothing other than Truth to be in control, therefore Truth is always the one in charge. Since Truth is all that is, therefore Truth is always the one in charge of Itself. Since Truth is all, therefore limitless, therefore infinite, therefore the body of Truth is infinite. Since the body is Truth is infinite, and since Truth is one and therefore not divisible, therefore the body of Truth is one infinite, indivisible Body. Since form or appearance requires some sort of definition or finiteness and since Truth is infinite, therefore form and appearance are a misapprehension of the infinitude of Truth. Since Truth is Consciousness, the only truth about form or appearance is as ideas in Consciousness. Since Truth is one body, the idea of body politic or people collectively, is a misapprehension about the infinite, formless body politic of Truth.
4) Truth is always the one in charge.
Truth is always the one in charge of Itself.
The body of Truth is infinite.
The body of Truth is one infinite, indivisible Body.
Form and appearance are a misapprehension of the infinitude of Truth.
The only truth about form or appearance is as ideas in Consciousness.
The idea of body politic or people collectively, is a misapprehension about the infinite, formless body politic of Truth.
5) Truth is always the one in charge of My one, infinite body, (aka Itself) not to mention the one, infinite Body politic.
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