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.
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 complete, therefore whole, therefore full, therefore otherless, therefore one. I think therefore I am. 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 all, total, complete, whole, full, otherless, one. Since I, being, am Truth and since I am mind/consciousness, therefore Truth is Mind/Consciousness.
2) The mind is divided into three parts: the conscious mind, unconscious mind and the supraconscious mind, but the unconscious mind is the one that runs things.
Word-tracking:
mind: memory, thought, think, have a viewpoint
conscious: awake, aware, knowing, to know at the same time, share knowing, recognize
know: realize
unconscious: loss of sense, loss of awareness
supraconsciousness: higher consciousness
to run: control, oversee
3) Truth being one and Truth being Consciousness, therefore Consciousness is one. Since Consciousness is one, it cannot at the same time be divided up into three parts, Therefore Consciousness is indivisible. Truth being Consciousness and Truth being all, therefore Truth is all-knowing/consciousness. Truth being all-knowing/consciousness cannot include unknowing, unconsciousness, Therefore there is no unconsciousness in Truth. Truth being all-knowing/consciousness, there cannot be a consciousness (supraconsciousness) over and above consciousness, therefore there is no supraconsciousness in Truth. Truth, being all that is, is therefore all that happens, all that takes place, all action, all operating. Truth being all-operating must therefore be self-operating. Therefore Truth is self-operating, self-regulating, self-run.
4) Consciousness is one.
Consciousness is indivisible.
Truth is all-knowing/consciousness.
There is no unconsciousness in Truth.
There is no supraconscious in Truth.
Truth is therefore all that happens, all that takes place, all action, all operating.
Truth is self-operating, self-regulating, self-run.
5) Truth is one Self-awakening Awareness.
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