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 whole, therefore complete, therefore otherless, therefore one, therefore united, therefore harmonious, therefore orderly. I think, therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I am Truth. I being Truth am therefore all the qualities of Truth. Therefore I, being, am all, total, whole, complete, otherless, one, united, harmonious, orderly. Since I am Truth and I am Mind, therefore Truth is Mind (Consciousness).
2) Humiliation is not being taken seriously and not being listened to.
Word-tracking:
serious: matter, mother
listen: pay attention, respect, look at
humiliate: loss of dignity
dignity: fitting, appropriate, decent
3) Truth being right, is therefore proper, therefore appropriate, is therefore fitting, therefore decent, therefore dignified. Therefore Truth is dignified. Truth being one and Truth being Mind, therefore Truth is One Mind. Truth being one mind and Truth being all-inclusive, therefore Truth is one all-inclusive mind. Therefore Truth knows all, Truth hears all, Truth is all-listening, all-respecting. Truth being otherless, there can be nothing over or under or beneath Truth, therefore Truth is on an equal playing field with all that is.
4) Truth is dignified.
Truth is One Mind.
Truth is one all-inclusive Mind.
Truth knows all, Truth hears all, Truth is all-listening, all-respecting.
Truth is on an equal playing field with all that is.
5) Truth is one all-respecting Mind on an equal playing field with all that is.
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