Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything.
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 whole, therefore complete, 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 total, whole, complete, otherless, one. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I (being) am Truth, therefore Truth is Mind. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.) Since Truth is Mind, therefore Mind has all the attributes of Truth. Therefore Mind is total, whole, complete, otherless, one.
2) Cataracts can cause cloudy vision since light cannot reach the retina and therefore the brain.
Word-tracking:
retina: light-sensitive membrane which receives an image from the lens and sends it on the brain
cloudy: opacification, opaque, not transparent
cataract: an easing of, film over lens, a heavy downpour of rain or a great flood
image: imitation
3) Truth being Mind and Truth being all, therefore there is nothing that can get in the way of Mind. therefore Mind is thoroughly transparent. A retina is a light-sensitive membrane which receives images from the lens and sends them on to the brain. Truth being all that is is therefore all we can see, all we can imagine, all we can see images of, see imitations of. So what we see is not the real thing, it’s an imitation. Therefore what we are seeing is an imitation, a lie. Seeing implies an outside world which can be imaged to an inside world, i.e., seeing through a glass darkly (through imitation). Since Truth is one, the duality of inner and outer must be a lie about the singularity of Truth. Therefore Truth is one Mind knowing without imitation or images OR the eye of Truth is single and the whole body of Truth is full of light.
4) Mind is thoroughly transparent.
Truth is all we can see, all we can imagine, all we can see images of, see imitations of.
What we are seeing is an imitation, a lie.
Truth is one Mind knowing without imitation or images
The eye of Truth is single and the whole body of Truth is full of light.
5) The eye of Truth is single and the whole body of Truth is full of light.
Weekly Invitational Translation Group invites your participation. If you would like to submit a Translation on any subject, feel free to send your weekly Translation to zonta1111@aol.com and we will anonymously post it on the Bathtub Bulletin on Friday.
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