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 full, therefore plentiful, therefore infinite resource. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I am Truth. Since I am Truth, therefore I am total, complete, full, plentiful, infinite resource. I being mind and I being Truth, therefore Truth is Mind (Consciousness).
2) Girls can be mean.
Word-tracking:
girl: originally meaning a child of either sex, not yet of age, immature,
mature: fully developed, good, ripe, timely, early
mean: ordinary hence inferior, stingy, common
inferior: under world
ordinary: usual, normal
age: aeon, eternity
entropy: measure of disorder, measure of unavailable energy
kind: well-born
3) Truth being one cannot be divided into male and female, man and woman, boy and girl, therefore Truth is androgynous. Truth being all there is, there is nothing over or under Truth, that is, there is nothing superior or inferior to Truth OR there is no heaven, there is no hell. There is just Equality being. Truth being all is thus limitless, therefore without the limits of beginning or ending, so there is no young or old truth, mature or immature truth. Therefore Truth is immortal, eternal, birthless, deathless, mature. But everything has a beginning, a middle and an ending, doesn’t it? Well, since Truth is all that is, and since Truth is without beginning and without ending, birth and death can only be reminders of the immortality of being. OR There is no entropy. There is no disorder to measure. There is no unavailable energy to measure. OR Truth is immeasurable order and immeasurable energy. Since birth and death are only reminders of the immortality of Being, we are all kind or “well-born”
4) Truth is androgynous.
There is just Equality being.
Truth is immortal, eternal, birthless, deathless, mature.
Birth and death can only be reminders of the immortality of being.
There is no entropy.
Truth is immeasurable order and immeasurable energy.
We are all kind or “well-born”
5) We are all “well-born,” well-endowed, androgynous natives of Ageless Energy Being.
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Dear Mike: Thank you for this issue, which has been a welcome re-entry ticket to the kinds of thinking that warm my brain and heart always. Your ‘Quotes’ column had my full attention from top to bottom, reminding me of the beloved scraps of paper I wrote such gems on as I found them from childhood on into the present. Tonight I feel nourished by the flood of thinking that your collection produced. Much love to you from an old fellow-Prospero. Love the cartoons. No arguments; just ‘Hello’ from Helen.
Thanks. Helen.