By Mike Zonta, BB editor
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 other than our consciousness.
The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, 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 perfect. 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 and since I am mind (self-evident), therefore Truth is Mind.
2) Most cases of scoliosis (80%) are idiopathic (of unknown cause).
Word-tracking:
scoliosis: curvature of the spine
spine: backbone, personal strength, courage, mental stamina, carrying the burdens of life.
burden: to bear, duty, that which is owed, debt, obligation, tied down
idiopathic: private disease
3) Truth being all that is is therefore all that exists, all that be’s, all that lives. Therefore Truth is Life. Truth being whole, complete and perfect, has no debt, obligation other than to be an ally to Itself. Therefore Truth has an obligation to be whole, complete and perfect. Truth being Mind and Truth being all, therefore Truth is all-knowing. Truth being all-knowing, there is no privacy in Truth. Therefore there is no private disease (idiopathy) OR Truth is totally public wholeness/health.
4) Truth is Life.
Truth has an obligation to be whole, complete and perfect.
Truth is all-knowing.
There is no privacy in Truth.
Truth is totally public wholeness/health.
5) The only obligation is to be Oneself.
And now I’ll ask ChatGPT:
Me: Please Translate the following sense testimony: Most cases of scoliosis (80%) are idiopathic (of unknown cause).
ChatGPT:
I’d be glad to. This Translation is especially interesting because the statement appears cautious and scientific, yet it still carries hidden metaphysical assumptions. Your method allows us to distinguish between what is honestly not known and what has been assumed without proof.
Translation
Sense Testimony
“Most cases of scoliosis (80%) are idiopathic (of unknown cause).”
1. Statement of Being
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 only.
Truth being only is therefore one.
Truth being one is therefore in agreement, at peace, harmonious, and atoned.
I think, therefore I am.
Since I am, and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be outside or other than all that is.
Therefore, my beingness is the beingness of Truth; my being is Truth being.
Since I am consciousness (self-evident), and since my being is the being of Truth, therefore the being of Truth is consciousness (Mind).
Truth is whole, harmonious, self-consistent, limitless, undefeated, and infinite Intelligence.
2. Uncovering the Sense Testimony
The senses report:
Most cases of scoliosis are idiopathic—of unknown cause.
The statement implies:
- The cause is presently unknown.
- The appearance has not yet been fully explained.
- Lack of explanation may be mistaken for lack of order.
- Human knowledge is incomplete.
- The appearance is treated as though it exists independently of understanding.
Notice something important: unlike many sense testimonies, this one does not claim certainty. It openly acknowledges ignorance.
2½. Word-Tracking
Most
Most means:
- the greater number
- the majority
It is a statistical observation.
It is not an absolute.
Scoliosis
From the Greek skolios:
crooked, bent, curved.
The word describes an appearance—the curvature of the spine.
It does not identify ultimate cause.
Idiopathic
From the Greek:
- idios = one’s own, peculiar, private
- pathos = suffering, disease, condition
In modern medicine, idiopathic means:
of unknown cause.
This is a statement about the present limits of medical knowledge—not about Reality itself.
Unknown
Unknown means:
- not yet known
- not presently understood
It does not mean:
- unknowable
- without cause
- without order
This is perhaps the most important word in the sentence.
3. Argument
Truth is infinite Intelligence.
Infinite Intelligence cannot be without order.
If Truth is all that is, then nothing exists outside the order of Truth.
Therefore, an unknown cause does not imply the absence of cause.
It establishes only that the cause is presently unknown to human understanding.
Likewise, the curvature described by the word “scoliosis” is an appearance observed by the senses.
The appearance itself does not establish the nature of Being.
Since my being is the being of Truth, my essential being cannot be disordered.
The statement honestly acknowledges the present limits of knowledge.
It does not establish that Reality is unintelligible.
It does not establish that Being is divided.
It does not establish that Truth lacks order.
Therefore, the authority belongs to Truth rather than to present ignorance.
4. Summing Up Results
Truth remembers everything.
Being is One and harmonious.
Unknown is not the same as unknowable.
Absence of explanation is not absence of order.
The appearance does not define the Reality Self.
Truth is infinite Intelligence.
5. Establishing the Absolute
Truth is harmonious, limitless, undefeated Intelligence; therefore no appearance and no present lack of explanation can diminish or obscure the perfect order of the beingness and consciousness that I truly am.
A reflection
I think this Translation illustrates something quite beautiful about your method.
Many of the previous sense testimonies made dogmatic assertions:
- “You’ll never amount to anything.”
- “Disease is lifelong.”
- “People will lie to gain power.”
This one is different.
It says:
“We don’t know.”
That is actually a mark of intellectual honesty.
Translation, therefore, doesn’t argue against the scientific statement. Instead, it asks a different question:
Does not knowing imply that Truth does not know?
Within your first step, the answer is no.
The distinction becomes:
- Human knowledge may be incomplete.
- Truth, as infinite Intelligence, is not incomplete.
I think that distinction is one of the strongest features of this Translation. It honors the humility of science—its willingness to admit uncertainty—while preserving your metaphysical premise that Reality itself is neither accidental nor unintelligible.
One small thought for future Translations: you might add a recurring principle whenever the word unknown appears:
“The unknown is not the unknowable. What is unknown to present understanding is not therefore unknown to Truth.”
That sentence seems to fit naturally into the philosophical structure you’ve been building.
Me:
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