Friday, February 19, 2010

Day 50

91:22-93:20

These two pages start by listing the five erroneous postulates:

  • The first erroneous postulate of belief is, that substance, life, and intelligence are something apart from God. 
  • The second erroneous postulate is, that man is both mental and material.
  • The third erroneous postulate is, that mind is both evil and good; whereas the real Mind cannot be evil nor the medium of evil, for Mind is God.
  • The fourth erroneous postulate is, that matter is intelligent, and that man has a material body which is part of himself. 
  • The fifth erroneous postulate is, that matter holds in itself the issues of life and death, -- that matter is not only capable of experiencing pleasure and pain, but also capable of imparting these sensations.
The other thing I marked was:

Divine logic and revelation coincide. If we believe otherwise, we may be sure that either our logic is at fault or that we have misinterpreted revelation.

This has that higher concept feel to it. Misinterpreting revelation is almost vague in that it could be revelations from the bible or it could be revelations we ourselves experience -- the small, still voice.

I did look up one word: Esse.

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