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Theistic Manifesto
The following postulates are taken be in the essential metaphysics of 'core
monotheism':
- God is love which is unselfish, and unselfish love cannot love itself.
- God is wisdom as well as love, and thereby also power and action.
- God is life itself: the source of all dispositions to will, think
and act as if from ourselves.
- All in the world is a kind of image of God: minds in particular, but also natural objects.
- The dispositions of an object are those derivatives of Divine Power that
accord with what is actual about that object.
As a consequence of these postulates, we find that:
- God is not us, nor are we part of God. To be loved, we must be other from God.
- God is both transcendent and immanent; omniscient and omnipotent,
and eternal.
- God is equally present in all parts and sub-parts.
- What is unified and continuous in God is imaged with what in creation
are distributed discretely.
- These discrete degrees function in an image of the God-world relation.
- God sustains the world by re-generation, not by fiat.
- All our life is provided by God, and there is no life apart from God.
From the above postulates and their consequences, we derive a dynamical
structure of creation. After identifying components of this structure in terms
of what we already know from science, and from other explorers, we find that:
- God’s Love, Wisdom and Power are imaged as spiritual, mental and
physical,
- Creation is a multilevel world of loves and propensities, and is made of
a recursively nested hierarchy of discrete degrees.
- There are sub-degrees of the spiritual that are concerned with action,
truth and love, which have been described by Swedenborg.
- There are sub-degrees of the psychological that are stages of
rationality and of cognitive thought. There are sub-sub-degrees known from
Piaget and Erikson.
- There are sub-degrees of the physical that are pre-geometric,
field-theoretic and quantum-like processes. There are known sub-sub-degrees
of the last two of these.
- All (sub-)degrees are linked by relations of generation and selection.
- In persistent structures, these relations give rise to links of
correspondingly-similar functional forms.
- The physical 'outermost' degree is provides the ultimate constraints on,
and hence selections of, all prior degrees.
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