Reference: Postulate Mechanics
Divinity = Universe at Its Deepest Level of Postulates
What This Chapter Is About
Divinity — whether we call it God, the universe, or ultimate reality — has always been described as infinite. This chapter explores what “infinity” really means when applied to substance, space, and existence itself.
Infinite Substance
Philosophers have long wrestled with what the universe is fundamentally made of.
- Anaximander (600s BCE) said everything comes from a single, boundless primal substance and eventually returns to it.
- Descartes said only God is truly self-sufficient — everything else depends on something else to exist.
- Spinoza simply equated God, the universe, and the one infinite substance — God is Nature.
- Leibniz said created things depend on God the way light depends on the sun — continuously produced by a kind of emanation.
Postulate Mechanics takes a practical view: substance is anything substantial enough to be sensed. We sense the universe as matter, energy, and thought. At the deepest level of thought, we arrive at postulates — foundational assumptions from which all reasoning and experienced reality flows. That level of postulates is what we call the divine.
In other words, when we speak of God or the divine, we are really speaking about the deepest layer of thought — the level of first principles.
Infinite Space
Space is where infinity hits us most directly — it just seems to go on forever with no wall or edge.
- Archytas (300s BCE) argued: if the universe had a boundary, you could stick your hand past it — so there can be no boundary.
- Aristotle shifted the idea of infinity away from substance and toward measurable things like space, time, and numbers.
- Newton pictured space as flat, absolute, and infinite in all directions — the stage on which everything happens.
Postulate Mechanics sees space differently: space is not a separate container. It is simply the extent, or reach, of substance itself. As substance changes — from matter to energy to thought — so does the nature of the space it fills. No substance means no extent, and no space.
What about empty void? Even void, to be thought about, must be “filled” with at least the thought of void. The limits of void are the limits of thought. And at those outermost limits of thought — that is where we find divinity, gods, and the deepest Self.
Infinity Itself
Infinity simply means something without end — boundless, limitless, going on forever. It is represented by the symbol ∞, invented by mathematician John Wallis.
In Postulate Mechanics, infinity is a postulate — a foundational assumption we apply to the universe and its key dimensions:
- Substantiality — substance, space, time
- Awareness — divinity, God, Self
- Oneness — nature, natural law, knowledge, wisdom
Infinity, divinity, and the universe are three ways of pointing at the same thing.
The core insight: what we call God or infinity is not something “out there” beyond the universe. It is the universe itself, understood at its deepest level — the level of foundational postulates from which everything else arises.
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