Reference: The Postulates: Postulate Mechanics
These postulates present the structure of the individuality and the ideal world.
A postulate is a foundational assumption taken as true, from which everything else is derived.
Abbreviation: PS = Postulate
Postulates
PS 31: The Divine Principles are postulates underlying the Universe
- The notion of God and Brahma are alike postulates.
- God is the thought that acts as the source of all creation.
- Brahman is the ability to postulate.
PS 32: The scientific postulate of the universe is substance-awareness-oneness.
- The universe is made of substance—thought, energy and matter.
- There is awareness that senses the substance.
- Oneness of sensations establishes the universe.
PS 33: The universal reality emerges as sensations are assimilated into perceptions.
- Assimilation resolves disharmony, inconsistency and discontinuity among sensations.
- Assimilation occurs as sensations are looked at more closely.
- Assimilation brings about oneness of sensations.
PS 34: Perceptions are assimilation into a coherent experience.
PS 35: Experiences are assimilated and consolidated through concepts.
PS 36: Concepts are assimilated and organized into knowledge.
PS 37: Knowledge assimilates and produces wisdom.
PS 38: Sensation, perception, experience, concepts, knowledge and wisdom form the mental matrix.
PS 39: The mental matrix has the dimensions of thought and awareness.
- Thought and awareness are two different dimensions.
PS 40: The purpose of mental matrix is to assimilate the universal matrix.
PS 41: While assimilating the universal matrix, the mental matrix also assimilates itself.
- Raw thought is made up of sensations.
- Sensations finally assimilate into wisdom.
PS 42: Wisdom is oneness of thought.
- Postulates help bring about this wisdom.
- From wisdom are derived all considerations.
PS 43: An individuality is ideally derived from wisdom.
PS 44: Harmony, consistency and continuity among individualities is the ideal world.
PS 45: Anomalies prevent us from reaching that ideal world.
- An anomaly is a violation of oneness.
- An anomaly is indicated by disharmony, inconsistency or discontinuity.
- The anomaly appears as arbitrary, contradictory, or missing data.