Personal Reflection 4

 Abstraction of Change

How objects move, the patterns of their motion is wholly the subject of physics and not metaphysics. The concern of metaphysics is then the abstract form of motion altogether and that is change. Then, not any particular change is studied but the generality of all change. At appearance, change is the disappearance and appearance of different objects sequentially. For example from A to B to C. In the absence of experience and intellect, this is wholly true.

However, in a phenomenal reality, change is simply the appearance and disappearance of experiences and not objects. This is proven by the idea that objects have an eternal essence. It means their identity is eternal, without beginning or end. This is known through the necessary fact of truth. Truth is the fact of all things, be it past, present, or future. What happened in the past is a fact, as is what is happening and what has not happened yet.

The fact is eternal and preserves the entire identity of an object, even when the actual existence of that object has long passed. As such, it might be concluded that the world is constituted of factual objects, which we pass through and access as experiences. The factual objects do have relationships with other factual objects as the sequence of change dictates. The relationships between factual objects bring us to the next subject matter, causation.

Causation of change, or the reason of change is first, the Law. In the past I have written that there might be randomness, however, randomness simply means unpatterned sequences. Unpatterned sequences are sequences which have no patterns. However, they are all predetermined. The determination of the sequence might have no basis, in the sense that it is completely arbitrary. In that situation, the change can be known through supernatural means, but no rule can be known as there is no rule to the sequence.

Now, does the Law have intellect as I once assumed? The law of reality is that which regulates all things but particularly sequences of change. These sequences may be objective, that is they are actually changing objects, or that they are phenomenal, they are changing experiences. However, as the law regulates all things, the law contains all things, but are not the things themselves. For example, the law of physics contains the physical universe but is not the physical universe itself. They are 2 distinct but inseparable things.

As such, if the Law contains all things, then the Law will contain experience. However, the law cannot be said to be experience itself, as the law only contains experience, but does not experience. The law is then identical to Truth, which contains all things. In the Truth and Law, there is everything. 

From Truth and Law to God

Truth and Law is the basis of forming the understanding and concept of God. For God necessarily contains all things, but is not those things which He contains. For example again, God contains the physical universe, but is not equal to the universe. This means, God is over, beyond, or transcends the universe. However, we can trail our way from our experiences to the idea that the Truth and Law regulates our lives in a certain way only and not in another way.

Therefore, the Truth and Law does not treat everything the same way, it treats certain sequences of change more than other sequences of change. As such, certain sequences are only potentialities, while other sequences are actual. The fact that certain sequences are actual and certain sequences are merely potential or objective implies that the Truth and Law somehow recognizes the difference between different sequences. 

There must be a criteria for which sequence becomes actual and which sequence remains potential. And the Truth and Law adheres to that criteria. Now, the Truth and Law simply regulates the essence of sequences, but not which sequence to actualize. Then there must be an entity which regulates which sequence to actualize and that is called the Will. The Will is transcendent over Truth and Law, or we can combine it as simply, Truth, Law, and Will, or the Will.