If you want to become God, you must become like the following nineteen people, the great minds who have shaped human knowledge and understanding.
19 – Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), separated existence into the noumenal realm and the phenomenal realm, the noumenal being the realm of actual things as they are in themselves, and the phenomenal being the realm of things as they appear to us. Kant suggested that we can only ever know the appearence of things and that the actual things themselves remain hidden in the noumenal realm.
18 – Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), used pure rationality from a starting position of the one, single substance of existence, God, to develop a system of rational monism. For Spinoza, God contains all mind and all matter, and the two always appear together – all mind contains matter and all matter contains mind. Using pure rationalism, Spinoza applied rational, mathematical laws to this one single substance to reveal the universe to be one of pure rationality.
17 – Anaxagoras (510 BC-428 BC), asserted that if everything in the universe derives from a single substance, then every constituent part of the universe must also contain the potential for every other thing. If the one single subtance that the universe is made from contains the potential for every thing that is actualised in the universe, then every actualised thing, being made from the original substance, must also contain the potential for every possible thing.
16 – Anaximander (610 BC-546 BC), was the first to suggest that the one substance from which the whole universe derives must be immaterial and non-physical, as anything physical always has some attributes that deny other attributes (such as water being wet but never dry), therefore only a non-physical substance can contain all attributes that can be manifested in the universe.
15 – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), envisaged Kant’s noumenal realm as being a single, blind, ever-striving Will to exist. Everything else in the universe is simply an expression of this Will to exist, everything desires to experience pleasure and avoid pain, however, as soon as any pleasure is achieved, the Will becomes dissatisfied with it and seeks a new pleasure, hence, is never satisfied.
14 – Nicholas Of Cusa (1401-1464), stated that the universe entirely emanates from God, who is infinite. If God, and therefore the universe, is infinite, then there can be no physical centre of the universe, ie, no part of the universe can be privileged over any other. As the entire universe emanates from God, we all contain God within us, therefore all have the potential to become God ourselves.
13 – Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), asserted that the laws of the universe must be consistent throughout the universe, therefore, other stars must have planets orbiting them, like our sun, as some of these planets must contain life, as Earth does. Bruno also declared that the infinite nature of the universe must apply to time as well as space, therefore the universe is eternal, was never created and will never be destroyed.
12 – Parmenides Of Elea (515 BC-440 BC), insisted that nothing in the universe could truly change, as for anything to move it must enter a space that was previously unoccupied, but no such space exists, the universe being a plenum with no gaps. However, we clearly percieve the universe as constantly moving and changing, therefore, the universe must consist of two domains, one that constantly moves and changes, that we experience, and one that is eternal an unchanging, that rationally guides our experiences.
11 – Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), explained how everything has a purpose inbuilt, that all things contain potentiality that becomes actualised over time. An acorn has the potential of an oak tree within it, thus the acorn is purposefully driven to become an oak tree. Thus, the whole universe has its final state existing within it as potentiality, and will therefore be driven to become its final state in actuality. The universe has a purpose, a will driving it towards completion, towards its highest state, towards God.
10 – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), realised that the same information can be presented in radically different ways, via a transform. Our senses receive physical information that has been transformed from the mathematical information inherent in the fabric of existence. Existence is merely an ocean of mathematical energy in the form of frequency waves. Via a Fourier transform, this information is presented physically to form the universe we perceieve around us. This explains how matter arises from mind.
09 – Kurt Friedrich Gödel (1906-1978), proved that in any mathematical system there are always certain truths that can never be proved from the basic axioms of the system. This disproves the purely deterministic, causal and mechanistic universe of Newton and provides a mathematical basis for free will in the universe. The universe is made from its own mathematical laws, yet the application of these laws always results in gaps, providing the arena for free will.
08 – Plotinus (204-270), described the universe as a series of emanations from the “One”, the single, supreme source of everything. From the One emantes firstly the Nous, the divine mind or Logos/Reason, then the World Soul, equivalent to Jung’s Collective Unconscious, then the individual human souls and finally matter, the lowest level of existence. It is possible to rise up through these emanations and achieve union with the One.
07 – Heraclitus Of Ephesus (535 BC-475 BC), insisted that the universe is in a perpetual state of change, nothing ever remaining constant. Through the constant struggle of opposites, the universe is always progressing and changing with no entity occupying a single state at a single time. This is the main precurser to Hegel’s dialectic, with the universe always moving, progressing, changing and becoming.
06 – René Descartes (1596-1650), mathematically defined the two domains of matter and mind. Matter has the property of extension, therefore can be measured in space and time and can be represtented by finite numbers larger than zero and less than infinity. Mind is unextended, therefore exists outwith space and time, is non-physical and can be represented by the numbers zero and infinity. This separates mind from matter. Descartes then established the primacy of mind over matter, given than the existence of mind is the only thing we can be certain of – “I Think Therefore I Am”.
05 – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), destroyed Christian morality declaring “God is dead” and showed how Christianity is a slave morality that is life denying and nihilistic. Nietzsche showed that the universe is driven by a Will to Power with good being whatever increases one’s power and evil whatever lessens it. Nietzsche forsaw the rise of what he called the “Superman”, a type of man who rises above the petty morality of the herd, revalues all values and brings mankind into a new age of enlightenment.
04 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), showed that all of existence was ultimately knowable and that consciousness is achieved as the result of individuation, whereby a conscious being encounters another of the same and through this encounter achieves self-consciousness, hence explaining why there needs to be a multiplicity of conscious entities in the universe. Hegel developed his dialectic, based on the ideas of Heraclitus, that all things that exist summon into existence their perfect opposite. The resultant struggle of these opposites results in a synthesis of the two, which, in turn, becomes something new that summons its opposite into existence causing another struggle which is resolved by a synthesis which becomes a new thing etc. This dialetical progression culminates in Hegel’s Absolute, the synthesis of all syntheses, the end point of the universe.
03 – Plato (428 BC-348 BC), essentially completed western philosophy by summarising the ideas of the great philosophers who preceeded him. Making use of the Socratic method, Plato ingeniously created a synthesis of all philosophical ideas into a complete whole, and, in his Republic, revealed the structure of the perfect human society based on these principles. Plato established the primacy of mind over matter in his theory of forms and realised that man was on a sacred quest to come into union with the perfection of the forms, and could achieve this through philosophy, ie through reason and intellect.
02 – Pythagoras Of Samos (570 BC-495 BC), concluded that the universe was entirely mathematical in nature, was made from mathematics and could be thoroughly and completely explained by mathematics. Pythagoras found mathematical relations in everything he studied and set out to formally explain the universe purely in terms of mathematics. He founded a society of supreme intellectuals to share ideas and knowledge in the quest for ultimate knowledge and divinity. Nearly every one of his ideas found its way into the philosophy of Plato.
01 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), completed the task of Pythagoras to explain the universe mathematically. Using astonishing levels of intelligence, Leibniz used pure mathematical logic and reason to thoroughly and completely explain the universe starting from a single principle, the principle of sufficient reason, which states that there must be a sufficient reason why something exists in the way it does rather than in any other way. Working logically from this single premise, Leibniz literally explained everything. The universe is made from an infinite number of dimensionless points, called monads, each of which contains all of the information of the universe within them, ie all of the mathematical laws of the universe. Each of these monads contains mathematical energy from which matter arises, obeying the laws of mathematics as it evolves from potential to actualisation. The monads are revealed to be basic units of the mental domain of existence and the transformation of their energy content is where the material universe comes from. Mind and matter are explained, the existence of souls and God is proved conclusively and the success of man’s quest to become God is guaranteed. Leibniz literally possessed all of the knowledge that was available to him at the time and used it, along with his staggering intelligence and reason, to provide humanity with its greatest gift, the complete explanation of everything.
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