Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.804

   If we're talking about a theory of everything, the first question we have to establish, does God exist? Yes. Simple as that. Yes. The reality has an identity. Okay. The identity is that as which something exists. Matter of fact, when you say the word reality, you're naming an identity. It is you're identifying something. This that's what the CTMU says. It's just comes up with the mathematical structure that you need to build a reality out of that. You see, so you come up with that identity and then you search it for its properties. You see once you've built the preliminary framework then you s…

   yt/usDVuyx0Myc-they-will-break-your-understanding-of-everything/transcript.txt

2. 02 · yt0.796

   So the entire universe then at every moment is being sustained by a higher reality through this vertical causality. That's exactly the idea for Smith. So how does this hierarchical view define God? What is God's nature? His ontology in this traditionalist picture. Following Aquinus very closely here, Smith defines God as essayipsum subsistence. That's Latin for subsistant being itself. Being itself. Being itself. This is huge. See, created things, you, me, a star, a tree, we participate in being. We have existence. It's like a quality we possess. But God doesn't just have being. God is being. …

   yt/3sDxoZuNlJc-11-two-paths-from-the-crisis-of-modernity/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.791

   No, God is the onlogical source from which the entire hierarchy, corporeal, psychic, noetic gets its existence moment by moment through vertical causality. or Smith putting God inside the temporal process suggesting God changes or suffers like Whitehead does. That's a catastrophic metaphysical error. It's confusing the creator with the creation. It blurs the infinite difference between the absolute source and everything that merely receives being from that source. God is the cause, not part of the effect. Exactly. The ultimate transcendent cause. And because God is being itself, Smith also cal…

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4. 04 · blog0.787

   When speaking of the nature of God and using the terms of argument #1 in speaking of the nature of the psyche as that which possess memory, intellect, and will, one may say that God is Omniscient, possessing absolute memory and intellect; Omnipotent, possessing absolute will; and in the terms of the pantheological argument, Omnipresent, possessing 13 707 pure randomness and non-localized in time and space. The General Argument for the Existence of the Almighty is as follows and derived in part from the argument as put forth in How to Think About God by Mortimer J. Adler: 1. The existence of an…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-gnosticism-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

5. 05 · blog0.785

   If all things are in the divine Mind as in their exact and proper Truth, all things are in our mind as in the image or likeness of their proper Truth, that is, as known; for knowledge takes place by likeness. All things are in God, but there as exemplars of things. All things are in our mind, but there as likenesses of things. (c.3) Two points here are essential. First, the conceptual content of our knowledge is tied to the things God created as to their epistemic likenesses. Nicholas thus stands in the tradition of Christian realism. Second, the correspondences between divine mind and human m…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/cusanus-nicolaus-nicolas-of-cusa.md

6. 06 · yt0.785

   So if the primordial nature was the unplayed score, the consequent nature is like the symphony actually being performed. And God is both the conductor and the ultimate listener who doesn't miss a single note. Precisely. Think of that symphony playing out right now, always expanding, always becoming richer. And the divine conductor doesn't just direct it through those initial lures, those primordial possibilities, but perfectly hears, remembers, and cherishes every single note, every sound, every clash, every harmony, every moment of the actual performance. All of it is held within God's being …

   yt/3sDxoZuNlJc-11-two-paths-from-the-crisis-of-modernity/transcript.txt

7. 07 · blog0.784

   If the ultimate cause and being of the cosmos is that about which nothing greater can be thought, that being must be thought of as omnipotent, possessing absolute will; omniscient, possessing absolute knowledge; and omnipresent; non-localized in time and space. PART TWO Intuition differs from reason in that as man is a finite beingpossessing limitedsensualcontactwiththeuniverse;it is impossible for man to fully understand God through his senses or by empirical means. This, therefore, involves the understanding 15 709 of abstract concepts. We must understand the universe as being "conceptusensu…

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8. 08 · blog0.781

   The Divine Nature 3.1 Proving the divine attributes Recall that Anselm’s intention in the Proslogion was to offer a single argument that would establish not only the existence of God but also the various attributes that Christians believe God possesses. If the argument of chapter 2 proved only the existence of God, leaving the divine attributes to be established piecemeal as in the Monologion , Anselm would consider the Proslogion a failure. But in fact the concept of that than which nothing greater can be thought turns out to be marvelously fertile. God must, for example, be omnipotent. For i…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/anselm-of-canterbury.md

9. 09 · yt0.780

   So not a god who suffers with us but a transcendent perfect being who allows imperfection in creation for a greater purpose while remaining utterly untouched by it in his own nature. Yeah, those are two profoundly different divine personalities. You could almost say worlds apart. Okay, so let's try and put them side by side now. We've journeyied through these two really complex, intricate philosophical worlds. What happens when we stand them next to each other? It really feels like we're looking at two completely different universes, two utterly distinct ways of understanding reality. They see…

   yt/3sDxoZuNlJc-11-two-paths-from-the-crisis-of-modernity/transcript.txt

10. 10 · blog0.778

    Bonaventure was familiar with many accounts of the subject of theology: “things and signs”, the work of “reparation for sin”, “Christ—head and members”, “God”, and “the object of belief” ( credibile ). To throw light on these conflicting answers, Bonaventure turned to his study of the Arts. Priscian had noted three different senses of the subject of grammar. Its subject in the sense of its “root principle” is the “letter” that makes up words; its subject conceived as an “integral whole” is “a fitting and complete oration;” and its subject conceived as “universal whole” is “meaningful sound, ar…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/bonaventure.md