INFINITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Most of that which finite consciousness calls infinite cannot be infinite. Finite consciousness speaks of infinite numbers, but any number, by intrinsic definition, always means a quantity and all quantities must be finite no matter how large they may be. In fact, anything linear cannot be infinite because it must have two ends and these are always finite no matter how far apart they may be. A sphere cannot be infinite because it must have edges, and a true infinity cannot have edges.

The most that finite consciousness can say about infinity is that it can only be an unbounded volume. But this idea raises a paradoxical truth about infinity. The finite mind cannot imagine infinity, and yet, in a strange way the finite mind cannot not imagine infinity. If the finite mind imagines that it travels to the edge of the universe, then it must also imagine that something lies beyond this edge, and that something lies beyond that edge, and so forth. The finite mind simply lacks the power to carry this idea to a true infinity.

Some finite minds try to get around this paradox by claiming that the universe is all there is whether it is finite or infinite, and therefore, it is nonsensical to speak of that which lies beyond the universe because there is no outside. But those who make this claim do not realize that by doing so they unwittingly admit a very deep truth about infinity. This truth is that infinity cannot be restrained by anything or by nothing. An absolute nothingness, which in a broad way of thinking, lies outside the universe cannot restrain infinity in the least for the very reason that it is an absolute nothingness. But an absolute nothingness actually is not because it can exist nowhere and at no time. It cannot be either inside or outside the universe. In fact, it is wrong to say that it exists at all. That which does not exist can provide no restraint to infinity whatsoever. Thus, those who try to restrain infinity by using this nonsense argument actually fail because they are partly right. Absolute nothingness cannot restrain infinity because it is, strictly speaking, absolutely nonsensical.

Since absolute nothingness cannot restrain infinity, then a true infinity must encompass absolutely everything that exists. Consciousness exists. Everything that infinity encompasses must become equal to it because if infinity should encompass anything finite, then infinity itself must become finite. Thus, an Infinite Consciousness must exist. This also means that every Idea within this Infinite Consciousness must itself be infinite. Since self-consciousness is in-itself an idea, then the Infinite Consciousness must also be an Infinite Self-Consciouness. In other words, God exists. All of this goes to prove the absolute truth of God's statement in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

However, on the other hand, infinity may not exist at all. Everything may be finite. But this condition would mean that that paradox in the finite mind that it cannot get an idea of the infinite, and yet, it cannot not have an idea of the infinite, could never be realized. It could never be realized because any idea of infinity would be nonsensical; that is, equal to absolute nothingness. The fact that the finite mind does not possess the requisite power to experience the infinite, and yet has an idea of it, proves that the infinite must exist. It remains an absolute fact that any finite system cannot accomplish that which it is impossible for it to do. The finite system called consciousness does not possess the requisite power to experience infinity, and yet, we do have an idea of it. Consciousness can only get an idea of that which it experiences, and the fact that finite consciousness cannot reach to infinity proves that finite consciousness cannot experience infinity on its own, and therefore, can get no idea of it on its own. The only possible answer to this paradox is that an Infinite Consciousness must exist who gave this idea to us.