The Nonconsciousness of Unreality

The calculation 2+3=6 constitutes a false system even though every element of this system is a true and real element. We know the system is false because it is useless and means nothing. The false system equals nothing.

The idea of nothing identifies the falsity of the system. Consciousness can use the real idea of nothing to identify falsity, but it cannot tell us what falsity is. The idea of nothing cannot be false. It is a true and real idea just as all of the other symbols in the false system are. But this seems to make the useful and real idea of nothing equal to falsity which is useless. The useful cannot equal the useless. In order to identify falsity, we imagine the idea of nothing and falsity to be equal, but they cannot be equal. Actually, every symbol in the false system must be true and real except the falsity for which no symbol exists.

We know the system is false, and yet we cannot identify this falsity without using a real idea. Even falsity itself seems to equal a real nothingness. All of this rumination raises the question: Where is falsity? It can nowhere be found in reality. In thinking below the level of the real idea of nothing, we find falsity nowhere and at no time. We can create no symbol for falsity because every symbol would merely equal the real idea of nothing. The closest we could get to such a symbol would be the phrase "minus zero." What does "minus zero" mean? No one knows. To consciousness, it means absolutely nothing. Absolute nothingness equals chaos. It nonexists nowhere and at no time. It nonexists below the real idea of nothing.

Many false systems exist in the world. They are all useless and equal to the real idea of nothing in consciousness. Usefulness equals reality, but uselessness indicates chaos. The real idea of nothing proves to be useful to identify the useless, but below the level of uselessness nonexists absolute nothingness. We cannot be conscious of absolute nothingness. Even when we think we can be conscious of it, we can actually only be conscious of the real idea of nothing. Nonconsciousness equals the unreal. This condition can only mean that everything of which we can be conscious must be real.

How did this nonconscious unreality invade reality to cause false systems to exist? No one knows. This is a mystery even to God. II Thessalonians 2:7. But it all started when Lucifer rebelled against God in heaven. Lucifer never created anything. Lucifer merely stole some of God's good ideas and misused them to invent false and useless systems. Somehow, Lucifer brought a nonsconscious unreality; that is, absolute nothingness into reality in order to distort it. Unreality always equals a nonconscious distortion of reality. This fact accounts for all the false systems of the world including those called sin. Analyze any false system and one will find that it always comprises God's true and real ideas that have been distorted by a falsity of which one cannot be conscious except as seeming to be equal to the real idea of nothing. Ezekiel 28:15.