The World and the Word

                      The Infinite and the Finite

God is Infinite. Psalm 147:5. Infinity must transcend everything that is limited. This means Infinity has to be an Infinite Consciousness that is also Almighty, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. If Infinity were less than this, then no idea of the infinite would be possible because everything would be finite.

The Infinite Consciousness can be called Father since He is the Almighty Power that engenders all good systems. The Infinite Omniscience can be called the Word since His Infinite Set of Ideas constitutes the contents of the Infinite Consciousness. The Infinite Consciousness uses the Infinite Ideas to create all of His good systems. The Omnipresent Consciousness has to be absolutely everywhere, even beyond the limits of the universe, since if He were less than that, He would not be Infinite. John 1:1.

The finite mind cannot leap to the idea of the infinite. This feat is quite impossible. The Infinite must give this idea to the finite mind even though the finite mind cannot understand it. Like quantum mechanics, the finite mind knows many systems it cannot understand.

The Infinite Mind can create limited, good systems even though He transcends all such systems. The Infinite Mind limits His good systems by His use of the idea of nothing since the Infinite Mind must exclude; that is, consider to be equal to nothing, all ideas that do not work in a particular system that He creates. He never negates His ideas. He simply considers all excluded ideas to be equal to nothing as far as a particular system that He is creating is concerned. For example, when He created the very complex, good system called life; He excluded all ideas and systems that would poison life, such as carbon monoxide.

The Infinite must transcend all limitations. This fact means no thing can be added to it or subtracted from it. For this reason, the Infinite transcends the limited, good system called mathematics. Whenever a calculation results in a symbol for the infinite, then mathematics has exited the finite and has touched the Infinite. Whenever a calculation results in a symbol for the idea of nothing, which is zero, then mathematics has exited the finite and has touched on nothingness itself. In both cases, no further calculations are possible. But both cases also prove that the idea of the Infinite and the idea of nothing must be real; that is, in actual existence. For these reasons, no such thing as an infinite number can exist. Mathematics constitutes a finite system that subsists between the idea of nothing and the Infinite.

The Infinite Mind gave two basic ideas to the finite mind that predicates reality; that is, the idea of nothing and the idea of something. The symbol for the idea of nothing is zero. The symbol for the idea of something is the number one since a one can be considered the unity of all being; that is, every limited system and idea that actually exists. But as far as the details of reality are concerned, the finite mind also holds the power to divide the idea of something into particular, basic ideas that it can use to create systems, and it also holds the power to use the idea of nothing to exclude all ideas which will not work in any particular system that it is in the process of creating. The finite mind can also use the idea of nothing to indicate nonexistence itself. The ideas of something and nothing form the basis of the finite reality.