First Principles

By Linda Mihalic

  A First Principle is by every definition irreducible and self-evident, requiring no proof or explanation. Our Judeo-Christian ethos holds that God is the First and Uncaused Cause of All That Is. To the religious, this is God the Father, or God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. For the intellectual, philosophically stated, some First Principle of Mind must “be,” must exist, before we can conceive the Idea of “God,” before we can say, “In the beginning God.”

  Principle must precede Personality; the Idea of a Principle must precede the Expression of that Idea, which constitutes its “personalization,” its “embodiment,” if you will. This irreducible, self-evident First Principle is God, the “Supreme Being,” with such inherent attributes as Being, Reality, Vitality, and Truth. This First Principle of Supreme Being is Light, which is the Source of All That Is, the Godhead, the infinite self-existing Spirit. “God is Light.”–1 John 1:5.
  Thus, we “personalize” the Light as “Deity” to describe the nature and essence of The Supreme Being, and to make it somehow comprehensible to our sense-based mentality. Yet even this distinction does not render the Godhead relative in status or being, for the Supreme Absolute remains unqualified and unchanged even as it exercises its motive power, which is “Desire,” to exert its volition, which is “Will,” to create within itself a Supernal Universe in which it may experience the fullness of its “Creative Impulse.” And so, “In the beginning God created.”–Genesis 1:1.
  As travelers on the Way of Christ, the Via Christa, certain definitions are essential, especially for Divine Mind, Substance and Power. We define Mind as the soul, that individuated “I” which thinks and wills. Mind is the individualized intelligence, which includes intellect, the cognitive faculty of the soul, as distinguished from desire and will.
  Light is the Godhead, which manifests as the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Light is the original, primordial, universal substance as life sparks, the smallest particle of invisible, indivisible Light-Substance from which all creation is formed. God is Light. All that is, all that exists, does so according to its original Kind and Degree of differentiation from the One as revealed in the EM spectrum.

  The electromagnetic spectrum reveals the nature of the light we can measure; however, it does not nor can it measure God as Light. The EMS displays those kinds of energy we can discern and measure their degree of electromagnetism. Argument over what degree and kind of Divine Substance God used to beget His Begotten Son—whether homós, the “same” substance, or hómoios, a “similar” substance—resulted in the Catholic Church’s adoption of the Nicene Creed during the First Council of Nicaea, 325 AD. We decline to debate this anew. However, it is notable that the saying, “it doesn’t make an iota’s worth of difference” resulted from the Nicean Council’s decision: The Greek letter ι, the iota, is the smallest in their alphabet, the י yod in Hebrew, and the i in English.

First principles beget absolute laws. All laws originally derive from the first principles, all of which are fundamental aspects of The One:

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The Form

  Three Absolute Principles—Mind, Substance, and Power—form the Absolute Trinity of Light Emanations that fill the universe. Mind flows as Intelligence which is the Father of Wisdom; Substance flows as the Mother of Love who fills every idea of Mind, bringing it into form; the Son or Logos, the Word, releases the Power that becomes all forms of energy. These Trinities begat the basis for all Relative Trinities, according to a fourfold plan. The early Church Fathers were led astray by the opinion that woman was the source of what they called “original sin”; thus, they recognize only the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but omit the Mother. The Holy Spirit is neutral in affect, but its effect magnifies the degree and kind of Light it releases.
  The Supreme Trinity of the Father, the Mother, and the Son work in syzygy as the divine Logic that is absolute, unchangeable and immutable. Reason is man’s relative application of Supreme Logic, using the faculties of Wisdom, Love and the Holy Breath. The Word was and is God. When you speak the Word, you call God by one of His names. This is the trinity of the three Emanations, the superstructure of everything that can or does exist in God’s Creation. God is the Spirit. Spirit is undifferentiated, formless. God is also original Personality, which directs and controls Spirit through Principle.–Edna Lister, November 14, 1963

  “Ye are the light of the world.…Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
–Matthew 5:14-18

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