I tell you the truth. The person that believes in me will do the same things I have done. Yes! He will do even greater things than I have done. Why? Because I am going to the Father. - John 14:12

This is the verse that made it all click together.

What Christ is saying by believe in me, is that logic is a pyramid. Everything He achieved was manifest by him, as a result of the prophets before him.

If we cannot acknowledge what he did, and what he achieved, then that logic moves outside of our conscious mind. What he stands for is personal sacrifice. He was offered riches and power, but he turned away from it, and sought after truth. If one's life is occupied by large amounts of money, then one cannot help counting and calculating it all the time. If one is obsessed by sex, then that consumes your conscious mind. Christ had no children, at least until the point of the Crucifixion.

Thus his mind was not constantly worrying about such things. By driving a chariot or a great steed, one is constantly vigilant as to making sure it is not going off course. Even being a passenger in a car nowdays, saps one's perceptive vigilance away from philosophy, and pure reason.

He must have read or heard of the teachings of Plato, in that the Philosopher King, sacrifices material possessions and obsessions in order to free his mind of thinking about them. If your computer has the latest operating system, then it uses up more RAM, which means that it does everything else more slowly. By living as simply and efficiently as possible, we liberate our minds. What he means by 'I am going to the Father' is that he is headed towards absolute truth : God : The Good Word : The perfect logic : music of the spheres.

Those who cannot acknowledge the truths which I have unearthed, will not be able to build onto them. Thus those who acknowledge I, can achieve greater things than I.

Christ did not invent the motor car, or the aeroplane, or the telescope, but Christians did. They first had to realize that great people are constantly undermined out of jealousy, as John the Baptist was. If Christ had not acknowledged the teachings of the prophets, he would not have done the things he did. He had to first go through them. That is why all, who have ever achieved anything, have to first see the truths in the Bible. Many people misrepresent what is written there. Do not listen to what people say about the bible, read it yourself. Slowly. Carefully. Contemplate. Question it. Disagree with it. See why you disagree with eye for an eye, when you read turn the other cheek. But! Read all of it as a unity. Not just bits and pieces like pieces of a chain unlinked. Be careful to withhold judgement completely until you have read all of it. At least three times from cover to cover.

Mohamed's mentor was a Christian. Mohamed was thus a Christian, at least on a philosophical level, not necessarily a religious one.

If you wish to further your own studies, you should first acknowledge my achievements in the same way. To be wise, you must also read the Bible thoroughly, you must read Plato, Kant, Hume, Locke, Descartes, Zen, Dharma Paddha, Baghavad Gita, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Hendrix, Marley, Beatles, Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg, Jung, Freud ... this list is almost endless. All these Philosophies are embedded within one another, there is no short cut to slow deliberate contemplation. God's plan is a Gestalt of all of this.

If I try to catch a cricket ball, I do not use Sin, Cosine and X's and Y's to calculate it. My visual mind can see the math. Similarly, if you are asked to add two quite large numbers together, your subconscious mind knows the answer before you start adding, because the answer is logical, and absolute. It must be what it is. PI is PI regardless of whether we know it is 3.142... or not.

Truth is truth, we can only believe it or deny it. Once we see this, the veil is lifted, and God's plan is open to us to explore. Once we have faith that reason is absolute, we cease to fear death, as complete death is just impossible, logically speaking from so many perspectives. This is the argument from design.

Look at the perfect math of a planet's orbit. (Orbit Game :-OG) Its perfection is simply expressed: G=1/r^2. Beautiful. Design. No randomness at all.

Look at the bizarre way the Sun and the Moon form a perfect duality. What are the odds that these two celestial objects just landed like this randomly? Impossible to even calculate. Play Solar System Simulator or better still, make one yourself, it is not that hard if you know how to program.

Without death, we would never know what love is. Without loss we would never know the value of anything. Those of you who have lost someone to death, have lost that person so that you may truly have and cherish them for all eternity. The greater your loss, the more beautiful the feeling when you find them again. Never lose sight of this idea.

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Jonathan Ainsley Bain, 5 February, 2008

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