 H.B. Augustine is a senior undergraduate student at Denison University studying Philosophy and Communication. He has started a publishing organization called "Integral Publishing House" - contact him at august_h@denison.edu if interested in publishing Integral material.The Simplest and
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If we put the entire Kosmos into perspective, then we would have to agree that it exists, and that it has to exist since non-existence is impossible. Yet when we say, “The Kosmos exists,” there remains a distinction between “the Kosmos” and “exists.”
The reason why the last statement is true is that we can say anything “exists”; the thing existing is always different, and yet the existence as such is always same. The greatest principle upon which every-thing – meaning all that language can attempt to describe – is hence “existence,” simply as that and no-thing more. Existence alone is insufficient, though, just as white is insufficient without black. Ergo, from the given “is” (or existence) comes the following question of, “What?”
What exists cannot be restricted by any means, so at the ultimate level of all reality, pure potentiality or pure possibility is all that exists. All possible existences and dualities of such are contained in this pure potentiality/possibility, just as all possible colors and variations of such are contained in “white.” Therefore – in some form of existence or “parallel Universe” – God Exists.
Let “God,” in this case, be “The Being than Which nothing greater can exist,” or simply “The Ultimate.” Now agree that by virtue of Its very definition, God As this All-Positive or All-Perfect Being (which includes Consciousness, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnibenevolence) Would Have to Exist for all possible realities, all parallel Universes, the entire Kosmos as a whole, as opposed to just one out of an infinite plurality, since God Existing for only one possible reality is lesser than God Existing for all realities / the Kosmos and is therefore not the True God. Just as light consumes all darkness, so the mere possibility of a God According to this definition consumes all other possibilities that do not contain Its Existence.
Thus – God, The Ultimate, or The Being than Which nothing greater can exist, Exists For the entire Kosmos, and the entire Kosmos is out of necessity structured in perfect accordance with this Highest Power. From the latter Ultimate Principle, we can logically deduce everything that is holonically connected and, theoretically, we can understand the entire celestial Kosmic blueprints or “DNA structure” through systematic intuitive rationalism.
Such is the premise for Integral Philosophy, with its purpose of understanding the Kosmos as mathematics understands the realm of numbers.