More on the Images of God

Yesterday, I identified the ancient and modern personalities whose thoughts I have studied in detail. My book was written to summarize their thoughts because reading their material in detail is a hefty task. Since publishing my book, I concluded that the works of Friedrich Hegel should be added to my list of preferred personalities. I believe that the works of all of these personalities must become familiar to any person who wants to understand God and the universe. Many of today’s scientists and mathematicians are failing because the works of these personalities are unknown to them.

In my book, I decided to use spiritual atoms to form the universe primarily because physicists cannot find any physical atoms. In the 16th century Gottfried Leibniz sought and developed the nature of the true atom. He called the true atom a ‘monad.’ I use his monad but change its name to ‘a spiritual atom’ because I concluded that God is an infinite Spirit who creates finite Spirits. As the true atoms of the universe, the created Spirits form the ‘matter’ that forms all created things in God’s intelligent design. A cloud, piece of steel, human, dog, tree, etc. is something different because they have different Spirits within. Further, since the Spirits forms only one universe, all Spirits are united. So, I agree with Hegel that the universe is an organization of Spirits. This means that order does not originate in chaos.

Since all finite things are uncompleted, a finite thing can be called a ‘bad infinity in motion.’ Since all Spirits are uncompleted, they are always in motion. All formed things (or images of God) thus obey the law of life and death. This law means that every Spirit is immortal and moves from image to image. It is not possible for such laws to be changed by Nature because opposites, such as life and death, are unified in God. The life of an image thus begins. develops, and ends, re begins, re develops, and re ends, etc. This process can approach a real end but can never reach a final end because no thing in the universe can achieve the completeness of God.