I was wondering if the spiritual realm has laws, as the physical realm does. These laws would not be like the Ten Commandments, which are easily broken, but like the law of gravity, which cannot be broken. In science, the first step is observation. You write down your observations, then you analyze them and see if you can find a law that explains them. So I looked at various religions, psychology, and my own personal experiences, to see if I could find any common threads.
Mathematicians start with a set (group, collection) of axioms, things that are assumed, or given, to be true. We take these axioms and see what we can logically conclude from them. We call these conclusions "theorems". Axioms should not depend on each other. If you can derive one axiom from some others, then you don't have an axiom, you have a theorem. I took these common threads I found and treated them as axioms. Assuming these things are true, what can I conclude from them?
I call these threads "laws" because they seem to explain how things work. Also, like the law of gravity, they cannot be broken, work even if you don't know about them, and can hurt you if you don't know about them. Once I wrote them down, I started seeing these laws working everywhere: religion, ethics, relationships, health and fitness, financial indepence, self-improvement, sociology, politics...
Why are there seven laws? There are not less than seven, because each law cannot be derived from the others. I couldn't come up with an eighth law. Every time I thought of something, I could see how it could be derived from one or more of the other laws. So there may be an eighth, but I haven't found it.
None of this is endorsed by Quakerism or anybody else. I worked on this after John died and years before I even heard of Quakers. These are my beliefs, my theology. If you change one of the axioms, or laws, then you will come up with a different theology. So if you disagree with me, then you probably are using a different set of assumptions (axioms).
Note: I use the word "God" because it's easy. Anything else gets too cumbersome and detracts from what I'm trying to say. However, asking if God is male or female is like asking if a rainbow is black or white. A rainbow is not black, it is not white, it is not both (grey), and it is not neither (clear). It is something else altogether different. It transends the grey-scale. Likewise, God is not male, nor female, nor both, nor neither. God transends them and is something altogether different. English needs a neutral personal pronoun. "It" is impersonal, and "he" and "she" are not neutral.
- God is the Ultimate Reality
- God is Love
- We have Free Will
- Your Beliefs Define Your Reality
- Truth is Freedom
- Synergy: Like Produces Like
- Karma: Your actions reflect back at you.