Aristotle’s Three Laws of Thought, Part 2

In this brief article, I will argue that Aristotle’s Three Laws of Thought also hold true for Spiritual, or Ultimate, Reality. Here are the three Laws again:

1) A thing is what it is (the law of identity).
2) A thing cannot at once be and not-be (the law of non-contradiction).
3) A thing cannot neither be nor not-be (the law of the excluded middle).

I say that God, or Ultimate Reality, is the Thing-Itself, the single Existent, or Being, from which all existents derive. This Being Is What It Is – Consciousness-Energy –and it can Be nothing other than Consciousness-Energy, because Consciousness-Energy is Being: the uncreated single, irreducible, timeless, spaceless Context or Source of all created content, or existents.

Being cannot Be and not Be. If Being could not Be, then it would no longer Be Being; it would be Non-Being. But Non-Being is a Non-Existent, a Zero.

There can be no middle ground between Being and Non-Being. Being either Is, or Is Not. And as I have made clear, Being Is (Consciouness-Energy).

Ayn Rand Objectivists would argue that an all-subsuming Divine Being (the two “Vines” being Consciousness and Energy) is a Floating Abstraction. But to fully En-Light-ened mystics, Self-realized sages, it is a directly Obvious Reality. To these mystic-sages, it is Self-evident that all phenomenal existents, regardless of their apparent ontological status, are temporary modifications or permutations of a single Ultimate Reality – Being (Conscious-Energy) – which the Hindus refer to as Sat-Chit-Ananda and Siva-Shakti.