How do the definitions according to the Fourth Day differ from God’s laws?

Consciousness is able to pass on to the intellect the information available on the basis of its experiences, and from this information the intellect creates the definitions with which consciousness then identifies.

The conscious I consists of these definitions, and according to these definitions it perceives the world. The more definitions it has identified with, the more further definitions become perceptible in its further experiences, because further definitions are connected to the definitions according to the network of relationships between definitions.

It is not that new sensory organs become active, but that the appearing reality becomes more interpretable as our knowledge increases; based on the same experiences, greater knowledge is able to interpret a greater amount of information.

If we cannot read, then in a book only the pictures provide additional information for us, but once we have learned to read, the same book will provide much more information. Our perception has not changed, but greater knowledge has made information accessible that we were unable to interpret without the ability to read, because we did not have knowledge to which we could connect the information we perceived.

God’s laws do not depend on the perceptual capacities of consciousness, nor on its current knowledge. The world exists according to God’s laws, and complete harmony prevails among the laws, because in defining the laws, every law changed reality only to a degree that did not contradict the previous laws in any way. The new laws always only further shaped the reality that already existed, because what already exists exists according to definitions, and the existing definitions do not change as a result of the new definitions.

The world appearing in material form, however, changes with every new definition; it becomes more structured and more precisely defined.

God’s laws are timeless, which means that the changes established in the material world during the cycles of creation mean changes throughout the entire material world. It is not the reality appearing in time that changes, nor are there different experiences on the timeline; rather, the change appears throughout the entire timeline, because God’s laws do not depend on time. Time is also a definition, according to which God defined a temporal order, a process for consciousness, but the laws do not appear according to the temporal order; rather, according to the order of their definition, they change the material form of the world throughout the entire world, in every time and in every place.

The definitions according to the Fourth Day therefore fundamentally differ from God’s definitions, because they are limited in every respect. The information available from which the intellect can create them is limited, their appearance in the world is limited because they can be present only as long as consciousness identifies with them, and the way in which they appear is also limited because the harmony of the world cannot be disrupted.

If the definitions according to the Fourth Day contradict God’s laws, they are able to appear with the help of the oppositional pair that appears against the definition, so that the harmony of the world is not harmed.

If the definitions are not precise and we do not know precisely how they appear, then we do not know what actually happens when they appear; therefore, emotions appear when what happens is not what we would expect on the basis of our definitions.

If we have created laws that contradict God’s laws and are able to exist only together with their oppositional pairs, then we do not know the oppositional pairs in the first place, and therefore the emotions that appear will not only be the unexpected consequences of the appearance of our definition, but the oppositional pairs that appear in our experiences will also evoke emotions, which point to the existence of the oppositional pairs.

These definitions do not actually exist among God’s laws, but in time, in which we experience reality, they appear because we identify with these definitions, and therefore their existence actually depends on our existence. In the process of knowing, definitions therefore also appear during our lives that are not God’s definitions, but appear according to our interpretations, yet among God’s laws, according to the network of relationships prevailing among the laws.

The presence of Human therefore actually changes the world that Human experiences, on the timeline on which Human exists, but according to the definitions of the Fourth Day, these changes had already been defined when God defined the laws of the world; that is, in the fourth cycle of the six cycles of creation, every change appearing through Human was defined.

We humans therefore continuously change the world; our own definitions continuously appear in the world, but they do not contradict the laws defined by God. Rather, among them and in harmony with them, they appear in complete harmony with the help of the oppositional pairs and emotions that appear.

None of this appears to us as harmony, because the harmony of the appearing reality can be understood only if we precisely understand our appearing definition, the appearing emotions, and the appearing oppositional pairs, together with the emotions that appear in connection with the oppositional pairs. This, however, is not possible, because in the process of knowing, our definitions become knowable precisely by our definitions becoming separated from their oppositional pairs in our experiences, and emotions appearing as a result of unexpected forms of appearance.

Knowing becomes possible precisely because we are able to identify with our definitions that contradict God’s laws, these appear in the world against their oppositional definitions, and until we know precisely how these definitions appear, nevertheless, with the help of the emotions that appear, exactly what has to appear according to the definitions appears in our experiences.

The definitions created by Human are therefore able to remain present in the world only as long as Human lives, as long as the appearing reality is present in reality as a process through Human.

The laws of the Fourth Day are therefore not identical with the laws defined by God, yet during the process of knowing they reveal God’s laws. The laws defined by Human appear in the world created by God, among the laws created by God and according to the network of relationships defined by God, which determines the material world in its entirety.

The definitions according to the Fourth Day are therefore able to exist in the material world only as long as Human, who has identified with the definitions, is present. Human is always present according to a timeline, and according to the experiences appearing on the timeline, information is available for creating definitions; these definitions are able to exist in the material world only because Human, who identifies with the definitions, is present in the material world.

The definitions created by Human are therefore not eternal; they exist only on the timeline that Human is also able to perceive during Human’s material appearance.

The definitions created by Human are not unchangeable either, because during experiences we continuously reinterpret our definitions, and therefore they actually continuously change, and in parallel, the oppositional pairs that appear also continuously change, just as the emotions that appear do.

When the human body dies, perception on the timeline comes to an end, and appearance in the material world also comes to an end, so the definitions with which consciousness identified cease to exist in the material world; thus the definitions created by Human are present in the world only as long as Human is present.

Knowledge that is passed on does not remain in the form in which it was present through one person, but according to the interpretation understood by another person, which cannot be identical to the way in which it was present through the other person, because the other person created their interpretations on the basis of different experiences, with which they identified and through which they currently exist.

Knowledge can therefore be passed on, but the form of appearance through which we are present in the world ceases with our death, and remains present in the material world in the form in which it is able to appear according to the interpretation of the people who are present.

The definitions according to the Fourth Day are therefore always completely individual and remain present in the material world only as long as the person who identifies with the definitions is also present.

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