In a world of separation, the truth is held aloft as an ideal of theology and philosophy, while facts are twisted and traded in the worldly affairs of commerce, politics, law and administration. Where life is saturated with anxiety and confusion, people can never be sure of what is true, and must endure a racket of competing claims about what is true and what is not. Those who live in separation cannot actually know the truth, and are reduced to hoping that most of what they believe is true.

But truth is neither an immutable ideal nor a malleable perception. Truth is given in the mathematics and geometry of created form. The truth of a building lies in the number, dimensions and weights of its bricks and beams and nails: and not in claims or beliefs about the building's nature or purpose... There is no truth of a thing apart from what it actually is.

In separation, truth is unknown because the actual nature of things cannot be directly perceived. Multi-dimensional constructions of number and form cannot be fully apprehended in the state of fear. This is because the rates of vibration enforced by fear are too low... to resolve the interior structure of perceived objects. When a people rise above fear, the vibrations of their forms quicken, enabling them to resolve the interior structure of the other forms they meet. Then the truth of every created form that is encountered can be directly apprehended... When a world passes from darkness to light, the people in their very lives pass from falsity to truth.

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