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18.7 ConsciousnessSince we all accept that we are conscious, the nature of conscious awareness must be an essential part of mental activities. Within our theism, there is an awareness generated when the love and the wisdom from God come together again, after having been received and retained separately in various sub-degrees. This coming together is primarily the generation of an action, so let us postulate something specific for when consciousness exists:
Postulate 17 Whenever
love acts by means of wisdom, that action is a conscious action. There is consciousness
of the production of the result and also of the delight that arises from the
achievement of that production.
The awareness is of the action itself and not so much of the
love and wisdom that produced the action (to be aware of these things also will
require another level of consciousness at a prior discrete degree within the multi-level
structure). Consciousness thus arises everywhere in all levels within the mental
and spiritual degrees, and also in God, but it does not arise within the
physical degree. Natural processes are not themselves aware or conscious of the
events taking place. Such awareness requires an accompanying and corresponding mental
process.
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