Philosopher
Ryan David Dwyer
What is Philosophy?
Philosophy is the love of wisdom. No one can become “wise” about any topic without asking, “Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How?” Unfortunately, we live in a global society when being an expert means possessing a degree that demonstrates one’s ability to regurgitate knowledge that hasn’t been tested by personal discernment.
Hence, the honest definition of “Expert” is this:
Someone who adeptly repeats what they’ve been told without personally verifying information.
The Americas and Europa are presently plagued by the Pseudo Intellectualism of Consensus Knowledge, of which mindset Academia, Healthcare Industry, Scientific Communities, and Religious Societies, often share a bizarre intersectional alliance.
Philosophy, Logic, and Epistemology all share a harmony with the restorative powers to heal the Mind of its inconsistencies.
Critical Thinking isn’t just a field of study, but is a state of what Apostle Paul referred to as a “Sound Mind,” which means Healthy Thought Process.
Paulos embraced diverse ideas outside his own belief system, even proven by his sermon on Mars Hill to the Athenians in Acts chapter 17: he quoted the two Greek Poets, the Creten Epimenedes and the Cilcian Aratus.
If you look at the image above and notice the image of the Iconic “Angel Moroni” who appeared to the founder of Mormonism, you’re correct.
However, in the Spring of 2023, I discovered that the popular religion we hear about today, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints” started by Brigham Young, is not in alignment with its own associated Holy Books.
In late April of 2023, I finally decided to give Joseph Smith’s writings a chance, observing exquisite teachings.
When I read Pearl of Great Price, Doctrine and Covenants, and eventually the Book of Mormon, I noticed remarkable personal affinity:
They contain Universal Truths I had been accepting since the year 2001, from the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ.
For over 20 years, I’d been sincerely seeking a way to encapsulate all my discoveries, ponderings, and conclusions.
Today, I can boldly state that all Truth – wherever it may be – is already Mormon.
The official etymology that Joseph Smith ascribed to the word are partitioned in two ideas:
- Mor – More
- Mon – Good
“… Mormonism is truth, in other words the doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, is truth. … The first and fundamental principle of our holy religion is, that we believe that we have a right to embrace all, and every item of truth, without limitation or without being circumscribed or prohibited by the creeds or superstitious notions of men, or by the dominations of one another, when that truth is clearly demonstrated to our minds, and we have the highest degree of evidence of the same.”
- Published in Times and Seasons, Feb. 1840, pp. 53–54; spelling and grammar modernized.
- Celestial – Direct Perception – Fountain of Mormon
- Terrestrial – Indirect Perception – Waters of Mormon
- Telestial – Distant Perception – Forest of Mormon
One might say that the concepts of Father, Son, Holy Spirit align accordingly:
- Celestial Direct – Holy Spirit – Future in the Now (Solar Symbolism)
- Terrestrial Indirect – Son – Present in the Now (Lunar Symbolism)
- Telestial Distant – Father – Past in the Now (Star Symbolism)
The familiar term “Gospel” from which we derive the concept of Good News, eventually came to mean “Good Spell.”
And if anyone were honest, they would confess that any True Gospel is one which casts a Good Spell upon you.
Isn’t spell casting bad?
Ah!!!
Now enters the mind of The Philosopher to resolve such conflicting thoughts.
Because the Good Spell is Influence based on Authentic Information and the Bad Spell (false Gospel) is any Information that is distorted: omitted or added to in a way that changes its meaning.
Philosophy comes from the Greek words Soph and Philo; respectively – Wisdom and Love.
A Philosopher then, is one who Loves Wisdom.
The exquisite Philosopher, Apostle Paul, declared that the Sophia of the Cross is foolishness to the world.
He even said there is a such a thing as “The foolishness of God.”
The moment the blood was shed through the spear of that compassionate Roman Centurian, the climax of all Philosophy was born into the world:
The Zero Point
-> In the Zero Point, all bets are off
-> In the Zero Point, there is neither positivity or negativity
-> In the Zero Point, all questions about the past and future are up for grabs
-> In the Zero Point, all proofs of a miracle worker seeming to be an Immortal Son of God cease
-> In the Zero Point, all claims have no substance
-> In the Zero Point, what one has felt in your innermost thoughts and feelings are despairingly doubted
Thankfully, that is not the end of The Story.
For 3 Days later, a Promised Resurrection occured.
But a Brand New Philosophical Dilemma is remembered:
The one who Rose Again once declared, “I Am the Resurrection and the Life.”
And so, we are forced to consider how it is possible for someone “to be” the Resurrection before they died.
So, there is a Stacking of Zero Points on top of each other!
At the Cross is the reaching of the Zero point from the Negative Side of reality.
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In the Tomb is the reaching of the Zero point from the Neutral Middle of reality.
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Resurrection is the reaching of the Zero Point from the Positive Side of reality.
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Because that Resurrection is a State of Being, rather than an Event, I eventually embraced the following Parallel Paradigms:
Telestial Kingdom – Flesh – The Outer
Terrestrial Kingdom – Soul – The Inner
Celestial Kingdom – Spirit – The Innermost
For the above reasons, I assert that every human being is standing right now within the 3 Kingdoms of Reality.
When the Celestial Kingdom manifests into the Telestial, it is because a Soul realizes theirself as Spirit, thus they begin speaking Spiritual Words – due to the union of their Spirit and Flesh.
(That’s what is known as “Receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit.”)
Once a person has been guided to the Truth of their Celestial Identity, directly from the Spirit of Truth, they experience the Glory of the Celestial while in the current conditions of their body.
The Mosaic Temple and Latter Day Saint Temples, are structured with the 3 Perceptions in Mind – a Journey from the Outermost to the Innermost, or what the Hebrews called, “The Most Holy Place.”
I think I will be satisfied if I can impart to you this other Glorious Angle of these delightful Universal Concepts:
Telestial Kingdom = The Eternal Past
Terrestrial Kingdom = The Eternal Present
Celestial Kingdom = The Eternal Future
These are One Kingdom.
And I would dare to say they embody the 3 Godhead Concepts:
Father
Son
Holy Spirit
And if they are One G-d Together, then there is a 4th Transcendent Idea:
The Superposition of the Past, Present, and Future.
When you correlate the Pearl of Great Price’s Book of Moses with Doctrine and Covenants 76, you will likely discover this:
The Telestial Kingdom is associated with the Metaphorical Symbolism of The Stars (Kokaubeam)
The Terrestrial Kingdom is associated with the Metaphorical Symbolism of The Moon (Olea)
The Celestial Kingdom is associated with the Metaphorical Symbolism of The Sun (Shinehah).
Hence, you would have the Kingdom of the Father – Kokaubeam, Kingdom of the Son – Olea, and Kingdom of the Holy Spirit – Shinehah.
Latter Day Saint doctrinal tradition has positioned the ideas of The 3 Kingdoms as places you go to when you die and/or after being forced resurrected later on into.
However, that notion can be quickly dispelled once you realize that Jesus said in the book of Luke,
“The Kingdom of God is inside you.”
So, one does not have to speculate and rely on Apocrphyal documents like The Gospel of Thomas, to find one of Jesus’s critical doctrines:
The Kingdom of Spirit is within us.
I point out now that the context for Him revelating such exquisite truth is correcting the Pharasees.
Because they supposed or imagined that The Kingdom would be coming from a physical location.
And after correcting that perspective, is when He emphatically declared, “The Kingdom of God is within you.”
Well, the word “within” in the Greek (and yes, I’m a student of Classical and Koine Hellene), is the same word He used another time when talking about the “inside” of a cup.
And of course, He was criticizing the outer religiosity of the Pharisees, since that they kept the outside of their selves clean, while inside they were ravenous wolves!
In summary…
All Doctrines which attempt to dangle a carrot in front of you to convert you to believe the 3 Kingdoms are “out there” somewhere, are not associated with Jesus.
And this is where a Philosopher like myself gets to have a lot of fun…
Because the Telestial Kingdom is associated with the Greek word “Tele”, a word Joseph revelated, despite not knowing Greek.
And you wanna know what Tele means?
I’ll “Tel” you (no pun intended).
It means:
Far Away
And so, Joseph Smith, who claimed alongside Sydney Rigdon, that the Telestial Glory (Appearance) is like the Stars, were remarkably correct.
And do I have to point out again that neither of them knew Greek yet?
Smith was first introduced to Beginner Greek by his associate, Oliver Cowdery, some 2 years later.
Anyhow…
The Grand Point is this:
The Sun and Moon are “Near” but the Stars are “Far Away.”
And so, all Spiritual Perception which asserts a God or Spirituality that is Far Off, is coming from a Fleshly Telestial Perspective!
And so, we can now understand why the sacrifice of Jesus was so vital…
Because it represented the end of externally mediated religion:
The moment His Blood was shed, there was a magnificent earthquake and the Veil to the Most Holy Place of the Temple was removed.
Do you recall my correspondence of the Most Holy Place earlier?
I Paralleled the following:
Celestial Kingdom/Most Holy Place/Spirit…
Here’s some more:
The Eternal Future/Pure Spirit World/
In the same way that all planets are “frozen sparks” of the Suns they encircle, so it has also been hypothesized that all Suns are Active Sparks of One Central Star.
In the Telestial Kingdom, there is a Star mentioned in the Book of Abraham called, “Kolob.”
When I examind potential Hebrew etymology for the word, I partitioned it in two ways:
- Kol – All/Every
- Ob/Ab – Spirit/Father
In other words, the Kolob concept is the philosophical basis of the All-Father source for which every Solar System is derived.
Since that Father God in my claimed concept represents “The Eternal Past,” then you could likely see why Kolob might represent, “The Center Point of all Material Reality.”
It might even be where the theoretical “Big Bang” originated.
The Lord says to Abraham about Kolob, “It is nearest my throne.”
Of course, the concept of Throne must be properly explored.
(It doesn’t necessarily mean a place, but rather, “A position from whence a King governs all his affairs.”)
Kolob is referred to as, “The governing one.”
When referencing the Psalmist’s concept that, “A Day with the Lord is as a Thousand Years, and a Thousand Years as a Day,” Apostle Peter brought up the idea of “The Day Star rising in your heart.”
This is rather curious, because Apostle Paul declared that confessing Jesus as Lord and believing “in” your heart that God raised him from the dead, makes one “saved.”
Saved from what though?
(You see, the Philosopher’s Mind is always useful!)
On point: how can a Star rise within one’s heart?
Well, apparently the Resurrection is associated with the Star Concept.
And The Book of Abraham, by Joseph Smith, declares that Kolob operates upon the same principle that Peter brought to light: a Millennium is like a Day and a Day like a Millennium.
Kolob = A Philosophical Concept about Transcendent Time and Space.
I surmise that what Kolob really represents is Einstein’s, “Theory of Relativity” in action!
From the standpoint of our Physical Bodies – the Telestial Perspective – Kolob might be Trillions of Light Years away.
However, from the standpoint of our Spirits – the Celestial Perspective – Kolob might be an Interdependent Unified Reality within everyone.
The Middle Perspective – our Souls – are trapped between the Two Worlds.
This might be the meaning of the Parable of the abyss between Paradise and Hades and the reference to “Abraham’s Bosom.”
Without The Gospel’s Resurrection Message, every soul is perpetually confused, not knowing whether to identify with the body or the spirit.
The lowermost perspective of the Telestial World – its worst type of state – is known as “hell.”
Hell is an ongoing agony that exists as a result of not being aware of or having willingly rejected one’s Spiritual Identity.
Kolob seems to be a Physical Material Reality which is fully One or Centered around the Spiritual Celestial: the most ideal state of the Telestial World.
A striving for or attempt to understand the All Father Spirit, is an attempt to understand the Eternal Past prior to “the fall.”
All Science is an attempt to understand the All Father – the relationship of matter, space, and time to all spiritual claims.
Philosophy, on the other hand, is an attempt to understand the Eternal Future in relation to the Past and Present.
Philosophy is the Gateway to accepting the Gift of the Holy Spirit -> the Future in the Now.
Water Baptism is a Philosophical Ritual because it involves 3 Phases:
- In the Water (Death – Telestial Flesh Consciousness)
- Under the Water (Burial – Terrestrial Soul Consciousness)
- Out of the Water (Resurrection – Celestial Spirit Consciousness)