Heaven #4490 God-Endowed
Dear Gloria,
in http://www.heavenletters.org/god-endowed.html
paragraph 5
"Be you the proof of Me. If you need proof, prove Me by your mighty Self. I am Self-evident, beloveds."
The sentence "I am Self-Evident, beloveds" is very tricky to translate. It seems to have something missing. I would tempt to read "I am Self-evident through you". Evident means "seeing something out of" (ex-videns in latin). To me, it is equivalent to "obvious". So God say "I am Self-obvious". Can you paraphrase "I am Self-evident"?
There is another difficulty in this Heavenletter. It is the use of conscious awareness. What is the difference between consciousness and awareness? For me it is the same. In French, there is only one word: consciousness/conscious. What is a conscious awareness?
Thanks
Hi, Normand! You ask simple
Hi, Normand!
You ask simple yet difficult questions!
Self-evident is...well, Self-evident!
Be you the proof of Me. If you need proof, prove Me by your mighty Self. I am Self-evident, beloveds.
You say: "The sentence "I am Self-Evident, beloveds" is very tricky to translate. It seems to have something missing. I would tempt to read "I am Self-evident through you". Evident means "seeing something out of" (ex-videns in latin). To me, it is equivalent to "obvious". So God say "I am Self-obvious". Can you paraphrase "I am Self-evident?"
Technically, Self-evident means obvious. Yet obvious isn't quite right. I suppose God could have said: "I am as plain as the nose on your face." I would venture that God wanted something a little loftier here.
I think it's a speech of Abraham Lincoln's that says: "These truths are self-evident." It's not anything I ever questioned before.
Self-evident means containing its own evidence or proof.
Here are a couple of synonyms that I wouldn't have known, but I bet you do:
axiomatic: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth";
prima facie, self-evident
Here are some synonyms:
self-explanatory; apparent, clear, evident, hands-down, manifest, obvious, open-and-shut, patent, plain, transparent, unmistakable; incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, undeniable, unquestionable; accepted, given, granted
Of all of these, God chose Self-evident. The capitalized Self seems to give it an extra zing!
Maybe now you know the perfect equivalent French word?
Your conscious awareness may be absent from Me. Your conscious awareness may be far away from Me. You are not always the most aware person on the block, will you admit this? Will you admit this with a smile?
God has said, as I remember, that we may not be consciously aware, yet that we do somewhere know Truth. Conscious awareness is a fairly common expression although I too always kinda questioned that it was redundant.
I found this just now:
Conscious awareness
The conscious mind is limited in terms of the amount of information that can be held at any one moment in time to seven plus or minus two chunks. The size of the chunks is variable. A metaphoric description is the experience of shining a torch around a darkened room. As the light beam moves from one place to another, you notice different items. You can never see the entire contents of the room with the torch light. Like the torch, conscious attention shifts from one experience to another.
That's great, Normand,how you get right down to the bone and not let anything pass you by.
God bless you.
Let us know if these make more sense to you now.
You open a lot of
You open a lot of possibilities, dear One. And the choice might even be more difficult.
But I would go in a direction you suggested: God is Self-Evident only through His manifestations or through Knowing Him without any possibility to prove His existence".
My choice in French would be: "Je suis l'évidence même : I am the evidence itself". It is as simple as Oneness, yet too simple for the intellect.
Why evidence requests so many questions?!?!?
Well, at least, it is a good workout before breakfast, lunch or dinner, depending on your time zone.
And I love your response!
And I love your response!
Is it possible that the
Is it possible that the French language doesn't have two different words for consciousness and awareness? I find it strange, as they are two different things. In Italian cosciousness is 'coscienza' and awareness is 'consapevolezza'! Consciousness is something that is present in everything. Even the stones have consciousness, but they are not AWARE of being stones. Conscious awareness is something that human beings have as they are aware of being conscious human beings. At least, this is how I have come to understand it.
Love,
paula
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Never think that you are I. Know that I am you. /HEAVEN #515)
Most interesting, dear
Most interesting, dear Paula. I love what you bring up.
Of course, the human mind itself is vast. But do dogs know consciousness? I wonder. Dogs and so many animals understand death as a fact of life. My dog, Sunshine, when his beloved Ginger died, and he realized she had died, he howled in grief. Of course, that was my perception of it.
And those elephants that the man in South Africa had saved, when he died, they somehow knew, and they traveled eleven miles, as I remember, one in front of the other, to reach the man's home to acknowledge his passing and their love for him. The elephants had never been to his home, yet they knew where to find it. I do have to wonder.
What messages do our sentient friends send and receive?
I knew a woman who wrote a book of the messages she received from rocks in New Zealand. Was it all inside her? I do wonder.
One last question: Does a rose have consciousness? Does a rose receive our appreciation of her? When we say rose in whatever language we use, does the rose come to know its name?. I imagine that a rose doesn't have to have language to know itself.
I love a mystery, Paula!
Do you know that the Inuit
Do you know that the Inuit people (commonly known as the Eskimos) have 6 different words to express what we call snow? Our language must seem "poor" compared to their language to express the richness of aspects of snow depending on the time of the year, the climatic conditions, the angle and light of the sun, etc.
That's the case with languages. They are "strong" and rich in certain aspects and seem poor in certain other aspects.
On the topic of "consciouness" and awareness, the French language uses the expression "levels or degrees of consciousness" in what is expressed in two different words in italian and english. And, of course, there is this unsolvable question: where does awareness "emerge" from basic 'consciousness"? Gloria, you expressed that very well in your examples with the elephants.
Paula, what I see from the 2 words in italian: coscienza and consapevolezza, coscienza is made with con+scienza (latin con(with)+ sciens, scientia —> scire: 'to know') while cossapevolezza is made with con+sapere (latin sapere which also means to smell and, by extension, to be intelligent, to have good judgment). Can we apply the meaning of "to know" in coscienza to everything? I think so. And how about consapevolezza?
But words are always only symbols, attempts to represent or explain something by something else. That's what translation is made for. Just like currency, we convert one language into the other, sometimes with a plus-value, sometimes with a minus-value, depending on the general state of linguistic economy.