Framework for a Science of Consciousness
Swedenborg explains to us how:
The world is not one monistic substance
- (however much that kind of theory may appeal to us!)
But is formed of a successive sequence of degrees:
- These degrees are real differences, not merely appearances,
- These degrees are discrete, not continuous with each other,
- (better to think of them as ‘contiguous’: dual rather than nondual)
- The whole set of degrees is kept alive from the Divine Source,
- The whole set acts as a unified whole, since
- the functions of successive degrees correspond to each other.