{"id":100,"date":"2008-03-29T13:43:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T18:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/prelude\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:26:05","slug":"prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summametaphysica.com\/gg\/prelude\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/100vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A major intellectual triumph and<br \/>\npotential conceptual breakthrough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Professor John Wheeler<br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus of Physics<br \/>\nPrinceton University, 2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/100vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">______________________________<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This is a highly intuitive work attempting to advance our speculative conjecture about the cosmos \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but fully comporting to our knowledge of the spectrum of various realities, across the sciences, both physical and social.<\/p>\n<p>The work is written within a Jewish context,<br \/>\nbut its motifs are universal.<\/p>\n<p>If the construct proposed herein proves to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcstand the test of time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, mainstream Jewish philosophy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and theology \u00e2\u20ac\u201c will comport to its contours \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and other belief systems will find ways to accommodate its assertions.<\/p>\n<p>In due course&#8230; In due course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">_____________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">note: There is a 5-page \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Schematic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nre-capping both books starting on pg. 352<br \/>\nor by clicking below<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/appendix-b-schematically\/\">Appendix B: Schematically<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strike><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/strike><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">______________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/100vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A significant and possibly brand new way of seeing God and goodness as processes that can, in retrospect, be seen as embedded in the thrust of creation toward the (always still potential) fulfillment of potential&#8230; \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\tEdward L. Greenstein<br \/>\nProfessor of Bible \tTel Aviv University<br \/>\nPrinceton University, 2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/100vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><!--COPY THIS ENTIRE CODE TO START TABLE--><\/p>\n<hr width=\"80%\" size=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<table width=\"314\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 125px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/table-of-contents\/\">< BACK<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50px\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/dedication\/\">NEXT PAGE><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--END OF TABLE--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A major intellectual triumph and potential conceptual breakthrough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Professor John Wheeler Professor Emeritus of Physics Princeton University, 2008 ______________________________ This is a highly intuitive work attempting to advance our speculative conjecture about the cosmos \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but fully comporting to our knowledge of the spectrum of various realities, across the sciences, both physical and social. 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