Lecture 11 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Major Premise
- Principle 1
- “Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining it in existence
Principle 6
- Principle of time
- No process that does not require time
Principle 7
The amount of intelligence in matter
- The amount of intelligence for any given amount of matter is 100%, and is always proportional to its requirements.
Principle 8
The function of intelligence
- The function of intelligence is to create force
Principle 9
The amount of force created by intelligence
- The amount of force created by intelligence is always 100%
Principle 10
The function of force
- The function of force is to unite intelligence and matter
Principle 11
The character of universal forces
- The forces of universal intelligence are manifested by physical laws; unswerving and unadapted, and have no solicitude for the structures in which they work
Principle 12
Interference with transmission of universal forces
- There can be interference with transmission of universal forces
Principle 13
The function of matter
- The function of matter is to express force
Principle 14
Universal Life
- Force is manifested by motion in matter; all matter has motion, therefore there is universal life in all matter
Principle 15
No motion without the effect of force
- Matter can have no motion without the application of force by intelligence
Principle 16
Intelligence in both Organic and Inorganic Matter
- Universal intelligence gives force to both organic and inorganic matter
Principle 17
Cause and effect
- Every effect has a cause and every cause has effects
Principle 18
Evidence of Life
- The signs of life are evidence of the intelligence of life
What is the first sign of life?
Assimilation
What is assimilation?
The power of assimilation is the ability of an organism to take into its body food materials selectively, and make them part of itself according to a system or
intelligent plan
What is the second sign of life?
Excretion
What is excretion?
The power of excretion is the ability of an organism to give off waste matters selectively, which an intelligence deems no longer
of use in that structure
What is the third sign of life?
Adaptability
What is adaptability?
Adaptability is the intellectual ability that an organism possesses of responding to all forces which come to it, whether
Innate or Universal
What is the fourth sign of life?
Growth
What is growth?
The power of growth is the ability to expand according to intelligent plan to mature size, and is dependent upon the power of assimilation
What is the fifth sign of life?
Reproduction
What is reproduction?
The power of reproduction is the ability of the unit to reproduce something of like kind; the power to perpetuate its own kind