An example from the “Three Universes” theory of Scientology.

The idea of the three universes as taught in Hubbardian philosophy is strictly in line with the American individualist paradigm and also with the classical atomist model of the universe. The physical universe in that view is the product of individual spirits joining in a co-creative project, each contributing part of their individual universes.

“The universes, then, are three in number: the universe created by one viewpoint, the universe created by every other viewpoint, the universe created by the mutual action of viewpoints which is agreed to be upheld — the physical universe.”                     Hubbard, The Factors (8-8008), April 23, 1953.

In other words the group consists of individuals or the molecule consists of atoms, which consists of ‘individual’ particles and the universe consists of elementary atomic, individual universes. This puts the particle or individual as the underlying basic structure of reality. This is still the favorite bottom up approach we know from mainstream science. You put all the elements together and thus build a whole.

What a difference it is to start from the highest level of the Absolute or Infinity which is an undivided whole. We have already seen this in our rendition of the new scientific theory of creation. It all started holistically. The whole is primary and the parts stem from the whole and not the other way around. The parts would not even exist without the whole. Saying that the whole is built from the parts is clearly backwards. The whole can be divided–not without loss–into parts, that is the more accurate statement.

Alright so how did the physical universe come about?

Condensed in a very few words it was the Absolute or the divinity itself that brought it about by its desire to see something new.  But being infinity it had no choice but to split itself into a seer and something to see. That something to see was the origin of the physical universe.

This is of course extremely abbreviated history, but you can be sure that it was not a number of Greek Gods meeting on Mt. Olympus each bringing some elements and putting together the physical universe. There is a great difference between this view and the holistic, divine paradigm.

…see also the post on Quantity and Quality in relationship

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