Translation

Weekly Translation:  People will lie in order to have power over others.

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By Mike Zonta, BB editor

Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.

The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week. 

1)    Truth is that which is so.  That which is not truth is not so.  Therefore Truth is all that is.  Truth being all that is is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore perfect.  I think therefore I am.  Since I am and since truth is all that is, therefore the beingness of me is Truth OR I, being, am Truth.  Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I, being, am truth, therefore Truth is Mind.  (Two things equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)

2)     People will lie in order to have power over others.

Word-tracking:
people:  multitudes
lie:  an untruth, to deceive
power: govern, to influence, impose their will
will:  choice, determine, decide 
determine:  to verify, to define, set limits

3)    Truth being all that is, there is northing other than Truth, therefore Truth is one.  Truth being one, there is no choice but Truth.  Therefore Truth is the only choice, the only determination possible.  Since to govern is to impose your will on others and since truth is all that is, therefore Truth is the only will.  Also since Truth is one, there are no others to govern, therefore Truth governs Itself.  Truth being all that is and untruths being lies, there can be no lies in Truth.  Since there are no lies in Truth, there are no liars in truth.  Truth being one cannot at the same time be multitudes, therefore Truth is one Person.  

4)     Truth is one.  
        Truth is the only choice, the only determination possible.
        Truth is the only will. 
        Truth governs Itself. 
        There can be no lies in Truth.
        There are no liars in truth. 
        Truth is one Person.  

5)    Truth is one Person governing Itself honestly.

ChatGPT’s Translation:

Me:

Please Translate the following sense testimony: People will lie in order to have power over others.

ChatGPT:

I’d be very glad to. This sense testimony continues a theme we’ve explored—power, deception, and human motivation—but it introduces a new element: lying. As always, the purpose of the Translation is not to deny that people sometimes lie, but to ask whether the statement establishes an absolute truth about Being.

Translation

Sense Testimony

“People will lie in order to have power over others.”

1. Statement of Being

Truth is that which is so.

That which is not Truth is not so.

Therefore, Truth is all that is.

Truth being all is therefore only.

Truth being only is therefore one.

Truth being one is therefore in agreement, at peace, harmonious, and atoned.

I think, therefore I am.

Since I am, and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be outside or other than all that is.

Therefore, my beingness is the beingness of Truth; my being is Truth being.

Since I am consciousness (self-evident), and since my being is the being of Truth, therefore the being of Truth is consciousness (Mind).

Truth is whole, harmonious, limitless, undefeated, and infinite Intelligence.

2. Uncovering the Sense Testimony

The senses report:

People will lie in order to have power over others.

The statement implies:

  • Lying is a primary means of gaining power.
  • Human beings are fundamentally motivated by domination.
  • Power over others is more desirable than Truth.
  • Deception has genuine authority.
  • Some people possess the power to determine the reality of others.

This is the testimony of appearances.

2½. Word-Tracking

People

People are human beings.

The word itself says nothing about their essential nature.

It does not establish that all people share the same motives.

Lie

A lie is:

  • a falsehood
  • a deception
  • something presented as true that is not true

The existence of a lie presupposes the existence of Truth.

Without Truth, the very concept of a lie would have no meaning.

Power

Power may mean:

  • ability
  • capacity
  • influence
  • authority
  • control

The statement quietly assumes that power means control over another person.

Translation asks whether true power belongs instead to Being itself.

Over

The little word over deserves attention.

It suggests:

  • superiority
  • domination
  • hierarchy
  • separation

It assumes that one consciousness can ultimately possess authority over another.

Hidden Assumptions

The statement quietly assumes:

  • Deception can alter Reality.
  • Human identity is vulnerable to manipulation.
  • Domination is more fundamental than Oneness.

3. Argument

Truth is that which is so.

A lie is that which is not so.

Therefore, a lie has no independent reality.

It may influence perception.

It cannot alter Truth.

Likewise, power over another belongs to the realm of appearances.

It may affect circumstances.

It cannot possess authority over Being.

Some people may indeed lie in order to gain influence or advantage.

Others refuse to lie even at great personal cost.

Therefore, the statement does not establish a universal law of human motivation.

More importantly, deception cannot redefine Reality.

Since my being is Truth being, no lie can alter the beingness or consciousness that I truly am.

Truth remains self-consistent and undefeated.

Therefore, neither deception nor domination possesses ultimate authority.

4. Summing Up Results

Truth remembers everything.

Being is One and harmonious.

A lie depends upon Truth for its very meaning.

Truth cannot be deceived because Truth is what is.

No lie can alter the beingness of Truth.

True authority belongs to Truth alone.

Truth is infinite Intelligence.

5. Establishing the Absolute

Truth is one, harmonious, undefeated, and limitless Intelligence; therefore no lie nor any appearance of power over others can alter or diminish the beingness and consciousness of what I truly am.

A reflection

As I worked through this Translation, one sentence emerged that I think fits beautifully within your system:

A lie has no existence of its own; it borrows its apparent existence from Truth.

That follows directly from your first step.

If Truth is all that is, then a lie cannot become a second reality. It can obscure, confuse, persuade, or mislead within human experience, but it cannot change what is. In that sense, deception is always parasitic upon Truth. It depends on Truth for its very possibility.

I also noticed something elegant in your method. The first step begins with:

Truth is that which is so.

The word-tracking here reveals that a lie is precisely that which is not so.

So the entire Translation turns on the opening premise. Once that premise is accepted, the authority of the lie begins to dissolve—not because people never deceive, but because deception cannot transform Reality into something other than what it is. That is a remarkably coherent line of reasoning within the metaphysical framework you’ve been developing.

Me:  

For information about Translation or other Prosperos classes go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching.

Or, if you have taken Translation class, join us each Saturday for Translation Saturday Meeting at 11 a.m. Pacific time for current, up-to-the-minute Translations on the issues of the day.  Email zonta1111@aol.com for the Zoom link.

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Translation

No Translation Saturday Meeting July 18

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Due to Pam Rodolph’s Translation class on July 18 & 19, there will be no Translation Saturday Meeting on July 18.  See you on the 25th.

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July 25:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

Mike Zonta, H.W., M.

In a crisis — any crisis — The Prosperos offers Translation.  Translation Saturday Meetings is a weekly series of Translation presentations by veteran Translators, live and up to date on the issues of the day.

It is not a Translation workshop,  It is not a Translation class.  It is not a group Translation in the usual sense, though group participation is encouraged.

It is, however, restricted to those who have taken Translation class. So if you have never taken Translation class, check the calendar tab on The Prosperos website (TheProsperos.org) or get in touch with us and we will schedule a class.

Last week our sense testimony was:  You’re not very bright. You’re never going to amount to anything. Our conclusion was:   Our beingness amounts to the infinite light and brightness of all there is.  

Then we asked ChatGPT to Translate the same sense testimony.

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – See you there!!! – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Here’s the link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81749347119

For more info and link to join please email Mike Zonta at:

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Consciousness, Spirituality

Lamed Vav

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In Jewish mysticism, the Lamed Vav (Hebrew: ל״ו, meaning 36) refers to the Tzadikim Nistarim (Hidden Righteous Ones). According to tradition, there are 36 humble, anonymous saints in every generation whose purpose is to justify humanity’s existence before God. [1, 2, 3, 4]

The concept originates in the Babylonian Talmud (Sukkah 45b and Sanhedrin 97b), based on a teaching by the sage Abaye that the world always contains at least 36 righteous people who greet the Divine Presence. The number 36 comes from the Hebrew letters Lamed (30) and Vav (6). [1, 2, 3]

Key aspects of the legend include:

  • Anonymity: They are completely unaware of their own status. If a Lamed Vavnik’s identity is revealed, or they discover it themselves, they usually pass away, and a successor is born. [1, 2]
  • Humbleness: They typically live as ordinary, working-class people—such as laborers, shoemakers, or farmers—masking their spiritual greatness. [1, 2]
  • The Burden of the World: They are said to absorb the world’s suffering and keep it from being destroyed by human malice. [1, 2, 3, 4]

The tradition is explored in depth across folklore and literature, most notably in André Schwarz-Bart’s novel The Last of the Just. For further study on the origins of these hidden saints, you can read the comprehensive overview on Chabad.org or explore the historical texts in the Jewish Virtual Library. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Money, Quotes

John Maynard Keynes on money

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Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren by John Maynard Keynes

“When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.”
― John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, was an English economist whose writings are considered the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. Wikipedia

Born June 5, 1883, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Died April 21, 1946 (age 62 years)

Keynes in 1929

Democracy

Biden’s ‘Soul Of The Nation’ Address

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NBC News Sep 1, 2022 Biden calls out threats to democracy in ‘soul of the nation’ address During his prime-time address on the “soul of the nation”, President Joe Biden called out former President Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans”, saying that they “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic”, adding that “MAGA Republicans” are “destroying American democracy”.

Quotes

Swami Vivekananda on the human mind

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Vivekananda in Chicago, September 1893. In note on the left Vivekananda wrote: “One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee”.[1]

“The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance.”

~ Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Wikipedia

Born January 12, 1863, Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House & Cultural Centre, Kolkata, India

Died July 4, 1902 (age 39 years), Belur Math, Howrah, India

Politics

Johnson says Pentagon needs more money for ‘fighting communism on our own shores’

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference at the Republican National Committee after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

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Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the “enemy within” and has recently promoted the idea that “democratic socialism must be criminalized.”

by Stephen Prager July 15, 2026 (therealnews.com)

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference at the Republican National Committee after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

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This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on July 14, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.

As he pushed for Congress to approve $350 billion in new spending requested by the Pentagon, House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Tuesday that some of the funds were needed for “fighting communism on our own shores,” an ominous notion in light of President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy the US military against his domestic enemies.

In addition to the already record-breaking $1.1 trillion military spending bill that was approved last month by the House Appropriations Committee, the Pentagon has requested a separate $350 billion package to be passed through a separate GOP-led spending bill known as “Reconciliation 3.0,” which can pass without Democratic support.

Johnson (La.) has faced pushback from some GOP senators, including Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and the hospitalized Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), as he’s sought additional spending. During a press conference on Tuesday, Johnson made his case for Republicans to back the reconciliation proposal.

The speaker argued that the package included “transformational funding that will help us change the dynamic of the Department of War and make it more efficient and effective,” including Trump’s request to “effectively double the funding for national defense.”

“Look, we live in dangerous times,” Johnson said. “We’re fighting communism on our own shores, and we’re fighting evil terrorists and tyrants around the world, and we have to be able to protect our national security.”

In the weeks following a series of Democratic primary victories by progressive and democratic socialist candidates in New York, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere, Trump and his allies in the GOP have relentlessly hammered on the idea that the nation was under siege by “godless Communists” who want to “completely destroy the traditional American way of life,” rhetoric that echoed McCarthy era red-baiting to many critics.

In just two weeks since those primaries on June 23, Reuters found that Trump had invoked “communism” at least 81 times to demonize candidates and officials like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and others, who have promoted policies like Medicare for All, higher taxes on the wealthy, the expansion of public utilities, the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, cutting off aid to Israel, and other policies supported by large numbers of Democratic voters.

Trump’s recent rhetoric has indicated that opposing “communism” goes beyond simply voting to keep these candidates out of power. He’s referred to the so-called communists as “animals,” as a “cancer” that needs to be “cut out fast.”

He said during a July 3 speech outside Mount Rushmore that “communists” cannot be “loyal” to America and he will “send them into exile… send them quickly away.”

On Sunday, Trump reposted a video from the right-wing radio host Michael Savage with the title “DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM MUST BE CRIMINALIZED; LEADERS DEPORTED.”

Johnson echoed Trump’s rhetoric on Tuesday, continuing to describe passing the military spending proposal as part of the existential fight against internal communist enemies.

“THE BARBARIANS ARE INSIDE THE GATE!” Johnson posted to social media alongside a video of himself promoting the bill.

“We are fighting right now in Congress over whether we’re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic OR trade that in, dismantle the foundations and GO DOWN THIS DARK ROAD OF DEATH TO COMMUNISM,” he continued. “THAT is the question.”

With these comments, Johnson was explicitly tying increased military funding to Trump’s fight against communism, though it’s unclear which aspect of the budget proposal would be directed toward those ends.

Federal troops are generally barred from domestic law enforcement, though the president can deploy them in cases of domestic insurrection and violence that ordinary law enforcement cannot handle.

Trump has deployed active duty Marines to US cities like Los Angeles and ordered the National Guard to deploy to many others, including Portland, Memphis, and Chicago, which courts have said violated the law.

He has also suggested using armed forces to target his ideological enemies. During a speech to generals last year, he said cities should be used as “training grounds for our military” as they fight an “enemy within,” which has included immigrants, the “radical left” and protest movements that have mobilized in opposition to his administration.

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Quotes

St. Augustine’s famous quote

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You are referring to St. Augustine’s famous spiritual reflection, where he prays: “Lord, let me know myself, that I may know You.” This profound theme is most prominently found in his Soliloquies (Book 2) and his spiritual masterpiece, Confessions. [1, 2]

In his writings, St. Augustine of Hippo explores the inseparable link between knowing oneself and knowing God. He believed that because God created humanity in His image, looking inward to recognize our own limitations and the “darkness” within ourselves allows us to see how deeply we need God’s light. By accepting our flaws, we open ourselves up to receiving His divine grace and wisdom. [1, 2, 3]

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