(3.1) From what is it that the four kinds of reality emanate? What is the root source of reality, of all that
is? In Western thought, a creation narrative (possibly dating as far back as the Bronze Age and common to both Christianity and
Judaism as well as the ancient Mesopotamian religions from which they evolved) postulates that reality springs from one or more
things called a god. This god is said to have created heaven and earth and all the things in them and to rule over them.
Numerous other creation narratives are still to be found in other religions and customs around the world, including Islam, Sikhism,
Baháʼí Faith. Others, including Buddhism and Jainism, on the other hand, deny the existence of a creator deity.
Can it be argued that creation of reality by such god gods is not the case? Can it be argued that creation of reality by such
god gods is the case? Both can be argued, but neither to universal acceptance as fact. We simply have no
knowledge of either being the case. We have only speculations, posited as unfounded beliefs, and sometimes still put forth in
time past as a philosophical axiom.
(3.2) As the foundation of this philosophy, the axiom is put forth that an all encompassing entity exist. While it
possesses eminence in that it is part and parcel to our very existence, it possesses no
divinity, gives no divine guidance, demands no reverence or worship, has no expectations of us, and judges the actions of no one. It
is not a god in the sense that it created by or from anything whatsoever. Further, this entity is without time but
exists only in time present with no beginning of and no end of existence. In a word, this entity simply is.
Accept it in the same sense that a rock is accepted as being a rock and not a god.
(3.2.1) It is further postulated that such an entity is reality itself and is inclusive of itself. It is the sum of
all is; the sum of knowable reality, unknowable reality; it constitutes both the is
and the entirety of is. Is is an unknowable Ding an sich (a thing in itself).
(3.2.2) To avoid confusion with concepts of god, this entity is given the name Ultimate Supreme Being
(USB). No proof of the existence of this entity is known to exist, thus making the assertion of its existence the
axiomatic root of this philosophy. In common philosophical parlance, the USB is a noumenon as opposed to a phenomenon and
exists independently of human sensation or perception. It is taken to be truth, with all due skepticism, to serve as
a premise for all further reasoning and arguments of this philosophy.
Conversely, the lack of knowledge of the existence of this entity cannot be taken as absolute proof that it does not
exist. Of this, nothing more can, should or need be said.
(3.3) By logical extension, the "me" of each of us humans, which we shall call the unus of each of us, is a
constituent of all that is and thus a part of the USB. No aspect of unus exists separate or independent of
is.
(3.3.1) As an integral part of USB, we take ourselves to be an inseparable part of the whole of reality.
(3.3.2) As an integral part of USB, we further take ourselves to be a known part of reality. We are a
sentient part of reality with awareness of our material existence.
(3.3.3) We do not exclude the possibility of a part of unus to be either unknown or unknowable.
(3.3.4) We do include the possibility of a part of us as being a false reality in the
mind in the form of a false belief.
(3.4) An absence of is is what might be called nothingness. But is being part the whole of is and not
the absence of is not being a part of is, nothingness cannot exist, and, by extension, is not a part of
reality All that is is and all that isn't isn't.
(3.4.1) A belief in nothingness is a myth.
(3) The is of reality exists in the form of an entity of entities as an unknowable Ding an sich entity unto itself, including all other entities, both knowable and unknowable to humans. No other entity exists outside this entity. Nothingness is an illusion of the mind and does not exist.