Alright, so the two previous videos I’ve starred as essentials, which just means they are the videos mandatory for the progressing argument. The essential videos in the rest of the playlists will also be marked, but each playlist will have videos like this one that expound on the argument or answer the main objections that might be raised. 

 So, before we move on to potential communication with these rulers of the material, we can actually determine more about these invisible forces than we did from our initial observations – namely that the invisible forces are persons.  

Previously we had discussed that, since the invisible determines the movement of what we can observe, they are in that sense the rulers of the material (they are the rulers in the sense that they measure how much movement something will have). However, these rulers (and you’ll notice this in the multiple meanings of the term ‘rulers’) also show themselves to not simply be random forces, but forces that act consistently, which suggest that they are minds behind the matter – or, we could simply say that these forces are persons. 

In order to identify the rulers of material as persons, we need to first define what a person is, and I would submit that a person is a director of force -- what classifies something as a person is their ability to choose. So, you can see this in simple expressions of our langue where we will say that someone has person-ality, meaning that they are unique in how they choose to interact in the world. Or, in the parallel descriptions, “self-control” and “will-power” (power matches with control and self matches with will). The will is, in essence, then, the make-up of the person. An action can then be connected to a person if we see intention in the action. So, if you can imagine that you got smacked in the face with a dodgeball, three times a day, everyday. You would be sure that, upon the second or third time of it happening, you would be getting pretty upset and looking for the person behind it (based on the repetition, it wasn’t just a freak accident). This is the same reason why, if someone does some extremely impressive feat, we’ll often say, “do it again.” Which is a nod to the understanding that if they are able to repeat the act then they didn’t succeed by means of random chance but actually completed whatever they were trying to do, personally, and they were mindful while they did it.  

So, this leads right into an argument for the invisible forces of our world being understood as persons. As we watch various patterns repeat themselves (and again, the repetition is the key), we can be confident that there is a mindful force behind them. As way of examples, the planets, which are controlled by these invisible rulers, follow consistent patterns of orbit, growth repeatedly happens when a seed is placed in the ground, and water again and again falls only to be cyclically evaporated up again. So, because the movement of the material world is consistent and acts in predictable patterns, we can determine that there must be a will behind the movement (The assumption being that the unaltered state of existence is randomness and disorder). You might say, “invisible forces, if you are intentional and mindful of alternating between day and night and of making seeds grow and of having the rain fall, then prove your purposefulness by doing it more than once.” And, of course, we know from our observations that this is exactly the case. Now, this proves the personhood of the invisible force or forces, but this says nothing of the intelligence or the morality of the will. It also doesn’t tell us whether the forces are persons themselves, or simply have been programmed with another person’s intentions – similar to how one might want to label a computer as a person because it aims to carry out a will, however the will is not its own but was ascribed to it. Currently the word ‘person’ tends to be reserved for humans, which I think is misunderstanding of what the word actually means, but using that word doesn’t matter too much, what matters is that we understand that these rulers of the material universe act consistently, and therefore, must have intention and focus in what they are doing.