Third Tenet: Necessity for Contingency

The third tenet (we only have three tenets) of the Old Belief is in the Necessity for Contingency. As we've stated, the whole thrust of the Old Belief is in the development and wise usage of the psychic potential that we possess. This involves the intention of creating consciousness in the sense of waking from a dormant state into an aware state. We are asleep. We must awake. So we have a goal and we have many methods for achieving that goal. But all those many methods presuppose the necessity for contingency. What this means is: that everything we do or that we don't do is contingent upon the state of the entire universe. We don't act alone. The universe acts with us. Think of two mirrors facing each other. Whatever is shown in one mirror will be reflected in the other. It is as if the mirrors were one mirror, but a mirror of separate sections. Multiply the mirrors to infinity and that it is how the universe works; everything being shown on one (us) is contingent upon what is being reflected in everything else. So, what we do or don't do reflects everywhere. All our actions are multiplied elsewhere; so are all our in-actions. What we do or we don't do has multiple consequences. It has results. We are affecting the universe and the universe affects us. Not only are we affecting the universe, we're creating its consciousness.