Inner Hyungsang

Inner Hyungsang

Inner Hyungsang refers to the objective part within the Original Sungsang , and contains elements that have form. These important elements include ideas, concepts, laws, and mathematical principles. i) Ideas: Ideas are concrete representations or images of individual created beings within God’s Sungsang . We human beings also have concrete pictures of individual created beings in the objective world within our minds as images, and those images are our ideas. Our ideas come from our experiences, but in God, the absolute being, ideas have existed within Him from the beginning. ii) Concepts: A concept is an abstract and universal image, which arises from the common elements among a group of ideas. Common elements among the ideas of dog, chicken, cow, and pig include, for example, “movement” and “senses.” These are collected into an image, and we obtain an abstract image of “animal,” which is a concept. Concepts may be further differentiated as specific concepts and generic concepts. iii) Laws (Principles): Laws or principles in the Inner Hyungsang are the original laws at the root of natural laws and norms (laws of value). In other words, it is in and through the numerous natural laws of nature and norms of human life that these original laws find their expression. It can be seen that, as the seed of a plant germinates, and its trunk and branches grow, and many leaves develop, these natural laws, and human norms as well, all derive from the original laws in God. iv) Mathematical Principles: Mathematical principles are the ultimate cause for the mathematical phenomena inherent in the natural world. All numbers, mathematical values and formulas, which lie in mathematical phenomena, come ultimately from the mathematical principles in the Inner Hyungsang . Pythagoras (ca. 570-496) asserted that numbers are the root of all things. The British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-84), who contributed to the formulation of quantum mechanics, held that “God is a high-level mathematician using high-level mathematics in forming the universe.” 3 The numbers and mathematics referred to here are the mathematical principles in the Inner Hyungsang .

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