(This was the very first draft I wrote on this blog back in 2014. I never finished it or published it. Here are the raw notes and thoughts on some crazy stuff from over two years ago.)
This post may hurt your brain a little. It caused a few minor explosions of awesomeness in mine.
Study D&C 88:11-13 in connection to Leibniz, the philosopher mathematician, founder of calculus, famous logical thinker. At the time, he did not know how else to describe the matter that makes up everything. He came up with a pretty great explanation regardless of not having full revelatory ability, and the gospel expounds upon it.
His monadology is the Light of Christ, which light "proceedeth forth to fill the immensity of space." He somehow grasped this concept of intelligences, this light of Christ, through his "monad" theories.
God gives life and dictates the law by which things are governed. Christ, as Creator and accomplisher of God's work, used God's power to create everything. "God's light is real. It is available to all. (President Dieter F. Uchtdorf)" Thus, due to the nature of creation and the properties of the light of Christ and its matter, at any time in the universe, God's influence is ALWAYS there.
Leibniz theorized his particles, which is light, which is the power that God uses to do anything present everywhere.
Light gives and enables the creation of life, but it also illuminates it and allows us for the understanding of it. This is in the same way that the sun is not only essential for a tree to grow, but it also illuminates it so that the tree exists in our view. It enables and enlightens our understanding. The Light of Christ is in all things.
7 Which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made.
8 As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the power thereof by which it was made;
9 As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they were made;
10 And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon which you stand.
11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;
12 Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—
13 The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.
Go read about Leibniz. But above that and anything else you could read, go read the scriptures. They are true. The gospel is true.
Go read about Leibniz. But above that and anything else you could read, go read the scriptures. They are true. The gospel is true.