The Three Tiers of BT Existence (URB #454) establish the structural framework. This paper develops its most theologically precise and practically consequential claim: **on our own, BTs can only be terrible or permissible.** Greatness is not available through self-effort. This is not a counsel of despair — it is a precise empirical observation that turns out to have extraordinary practical consequences. The sustained greatness that the world's wisdom traditions universally associate with holiness, sagehood, enlightenment, and sanctity is not achievable through moral effort alone. It is achievable only through the BT's free-will openness to GM's active mycelial support — what religion calls grace, what TI Sigma calls CCC's i-channel amplification of the BT's own GILE expression. This paper formalizes the -3 PD threshold (floor of permissibility) and the +2 PD threshold (floor of greatness), examines why the doctrine is not pessimistic but precise, maps TI Sigma's doctrine onto the grace traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and establishes humility — the rational recognition that one needs GM's support for Tier 3 — as the foundational virtue of the GILE practitioner.
Brandon Charles Emerick (Tue,) studied this question.