The first power of the Sphinx
is Knowledge.
*Science, philosophy, and religion
are the Holy Trinity;
once a singular discipline,
broken today into Three
over differences in
epistemology:*
the First is a narrow window
into empirical space;
the Following a flexible framework
in conceptual space;
the Final, all-encompassing
on the stage of the soul;
neither invalidating
nor undermining each other,
but Checking and Balancing.
Facts are interpretations;
theories are stories;
storytelling, myth;
myth, the key to Knowledge.
To Know is to conceive.
To conceive is to objectify,
but far from objective:
We understand
what we invent.
*"All things are Known.
What shall we do
with what we Know?"* ¬
When curiosity is not slain,
but permitted in the vacuum
of the eternal Question,
Then are the journey
and the journeyer
initiated.
Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 4:49 PM UTC
The first power of the Sphinx
is Knowledge.
*Science, philosophy, and religion
are the Holy Trinity;
once a singular discipline,
broken today into Three
over differences in
epistemology:*
the First is a narrow window
into empirical space;
the Following a flexible framework
in conceptual space;
the Final, all-encompassing
on the stage of the soul;
neither invalidating
nor undermining each other,
but Checking and Balancing.
Facts are interpretations;
theories are stories;
storytelling, myth;
myth, the key to Knowledge.
To Know is to conceive.
To conceive is to objectify,
but far from objective:
We understand
what we invent.
*"All things are Known.
What shall we do
with what we Know?"* ¬
When curiosity is not slain,
but permitted in the vacuum
of the eternal Question,
Then are the journey
and the journeyer
initiated.
Science, religion, and philosophy can never disprove each other; they are the three facets of that jewel of knowledge which is the stone of the wise.
¬ - Liber AIN (The Book of Self-Undoing)
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