There have been several threads on truth and absolute truth. The trouble though is that we are not faced with the reality that we cannot grasp it by our usual dualistic thought. So I thought to present the ancient description of Absolute Truth. What quality of consciousness do you think we would have to have in order to appreciate all its inner meanings?
Even if we don't understand it on the outside, something inside does. So for its sake it is well worth pondering. There are several translations but I am posting the translation from Idres Shah since I find its english quite clear.
From Idres Shah:
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1) The truth, certainty, truest, without untruth.
2 )What is above is like what is below. What is below is like what is above. The miracle of unity is to be attained.
3) Everything is formed from the contemplation of unity, and all things come about from unity, by means of adaptation.
4) Its parents are the Sun and Moon.
5) It was borne by the wind and nurtured by the Earth.
6) Every wonder is from it
6a) and its power is complete.
7) Throw it upon earth,
7a) and earth will separate from fire. The impalbable separated from the palpable.
8) Through wisdom it rises slowly from the world to heaven. Then it descends to the world combining the power of the upper and the lower.
9 )Thus you will have the illumination of all the world, and darkness will disappear.
10) This is the power of all strength- it overcomes that which is delicate and penetrates through solids.
11a) This was the means of the creation of the world.
12) And in the future wonderful developments will be made, and this is the way.
13) I am Hermes the Threefold Sage, so named because I hold the three elements of all wisdom.
14) And thus ends the revelation of the work of the Sun.
(Shah 1964: 198).
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8th November 2007, 05:33 AM
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