[Hank Kerchief]

Isn't it thought that makes us free?

The classic Biblical expression is, "and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

Ultimately it is truth that men hate, because it is ruthless. But truth is the source of all good, and in those who seek and obey her, the source of all virtue.

Of course we have only one faculty for apprehending (knowing) the truth, the faculty of reason (the ability to think). It is because men despise the truth that they are afraid to think. They dread the fact that they are responsible for their own choices and seek to escape it by that false kind of "faith" which most organized religions and philosophies teach.

(I am not opposing faith, only that kind of faith which is really superstition.)

(If you're still here.)

Hank

[tim politicus]

Brilliant again! The very light by which we see is somewhow substansive of God. Clearly any sufficiently self aware know that it is not by our own effort that we know anything, but only by seeing, receiving the light, and that which is illuminated by that light.

So the old teaching, that we ourselves know nothing, but that by ***looking*** we see, and that by sustained reflection we re-semble, that is re-member, shines forth ever new.