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Recently, I had someone close to me ask, “Why do you spend so much time trying to understand the mysteries of the universe and/or God?” This was my response, a quotation that, for me, is almost beyond Truth, or even, beyond the defining qualities of “knowledge” itself.

“For an innate knowledge of the Gods is coexistent with our very essence; and this knowledge is superior to all judgement and deliberate choice, and subsists prior to reason and demonstration. It is also counited from the beginning with its proper cause, and is consubsistent with the essential tendency of the soul to The Good. If, indeed, it be requisite to speak the truth, the contact with divinity is not knowledge. For knowledge is in a certain respect separated (from its object) by “otherness”. But prior to the knowledge, which as one thing knows another, is the uniform connexion with divinity, and which is suspended from the Gods, is spontaneous and inseparable from them …. for we are comprehended in it, or rather, we are filled by it, and we possess that very thing which we are, (or by which our essence is characterized) in knowing the Gods.” – Egyptian Preceptor, Abammon “Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, etc.”