112. The third eye, Part two: The solution, Chapter 11 - What must be known?

 

Part two 

The solution: if we see with our third eye 

11. Consciousness 

11. 1. What must be known? 

What we must come to know in our lives is reality and ourselves— that is, the one true reality within ourselves, and ourselves within the one true reality. Understanding reality is necessary in both cases because our life exists for the purpose of knowing the One and, within it, the reality of our world and ourselves, so that we may feel at home in it. Understanding the world of the One is nothing more than understanding reality, that is, understanding our circular and dual world as a whole, in terms of the above and the below, the outside and the inside, the material and the spiritual. One man, one reality, and two possible ways of knowing, but only because we ourselves represent duality, simultaneously both the material (body) and the spiritual (soul). Just as our body is dual, with both external and internal aspects, so is our soul, as it has an individual self capable of representing the material, external world, and a universal self capable of representing the spiritual, internal world. Our task is to understand this duality as a unity, and to interpret it through our rational thinking (body mind) and spiritual intellect (soul). Depending on which form of knowledge we have prioritized—whether the particular, the material, the body, the senses, or the universal, the spiritual, the intellectual— we have developed tools of knowledge, including science, philosophy and religion. 

We must not forget that at the beginning of historical eras, the sciences, philosophies, and religions did not mean what they mean today. For example, when a scientist claimed to be a philosopher, we must conclude that religions, sciences, and philosophies formed a unified whole, as there was a single organizing principle, which was the understanding of universality. Later, the tools of knowledge split apart, or rather, "specialized." Practicing science was no longer philosophy, just as religion was no longer philosophy, because it transformed into a form of religious power. One consequence of this division is that our conceptual systems also changed. Therefore, if we wish to interpret past philosophical, scientific, or religious theses today, we must always embed them in the context of the given era, not interpret them using our current way of thinking. Otherwise, both the understanding and the conclusions could be false. For example, in Plato's epistemology, which was influenced primarily by Heraclitus and Parmenides, rationality meant internal knowledge. For Aristotle, who followed Parmenides and Pythagoras, matter was that which is particular, individual. 

In general, about knowledge it can be said that people in previous centuries were more inclined to assemble reality, to accept the duality of above and below, to synthesize it, rather than the modern individual, for whom knowledge is more about disassembling reality, analysing it. Yet we know, that the whole is not the sum of the parts, but the whole is contained within the parts. This was in the past interpreted as inclusion, or as duality. Today's person, however, tends to think in terms of singularity, of separateness, because they have forgotten that the necessity of knowledge is also dual. It is necessary, for example, to understand humans, the One, nature, reason, the circularity of dualities, and wisdom; but there are things that would have been better left unknown because they are not necessary, such as interest, profit, the stock market, surplus, overconsumption, the false reality, the illusion, the emptiness of sacredness, law, progress and development, evolution, slavery, the exploitation of humans, wars and revolutions that rearrange markets, etc. 

From the list, it is evident that what we should necessarily come to know is part of universality, in fact, a gift freely given to us. Thus, we should be learning about the sacredness gifted to us, the earth, air, water, light, and our friend, the other person, rather than those things which are not necessary, without which we could live very well (e.g., interest, profit, slavery, wars, etc.). The unnecessary is created by ignorance and individual interests. The false reality is the degradation of universality into the particular (the part, the partial). From the One, we receive the reality as a gift, yet we cling to surplus, to the artificial false reality we have created, because it is easier and more comfortable. Spiritual comfort always brings material comfort and spiritual death with it. Why do we prefer the complicated and artificial, unnecessary and comfortable false reality, rather than the true one? The explanation is given by the duality of our soul, which, due to material temptation, places individual knowledge above the universal, comfort above the tasks to be performed. According to the individual self, only that exists which is tangible, visible, and audible. We should abandon this individual knowledge because only then can we become true human beings worthy of the One, whose faith exists in them, more precisely: in their universal self, in the small god always present within us. To do so, it requires will and courage—turning away from the individual self, the temptation of the body mind, from comfort, or in religious language renouncing sin. Faith and self-awareness are not matters of religion, because there is no human being without religion. 

The difference is that the individual and comfortable person, even with open eyes, cannot see beyond their nose, and since they do not believe in themselves, they are followers of both material and immaterial religions. In contrast, the universal person sees the One with closed eyes, because of the spirit supremacy. They do not believe in religion but profess their faith. The former thinks in terms of individuality, the latter in terms of universality. The former renounces the knowledge of the One and dissolves their soul in the false reality they have created, while the latter only desire for the knowledge of the One, the necessary reality, so that—after testing it on Earth—their soul may be prepared and offered to the One.