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Turn back to the events that took place thousands of years ago what really was love of knowledge and you will view it in a new light to the field of science and intellectual world.

We must watch over this knowledge like a good farmers nurturing and cultivating its gentle qualities, and preventing those wild opinions from growing. Watch over not in an aggressive spirit but gently with a view of soothing and removing the dislike of knowledge.

Philosophy is directed towards things fixed and immutable, neither injuring nor injured by one another, but moving all in order according to reason; these we imitate and these we will as far as we can go. Now can a person help imitating that with which philosophers holds so reverential?

Be the servant of good, Socrates believed; not, as Thrasymachus supposed, to the injury of the servant, but because every one had better be ruled by divine wisdom dwelling within him; or, if this be impossible, then by an external authority, in order that we may be all, as far as possible, under the same government, friends and equals.

The mind rightly educated is the philosopher mind, noble and good, they will recognize and salute.

That is why musical training is a most effective instrument into the mind of a philosopher, because rhythm and harmony find grace. Music is just as learning to read; we cannot perceive the importance, but eager to make them known.

Earth is ground for truth, and the container of the Elements, air, fire and water, it holds together all the elements, air, fire and water gathers them into a series of proceedings.

The same as the philosopher must harmonize and know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence, and good as the spirit of harmony.

Truth is more valuable than knowledge has a place higher that leads to order and virtue. Philosophers must make truth the work in life, seeking truth into everything that flows like a gentle wind from a purer region.

Instinct is the theoretical process in threefold: first, feeling, second in a two fold the dissolution of smell and taste. Thirdly, likewise in a two fold is light, or more precisely light being determined in the particular nature meaning color and the two fold senses of sight and hearing.

Feeling in harmony with self is immediate independent being and we can feel it. We have a centre within ourselves, feelings bound together as in a bouquet, and the power of binding together several senses.

Hearing vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear which is the exposition, the bringing forth the inwardness.

In sight, reveals self spatially and in hearing reveals temporally sound, because it ceases to be. In sight the field of vision is fixed on something it is possible to see an object and at the same time give attention to something else without changing the course or direction of our eyes , we are able see both objects at once.

Sight, like hearing is the sense of the brain; in the eye the external object is an indifferent self, while in the ear, it is a self-removing self. Voice is pure self affirming itself as universal, expressing pain, desire, joy, contentment, Every animal suffers has a voice and declares its feeling.

Feeling constitutes the general senses of the skin: taste is the muscle of the tongue which connects itself to the mouth. The noise being the organ of smell is connected with the principle of air and breathing.

Instinct the born pattern of self and the necessities for survival is part of purpose. An inner urge like the migration of animals, of fishes, or sleep, one falls asleep without setting about doing so. We sleep out of instinct, the same is true of waking also we gather food out of instinct is directed to reason.

Mind thinks about things for the sake of pure knowledge and piurpose this is a theoretical process a pure speculative determination that elevates mind to the highest principles. Perception conceives rea substances while on the other hand, theory as reflective insight the essence of knowledgeis looked upon as the proper development beyond sensuous sphere. Hypothetical theory is assumption too, self-contradiction, and instead of going upward descend to the other side is mere perception.

Deliver me from mere opinion it is the easiest line of communications. My chief prerequisite is eternal clear as possible conception of truth. Sensibility differentiates itself into the many sensory approaches to the outer world distinguishes the non-sentient from the sentient creature. Therefore the sentient creature contains a relationship with the world and that which excites an emotion within exists outside of us that is why we feel.

Then before we even began to see or hear or perceive in any way, we must have knowledge of what it is or we cannot have referred to that derived from the not only numbers or greater or the lesser, but of beauty, goodness, justice, holiness, and all those which are stamped with the name of essence Therefore that which is call learning is but the process of recovering knowledge before we began to see or hear or perceive in any way, we must have knowledge of what is absolute, what is equality, or we cannot have referred to that the equals. derived from the senses perhaps maybe acquired before born , or at the instant of birth not only things or the greater or the lesser, but of beauty, goodness, justice, holiness, and all which we stamp with the name of essence. When perceiving anything either by the help of sight or hearing, or some other senses there is no difficulty in this conceiving some other thing like it that had been forgotten or unlike.

The instrument of perception, that is to say, perceives through the senses, using the sense of sight or hearing or some other senses. From the senses then is derived knowledge that all sensible things aim at .

Talent is the inner urge or more so the need. for instance, the instinct falls asleep without setting about doing so the migration of bird. We sleep out of instinct; the same is true of wake we gathering food. Cautioned of the weather spiders and frogs are weather profits, also the flight of birds at a time of earthquakes. They feel the coming change in whether by a wound is all talent. The tiger it is not merely the sight of the giraffe that awakens the desire for it nor is it a choice; every one of has a restricted sphere, the sight of a mouse in the case of a hawk seeks out its own intimate complex environment recognizes its elemental law. Lilies, willows, fig trees even have their own particular bug or insect whose nature is restricted to each plant. As in building a resting place instinct is directed to reason.

The mind being absolutely perfect when all mortals have a beginning and end, but the mind can neither be destroyed nor begotten, or else as Socrates states, “The whole heavens and all creation would collapse and stand still, and never again have motion or birth.”

Feeling bound together like a bouquet has power of fastening together several senses.
In our mind is an ordered and harmonious system that penetrates and connects with the entire body structure. For example, the system of nerves, veins, blood, bones, muscles, skin, glands, are each a entire content. For instance, the head, the brain, bones, has viscera of sensibility. Nerves also belongs to viscera of sensibility but also in all the parts of the other system, blood, veins, glands and skin. Similarly, the thorax has nerves, glands, skin. Mind determines all of this, in some part of our bodies to be active is brought on by means of the nerves and these nerves are branches of nerves connected to the single system which is connected with mind.

Our activity results from these nerves and is done without the rest of the bodily system being involved. Thus we can move particular parts of our body in a certain way by particular muscles connected with many other muscles by nerve-stems, without all the other muscles taking a part. Each system is dominated by the others with which it is interlaced and this gives interconnection to mind and at the same time maintains total connection.

And then there are connections of particular parts of one system with particular parts of the same or another system or systems and in respect of their functions are linked together.

No wonder feeling is centered in a state of tension a contradiction, mutually opposed an ideal relationship. Thus, in face of the world we adapt a theoretical, practical, ideal and real purpose of living.

The ideal relationship of feeling to the outer world is a theoretical procedure, which is self determines a logically particular way of distinguishing a relationship with it excites a feeling.

Know thy self is the beginning element of free thought this is pure knowing and because pure knowing is the ultimate absolute truth of reason that all things which fall under the mind; there can be nothing so remote that we cannot reason.


Knowledge we attain with the mind alone, gets rid of, as far as can, eyes and ears and feelings, which are conceived of only as hindering the mind from knowledge.

In order to have pure knowledge of anything quit feeling in order to behold all things in themselves: Unfortunately we are in company with our sfeeling therefore cannot have pure knowledge, but we can make the nearest approach to knowledge when we are not saturated with bodily not the least possible interest.

Come rise out of the sea of change one carry on until we see the nature with the mind only; in the spirit of a philosophy. Philosophy has the power of which draws the mind, all arts and sciences and intelligences use in common, and which every one first has to learn . The little matter of distinguishing one, two, and three --in a word, number and calculation: It appears to be a study of the kind which I am seeking, and which leads naturally to reflection, simply to draw the mind towards truth.

Descartes thought it seemed strange and dubious to say that all his knowledge, all his toiling through uncertainty, doubt and contradiction examining and reexamining , sifting and comparing serve most to facilitate his knowledge.

The faculty of reason is skillfully disposed in our thoughts with a view to render them clear and intelligible. Reason is the best able to persuade others of the truth not mere rhetoric fancies, and expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, as the best poets. But reason is on account of the certitude and evidence is science; but not precise science but contributes to the advancement of the sciences. Reason forms a more correct conclusion regarding our own thoughts, and be prevents us from thinking that everything is rhetoric.

Purpose passes out of opinion, goes above hypotheses as is middle to extremes and ground for understanding. Through ideas purpose makes no use of images. We know a dream from reality, as Descartes believed we neither putting the reality in place of dreams, nor dreams in place of reality, am I dreaming, or am I awake?

The mind is called the mechanical sphere of feeling. This theoretical process determines a way of distinguishing a relationship with the outer world. the same as sleep to rest or to gather food and build. Free mind is pure knowledge and there can be nothing so remote that cannot be known.
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Purpose passes out of opinion, goes above hypotheses as is middle to extremes and ground for understanding. Through ideas purpose makes no use of images. We know a dream from reality, as Descartes believed we neither putting the reality in place of dreams, nor dreams in place of reality, am I dreaming, or am I awake?

The mind is called the mechanical sphere of feeling. This theoretical process determines a way of distinguishing a relationship with the outer world. the same as sleep to rest or to gather food and build. Free mind is pure knowledge and there can be nothing so remote that cannot be known.

For instance sunlight exists for itself is transparent and darkness exists outside it; white is visible light, whereas black is visible darkness and gray is black and white first quantitative relationship.

Then the relationship of lightness and darkness, retain a fixed specific quality in the face of each other, and this gives rise to color. Darkness and lightness mutual relationship, for example can be demonstrated if we look at a black object through white cotton or look at a white object through a black cotton produces gray.

The color obscuration is distinguished in the atmosphere and transparency, if there were no atmosphere the sky would be black . But it is the atmosphere full of vapors as the obscuring medium, so the sky looks blue. On tallest mountains where the air is purer, the sky looks black, conversely, the sun through a dark glass, we have a bright background colored yellow or red.

This is always the way, this very simple relationship is the archetypical basis of color, and transparency medium which is active in this way.

Another example of bringing on color, if we look through a prism at some white paper and there are black figures or if we look through a prism at some black paper and which there are white figures, we see in both see color on the edges of the paper. The prism presents two images, the object where it is and at the same time another place, obscuration. These two images are immediately condensed into one; an ordinary image which remains in its place and secondly a magical circle form that shows the same image out of place, displaced which is the obscuring medium for the first image. The prism affirms in the displacement of the image determined by the obscuration a medium and the shape of the prism creates the size of the image.

In the prism there is double refraction which gives birth to colors. The prism is a great object for considering color, in a perfectly transparent prism is obscuration. Colors exist on the border between brightness and darkness outside the physical. Brightness is white, which is not yet color, darkness is black, which is not specific or materialized. Color lies between white and black, asthey are conditioned darkness is nothing and light is nothing conditioned by an obscuring medium, like the prism where occurs a relation of light to darkness.