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The spirit of knowledge is not to be found anywhere in the area of opinion or clever phrases, half remarks and conversations. Knowledge would vanish like the forms of dreams. What is best in knowledge lies in scientific character. This very soul of knowledge has gone thought does not belong to perception. Knowledge is a process of understanding called universal blood or the mind of the world.
The spirit of knowledge has been cultivated for many ages by the most illustrious philosophers, yet there is still not a single subject which is still not in question, nothing is above doubt, all is probable.

The body is called the crystal of feeling; the skull is the center of feeling. The crystal we are able to see through its inner being pure inner being or more so inner essence a sphere of reflection. The whole God like relationship between inner and outer is the crystal the immaterial becomes material is a successive series.

The French mineralogist Hauy expounded the law of crystallization, the immaterial becomes material in a kind of successive series through and through. This silent activity sets forth without action forms and shapes together all these indifferent parts.

This perfect homogeneity clear inner transparency is crystallization a process that links together all the indifferent parts in silent formation process that is everywhere at work.

Crystals not only have an outer but an inner character of divided fragments laying in mutual indifference. They are points broken off revealing in layers systematically enclosed in an internally differentiated unity; the inner surface is very smooth but outwardly has edges and angles some rough and some orderly released from the influence of gravity, grows, and grows upward a quiescent form that grows upward. What an amazing characteristic on one hand the outermost point of the body are points, on the other hand inner fluidity moves, the same as magnetism inanimate impulse.

This process takes place in layers is systematically enclosed in an internally differentiated unity. For example, a crystal on one hand the outermost point of the body are points, on the other hand inner fluidity moves, the same as magnetism inanimate impulse.

Philosophers are unwearied solid lover of work in any line or they will never be able to endure the great amount of bodily exercise and to go through all the intellectual discipline and study which philosophy requires

Justice is concerned not with the outer but with the inner person, which is self. Justice, sets in order a person’s inner being and self-mastery and self-law, and peace with self, compares these principles to the higher, lower, and middle notes of the scale, one temperate and perfectly adjusted nature, always thinking and calling that which preserves and co-operates with this harmonious condition.

Wisdom presides over justice and good action. The idea of good a wise person abstracts and defines rationally, and can run the gauntlet of objections, and ready to refute opinion, with knowledge never stumbling at any step of the argument.

Parmenides believed thought is identical with self, which is insofar called self-development. Thus, self-infinite relationship is self only from self-does self-determination come.

Hegel gave an example of the seed. The seed is simple, almost a point; even through a microscope it can scarcely be seen. This simple thing, however, is pregnant with all the qualities of the tree. In the seed is contained the whole tree, its trunk, branches, leaves, its color, odor, taste, etc. does not yet exist.


Another example when I say I, this is simply the abstract universal that which is common to all, for everyone is "I". Still, "I" that each one is the most diverse wealth of ideas, drives, desires, inclinations, thoughts, etc. In this simple point, the "I", all this contained. It is concept of all that humankind develops out of self.

For I to develop means to enter into existence, to be something distinct. Without this, knowing reason is nothing, nor is freedom. Rationality is human freedom; this is our nature, it belongs to our spirit. Still, as such free are not free, because self has no consciousness of freedom are willing to accept every sort of religious and political despotism. The whole peoples know that they are free, that to be free is proper to them.

This is precisely what is meant by development. Self is free but free only for self, only to the extent that self-being free. A being-for-itself is that what self is for itself are one and the same. If self were no longer self, then something else would be in place, a complete change would have taken place and self becomes something else.

True in regard to self development can also think of change, but the change must be such that something else results is nevertheless still identical with self such that the simple seed, then self is something concrete, something differentiated, but still maintained in the unity of self.

For example, seeds they do not change completely but develop. If a seed changes is by being crushed or pulverized, then it cannot develop. This unity of is essentially self-development.

Like the seed, self are two and still one. It is the concept of reason; all other determinations in this regard belong simply to understanding. Abstract self cannot comprehend this unity; it sticks with self can grasp only abstractions, not the concrete concept.

The rightly educated is the philosopher’s mind, which are noble and good, and reason they recognize and salute. The spirit of knowledge has been cultivated for many ages by the most illustrious philosophers.

Come grasp the whole truth and you will have no problem knowing that knowledge liberates truth and spiritual self-consciousness.

Today societies have fallen into such dismay it becomes the task of philosophers to reawaken mind spirit that has been buried in such mire without ethical order of universal ends.

I don’t claim here to present new knowledge because there is nothing new under the sun. What is being written here is hard, not something that can be written down casually for all to understand. But for philosophers it is not so far indeed from heavens pleasure.

In the first place, philosophy is difficult to learn and no schools hold them in esteem; in the second place, those who do investigate philosophy stand in need of a teacher and as matters stand today to find such a teacher is limited. But if some school in its corporate capacity, were to pay honor to philosophy students would continuously and vigorously attend and discover. Philosophy even now, as slighted and curtailed in schools nevertheless philosophy inherent elegance makes progress, in spite of all obstacles.

Socrates believed the coolness and dexterity of these ready ministers of political corruption cannot measure, there are a great many people believing what they say. But we can not be angry with the people; for so goes our leaders so goes the people, they are busy whether concerning laws or the constitution either in a ill-ordered society; for in the corrupt politician they are quite useless, and in the people the many of them regulated.


Society if rightly ordered is perfect, is the knowledgeable, courageous, temperance, and just.


The first among these virtues found in society is knowledge that comes into view, to be wise is being good in counsel about the whole society, considers how society can best deal with citizens and other societies? The good in counsel are truly wise.

Knowledge is worthy to be called wise guardians be the smallest of all the classes who receive a name from the profession of some kind of knowledge?

The knowledge which resides in the whole society the politician thus is constituted according to nature, will be wise; and this, which is only because they have been ordained by nature to be of good council.

But where is justice? Socrates asked, Son of Ariston, tell us where is justice? Light a candle to search, and get friends to help, let us see where we can find justice and injustice, and how do they differ from one another? Which of them is happy whether seen or unseen by gods and society?

Justice which is in your hands is essentially just as much spiritual as it dominates action of community has toward living in and for the world; must not be taken as if it were an act of service nor must we think justice is a process of knowledge it is much more substantial in character and universal it lifts self out of the life of chance and changes, into world peace, a simple universality. It is only as citizens that we are real and substantial. Universal being takes effect no doubt within the ethical community takes labor in attaining the stage of independent self-existence.

Instinct a necessity for survival is part of purpose, is the practical inner urge and relationship with nature, like the migration of birds, fishes, and animals.

We instinctualy sleep, we fall asleep without setting about to do so, and the same is true of awaking or gathering food. They are done out of instinct.
Just as the urge of the lion at the sight of the giraffe awakens a desire for it, the desire is not a choice: it has a restricted sphere, seeks out its own intimate complex environment. Just as the sight of a mouse in the case of a hawk. Even in plants, lilies, willows, and fig trees have their own particular bugs or insects that are restricted to each plant.

The instinctual relationship with nature starts with force, an urge which at the same time merely theoretical process; the urge sets free the need of another, it is a very unpleasant feeling of need, and not by chance but a necessary one.

Then, from the senses is derived knowledge and before we began to see, hear, or perceive in any way we must have purpose or we could not refer to what is seen or heard.

A requisite for philosophy the most important thing in the entire world to it is reason, such as the movements of the stars and the things in heaven are framed in the most perfect manner.

Reason linked together with divine rule and worldly truth. Philosophy expanded when a gulf has arisen and reality is no longer satisfying and acquired a love of knowledge.

Philosophers must take a longer and more circuitous road nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, never stop short of reason, it is the most finished picture.

Reason is the centrality of extremes, passes out of opinion above hypotheses into an intellectual world, which makes no use of opinion.

Out of the sea of change, embrace knowledge keep them in memory they give so much pleasure. The mind is not only lodged in body as a pilot but is very closely united to truth, and so to speak, interacts with it, besides this is dependent on principles vital above all to truth.

Descartes wrote He said if only he had ceased from thinking, even if all the rest of what he had ever imagined had really existed, he would have no reason for thinking that he had existed. From that Descartes knew that he was a substance the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and does it depend on any material thing; so that this "me," that is to say, the mind by which he is. If body were not, the mind would not cease to be what it is. Feeling is a state of tension, a mental sensation. Sound reveals the intriguing soul, when a body sounds; it enters into a higher sphere bears witness to self-preservation in the face of force outside. In a conscious awaken state there is immediate reflection into self; it is a sensibility which differentiates itself from the outside world. I say, awaken is a threefold process: that distinguish wakefulness from sleep, first, the faculty of perception, second, cohabitation and third the alteration of heat. It is called the mechanical sphere of unconsciousness as a pure denial

Motion is a circle of unity, we proceed to a place, which is our future, and leave one, which is our past, yet we are already at the place we are reaching. But, at the same time, the separated parts that hold itself together is only one, so the arrow motion is what the other is, inseparably both repulsion and attraction. The unity of these two moments is the inseparable moments of gravity subject to limitations and conditions.

The law of motion concerns two things: the path and the velocity. The universe an ordered and harmonious system displays the first group of independent bodies that are in an essential relationship with each other.

The body is called the crystal of feeling and the skull is the center of inner being pure inner being or more so a sphere of reflection.

Feeling a state of tension with nature directly shuts out and stands over against nature as an outside conditions or matter. For nature already in existence self is over against it, but in such a way that their connection between is altogether the assimilation, the incorporation, and adaptation of instinct first, the theoretical process, second the real process or practical process and third, unity of both theoretical process and real. Feeling is the theoretical process, an immediate reflection of self. We sentient creatures are determined in a particular way, our senses distinguishes a relationship with the outside world. That which excites emotion exists independently outside, but equally has consciousness as self-consciousness.

The mechanical sphere of feeling is the principle of air and the neutrality of particular water and the opposed moments of dissolution of smell and taste, the concrete neutrality. Likewise is the sense of ideal s revealed in light, or more precisely of light being determined in the two senses of sight and hearing.



Hegel believed, feeling being a sense organ 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. 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 suffering has a voice and declares its feeling.

What is truth but self certainty the power and capacity that exists within just as the eye is unable to turn from darkness to light so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole mind be turned from the world of becoming to that of being and learning by degrees to endure the sight of being the brightest and best.

The goal is absolute truth and since this attempt is most important, those who remember have a natural talent for this knowledge is the release from shadows to sunlight, from the underground den to the sun, knowledge has the power of elevating the highest principle in the mind to contemplate.

Therefore, musical training is a most effective instrument into the mind of a philosopher, because rhythm and harmony find their way imparting grace. Socrates believed music is just as learning to read, we cannot perceive them as unimportant, but to be everywhere eager to make them known. Only when we know the letters exactly can we ever become musical and know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence, and their kindred when a beautiful mind harmonizes with the fairest of sights to the philosopher who has an eye to see it. The fairest is also the loveliest and philosophers have that spirit of harmony is in love with the loveliest.


Disciples of philosophy are to be orderly and resolute, not, as a contender. Knowledge is not to be found anywhere in the field of subjectivity, it is not a matter of clever allusive half utterances but an expression of openness, unambiguous, meaningful, and purposeful knowledge.

Philosophers know the existence of absolute beauty and are able to distinguish the idea from reality, neither putting the reality in place of the idea nor the idea in the place of actuality. The many ideas entertained are tossed about in some region halfway between being and not being, those who see the absolute may be said to know.

Come be a servant of good because every one had better be ruled by divine knowledge dwelling within self; in order that, as far as possible, we may be all under the same society, friends, and equals.

The only standpoint is present time is eternal, will not come to be, nor was it, but it is this out and out abstract ideal that in as much it is, it is not and in as much it is not, present time has tremendous right because as soon as I pronounce the moment dissolves, flows away and passes over into another moment. Then what is the whole course of time and what is only a moment in the course of time?

Those inexperienced of truth have wrong thoughts about many things. They also have wrong thoughts about pleasure and pain and society; because they feel pain and think that pain, which they experience to be real, when drawn away from pain they believe that they have reached pleasure.


The pleasure is mixed with pain just like contrasting black or white with grey a mere shadow picture of truth. But when we seek pleasure under the guidance and in the company of reason and knowledge, we win the pleasures which wisdom the truest pleasures in the highest degree that is attainable inasmuch as we follow truth; will have pleasure most natural to them.

Follow the philosophical principle, there is no division; the best is the most natural pleasure the best is the truest pleasure of which we are capable. Look at the city within and pay attention that no disorder occurs in it, such as, overabundance or want.

The power and capacity exists in the mind just as the eye is unable to turn from darkness to light so too the instrument mind can turn from becoming to that of being the brightest and best.

The hymn of dialectic is this strain by intellect only, when a person starts on the discovery of being the brightest and best is by the light of reason without any assistance of senses, to persevere until pure intelligence arrives at the perception of absolute good.

At last find self at the end of the intellectual world, as in the case of sight at the end of the visible.

400 BC the philosophers thought about the very things that are spoke of today, all the trails, and tribulation of societies and families the same as now.

All these images that dwell in mind are designed by the intervention a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, called senses and they communicate impressions upon what should be regarded as the source of reason and truth.

The intellectual world is seen with effort and when seen this universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of light in this visible world, the power upon which we act rationally either in public or private life.

Unified pure conscious ideal is merely belief can’t be felt, seen, nor tasted, simply undifferentiated. It cannot stand has no support, no reason complete.

Knowledge is lodged in body as the pilot. The difficulty is we never rise above senses to consider things we are so accustomed excepting imagines that do not assure truth, the senses can ever assure us of anything if knowledge does not intervene.

Knowledge rests upon a higher good, all things become useful and good, and in the case of virtue, knowledge plays the inner principle role that carries out good. Truth straightway perceives things only by the senses; knowledge is the light of truth. Then truth is related to knowledge decides whether which is right or wrong.

The phenomenal of knowledge is sheer intelligence. Truth embraces nothing less than the entire system of consciousness, the virtue of consciousness. Knowledge has the power of elevating mind to the highest principles of existence is also hypothetical meaning, pure assumption causing the direct opposite. Self-contradiction is hypothesis and instead of it, going upwards descends to the other side.

I am feeling lost had to force myself up this morning to study. Know thy self in the first immediate bare being has indeed a filling drawn neither from sensation or matter, nor from any other moments; its filling is solely good and is known by self to be all truth and reality. The filling being ultimate good is not in accord with consciousness only absolute certainty of self.
Inspired to be good making it your primary motivation although highly unusual and immersed therefore is a tension about being who you are versus what the expectation of others. Good inner rich life makes for happiness.

Good does not produce any kind of action nor is ideal or a service Good is immediate truth a spirit, consciousness breaks out and individual particularity contains all that is essential, concrete, distinct from self-consciousness, falls outside of self- being, acting, and striving in the world.

Good in the shape of self is indeed consciousness at the same time, free, independent world spirit. This determination is the element, of consciousness and self-consciousness. All individual moments, all at the same time together, consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, and spirit, constitute “good in its totality” as a moving process. This good pervades and permeates all aspects of being it is the deep being certain of self; not isolated, rather collects all these moments into content, keeps them together, and advances with total wealth of concrete actual good self. Certain of self are truth, self-subsistence, which belongs to each individual.