| BkII:6.IV.5 | In the Garden of Eden there are many trees. One of them is that of direct knowledge, knowledge reached without pain but through revelation. This is the way of God. It is the path that He invites you to travel but He does not impose it, nor is it the only path. You are called to know yourself. How you come by that knowledge is the existential question. You can try to reach knowledge by way of sacrifice or opposites, but you will not reach it that way because it is impossible. Or you can arrive only through direct revelation, the path of mercy. |