The First Day,
God spoke Light
and everything in everything
and all that is in all
became for Him.
(The First Day)
Truth
imparts form to the formless.
Knowledge is made meaningful because of it.
Formlessness creates form.
Form allows knowledge to be studied.
The understanding of knowledge is the labor of science.
But the labor of Man is to know the Truth.
Man through his labor learns knowledge.
For knowledge is the reward of study.
He receives it only through his learning
and is taught to his mind only because
it has preceded his being.
For all knowledge have existed before Man
and is possessed by him according to his labors,
it is given him only for a time - and passes away forever.
It is vanity to love knowledge for knowledge alone is vanity.
The learned profit not without a love of learning
and keep it not if they were wise.
For the profit of learning
lies not in an understanding of knowledge
but in an understanding of the truth.
He is one who sees the field
and knows the treasure that is hidden within
and so he sells everything he owned to buy the field
that he may cherish it forever.
Knowledge is received but truth is sought -
one is the reward of virtue, and the other a grace of faith.
All knowledge passes away, it is like time - a thing borrowed,
but the truth once possessed is possessed forever.
Happy those who possess the truth!
They are those whose spirits are poor
who in their poverty shall inherit the earth.
Knowledge is burdensome yet
when placed in the service of the truth
become easy and light.
Knowledge profits not the soul yet
when understood in the truth
is the gain of wisdom.
Science profits not the man yet
when understood in the truth
is the gain of all men.
For all knowledge
that is kept like a treasure rots -
its everlasting value lies in the giving away,
ever like tears shed for love of others
ever like a light shone in the darkness of the night -
but the wisdom of this freedom
shall ever return to thee, darling Starshine,
for ever by the grace of God,
truth shall set men free.
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God spoke Light
and everything in everything
and all that is in all
became for Him.
(The First Day)
Truth
imparts form to the formless.
Knowledge is made meaningful because of it.
Formlessness creates form.
Form allows knowledge to be studied.
The understanding of knowledge is the labor of science.
But the labor of Man is to know the Truth.
Man through his labor learns knowledge.
For knowledge is the reward of study.
He receives it only through his learning
and is taught to his mind only because
it has preceded his being.
For all knowledge have existed before Man
and is possessed by him according to his labors,
it is given him only for a time - and passes away forever.
It is vanity to love knowledge for knowledge alone is vanity.
The learned profit not without a love of learning
and keep it not if they were wise.
For the profit of learning
lies not in an understanding of knowledge
but in an understanding of the truth.
He is one who sees the field
and knows the treasure that is hidden within
and so he sells everything he owned to buy the field
that he may cherish it forever.
Knowledge is received but truth is sought -
one is the reward of virtue, and the other a grace of faith.
All knowledge passes away, it is like time - a thing borrowed,
but the truth once possessed is possessed forever.
Happy those who possess the truth!
They are those whose spirits are poor
who in their poverty shall inherit the earth.
Knowledge is burdensome yet
when placed in the service of the truth
become easy and light.
Knowledge profits not the soul yet
when understood in the truth
is the gain of wisdom.
Science profits not the man yet
when understood in the truth
is the gain of all men.
For all knowledge
that is kept like a treasure rots -
its everlasting value lies in the giving away,
ever like tears shed for love of others
ever like a light shone in the darkness of the night -
but the wisdom of this freedom
shall ever return to thee, darling Starshine,
for ever by the grace of God,
truth shall set men free.
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