 144. Science |
"Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor, and blind and naked." [- Revelations 3:17]
Physical science, then, cannot formulate laws outside of "Maya" (duality), the very fabric and structure of creation.
Nature herself is "Maya," natural science must perforce deal with her ineluctable quiddity. In her own domain, she is eternal and inexhaustible; future scientists can do more than probe one aspect after another of her varied infinitude. Science thus remains in a perpetual flux, unable to reach finality; fit indeed to discover the laws of an already existing and functioning cosmos but, powerless to detect the "law framer" and "sole operator." The majestic manifestations of gravitation and electricity have become known, but what gravitation and electricity are, not mortal knoweth.
-Yogananda
"I do not what may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a small boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of "truth" lay undiscovered before me."
-Newton
After all, mankind knows mighty little, and may someday learn enough of his ignorance to fall down and pray.
-Henry Adams
The state or condition of "truth" cannot be proven. The existence of things "not true" can be proven.
God is the science of the "self." The science of the self is the way to beatitude. It is not an intellectual exercise or social adventure. It is the way to saving "wisdom" and so is pursued with deep, religious conviction. Philosophy as the science of the "self" helps us to overcome the ignorance which hides from us the vision of reality. It is the "universal science" (according to Plato). Without it, the departmental sciences become misleading.
"The possession of the sciences as a whole, if it does not include the best, will in some few cases aid but more often harm the owner."
-Plato (Alcibiades)
Ancient Taoist knew the universe was composed of energy. There are four basic forces which control this energy:
Ancient scientists discovered the universe had energy and patterns, but they did not have the vocabulary of modern scientists, therefore they expressed their scientific findings in the simple language of lines and combinations of lines, i.e., Yin __ __ and Yang _____.
Metaphysics is not yet officially a science, recognized as such, but it is going to be . . .
