"The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin." This dude is headed off a cliff! 'I am doing what has never been done before - I am providing the ultimate synthesis of everything!' this is a bloviating charlatan! my contention was that you, declared that one could not "penetrate the mysteries of reality" by studying one religious tradition... thats bullshit is all I was saying - and I am correct. leaving aside the juvenile presumptions included in just that ... i.e. what the fuck do you mean by "mysteries" or "reality" for one - you dont know - its complete nonsense... you would know this (if you werent so arrogant) simply by getting to first grade in all of the shit you are, apparently drowning and flailing about in, like a hysterical woman in a spiritual shopping mall... "The kingdom of heaven is within you." Not to mention the seed and foundation of the entire western philosophical tradition in Parmenides which is the foundation of all the other supplemental trash you are filling your mind with: in your Unparalleled And Exclusive Effort To Complete The Grand Synthesis VIII One path only is left for us to speak of, namely, that It is. In it are very many tokens that what is, is uncreated and indestructible, alone, complete, immovable and without end. Nor was it ever, nor will it be; for 5 now it is, all at once, a continuous one. For what kind of origin for it. will you look for ? In what way and from what source could it have drawn its increase ? I shall not let thee say nor think that it came from what is not; for it can neither be thought nor uttered that what is not is. And, if it came from 10 nothing, what need could have made it arise later rather than sooner ? Therefore must it either be altogether or be not at all. Nor will the force of truth suffer aught to arise besides itself from that which in any way is. Wherefore, Justice does not loose her fetters and let anything come into being or pass 15 away, but holds it fast. " Is it or is it not ? " Surely it is adjudged, as it needs must be, that we are to set aside the one way as unthinkable and nameless (for it is no true way), and that the other path is real and true. How, then, can what is be going to be in the 20 future ? Or how could it come into being ? If it came into being, it is not; nor is it if it is going to be in the future. Thus is becoming extinguished and passing away not to be heard of. Nor is it divisible, since it is all alike, and there is no more of it in one place than in another, to hinder it from holding together, nor less of it, but everything is full of what is. 25 Wherefore all holds together; for what is; is in contact with what is. Moreover, it is immovable in the bonds of mighty chains, without beginning and without end; since coming into being and passing away have been driven afar, and true belief has cast them away. It is the same, and it rests in the self-same place, abiding in itself. 30 And thus it remaineth constant in its place; for hard necessity keeps it in the bonds of the limit that holds it fast on every side. Wherefore it is not permitted to what is to be infinite; for it is in need of nothing ; while, if it were infinite, it would stand in need of everything. It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which the thought exists ; 35 for you cannot find thought without something that is, to which it is betrothed. And there is not, and never shall be, any time other, than that which is present, since fate has chained it so as to be whole and immovable. Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them, to be true – 40 coming into being and passing away, being and not being, change of place and alteration of bright colour. Where, then, it has its farthest boundary, it is complete on every side, equally poised from the centre in every direction, like the mass of a rounded sphere; for it cannot be greater or 45 smaller in one place than in another. For there is nothing which is not that could keep it from reaching out equally, nor is it possible that there should be more of what is in this place and less in that, since it is all inviolable. For, since it is equal in all directions, it is equally confined within limits. 50 Here shall I close my trustworthy speech and thought about the truth. Henceforward learn the opinions of mortals, giving ear to the deceptive ordering of my words. Mortals have settled in their minds to speak of two forms, one of which they should have left out, and that is where they go astray from the truth." in both context and content you are gone far from truth... which i presume is what you mean by "mysteries of reality" you are also bastardizing what Guenon said but one cant be surprised at that after this self-confession that can only bring to mind images of absolute chaos and disorder. @redtailhawk has fallen into the Pit of confusion and galactic-sized spiritual narcissism- dont follow! wow!