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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:55 pm
by Barbara Brooks
Nothing imperfect is the measure of anything. Only by good do all things become useful and advantageous. Anyone who pursues good and makes it the end of all their action shines with radiant knowledge. Knowledge is of the kind to which we are seeking here and
rise out of the sea of change and lay hold truth.

All Math and calculation appear to lead towards truth therefore we must search like a arithmetician, not as a amateurs, The easiest way is to elevate the mind to divide absolute one we become lost in fractions compeling the mind to turn its gaze towards that place where is the full perfection of being . Behold. not In that narrow manner, squaring and extending and applying and the like. Aims at the eternal mind not perishing and transient. Knowledge draws us towards truth, and creates a spirit that forces by its natural charm, and may very likely, some day emerge into light. If we would only approach the subject in the right way and so make the natural gift of good to be of any real use,

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:16 pm
by Barbara Brooks
The love of learning is the love of knowledge, is gentle good and noble search. What is required, courage, quickness, and well being. The highest truth worthy of attaining is good. Only by good do all things become of use and to our advantage. The idea of good is the spirit of knowledge.


It has only been in modern times knowledge, has been separated from science. For example, Aristotle physics is far more knowledge then physics it is more closely united nature and so to speak the ultimate and absolute truth of consciousness.

Socrates who never left Greece, he would walk outside the wall with his followers discussing. They would eventually sit in front of the tallest plane tree where there was a gentle breeze and as they lay there on the soft grass willing to exalt profound thought and eternal ideas through conversation.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:12 pm
by Barbara Brooks
Wisdom presides over just and good actions. A wise person abstracts and defines rationally the idea of good, and runs the challenge of all objections, and is ready to refute anyone, not by opinion, but truth, never stumbling at any step of the argument.

Unless we can do all this, you would all say that we know neither the idea of good nor any other good; you would say we apprehend only an outline, if anything at all, which is given by opinion, and not by knowledge.

We have to have a good memory, and be an unwearied solid person who is a lover of work of any line; or we will never be able to endure the great amount of bodily exercise and to go through all the intellectual discipline and study which dialectic knowledge requires.

This type of knowledge is that which raises a pang in the heart of philosophers. The sweetness of learning, embraces freethinking and absolute reason; a philosophical mind always loves knowledge of a sort that shows the everlasting not so far from the heaven of pleasure.
Knowing is part of the element of freethinking, because pure knowing is the ultimate absolute truth of consciousness. There are two ruling principles here, the intellectual world and the visible world, Therefore knowledge derives from the senses, or we could not recognize what is equal or absolute one. Therefore you acquire knowledge either by the help of sight or hearing, or some other senses when you perceive something a conception of some other like it or unlike appear. I am not only speaking of knowledge but reason, beauty, goodness, justice, holiness, and all, which are stamped of essence

In truth self-consciousness is primarily by exclusion of other; it is merely a bare negative self-identical conscious certainty of self. The sphere of fortuitous senses depends entirely on the individual who is using them. situation, custom, and so on have no truth. Individuals adopt these various attitudes with a view of themselves their habits, and ways of thinking and come across as being true.

Proving something belongs to the process of knowledge through and through, excludes everything that is not grasped by the mind. Those who know will always know best but knowledge agitates self the unthinking sluggishness conscious, disturbs its laziness drive knowledge on into the path of doubt or the road of despair.

Knowledge is an instrument of reason but also, the path of intention. When knowledge comes on the landscape and liberates and carries out your bare path of intentions, which is difficult, yet whatever is done and whatever happens that brings us to daylight reason must be there.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:37 pm
by Barbara Brooks
What rules self is called knowledge which has two principles. The object of knowledge is the same for example as house building is termed architecture, and the rational principle of self, whereas the other principle of self is to be termed the ally of pleasures and satisfactions.

Then self has two principles. The inward person, which is the true self sets in order inner life, and mastery, principles, and peace; and when these are bound together become one entire temperate and perfectly adjusted proceeds to act harmonious just and good and wise.


The ego passes through the whole Godly like relation between inner and outer self much like a crystal nucleus molecules attach themselves to the middle of the surface in a kind of successive display in which depends on a series. Self is the ideal principle that pervades the complete inner and outer as a crystal nucleus successive array.

Self-existing subjective and inward preserves self. The same principle is true of Plant Nature but they do not reach an independent subjective being as we do plants remain with self. Animals possess within self-determinateness. Self, turned back to self is indifferent to other merely relating. For self is undivided unity, a process within self. That has in it no distinction; consequently distinction is reached by truth.

Truth is nothing else than the inner ultimate simple pure ideal being, or pure thought within self. The inner self a sheer implicit power within self is truth.

Here is self without any action because actions have consequences by outside influences, self is attacked and driven into alien and distant ends. Reason belongs to wholly inner self-specific determination.

The move in pursuit of what interests or what should interest us renders things clear and intelligible and turns a negative outlook into a positive one, That is reason it works and actualizes, and brings to bear in other words; reason brings to light and establishes something good and eternal.

Self-absolute exists in thought beyond the actual consciousness from which this enlightenment starts.

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:54 am
by Barbara Brooks
Feeling is the unconscious working and weaving of mind. All feelings dwell in the mind are received and imprinted by the intervention of the senses. Feeling is the supreme wealth of self-identity the simply in communion with self.

Everything is reduced to feeling; it is the highest privilege we have outwardly a general sense of feeling; the skin, the noise are connected with the principle of air and breathing. Voice is one, declares feelings.

Feeling shuts out the outside world over against self is a state of tension but in such a way that the connection between in the two has independent ends, appear mutually opposed yet at the same time are instinctual. Feeling is simply a way of offering resistance to the outside. Feeling means simply in communion with self. Sleep to rest the body and wake to gather food and build shelter is as far as animals are determined a practical relationship. Waking and sleeping, the migration of animals; of fishes to other seas is a sharing in the like of nature. This is why we feel, the sentient creature contain a relationship with the outside and which excites feelings.

The mechanical sphere of feeling is the faculty of perception two fold, the principle of sight and images. For in sight, we see things with two eyes but have one vision, or more so, one point at a time. In sight it is possible to see an object and at the same time give attention to your finger, you become aware of your finger without changing the course or direction of your eyes and see both objects at once.

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:22 pm
by Barbara Brooks
In the heart of philosophy is constructed in soft malleable terms unlike scientific observation.

Tales wrings of physical geography which he treats the sea, is called Thalassography named after him is more philosophical then scientific. Thales believed God is water. The word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea. Thales believed water was the supreme sustainer of life. He was born the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C, one of the seven wise men of ancient Greek philosophy and author of the Ionic sect, measured the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea.

All spheres of science and art it takes a considerable amount of time and discipline. In life we are like charioteers driving a pair of winged horses into the sky, one of them is reason and the other is not. The powering of pair of winged horses into the sky gives a great deal of trouble to us one is fed upon ignorance and meanness and the other knowledge, beauty, and goodness we climb upward.
Knowledge may be truly being called necessary, the attainment of pure truth. But self-center for support is self, like in the solar system, we have sun independent existence and members, which are related to each other around the sun

Knowledge little by little raises high. Is a method applied to the difficulties of knowledge; the examining and reexamining, sifting and comparing - until there was no possibility of mistake. That’s knowledge it draws the mind to contemplate the highest truth. Its specific character is the working out the reason of the nature of the subject matter instead of laying hold in hand. The approach is partly practical and partly theoretical manner.

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:33 pm
by Barbara Brooks
My mistake.

In the heart of philosophy is constructed in soft malleable terms unlike scientific observation.

Thales writngs of physical geography which he treats the sea, is called Thalassography named after him is more philosophical then scientific. Thales believed God is water. The word Thalassocracy means mastery of the sea. Thales believed water was the supreme sustainer of life. He was born the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C, one of the seven wise men of ancient Greek philosophy and author of the Ionic sect, measured the pyramids and the distance from shore of ships at sea.

All spheres of science and art it takes a considerable amount of time and discipline. In life we are like charioteers driving a pair of winged horses into the sky, one of them is reason and the other is not. The powering of pair of winged horses into the sky gives a great deal of trouble to us one is fed upon ignorance and meanness and the other knowledge, beauty, and goodness we climb upward.
Knowledge may be truly being called necessary, the attainment of pure truth. But self-center for support is self, like in the solar system, we have sun independent existence and members, which are related to each other around the sun

Knowledge little by little raises high. Is a method applied to the difficulties of knowledge; the examining and reexamining, sifting and comparing - until there was no possibility of mistake. That’s knowledge it draws the mind to contemplate the highest truth. Its specific character is the working out the reason of the nature of the subject matter instead of laying hold in hand. The approach is partly practical and partly theoretical manner.

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:57 pm
by Barbara Brooks
My mind can never assure me of anything if knowledge does not intervene and draw me toward truth. This the theoretical process of freedom. "The fully armed mind springs”

If we stick to this system and rest upon conviction, its simple form and finish and complete our conviction actually carry them out we make for us qualified to test what truth is.


The mind rest upon truth shines and radiates intelligence but without knowledge goes blinking about with one opinion and then another opinion. Do you think that the possession of all things is of any use if we do not have knowledge?

What matters is not little nor elaborated how ridiculous! What matters is to establish truth nothing short of the most finished picture is mandatory.

Zeno of Elea comes to the rescue; he thought that those who see the many and not the whole follow no guide and feed on opinion not knowledge. However, those who see the whole eternal immutable are said to have knowledge.

In Plato’s Parmenides, Socrates asserts, Zeno fundamental ideas were the same of his teacher Parmenides.

"To consider nothing, is the way of error in which the ignorant and double minded mortals wander,” says Parmenides.

Opinions have a show of knowledge but is not knowledge. To know enables us to endure the highest of all truth. We must take a longer and more circuitous studying, but nothing short of the most finished satisfying picture.

Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:31 pm
by Barbara Brooks
Air is one fixed transparency is called refraction but water there are two phenomena’s and water called double refraction. For instance if we see a coin in water the coin will be seen in a different spot then from a coin in a empty glass the place it would appear, raised in water or more so in an other place then the one occupied in the empty glass.

Here is precisely the remarkable phenomenon of refraction take for example the image of the sun, it is seen even when the sun is no longer visible. Visibility is that of something seen through one transparent place in a single place is determined merely by light, and therefore only one fixing place,

Those who shoot fish know that to aim below the spot where one sees the fish in water, because the visibility of the fish is raised. Try dropping two coins in two glasses, one glass filled with water you will see the coin is seen in a different and higher position than the coin dropped in the glass empty of water.

The coin seen in the empty glass has one fixed transparency and the coin seen in the glass of water has diversions in its transparency. The idea that water present in air, changes its form can shrink and swell in air is still water is hard to grasp, simply because it’s transparency but at the same time active actual being.

Air being the first place principle is unity and water the second place affirms air and reduces to air, consequently makes double refraction is likewise an ideal subjective form, which actively determines space; consequently it determines visibility from transparency. For example two images, one is in the usual position is the result of ordinary refraction; the second image seemed raised is double refraction. They are two different places but in a single form

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:11 pm
by Barbara Brooks
Many people are persuaded there is difficulty in understanding knowledge therefore they never raise above their senses, so accustomed to consider excepting mere imagines that do not give us assurance of truth.

In the world of knowledge there is the idea of good and it makes its appearance in a time when the spirit of the people have labored their way out of lethargy and numbness into consciousness world-spirit that stands in contrast to apathy.

Idea of good is the highest knowledge and all other things become useful and advantageous only by good. If every one pursues knowledge and makes it the end of all their action Knowledge is the inner principle role that carries out good.

Apprehensiveness? It is sure to pass into confidence. Skepticism brings about despair, doubt and mere opinion, and then follows straight away criticism. Knowledge is not a test transcends what is limited, negative and transcends self.

If we want to describe the spirit of something, and grasp it’s meaning, leave it alone, adjust to it. Here is a relationship which we assimilate ourselves to Nature; in a practical and theoretical way we approach not the affair of the imagination, but specific matter.

Let us press forward to the first form of being and lay aside what is foreign or what is only for self. Come grasp true being. The universe is an ordered and harmonious whole partly free and partly conditional perfect cosmos. I have faith that reason is in the world and describes all things in Nature.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:04 pm
by Barbara Brooks
The question about space, is part of time? Meaning is space merely a moment in time or is space other? If space were merely in time then it would be like a box of material things and when material things are emptied space remains. But space is not nailed up l9ikea plank? On the other hand though space is freely spreading offers no opposition whatsoever, unbounded, wholly extends in every direction. The only way to constitute or measure space can only be done with lines because has no relative point. In the night in the heavenly sky the stars are far away yet space goes beyond no matter how far away the star.

Time is a circle of return past, present and future is the denial of space and certainty of being. Time is the truth of all things. What makes time is the continuous unfolding of things; past is our starting point. Present is because our past and future is not but present now is the result of the past and is pregnant with our future,


Time is an out and out abstract ideal is similar to space in as much it is, it is not and in as much it is, it is not. The only standpoint is present now it will not come to be, nor was it, but it is. It is. Present now that has a tremendous right for as soon as we pronounce it passes away dissolves into another moment.

Space and time held together in a unity, in a contradiction of unity, the same as matter and motion ideal contradiction of unity, equally indifferent of the other. Space and time inseparably two essential moments held together in perfect. Harmony. Everything that is generated has an opposite, Space and time held together in unity only a transition of one into another. each movement is separate and it is precisely this separating that proclaims our ground and truth.

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:22 pm
by Barbara Brooks
This way of considering nature is theoretical and practical it is pure intellect elevates the mind to a higher principles. To be ignorant of nature how can we detect the greater or lesser degree of life and when deceived are at variance with nature. We cannot remain at this stage of thinking in terms of detached, concepts of space and time.

My method has two prominent aspects, the development of universal consciousness and to inspire the desire for knowledge, the other create independent thought by putting questions to without presumption on my part, and without instructing or wishing to command. Liberating the mind is consciousness just as iron brought from a state of extreme punctiformity to one of malleability

Let us do away with hypothesis, and go directly to the first principle. This method consists of first thinking and asking how this thought appears and compare with our understanding the universe as complete limitless oneness.

One main question metaphysics has tried to understand throughout history is whether space is connected to time or is it free on its own account? This is a rational consideration of nature that must be considered, a more definite thorough and thoughtful way of examining existence in a series of specifications. Being is a constructive, deductive rational idea of the definite unchanging rules of nature.

Anyone who loves thinking about things for the sake of knowledge is capable of a speculative and reflective mind that when by other pursuits got lost and dimmed can be re-illuminated.

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:33 pm
by Barbara Brooks
One of the hardest things is to know oneself. God, can you say you know yourself? Maybe when life nears to end we can grasp self. I do know that I love learning it makes me happy like when I smell a rose, its all one good smell.

I kept a personal journal started in 1979 I stopped in 1994 to keep my mind clear for learning away from my everyday life. My old journals reveal my conviction, all that stuff that is often not said to others. They are quite different to what is present here. My journals I focus on the dialogue with myself, and distractions in life that confront my purpose; a great wealth for analysis.

I began writing I borrowed all that is best in knowledge and I enumerated anything, which gave certainty and accurate and distinct truth I increased knowledge or could I find a better method presented to me. I know that seems strange and dubious to say that all this earnest desire for knowledge, all the toiling through uncertainty, doubt and contradiction I examined reexamined, sifted and compared serve most to facilitate a my learning brought me the highest joy, through all determinations, shined.

This is pure power, the possibility of unifying self into a community sharing of a common interconnectedness like sunlight. If self could maintain in pure reflection as sunlight if would pass into transparency like light but self being empty uncertain of self, is only an attitude, a subjective that excludes other. Whereas sunlight is different it is for everyone.

What is sunlight? How is sunlight made visible? Sunlight is a luminous body just as the sun is a luminous body but matter as sunlight does not raise sun. The self-luminous sun is the reason it shines; this is similar to phosphorescent light.

This is the activity that kindles the progression of the Elements, it arouses and governs Elements, air, fire, water, earth, the root of individuality, air inert and rigid is swayed by lunar and earth. What is rigid has the possibility to be combustible. Pure rigidity must be given to the moon. The moon a waterless transparency, strives as it were to unit with the sea and so to quench the thirst of moon’s rigidity causes the ebb and flow of the tides. The sea rises as to escape to the moon snatches the sea away.

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:43 pm
by Barbara Brooks
In the first place

few schools teach this philosophy and understandably they are difficult leads to a lack of the pursuit of them especially without a teacher. Also as matters stand today students see no profit in philosophy. but even though as disregarded philosophy is still by its natural charm emerges into light .

Socrates called learning the release from chains or more so from shadows to light, not mere images in the water .

Learning has the power of elevating our mind to the that which is best in existence. This power is a given, the raising of mind. The gentle aid of knowledge lifts upwards always a useful handy helper for greater clearness, and better understanding. It does not rest in the multiplicity of appearance only but on the keen will not be blunted nor forced to abate until truth is found.

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:36 pm
by Barbara Brooks
Justice is the virtue which remains in society when the other virtues, temperance, courage and wisdom, have departed. In addition justice is the ultimate cause and condition of these other virtues.

Courage and wisdom, makes the society wise and valiant; each of resides in society in part only. Not justice, it extends and runs through all the notes of society, and produces harmony and does the utmost to maintain whole.

Justice is the excellence of the soul. Look at the city pay attention that no disorder occurs such as overabundance or want, which is within.

Those who refuse to rule are liable to be ruled by one who is worse than them. And the fear of this induces the good people to take office not because they want to, but because they cannot help it, Not the idea that they are going to have any profit or pleasure themselves, but as a necessity, and because they are not able to commit the task of being rule by anyone better than themselves, or as good.

Injustice creates division and hate and fighting Whereas justice imparts harmony and friendship I believe is the truth of the matter of the law of human life the most complete mastery over the entire human being. Socrates would say that to be patient under suffering is best, and that we should not give way to impatience, as there is no knowing whether such things are good or evil; and nothing is gained by impatience; also, because no human thing is of serious importance, and grief stands in the way of that which at the moment is most required.