04-22-2012, 11:21 AM
Great quotations, Ankh! You have a knack for finding relevant quotations that are not pulled by simple searches on lawofone.info.
The opposition in these quotations between "seeing universal love" and "understanding the green ray" reminds me of two supernal sephiroth in the Tree of Life: Binah (translated "Understanding") and Chokmah (translated "Wisdom"). It would seem that Wisdom is theory which is capable of being practiced, while Understanding (in the 3D sense, and not the 4D sense) is theory which is put into practice. Thus, we say that you do not truly "understand" something until you have lived it, but you can have "wisdom" without necessarily having specific experience concerning the referent of your wisdom.
The opposition in these quotations between "seeing universal love" and "understanding the green ray" reminds me of two supernal sephiroth in the Tree of Life: Binah (translated "Understanding") and Chokmah (translated "Wisdom"). It would seem that Wisdom is theory which is capable of being practiced, while Understanding (in the 3D sense, and not the 4D sense) is theory which is put into practice. Thus, we say that you do not truly "understand" something until you have lived it, but you can have "wisdom" without necessarily having specific experience concerning the referent of your wisdom.