Chapter 12 Volume 2 Knowledge - 7

Elf: "Your deduction is correct." Me: "Are you happy with that? Then I can say, indeed, that it was thought up; but even that I can hardly say. Therefore, I can only be very cautious." and thinking thoughts; but I can never say that I am feeling, intuiting, and thinking. Only "the former statement is fact, the latter an added fiction. " Elf: "You said it very well:" Me: "There is nothing permanent either outside of me or within me, but only constant change. I know no existence anywhere, not even my own existence. Never existed.I myself know absolutely nothing, and it doesn't exist.Only reflections exist, they are the only things that exist, and they know themselves as such in their manner: they rush past without something from which they seem to pass; images of images, but nothing is reflected in them, and they have no meaning, no purpose.I myself am a reflection of these reflections; I am not even such a reflection, but only a vague reflection of these reflections.All reality becomes a strange dream, without a dreaming life and without a dreaming mind; all reality becomes a dream woven in a dream about itself.Intuition is the dream; thinking, the source of all being and all reality, the source of my imagination, of my being, of my power, of my purpose, is only a dream of this dream. "

Elf: "You have understood all this very well. When you must submit to this conclusion, you always use the sharpest words and expressions, making it disgusting. And you must do so. You have seen clearly that it can only be so.Or, are you also withdrawing what you have admitted, with some reason to justify such withdrawal? " Me: "Never. I have seen, and seen clearly, that it is so; I just cannot believe it yet." Genie: "You see the fact; just can't believe it? That's another thing." Me: "You are an evil elf; your knowledge itself is evil, and it comes from evil. You led me on this road, and I will not thank you for it."

Elf: "Short-sighted people! Whoever dares to face reality, look at things as they are, and go further, you call it evil. I once asked you to draw and analyze the conclusions of our research at will, and use disgusting words to express They. Do you think I understand these conclusions less than you do? Do you think I am less aware than you are of how our fundamentals annihilate all reality into a dream? Do you think I am the system— — as a perfect system of the human spirit — a blind admirer and advocator? "You yearn for knowledge, and you are led in a very wrong way; you seek knowledge where knowledge cannot reach, and you even think that you are seeing something, and this insight is the same as all insight. The essence is contrary. I find you still in this situation. I only want you to be liberated from your false knowledge, but never to bring you true knowledge.

"You wish to know what you know. Do you wonder at the fact that you have learned nothing more than what you wish to know, your knowledge itself, on this path? Would you not? Whatever is produced by and from knowledge is nothing but knowledge.But all knowledge is only a reflection, and there must always be something corresponding to the reflection in knowledge.But no knowledge can satisfy this requirement, because the system of knowledge is necessarily a system of mere reflections, without any reality, without any meaning and purpose.Did you expect something else?Do you wish to change the inner nature of your spirit, to make your knowledge appear superior to knowledge?

"That reality which you thought you had seen, a sensuous world which existed independently of you and which you were born to become a slave to, has disappeared for you, because the whole sensuous world was created only through knowledge, It is itself our knowledge; but knowledge is not reality, and it is not reality precisely because it is knowledge. You have seen this illusion, and now you must not deny yourself your better insight. Will not be fooled by this illusion again. This is after all the only credit I give to the system we have just discovered together, which destroys and destroys falsehood. But this system cannot provide truth, because it is itself absolute emptiness You have your good reasons, as I well know, to still seek after all some reality which exists beyond mere reflections, and, as I also know, a reality other than that which has just been annihilated. But in vain do you try to create this reality through and from your knowledge, and in vain do you try to grasp it with your knowledge. If you have no other senses to grasp it , you'll never notice it.

"But you have such a sense. It's just that you'll liven it up and heat it up; you'll reach the most complete state of tranquility. I'll leave you alone!"