(BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE{1}[continued(9)])[5th April 1987]

[Redbook3:126][19870405:1057i](BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE{1}[continued(9)])[5th April 1987]

19870405.1057

(Sunday)

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How can we make the leap* from the absolutely true to the Absolute Truth? So far we have managed to pare knowledge down to the only type which must be absolutely true – Inner Direct Knowledge, such as my inner perception of xS (I think I have shown that she pre-dated my interest in writing about her**; and I do not force or will these experiences). If this is the only way we can be absolutely certain about anything, it is the only way we can be absolutely certain about God, which is our name for the Absolute Truth.*** The problem is that xS is (for the sake of this discussion) purely internal: I can only say 'This quality is xS' without fear of contradiction because xS is the name I have chosen for this quality etc., and I recognise it when it comes up again (I suspect that others see her under other names, but I cannot know this absolutely).

God, or the Absolute Truth, on the other hand, presumably exists (if he exists) both externally and internally: I should expect my perception of God to be similar to that of others who have gone about things in the same way.

*[See last previous entry.]

**(e.g.) 105-6 [[Redbook3:105-106][19870404:1005n](INNOCENCE{:[xS]})[continued (3)])[4th April 1987]] <930418>

***cf. Aquinas? <890930>

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