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Is absolute Truth knowable ?

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Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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I think its relevant to mention here about the periods of history where truth lived alongside the pursuit of harmonic life, and the comprehension of a musical kosmos; There was a belief in whats called aonic life, confusingly dubbed eternal life. However if we go back to the Greek, *aonic wasnt seen as something eternal. The Greeks had antithetical terms that denoted something eternal from the impermanent, temporary.

Aeon was the child of Chronos, cronus or kronos ~ the term Aonic is roughly 4,000 years older than our modern reinterpretation. Aonic life ~4,000 years ago was the devotion under Chronos or Saturn, existing outside of time: αιϝών ("ai-won", as that /ϝ/ is [w] ... ) is the archaic form for vital force.

So anytime someone says Aonic life, its really Saturnian life, the age or initiation of Chronos ~towards a vital life. So its not eternal in that way, its Aonic life.

To cont., its the Satre god in Etruscan, Ianuarus now for January or Janus. Aonic is also dual in its gender, as its between realms, outside of time, related to "to comprehend". It is unrecognizable, for its going back to Mycenaean Greek.

Thats the antithetical, comprehension of eternal. Plato's eternal form is more of a term to ground the meaning of form itself. Thats a different period where the meanings had already split, where Philosophy was the attempt to save the craft of the internal comprehension and continued pursuit of truth.

p.s., you can ask the question from an antipodal direction: "is the act of knowing, truthful? Can i know? What does it mean to know/understand (ἐπίσταμαι)" -> which is where i am getting this Istemi: pointer, link -> στην-*, in the,   εἰς-*, into, towards; ἐπι-*, upon, over, at, toward;   ἵστημι, to stand, to set, to place, or something more akin to a direction; ενδιάμεσος, intermediate, link or in-between ; ἐπίσταμαι, to know/insist, to understand.

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Paraphrase from Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum): "... that which is in the Word is also in ourselves."

Greek Magical Papyri (PGM): "I call upon the Word of the All, that which binds heaven and earth, and let it manifest in the circle."

Plato – Cratylus (439–440): "A name is a likeness of the thing itself; if rightly spoken, it carries the essence of what it names."

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