MerlinofEngland

The writing on the petty tyrant is only an introduction to the topic of awareness. There are a series of truths that the seers discovered about awareness, these truths are arranged in a sequence for purpose of comprehension. The mastery of awareness consists of internalizing the total sequence of such truths. The first truth is that our familiarity with the world we perceive compels us to believe that we are surrounded by objects, existing by themselves and as themselves, just as we perceive them, whereas, in fact, there is no world of objects, but a universe of the Eagle's emanations. Before explaining the Eagle's emanations, I'll talk about the known, the unknown and the unknowable. The unknown is something that is veiled from man, shrouded perhaps by a terrifying context, but which is within man's reach. The unknown becomes known at a given time. The unknowable is the indescribable, the unthinkable, and the unrealizable. It is something that will never be known to us, and yet it is there, dazzling and at the same time horrifying in its vastness. Seers make the distinction between the two, by using a rule of thumb. In the face of the unknown, man is adventurous. It is the quality of the unknown to give us a sense of hope and happiness. Man feels robust exhilarated. Even the apprehension that it arouses is very fulfilling. The new seers [saw] that man is at his best in the face of the unknown. Whenever what is taken to be the unknown turns out to be the unknowable the results are disastrous. Seers feel drained, confused. A terrible oppression takes possession of them. Their bodies lose tone, their reasoning and sobriety wander away aimlessly, for the unknowable has no energizing effects at all. It is not within human reach and it should not be intruded upon foolishly or even prudently. Seers can have the known at a given moment and enter into the unknown, as the known and the unknown are both within the reach of human perception. Whatever is beyond our capacity to perceive is the unknowable. The distinction between it and the knowable is crucial. Confusing the two would put seers in a precarious position whenever they were confronted with the unknowable. When this happened to the old seers, they thought their procedures had gone haywire. It didn't occur to them that most of what's out there is beyond our comprehension, they erred badly and paid dearly. The new seers mapped out the unknown in order to separate it from the unknowable, through the controlled use of [seeing] they made it available to our perception.

The realization of the distinction between the unknown and the unknowable is the frontier between the old cycle and the new cycle. Everything the new seers have done stems from understanding that distinction.

[Seeing] was the crucial element in both the destruction of the old seers' world and in the reconstruction of the new view. Through [seeing] the new seers discovered certain undeniable facts, which they used to arrive at certain conclusions, revolutionary to them, about the nature of man and the world. These conclusions were the truths about awareness.