“It is difficult to find the beginning. Or better: it is difficult to begin at the beginning. And not try to go further back.”
-Ludwig Wittgenstein (On Certainty, 471)
What, though, IS the beginning?
It is in our nature as spiritual beings to believe, and so it is the case, that all things are on some level connected. This is an intuition we have that coherence matters, and it serves as the basis for all religions. Can we mortals, however, really connect all of the dots?
Of course not. But, this is why we must submit to faith — faith in truth, God, or whatever it is that we regard as ‘the beginning’. The nature of that thing evades us. It must, for it is everything all at once — the 12th House, in astrological terms — and is therefore that of which we are a very small part. It is a logical necessity and is the same thing for all rational/spiritual beings.
To lack fear and acknowledgment of something of this nature is to simply not be in tune with ourselves, others, or reality in the broadest, metaphysical sense. It is to sell ourselves short of something transcendental. Even our rejection of it is a willful choice which we could not make had we not been part of it to begin with.
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