{"id":2497,"date":"2023-07-20T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:28:02","slug":"the-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/07\/20\/the-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Janko-Ferlic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Janko-Ferlic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Janko-Ferlic.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Janko-Ferlic-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Suppose You<br \/>\nspent years<br \/>\nassembling a Library,<br \/>\nbuilt of Beliefs<br \/>\nfrom Advaita to<br \/>\nZoroastrianism,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">each volume<br \/>\nthe apex of<br \/>\nAuthority,<br \/>\nbuilt of centuries<br \/>\nof careful<br \/>\nexamination and assembly,<br \/>\nusing only those pages<br \/>\napproved by<br \/>\nscholars and soothsayers<br \/>\nselected for their<br \/>\nAcumen of the Absolute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What if You<br \/>\nhad a dream<br \/>\nin which<br \/>\nan invisible hand<br \/>\nplaced a single<br \/>\nBook<br \/>\nbeneath Your pillow<br \/>\nas You slept,<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nin the morning,<br \/>\nwhen You<br \/>\nopened the Book,<br \/>\nit was Empty,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">except for a single<br \/>\ninstruction,<br \/>\nprinted across<br \/>\nthe inside cover,<br \/>\nwhich read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cClose this book,<br \/>\nlay it flat in<br \/>\nthe palm of<br \/>\nYour hand, and<br \/>\nraise it to<br \/>\neye-level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Look across it and<br \/>\nbeyond.<br \/>\nKnow that<br \/>\nWhatever You see<br \/>\ncontains more<br \/>\nMystery<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">than can ever be<br \/>\nknown<br \/>\nby even the most<br \/>\ncareful study<br \/>\nof every volume<br \/>\nin Your Library<br \/>\nof Beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Janko Ferlic; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Mystery Suppose You spent years assembling a Library, built of Beliefs from Advaita to Zoroastrianism, each volume the apex of Authority, built of centuries of careful examination and assembly, using only those pages approved by scholars and soothsayers selected for their Acumen of the Absolute. What if You had a dream in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}