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Sensible knowledge replied: “Do you not expect that your reliance on
intellectual truths will fare like your reliance on sense-perception? You used to
trust in me; then along came the intellect judge and proved me wrong; if it
were not for the intellect judge you would have continued to regard me as
true. Perhaps behind intellectual apprehension there is another judge who, if
he manifests himself, will show the falsity of intellect in its judging, just as,
when intellect manifested itself, it showed the falsity of sense in its judging.
The fact that supra-intellectual comprehension has not been achieved is no
proof that it is impossible”.
My ego hesitated a little about the reply to that, and sensible knowledge
heightened the difficulty by referring to dreams. “Do you not see”, it said,
“how, when you are asleep, you believe things and imagine circumstances,
holding them to be stable and enduring and, so long as you are in that dream-
state, have no doubts about them? And is it not the case that when you wake
up you know that all you have imagined and believed is unfounded and
ineffectual? Why then are you confident that all your waking beliefs, whether
intellectual truths will fare like your reliance on sense-perception? You used to
trust in me; then along came the intellect judge and proved me wrong; if it
were not for the intellect judge you would have continued to regard me as
true. Perhaps behind intellectual apprehension there is another judge who, if
he manifests himself, will show the falsity of intellect in its judging, just as,
when intellect manifested itself, it showed the falsity of sense in its judging.
The fact that supra-intellectual comprehension has not been achieved is no
proof that it is impossible”.
My ego hesitated a little about the reply to that, and sensible knowledge
heightened the difficulty by referring to dreams. “Do you not see”, it said,
“how, when you are asleep, you believe things and imagine circumstances,
holding them to be stable and enduring and, so long as you are in that dream-
state, have no doubts about them? And is it not the case that when you wake
up you know that all you have imagined and believed is unfounded and
ineffectual? Why then are you confident that all your waking beliefs, whether