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existent, nor both necessary and impossible”.
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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
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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