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Vico has an interesting quote about this while discussing Descartes proposition that "I think therefore I am."

While Vico couches this in an etymology, he does provide another justification for it. Descartes famously used "I think therefore I am" to provide a first principle that refutes skepticism. Vico claims that this does not work because it does not entirely address the challenge of the skeptics. The skeptic knows that he or she exists. The skeptic does not, however, know anything significant about that existence because the skeptic cannot know the cause of his or her ideas (AW 55). The verum-factum principle solves the skeptic’s problem by explaining that since we are the cause of what we make, we can know what was made. Since humans have made the civil world, they can understand the cause of the civil world and know the truth about it. Thus the skeptic, who claims knowledge is impossible, is incorrect because it is possible to know the truth about what humans have made. For Vico, making something becomes the criteria for knowing the truth about it (AW 56).

The importance of fashioning oneself in the correct metaphysical configuration cannot be overemphasized. This is as important as a correctly folded protein vs a denatured protein…one is functional and the other is stripped of life because it no longers has the LIGHT within it.

Ok, I jumped around a bit because it is a complex subject but I know anons are brilliant critters and hopefully, you will understand something of the SHITTEST now more than you did. To close we should examine the mythos of the Birth of the Buddha into the higher realms as well…for he defeats Maya/Mara (she is the same mother) or the material but it is not a physical defeat but one of patterning himself metaphysically and spiritually into being born as a higher being. It is worth noting that someone who is going to be born into the higher realms MUST DIE HERE…you cannot occupy the two separate realms at the same time, polluting the spiritual body with the material realm. There is much left out of the Buddha's storyline like the fact that he was probably tortured to death during the 7 hours between his final test and his ascension. For he must die to this world to be born into the next as surely as an infant is tortured in birth here exiting the FLESH body of its mother's vagina and the excruciating trauma of being born.

Here is a plain version:

As the about-to-be Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, sat in meditation, Mara brought his most beautiful daughters to seduce Siddhartha. Siddhartha, however, remained in meditation. Then Mara sent vast armies of monsters to attack him. Yet Siddhartha sat still and untouched.

Mara claimed that the seat of enlightenment rightfully belonged to him and not to the mortal Siddhartha. Mara's monstrous soldiers cried out together, "I am his witness!" Mara challenged Siddhartha, who will speak for you?

Then Siddhartha reached out his right hand to touch the earth, and the earth itself spoke: "I bear you witness!" Mara disappeared. And as the morning star rose in the sky, Siddhartha Gautama realized enlightenment and became a Buddha.

There are much better more emotional and detailed descriptions of the TEST but I know you can find them and read them if you have an interest in the full story. Basically, this is the story of all men who are born into the higher realm and it is a template for you to follow so that you too can finally BE BORN, rather than stuck here dead with the rest of us. ;)

I will give a few lines from a paper I wrote on Transcendental Rationalism a month ago…perhaps this will help as well.

Does it make sense to spend time pondering the sensory

material environment or this hidden transcendental being whose presence is established

regardless of his fluid material environment.