SPIRITUAL WISDOM AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

We are beginning to see that the ancient wisdoms are much more than they appear to be. Though they are expressed using arcane symbols and religious terms unique to each culture that gave rise to them, they were rooted in a genuine scientific understanding of the universe on the basis of which we can make accurate empirical predictions.

The key to a scientific interpretation of these ancient wisdoms lies in the system of matched pairs with parameters established by the universal rule of thumb. This allows the ancient wisdoms to be expressed in the language of mathematics, the universal language of science. Without this system we would be totally lost, like sojourners lost in a bewildering forest without a map. This explains precisely why the ancients developed this system: to provide a map for the soul seeking knowledge about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

In ancient times, this map was given to aspiring souls as they needed it. Though today, we can evaluate and understand the teachings of the seers in the light of modern science, in ancient times, such science did not exist. As a result, common men and women had no idea what the enlightened seers espoused; the seers’ teachings were as foreign to the common person then as abstract algebraic formulas of quantum theory are to the common person today. Rather than create confusion in the minds of the common people, the seers kept secret their real science and instead taught colorful myths and stories that commoners could grasp, even if only symbolically. Since these early times, however, the human mind has matured in its analytic capabilities.

Though we may not be enlightened to the point of experiencing directly and intuitively the cosmic realities the seers believed, we at least have a well-developed system of empirical knowledge. On this basis, we can tie the seers’ spiritual concepts to scientific concepts and thereby gain some understanding of the ancient wisdom. Here, rather than creating anything new, we have translated the ancient spiritual wisdoms into modern scientific language—the language of mathematics. We can follow in the footsteps of the ancient seers as they traversed the path to immortality so that we can translate their spiritual wisdom into a form of scientific wisdom.

Yet our journey has just begun. As the enlightened soul ascends and descends through the first sixteen layers above and below the half measure, it communes with the solar being and its solar world—but it does not stop there. It continues on its journey until it communes with the galactic being and its galactic world. The knowledge derived on that basis may be called the galactic wisdom.