Analogue 23: Wisdom and Death
ANALOGUE 23 Wisdom and Death Wisdom is one reality and death is another. (Wisdom, khomath, in Aramaic is simply Sophia in Greek). From death comes the wisdom of death, so that those acquainted with death do indeed possess a certain kind of wisdom, though it is a minor one. Wisdom is contrasted with death. Wisdom is Life itself, and then there is its opposite, death. The linguistic base of the terms for wisdom: khomath in Aramaic, Sophia in Greek. A declaration of the “wisdom of death” as a minor or secondary form of wisdom. Categories of major and minor forms of wisdom. We are in search now for what is a major form of wisdom rather than its minor forms. The contrasts in a hierarchy of higher and lower wisdom and perhaps wisdom from one realm versus another. COMMENTARY Two Realms of Wisdom While it is possible that due to distance in time (and a lack of context) that something could have been lost from the original oral teaching behin...