masters of philosophy

• primary supernaphim

27:0.52. Mas­ters of Phi­los­o­phy.

27:6.1Next to the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of wor­ship is the ex­hil­a­ra­tion of phi­los­o­phy. Never do you climb so high or ad­vance so far that there do not re­main a thou­sand mys­ter­ies which de­mand the em­ploy­ment of phi­los­o­phy in an at­tempted so­lu­tion.

27:6.2The mas­ter philoso­phers of Par­a­dise de­light to lead the minds of its in­hab­i­tants, both na­tive and as­cen­dant, in the ex­hil­a­rat­ing pur­suit of at­tempt­ing to solve uni­verse prob­lems. These super­aphic mas­ters of phi­los­o­phy are the “wise men of heaven,” the be­ings of wis­dom who make use of the truth of knowl­edge and the facts of ex­pe­ri­ence in their ef­forts to mas­ter the un­known. With them knowl­edge at­tains to truth and ex­pe­ri­ence as­cends to wis­dom. On Par­a­dise the as­cen­dant per­son­al­i­ties of space ex­pe­ri­ence the heights of be­ing: They have knowl­edge; they know the truth; they may phi­los­o­phize—think the truth; they may even seek to en­com­pass the con­cepts of the Ul­ti­mate and at­tempt to grasp the tech­niques of the Ab­so­lutes.

27:6.3At the south­ern ex­trem­ity of the vast Par­a­dise do­main the mas­ters of phi­los­o­phy con­duct elab­o­rate courses in the sev­enty func­tional di­vi­sions of wis­dom. Here they dis­course upon the plans and pur­poses of In­fin­ity and seek to co-or­di­nate the ex­pe­ri­ences, and to com­pose the knowl­edge, of all who have ac­cess to their wis­dom. They have de­vel­oped a highly spe­cial­ized at­ti­tude to­ward var­i­ous uni­verse prob­lems, but their fi­nal con­clu­sions are al­ways in uni­form agree­ment.

27:6.4These Par­a­dise philoso­phers teach by ev­ery pos­si­ble method of in­struc­tion, in­clud­ing the higher graph tech­nique of Ha­vona and cer­tain Par­a­dise meth­ods of com­mu­ni­cat­ing in­for­ma­tion. All of these higher tech­niques of im­part­ing knowl­edge and con­vey­ing ideas are ut­terly be­yond the com­pre­hen­sion ca­pac­ity of even the most highly de­vel­oped hu­man mind. One hour’s in­struc­tion on Par­a­dise would be the equiv­a­lent of ten thou­sand years of the word-mem­ory meth­ods of Uran­tia. You can­not grasp such com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­niques, and there is sim­ply noth­ing in mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence with which they may be com­pared, noth­ing to which they can be likened.

27:6.5The mas­ters of phi­los­o­phy take su­preme plea­sure in im­part­ing their in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the uni­verse of uni­verses to those be­ings who have as­cended from the worlds of space. And while phi­los­o­phy can never be as set­tled in its con­clu­sions as the facts of knowl­edge and the truths of ex­pe­ri­ence, yet, when you have lis­tened to these pri­mary super­na­phim dis­course upon the un­solved prob­lems of eter­nity and the per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes, you will feel a cer­tain and last­ing sat­is­fac­tion con­cern­ing these un­mas­tered ques­tions.

• available only on Paradise

27:6.6These in­tel­lec­tual pur­suits of Par­a­dise are not broad­cast; the phi­los­o­phy of per­fec­tion is avail­able only to those who are per­son­ally pres­ent. The en­cir­cling cre­ations know of these teach­ings only from those who have passed through this ex­pe­ri­ence, and who have sub­se­quently car­ried this wis­dom out to the uni­verses of space.

• secoraphic Souls of Philosophy in focal synchrony with

28:5.112. The Soul of Phi­los­o­phy. These won­der­ful teach­ers are also at­tached to the Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom and, when not oth­er­wise di­rec­tion­ized, re­main in fo­cal syn­chrony with the mas­ters of phi­los­o­phy on Par­a­dise. Think of step­ping up to a huge liv­ing mir­ror, as it were, but in­stead of be­hold­ing the like­ness of your fi­nite and ma­te­rial self, of per­ceiv­ing a re­flec­tion of the wis­dom of di­vin­ity and the phi­los­o­phy of Par­a­dise. And if it be­comes de­sir­able to “in­car­nate” this phi­los­o­phy of per­fec­tion, so to di­lute it as to make it prac­ti­cal of ap­pli­ca­tion to, and as­sim­i­la­tion by, the lowly peo­ples of the lower worlds, these liv­ing mir­rors have only to turn their faces down­ward to re­flect the stan­dards and needs of an­other world or uni­verse.