W9 D4
The Cat Who Purred ©
Polly who did a long stint in the service of a scientist could say,’ Show me the proof!’ and “ Meaning?”. She could also curse like a sea-dog. She thought she was exceptional till she came across an alley cat who also thought he was a panchandrum.
” I have lived through nine lives I can’t say where one ends and the other begins.” Of course Polly could not understand his purring. She boasted her skills and pooh-poohed when the cat said,” Meeow!”
“Meaning?”
He purred back,”Selah as in the Book of Psalms. I say that often in remembrance of my life among the angelical host.
He came within a striking distance and when she asked,” Show me the proof!” he just snatched her and said,” In the next world you shall understand me well enough.”
Of course his purring she couldn’t follow.

Limits of Reason

I am reminded of the passage from Gulliver’s Travels where Gulliver was put off by the women of Brobdingnag because their skin magnified may times over did give them in his sight a frightful appearance, that of a lunar surface. (Ch. 5.) The manner of understanding applied in an infinite mode must certainly sound confusing to our intellect; reason is our best guide as far as life in the finite goes. That only explains the human condition.
Truth does not change whether we look at it with the smoke screen of a finite factor or from the side of Life, if that were possible.
Tailpiece:
Abstraction is reality as far the mind is concerned. We may not fathom why electrons, protons or photons behave as they do. We know only from their effects. We touch upon Truth by means of truth of our nature. It means we hold truth in eversomuch as a gut feeling of Truth in its absolute value out there.