Riddles

1 Riddles

The nature of riddles is that they are difficult to understood from without but easy from within. A good riddle has only one possible answer. A fair riddle has only one best answer. If many answers fit a riddle, it's not much of a riddle. Or the answerers are just making stuff up. Fantasy can pretty much fit anything to anything.

The first injunction for Blavatsky's Ebionites, both Jews and Gentiles, is to seek the Truth, actual Truth, and to measure it by Recursion. That, because Recursion is the only measure of Truth that there is, and Truth is the beginning of the Kingdom of the Heavens. As in Revelation - the gates of the New Jerusalem are pearls and pearls are recursive parallels of Truth. Recursive analogies of Truth. Only actual Truth will do. Not social truth, not the useful, the relevant, the fitting, the interesting or the attractive. Just that which is so. The way of the world is that people prefer to live by fantasy rather than truth because fantasy can be adapted to fit present circumstances. Fantasy is useful, relevant, fitting, interesting and attractive. Truth is only occasionally those things.

Following are some riddles that are intended to be condign symbolic parallels to recursion. Although fantasy may generate any number of answers to them, they are intended to have only one real answer. One necessary answer, that is, condign. One symbolic parallelism that fits recursion. The use of them is not to solve them. The answers are given. The use of them is to contemplate them. Though they are trivial in the sense of not requiring the contemplating mind to open new avenues of perception in order to properly understand them, they are untrivial in the sense that the contemplation of them, because they are condign symbolic parallels of recursion, will cause the mind contemplating them to acquire a greater capability of parallel recursion. A mind well settled in parallel recursion can tell Truth from Fantasy.

1

A sower went to sow
some seed fell on the path and birds ate them
other seeds fell on thin soil where they quickly grew and soon withered
other seeds fell among thorns and were choked
other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain

what is sown on the path is the word of truth not accepted
what is sown on thin soil is the word of truth accepted eagerly but when difficulty comes the word of truth is abandoned
what is sown among thorns is the word of truth lost among the cares of the world
what is sown on good soil is the word of truth that brings out more truth

at first there is no acceptance of truth for it does not fit the fantasy world
then there is temporary acceptance of truth but it is soon abandoned because it still does not fit the fantasy world
then there is acceptance of truth if it were to be useful in the fantasy world which it is not and so it is lost
and finally there is acceptance of truth as truth only because it is true

2

A sower went to sow
he sowed good seed but there were weeds in the field as well
and the grain and the weeds grew together
and while the grain was still unripe the weeds couldn't be distinguished from the grain
but at the time of harvest when the grain ripened they could easily be distinguished
then the grain was kept and the weeds burnt up

the sower is mankind
the field is the world
the good seed is the truth
the bad seed is the fantasy of the world
the truth endures
but the fantasy of the world is temporary

3

Truth is like a seed
when it is first sown it is small
but when it is full grown it becomes a tree
a little truth, if nurtured, leads to more truth

4

Truth is like leaven
when it is first mixed with the flour the loaf is small
but when it has developed the loaf is large
truth, if developed, enhances what it touches

5

Truth is like treasure in a field
when someone finds it they'll give all that they have to buy the field
truth is what is necessary, fantasy is never necessary

6

Truth is like a fine pearl
when someone finds it they'll give all that it takes to buy the pearl
truth is what is enough, fantasy is never enough

7

Truth is like a net thrown into the sea that catches fishes of all kinds
the good fish are kept and the unedible fish are thrown away
what's true is true and what's fantasy is fantasy

8

Truth is like a man who owned a vineyard who went out early to hire laborers for a days wage
later he went out again to hire more laborers and promised them what was right
around noon he went out again and hired more laborers and did the same
and again in midafternoon and again an hour before evening
when evening came he paid them all the same, a days wage
those who worked the whole day were upset that they did not receive more than those who came last
but he told them that they got what they'd agreed on and what they needed
so the last were like the first and the first were like the last
for truth is truth, it is necessary and sufficient.

9

A man had two sons. He asked each of them to work in his vineyard. The first one told him he would not do what he asked but later did it anyhow. The second one told him he would do what he asked but he did not do it after all. Truth is what is so, not what is potential.

10

A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenants. When the harvest time came he sent his servants to gather the grapes. The tenants beat them and drove them away. So he sent more servants but the tenants did the same to them. Finally he sent his son and heir. Him the tenants killed so as to take the vineyard for their own. Then the owner came with soldiers and had the tenants killed and replaced with new tenants. Truth must be nurtured. If it is rejected for fantasy, fantasy is temporary and destroys itself.

11

Truth is like a king giving a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to bring those who were invited but all of them had excuses and would not come. They mistreated and killed his servants so he sent his soldiers and killed the invited guests. He sent more servants to invite everybody they found to the banquet. Those who had the appropriate clothes were received to the banquet but those who did not were evicted. Many were called but few were chosen. Truth must be accommodated. If it is rejected for fantasy, fantasy is temporary and consumes itself.