“Telling the truth.”

E,

Your only real burden is to tell the truth. This will be easier in younger years and in the right spaces. When there is no pull or push on your soul and extraordinarily little to lose by looking or feeling stupid. It will seem like you are real enough at times and this little bit of a lie may be useful to get you out of awkward situations. This is the first step down a slippery slope. A more convenient fiction will always be more desirable than any hard bit of truth. You must learn early to know the difference.

Why is the truth so important? I fear in your age this will be an even more pertinent question. It will be a true moral question if the lie can be better than the truth. This already appears in stops and starts in mine, but it will have its full day in yours.

The truth is important because we believe in the answer to the absurdity of life more than the question it raises. Cadmus was absolutely right to point out the flaw in finite life. We believe that the answer to that flaw is infinite life. This is an objective sense of belief. We are not creating a subjective reality; we are submitting to an objective one. Our first premise is that all things must make some sense. Our second is that we may not have the mind to conceive the dynamics and specifics of that reality. Our third is that objective reality is not just a way of looking at things but a being. You know where this is going.

The truth will always matter because at the centre of the universe sits an unyielding force that creates everything else. Reality is framed in His image and present reality is marked by Her absence. This being, genderless and gender-full, is the basis of all truth and being. It is essential that we do not make Them up. It is vital that we accept this reality. In Their eyes lies the infinite life of all things. In that powerful and perfect soul lies all things bright and beautiful, all things great and small, all being and all life, all light and all suns and all galaxies and all forms. And all the things we do not know and cannot possibly conceive. Here, is the truth about everything.