How do we gain knowledge? This is the essential question of the study of epistemology. The Christian must ask, “How do we gain the knowledge of the way of God?” Only after this question is asked and properly answered can we then begin to build a true Christian educational system. Without a truly Christian educational system, we cannot truly build the Kingdom of God. This question has never been asked or rightly answered by the church. It must be answered by the time the millennium begins.
Large sections of certain letters in this work were created by similitude. Similitude is a means or method of knowledge building that is based on faith. The method of similitude could be described as the outcome of a multi-step learning process unlike anything I have ever studied. I believe knowledge building by faith is the only foundation for a true Christian epistemology.
The process began with a desire to understand the events in the Balkans. I was grieved by the deception being used by the state department, and I was dismayed by the lack of discernment and interest by the church. No one was praying and in three churches I could spark no interest in prayer. I had a deep need to understand why. This was the desire of my heart.
I asked God to instruct me so I could understand those events. The key at this point may have been that I did not ask God to reveal these things to me, rather I asked Him to instruct me in these things. I did not realize what I was doing, and I did not realize what He was about to do.
As I read about the events from independent intelligence sources and non-media organizations, they all differed greatly from the media. Yet, these multiple-disciplined and independent sources were in harmony with each other. Was I being give an accurate perspective by anyone? Yet, as I read large portions of scripture, they would provide the basis for what could be called insight into the issue.
Each point of insight would stimulate related hunches or questions. I would present these questions to the Lord in prayer. Often there would be a time of reflection, or absorption of the already given knowledge, combined with more scripture reading. So far, the Lord has given the answer all the questions asked. It is a remarkable experience and He is incredible.
The answers would be in what I do not know how to describe as other than a similitude—an instructive harmonic similitude. The answers would seem almost revelatory in nature. I would discern them in my spirit, and at the same time, they sank deep into my spirit. When I was asking the right questions in the right direction, similitudes would pour fourth, and insight would multiply.
I would write until I came to a point of inquiry, discuss it with the Lord, continue my work, and the insights would come. I was working back and forth, back and forth, from one paragraph to the next, in almost a winnowing process.
When the correct answer would come the harmonic ties would be there, and they would be numerous. The understanding would mushroom. It is like when a researcher or detective has enough information. At a time of insight, he suddenly sees the overall picture. Then immediately, numerous points of reference begin to spring forth, and verify the validity of the discovery.
Over the millenniums, sages have discovered a rhythmic repetition of events and attributes that give form to the structure of things. The rhythmic repetition forms a repetitive scale of patterns that is “harmonic” in its attributes. The first rhythmic repetition to be discovered was in music.
Westerners have been aware of the harmonic scale of music since the time of the ancient Greeks. This is why western music has had such a rich and unique heritage. Throughout the centuries, no other cultures knew of, or applied the seven note, repetitive harmonic scale of music. Consequently, the development of music and instrumentation was stunted in all those cultures.
The periodic table of the elements is a seven step, harmonic scale of repetitive attributes that functions at the elemental level of substance. The mushrooming knowledge of chemical processes is rooted in “seeing” this periodic table of elemental attributes. All chemistry is shaped by these harmonic processes.
The harmonic structure to things goes deeper than the elemental level. Even the atom has a harmonic, scaled structure. There are seven electron spheres to the atom. Each sphere holds harmonic multiples of the previous.
These three harmonic scales are fundamental physical attributes of the structure of things. Harmonics is intrinsic to structure. It provides a framework for insight into the inherent, repetitive aspect, which is built into—and which creates the patterns of—all physical relationships.
The perception of this fundamental aspect of the structure of physical relationships is at the heart of the explosion in knowledge. This is because the structure itself forces a pattern on the knowledge building process. The insightful can seize on the pattern, and greatly accelerate and extend the realm of knowledge about the subject.
Insight is built upon harmonic insight. Once the physical harmonic tables were discovered, countless patterns in the structure of things became visible to anyone with the basic knowledge of the discipline at hand, producing a knowledge explosion.
The harmonic structure to things gives harmonic structure to knowledge, or insight. The harmonic structure to things is equated to the harmonic structure of knowledge, which can be very effectively expressed in similitudes.
Similitude is an act of perception about the structure of relationships. It involves a state of awareness about relationships. Similitude is insight-based knowledge. Similitude is perceived in the consciousness. Similitude is the perception of the harmonic structure to things and to thought.
An important aspect of insight building about the end times is the witness to the truthfulness a similitude that takes place in your heart. Whenever I had a hunch that was in the wrong direction, the similitudes would just stop. Similitude does not follow the wrong paths. It is an incredible way to build knowledge of the matters of the spirit.
This process may qualify as the rudiments of a faith-based method of knowledge building. I do not know if it could be systematized into a pedagogy and applied by the majority of Christians, or even Christian educators. Yet, I have a sense that it may be the basis for a true, and uniquely Christian, system of knowledge building. The process requires faith, scripture, prayer, and the working of the Spirit of God, or the knowledge does not come.
These requirements are in contrast to the two dominant methods of knowledge building now in use by secular culture, and regretfully, the church. They are the philosophic method, from which has been created the system known as rational deduction. For millenniums its pedagogy has been dialectics.
The second and newer approach is the current scientific method, from which the system of empirical induction has been developed.
You might call this third method, a faith method of harmonic similitude. In layman’s terms, it could be called learning the things of God by the way of little children. It is faith-trust knowledge.
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