Different levels of knowing and understanding

Dear Diary,

Didier, an inspiration, and a great friend of mine (before he died in an alleged car 'accident': the safest driver in France died from speeding, apparently) once said, "There are those that know (savoir) and those that do not know." There are many layers to society, and we are not just talking about the educated and the uneducated (to greater and lesser degrees), but many more spheres (literally spheres). There are other worlds, of which very few people are even aware of (except perhaps in dreams, and even then, often only dismissed as mere phantasms and chimeras). This knowledge is sacred. It is, in fact, more than just knowledge, but wisdom, divine wisdom.

I met such a fellow today. He is not an unlikable person, but in fact, quite amicable. Even so, like so many, he (often) takes the easy route, rather than the difficult and more rewarding route to such knowledge (I speak of using intoxicants to fast track out of body experiences: which are actually unneccessary to the serious practitioner). Even so, he was amicable, and we got on well. Most importantly of all, he told me of a lawyer he worked for (well, for the lady's mother, as a gardner). Of all the cases she is proud of (according to this gentleman's testimony, and I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this account, though it is, in truth, merely anecdotal and unsubstantiated) it is one to do with magic which she is most proud of. The client had recently visited Africa, returned to Britain and committed a serious act of fraud. Why might this case be important? Well, because there are different levels of knowing. She got the client off, surprisingly. How she did this, I do not know, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the judge must have been an insider, someone in the know. There are those that know, and those that do not, as Didier once said. Seemingly, the client had been put under a hex or spell of voodoo magic. We're not just talking about pulling rabbits out of hats, or the defamatory term in modern psychology ('magical thinking') which attempts to rationalise or explain away wrong headedness by labelling it with the pejorative term 'magic'. Of course, many of the scientific community dismiss this as superstition and mere foolishness. Yet it is those that do not believe, those with no faith, that are forever barred from the higher spheres where the real knowledge is contained. "Be still, and know that I am God." says the Good Book (Psalm 46:10 cf. Corpus Hermeticum 8.5 [my translation]).