CRUCIBLE
This is not the Truth. Neither is anything knowable. Be sure to be uncertain and certain to be unsure. Do not worry about what goes in your mouth but what comes out. Ensure your vision strays to what you would rather not see from what you would.
Those who deny being and non-being and assert only being have limited the incomprehensible to their reason. That which is absurd and possible, reveals how the impossible is not absurd but may be beyond our rationallity and reason. Beyond the known and experienced is the unknown which has not been experienced.
An empty hand that contains no-orange still contains the no-orange state when the orange is added. The state of being and no-being may be co-present. We can say and understand the existence of nothing. The non existence of something though conceptually harder may be equally valid.
The need to quantify the mystery is futile. This is why alchemy is incomprehensible. Alchemy has achieved the impossible and explains the unknowable.
In an empty valley, there is the valley and the sky. In the sky is the sun. The sun is in the valley. The sun and valley are one. How much more than this is true?
Our knowledge is through ambiguity not in precision. We have alluded to reality through diversity. Perfect knowledge of the crucible will never convey the Mystery of its emptiness.
The Sacred Dragon has regurgitated himself into existence. Thought into the past has created the future. The child gives birth to the parent. Diversity and multiplicity has called the singular into being.