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Card #c299IR // #c299Synthesis

As it is said, "Mind is with Him, power with them." The word "Intelligible" is used in the Platonic sense, to denote a mode of being, power or perception, transcending intellectual comprehension, i.e., wholly distinct from, and superior to, ratiocination.

— In our words · Source: The Chaldean Oracles (attributed to Zoroaster (Westcott / Sapere Aude))

[Use when]

Use when someone reduces "intelligible" to "what we can argue about."

[Why it matters]

Intelligible ≠ intellectual: it outranks discursive reason by definition.

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