Vision Is The Godly Power That Orients You Toward The Light

In the hierarchy of good and evil, pleasure sits quite low. We know that reward systems in the brain leverage pleasure to drive us forward, but the system is so easily corruptable, and that which is easily corrupted is further from absolute good that that which is less so.

Closer to absolute goodness are the highest virtues, but even they subordinate themselves to wisdom, as without true knowledge—which is that which closest to absolute truth—there can be no wisdom, or any virtue.

And just as being is of a higher order than becoming, wisdom actioned is higher than its shadow, which is knowledge for knowledge's sake. It follows then, that which allows wisdom to be manifested in being, is closer to absolute good than wisdom itself, as the latter cannot exist without the former. What allows wisdom to be manifest is our perception of reality—or rather, the senses that allow us to perceive.

Any loss of sense is a loss of potential perceived, and therefore manifested, goodness. One who cannot hear the birdsong or music has limited perception of the whole goodness of reality.

If there is a singular good that we aim for, there is also a singular order of hierarchy for everything beneath it, and so the senses too must be ordered in terms of best and least.

If the hands require only an object to manipulate to sense it, and the ears only something to hear, its curious that the eyes require a third force to function. The eyes require colour and shape of an object to perceive, and they require light by which to perceive it. If a thing is required for a sense to perceive goodness, then the thing which permits the sense is closer to goodness, and the sense that is closer to, or directly influenced by, that principle is higher hierarchicly.

Therefore vision is the highest of the senses and the light is the closest to absolute good that we can reason thus far.

If you are in a dim room, the object of your perception is vague and draped in shadow: it is light that destroys the shadow of ignorance and clarifies the truth of the thing. So, we can say that light is the principle that illuminates truth and knowledge of being, and imparts to one who perceives it the power of knowing.

This principle we would call the idea of goodness, and as the father of all that comes after, the one who perceives the light truly—even if he is physically blind—is the son or daughter of absolute goodness, which we can call God.