Enlightenment is a practice rather than a final state. Study, reflection, and encounter with other perspectives can uncover assumptions we did not know we held. Illumination should make us more attentive, not more certain of our superiority.
A question for contemplation
What has understanding another perspective changed for you?
A practice for today
Read a thoughtful account from a tradition different from your own. Summarize it in terms its followers would recognize.
This is an optional reflective exercise, not a spiritual requirement or a promise of supernatural results.
A thread through the book
The source book’s chapter on the satanic scriptures offers a different lens on this principle. Read it alongside this interpretation, noting where they agree and where they diverge.
Read The Satanic Scriptures