Parts of THE TRUTH are found fragmented in every viewpoint, religion, aspect, and human ideology. But not a single one of the above can give us the complete picture of IT.

As an example, take Newton’s spinning-disk experiment and the deflection of (white) light into the seven colors of the rainbow. WHITE LIGHT –which contains all colors– is like the ONE TRUTH, which, like a magic picture, lies in front of everyone's eyes. Man, remaining firmly ATTACHED to his personal view (color) cannot compose all colors - aspects - viewpoints and gaze at the ‘White’ color of the TRUTH.

If he can position himself however at a specific “place/point” he will be able TO SEE. Then, everything gets decoded in front of his eyes like a hidden picture that suddenly appears. Who are right then? The evolutionists who believe in Darwin’s theory, or the Church when it claims that god created us?

• Both! Who is right: Those who believe in reincarnation or those who persistently reject it?
• Both! Who is right: Those who believe in man’s soul and spirit or those who don’t?
• Both! Who is right: The eye-witnesses of UFO’s or the scientific community that insists there is no intelligent life on other planets?
• Both! The contents of this book gradually move the reader through an ascending-spiral process, from a simple position to a complex one, so as to smoothly reposition him to a different dimension, wherefrom he can gaze at a very different world from what he has believed in up to now.

This book is eclusively dedicated to those who can still feel the Living Spirit ‘burning’ inside. And no matter how hard they try to nourish IT with the virtual idols of matter, IT remains unfed.

I want to thank my family, who uncomplainingly endured my ‘absence' from the active scene of our lives during these three and a half years of writing the book: My husband for the text proofing, the Greek translations of English texts and his technical support; my mother for her acceptance of my positions and her assistance; my eldest daughter for her work on the front cover, as well as my youngest one for her idea on its layout.
The author

{Tr. note: Special thanks are to be given to Alexandra Koukouli, Helen Bogdani and Daisy Cremona who diligently helped with the literary editing of the main corpus and the bibliographic references of the English translation.}

Copyright: © 2009 Angeliki Anagnostou–Kalogera

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English Translation: Andreas M. Kalogeras
Corfu (Kerkyra), Greece 2012

First Greek Edition: December 2009
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The Ancient Greek word Αγαθόν [Agathón=good, benevolent, kind] refers to an aggregate of concepts encompassing all moral, intellectual and spiritual virtues of man. It must be thought of as an absolute state, with an existence which is independent and unaffected by time, space or any other change. Only The Supreme Deity, The Unified Being, The Monad, can be characterized by the term Αγαθός.

We must therefore accept the existence of an Ideal Conceptual World, independent from our physical world, which contains all the Eternal and Perfect Archetypes of the Ideas of Virtue, Justice, Morality, Grace and Truth. This is the World of Αγαθόν.

Whichever of the above Archetypes appears in the world of form (our world), is to be simply considered a mere reflection of the Real One, owing its imperfect existence to a vestigial and rudimentary relation to the Complete and Perfect State of that Other World, in which Αγαθόν is incorporated.

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, HERMETIC TEXTS, VOL. I, RODAKIS P., TZAFEROPOULOS A.P. SPEECH VI:

«§3. When it comes to man, Αγαθόν is determined in comparison to evil. …And Αγαθόν here is the smallest particle of evil. And it is impossible down here, that Αγαθόν be free from malice. For down here, Αγαθόν gets filled with malice, and being full of malice, it cannot be Αγαθόν; and since it cannot remain Αγαθόν anymore, it becomes evil. Therefore, Αγαθόν is (found) in God alone, or rather God Himself is Αγαθός. So then, Asclepius, only the name of Αγαθόν is found in men. Its workings are nowhere to be found. And it cannot be. For, it cannot be contained in a material body, which is bound on all sides by wickedness, pains, labors and rage and deceit and by foolish fantasies. And the greatest ill of all, Asclepius, is that each of these things that have been said previously is thought down here to be the greatest Αγαθόν when they are an inevitable evil. …

§6 Wherefore, those who are ignorant and do not tread the path of piety, do dare to call man fair and Αγαθόν. Not even in their wildest dreams have they seen what Αγαθόν is. And they call Αγαθόν all that is evil. »

Plato, in his Republic, gives us a definition of the term Αγαθόν:

[508e] «This reality, then, that gives their truth to the objects of knowledge and the power of knowing to the knower, you must say is the idea of Αγαθόν, and you must conceive it as being the cause of knowledge*, and the cause of truth in so far as they become known. Yet, fair as they both are (knowledge and truth), you will think rightly in supposing Αγαθόν to be something different and fairer still than these. But as for knowledge and truth, even as in our illustration [509a] it is right to deem light and vision as being sun like, but never to think that they are the sun, so here, it is right to consider these two (knowledge and truth) as being like Αγαθόν but to think that either of them is Αγαθόν, is not right.»
[TRANSLATED BY PAUL SHOREY, CAMBRIDGE, MA, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS; LONDON, WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD., 1969.

* Of Spiritual matter-less Knowledge

Man, in his strife to endure survival in an adverse and difficult world, has fabricated various convictions about Creation, Man and Life, in order to justify the inexplicable controversies that surround him. These convictions have built theories, and through them, religions, heresies and views have been formulated. Following that, everyone adopts the theory that fits their idiosyncrasy and reasoning better, and cling firmly onto that view, because it suits them and affords them security. Comfortable then, behind whatever view they prefer, men delude themselves about the ‘discrepancies’ of their world-theory, and battle the ‘discrepancies’ of the opposing views in an eternal struggle with no definite winner.

The prevailing positions for the creation of life and the world today are mainly two, with plenty of ‘offshoots’ stemming from each one:

1st Position

The entire creation was formed by itself, through a natural selective process (natural selection through survival of the fittest). There is nothing else beyond autonomous natural conditions which generate life. When these conditions are not fully met, then life perishes.

This view however, when put under the scrutinizing microscope of logic presents discrepancies because it naturally accepts a mathematical consistency in nature. But mathematical consistency presupposes logic; logic presupposes a mind, and the mind always belongs to someone …

2nd Position

The entire creation is the result of a benevolent god who is given form by some, while others consider him formless. This benevolent god created everything through his love and wisdom, providing man with the possibility of free choice, between positive and negative actions. Through his choices, man is always taught how to finally become a better person.

This view however, has many logical gaps as well, and this is why it is being challenged by many. Every sentient human being, however hard he/she might search inside the entire creation, cannot find this most Gracious God nor his love anywhere …

Additionally, if someone intensively observes life as a whole, one will inevitably conclude that this alleged ‘free choice’ is completely unattainable and virtual: Man, eternally subdued to the needs that surround him, however much he keeps chasing it, it nevertheless remains elusive.

This is of course, a rather obscure point and its realization is attained only if one transcends the bounds of his limited visual ‘arch’, and sees the entire circle of life and creation. Because of this highly invisible point, this second conjecture is the most widely-accepted one. So, the struggle to make the best choice continues incessantly.

Another group of skeptics, more sensitive to the overall injustice, tries to justify it, by bridging this gap with the dogma of karma and compensative (reciprocal) justice. According to this dogma and under the law of reciprocity, man ‘pays’ for his mistakes from one reincarnation to the next, thus learning more about right and wrong. Thus, he is upgraded and evolves both ethically and spiritually. But this view is also logically deficient: Human society, according to this point of view, should by now ‘glow’ with virtuousness! That is of course not true.

So, however much we may dream that human society evolves, or that it will progress further, all that is really being accomplished, is merely a technological upgrading, promoted solely by the ‘Sacred Need’. On the other hand, it is common knowledge that in the realm of ethics, morality and spiritual ascent, humanity, if it doesn’t go backwards, it definitely stays still.

This whole quest for convenient answers therefore, aims to help man shut his eyes as tightly as he can in front of a reality that deep inside he feels is painful beyond comprehension, and inescapable.

He has sugarcoated it, elevated the virtue of optimism to a sacred emblem, put on the rose-tinted glasses of positive thinking, ‘called’ the glass half-full instead of half-empty and thus compromised; and the reason for all this? Simply because to face (the) truth, without the antidote of the solution, is unbearably painful! And as Christ said in the Gospel of John: “I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now”. [JOHN 16:12]

Henceforth, man has been content to let himself drift away in the ebb of everyday life and his needs, and subside even more into oblivion.

Throughout man’s overall course on this earth, at certain instances of his history, the ONE Truth of All has been revealed.

Never has it remained intact for long though. After its exposure to the world, it is always dissected and dispelled into a thousand pieces. So, today, only some scraps remain scattered here and there. Nowhere does it exist in its pure form. After all, the best hideout for the TRUTH is in-between two lies.

The only thing these different conjectures do is confuse the tangle of Truth even more.

The painful truth is but ONE, and contains all the partial/diverse truths inside it.

The probability for someone to consolidate all these scattered scraps in order to recompose the puzzle, is minute to nonexistent, since the material plane is quite ‘crafty’ in refracting the truths and deflecting them to places other than where they should be.

To get to the bottom of things, one must start in reverse …

Knowledge completes its cycle by the end of this book, where the Complete Unified Truth about life, man and the reason for his existence, is presented. Some might obviously oppose that this theory is just an additional ‘view’ amongst so many others. However, this ‘view’ combines all the opposite ones into one unified system of thought.

The time of great decisions for man is getting nearer, and in order for his decision to be a conscious one, IT IS IMPERATIVE that the complete Truth is revealed to him.

Be strong!

The entire book constitutes a spherical and innovative ‘theory of the cosmos’ (Weltanschauung), not only in terms of its main corpus but also in regards to its overall presentation. It is a thoroughly completed puzzle which composes the entire picture about man and his life in this world, without leaving out any ‘pieces’ just because they might not obviously fit. On account of the above, and in order for the reader to comprehend this world theory as a whole, regardless of his acceptance or denial of it, he/she –contrary to the prevailing tendency people have– must not rush to read the last chapter, skipping the ones in-between, because this will result in his/her rejection of many ground-breaking positions of this theory, due to the absence of logical evidence supporting them, which these in-between chapters along with their bibliographic references, bring forth.

What I must also mention is that the greatest part of the book refers to notional concepts which, in order to become clear, have been given a ‘visual presentation’. For some readers though, this procedure harbors the danger of getting stuck on the ‘image’, neglecting the deeper Essence of the concept behind it, since human words can only describe the conceptual up to a certain point: For someone who has never experienced one of the basic human senses for example, verbal descriptions are quite limited in reproducing it in detail, no matter how clearly they might describe it.

The entire work gradually takes the reader through an upward ‘spiral’ process, from a simple viewpoint to a more complex one, so as to smoothly transpose him to a different dimension, where he will be able to gaze at a world which is quite different to what he has believed so far.

In the first part of the book, an ideological and emotional preparation of the reader takes place, in order for him to endure the revelations that follow.

I would also like to note that during this entire bibliographical research, I came across –to my grief– many and great discrepancies in the way a lot of texts had been translated. I found translations –not necessarily from Ancient to Modern Greek but also from Ancient Greek to English as well as others– with such great differences between the original and the translated text, that in some cases the translation produced the opposite meaning to that of the prototype! These are of course not found in the book. Because of such ‘liberty’ in the translation of many ancient texts, I was quite often forced to use different translations for the same work –especially of the apocryphal gospels– since each translator renders a passage in his own style. I therefore always chose the translation that more accurately stated what I was trying to point out in each case.

The theory unfolds through a dialogue between a (fictional) Hermit-Messenger and the writer. Through this dialogue many fundamental questions are answered which, in their sum, construct this diverse thesis. There are also many bibliographic references supporting this theory.

There are specific writing font styles used in the text, which denote who is ‘speaking’ at any moment.

The styles used:
The writer
Main text or the ‘hermit’

Excerpts of sayings and apothegms the hermit uses in his dialogues

{Translator’s notes}