“Every good man progressively becomes God.
To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself,
are expressions that are synonymous.”
- Friedrich Von Schlegel
A king and beggar play chess on a board with white squares.
The moon can be seen through the window.
Beneath this and next to a closed door, two dogs are fighting.
The pieces and the position of the dogs indicate that the
king is White and the beggar Black.
The beggar, obviously, has the move.
At a glance, Black appears lost. However, as soon as analysis begins,
you quickly realize that after KxB, White has nothing more than continual queen checks,
as permitting the white knight or king the extra move needed for closing the mating-net
will allow the black pawn to queen,
or the black queen to draw by perpetual check.Two strong computer programs, given a time control of 10 moves in 60 minutes, produced the following.
------------------------------------------White: Aristarch 4.50 Black: Phalanx XXII--------------------------------------------------
1...Kxc8 2.Qc6+ Kd8 3.Qb6+ Kc8 4.Qc5+ Kd7 5.Qd4+ Kc8 6.Qh8+ Kb7 7.Qg7+ Kc8 8.Qf8+ Kc7 9.Qe7+ Which is still a draw.
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In the Seventh Gate picture, the King, with the white pieces, is representative of God; the Beggar, with black, is Humanity.
The idea, as evidenced in the analysis, is that with proper “knowledge” Man can achieve equality with God.
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iON - might say with proper knowing/knewing a wo-man is God
- and that this is not “achieved” nor is it "progressive".
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