@Edward Mason said
" Every week or so, someone comes on this forum with what they consider to be revelations, and a lot of them are kinda cute. "
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I've filled whole notebooks full of what I thought was divine knowledge, only to realize later that it was mere drivel. Amusing drivel, though.
It's important for the student to develop an objective means of classification, so that one doesn't descend to the same sort of self-oriented Qabalistic masturbation that characterized the work of Frater Achad.
It's the same way with mathematics: the desire for a proof corrupts the process itself, leading one to falsify information for the sake of one's pet theorem or idea. I've been reading up on various ancient problems in geometry and mathematics, especially the "squaring of the circle." It seems there comes a point when speculation and assertion become united in the subject, leading them to the conviction that subjectivity and objectivity are one. Hence the importance of asking "so what?" as Mr. Mason pointed out.