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What does it mean?
Truth builds on truth until the world seems like a garden where freedom emerges and old rules melt away.
In plain terms
As truth grows, freedom rises and old rules disappear.
What can you take from it?
Truth accumulates until freedom transforms old rules.

Where it applies

  • social reform
  • personal liberation
  • intellectual growth

Putting it to work

  • seek cumulative truth
  • embrace freedom
  • question old rules

Questions to consider

  • What truths have changed your world?
  • What rules should melt away?

Another view

The melting of rites suggests destruction which some may resist.

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