musicians of old

Chapter 51 Occult Course: The Law of Transmission of Occult Knowledge
"Oh, nothing." Fanning woke up suddenly.

He laughed and said: "I just think it looks so strange, but I don't even understand Turangalian or Noa, this Guchaniz language is a book for me. Well, it's just Intuitively weird."

Fan Ning suppressed his excitement after seeing Chinese in this world.

Du Pont said: "Then your intuition is quite accurate. If you have a preliminary understanding of various ancient languages ​​in the future, you will find that this ancient Chaniz language is really the strangest one."

"The Noah language family in the northern continent is an inflectional language. Part of it diverged into Turangalian, which retained this typical inflectional feature, and the other part diverged into ancient Hoffmanian, which gradually evolved in the process of evolution. Influenced by the Nileru people, the Tungus people in the coast, and the Yanus people in the western mainland, when you and I speak Hoffmann today, there are already some polymorphic syntactic features of the Lange language. As for the southern mainland The several language families are mainly agglutinative languages.”

These are not all things that those who know need to study. Fan Ning is at a loss.

"However, the grammatical features of the ancient Chaniz language do not seem to belong to any of the above categories. The source and age are a mystery, and some people call it a 'mysterious isolated language'. In the early third history, there were very few scholars, such as this He claimed to have deciphered a few characters, but I think his vague Turangalian translation is probably a random translation. In the new calendar, almost no one can understand a single character in ancient Chaniz gone."

Fanning felt a little funny when he heard this.

Even if it is normal Chinese, you may not be able to decipher many words.

This kind of Chinese with partially reversed word order, coupled with the "Martian"-style magic change of fonts, you will be able to understand it if you can understand it.

I'm about to throw up
"So." Du Pont shook his head helplessly, "This "On Cost and Origin", which has practical significance for us, is actually only a small part of the annotations made by the author below the translation."

"The author summed up some risk rules in the transmission of hidden knowledge, which can be used as a reference for us: for example, it is safer to have the protection of secret rituals, 'reading or writing' is safer than 'listening or speaking', and vague expressions are safer than clear expressions. is safer to express, and so on."

While Dupont was describing these laws, Fanning was peering at the vignette on the open page of the book out of the corner of his eye.

He slowly read the above Chinese silently——

"The law of implicit transmission:

The flow of hidden cognition always follows this direction: from high-level to low-level, from majority to minority, from appearance to will, going in the opposite direction will always bear different forms of costs. "

Although I can't fully understand the original sentence, it is obviously more comprehensive, more concise, and more concise than what DuPont said!

While listening to Du Pont's narration, Fanning flipped through the documents casually as if nothing had happened.

It is true that this book only has a few scattered handwritten illustrations, and the rest are "scrambled" Turangalian translations.

The only valuable information in it is this sentence, and the rest of the Chinese is really some messy "dark fairy tale" fragments.

If you want to continue to obtain other information, you still have to continue to listen.

Dupont continued his narration.

"Then the author argues that the reason why accepting implicit knowledge has a risk of mental contamination is: language!"

"Human thinking relies on language to exist. Even simple thinking requires at least 'language of action', and as long as a little bit of thinking is carried by 'language of words', such as hidden knowledge, it must rely on language. "

"Language is the creation of the Lord of Witness. The history of the birth and evolution of each language is a secret history, and it is also the will of the Lord of Witness. Human beings survive and develop in the use of language, and they are also eternally stared at by the Lord of Witness in the use of language. .”

When hearing this, Fan Ning's doubts about this also opened up.

But he had a vague conjecture, which made him a little excited, so he continued to listen to the lecture with special concentration, to see if his conjecture could be confirmed!
"Finally, the author systematically summarized the principles of risk avoidance and summarized them into three forms of hidden knowledge transmission."

"The first type of transmission form: direct. With the help of language carriers, direct listening, speaking, reading and writing, this is a high-risk transmission."

"The second type of transmission form: metaphor. With the help of language carriers, but using metaphors or symbols to process key information, this is a medium-risk transmission. Those mystical books or church documents, the reason why they love ancient languages, and the language is vague, always Stories will be told, prayers will be said later, precisely because they use the second type of delivery."

"The third type of transmission form: creative style. Use non-language carriers, such as music, painting, sculpture, dance and other artistic forms to carry implicit knowledge. The author believes that this type of transmission is low-risk, and even theoretically can be risk-free transfer."

Sure enough! ! !

Fanning finally understood theoretically why music and art can bring him such an indescribable extreme experience.

But then DuPont poured cold water on himself with the last sentence:

"However, whether this kind of form, such as music, can really carry hidden knowledge, and whether others can really understand it effectively, the answer is doubtful. It has too high a threshold for creators and appreciators. It may be that for a long time, art forms such as music and art , and its role in occultism is still a kind of secret atmosphere—it exists as a component of the mystery.”

"But the author believes that seeing the truth with the help of non-verbal artistic creation may be the only way for future wise people to get rid of chaos and shadows, climb to the top of the Hui Tower, and achieve complete spiritual freedom."

Fan Ning's eyes changed several times during the class.

Those who know are so rare, and 99% of those who know have spent their entire lives exploring in the sea, but they can't enter the door of the Hui Tower and become a person who understands.

Perhaps only by entering the Hui Tower and climbing to the top of the dome, can I truly know the essence of the world behind the appearance.

"Today's lesson is over, I'm going to practice the piano." DuPont got up and interrupted Fanning's thoughts.

"Thank you."

After DuPont pushed open the office door, he turned around again:

"Caron, you must understand that those with knowledge can never pursue absolute avoidance of hidden risks. Even if they deliberately turn a deaf ear all day long, the chaotic will of the world will pollute you in every pervasive way, because you have seen it."

"Keep searching, and don't give up eating because of choking. But written literature research and sharing, metaphors in literature and art, and secret ritual protection when necessary are always better than oral expression of mysticism. So you must master the ancient language as soon as possible. The authors of these books are writing When reading, it is more or less processed by metaphor. The books in your office are mainly about low-level hidden knowledge, and the risk of reading with your inspiration is relatively low."

So Fanning asked: "So what exactly is the risk of exposure to implicit knowledge?"

"various types."

DuPont's voice was a little eerie:
"They will become your inseparable symbiosis, subtly affect your character and values, tamper with your memory and cognition, stimulate your desire and dark side to grow, and make your personality deviate from the original appearance. They will make you Seeing things you shouldn't see, hearing voices you shouldn't hear, smelling things you shouldn't smell, will make you have all kinds of thoughts you shouldn't have, and eventually lead to your 'distortion' or 'lost'."

"Hearing my words, your first feeling is fear and disgust, right?"

"But in fact, when some changes happen, you accept them in your heart. You don't know it. You feel that you should be like this, and even think that this is the transformation track of your 'mental journey'."

Even though Viadrin had told himself the tone of the world and he had made a choice, Fanning still felt a chill in his heart when he heard these words, especially the latter part.

"Is this the price of pursuing invisible power?" Fan Ning's tone was a little dignified.

And DuPont's last answer before he brought the door to the room was quite meaningful:
"Guide Dalezzo, the first leader of the Guidance School, once famously said—"

"It is not power that has a price, but knowledge."

　Thanks to book friends tail number 1763, kkssyy, for paying the monthly ticket~
　　I've been working overtime recently, I've already finished saving the manuscript T^T I'm so sad
　　
　
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