No man should have any credit over his fellow men unless he shows some superiority over the errors of his age. The man who is rich in this world's goods to the exclusion of some scientific capital cannot travel in the world of Science with his money. Wisdom contains no opinion or selfishness. The Wisdom that acts upon the mind is something that never has been described by a language, but is looked upon as a superior power. This power gives rise to all religious opinions.
True wisdom is attached to the substance, False wisdom to the shadow.
This world is the shadow of Wisdom's amusements. In the cave were a captive people whose only knowledge of the world was their understanding of shadows they saw on the wall of their cave. These shadows came from a puppet show that mocked reality. In their ignorance they supposed these shadows and the echoes of their sounds to be the truth. One of the captives was dragged out of the cave into the sunshine.