Thus the barbarian sage spake: "Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones."
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Intelligence and Spirit: "Once self-realization concretely becomes part of the order of thought that extends over into reality [...] all given truths, all achieved totalities, all traps of history begin to slowly vanish like a spider's web baptized in a corrosive solvent."
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Replying to @schniedel32
Strangely spider web has been one of the most popular metaphors in history. Quran is usually a hodgepodge of past texts, but then there is the story of how Mohammad escapes his enemies. He goes to a cave and god creates a spider web at the entrance of the cave.
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Upon reaching the cave, the enemies conclude that no one is in the cave because the web is intact. That's when the book says: God is the most cunning of all and the spider web is compared to greatest shield.
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