Knowledge is easily understood to be relative to the level of awareness of the knower and the motivation to acquirer knowledge of certain things.
Understanding is different from knowledge because understanding adds purpose to knowledge, knowledge is a collection of facts to understand is to arrange the facts relative to a desired end.
Wisdom is to apply that understanding in a way which furthers a personal goal.
Collection of facts is knowledge, making use of those facts is understanding, knowing how to use those facts is wisdom. This places Wisdom above Understanding and understanding above Knowledge.
This is growth and development of the person or personality. In this case Knowledge must come first but knowledge without understanding can be dangerous and limiting. Knowledge can lead to conceit and the refusal to consider further facts. Knowledge can be misapplied and become destructive. Understanding without Wisdom can result in the wrong road being taken and wasted effort and resources that can lead further away from a more appropriate goal or outcome. Wisdom may eventually correct the situation after a time of difficult personality growth and development as can be witnessed in the history of humanity. What then if we can turn the system on its head and start with Wisdom leading to Understanding and thence to knowledge. Can Wisdom stand on its own with knowledge and understanding?
It can and does however, there needs to be a totally different perspective, one must step out of the mundane personality level of reality and look from above rather than from below. For the reality we perceive is necessarily created by our relativistic stance, Knowledge > Understanding > Wisdom. For Truth to be revealed we need Wisdom > Understanding > Knowledge and thereby Truth.
The road to this perspective is maze like but signs to mark the way can be seen in the study of Natal Astrology, > Mundane Astrology, > Spiritual Astrology, and thereby Universal Astrology. The point here of course is that I have stated in in the natural order of study, i.e. knowledge to wisdom and truth but as stated, to arrive a truth we must start from wisdom and move back to knowledge. To do this though we must begin somewhere, but important to realise that we are moving between levels, up and down, realising the connections how Universal Astrology is linked to Spiritual Astrology, to Mundane Astrology, to Natal Astrology. Or a study of how you fit into the grand scheme of things, or the Cosmic Plan.
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