There once was a boy who could see through things.
Not X-ray vision, like some supposed but fictional superhero.
Just ordinary, everything things, like the plot of a show or a magician's trick.
This boy was able to see the end or the hidden means by which the story or trick was presented, which used to drive his friends crazy.
Halfway through a scene or movie he's announce the next plot twist, or the surprise ending, or tell those seated nearby just how the magician had managed a particular feat of legerdemain, much to the consternation and chagrin of those engrossed in the entertainment.
While others were shocked, amazed or baffled by the magician's apparent skill and abilities beyond the normal ken, this boy was able to tell how he did it, without ever having studied or learned the hidden and secret techniques, tactics and unusual designs that made the impossible seem possible.
Not that the boy knew it all, or could see through everything, mind you -- just a lot more than most, because he kept an imaginative, inquisitive mind, constantly searching for the little details most people miss.
His vision was piqued to look for things others see, but fail to recognize, with an active mind full of curiosity and wonder that looked on each new challenge as a puzzle that needed solving.
And solve puzzles he did, even in many unconventional ways.
Educational Explorer
While others struggled to solve a multicolored cube, rotating and flipping sides to align the pieces, he learned a simple set of actions that when repeated in order could solve the puzzle in a very short time, or simply popped the pieces out, repositioned and reassembled them in their correct order.
Either way the solution could be gained, while garnering insight into the inner design and mechanism by which the puzzle operated, what held it together and allowed it to rotate in so many different directions while maintaining its structural integrity.
Each new insight into design and function expanded and opened the boy's mind even further.
He was a questioner, asking probing questions whenever confronted with something perplexing or seemingly difficult to know or understand.
Others shied away from such troublesome questions, but not he.
As a young lad, when he began to ask searching questions of those who attempted to teach him religious concepts, they would often dismiss his questions with unsatisfying references, or just refuse to answer him at all.
Which only made him all the more curious to know why, what they were either hiding or unable to explain, to learn the real truth about it all.
He would study under many, who presumed to be "authorities" or wise and learned, only to discover many flaws in their logic, holes in their theses, and gaps in their expertise, revealing hidden questions most never ask or seek to resolve.
In Search Of True Wisdom
As the boy grew into a young man, he continued to learn -- often on his own, because he soon wore out his welcome with many instructors and teachers, whose set ways and presumptions had little factual, historical or actual support.
So this young man went to their sources, to the specialized libraries used by the scholars themselves, and searched the ancient texts and resources for the answers he sought.
More than anything else, he turned to a personal relationship with his Creator, praying for His support, help and revelation to open up the sealed doors of knowledge, to pry the rusty latches off of centuries-old religious and societal misconceptions, beliefs and seemingly sacrosanct doctrines.
Asking for inspiration, it often came in unusual and unexpected ways, through visions, dreams and flashes of insight that were familiar to a mind accustomed to such spiritual forms of acquiring wisdom in secular or spiritual fields.
Like a miner searching through the dusty rocks and hills for hidden treasures of ore, or a treasure-hunter following crumbling maps and obscure descriptions, poetic references, and tales or folklore passed down through many generations, he sought out the answers to some of life's most perplexing questions: "Why are we here?," "What is our purpose in life?," "What happens to us after we die?," and: "Is this life all there is, or is there something else, beyond death, to look forward to?"
And the answers soon presented themselves for his understanding and contemplation.
Opposing Entrenched Error
The now full-grown man, when he sought to share his insights and discoveries with others -- even those who claimed to be fellow searchers and seekers for truth, who said they understood and held fast to such uncommon knowledge -- most he found to be great pretenders, unwilling to listen, learn or discover anything beyond their limited but flawed current beliefs.
Many of these over time, he observed, lost interest in even what they had earlier claimed to be their core beliefs and doctrines, shedding them like a snake rids itself of old skin, converting into different forms of worship, or even abandoning their former faith altogether.
The man learned that the quest for truth in a world steeped in the darkness of religious heresy, governmental and secular arrogance, fictions posing as truth, and evil masquerading as righteousness, can be a lonely and persecuted path to explore and follow.
He called out to myriads of would-be truth-seekers, only to be disappointed time and again with insincerity, unwillingness to change (repent), and even angry arrogance posing as enlightened wisdom and truth.
Few, if any, it seemed cared for anything other than the fascinating, alluring, deceitful fool's gold of entertainment, emotion-driven revival style religiosity devoid of real understanding, or the equally fanciful and wrong preachments of evolutionary nonsense posing as scholarship and erudition.
In fact, as the man grew older, and became a parent and then a grandparent, he found that an entire system of flaws (false laws) and misperceptions rule over the lives of most, leading them to accuse, attack, vilify, condemn, imprison and abuse what they fail or refuse to understand.
Persecuted But Not Defeated
Approaching elderly age, the man found himself on the unjust end of prosecutions and suffered imprisonment in jails, prisons and psychiatric hospitals where the doctors, nurses and keepers were, in many instances, even less sane than most of their wards, nearly dying on several occasions, for imaginary "crimes" and false charges, simply because his religious beliefs, training, practice and convictions forbade him to swear an oath, though he spoke truthfully and openly promised to do so.
Those willing to swear such oaths, and then perjure themselves with false testimony, were allowed to indict, testify against and falsely condemn the man, taking his children from him, without evidence of wrongdoing, and even imprison him by stealing away his only means of travel, after baseless legal attacks repeatedly impoverished the man and his family.
Despite everything this man continues to freely and openly teach what he has learned, to any and all able and willing to listen, see, learn and discover the truth now being restored after centuries of neglect and suppression.
This man calls out, in the midst of a modern wilderness of technology without moral or healthy bearings, law without reason or justice, government devoid of moral right, and religion with thoroughly pagan or rebellious underpinnings, motives and direction, seeking any who can or will hear, to lift the veil off their hearts, uncover the hypnotic trappings of pretense, and teach them to discover the simple, pure truth at the core of all things.
He is reaching out to you, right now, at this very moment. Are you willing or able to start, then maintain, and finally pass the finish line, in your race against death, searching for true wisdom and the pure truth?