The author warns that what many regard as truth may merely be a construct of logic and subjective positioning. Arguments seem sound within their own framework, but are easily refuted by alternate reasoning. The result is not resolution but entrenchment: people become more attached to their views and less willing to consider others.
The author confronts one of the most fundamental spiritual challenges facing humanity: delusion — not as a simple misjudgment, but as a core dynamic shaping human perception, conflict, and separation from truth.
He begins by describing the modern world as one riddled with conflicting “truths.” People build elaborate systems of belief and defend them passionately, often without thoroughly examining opposing perspectives. These systems — political, religious, philosophical — are accepted and proclaimed as absolute truths. Yet, each of these so-called truths collides with others, producing not clarity but confusion.
The author warns that what many regard as truth may merely be a construct of logic and subjective positioning. Arguments seem sound within their own framework, but are easily refuted by alternate reasoning. The result is not resolution but entrenchment: people become more attached to their views and less willing to consider others.
True inner conflict arises when one dares to investigate the opposite viewpoint. Doing so, the author explains, would inevitably bring intense mental disarray, as one would begin to realize the duality inherent in their own convictions — that what they held as truth can also be seen as falsehood, depending on perspective.
Delusion, then, is not external — not something imposed by outside forces — but something that emanates from within the individual. It is rooted in the seeds and receptors that already exist within the human being. External factors merely act as fertilizer, encouraging the inner seeds of delusion to sprout and thrive. Without these internal susceptibilities, delusion would find no place to take root.
Furthermore, these external conditions that foster delusion are themselves created by humanity. The environment of illusion is not imposed from above but generated from below, by human thoughts, actions, and collective misperceptions.
The core message is this: delusion is not something that happens to man — it is something man creates. And only when the internal source of delusion dries up, only when the human being closes the door to it entirely, can Truth take root and reign supreme. The author challenges the reader to look not outward but inward. The path to truth does not lie in debate or intellectual conquest but in the purification of the inner self, the surrender of ego, and the restoration of unity with the Divine.
1. Introduction: The Multiplicity of “Truths”
Dorizas begins by critiquing the modern tendency to embrace conflicting paradigms of truth — religious, political, philosophical — all of which are defended with equal fervor, yet fundamentally incompatible. He characterizes this pluralism not as a sign of intellectual richness, but as a breeding ground for confusion, distortion, and fragmentation.
Each ideological structure is presented as self-reinforcing: logically coherent within its own frame, yet dissonant with others. This internal contradiction does not lead to synthesis but polarization — a phenomenon that mirrors the divided human consciousness.
2. Logic as a Vehicle of Delusion
A critical insight of the chapter is the identification of logic itself as a potential agent of delusion. Dorizas argues that reasoning can validate both truth and falsehood depending on its axiomatic foundation. Therefore, logic detached from inner spiritual alignment becomes insufficient as a guide to the Absolute.
This leads to a paradox: the more one relies on rational evaluation to discern truth, the more one risks entrenching themselves in their personal construct — a construct potentially severed from metaphysical reality.
3. The Psychological Mechanism of Inner Conflict
The chapter further investigates the human tendency to resist cognitive dissonance. The moment an individual dares to deeply examine an opposing viewpoint, they are likely to experience mental fragmentation. This psychic disturbance stems from the sudden awareness that one’s perceived “truth” may also contain elements of falsehood — a realization that can unravel the entire edifice of identity.
This condition is not simply a failure of intellect but a spiritual impasse, wherein ego, fear, and attachment to form inhibit the soul’s progression toward unity.
4. The Ontogenesis of Delusion
A pivotal argument emerges in Dorizas’ ontological interpretation of delusion. He asserts that delusion is not imposed exogenously by external agents (social systems, ideologies, institutions), but arises endogenously from within the individual. The external world merely stimulates latent tendencies already present in the soul.
This perspective shifts the burden of responsibility entirely onto the individual. External “illusions” can only take root where inner susceptibilities — described as “seeds and receptors” — already exist.
5. Anthropogenic Structures of Illusion
The societal structures that perpetuate delusion — such as media, culture, and institutions — are not autonomous forces but human-generated projections. In this sense, collective delusion becomes a feedback loop: individuals externalize their internal confusion, which in turn reinforces and legitimizes that very confusion in others.
This feedback mechanism illustrates a broader spiritual law: the world reflects the inner state of humanity, and as long as delusion persists internally, it will be mirrored and magnified externally.
6. Liberation through Interior Renunciation
The resolution Dorizas offers is neither dialectical nor reformist. It is metaphysical: delusion can be overcome only through inner purification, renunciation of duality, and a total refusal to engage with falsehood at any level of being. When the soul closes its receptivity to illusion, the Truth — as ontological presence, not intellectual conclusion — begins to reign.
Conclusion
Chapter 5 situates delusion not as a superficial cognitive error but as an existential state rooted in the fragmentation of the human psyche and the disconnection from divine unity. Through a nuanced critique of logic, dualism, and externalization, Dorizas calls for a radical interior reorientation — a movement from conceptual belief to spiritual integration.
This chapter could be situated within the traditions of existential theology, mystical epistemology, and anthropic metaphysics, offering a profound bridge between inner experience and ontological truth.
From the original greek text
ΑΠΟΣΥΜΒΟΛΙΣΜΟΙ || Κεφ.5: ΠΛΑΝΗ
