Absolute Knowledge

In the Myth of the Cave, the final step is to look at the Sun. The Sun symbolizes the Form of the Good. For later Neoplatonists, the Form of the Good is the One. The One is the source of existence itself. It is pure Being, the source of the existence of all beings. During the Christian Middle Ages, the One becomes God (specifically, God the Father). This is God as the eternal Creator of …

…order to be exact, will have once more to contain an image of itself; and so on without limit. . . . We should at once observe that in this one assertion, "A part of England perfectly maps all England, on a smaller scale," there would be implied the assertion not now of a process of trying to draw maps, but of the contemporaneous presence, in England, of an infinite number of maps, of the type just described. [1]