My view is the truth is the Logos (Word, Light) spoken of in John 1: 1-9 KJV, which was known anciently as Reason, or the acting and eternal Ideas, Mind, or Intelligence of God. “God is Truth, and his shadow is Light,” said Plato. Shadow in the ancient world meant body. Philo, the Jewish Platonic philosopher and contemporary of Christ, who was familiar with this saying, called the Logos the shadow of God. This helps explain what the Apostle John, who like Paul used Philo’s idea of the Logos, meant when he identified the Logos, the actual word used in the text of the Bible, as “the true Light which enlightens everyone coming into the world” ( Jn 1:1-4, 9).

Jesus spoke of us feeding upon his Father’s Light ( Jn 4:32), and when he spoke as the Logos he spoke of us feeding upon his, literally on his Body ( Jn 6:50-57; Jn 6:32-33; Matt 4:4 ). The Logos was conceived as “apportioned into an infinite number of parts in humans” (Philo: Her. 234-236), with the reasoning capacity of the human mind being a portion of the all- pervading Divine Logos. The mind itself (nous) was a special gift to humans from God and had a divine essence (from Marion Hillar’s peer reviewed article ‘On Philo’ in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

So our ability to think is a learning how to focus that Light, the Light of truth or divine omniscience. But our ego and desires interfere in the form of preferences, prejudices, bias, false narratives and attachment. Enlightenment according to the Dalai Lama is literal omniscience. This is because we no longer resist or fight against knowing the truth or seeing how things really are, and so the Light can show us what really is in its actual context.

The Light is directly experienceable, for you cannot understand this sentence without it. Anyone can verify the action of the Light in their own conscious experience. Self-knowledge is the first step because one must overcome one’s conditioned reactions and learn how to actually ask the Light a real question, not simply seek a confirmation of one’s narrative. Classic meditation such as Patanjali, Shankara, Plato, Percival and Buddha teach, is then simply learning how to prolong one’s focus of the Light until it becomes revelatory, and shows that what is necessary to approach the Light is a strong desire to know, and honesty. This is the path of Light to the Logos. There is also a path of Love, such as Jesus taught. And a path of Life which ACIM for instance teaches.

So we have access to the truth, but we must clear a way through all that we have set against it over millennia. The nature, action and function of Light is known directly and requires no belief, other than to believe that knowing the truth about anything is meaningful. What the New Testament teaches is that the Spirit enables you to know all things, even the deep things of God (1 Cor 2: 9-16 KJV). This is the Light and Love by which the worlds were made, and upon which we live ( Jn 1:1-4; Mat 4:4). This Word will not pass away, nor change like the changing translations and opinions of men. To keep that Word is Life, and the Life of God is eternal.
-Daniel Drumm