09/06/2026
REFLECTION TO THE WORD - Matthew 18: 19-20
Reading: Matthew 18: “18:19 Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 18:20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."
It should be understood that the two students in the teaching must agree about the truth. "What is truth?" The historical question belongs to Pontius Pilate.
However, Jesus answered Pontius Pilate in the Gospel of John, chapter 18, saying that "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
For us it is obvious that there is ultimate truth, and its source is God himself, and the truth was manifested in Jesus, who became the living word on Earth.
Jesus himself testified about the truth, as written in the revelation received from God, what we call the Holy Scriptures, stating that “Don't think that I came to destroy the Law (the five books of Moses) or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law of Moses until all things are accomplished.”
In known history, or more exactly in 1882, the task of squaring the circle was proven impossible by the German mathematician Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann, thus the expression of "squaring the circle" is used as a metaphor for attempting to do the impossible.
However, the problem had already been known in ancient empires like Egypt, Babylon, and India, that regarding the area of a circle a mysterious constant must always be involved, and that is the so-called Pi number.
The math uses the very term of a transcendental number, together with the so-called Euler number, e, and the imaginary number called i.
A transcendental number. Is mathematics really serious about it, and do math-people kid when they make statements like that?
Pi has an infinite row of decimals after the decimal point.
We cannot ever know its completely accurate measure; it is always an approximation. Because the calculation of the area of a circle always involves the Pi number, we can only approximate the area of a circle, but we will never know it exactly.
Although in practical real life the approximation served humanity very well, still it is a great humiliation for science that it cannot have absolutely accurate technical knowledge on anything, because any shapes and forms ultimately involve circles, even time.
Science is not able to know the absolutely accurate answer for anything, because whatever science does, it is always just an approximation using hopeful statistics as a tool. It served us well, but it is not enough to make us rightfully complacent about how knowledgeable we are as a human nation.
Statistics is a great tool to predict things scientifically—like the falling apple of Sir Isaac Newton that fell downward a hundred times, leading us to logically assume that it must fall downward next time.
However, it is not totally certain, it is just a hope that the apple will follow the lead of our experience. Science is still not able to predict the future with a thousand percent accuracy, because we cannot be ultimately sure that the physical laws which govern the universe will not change in the next five minutes.
Probably they won’t, more than likely they won’t, but we cannot know it for totally sure.
And we have way bigger questions in mind than just squaring a circle, though almost all of our possible questions are similarly impossible in nature, because the real answers to all of them are transcendental.
Big Questions are all transcendental, like the origin of the universe, life and death, the existence of the soul, the preexistence of the soul before conception, then the incarnation itself, and maybe the reincarnation or the transmigration of souls, resurrection, immortality, eternity, the existence of Heaven and Hell, fateful justice and punishment, love and compassion, the creation itself, the very purpose of humanity, the purpose of science and technology, the purpose of social progress, the purpose of history, and many more.
A medieval master once said that he heard it from ancient masters through the oral tradition of his paternal line that there are two types of knowledge that are achievable.
There is the way that we can learn from our own experiments. This experimental knowledge is practically science. Since the writing system had been invented, we were able to record the facts of our findings, thus the knowledge grew by every generation.
Since the invention of artificial intelligence, recording and computing capability—and consequently, experimental knowledge—have been growing exponentially, nowadays by every second.
The other way is called the prophecy, which is not limited to predicting the future, but it is a connecting channel to the center of the universe.
From the central point of it you can see all details and all dimensions, all knowledge, even the past, the present, and the future as a tabloid picture in the so-called Block Universe.
Of course, in the center of the creation is the Creator.
The prophecy-level consciousness gives way to becoming receptive to the knowledge which comes by revelation, directly from God, and it is called divine, hidden, sacred wisdom.
Science calls it inspiration, intuition, lucky guessing, task-solving in dreams etc. Nonetheless, Albert Einstein held that intuition is the most important tool of science. Of course, he was right about that; as we can add, truth is not only a passive fact or an essential definition, but it is a dynamic view of dynamic reality.
Astonishingly, our mathematical reality is a hybrid one. It involves the algebraic, definable, valid numbers and the irrational, mathematically undefinable, transcendental numbers as well, as a combination of both. Also, our reality is a mix or even a marriage of the material and the spiritual world.
The truth is not a lifeless fact, the truth is a part of the abstract world, and essentially the truth is spiritual, because the truth is alive. The truth is not linear, the truth is a circle. The circle is transcendent, the circle is sacred.
When Jesus says that “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them”, he creates a circle of truth. Where the master is present, the disciples constitute the circle line and the master is in the center.
When the Master leads the students to God, to the center of the universe, to the center of the creation, then the Master is the truthful way to the Creator God.
As he told them according to the Gospel of John in chapter 14:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”
May we all find the truth in order to help others find the truth which was revealed by God in the Holy Scriptures, and which became the Living Word of God in our Master, Jesus Christ.
May the Lord’s name be praised by our loving-kindness through the Holy Spirit, for the always greater glory of God,
AMEN.
