Xurseph: With what logic does it arise in a case of existence to act in such a manner of submission? These frail beings of ignorant nature cast shame upon themselves in their desire to possess the useless.

Marne: Surely they know not of better forms.

Xurseph: Might it then be favorable to gift them with such a truth? I would make such a journey myself across the entirety of the Aurum to realize this vision.

Marne: Your ambition clouds your judgement.

Xurseph: How do you mean, dear friend?

Marne: Have you not considered the consequence of knowledge, as we have suffered ourselves, in which the problems once shrouded by ignorance become consciously realized?

Xurseph: I do not understand.

Marne: Consider our ancestors’ lives before The Unveiling. Do you believe our forefathers found themselves increasingly joyous having been burdened with the knowledge of a Demiurge? To be capable of conceiving the responsibilities of creation, and their limitations to improve their existence?

Xurseph: You argue of ancient legends and bygone stresses. Surely we have proven ourselves to possess greater power than the burdens you speak of, as they are no longer present within our society. Not only this, but we have grown capable of becoming that of a Demiurge ourselves. We have been successful in making our own creation within the creation, and we have enacted our own morals that have allowed our accelerated growth. The duty rests upon our shoulders to teach the ignorant how not to remain ignorant.

Marne: By this statement you are surely naive.

Xurseph: I have spoken nothing but the truth of our kind.

Marne: One opinion is not sufficient to equate for the truth of an entire kind.

Xurseph: You speak as if I have said something wrong. Tell me then, do you find the problems of our ancestors to be present throughout our civilization?

Marne: The very notion that we have such a simple disagreement as this must exemplify our lack of possessing total knowledge. But, for the fact that I know that example alone will not be sufficient to sway your view, I will present you with the various problems in our society that you refuse to acknowledge.

Xurseph: Prove these things to me.

Marne: Just because you have chosen to favor the material world over philosophical thought does not mean there is a lack of a creator above us. It is impossible for us to possess definitive knowledge of all things when we ourselves exist within a created space. In order to alleviate all problems in our own society, a small amount being those of debts, feuds, and natural disaster, we would need to know the Demiurge itself.

Xurseph: Surely you are mistaken in your judgement of these things as problems. It is necessary for disagreement to exist in order for the adaptation of a civilization to occur and ensure its survival, just as it is necessary for institutions of debt, as to hold those accountable who may act recklessly otherwise.

Marne: And what of natural disaster?

Xurseph: We have become advanced in our capabilities to predict these occurrences and to act accordingly as to prevent loss of life in the wake of such disasters, far greater than our ancestors.

Marne: Yet such disasters are not under our control in the manner in which they occur.

Xurseph: What point do you bring with this argument?

Marne: We may be able to justify many of the problems we have created by possessing knowledge through relating them to positive correlations in circular reasoning, as you have regarding debts and feuds. However, the bounds of the creation in which we exist and the laws within which cause things like disasters cannot be explained in a positive manner. Yet even so, all three of these types of problems originate from the laws of the same creation. How is it then that you can make such a distinction between problems created by the possession of knowledge as good, and problems of natural occurrence as undeniably bad, needing to be avoided, when both lead to the same outcomes of strife?

Xurseph: It is the advancement of our society by the knowledge granted to us through The Unveiling that has allowed us to form methods of avoidance of such natural disasters. By the same logic, the creation in which we have made also possesses such a system of laws, making it reasonable to gift the beings within with knowledge, so they too may grow and prosper.

Marne: My dear friend, I once more beg your consideration of allowing these beings to remain ignorant. Surely you will come to see this knowledge as a curse to them, as they replace the adversity of the natural with the adversity of each other. I beg you to view the latter as a far worse outcome and to consider your lack of knowledge on such developments, as it is surely true that we have become desensitized in our understandings of the struggles of our ancestors which you claim to be “ancient legends and bygone stresses.”

Xurseph: I believe you to be foolish in this regard, my friend. I will prove to you the error in your thinking towards this manner, so we may agree upon the good nature of knowledge.

Marne: If that is what you so wish.