But not too far, or you'll descend the other side.
Go Up the Mountain
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The Mountain is a metaphor for progress. One looks up at the Mountain, impossibly tall and far away, and seeks to ascend its heights. The upward trek is progress, fraught with danger and peril. The ascent is knowledge and wisdom, calling, beckoning. One grows as one climbs, pushing beyond former boundaries, but one must be frugal and careful and know when to stop, for one can reach the pinnacle without fully realizing so and begin to descend unaware. It's at this point one begins to regress, replacing foolishness for wisdom and ignorance for knowledge.
Well said my friend.
By progress I mean knowledge. One gains knowledge, and that's good, but at some point one gains all the knowledge one can (at least of a particular domain) and the temptation to speculation is great. One speculates and mistakes their own hypotheses for further knowledge. Hence the road to perdition.
Isaiah 2:3 KJV
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:2 KJV
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:2 KJV
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.