S7, E19, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 03: Two Roads to the Inner Court of the King

0:00 The parable of the sultan in his palace9:30 The interpretation of the parable: the Torah track to reach knowledge of God12:45 The second meaning of the parable: the scientific track to reach knowledge of God20:25 The second meaning stands in tension with and contradicts the first27:00 Rambam wanted his student to learn things in their proper order31:00 How a person could reach certainty about divine matters without studying the propaedeutic sciences35:45 Some noble souls have God-given illumination attained not through a course of education but as a gift42:30 As a student of Rambam, R' Yosef needed a course of education 48:45 The meaning of the sultan is never interpreted; in III:52, the king is interpreted to mean the intellect54:15 God dwells in Reason, which is His Shechinah58:30 Rambam does not interpret the meaning of the sultan, since there is no parable for God1:01:01 "HaKadosh Baruch Hu" as a parable for the acquired intellect or the active intellect1:04:00 The Treatise of the Pool and the final chapters of the Guide; reason as king and conduit to God