Power

Beliefs and knowledge.  The two words can mean many different things to many different people.  The way I understand the meanings of beliefs and knowledge to be are just as Merriam-Webster defined them.  It is not clear that Omishto agrees.  He understandings and stances of what are beliefs and what is knowledge vary throughout the book, but they mostly agree with beliefs and knowledge being the exact opposite of what I understand them to be.  Since Omishto and I have opposing opinions on what beliefs and knowledge are, I wanted to get the opinion of a third party.  Frater Achad wrote the article "Beliefs versus Knowledge".  He describes beliefs and knowledge in terms of religion.  "In regard to religion it will doubtless at once be evident that a great deal could be said on the subject of Belief, it being, one might almost say, the principle on which most, if not all, Exoteric Religions are based. It will also be evident, though perhaps in a lesser degree, that all these various religious beliefs, held by masses of people in all lands, must have arisen in the beginning out of the Personal Experience of a few who had somehow obtained a direct perception or knowledge of certain facts in regard to 'The Absolute', 'God', or at any rate some Being or Beings of a distinctly higher order than themselves".  Achad seems to agree with Merriam-Webster and myself with the definitions of beliefs and knowledge.  Since Omishto's opinions of what beliefs and knowledge are has varied so much in this first part of the novel it will be interesting if her opinion ever becomes the same as Achad, Merriam-Webster, and my opinion.