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 Perhaps truth is always «equivocal», and it is a criterion of truth that everything that surrounds it agrees with it, speaks of it, as it happens with a symbol.

And perhaps we have to separate »the equivocal» from »the mistake», and propose the hypothesis that the only error is one of direction, "of inversion of values", and that the "equivocal" is in reality, once separated from the direction, a criterion of truth.

Perhaps our originality is conformal to the origin of the world, and this inversion of direction, this having to develop from the inside out and not like reality as a whole from the outside in (seen from our perspective) is already living according to the origin of the world, and not living from the inside out would produce in us a delay.

In this respect religious expectation, "the taste for amulets, the hope that something from outside you will save you, as Georg Jünger would say, would be a retardation, a waiting in vain", since that which we expect from outside in religious expectation has already arrived, it is only that we participate in it in our own way, "from our logic and origin", from the inside out. 
 With some minor corrections:

Perhaps truth is always «equivocal», and it is a criterion of truth that everything that surrounds it agrees with it, speaks of it, as it happens with a symbol.

And perhaps we have to separate «the equivocal» from «the mistake», and propose the hypothesis that the only error is one of direction, "of inversion of values", and that the «equivocal» is in reality, once separated from the direction, a criterion of truth.

Perhaps our originality is conformal to the origin of the world, and this inversion of direction, this having to develop from the inside out and not like reality as a whole from the outside in (seen from our perspective) is already living according to the origin of the world, and not living from the inside out would produce in us a delay.

In this respect religious expectation, «the taste for amulets, the hope that something from outside you will save you, as Georg Jünger would say, would be a retardation, a waiting in vain», since that which we expect from outside in religious expectation has already arrived, it is only that we participate in it in our own way, from «our» logic and origin, from the inside out.