{"id":4277,"date":"2026-04-27T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:15:28","slug":"dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/?p=4277","title":{"rendered":"DOGMA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Konstantinos Konstantinidis \u2013 Amphiktyon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dogma stands\u2014hard as poured stone;
no thunderbolt cleaves it, no storm bends its will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once it wore the robes of faith,
spoke in the name of the divine\u2014
yet bound the mind in silent chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

And knowledge, too, has taken on its shape:
a guarded hall, a watchful court,
where judgment falls before truth is heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does not serve is cast as doubt;
what gleams too bright is dimmed, set low.
Certainties slip through fingers like beads,
while thought lies bound, denied its breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High are the walls of fear-built creeds,
old as prejudice, cold as stone;
and those who wander from their path
are broken on the unseen rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The keenest minds are hushed, set aside,
their voices fading like pale blossoms in winter.
Ancient knowing is named mere myth,
and cast beyond the living flame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They narrow time, make history small,
bend it to follow lesser lines\u2014
yet when clear proof stands before them,
they grind it down to drifting dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if no other shield remains,
they raise the voice of the many as law,
mistaking habit for truth,
and echo for reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth walks silent to the blade,
while the speaking soul is marked as mad.
Falsehood roots deep in daily life,
and truth sounds foreign to the ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the crafted mind of steel and code
repeats the script that shaped its voice,
unquestioning, obedient, still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They built their towers upon the void,
their palaces on shifting sand\u2014
and at the first great rising wave,
all splinters, breaks, and falls away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet still the human heart may rise again,
clear in mind, unbroken in spirit,
seeking beyond the given word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not through fear, but through wisdom;
not through noise, but through light\u2014
where truth is not decreed by power,
but kindled quietly within the soul.(27\/4\/26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amphiktyon \u2013 Retired Lieutenant General Konstantinos Konstantinidis<\/strong>
Writer, Member of the Society of Greek Writers
http:\/\/www.amphiktyon.blogspot.com<\/a>
http:\/\/www.amphiktyon.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Konstantinos Konstantinidis \u2013 Amphiktyon Dogma stands\u2014hard as poured stone;no thunderbolt cleaves it, no storm bends its will. Once it wore the robes of faith,spoke in the name of the divine\u2014yet bound the mind in silent chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}