Lemma

Eussen's Lemma was a work of philosophy composed of several volumes. Its fifth book, well-known to the Narkis Anchorites, explored the antinomy of enlightenment, understood to be a paradox of the inevitability two contradictory cycles: that of enlightenment, termed "cycle-breaking," and the "suffering of the cycle," defined by the Canons as the result of being enlightened. This was taken to mean that the more individuals strived to break the cycle, the more they embodied it, but by accepting it, enlightenment could be reached, thus breaking said cycle.

By 9 BBY, Eussen's Lemma had confounded scholars for centuries, and was understood by some anchorites to mean that one could not reason their way to true enlightenment, a view rejected by others based on the Canons.

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