Compelled by voices

A professor is driven to seek what he knows to be. What he seeks lies in wait beneath the earth. The path to its lair is buried in ancient texts. In his pursuit, the professor was warned, Arrogance is the mother of tears. He was forewarned and failed to heed those foreboding words:

The truth is the lie
The lie is the truth
To know the truth
Face the lie
The truth is unmoved