Wisdom from the temples:
'USE IT WISELY''
The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth [is]
Nature.
For every joy there is a price to be paid.
If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place
of the rod.
What you are doing does not matter so much as what you
are learning from doing it. · It is better not to know and to
know that one does not know ,than presumptuously to
attribute some random meaning to symbols.
If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find
knowledge.
If you are searching for a Neter, observe Nature!
Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner
light grows in silence and concentration.
Not the greatest Master can go even one step for his
disciple; in himself he must experience each stage of
developing consciousness. Therefore he will know nothing
for which he is not ripe.
The body is the house of God. That is why it is said, "Man
know thyself."
True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an
awakening of consciousness which goes through successive
stages.
The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers
towards what he has known may one day be saved by that
very brother.
People bring about their own undoing through their tongues.
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of
shipwreck.
Leave him in error who loves his error.
Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his
instincts, and his opinions.
To know means to record in one's memory; but to
understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it
oneself.
There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal
criticism. Never believe a word without putting its truth to
the test; discernment does not grow in laziness; and this
faculty of discernment is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound
skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment;
but piecemeal criticism is an error.
Love is one thing, knowledge is another.
True sages are those who give what they have, without
meanness and without secret!
An answer brings no illumination unless the question has
matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which
thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a
question.
What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious-for me
alone: if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words
which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never
revelation.
The first concerning the 'secrets': all cognition comes from
inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the
Master gives the keys.
The second concerning the 'way': the seeker has need of a
Master to guide him and lift him up when he falls, to lead him
back to the right way when he strays.
Understanding develops by degrees.
As to deserving, know that the gift of Heaven is free; this gift
of Knowledge is so great that no effort whatever could hope
to 'deserve' it.
If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple's submission
is slavery; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement.
There grows no wheat where there is no grain.
The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.
An answer if profitable in proportion to the intensity of the
quest.
Listen to your conviction, even if they seem absurd to your
reason.
Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the
world, for this would be to project your illusion
To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is
teaching.
In every vital activity it is the path that matters.
The way of knowledge is narrow.
Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had
never been written.
The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of
losing the object of possession.
If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.
The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains.
For knowledge ... you should know that peace is an
indispensable condition of getting it.
The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second
is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition.
Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.
Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must
possess to govern.
When the governing class isn't chosen for quality it is chosen
for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest
stage a society can reach.
Two tendencies govern human choice and effort, the search
after quantity and the search after quality. They classify
mankind. Some follow Maat, others seek the way of animal
instinct.
Qualities of a moral order are measured by deeds.
One foot isn't enough to walk with.
Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.
We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with
superstitious ignorance.
Physical consciousness is indispensable for the achievement
of knowledge.
A man can't be judge of his neighbor' intelligence. His own
vital experience is never his neighbor's.
No discussion can throw light if it wanders from the real
point.
Your body is the temple of knowledge.
Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.
A house has the character of the man who lives in it.
All organs work together in the functioning of the whole.
A man's heart is his own Neter.
A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he
deserves to learn from you.
Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his
own horizon is the limit of the world.
You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and
follow the instructions of your heart without letting things
perturb you. This is the way of Maat.
Judge by cause, not by effect.
Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of the
intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner
urge.
Every man must act in the rhythm of his time ... such is
wisdom.
Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better
then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker
to the source.
Maat, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the
human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence.
Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has
passed and pick out the constituents of the future. An
environment must be suited to the age and men to their
environment.
Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The
essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check
its reality now and then.
Always watch and follow nature.
A phenomenon always arises from the interaction of
complementaries. If you want something look for the
complement that will elicit it. Set causes Horus. Horus
redeems Set.
All seed answer light, but the color is different.
The plant reveals what is in the seed.
Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in
order to discover the original thought.
It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat.
The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.
Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of
the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.
If you would build something solid, don't work with wind:
always look for a fixed point, something you know that is
stable ... yourself.
If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point
and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your
end.
Images are nearer reality than cold definitions.
Seek peacefully, you will find.
Organization is impossible unless those who know the laws
of harmony lay the foundation.
It is no use whatever preaching Wisdom to men: you must
inject it into their blood.
Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of
the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which
they flow.
Social good is what brings peace to family and society.
Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.
By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Wednesday, November 24th 2010 at 12:38AM
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