Missed Opportunities
It has been said that the best place to find great Black ideas is in the cemetery, in a grave.
This is true, they say, essentially because most of our people die never having done what they thought others should do.
So nothing got done; there was a lot of talking, posturing, bluffing, "networking," going to conferences,
and listening to the "messengers/ministers/preachers/activists"---but at the end of the day all roads led to an
enslaver's graveyard, appeals to an enslavers god, serving milk and honey to some whites/arabs with wings in an enslaver's
worthless afterlife which mirrors the meaningless life the enslavers latched the Black mass to in this world. Slavery
in this world and the next. So much time wasted. So many lives unfulfilled. So much unfinished in this life;
so many excuses. So few tangible results. These are missed opportunities that require decades and even
centuries to nurture back to ripeness. Let us have the heart to face in this generation what we must do, and do it. In
this way our children and their children's future will be assured.
In the past we can find real answers to our present condition. If we could slice into history, it becomes obvious
that all societies have a period of birth, development, decline, and regression back into the society that produced it, death
and rebirth in the next higher form of society. The present United States of America went through at least 13 stages
of development to reach its present level of maturity. Africans in the Americas developed within the context of this
general societal process.
In 1492 European feudalism was in a stage
of decay during its initial period of mass intercontinental invasion, pillage, ad conquest. This agrarian system had
gone through its natural process of birth, development, decline, decay, and regression back into slavery. Starting in
1492, invading whites destroyed indigenous Chechimecan societies. In the process the lands were cleared of their indigenous
populations via massacre, wars, genocide, diseases, being worked to death, mass herding onto reservation. White populations
were then mass transported and transplanted onto North American soil.
It was during the time of 1619 that slavery was exported around the world and particularly in what became the United States
whereby Europeans transported/transplanted their society, culture, and race. African populations were seized, captured,
kidnapped, mass transported, and enslaved for the purpose of being worked to death draining swamps, building bridges and roads,
cutting trees and bushes, planting and harvesting food and fiber, clearing debris, building houses, making clothes, cutting
weeds, washing, tending cattle, cooking, cleaning, digging, pulling plows, mining mineral resources, sex concubines, shoveling
manure, tending to white children, breeding, plowing, etc. All of this was done for the benefit of white society as
a whole and white capitalist and slave owners in particular.
Between
1619 and 1700 the US had two economic system operating on one continental land mass: (slavery) agricultural manual production
in the south based on enslaved African labor, and (capitalism) industrial mechanical production in the north based on white
wage labor. From 1700 to 1750 there is minimal economic exchange between the system in that more commodities were produced
in the south by enslaved African labor and very few refined products were transported back from the north. What was
transported went back to the slave master. However this exchange increased thus forming a strong political bond, after
breaking ties with England in 1776.
It was during the timeframe
1820-1860 that these two antithetical systems grew, developed, geographically interpenetrated, clashed, tried to compromise
their differences, but eventually ended up in Civil War. By 1866, The North and capitalist form of society defeated
the South and the slave form of society. From 1866 to 2000 the entire country went through a period of industrialized
reconstruction along capitalist lines continentally implementing significant advances in large scale machine production until
reaching a period when computers replace humans in the societal production equation.
That process is reflected in the growth, development, maturation, and emerging degeneration of the US capitalist
form of society. African populations in the Americas emerged within these social, cultural, political, and economic
conditions.
- There were
three moments in African history in the Western Hemisphere which evolved the social underpinnings for Blacks to free themselves
from white domination.
- The 1770's to 1790's, the Mid-1800's and early 1900's.
At each time during the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and World War I and II the African mass was not prepared by an independent
Black leadership, and whites therefore led, won, and benefited---profiting more from each new refined system of oppression/exploitation.
- Many excuses will be made. But the simple fact remains that the whites and arabs won
for hundreds of years. Soft, disorganized, ill-prepared, mystical, full of plantation pride and other backward elements
the Black mass was mislead into some reformist compromise which further robbed millions of life, liberty or the pursuit of
happiness.
- At the heart of the matter is the epoch in history and the economic, social
and political conditions. In the United States and most of the industrialized world, Industrialization put an
end to slavery and serfdom throughout the world; no demand, no sorry slave buyers from equally degenerate slave sellers.
- The whites merely upgraded, refined, reorganized, and modernized their system of oppression/exploitation.
Yes, the wonderful Haitians, Maroons, and Black freedom fighters in Columbia won, but the vast majority of Africans (over
98% of the populations enslaved) did not fight the wars of liberation necessary to end slavery.
- So the whites ended it when they had another more profitable system of exploitation to replace it. Then they
started a new slave system around something they called jim crow sharecropping. The whites were in charge. The
Blacks who could have fought the whites and helped millions of blacks to secure their 40 acres and a mule were out ignorantly
and disgracefully killing Indians as buffalo soldiers. Carefully understand this. Study who was in charge
at every point. Who had the weapons that secured victory? Who prepared, planned, armed themselves, trained, and
dedicated themselves to making nonwhites slaves? At every point, who was in charge, organizing the wars, plotting, positioning,
making certain of their victory---even if it took decades are even centuries? Who had the means, preparation, and planning
necessary to succeed? What were we doing? Soberly look at this. What are most of the wealthiest/most
educated of our people doing today: somewhere selling out so that they can pay their bills.
Sure our masses fought heroically, setting wonderful
examples that have lasted for generations. But where were the majority of Black folk? What were the leaders doing?
Look at what they were doing then and what they are doing today. What has changed for the better? Not understanding
the moment, these poorly prepared Africans and their leaders merely tailed the process of mechanical labor replacing manual
labor for a Civil War and the end of slavery, then semi-automated replacing mechanized machine production in the 1940's
for the Civil Rights Movement. The mass movement of Africans around the means of production---whether it was inclusive
or exclusive, repulsing or attracting, expanding or contracting---ended up with black on bottom and white on top.
Even the written history surrounding this process is fraught
with fiction, fantasy, and fakery. Some fools even thought a god or an allah ended Black slavery; logic says that if
that were the case the god or allah allowed for 500 years for the whites and 1400 for the to mass murder, rape, maim,
mutilate, drown, castrate, brutalize and work to death hundreds of millions of innocent people. Over 600,000,000 Africans
lived and died in utter misery and pain. "God's will," they ignorantly and disgracefully say. Nonsense.
Ignorance is no excuse---in this period it is a disgrace. The degenerate whites and arabs were able to enslave the Africans
because the Africans allowed it, did not prepare to stop it, or could not stop it. You cannot consistently defeat an
enemy who has guns, and you merely have stone age spears and arrows. Either you take their weapons, improve your education
so as to reverse engineer their weapons and use them against them, or you end up with a mass of ropes around your collective
necks or out as a running dog catching other Black people for the white/arab enslavers. The second option is what happened.
In short, human beings make their own history but they do not make it as they please. They are born into
conditions. They can end slavery, or support slavery. They can sit around praying to made-up white and arab gods
or they can get up, study what they are up against, prepare to win at all cost, organize, fight, and thereby end the enslavement
with their own hand, hearts, and heads. Since the fall of ancient African Kmt Black populations have not done this in
any organized way. This is why we lose, and lose---even when we should win.
Like wise, revolutions are not made, they grow, develop, ripen, and flower based on the internal
workings of the society pregnant with change. That change can be progressive or regressive, revolutionary or counter-revolutionary,
forward or backwards. Today the fourth moment ripe for liberation in African history has come around. This is
the final of its kind. Clearly this moment ends in liberty or mass death. Computer automated machine production
equals the end of wage labor in mining, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and service sectors of the economy.
This is not labor saving technology; this is labor replacing technology. Blacks are first to lose their
jobs, then wages/salaries/benefits, then livelihood, food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, health care---then
lives. The facts are certain: a form of society is passing away, but this time on a global scale and with never before
seen destructive intensity and rapidity. Once private property is in crisis, the reactionary capitalist class will turn
power over to its ultra white nationalist nazi organizations---for their final solution. The classes/races of each nation
state and the governments that represent them will fight this out on battle fields around the world under many guises, pretext
and pretensions.
- 1. First comes
a technological revolution that makes the existing economic system untenable. What is produced, cannot be distributed, what
cannot be distributed cannot be consumed, what is not consumed piles up to rot or rust.
- 2.
Second, as new technology causes an economic crisis, all the social relations based on the old means of production are methodically
and overtime destroyed resulting in the ongoing destruction and decomposition of society---education, health care, housing,
religion, recreation, government, family, mass communication, transportation, etc.
- 3. Thirdly,
as this destruction of society as we knew it becomes unbearable with a regression back into forms of slavery and nazi dictatorship
being imminent. Blacks are already scapegoated. History shows with certainty what happens to all superfluous populations.
- 4. Fourth, a political revolution takes place wherein the ruling, owning class is overthrown and society is reorganized
in such a way as to be compatible with the new productive forces. Like clockwork, the class, race, sex, cultural, and generational
expression of this poses, opposes, and composes in clashes, movements, and even all out war.
Below are the principles Ancient African Kmt left us to guide our actions today. At the heart of Kmt preparation
in life is Maat---truth, justice, rightness, balance, and will. This moment in history will bring out the best and the
worst. Prepare, this time. Study, Organize, Prepare, Proceed Study, and master the fundamentals in all that you do. Know how things work. Know how to build,
create, design, construct. Be clear on principles. Set high standards. Know how to deal with people and
in various situations. Take Rebirth of African Civilization seriously---people have generally not taken Rebirth of African
Civilization seriously, nor have we taken seriously.
Taken seriously, everything humanly possible must be
done to correct our historic problem. Never be without a book. Study often and with precision. Learn how
to use your time well. Carry selves respectfully. Always take the high road, the principled road, the fundamentally
sound road. Do the right thing. Prepare intellectually through serious study, keeping
of journals, and publication of findings. Obtain the highest degrees possible, in applied fields where possible.
Learn how to do things. Be decent and honest. Work hard and be consistent and serious in studies. Develop
and implement a necessary and firm moral basis. Master in an organized manner the
fundamentals of all that you do. Define the fundamentals. Draw lessons and parallels between the fundamentals
to other things/efforts. Free up the mind, heart, and hands for other things. Think fluidly about other things,
situations, etc. Be consistent in discourse, not shifty. Excel academically, intellectually, and morally---early as
childhood. Work hard from a young age, be organized, clean, efficient, precise, and thorough. Value people who have sacrificed, lived, died, and fought. Value people, characteristics, and habits that value
morality and intellect. Value the virtues associated with design and construction rather than simple repair. Engage
in criticism and self-criticism; always self study and criticism first. Constantly study self, admit and correct
mistakes, and extract lessons from observations. Develop/adopt precise, rigorous, disciplined,
and organized work ethic. Sift through lessons from history and extract those that are meaningful and/or useful and
adapt them to our historical realities and need. Engage in study groups to examine various issues and discuss them within
historical context; extract the meaning, implications, lessons, etc. ; explore possibilities; discuss the future of our race-locally,
regionally, nationally, globally. Work out understanding of what was, what is, and what
shall be with a small family of forward thinking, like hearted- Africans. Stay away from large groups, lots of talk,
lots of wasting of time. Constantly read, constantly study and critique information. Live and think simply. Use
few words; when speak have meaning and substance. Speak little and only on substantive issues. Seek to improve
environments and institutions we go in, particularly ones which teach and educate. See truth and justice at all times.
Always leave places better than they were upon entrance. Clean up organizations and environments.
Establish Kmt moral, mental, and martial schools at all levels, particularly advanced learning. Teach how to do things,
to design, build, and construct everything from buildings, houses, printers, hospitals, schools, cars, factories, computers,
economies, etc. Master philosophy and science. Establish strong relationships and support bases among the people.
Strengthen pedagogy such that the interests (realities) of students are linked with the qualities needed to move forward on
a high level. Work hard. Be demanding, precise, rigorous. Demand precision and rigor from students.
No double standards. Take time with people to see how they really are, how they live,
what has gone into producing them. Go to potential transition places study the people, their geography, political-economy,
socio-cultural makeup of the people, etc. Fulfill historical obligation to change the flow and direction of history in a positive
way. The fundamental questions of existence, of right and wrong, of morality and ethics, of flow and process must be
worked out to build a society. Never organize a civilization around a questionable moral system or one that has not
addressed the fundamentals of life and living. Take charge of defining and fulfilling
individual and population destiny, for the destiny of a people resides within its people; defining one's destiny is the
greatest achievement owed to the historical era that is now being consummated. Study the historical conditions that
produced people and phenomena. Establish the stages of historical development and define the internal and external processes
that gave rise to who and what African people have become in this moment in history. Delineate the conditions.
Eliminate habits that drag on forward movement and prevent forging a new way. Extract
from history the conditions that produce various types of people. Go to the area with the greatest history of struggle;
Work with those possessing heart. Carry self as very serious and confident; discuss
issues and ideas within the context of the social conditions that produced them;. Work with purpose and passion; this
purpose and passion is reflected in what one does and is. Never debate in public. Subordinate personal relationships
to organization politics and the Rebirth of African Civilization; the good of the many outweigh the good of the few.
Organize and participate in study groups. Define what is needed for preparation work. Identify and study Establish
Maat fundamentals in academic courses. Form schools of practical studies where s are. Get to know the people and the area in which to work. Teach people fundamental skills needed to critically
think, study, plan, strategize. Identify people who have the heart needed; those interested and qualified undergo training.
Be fluid; live light; be able to move quickly. Extract lessons forged in struggle, as it possesses the capacity to transform;
to move people from passivity to action; from feigned courage to cowardice.
Possess the dignity to do anything
morally sound to win and the audacity to do it. Vigorously organize in the areas with the appropriate historical conditions.
Go to where decisions are made and move into those places. Value education, make learning and problem solving central
to existence. Make books, study, concentration, free thought, and analysis/synthesis the heart of life and living. Engage in deeds; stop wasting time talking and posturing. Never accept defeat, even if you cannot
win at that moment, make sure that others win in the future. Never debate in public. Let people talk. Deeds
are what matter most. Be fearless, bold. Impose will on the masses by showing them overwhelming actions to drive
home the ideas. Organize core group of professionals, thinkers, doers. Establish popular organizations. Extract
lessons from life during each moment; always be thinking, learning, getting better. Transform theory to practice and
devote life to fulfilling historical obligations. Understand the past and present;
extract lessons from each historical turning point; assess what worked under what conditions and why; what didn't work,
under what conditions and why. Assess trends and processes. Assess or establish what the end should/can be, then
what must be done to make it happen. Identify the movements among other groups that have been successful or failed,
the reasons for such outcomes and under what conditions.
Fulfill historical responsibility; philosophy,
theory, and method converge at the point of practice; interconnectedness is reborn in the actions consciously focused on reaching
the goals, the future. Commit entire lives, entire lifetimes to winning; organize a winning civilization. Forge
conditions to cultivate generations of worker philosophers. Identify the most advanced thinkers with needed technical
and intellectual skills. Identify advanced thinkers to consider and articulate what has been done and lay the basis
for doing it. Strengthen faith, heart, and courage by deeds, while banishing fear.
Be good, decent, honest and hardworking. Live as pillars in respective communities. Stand for principle, what
is right. Be resolute, decisive, absolute; when the decision to wage war is made, different rules apply. Establish system
of guiding principles; conduct intellectual work; lay philosophical, theoretical, methodological foundations prior to war.
Take seriously what must be done and send this message through quiet preparation work; this road is not haphazard, but deliberate,
well planned and executed. Know the moment in which person is born; understand conditions surrounding birth and growth
of self; view self as a product of historical accident and inevitable social necessity. Establish
guiding thought; no leadership exists that is not sustained by guiding thought. Be tenacious and methodical, precise.
Place life's work into perspective; it is a matter of truth and time before we win. Study the roots of a people;
what they are, who they were and have been. Study beginnings. Examine what people are going to do in various situations,
given what produced them; examine what people do under pressure, etc. Establish clear rules and guiding principles so
that people know where they stand (internal and external.
Identify cultural traditions of the African KMT
and adapt them to this moment in history; do away with any backward black, negro, or African cultural traditions that have
and continue to help the enemy (within and without). Establish moral foundations, with Kmt Maat ethics at the core;
no religion, no mysticism, no fakery, no wasting of valuable time crawling around begging. Turn the tide of history
with heart, determination, preparation, sheer nerve and audacity; be bold; do what others think impossible, go beyond
the acceptable; be relentless, tenacious, absolute. Through deeds we will remake ourselves. Be and do the opposite
of losing; do winning things; do what winners do. No relationship with people and populations who have historically
harmed Africans. Be audacious, determined, driven, relentless. Engage in thorough
planning and preparation. Live in an honest, kind, and good mannered way. Value knowledge and learning; study
how to do things. Study the lives and works of those who did there work, who gave it all to win. Pursue KMT orthodoxy;
everything has to be done by the book.
Undergo continuous criticism and self-criticism; Study philosophy;
become the best of philosphers and students of life and living. Live according to established rules of justice, fairness,
balance, and rightness---established by the best of Black civilization. Develop guiding principles only after tremendous
thought, effort, careful study, and extraction of lessons occurs. Live according to correct ideology; cultivate morally
sound women, men, and children. Extract lessons from various genres from all over
the world to illustrate points, to support future tasks and ideas; know the moment that produced them. Value books as
instruments of learning; hunger for knowledge. Make the leap from rational knowledge to daily practice. Study
the objective conditions as a process, as they unfold over time-rational knowledge based on evidence.
Observe
the unity of opposites as a fundamental universal law in nature, society and thought. Speak with knowledge, facts, heart,
accuracy, fire, passion. Give the very best in return for what you receive from humility, respect for what went into
us. Transform theory to action; there comes a time when the moment of study gives rise to the action of moving on, moving
away, getting out, leaving the mess behind. Africans must rebuild Africa. Get prepared and get to it.
What Must Be Done MAAT - 1.
Maat: Codes-moral, mental, martial; Theory of Victory; Objectives conditions-Africa and Diaspora; What must be done; One Great
Purpose
| Morally sound revolutionary doctrine | Our greatest successes come when we have properly studied our conditions
and developed necessary principles to guide our thoughts and actions |
MEN & WOMEN - 2. Morally, mentally, martially sound, scientifically prepared,
firm, fair; decisive, steeled, relentless
| Knowers
and doers of what must be done | Our greatest
successes come when we are morally sound, scientifically prepared, decisive, relentless, and firm yet fair | - 3. Conscious of place in history: organized and driven from
within. responsible for all moral actions
| Appreciate
place in history, know what must be done, and do it | Our
greatest successes come when we properly understand and appreciate our place in history and are internally driven to do what
must be done | - 4. Faithful adherents
to the Great Guiding Principles
| Obey the
instruction of our ancestors greatest wisdom | Our
greatest successes come when we faithfully adhere to the guiding principles | - 5. Determined, persistent, committed
| Prepare to win at all costs | Our
greatest successes come when we recognize in practice that the most determined and prepared always win in the end | - 6. Will be known by their deeds
| What we do in life echoes in eternity | Our greatest successes come when we do right for right's sake | - 7. No trace of vanity will ever be seen in us: Modesty and simplicity
should accompany us
| Exterminate internal
vices | Our greatest successes come when we live
morally sound, humble, modest, and simple manner | - 8. Initiators and know it, confident, fearless
| Know what must be done and do it | Our
greatest successes come when we take the initiative to do what we know must be done and not wait around for others | - 9. Independent but working together, precise, skilled, forward
thinking, humble, able to transform theory to practice
| Acquire skills necessary to move forward | Our
greatest successes come when we transform theory to practice | - 10. Hearts of steel, believers in ourselves, not worried about fame and fortune, not weak-inextinguishable
| Harriet Tubman-like fearlessness, inextinguishable | Our greatest successes come when we fearlessly and humbly steel
ourselves mentally, morally, and martially |
MOMENT - 11.
Initiation, training, command structure, ranking system, scientific maatist planning system based on M3 methods, theory, philosophy
|
| Our greatest successes come when we plan, organize and educate according to a scientific system of
M3 philosophy, theory, methods, and practice | - 12.
Highly self-motivated, atomized, highly resilient, highly organized, female/male leadership, tricentralized; honest
|
| ‘' | - 13.
Continent, our people, our families, and our own lives
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| ‘' | - 14. organization of professionals
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| ‘' | - 15.
Disciplined, determined, scientific, morally sound, M3 driven
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| ‘' | - 16. Silence/work/precision are a virtue, focused, concentrated
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| ‘' |
MASS
MOVEMENT - 17. Will contest everything: Nothing will be easy for our oppressors. Nothing.
| Find Harriet Tubman's heart and hold it. Do what must
be done. | Our greatest successes come when we
relentlessly fight for what is right |
- 18.
Mass survival movements
| - 19.
Practical mass life in internal/external focal points/center of African2 cultural, economic, political, social,
and educational strivings/impulse
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Life Principles - 1. Those who claim things
will live forever are wrong, for there is nothing permanent except change. Everything flows and nothing abides, everything
gives way and nothing stays fixed.
- 2. There is more to life than meets the eye---the world is not simple, it must
be studied quietly and with care, for a hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
- 3. To claim that all things
will stay as they are is wrong for nothing just is, everything is becoming.
- 4. Go at things with heart and will, for
greater dooms win greater destinies.
- 5. Character is destiny; preparation is victory.
- 6. Opposition brings
concord: out of discord comes the fairest harmony, and the greatest change forward or backward.
- 7. In anything great,
chances must be taken, for no one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger
- 8. We are made to win
in the end, we are not made for defeat.
- 9. Religious mystics and those sick with fantasy and fiction are but claimers
of things we know nothing of: immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
- 10.
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same; in short, the way up and the way down are one and the same.
- 11.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort
is needed to develop good character.
- 12. Answers are in questions, questions are in answers; good is in bad, bad is
in good; couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. All things pass into the
other. From all things one and from one all things.
- 13. Learn to listen, listen to learn, learning leads to knowledge,
knowledge with understanding leads to wisdom, wisdom leads to victory in all things
- 14. Humans pay with tears the
price of conscience if the animal within has not been tamed in childhood; live by your higher self
- 15. For everything
there is a time: a time for harmony and a time for anarchy, and none can change the course of the stars
- 16. To make
a masterpiece from a stone one must have one's ear in one's heart and a living soul in one's fingers
- 17.
The trade makes the costume; the costume dresses the clown or the courageous
- 18. The law of equilibrium is strict:
It knows no pardon for departure from the true
- 19. Night brings counsel, silence brings understanding, alertness and
intelligence brings wisdom
- 20. Shadow gives the light its splendor
- 21. Nature is neither good nor beautiful,
she obeys
- 22. No job is a sinecure (a position that requires no work)
- 23. Greed gives beings daring and energy
multiplied by degeneracy
- 24. Search for the Sun in your heart and you will know the true meaning of light
- 25.
If a flower does not desire light, it closes itself and receives it not; if it desires light, it will receive and transform
it to...
- 26. In order to make something pure, all that can rot in it must rot
- 27. To make a durable thread,
one has to first destroy what otherwise may be corrupted
- 28. Nothing can be reborn without having undergone the test
of having everything corruptible destroyed
- 29. As the fisherman, so is her/his catch
- 30. Each animal and each
plant has its own nature and particular properties which give the color and form according to which the appeal of life expresses
itself in their various instincts: greed for food, for hunting, for love. The stronger the greed, the more intense is their
life
- 31. Each animal, each plant, according to its nature, plays a game that exalts or weakens the life forces which
cause their sympathies or antipathies. An animal does not reason, it experiences directly
- 32. Humans have allowed
instinctive consciousness to atrophy without having learned to use intuitive faculties, which are the wisdom of the heart
- 33.
Every animal is the summing up of a character which is perfection of its kind, because it does not dissimulate what we call
the defects; it is what it seems to be. If you observe each species, you will find there some aspect of the passions which
are the driving force of our own life
- 34. All the urges of the passions express vital natural impulses, and it is
the animal in us which gives rise to them. The wise person is conscious of them, she/he knows how to give them their true
name and to make use of them. But the wise person is rare, and egoism finds a thousand reasons for giving those impulses legitimate
motives and flattering names. The human passions are life-impulses which have been perverted such that it is difficult to
discover, beneath their complications, that almost divine power which is their source
- 35. Know how to observe, without
criticism or judgment the impulses of passion within the animals and how to find equivalents within the self
- 36. Animals
eat one another because they are forced to obey the demands of hunger. Their instinctive nature makes them look for the food
that suits their organism. People eat fish, for example. But humans pervert this vital impulse by overshooting its mark-necessity
gives an excuse for gluttony, and for the hunter an opportunity to exert his cruelty
- 37. know what you are doing;
seek no excuse and accept the consequences, that is the only way for humans to ascend little by little to higher consciousness
- 38.
Draw courage from your disgust with your impotence and desire to break the chains of animalism
- 39. Let not fear invade
you, for fear is opposed to light
- 40. Nature is never compassionate, but is always brutally honest
- 41. Need
is the basis of knowing, knowing is the basis for doing, doing is basis for judgment
- 42. Rare are those who seek the
Cause for its own sake; very rare are those who allow themselves to be moved by those phenomena of periodicity, attraction
and repulsion
- 43. Seek with your heart
- 44. Let your heart be generous and ignorant of greed
- 45. Have
not idle curiosity; let not vanity pollute your quest
- 46. Have no fear
- 47. Exercise the power of choice [‘I
can leave the fig alone, even though I should like to eat it; and that is what the monkey cannot do]
- 48. Weigh one's
words well
- 49. Its no good complaining unless one can bring proof
- 50. An honest person does not tremble before
the judge
- 51. A keen tongue and a subtle mind beget both disorder and peace, according to the use to which they are
put
- 52. The daily fetter is broken before the new
- 53. Ignorance is no excuse
- 54. Let no boast come
from your lips
- 55. Dark is the sun to the veiled eyes of remorse
- 56. Bitter the bread to the mouth of the
ungrateful, for her/his heart knows no rest
- 57. Put wisdom in practice and all evil will flee you: "you have
treated him as a vile favorite and you are responsible for his fall. You have spared him any criticism and you have encouraged
his vanity, and when the pupil shall have obtained greatness, he will have no respect for you"
- 58. Inculcate
in children the necessity for effort
- 59. The masterpiece is a piece of work which a person has created with her/his
soul, conceived with her/his heart, born in her/his body, from the skin into the entrails
- 60. To be a master one must
listen to the soundless voice of the Ancients, to observe and to keep silent
- 61. A principle is powerful within the
law it rules, but never beyond
- 62. All that are pulsing with one and the same heart never really part from one another...and
for the rest, what does it matter?
- 63. Questions about fundamental problems can be answered only by fundamental solutions
- 64.
If a person is ruled by her/his heart, her/his conscience will soon take the place of the rod; but if not great severity is
needed to shake her/him out of her/his inertia; severity is needed also to safeguard the honor of the trade guilds and the
quality of their crafts
- 65. No door is closed against her/him who proves self worthy to enter
- 66. Do not talk
of things of which you know nothing
- 67. The potter's vessel contains the space which is given to it; but the carver's
vessel contains that which has been taken away
- 68. Keep words brief and make movements full of meaning
- 69.
It is better to not know and to know that one does not know than to presumptuously attribute some random meaning to the symbols
- 70.
The artisan is distinct from the workman because he is aware of his movement, of the instrument, and of the material in which
he works. But the accomplished craftsman goes further: he knows the laws of the material and tries to understand their causes
he knows the names of things and their symbolic meanings.
- 71. What you receive depends on what you give
- 72.
Words are incomplete without evidence
- 73. Usefulness always depends on physical properties and on features of secondary
importance, for quality in the absolute does not answer to material requirement
- 74. The quest for perfection is not
necessary to earthly life; it is luxury, useless but divine
- 75. What is wrong cannot be beautiful
- 76. Everyone
finds that which her/his nature attracts: if you seek fantasy, you will find in it your pleasure; but if you search for the
laws of harmony, you will find knowledge
- 77. One who seeks in silence will gain understanding, but from the pretentious
windbag, this treasure is hidden
- 78. What matters is not that one should think it but that one should experience it
- 79.
As much as you are capable of finding out that much you will know, nothing more
- 80. It lies in your own power to cure
yourself
- 81. The House of Perpetuity must be built during the earthly life
- 82. He who wants to rise to the
summit must seek its bas in the cavern
- 83. Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows
in silence and concentration
- 84. Be wary of judging without real knowledge
- 85. Why do you desire that which
you deny and deny that which you seek?
- 86. When one travels in unknown territory, each parting of the ways throws
the pilgrim into confusion and indecision; each mirage, each illusion threatens to lead him astray; but if he has chosen wisely,
his glance takes bearings from his horizon, and he will no longer confuse the ways
- 87. Let your desire be at the same
level as your goal
- 88. what you really want you will know when faced with your deeds; we do not judge people by their
words
- 89. True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through
successive stages; each consists in discovering the key to the following door
- 90. The student's first duty is
to know that she/he doesn't know anything and to take her/his teacher's advice
- 91. Beware of foolish pride
and dangerous innovations
- 92. In everything be moderate, mindful, and morally balanced
- 93. Stray not from
the well-known just paths
- 94. Repeat untiringly the maxims which we have found satisfactory
- 95. Do not utter
thoughtless words
- 96. Let your answers be cautious
- 97. People bring their own unhappiness through their tongues
- 98.
Whereas the crudeness of the day defines and separates, dusk fuses all things into one; the soul of the beings reveals itself
as soon as our eyes no longer delimit their shapes
- 99. Man's existence is brief, and science is hidden from them
through their own mental and moral errors
- 100. There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal criticism.
Never believe a word without putting it's truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness; and this faculty of
discernment is indispensable to the seeker
- 101. First you must listen, but listen in your heart, so that you hear
the meaning intended by the teacher
- 102. Learn how to put a question-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
- 103. All cognition comes from
inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves
- 104. When the end of a period arrives one must know how to abandon
that which sets its characteristic boundaries, to as to give free access to the Light of the New Period; one must know and
hand over to destruction that which is corrupt, so that only what is indestructible should subsist
- 105. Nothing is
left to chance, nor to the builder's fancy. What is to be demolished is demolished in the exact way which befits the meaning
of this demolition and the future use to which the piece will be put
- 106. What makes a person unworthy (of the Temple)
is the cowardice which prompts him to avoid the experience of shame, for this avoidance breeds oblivion
- 107. What
gives no life takes life away
Nature
1. The best
and the shortest route to truth is nature.
2. The seed includes all possibilities of the tree, but will develop these
possibilities only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky. 3. The seed doesn't reveal the tree it contains;
become slowly and silently like black blended in the night. 4. The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously
sending roots into the ground. 5. All seeds answer light, but the color is different. The plant reveals what is in the
seed. 6. There grows no wheat where there is no grain. 7. Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for
new growth to begin. Inner 1. If the heart rules, conscience
takes the lace of the rod. 2. The inner light grows in silence, concentration, passion, and will 3. To know yourself,
take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end. 4. Listen to your
conviction and follow your heart when in doubt about facts-even if it appears absurd to your reason. 5. All is within
yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature. 6. Know the world in yourself.
Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion. 7. You will free yourself when you
learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things worry you. This is the way of Maat 8.
Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity and direction
of the inner urge. Judgment 1. Never believe a word without
putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness 2. Sound skepticism is a necessary condition for
good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error 3. Judge by cause, not by effect. 4. Have the wisdom to
abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick up the future. 5. Qualities of a moral order are measured by deeds
Learning/Teaching
1. All cognition comes from inside but the master
teacher gives the keys. 2. What is done does not matter as much as what was learned from doing it. It is better not
to know and to know that one does not know, than to fake and later be exposed and disgraced. 3. Pupils show by their
own efforts how much they deserve to learn from their teacher. 4. Not the greatest teacher can go even one step for
the disciple; in self one must experience each stage of consciousness and stand on one's own two feet. 5. To teach,
one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching. In every vital activity is the path that matters 6. An answer
is profitable in proportion to the quality and intensity of the question. 7. We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry,
knowledge with superstitious ignorance Law 1. Organization
is impossible unless those who know the laws of harmony lay the foundation 2. A phenomenon always arises from the interaction
of complementariness. If you want something look for the complement that will elicit it, its ka. 3. Knowledge is consciousness
of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow. 4. Everyone must
act in the rhythm of their time, such is their moment in time, such are the opposites. 5. Two tendencies govern human
choice and effort, the search after quantity and the search after quality. Some follow Maat, others seek the way of animal
instinct. Answers in Time 1. In all good or bad there is a
price to be paid. It all comes back around again; accounts are settled and debts are paid in full by some generation 2.
If you would build something solid, don't work with wind: always look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable,
yourself 3. If one navigates unknown waters blindly one risks shipwreck. Therefore, leave the one in error who loves
their own error 4. To know means to memorize the known; but to understand means to blend wit the thing, to assimilate
it, to become it 5. The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession 6.
If you defy an enemy by doubting his or her courage you double it 7. Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition
must possess to govern 8. A house has the character of those who live in it 9. Routine and prejudice distort vision.
Each man and woman thinks her/his own horizon is the limit of the world 10. Everything one does will have its consequences.
By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction, when you know, dare to do.
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