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In every area of research the method/methodology of study determines the accuracy of
obtaining, organizing, and analyzing/synthesizing the information/data studied. Race is significant here because one
race/population---the historical oppressor/discriminator, the enslaver race, the race that has historically brutalized and
discriminated against Black people---is in complete charge of the educating process from crib to grave. They run the
federal and the state governments; they create and enforce the curricula, align the school districts, and write/publish/print
the standard textbooks; they create the standardized exams and use them as gatekeepers for future educational opportunities;they
absolutely control the accreditation agencies; they set education policy for Black folk from grade school to post graduate
school.
Whites/Arabs completely control their mass media, video, audio, and print content; they write/produce
the movies/dvds that perpetuate fraud and mis-education on a global level. Therefore, Black students in all fields
are faced with white/Arab fraudulent white supremacy curricula, books, teaching materials, and even pedagogy techniques/methods.
And it did not take Martin Bernal to expose this "Aryan Model." Since Greece conquered (332bc.), occupied, translated,
plagiarized and transfered ancientAfrican Kmt's scientific legacy of 4000 years (of stored/written/oral thought matter),
the last 2300 years have been a mere perfecting of that initial theft on a global scale via Rome, Germany, Britian, and now
the United States and the rest of the European Union.
To justify their
centuries of invasion, pillage, destruction, occupation, enslavement, and decimating colonialism, neo-colonialism, and presently
globalism all of their levels of education have a built-in Aryan bias (kindergarten, elementary, junior high, high school,
college/university, graduate and post-graduate school). Asians (Chinese/Japanese/Singapore, etc.) bypass white history
in all field and focus instead directly on science, engineering, and technological developments. No wonder they
have made the greatest leaps in educational achievement in the past 50 years. Black students should also. But their
education is independent and in their own hands. This is not the case with Black people in the Diaspora, or even
in most of Africa.
The task today, however, is to take charge of what is in our hands.
A Black student's method of thinking and purpose can be reshaped by re-establishing the best practices of our wonderful
African Kmtic ancestors. The first step is to relearn how to think and how to pose questions properly.
Posing a Question Correctly
- An answer is profitable in proportion to the intensity of the quest. A problem clearly envisaged, a point succinctly
made, hold the elements of the solution in themselves. Learn to ask the question.
- Strive to
throw out the superfluous and uncover the essential. Refrain from using unnecessary words.
- To
frame a question, first go to the heart of the problem. Everyone is moved by an urge that governs life (to the student-what
is yours?).
- Life's purpose-children ought to be challenged to consider this and strive to
know what is necessary to fulfill it.
- Make your own life, your phenomenal self, the center of
inquiry if you wish to know its goal.
- You cannot know your goal unless you know your ending.
Your true purpose will guide you to knowledge. Lines of force determine your real aim, so that you are fatally directed by
the facts of your aim and ending. Establish the relationship between your own disposition (make up, tendencies) and that of
other existences if you wish to know how you will end. Actions reveal one's aim.
- If your
aim is higher than satisfaction of the tendencies of the animal nature, seek the difference between your own real ending and
theirs. The measure in which your disposition and aim surpass theirs will indicate the quality of your own real aim and ending.
- Listen first to your convictions, even if they seem absurd.
- If there exists a body
of law that binds all forms of life together, this establishes between them sensorially imperceptible relations which, since
they are outside the range of reasonable logic, may well be called absurd until experience shows that concrete fact can emerge
from the abstract.
- To reject what seems absurd, without discrimination, is to reject the possibility
of knowing the laws in question. Learn to distinguish between the certainties of the heart and blind adherence to words. Accept
your hearts certainty, and then seek proof of its truth or falsehood.
- Death is an undeniable
fact, whereas life isn't a fact but a sum of effects that derive from an abstract and incomprehensible cause.
- Teachers ask students to draw conclusions. When the conclusions do not precisely flow from the evidence from which
they are drawn, it is incumbent on the teachers to point out the problems-e.g., your conclusions are inexact.
- Death is a subtraction if life has definitely ceased or been annihilated; or it is a division if something has been
separated from the body. To learn what has been separated from the body, observe what brings about death in nature and how
it shows itself. What brings it about is the cessation, or accomplishment, of the reason for living; in which case death shows
what the reason for the living was. [knowing the quality of something by its ending; studying the cause by its effect;
reverse engineering].
- Death shows itself by the disappearance of movement and warmth. The first
effect is the ending of the incomprehensible drive that gave the heart and body movement; after which the body is abandoned
to destructive changes, showing that what left the body is what kept it going.
- If a principle
isn't in you, you'll find it nowhere. If it is, it will disclose itself and you'll find it everywhere.
- Learn to know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusions.
- Seek truth in numbers and geometrical function. They will give you facts that are inescapable and no person or sentimental
consideration can set them aside.
- To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching,
their symbol. Study men/women and things through their symbolism.
Answer as Reflection
- In every vital activity, it is the path that matters, for it involves all possible relationships of time, space and
means between a beginning and its end, an unfolding of law through the means. Relationships may vary according to the
means, according to the direction of the path, whose point of departure, material or ideal, is the door that determines the
nature and direction of the way.
- It allows neither detour nor willful complexity: the law is
strict, the canon not indulgent. One who seeks the real no longer puts any trust in appearance.
- Coldness
is in the exactitude of the law, but life moves and fire is hot.
- The science of measurement
gives knowledge of ‘imperturbable laws' provided it starts out from reality and not from a supposition. All
philosophical axioms should be susceptible of translation into mathematics, necessarily geometrical, for a mathematic that
isn't expressed in geometrical terms opens the door to rationalistic hypotheses which lead to error. Mysticism consists
in direct consciousness by confusion, fusion; a state of transparency that gives direct, total vision of a harmony, not at
all a matter of understanding. To seek this result by a play of thought and weaving of notions is to fall into the fanciful
and erroneous.
- Be precise in your studies, avoid fantasy, be careful not to transpose the procedures
of the three modes of instruction; such indiscipline turns the discipline from that path that leads to the subtlest revelations.
- Truth stands forever. What matters is the growth of your consciousness, which is the relation between the personal
you and the process of ka. Each truth you learn will be as new as though it had never been written. It will always have the
importance of a discovery, through its resonance through your own number and particular function in cosmos. This is particular
to each student.
- Neters are expressions of the principles and functions of KA in nature. The
neters are within you. An offering arouses the consciousness and desire of the neter's action. Such desire is the force
of attraction (mer). A want, a need, a void that longs to be filled-this is the active principle of sacrifice, based
on the law of compensation.
- Every phenomenon is a reactive effect, that an active cause never
produces a direct effect, since it remains abstract, imperceptible, unless there is resistance. When a resistance of the same
kind as the cause absorbs and annuls it-this is a death; when the resistence becomes active in its turn, the effect will be
a life phenomenon-the second crossing.
- The practice of sacrifice is a defense of human consciousness
against the deadly effect of the search for satisfaction. Animal man obeys the desire of satisfaction as nature obeys the
law of inertia. Satisfaction of a desire neutralizes it and this is a kind of death. The only active force that arises out
of possession is fear of losing the object possessed: this is an egoism, constrictive, which consequently diminishes more
or less the power of its appeal.
- All true sacrifice arouses in the giver faith in the thing
he desires or the power to bring it about.
- There may be confusion of the various intentions
in the act of sacrifice, the object of which may be to awaken creative faith in the thing desired, to evoke the thing by desire
or the magic of analogues, or to provoke its realization by reaction.
- To provoke is to excite
reaction in the thing, being or power to which provocation is addressed by resisting it. If you defy an enemy by doubting
his courage you double.
- Evocation invites actualization of the desired object by offering the
thing, principle or idea that will act towards it magnetically, direct or by the magic of analogues. On the one hand, it works
by creating a want or void that becomes the mer, or attractive force, for a thing of its own kind; on the other hand evocation
uses the magic of analogues, which is the intelligent choice of an analogue with the characteristics of the desired thing.
You invoke by analogy what you wish for the dead.
- To judge well of the matter you must acquire
what you still lack, knowledge of analogues in nature, which we always use in our symbolic images.
- The
value of of our method of thinking (in the consideration of themes) lies in an integral correspondence with the laws of nature
that gives them the character of universality.
- Ptah is creative force bound through the fall
into matter. It is the cause of life but it only lives when peace, hotep, htp or pth in reverse, releases it: that is to say
when peace or union has been made between the creative energy and what is to be given life. There is a destroying fire
in Ptah that becomes creative when this union is achieved.
- Sacrifice pride and an offering acquires
efficacy.
- Life is the power, immanent in created things, to change themselves by successive
destructions of form until the spirit or activating force of the original life-stream is freed. This power resides in the
very nature of things. Successive destruction of forms, metamorphoses, by the divine fire with rebirth of forms new and living
is an expression of consciousness.
- One who recognizes the divine meaning of life knows that
knowledge has but one aim, which is to achieve the successive stages that liberate him from the perishable. For things only
die in their body.
- The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains. Bury my word in your heart
that it may put out root and seed; then return untiring to seek your nourishment in it until you have exhausted its substance.
- Work hard and acquire the habit of forgetting egoistic interests on pain of being expelled as a hindrance.
- Everyone has faults; we are all in the process of growing. It is not an obstacle if you don't annoy your neighbors.
If you have ambition, you will be reassured or disappointed; it does to intuition what the weevil does in a granary. Anyone
who workds out of ambition is soon recognized and the door shut in her/his face.
- Ambition is
powerful in one who seeks to dominate others. for one whose interest is not in effects but in causes, ambition loses its reason
for existing: she/he will occupy her/himself with the play of natural forces, destiny, the laws that govern things, rather
than with acquiring power.
- Don't say anything if your heart isn't free to speak.
- One learns from everything. For the disciple every gesture is a theme to be mastered.
- Children
see many who are greedy for money and the favor of the rulers (people with money, etc.) than in love with their work and the
truth.
- Knowledge (wisdom, etc.) is altered or renewed according to the necessities of the epoch.
- Learn to reason from evidence.
- Recognize, in the face of evidence, the universal character
of people's (teachers) knowledge or allow for symbolic functions...which takes nothing from the fact that these people
have left indisputable testimony to their science in their architectural work.
- It isn't
the daily performance of a function that matters, but the fundamental knowledge that gives mastery and allows of its being
communicated.
- preservation of high achievement over millennia-continuity of traditional teaching
on temple walls (documentary record) in every age, an inviolate secrecy that protects it and the anonymity of the work.
- The state of affairs is open to injustices and the weaknesses inherent in human nature. Our monuments and texts display
continuous fidelity to the wholeness of our tradition. Thus two realities co-exist: on the one hand the imperfection of people
who have no other horizon than the coercive duties of material and social life; on the other hand the splendor and perfection
of work done for the temple.
- Individual worth is assessed by competent teachers, according to
the qualities of heart and professional capacity.
- The difficulty is to discern those who are
likely to develop, those with unappreciated gifts, those capable of rapid progress. And when they are discovered it remains
to give them the means of showing what is in them. One cant impost virtues that passion thwarts on every occasion. It is necessary
that the pleasure the awakening of their gifts excites shall bring them the consciousness of real nobility; the nobility of
altruism, work done for an impersonal motive, incorruptibility.
- No person is competent in that
sphere who hasn't been trained in the proper school: that's why there must be a higher organization, an organization
with what we may call psychological consciousness that permeates the social order without violating it and prevents suffocation
of the lotus that is trying to reach light at the surface.
- Society is conceived as a tree with
roots, trunk, leaves, and fruit. Each of the tree's organs has its laws of generation and production. The task is to learn
how the cells of the trunk are selected in such as way that they provide the power needed to give tree life while maintaining
its strength, regardless of the difficulties. The root, fixed point is wisdom. The center of the tree-the nucleus-is
the vital heart of society. The first concentric circle is the inner circle of initiates; the second is composite; the third-the
outer-has no relation to the first. [speaks to the roles of people in society, or in any field of study for that matter. There
is the small group of decision-makers, people whose work constitutes the essential core of work done, the most advanced thinkers,
the elite. People's work, their deeds, efforts determine where among the masses their contributions will be. Free will,
each person chooses from various possibilities.].
- The lives of members of the core group is
different than most. Do not get caught up in worldly stupidities. Struggles are internal, as well as external-all toward the
aim of improving self and the quality of contributions to the race.
- Where necessary, respond
to students to accelerate the training.
- To learn, one must open her/his eyes and ears and make
an exceptional effort. There is a difference between those who receive instruction and those who seek (and attain) mastery.
[Schools must have in place opportunities to strengthen exceptional effort/talent].
- If the masses
follow instinct, the strong among them will bully the weak in spite of their resistance. Passion will hold the scepter, for
envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern: their scepter is the whip. There must be a group
in place that balances those led by pure impulse/instinct.
- Wisdom isn't the work of individuals,
but of traditional training (which requires discipline).
- KMT's orthodoxy in writing mdw
ntr meant that generations could understand what was written thousands of years prior.
- When
luxury becomes a necessity preponderance is given to wealth. Society is no longer governed by the principle of quality but
by favoritism and greed.
- Two tendencies govern human choice and effort-the search for quantity
and the search for quality. Quantity related to material goods and their possession.
- Quantitative
mentality, an expression of cerebral consciousness, consists in the analytical consideration of parts without vital connection.
- Seek the essence of the issue, subject, etc. Quality is creative power. Creation (multiple expressions of an essence)
manifests a hierarchy of specific qualities or multiple aspects; these belong to the world of causes, the values that form
and rule matter; but they become perceptible, assessable, by way of comparison in the world of phenomena.
- At least 2 essentials must precede all particular qualities-one is a relation of harmony between a thing and its
properties and the other is the vital intensity that belongs to the thing.
- Cerebral and sensorial
faculties only allow us to assess qualities through quantitative comparison, a substance more or less hard, a man more or
less strong, more or less able: such assessment is relative to an individual's means of perception.
- Qualities of a moral order are measured by deeds.
- Intelligence of the heart is vision
of the real or communion of with it, with what in reality is, or again with the essential nature and quality of the thing.
Integral vision or knowledge of this order excludes all possibility of personal interpretation whether intellectual or emotional...otherwise
it is no longer intelligence of the heart. It is personal interpretation that is fallible, being susceptible to subjective
judgment.
- When cerebral consciousness can read instinct without mistake, it becomes intuition.
Cultivate intuition if we are to perceive vital qualities of things and beings, and their relation of harmony.
- People cultivate intuition when we encourage the craftsmen to put quality first in the smallest piece of work, when
we awaken in our students a consciousness of the relations that link all things, in general when we formulate the laws of
analogy, and finally when by representations of the principles and by the symbolism of letters we describe the functions and
qualities in nature.
- One can't stifle the masses by obliging them to practice what is as
yet beyond their capacity. They must have scope for their turpitude and opportunity to gain consciousness of it through struggle.
- Selective activity can only proceed by experiment and indirect test, which is really the aim of the system. In this
way teachers can guide those chosen in the use of their real aptitudes and give them effective means of developing their gifts.
- An individual's training and aspiration that determines the choice that is made of her/him, which besides leads
him step by step to pleasures of higher quality. Those who take the path of austerity are a few.
- There
is heredity in principle, but it is wrong to ascribe powers and qualities to immediate heredity without verification.
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Matter and Spirit; Physics and Morality
- Don't
apologize for ignorance, but for pretending to know.
- A teacher speaks fundamental principles in the student's
ear. The student hears them according to the openness of her/his heart.
- The tongue may falsify teaching not well understood.
False doctrine arises this way.
- Regarding essential truths, teaching begins with the complexity of becoming and ends
with the simplicity of beginning, for there lie the secrets that are not to be spoken.
- The subtle connection between
one thing and another only interests those who don't let themselves be put off by a dry simplicity. Concise teaching asks
for personal effort and development of intuition by the student.
- Learn by doing, discern by context, recognize idea
(the abstract) via concrete object.
- Quality in itself is imperceptible to the senses, unknowable. But the student
knows that inasmuch as letters are numbers, they show aspects of pure quality. Everything in nature rests on something material
or it is in some sort of relation with a material fact.
- You cant think without attaching your idea to some tangible
fact or thing. Everything the brain reflects on is compared with some thing that is sensually perceptible. Ideas are represented
by concrete objects.
- The rolled and sealed papyrus is present in words that express ideas or abstract concepts. The
eye does not see its contents, therefore when in a word, one is to look for the hidden meaning .
- Don't be led
astray by love of the complex, where play of thought has free scope. It takes a strong student to resist the current and go
constantly to the source.
- The mdw-Neters were chosen in such a way as to signify all the qualities and functions implicit
in the image. Each hieroglyph is in itself the living symbol of the meaning sought.
- All that exists, all that is known
to us is a fact or hangs on fact. All concepts are based on natural functions.
- The sun rises and sets...duality is
in being and not-being, a yes and a no, a high and a low. All nature is an affirmation of duality. Alternation is the wave-movement
of nature, energic, aerial or liquid. Original energy is like still water which under impulsion, manifests itself in waves
and these, growing as they go, carry the energy from center to circumference.
- Every city, hour, has its own character,
which differs with the emanations, passions, activities of the organisms, whether stars of beings, that the wave or totality
of waves encloses.
- Contraction and dilation are an essential alternation, cause of all formation.
- All that
is terrestrial is natural. The passive is that which is submitted. what is submitted to the laws of nature with never a possibility
of derogation if not those who are its principles.
- The meaning of neter as an entity and nefer as fulfillment is exact
as regards to some particular aspect, not their intrinsic meaning. An entity is made up of the essential characteristics and
properties of a type-principle. The neters are ideas immanent or virtually contained in nature which give substance form throughout
the phases of continuous creation and all genesis. Nefer is a vital quality in its state of maturity. It is the moment of
fulfillment that gives generative potency to a thing or being, whether of its own seed, its particular quality, or its proper
energy.
- Study each word...each aspect; drink the teacher's words as thirsty drinks water.
- A knowledge
of analogies and the discovery of certain easily-read clues might lead, after profound study, to decipherment of meaning;
there remains the difficulty that at a certain level, study alone is not enough. People have to earn knowledge and wisdom....
- The
ancients constructed the language in such a way that we can use it as a mirror in which to watch the development of our history
with its epochs and phases. It is possible to describe and name events by means of letters and combinations of letters that
form a word.
- One gains the right to knowledge through the training of a mind that will never betray it. One acquires
such a mind by avoiding procedures that hinder it. Don't doubt the philosophic unity of the language because of nuances
arising form conditions of time and place, such differences are secondary or accidental and have never touched the essentials.
- If
you watch sincerely for evidence it will come to you in the form of solved problems.
- Think simply. Eschew criticism
and specious argument. The further we depart from the source, the more we complicate things. Go straight to the natural fact
that a symbol exhibits. Then, having closely examined it in all its aspects, you will discern the universal law which the
natural fact itself symbolizes. Never neglect the image or form of a hieroglyph.
- Don't make the mistake of substituting
a word for an image. Consider the nature, qualities and function of the thing represented.
- The search for the natural
relationships of analogous groups will itself awaken in the student the vital logic that moved those who composed them.
- Refrain
from accusing a writer or author of negligence or childishness in the face of textual anomalies or some harmless detail.
- Learn
to put natural evidence before skeptical argument. Learn to reject compromise. Learn to approach truth by daring what looks
absurd. The person who has never suffered because of her/his quest will never know the value of an answer given her/him. Learn
to sacrifice gladly a long stretch of misconceived effort for a moment of truth.
- Gain the right to knowledge through
training a mind that will never betray that knowledge. In studying the mdw-neter, (1) avoid procedures that hinder such development;
(2) language was worked out as a system-don't view it as a progressive experiment; (3) go to the source for understanding-don't
look for beginnings in heterogeneous collection of idioms; (4) do not doubt philosophic unity of language-nuances are secondary;
(5) if yo watch sincerely for evidence, it will come in the form of solved problems.
- Think simply.
- Go
straight to the natural fact that a symbol exhibits.
- Never neglect the image or form a sign takes.
- Don't
make the mistake of substituting a word for an image; consider the nature, qualities, and function of the thing represented.
- Understanding
a word-look for the simple and vitally true reasons for the choice; if several letters are in one symbol, compare the other
words spelled by the same group-under same symbol or another.
Visionaries in this
Lifetime - Open your eyes, open you ears, study the lesson, go and seek answers, contemplate;
the hart reflects for meaning.
- The names and symbols of places will only yield their secrets when your heart reflects
on them.
- Have patience, learn to see and understand before trying to fathom the reality of the neters.
- Forms
whether drawn, carved or constructed always mean something. They are characters of a universal script that everyone reads
without knowing it.
- The pyramid is a cosmic truth. Its base is square, its four sides triangular; in principle these
four trinities form the quandrangular foundation of a primitive five-pointed shape. The fact that this shape is constructed
in certain proportions imposes geometrical relations which of themselves determined the principles of measurement as regards
length and volume.
- All existence is a voyage in the course of which the soul, carried in its corporal boat, is impregnated
with consciousness as your eyes with the colors, your ears with the words, of nature. Thus do migrating birds; each makes
its flight in response to the vital call of its own being.
- Understanding may be awakened by knowledge of symbols and
analogies, by knowledge of numbers, or by absolute surrender of ME in total fusion with self. Every seeker drawn by Maat must
choose the way that suits her/his capacities.
- A sage is one who is conscious, able to conceive the three ways in her/himself,
able to love impersonally, to know ‘what is' without prejudice, to obey the laws of nature and to write down what
she/he knows. There is no room for self pity.
Seeking Truth through Fact/Evidence;
Avoiding Illusion - A person who is seeking the real cant say "I don't like, I reject"
without leaving the path.
- You wont find what doesn't exist.
- One who sets her/himself to study causes should
be forearmed against illusion.
- The senses serve to affirm, not to know.
- There is a process between seeing
and being conscious of what one has seen.
- Intelligence of the heart is truth and indeceptible.
- Cerebral illusion
is the most frequent of aberrations. The magician, by his control of thought, put your own out of action and made you see
a mirage, making illusion, to which you are constantly subject in some small degree, perceptible to you.
- Train consciousness
by incessant observation. Observe the data on which you base your thought.
- Note then what you see. Note that with
our without your will it is a process of thought that measures distance and makes you see what you don't see. Without
thought you wouldn't be aware of distance.
- If you aren't aware of the relativity of your perceptions how can
you detect a reflection thrown into your mind by a master of evocation?.
- For every sensorial conclusion arises through
a play of relationships such that a thing is always define dby other things. Each fo the things can only be known to us by
what sense can perceive. The qualities sense cant record escape us.
- Illusion doesn't lie in the fact. There is
a world that one doesn't know about because it isn't normally perceptible by the senses. [not mystical...but awareness,
perceptivity].
- That in us which yields to emotion delivers itself to the influences of this strange world. By rigid
discipline a person can master these forces and make them serve her/him.
- Learn to not accept projections of the imagination
that create fear, sensorial illusion and forms or phenomena that can be tangible. But such things are no more real than cerebral
consciousness itself.
- We must have recourse to experimental and sensorially perceptible proof; but this is only valid
for things of the same kind: body affects body, not the emotions; emotion effects the emotional sense. Bodily fact can be
such as to affect the emotions through the attitude we take.
- What makes illusion is an association of ideas, memory
superimposed on a physical fact.
- Imagination can produce a wound.
- Humans experience the possibility of events
called subjective and disputable but which, for the individual, are not less real than the common facts of sensory experience,
since the physical effect arises from vital activity.
- However illusory the phenomenon created, spectators affected
by what they thought they saw, it is a reality...to the extent that you are real as live human beings and to that extent only.
- To
know that illusion is possible is to have a means of gaining the mastery, through the demonstration of sensorial error and
discernment of the consciousness-complex by which illusion arises.
- Knowing the possibilities of a living form we can
retrace the road that its causal nature, its Neter, took and one can evoke it.
- A cause can only produce varied effects
if the genesis of the effect is accidentally modified as it were on the way.
- Natural forms must be used in circumstances
favorable to the evocation of their cause: this calls for knowledge of the world of causes and the nature of their effects.
- Popular
magic (creation of illusion), the gestures re a routine adopted through fear. It is a remnant of traditional knowledge deflected
from its educative purpose for purposes of utility.
- Don't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious
ignorance.
- All depends on purpose. If you believe in it, you will get the effect.
- Knowledge of analogies is
profitable in itself like all the laws of harmony. One who acquires consciousness of it can mitigate certain inharmonious
events.
- The use of (superstitious) gestures or formulas are meant to make up for any doubt that would jeopardize fulfillment
of a wish, or to neutralize the malefic influence of the envious.
- Every gesture has repercussions. Its consequences
depend on coincidences of time and place, sympathies or antipathies that it arouses in nature. But humans aren't destined
to be the slave of mechanical reactions; she/he is to gain independence of them through consciousness and impersonality. The
poor creature who is haunted by fear, ever on the look out for trouble, is enslaved; moreover, she/he creates what doesn't
exist. Such an attitude means disaster; it prevents that dilation of heart which is indispensable to understanding. It feeds
personal anxiety and the timidity that sterilizes.
- Fear is a shrinking in the nerve centers, a contraction that can
inhibit the lifestream, paralyze normal activity. It disorganizes the flow of vital elements, stopping some, changing the
course of others.
- In respect that you cant live under water it will work against you, for it cant change its nature,
which gives it the power proper to its character and which, unless it is overcome or changed by some other power, will be
destructive.
- "To fear" doesn't mean "to have fear" but to take into account in consciousness
of the characteristic power of each natural force, each principle, each neter.
- Illusion due to our sense is not more
than a suggestion that alters our consciousness of things. But natural form is real in its relation with its cause. It would
be a gross error to reject the form of the universe n a world of illusion on the ground that it is all appearance.
- The
essential elements of our live and reactions are not many, whereas cerebral interpretations are infinitely various, although
arguments, not realities.
- There is difficulty in knowing with the heart instead of arguing. The body is the temple
of knowledge.
- Rigorous discipline is necessary to prevent thought from recreating the world and the neters in its
own image. That is why we must teach ‘what is' in spite of opinion.
- If you take note of anomalies in the
texts, the various arrangements of letters in each world, and even in the color of the signs, you will soon be deciphering
riddles of unexpected interest in these banal formulas.
- There are various centers of residence and radiation in our
body. it may be sethian fire, consuming, destructive when it is constrained or switched to sex or brain. But when this fire
is subtilized it is vivifying, quickening. It is latent in all people, but few know how to use it wisely, very few how to
master it. It reaches its perfection when a person, being quickened, radiates it without effort of her/his own, like a life-giving
sun. Such a person is saa, a wise person.
Peaks and Valleys; Rivers and Oceans - What is practicable on the roads of earth is more difficult in the way of Maat. . A error of direction is soon noticed
when you are crossing the desert, but not always in the search after truth if you let go the guiding thread.
- Conventional
instruction: a teacher can only point the way. As far as it is a question of rational judgment and acquiring the notions that
constitute a basis of knowledge, a teacher can give the precise ideas that were inculcated in her/himself. Such work forms
part of an easy, winding road because it brings into play faculties that are normal, belong to the lower mind and don't
exact the use of faculties that are subtler and generally asleep. Normal mental faculties depend on the vitality of equivalent
parts of the brain and the sharpness of sensory impressions. They work on one another by the analysis and comparison of recorded
ideas. Winding because the play of thought that results makes use of arguments based on such ideas...fallible because of their
relativity...and sanctions every detour the various aspects of a problems may require.
- In contrast, an inquiry into
causes depend on the awakening of subtler faculties and for another is governed by traditional knowledge of universal and
irreducible law.
- Avoid interpretation what is perceived according to preconceived opinions and judgments, losing self
in details and calling what for the moment is inaccessible to her/his understanding absurd.
- Listen to your heart.
On your path, you will be tested. Your arrogant dialectic will demand tangible fact and logical proof when your heart would
have no doubts.
- Idolatry and spiritualism are two poles of the human illusion that dualizes everything.
- Power
originates action.
- A neter is a principle, agent or function in nature and cannot be more or less perfect.
- Learn
the simple meaning of the symbol.
- The leader of a people is nothing other than an expression of the tendencies of
the time.
- Measures of length are based on the arms and hands, with the finger as a unit. arms and hands serve as measures:
the forearm is also the symbol of individuality. the hands do, give or receive; the right hand is active, the left passive.
- If
someone is depicted as having two right or two left hands, it is to specify an active or a passive character.
- If you
are to follow our master's thinking, all organs work together in the functioning of the whole, under the direction of
heart and tongue.
- all the eyes see, the ears hear, the nose smells, comes to the heart, which synthesizes it into
living consciousness. All that is conceived with be repeated by the tongue and worked on by hati.
- The human head contains
not only the organs of thought and the cerebral centers of every bodily function, but physical centers that when awakened
are in touch with the spiritual heart.
- As the moon reflects Ra's burning light in light that is cold and thin,
so the heart's vision is reflected in the brain. But whereas the heart synthesizes perceptions into vital consciousness,
the brain separates, localizes them, as well as performing other functions of comparison and coordination that are indispensable
if a chief is to form rational judgments. That is why the word for brain, ais, is an inversion of sia, the consciousness of
the heart.
- The word for the head viscers is ais, the same as that for the belly viscera. Both have multiple convolutions.
- The
leader's throne is in a person's heart.
- Vision, if it is to be effective, must connect with something practical.
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