Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01674)

Dear Friends,


H.P.B. wrote about Socrates of Athens and the attitude  of the wise men with 
regard to the eternal wisdom:

“Things have strangely altered  since the days of  antiquity, when the truly 
wise made it their duty to conceal their knowledge, deeming it too sacred to 
even mention before the "hoi polloi".  While the medieval Rosecroix, the 
true philosopher, keeping old Socrates in mind, repeated daily that all he 
knew was that the knew nothing, his modern self-styled successor announces 
in our day, through press and public, that those mysteries in Nature and her 
Occult laws of which he knows nothing, have never existed at all."

This is often the attitude of false scholars.
But we also have the pseudo-gurus and easy-way occultists.
HPB goes on,  in the same paragraph:

"There was a time when the acquirement of Divine Wisdom (Sapientia) required 
 the sacrifice and devotion of a man’s whole life.  It depended on such 
tings as the purity of the candidate’s motives; on his fearlessness and 
independence of spirit; but now, to  receive a patent for wisdom and 
adeptship requires only unblushing impudence.” (1)

This is some food for thought, indeed, in this first decade of 21st century.

Best regards,  Carlos.

NOTE:

(1) “Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky”, TPH, Wheaton, USA, volume XII, 
1980, 859 pp., see pp. 314-315.

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