It Is Better To Be Stupid Than Wise

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We would also like to mention that reason should not be confused with memory. Suppose we were to give you a perfect translation of all the books of Hermes with a complete, detailed commentary and that you, having received this gift, also had a tremendous memory. The memory of dualistic man can be developed by training --  a training that in most cases spans several generations and and is handed down from parent to child -- just as a stomach can be expanded by eating large quantities of food. There are people who have contracted a distortion of the stomach by eating too much. Consequently, they need much more food to fill their stomachs than other people, without their organisms deriving any profit from it.

Now suppose that you, with your tremendous memory, had received the complete translation of Hermes. Then you would quote from this hermetic treasure stored in the bag of your memory, whenever you wished or whenever you were asked. In the eyes of the world you would appear to be a hermetic genius, and a superficial person might perhaps take you to be a hermetic initiate.

The modern system of education seeks to make the bag of memory as big as possible. All teachers make this their aim and the parents co-operate. If a child does not learn its lessons, there is usually trouble. Do you see the mistake? With such a crammed memory you would in fact know nothing, nothing at all. In reality, you would be completely deceiving yourself and everyone else. Every time you dipped into your memory bag your brain organism would react in a robot fashion.

We are trying to draw your attention to one of the greatest mystifications of today's civilization: that memory training and memory filling means the acquisition of wisdom. Well, you may certainly become a professor, but a professor is by no means a sage. As one who is looking for Liberating Wisdom, you will have to free yourself from the mystification that memory training could make you into an independent, free thinker, a philosopher by the grace of God.

Moreover, what is considered to be "wisdom" is worse than stupidity, because it destroys the extremely delicate brain organism. A person who gives himself to that wisdom is imprisoned by delusion and a high degree of crystallization., whereas ignorance, in the sense of freedom from the memory cult and its consequences will, in the long run, induce man to Seek. For the sake of your body, your physical organism, it is better to be stupid than wise in the eyes of the world. Children who escape from the much-esteemed cult of the intellect, be it because of social conditions or because of the fact that they cannot get on in the treadmills of habituation, are pre-eminently blessed by Providence, for they escape a dance of death.

When we say this, we certainly do not mean to advocate stupidity and we certainly do not advise you to keep your children away from school. However, seen from the point of view of pupilship -- don't be worried if your child cannot learn and don't be over-enthusiastic if your child is getting along very well at school.

We very much hope that you will be able to understand something of the Great Gnostic Mystery of Salvation: the possibility of freeing yourself from all authority and entering the Divine Wisdom, the Gnosis, itself. Discover that in this development there are no more limitations. By means of the New Thinking, the candidate gains contact with whatever object he desires. The object is pulled into and revealed in the open space behind the frontal bone,  in which it can be seen and analyzed and its activity investigated. The candidate is then connected with it and, if it is useful or necessary, he will be able to speak about it to secure understanding and give advice.

In those who are gnostically-enlightened, memory is assigned its Original Task, in line with the Originally-intended Purpose. Therefore, we repeat: do not ruin your children, do not force them. If it is still possible for them, give them the opportunity to approach the Original Purpose of memory. For those who are gnostically-enlightened, memory is nothing but vehicle of reproduction. If information about something is required, memory will direct itself to it unconditionally, establish contact with it and enlighten the mind.

Finally, we wish to draw your attention to another point within the scope of this investigation. Many people who have not yet found The Path to Soul Birth and, consequently, have not yet put into effect their self-authority, sometimes find themselves in a desperate and even dangerous state-of-seeking. Such persons might be guided in the right direction if a certain aid were not withheld from them. Whenever a person truly seeks, he will be touched by the elementary light of the Gnosis, which is always seeking what is lost. In this state-of-being, in which millions of people are placed repeatedly, one is open for gnostic language and testimonies from the past. However, one does not get much out of testimonies from the past, unless they can take shape in the present.

What is the use of a preceding Brotherhood (the Cathars)  if it does not appear in the present in a young, gnostic Brotherhood (LRC). Only if the seeker is confronted with Gnosis in the present, will a living testimony develop for him and will he be able to find clear guidance for his life.

Also, you probably know how  the testimony and the remains of the gnostic past have been systematically destroyed to the greatest extent possible, and violated, stolen or kept hidden over the centuries. Therefore, you will realize all the more how necessary it is that you prepare yourself  for the True Freedom of which we have spoken. As a result of this state of Freedom and the possession of the Eyes of the Soul, you, as priestly beings, will become a living testimony in the gnostic realm; you will be able to be a consolation and a blessing for seeking, suffering and misguided mankind.

What is necessary in the first place is not literature, however useful it may be. What is necessary in the first place is not an organization harmonized to the finest detail, however important that may be and however much we strive for it. What is necessary in the first place is that you should possess the Eyes of the Soul and the enlightened, renewed Thinking. And in this respect, nothing stands in your way, nothing at all!

What we need in the young Gnosis is priestly human beings. And you can only bring into effect this gnostic, priestly office by absolute self-surrender to the Rose of Roses, to the Great, Holy Work, through a perfect endura, by doing what you profess, and not only talking about it.

From "The Wisdom of the World and the Wisdom of God" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. 2 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God" 1 Cor 3:19

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