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.

More Egyptian Proverbs

• If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
• 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.
• The first concerning the ‘secrets’: all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys.
• Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.
• A man’s heart is his own Neter.
• 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.
• For every joy there is a price to be paid.
• If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple’s submission is slavery ; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement.
• 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.
• No discussion can throw light if it wanders from the real point.
• The nut doesn’t reveal the tree it contains.
• Listen to your conviction, even if they seem absurd to your reason.
• 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.
• A man can’t be judge of his neighbor’ intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor’s.
• To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching.
• A house has the character of the man who lives in it.
• Physical consciousness is indispensable for the achievement of knowledge.
• Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.
• The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature.
• Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.
• If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.
• The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.
• Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.
• Love is one thing, knowledge is another.
• 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.
• 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.