It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.

More Egyptian Proverbs

• Leave him in error who loves his error.
• By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.
• Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source.
• To know means to record in one’s memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself.
• If you would build something solid, don’t work with wind: always look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable… yourself.
• Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.
• True sages are those who give what they have, without meanness and without secret!
• Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.
• Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.
• 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.
• Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.
• Organization is impossible unless those who know the laws of harmony lay the foundation.
• Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.
• All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature.
• The body is the house of god. That is why it is said, “Man know yourself.”
• If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end.
• One foot isn’t enough to walk with.
• True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.
• The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree…. The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky.
• Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.
• The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.
• 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. Therefore learn how to put a question.
• What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious for me alone: if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never revelation.
• Maat, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence.
• When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.
• Altruism is the mark of a superior being.
• Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.