“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.”

Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.

Every man must act in the rhythm of his time… such is wisdom.

There grows no wheat where there is no grain.

Growth in consciousness doesn’t depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge.

Maat, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence.

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.

All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature.

Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.

Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source.

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.

Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.

A man can’t be judge of his neighbor’ intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor’s.

If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple’s submission is slavery ; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement.

The first concerning the ‘secrets’: all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys.

For knowledge, you should know that peace is an indispensable condition of getting it.

The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.