Quimby used the term
wisdom to denote
Truth,
Christ Consciousness or what
Cayce called
Superconscious. Also see
Clairvoyance our ability to know beyond the five physical
senses.
"
The difference between a truth based on an opinion and on wisdom is this. Wisdom backs itself up by science; opinion gives no proof but someone's opinion. Here is the difference. Man who is under the wisdom of opinion has no idea on what his opinion are based. All controversy springs from this error."
Quimby
True Wisdom
from Complete Writings, Volume I
Let me give you an
idea of true
wisdom and how it acts on man. True
wisdom is like
heat. Now you know that
heat in the soil of the
earth brings forth vegetation. Vegetation is like ideas.
Wisdom warms the
heart of the
mind or
matter. This puts vegetation or
thought in action so the
mind brings forth food or ideas; these being forced by the
heat or activity of the soil, they grow like a tree, and the root or fibers take root in the soil or
mind. As it grows, it derives its
life from them and the
mind being fed by the
wisdom of the world, the tree takes up the particles it receives. The
earth brings forth all creeping things, everything that has
life as well as all
diseases. They grow in the
mind like a tree. For instance . . . (unfinished)
Quimby, August 1861 See
As a Man Thinketh
"A
belief is one thing and
wisdom is another."
Quimby
"It is not an easy thing to steer the ship of
wisdom between the shores of poverty and the rocks of selfishness. If he is all
self, the sick lose that
sympathy which they need at his hand. If he is all
sympathy, he ruins his health and becomes a poor outcast on a charitable world. For the sick can't help him and the rich won't. Here you see the true character of
Wisdom. It shrinks not from investigation, although it is unpopular and has the whole world to contend with."
Quimby
"The cause of man's misery and trouble lies in our false reasoning. It always has and it always will be so till man is convinced that his
happiness depends on
Wisdom, and his misery on
belief.
People never seem to have
thought that they are responsible for their
belief. To analyze their beliefs is to know themselves, which is the greatest study of man. All theories for the
happiness of man contain more misery than
happiness, either directly or indirectly. See
Awareness
To destroy the
beliefs of man is to leave him where
God left him: to work out
happiness by His own
wisdom."
Quimby
"Now we can understand that the whole world can be united through
wisdom. Consequently the
substance of
wisdom is a positive
theosophy that must be expressed in the
spiritual scientific worldview. This does not happen by telling people that we must unite! It is not enough to preach "community" to people; moralizing is useless. Just as we must fuel a stove when we want
heat, so also humanity must be given
wisdom that will unify it as a community. Talking to people on behalf of community is like telling the stove to give warmth. What brings us further is really teaching, concept for concept, picture for picture, conveying the
wisdom of the world's
evolution and the
wisdom of the essence of the human being. Preaching
compassion - even having
compassion - means nothing without
wisdom. How does it help someone who has fallen and broken a leg when fourteen people stand around overflowing with
compassion and
love, but not one of them can set the leg. None of them is of any use. But the one who can do this will help if that person is a
spiritual being." From The Christian Mystery, Rudolph Steiner
?.. March 25, 1907 (Berlin)
"Thus has it oft been said, the
Fear of the Lord (Cosmic/
Christ Consciousness) is the beginning of
wisdom.
Wisdom, then, is
Fear to misapply
knowledge in thy dealings with thyself, thy fellow man. For as ye are honest, as ye are patient, as ye are sincere with thyself in thy meeting with thy
God, thy
Savior, thy
Christ, in thy
meditation, ye will be in thy dealings with thy fellow man."
Cayce (281-28)
"There are no shortcuts to
knowledge, to
wisdom, to understanding - these must be lived, must be experienced by each and every
Soul."
Cayce (830-2)
"In
wisdom thou wilt not find fault. In
wisdom thou wilt not condemn any. In
wisdom thou wilt not cherish grudges. In
wisdom thou wilt
love those, even those that despitefully use thee."
Cayce (262-105)
"Many individuals have
knowledge and little
wisdom. Many have
wisdom without
knowledge."
Cayce (1206-13)
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great
Soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates
?, and
Jesus, and Luther
?, and Copernicus
?, and
Galileo, and Newton
?, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
?
"It is possible for any man or woman to enter into that ancient fellowship of those who seek to become the servants of the great preservers of the secret records of antiquity. Krishna
? taught Arjuna
? in the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita
? that after the greatest – now forgotten – civilizations of long ago came and went, "the mighty spiritual art" was lost. Though it was lost, collectively speaking, it was never lost to all because these hierophants assiduously preserved it. It has been called the
Wisdom -
Religion. It is the divine
wisdom maintained by those few who embody it, who are its self-conscious custodians, tribeless and raceless, genuinely free men proud to belong to the family of man. They differ from the exhaustless potentiality of the Divine
Mind only as divine
thought differs from divine ideation. It is the difference between a library and men who in using the library and in reflecting and ideating upon its books, magically bring them to life. . . The faculty of self-conscious
awareness in the human being never seems to be exhausted, even by the whole catalogue of abuse of that power." D. K. Mavalankar, "Order and Chaos"
See Also
Awareness
Belief
Christ Consciousness
Error
Knowing
Knowledge
Opinion
Truth