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  • Wisdom for practice
  • Wisdom is applied knowledge
  • Wisdom spreads itself

Wisdom for practice

Wisdom is for practice, not for continuous speaking. If we keep on speaking about the Masters, the Rays, and the Hierarchies, we are only missing our duties for the present.

Wisdom is applied knowledge

Knowledge, when applied becomes wisdom. We gain a lot of knowledge, but it has to be applied in daily life, then it transforms itself into wisdom. Through wisdom we will experience the existence.

Wisdom spreads itself

We need not be anxious to spread the wisdom without working it with ourselves. It is a wrong understanding if one thinks that he can spread wisdom. Wisdom knows how to spread itself. It only needs channels.

The Eternal Wisdom

The Wine and the Bottles

Sri Yantra We are all souls. Thus, by nature, we have light, love, and wisdom within us. We don’t first have to acquire them. Our sole effort should be to allow those to act through us. What is wisdom? It is the light of the soul. Depending on how pure we are, the wisdom within us awakens, and its light begins to penetrate through us. Those who we consider the masters of wisdom are enlightened beings through which the light of wisdom is expressed. They know that they are neither the creators nor the authors of it. No human has ever invented wisdom and thus cannot give it either. At the best, man can serve as a transmitter of wisdom. The one who gives is someone we do not come to know as long as we are too occupied with names and forms. Many are eager to place their names under a certain wisdom that might have been given by the masters D.K. or E.K. The higher beings, who gave the wisdom, did not write their names on it. Whoever claims authorship for wisdom shows that he has not understood it.

Wisdom does not belong to anybody. We cannot own it. Maybe we can buy a book about wisdom, but we cannot buy wisdom itself. All scriptures are only given because they already exist; there is no proprietary right for them. Also, nothing can be said that has not been said before already, because wisdom is eternal. If something is being said today that has not been said before, then it is not the truth. Untruth has many ways of expression; however, the real truth is eternal and only one, although its expression changes from time to time. Hence, language and terminology change, but the essence stays the same. The wisdom only appears to be different, though it is the same wine - only in different bottles.

Wisdom can be called upon and can be experienced, and that which comes to expression is only very little in comparison to what is left behind. According to time, place, and audience, wisdom presents itself in various energy forms; hence there are different forms of expression of the same theme. Every time one speaks about a certain theme new details are expressed. Therefore, we should not crystallize wisdom and say “this is all,” because wisdom is infinite. Every time we contemplate higher wisdom or listen to it in a group life, the thinking opens to higher planes. The nit-picky daily problems move into the background and become insignificant once we occupy ourselves intensely with wisdom. We experience joy and a state of unity.

Distortion of Wisdom

Wisdom is beyond duality, no matter whether it comes through a western or eastern instrument. This is seldom understood. Ordinarily, wisdom is regarded as either western or eastern. But once we ascend into wisdom, there will be no more geographical limitation, no more nationalization, and no more race-related understanding of wisdom. Therefore, wisdom should not be touched until a neutral mind is acquired. If we touch wisdom without a neutral mind, we create our own distortions which lead to ignorance toward wisdom for us and others. Thus, it is necessary not to speak before we have achieved a state from which we can see and do things rightly.

Wisdom is for those who look to the soul. It prefers to wait and to answer those who are seeking it sincerely and apply it to practice step by step. It can bring trouble to those who haven’t arrived at this point yet. There are many enthusiastic people who try to work with it and burn themselves. If electricity is dealt with carelessly, it can bring destruction. This is one of the reasons why deeper wisdom is never advertised. Wisdom does not proselytize neither does it take on a militant attitude. These are all weaknesses of the human personality through which the original teachings are deformed. Wisdom lives according to the principle by which it is presented. It knows how it can spread itself; it only needs channels. This way, wisdom was able to flow from certain higher centres through H.P. Blavatsky to humanity; because she had become a good channel.

Hiding and Revealing

Since humanity has been existing on this planet – it is estimated that it has been 18 m years – the spiritual hierarchy has been here as well. It transmits the knowledge of God, nature, and the planets. According to the laws of time, this wisdom is sometimes hidden and sometimes revealed. Every time it is revealed, it appears to be new, as if it had never been before. And every time it is hidden, that time is regarded as a dark epoch, or a period of ignorance. In the course of the descent into dense matter, the knowledge is lost by and by, and man tends more and more toward objectivity. He is oriented to the external, and the inner potentials stay hidden. When the time is right, the seeds of wisdom are sown again. Thus, the inner wisdom reveals itself according to the law of evolution in man once he turns to the internal and looks for what resides there. This has happened often on this planet already and will continue to happen in the future.

The ancient wisdom is kept well in the cave temples of the Himalayas by the adepts who live there, only to be made accessible to men once the time is right for it. India’s motto is “I hide the light.” This way, wisdom was lovingly sheltered from all rigor, while it was overly materialized in other parts and almost got lost. The spiritual hierarchy ensures that the knowledge is preserved for humanity. Even when new, deeper revelations take place, the consecutive manifestations of wisdom stay valid. Over the new, the good work of the past may not be forgotten. But every time wisdom is given, it also tends to crystallize. Every time when things are spoken out, they tend to become concepts. We need a concept as a means to come to the light, but we should live with the light and not the concept. Thus, we need to break the concepts many times through which wisdom is experienced; otherwise the habit-forming principle crystallizes and suffocates us. There must always come a new, fresh dose for those who watch out for a new approach.

Applying Wisdom

Wisdom has to be lived in life and its inspirations must enter into daily life actions. How and what do I eat? How do I maintain cleanliness and my daily rhythm? How do I balance meditation, study and service? It is of great help to study the lives of the initiates, because they remind us how to act in difficult situations. If we do not integrate the wisdom into our own lives and improve our life patterns, wisdom is of no use. The mind wants always something new, but it is not willing to follow that which is given. The new is taken only to be set aside: “And what’s next?” We may fill our minds with contents of wisdom, but this way wisdom is not available if we need it for action. We continue to be aggravated by situations and all wisdom is gone. The path to wisdom does not lead through collecting, but through step-by-step application of such. The wisdom consists in not running after things, but waiting to learn until the time has ripened to the point where to do what needs to be done. Thus, the concealed awareness can unfold, and we receive impulses from the higher will how we can wisely work out our lives.

Sources used: K. P. Kumar: Hercules. The Man and the Symbol / seminar notes / E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology. The World Teacher Trust - Dhanishta, Visakhapatnam, India.