Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00005)

Dear Friends, 

How much of  direc knowledge we have about esoteric philosophy? And 
how much of hearsay?  

Only direct knowledge -- not blind belief -- is the source of a 
lasting sense of  co-responsibility, or wisdom.  

An accurate, heartfelt perception of things results in a sense of 
ethics and an active  intention to be useful. 

Perhaps it was to highlight the significance of this feeling of 
personal  acountabilitiy that Thomas Taylor,  the great 
neoplatonist,  wrote a  few centuries ago: 

"A little learning is a dangerous thing. 
Drink  deep, or taste not the PLATONIC spring;
There shallow draughts  intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely, sobers us again." (1)  

Ethical responsibility emerging from deep knowledge makes us be 
sober again – because it eventually  leads us into both inner and 
outer action.   


Best regards,   Carlos.  

 

NOTE: 

(1) "The Theosophist", Adyar, India,  Volume II, December 1880, p. 
52.