Theos-Talk Archives (September 2008 Message tt00006)

Great.

I agree: knowing your ignorance (and refinding it continually) is
definitely a part of wisdom.

Katinka

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--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "butchie122" <brianparry@...> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Bruce & Katinka,
>
> I would also thank Martin if I could figure out what he means in this
> ocntext; - anyway.
>
> My experience in small group member discussion is that often a new
> member will ask a question that causes older members who actually
listen
> to rethink or perhaps review their previous understanding.
>
> What I am trying to do is to actually use the first 100 verses (the
> fragment titled 'The Voice of the Silence' as the step by step guide
to
> daily meditation.  In other words not trying to analyse the meaning in
a
> theoretical manner but to use it to enable me to detect in real time
the
> illusion making capacity of my own mind, as it arises.
>
> In Lucifer, Oct 1887, p89, HPB wrote
<http://www.katinkahesselink.net/will.htm>
>
> "The first necessity for obtaining self-knowledge is to become
> profoundly conscious of ignorance; to feel with every fibre of the
heart
> that one is ceaselessly self-deceived."
>
> Angelus Silesius put it well;
>
> "Believing that you are so smart, and understand it all condemns you
to
> ignore your ignorance---this is the meaning of the fall".
>
> So it seems to me that I have to begin by a real awareness of what I
> don't know so that I am not continually missing the point.
>
> Again thanks for the responses - I am encouraged to continue
>
>
>
> Brian




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