Wisdom
"Wisdom is only found in truth."
— Goethe
If you do not think that inner truth — Wisdom — is perceived as the most extreme danger by society, just look at the lives of Jesus Christ, Moses, Manichaeus, and others. Wisdom — seeing and expressing the truth from within — is despised by the evil ones, the powers that be, the status quo. It is ironic that the church would burn at the stake and torture countless men, women, and children who did not accept the evil programming and lies of the church, or who happened to have a mind of their own. "Saint" Thomas Aquinas established the doctrine of the divine "goodness" and holiness of burning people to death. "Saint" Augustine established the doctrine of the divine "goodness" and sanctity of war and slaughter of the innocents. They, and many others, reversed the teachings of Jesus. The Apostle Paul brought back the biblical "god" of vengeance and judgment to replace the true teachings of Jesus with the very falsehoods Jesus had set aside. Making his own opinions, intellectualizations, and false claims of authority absolute, Paul set the precedent for all wrong-minded, delusory, corrupt doctrine handed down through the church — including the absolute contempt for women. Over time, all the deeper wisdom and love and Light of Christ was replaced by dogma, doctrine, and corrupt authority by the church.
The same church would crucify Christ Himself, today. Contrary to what the church asserts, Jesus was not killed as some sort of plan to establish a church which then had the job of salvation; He was killed for revealing the truth, truths that were so upsetting to the world (including the early church leaders) that those truths were banned, altered, perverted, and finally reshaped to satisfy the power-hungry church that claimed to "protect" them. This shows how wisdom — truth — is immediately met with resistance, how it is condemned by those who would rather do your thinking for you, how it is obliterated from the face of the earth by those who have the most to lose by the exposure of Evil that truth brings. Jesus told the truth, but what is recorded in the Bible is not always what He said. To be sure, He asked people to find the Truth, the Light, and the way to God, within them, in their spirit. One thing He surely said, was that His Kingdom was not of this world.
The Truth has the power to shatter illusions and destroy evil. Wisdom is found within, not in the outer world. Some beings have Wisdom within them while most do not. Wisdom is a spiritual quality, not a product of book learning; it is an appreciation, acceptance, and alignment with the truth. What passes for wisdom in the world is often just evil cunning, the false intellectual superiority of the egotistical, or the self-righteous delusions of religious fanatics who have memorized everything but know nothing. In its unlimited ignorance, the world wants you to rely upon everyone and everything outside you for your answers, so that the inner essence of Wisdom will atrophy, so you will lose the capacity to draw upon the Truth within you, so that you come to depend upon the "authorities" for every answer to every problem. This defeats you. Evil is not merely a lack of wisdom or ignorance. Evil is intentional; it has a purpose, an energy, and a presence of its own. Evil lives through all those who accept and embrace it. True Wisdom may only be found by those who are courageous enough to reject Evil, in its every insidious influence.
Evil people do not have the inner essence of Wisdom, regardless of their level of intellectual sophistication, cunning, self-absorption, skepticism, logic, reasoning ability, or "success" in the world. Wisdom is none of these things. It is, very simply, turning within to know the Truth of things. It is the simplest of things, as long as one is able to bypass the world's incessant bombardment of programming, pollution, and indoctrination. But, few people are able to do this — to simply connect with their true inner being — and so wisdom is a rare thing in this world. In the past, various cultures referred decisions to their older wise men (or women); they understood how the young tend to be ruled by ego, emotion, ambition, and delusions of knowing everything. They realized that it took time for a person to overcome the influence of the world, to learn to be wise. Nowadays, everybody's opinion passes for truth or wisdom; our institutions promote their own self-centered agendas in the name of truth. Finding any evidence of wisdom in the world is uncommon, even in our technologically "advanced" society.
"The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age ... it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information, by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for ... scraps of useful information." (Edgar Allen Poe) It is possible to go into any bookstore and see tens of thousands of books, none of which shed any light on the truth whatsoever. One might argue that they are all for entertainment purposes, or distraction, but that is the point. Their true purpose is to distract, to obscure truth, to denigrate wisdom, to prevent the seeker after truth from finding it. Yet, most people are quite happy being somehow entertained by reading the most worthless trash, as if it contained the most priceless information. The extent to which society gloats over its tabloids is beyond belief. Wisdom is so entirely lacking, that there is no ability whatsoever to discriminate between what is real and what is not, what is true and what is not, what is right and what is not. And, so, people in their ignorance prefer to be entertained in their illusions. What would Poe have said about the proliferation of the media in our times? Does it reveal the truth as much as it conceals it, distorts it, counters it, or dismisses it? Or are we all experiencing "wisdom overload" rather than information overload? read more ...
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