In days gone by the ability to read was a privilage and not a common skill among the masses. It seems a curious irony that we have evolved from illiteracy and most everyone can read, but so few do.
Is the appreciation for literature and the intelligence of generations slipping away?
Reading a good book opens your personal memory bank and deposits the gold of some literary and literlal alchemist who lived and told the story. The details of drama are brought back to life in the imaginations and memory of a once alive human and in a now living human being. These active principles of consciousness transcend time and place to live on, and pass on, the mystery and mastery of human experience.
Paracelsus said
the quintessence is contained in each of the four elements, and is the fifth element. An ethereal substance, a vital force, the active principle of being.
This is the key.
Humans share experience generation to generation. Experiential Intelligence is human, and is uniquely passed human to human. This quintessence lives in the books, and is the material memory bank of generations. This bank of true wealth can never be overdrawn. But in some generations it may be under drawn and a weath of intelligence decreases.
Many users online are completely unaware that much of what is passed on in the forms of articles, images, stories, likes and comments, is in fact - or fiction- produced by non human substance. No memory, no imagination, no spark of experience, no quintessence. Naturally, this generation of synthetic substance is to be discerned by authentic research.
Rudolf Steiner, who travelled and lectured in Europe said in 1923,
If you have ever asked for honey in hotels when travelling, it was certainly not honey that you were given there, it was sugar- honey, artificially produced. -from a 1923 lecture on bees, in Dornach Switzerland, by Rudolf Steiner.
And so it is that honey is a natural preservative, used in ancient days in the ancient ways of preservation. You can read about it.
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz spent over 15 years living in Egypt and breathing the temple of Luxor. Following this 15 years of study he spent nearly another decade creating "one of the most theoretically conclusive and thoroughly researched documents in the annals of European esoteric philosophy, The Temple of Man, which was published in France in 1957 in a three volume format." Schwaller died in 1961. It took many years for his work to move past the labeling as heretical fringe, controversial, radical. The "initial crack in the academic stone wall" was in the early 1960's. An American Egyptologist published an inflential thesis inspired by Schwaller and utilizing parts of his work. By 1972 his work had been conclusively verified by a renowned scientist, and a popular book had been published including this respected scientist's work.
Then, In 1979 John Anthony West published his first work on Egypt after his own decade of research. Following up directly on Schwaller's observations on the Sphinx, proving Schwaller's statements to be true and re-establishing the dating of the Sphinx was a tribute to R A Schwaller, by J A West. In the early 1990's Robert Bauvall and Graham Hancock both in their own widely recognized works verified more of Schwaller's findings from fifty years prior.
Today R.A.Schwaller is fully recognized for the importance of his works. "The Temple of Man is a book or volumetric encyclopia that one has to learn how to read." - Robert and Deborah Lawlor, translators of this work into english.
And this is the precise point.
If we simply ask and are told, we fail to gain the natural human experience of learning. form memory, and risk relying on answers with no self work. A slippery slope down the mountain...
How then does intelligent consciousness move to explore and expand on the works of our predessors.
We cannot just ask a book, hey book, tell me about the temple of Luxor. No. A reader is consuming the fruits of labor by the writer, and is tasting the work at some level, savoring it in the case of Schwaller.
An appetite is developed between reader and writer to continue the story, to take the work further and evolve the seed into the tree of knowledge. And other works by other writers become the branches bearing new fruit. There is an ancestory of consciousness woven into the substance of a human writer. Readers, are mind readers. We are reading the minds of writers.
We observe and absorb the world that has been formed by those before us, and work to evolve a new world formed by us for our future generations.
Remember the bees and authentic honey.
We need the bees, we need the flowers, we need the honey to nourish and sustain and preserve authentic life.
The bee flies from flower to flower and carries what it needs into the hive. But honey is what gives the beehive its meaning. Man is also a bee that moves down from the spiritual world - the beehive - to the various other worlds and brings the honey from them, in order to then bring it back to the realm of the spirit, which is the home of the soul. Without what the soul has collected outside, the result of the collecting would never be in the realm of the spirit. So man is also obliged to bring the honey he has collected. If he does not gain experience, he would be like a bee that only sits on the flowers without sucking their honey. -from a 1903 lecture by Rudolf Steiner
EGYPT ANCIENT WISDOM SCHWALLER STEINER CONSCIOUSNESS
